This sausage fest over the mafia is all well and good but an important thing to bear in mind is that these guys are admitting to being in a criminal organization by taking a plea agreement. They are also breaking their own code by taking a plea; but then again any rules the mafia had have been bastardized beyond recognition a long time ago.

And if it's all just fun and games - a lemonade stand operation - then why do bookies, not just the Italians, make payments to the mafia in order to run?

$2.2 billion dollars in action taken and people acting like this is small fry stuff.

I invoke my right under the 5th amendment of the United States constitution and decline to answer the question.