First, you would have a point if law enforcement were ignoring cartels or violent gangs to go after the LCN. But they don't. They go after all of them.

Second, your comparison above is of cash confiscated in the multi-family bust with figures alleged (through recorded phone conversations) in the Gotti bust. Not exactly apples to apples.

Gotti is alleged to have said that his operation was taking in $100,000 a month and $1.6 million so far. The contraband cigarettes alone in the multi-family bust were worth $3 million.

But more to the point, money confiscated doesn't exactly tell the whole story in a bust like this, especially when gambling is the big thing. The millions of dollars taken in is amassed over time from collections from hundreds or thousands of gamblers and then funneled elsewhere. You're typically not going to have a huge cash seizure in one place like with drug busts.

As an aside, I don't know if we can really say Gotti is "not mob affiliated" considering how many family members he has in the mob. Maybe this was an independent operation. Then again, maybe it was done with the sanction of the mob.