I think this response is rather simplistic and leaves out a lot of real world facts.
Interesting. In your response, I didn't see any real world facts. Just a bunch of historical footnotes that are common knowledge, and opinionated assertions you're evidently passing along as fact.
"...the successful annihilation of organized crime's subculture in America would rock the 'legitimate' world's foundation, which would ultimately force fundamental social changes and redistributions of wealth and power in this country. Meyer Lansky's dream was to bond the two worlds together so that one could not survive without the other." - Dan E. Moldea
