" The ones we rarely if ever hear about" is a myth. If ANY organized crime group ever gains some sort of power, you can bet your ass there will be reports on them.
Fact is not a single crime group ever influenced public life as much as the Mafia ever did in their power bases - which are territories where there's law and order as opposed to semi-third world regions.
They're the Mafia, other organized crime group are thugs. Sorta sophisticated thugs, sure, but still thugs.
Exactly, people like to compare LCN to the Russian Mafia in Russia or the cartels in their own countries which is bullshit because the law enforcement in those countries is a joke compared to the fed bastards in the states. The Russians are an overated joke in the states, and in the states the cartels are just drug peddling goons, not much political clout or anything like that.
