I'm not trolling. I'm genuinely amused that there are grown adults who really think there was ever really a mafia with an "omerta" culture of silence. This kind of fairy tale is something you'd expect an adolescent who just watched The Godfather for the first time to believe.
"...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
