Was it really a case of these guys just letting their families die out, or were the rackets in their region being absorbed by bigger families, and the alternative was bloodshed? I think the writing was on the wall for the smaller families to cash out and try to legitimize.
"...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
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