I always wondered what the estimate of total income for the boss was. In Luciano’s days, Costello’s and Genovese’s. At this time, the American Mafia was probably the most powerful criminal enterprise in the world. This was all before the Italians really started to make billions of dollars from their drug trafficking and businesses.
During Vito Genovese divorce trial in 1952 his wife estimated his weekly income at $40,000. $2,080,000 a year.
Over $19 million a year in todays money.
