Originally Posted by OakAsFan
Originally Posted by Turnbull
Mafia would not be permitted to "Rub elbows" with the dynasties you mentioned.


Do you mean according to the mob's own rules, or that dynasties would just never bother with the mob? I'd have to question the former. I would bet Costello must have had friends in those Rockefeller-type circles. How else would he have obtained the control he did over the courts and political halls? Kind of a small example but Francesco Lanza in San Francisco built Fisherman's Wharf with Giuseppe Aliato, whose son Joe would become mayor, and Lanza was recognized by the Commission as the first real boss out there.


Great example. I think that people like the Rockefellers were some of the most powerful and influential people in the world. I don’t see why they would need to bother with the mob because they were more powerful and much wealthier without needing them in the first place. I think there were mobsters who could have reached that level of success eventually but nobody really did.