I just don't see how the mob could be too active in stock trading. How many front man can you get, or how much can you have a front man invest before a regulatory agency suspects something fishy? And with a publicly traded stock they can probe each investor down to their blood type, unlike a private company where you could have silent partners. If there's a mob connection, they'll find it.
"...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
