Most definitely not true. Nowhere outside of the motherland is more powerful than the five freaking families. Not even close. The Outfit were powerful but they simply did not possess the numbers necessary to put them over the top. They were *always* destined to lose the war on the streets to the black & Hispanic gangs, it was only a matter of time. Chicago is NOT NY. The fact that an LCN family thrived the way they did in MIDWESTERN MURICA of all places is jaw dropping enough as it is. It was a bizarre phenomenon to begin with, and there’s a reason why they fell harder than any other murican LCN family.