Today, Cosa Nostra is hurting…… no longer are the “streets paved with gold” as they had been for the early Italian, Jewish, and Irish hoodlums who immigrated to America’s shores.
With so many high-tech sophisticated law enforcement techniques today, and the litany of rats and stool pigeons that have permeated the ranks of The Brotherhood, mafioso and knockaround guys today are no longer able to fade into the woodwork as they’d done for so many decades.
And with a tremendously diminished playing field as far as operating rackets go, street guys today have a very hard road to hold as far as “earning” a good living and surviving on the street.
They no longer hold dominion over various locals of the Teamsters Union as they once did. Or the Laborers Union, Bartenders Union, or International Longshoremen’s Assn.
Major industries that were once the mob’s playground have been largely purged of their influence.
The Fulton Fish Market, Kennedy Airport, the docks of the NY/NJ waterfront, and any other number of key industries they had penetrated from the 1930s forward are today mostly run independently of underworld influence.
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