Both Italian and Jewish racketeers worked together and separately to organize the plundering of Wall Street. It is a criminal plundering that continues to this very day. There have been ebbs and flows through the decades where Cosa Nostra was more, or less, prominent according to the tempo and business atmosphere of the day. But once they sank their hooks into Wall Street, they never left.
One of the most profitable and time-honored underworld operations has always been stock and securities fraud and theft. Regardless of whether the invaluable paper was stolen or counterfeited, this racket has brought incalculable billions to the racketeers who have engaged in these types of schemes.
