Its pretty crazy to think that this still goes on. That mobsters still actually exist and still racketeer, extort, and murder. A mobster seems like a fantasy character, like a pirate or an alien to me. You watch them in movies and even though some of the characters are so glorified that they seem fictional, like in Goodfellas, or Casino, they were real. But its hard to imagine that these people were real because of how they are portrayed in movies. You have to think that in reality the mob life isnt as rewarding and successfull as TV or movies depict. Apparently there are hundreds out there. These are the ones that got caught. From the article it just seems like they did a random sweep. Now the tough part is proving they did what they are accused of doing. I just think its going to be hard for the authorities to pin point crimes on each and every mobster they captured. Most of them will be set free. But maybe that was the intent. To scare them a bit. To let them know that they are being watched.
See the CNN article here: http://www.cnn.com/2011/CRIME/01/20/new.york.mob.raids/index.html?eref=rss_topstories&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+rss%2Fcnn_topstories+%28RSS%3A+Top+Stories%29
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