Read up on how the 5 Families were taken down. This development looks a lot like that.
The Mafia was so hard to take down because law enforcement and the FBI could connect all of the big bosses and their dealings, and they could connect members to crimes, and members to bosses. But they couldn't connect the crimes by members to the bosses. So individuals would go to jail, but the bosses remained untouched.
So they needed at least some crimes connected to a boss or a few bosses to unravel the whole thing in a solid case that couldn't lose under RICO.
And that needed direct evidence connecting the two, and rats to corroborate the evidence.
And bam, now the Mafia is a shadow of itself and mostly is a movie trope.
And who was the primary figure behind that? Rudy Giuliani. And what was his method? Take all the bosses out in one case. Connect enough to the bosses to prove RICO, and the bosses are gone with life sentences, including many lieutenants and anyone else who could possibly run anything, plus the guys who committed the crimes that didn't rat.
Read up on how the 5 Families were taken down. This development looks a lot like that.
The Mafia was so hard to take down because law enforcement and the FBI could connect all of the big bosses and their dealings, and they could connect members to crimes, and members to bosses. But they couldn't connect the crimes by members to the bosses. So individuals would go to jail, but the bosses remained untouched.
So they needed at least some crimes connected to a boss or a few bosses to unravel the whole thing in a solid case that couldn't lose under RICO.
And that needed direct evidence connecting the two, and rats to corroborate the evidence.
And bam, now the Mafia is a shadow of itself and mostly is a movie trope.
And who was the primary figure behind that? Rudy Giuliani. And what was his method? Take all the bosses out in one case. Connect enough to the bosses to prove RICO, and the bosses are gone with life sentences, including many lieutenants and anyone else who could possibly run anything, plus the guys who committed the crimes that didn't rat.