So for now, relax and enjoy the story. High level criminals, who belong to already existing organized crime groups, make money by doing illegal activities but they operate under certain rules which are transferred from member to member. Well, during my research on the U. Mob I came to a conclusion that the problem is that these rules sometimes meant only for certain members, or for certain situations and even certain operations, meaning they were quite broken.
For example, if two guys had a problem between each other and if the one guy was wrong and the other one right, sometimes the one who was right was going to get killed. If the guy, who is wrong, kicks up more cash to the boss, well usually he gets a pass.
Now, some of these guys who made a lot of money, besides their prime schemes, they also dealt in everything and kept money on the side.
They were the ones who used to pull dirty jobs and they were the ones who were in constant contact with their street level members, obviously because of their same level of criminal mentality.
So the point is that the Mafia families supported every single illegal business to a certain level, meaning they invested more or less cash in various operations but still they had their fingers in every pot because that is their sole point of doing everything illegal and controlling the underworld.
