US Attorney Says: Five Families "Still There"
U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara: The Mob Is “Still There” | Vanity Fair : At Vanity Fair’s New Establishment Summit, contributing editor Bryan Burrough asked U.S. attorney Preet Bharara a question he said he has always wanted to ask a U.S. attorney: what’s going on with the mafia? “ The mob is still there,” Bharara said. “ The Five Families are still there , they’re still extorting business, they’re still using baseball bats.” Interestingly, he acknowledges this while fully aware of the fact that the Feds have cut their manpower and resources to combating OC in New York. As we reported in Why New York's Five Families Have Regained Power , the New York Mafia in fact "has quietly staged a comeback and is now more powerful than it has been in years," said Richard Frankel, special agent in charge of the Criminal Division for the Federal Bureau of Investigation's New York office.
