Mafia Is Down—but Not Out : Crime Families Adapt to Survive, Lowering Profile and Using Need-to-Know Tactics

The Wall Street Journal reports:

Despite the waves of prosecutions, each of the five mafia "borgatas"—the Genovese, Gambino, Luchese, Bonanno and Colombo—"still exists and each still has its hierarchy," said John Buretta, a former federal prosecutor who headed the organized-crime unit for the U.S. attorney's office in Brooklyn.