Sean Gardiner and Pervaiz Shallwani at the Wall Street Journal offer a piece on the current status of La Cosa Nostra organized crime in New York.
For more than two decades, New York City's five organized-crime families were plagued by convictions brought on by strengthened federal laws and the increasing habit of higher-ranking members cooperating with the government.
Those years of high-profile decline created a perception that the city's mafia is on the verge of extinction. But law-enforcement officials and mob experts say the five families, while not the force they once were, are far from sleeping with the fishes. They have survived, the experts said, because of their persistence and ability to adapt.
"I don't know that I'd say La Cosa Nostra was what it was in its heyday but I wouldn't say by any means it's gone away," said Richard Frankel (seen in the above FBI photo), special agent in charge of the Criminal Division for the Federal Bureau of Investigation's New York office.
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