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¶ … dismantling organized crime in New York. More specifically, the article concerns itself with the efforts made by a team of FBI agents to effectively bring to an end the illegal operations of two of New York's most prominent organized-crime families. Authored by the Partnership for Public Service in conjunction with the Washington Post, the article appeared on the November 12th 2013 online version of the Washington Post. The article in question is titled; Striking a Major Blow Against two New York Organized Crime Families. The link to the article has been given in the references section of this text.
According to the FBI (2013), "in the recent years, the face of organized crime has changed, and the threat is broader and more complex than ever." As the FBI further points out, organized crime in the U.S. can be split into four key groupings. This includes; groups of mobsters that came to America after the Soviet Union collapsed, drug trafficking groups from some countries in Africa, crime rings from Asia, and Eastern European-based criminal enterprises. As the author of this particular article points out, the organized crime families targeted by the FBI included the "Colombo and Bonanno La...
According to an FBI agent overseeing operations at the FBI New York Field Office, the undertaking by the FBI agents had seen the decimation of the Colombo family and the severe disruption of the Bonanno family. In what comes as a surprise, a former boss of the Bonanno family even went as far as testifying against the crime family's acting boss. According to the author of the article, the move by a mob boss to testify against another (from the same crime family) is largely unprecedented. It is important to note that in addition to the decimation and dismantling of the criminal…
References
FBI. (2013). Organized Crime: Overview. Retrieved from: http://www.fbi.gov/about-us/investigate/organizedcrime/overview
The Partnership for Public Service. (2013, November 12). Striking a Major Blow Against two New York Organized Crime Families. Retrieved from http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/federal_government/striking-a-major-blow-against-two-new-york-organized-crime-families/2013/11/12/d14cc33a-4ba9-11e3-ac54-aa84301ced81_story.html
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