QUITE a coincidence: In January 1961, Robert F. Kennedy, newly appointed as attorney general of the United States, orchestrated the first concentrated attack on the American Mafia. Almost to the day 50 years later, the government swept up more than 120 people in a smorgasbord of racketeering indictments, mainly in the New York area.
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Speaking of the Mafia, here is an interesting column on the Mafia from today's New York Times. Going after sophisticated gangs seems like a "whack-a-mole" proposition.