But they seem wealthier today. I'm not reading about the monstrous bank account and hundred-million dollar/euro asset seizures in Italy and elsewhere around the world during the mob’s so-called "absolute power" decades as I am today. Because while they may have been more powerful politically and socially, they weren’t making that kind of money.
we should see how much they earned in the past net of inflation, during the 70s and 80s the bosses were very rich thanks to international drug trafficking and public contracts; furthermore, the law on confiscation of assets only became effective in the 1990s and many of today's seizures refer to wealth accumulated in the past
