Italian mafia is not dead, just people presume it is because FBI arent getting anything, and you arent seeing any deaths that have to do with the mob, but it if werent for rats and wiretaps, people wouldnt have known about the italian mafia to this day. And now since the russians and asians are rising in power in the US, the wiseguys dont have as much heat on them, and that might give them a chance to rehabilitate the italian mafia in america again.