How much of a loansharking racket is there anymore? Home equity, sub prime lending, payday loans. You don't need to go to a wiseguy for quick cash anymore. Loansharking has been legitimized in this country in recent decades. It's what tanked the economy.

"...the successful annihilation of organized crime's subculture in America would rock the 'legitimate' world's foundation, which would ultimately force fundamental social changes and redistributions of wealth and power in this country. Meyer Lansky's dream was to bond the two worlds together so that one could not survive without the other." - Dan E. Moldea