I feel like it's the same in Chicago. The prosecutions/media coverage have come to a virtual standstill, making me think that they are so scaled back as to be close to being dismantled; they have gone way underground like never before; or the FBI has basically just forgotten about them.

Maybe a combination of all three. I would expect a lot of it has to do with the FBI focusing nearly all its resources on terrorism.

No mob activity, let alone mob activity over the last 20 years, even registers on the same scale as terrorism in terms of a public threat.

And with the mob if they do get out of line it is likely to froth up and become self evident.

Who knows what the mobs big scores are these days but, for the sake of argument, you say they have pulled back to running more or less benign street stuff like prostitution and bookmaking, who cares.

The Feds really only ever went full on after them due to their corruption of public institutions, murder, corruption of unions etc.

Those days are over, anyway.