Posted on 04/05/2009 9:04:46 AM PDT by AtlasStalled
The federal government spends $500 million a year protecting thousands of former mobsters in the Witness Protection Progam:
Experts say the outlay is a sign of the crisis infecting Italian-organised crime since its heyday depicted in the Godfather films. In the classic Mafia movies – and the exhilarating new Godfather II computer game – crime families are governed by the strict code of Omerta, which bans co-operation with law enforcement agencies. But in real life, mobsters have abandoned the Sicilian code of honour when faced with an FBI crackdown and long prison sentences.
Bo Dietl, aformer New York Police Department detective , states: "If a guy gets locked up now he's looking at life – that's when you see the guy flip like a fish trapped in a frying pan."
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