It only seems that way. They still run the business through third parties ~ their "legitimate" relatives who are incharge of the "investments". Ever check out who holds the mortgages on those privately owned garbage trucks?
Actually yea, it can at times relate to my current job.
I'm farmiliar with how the mob is or gets involved.
I know a few folks in the "waste disposal" business.
If you want to laugh, the biggest problem the mob has with garbage hauling (and slowly now, also the protections racket) is major corporations or big businesses that simply don't care, and have better connections to law enforcement and politicians.
Mob guys themselves often will whine, complain, and cry about how corporate american is killing their "business" and making it harder to "earn".
The mob, almost always uses 3rd parties and fronts, for obvious reasons, but they are having their fair share of alot of problems now, and have seen their back broken on the carting business, they got their rear ends handed to them on the fish market (one of my friends got a job there years ago through a connected guy, once that place was cleaned out, even alot of legit folks were screwed), and even the fireworks thing no longer makes money for them.