I am sure there are plenty of people who have to deal with the mob and not just in NYC. That’s no biggie.
But you are right. It is an asset.
But Bill and Hillary and the Democratic Senate Campaign Committee, about 1995 or so, got a reported $10 MILLION DOLLARS or more from the Mafia-controlled LIUNA (Laborers International Union of No. America) led by Arthur Coia Jr, the son of jailed mobster and LIUNA leader Arthur Coia Sr.
See Byron York’s April 1977 article “Bill and Hillary’s Mafia Friends” in the American Spectator. Then get back to me.