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Organized Crime Prosecution Requires Decades of Surveillance
Prosecuting organized crime syndicates demands a fundamentally different approach than street-level drug enforcement. This episode examines how federal prosecutors in major cities developed sophisticated surveillance and wiretapping strategies to build cases against organized crime families, requiring years of investigation before a single prosecution could proceed. We reconstruct specific cases against the Gambino, Gotti, and Colombo families, analyzing how prosecutors coordinated with FBI wiretap teams to gather evidence, and how they structured indictments to maximize convictions. The…
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