By the 1940s, ’50s and ’60s, the tommy-gun battles that marked earlier decades were officially over for the most part and it could now be said that organized crime was wearing a suit and tie. The Mafia and all its associate gangs of various nationalities had their fingers in quite a number of respectable enterprises and organized crime was like a business.
But that doesn’t mean that the mob had lost its teeth, not by a long shot. The way that Bugsy Siegel and Albert the “Lord High Executioner” Anastasia himself were removed from the picture showed that no one was so big they were safe. And then, of course, there was the rumoured Mafia involvement in the assassination of President Kennedy in Dallas, in November of 1963.