Turns out that by far the most successful bandits of the American frontier were the local spanish governors and port tax collectors. They stole everything from everybody, sometimes in the name of the crown, sometimes as bribes, and they pocketed all of it, 1500-1844 and where uncontested, continue to the present. They managed to keep it all, in the family, for centuries, too, except whenever they had to go back to Spain. Then the pros cleaned them out. The fate of sinister dwarf mutant Hernando "Gapes" Cortez was typical. The gangs in Mexico at least started as organic grassroots resistance until they got compromised by international and foreign State actors like CCP and C_A. Hitler screwed up when he tried to do business with the entrenched Mexican government.
Go ahead. Ask 45 for help.