if you read bio of "Lucky" Luciano you'll find the Italian Mob and Jewish Mob (lansky) merged;
Seems to me what he describes there; all the police, all the politicians are on the take; never changed?
How they built their businesses? they worked hard and killed people in their way.
Annenberg was one of the names in that book .. and of course Bronfman - Canadian source of whiskey smuggling during Prohibition.