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The mob was once a powerful force in this country, and was especially dominant from 1999 to 2002, where it seemed each week would feature exciting new developments. These were the glory days, with the mob receiving much media attention, and huge audiences hanging on their every activity, including loan-sharking, running strip clubs in New Jersey, and taking over sporting goods stores. And yes, they ran a high-stakes poker game, which reportedly was frequented by such celebrities as Frank Sinatra Jr.

But by 2004, the mob was reduced to short 13-week bursts of activity, with whole years going with nothing at all happening. Also in these later years, following the exploits of the mob was no longer as compelling as it once was. Lesser figures emerged, and then were quickly gunned down in rapid succession, none of who were particularly memorable.

Today, the mob is a shadow of its former self, and hasn’t been heard from in quite some time. There are rumors of one last burst of mob activity in the spring of ’07.

With the mob no longer a major criminal enterprise, attention has turned to drug trade in Baltimore.