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Organized Crimes, are the unlawful activities of the members of a highly organized, disciplined association engaged in supplying illegal goods and services, including but not yet limited to gambling, prostitution, load-sharking, narcotics, and labor racketeering. (Source: The Organized Crime Control Act of 1970) Despite federal investigations and law-enforcement efforts, organized crime continues to flourish especially during the Prohibition years, often hiding or supplementing its profits through legal store front operations and increasingly moving from blue-collar to white-collar criminal activities. The Mafia, of Sicilian origin, has played a major role. Criminal organizations have flourished in other countries as well such as the Yukuza of Japan, the Chinese Triad societies, the cocaine cartels of Colombia, and the brutal Russian Mafia. Criminal organizations have existed in America since before the turn of the twentieth century. These organized crime groups are often involved to some degree in just about every aspect of American life. A few such groups are thought to be among the largest business like enterprises in the world. One of the many known groups the Mafia, which is perhaps the best known criminal organization in