real life sopranos

Being in a crime family sounds like it could be fun, I guess you have to be born into something like that? I'm sure they don't solicit applications for obvious reasons. Somehow that just doesn't seem completely fair to me.

Alleged mobsters rounded up
Wednesday, August 17, 2005
Contributed by John Martin

Authorities swept up more than a dozen reputed members and associates of the Genovese crime family this morning, capping a four-year investigation of mob operations in New Jersey.

The arrests occurred in early-morning raids by more than 100 FBI agents, state and local police officers, at locations in Hudson and Bergen counties, and as far south as Cape May. A sweeping racketeering indictment against 16 defendants is expected to be announced this afternoon by U.S. Attorney Christopher Christie in Newark.

The allegations include charges of extortion, loan-sharking, illegal gambling and theft, according to FBI spokesman Steve Siegel.

The probe is among the largest organized crime takedowns in recent years in New Jersey, against the most dominant crime family in the state right now.

The lead defendants is Lawrence "Little Larry" Dentico, described by agents as the captain of the family. Dentico, 81, has been in custody since his arrest in April on similar federal charges in Brooklyn.

But the New Jersey indictment, which is also expected to name three other capos or "made" members, deals only with the family’s operations here.