Imagine if your buddies were cops and drug lords (landlords on paper) or owner of stadiums for illegal betting and prostitution
Their pimps sell you drugs and their
cops could kick your door down, force you Into homelessness or jail (jail if your rich, to be held hostage as a bargaining chip)
Imagine if they also had an army of janitorial service workers in all their buildings like malls, casinos, brothels, clubs, and restaurants, stables and gardens
that went around with trash cans on wheels shooting people in the head and sending them to a meat press by a deli they run by the:
MOB