rder to achieve its main goal-illegal profiting. Included in the analysis will be a comparison to how the New Mafiya in Russia is taking control of that country’s economy and government through methods similar to the ones used by Meyer Lansky in his corruption of the Bahamas. Also included will be a discussion of the ways in which law enforcement agents like the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) try to counteract the illegal activities of organized crime, through methods such as wire tapping and other electronic surveillance methods such as electronic decryption, the use of informants and the RICO Act. A conclusion will address the reasons why it is so difficult to control and nearly impossible to eradicate organized crime from society.
Organized crime is at its most effective when it can legitimize its illegal operations through gaining the help and support of banking officials and politicians. This is because the banking officials permit them to channel large sums of illegal profits through their system in order to conceal it from government and law enforcement officials. The help of politicians is useful because it allows for legislation to be enacted or modified in order for organized crime to have a legal environment that enables their illegal activities. Often it is hard to detect these kinds of activities because no politician or bank president has the power to fight organized crime and few have the courage to attempt it. Further, the bribes offered by organized crime are lucrative and can tempt even the most upstanding of politicians or banking officials because the amount is usually much more than the salary for either occupation. If we look at the rise of power of Meyer Lansky and organized crime in the Bahamas, we see many methods like this employed to insure one thing-illegal profits could be funneled through the organizations established in the Bahamas without government or legal interference. The Bahama...