How did huge mob bosses that “everybody knew” was a mob boss, or criminal running the place, etc, get away with it?

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How did huge mob bosses that “everybody knew” was a mob boss, or criminal running the place, etc, get away with it?

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Answer 1

Because it’s not about what you know, it’s what you can prove in court and most of these mob bosses actually didn’t do much themselves, their power was in getting others to do their dirty deeds.