The Mafia is alive and well...

[Nightshade]

And the mob bosses are now known as 'Shadow Bosses.'

http://tinyurl.com/8p2cv5m

BTW, the John Batchelor Show, which I linked here, is a very good radio talk show that covers science (mainly space and astronomy), history, culture (real culture, not the pop-culture crap), geopolitics, politics and financial markets. I would regard him as the audio version of 'The New Yorker' magazine (back when it was good.)