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WI: An Actual National Crime Syndicate

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If you are not familiar, the "National Crime Syndicate" was a rather sensationalist name given to a loose alliance of Jewish and Italian mobsters in the 50s and 60s. Most organized crime historians agree that while there was some degree of collaboration between gangs based in different cities, the idea of one united underworld from coast to coast was an exaggeration of journalists eager to sell papers and politicians eager to crusade against some enemy.

However, there were some attempts to create a truly national and multiethnic syndicate. One more regional example from the early days of Prohibition was variously called the Combination or the Combine, based in New York. Italian and Jewish groups allied with Irish mobsters and bullied a few reluctant African-American partners into a bootlegging operation (Chinese gangsters were briefly considered for membership but ultimately not permitted to join). Even more dramatic was the 1929 Atlantic City Conference, where representatives from nine cities met and discussed possibilities for working together. What ultimately came of that was an Italian-Jewish clique turning against Irish and African-American gangs, rather than any larger degree of multiethnic cooperation.

However, let's assume the leadership trended more towards inclusion. Less out of any idealistic purposes than out of recognizing the potential in pure profit from pooling their resources. In a magnanimous gesture, the organizers of the Atlantic City Conference include invites to more Irishmen (only two attended IOTL), as well as representatives of African-American and Chinese gangs from multiple cities. The result is the formation of a true New York to California syndicate with five major factions within it. Can this hang on or will internal tensions or law enforcement inevitably tear it apart? What long-term effects will it have on America?
 
I'd assume the grand dream of a truly national syndicate between all groups will fall to shit for the same reasons it didn't work out IRL and the Chinese were frozen out, but once it's been done once that means somebody will think of doing it again, attempt doing it again, fear it's being done again etc. Law enforcement will be given powers and ask for more of them to stop the next national syndicate/the-one-that-exists-now-honest. Politicians campaign and pass law based on being tough on the syndicates, whether or not one still exists. Inevitably this focuses on some ethnic groups more than others.
 
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