Out of 127 reputed mobsters federal authorities rounded up on racketeering charges in Long Island, at least 16 have been accused of extorting businesses and running underground gambling clubs with the help of two former police officers.

Members of New York’s infamous Five Families—the Bonanno, Colombo, Gambino, Genovese, and Luchese crime organizations—were rounded up along with members of the New Jersery-based DeCavalcante family and New England Mafia to face charges including murder, drug trafficking, arson, loan sharking, illegal gambling, witness tampering, labor racketeering, and extortion. In one

More than 100 alleged mobsters and their accomplices were arrested in what was billed as the largest ever bust of organized crime and included violent gambling-extortion operations on Long Island. Former police officers from Suffolk and Nassau counties were caught in the net.