The problems of Albanians in Europe getting involved with crime is a strictly integration question. Europe is extremely tough with us and has treated the Albanians in a way that is hard to describe. You have to live as an Albanian there to understand. After the country was ransacked by Italians in WW2, then commies, then Italians again through Pelican and other operations, then by a bunch of people including our politicians in 1997 etc the Albanians didn't have much choice but go abroad and try to work. When work is not found, there's not much you can be doing. In America is different. Most of the Albanian families do not need to act as a mafia, and in fact are not. They act in block however. With the disintegration of the American family values in the past 20 years and the huge accumulation of debt sparked by the mantra "if you're 18 go and find the truth by yourself", the Albanians surprised the States not with the Mafia, but with the family concept, in such a away that only, and I stress this point, only rich and wealthy political families function this way, where there's usually a patriarch and pretty much they live together. Certainly we lack the Trust Funds and other instruments of wealth accumulation, hence you can say that we certainly lack the sophistication these families have, but boy, let me tell you something, if it weren't for 50 years of isolationism we would have been somewhere else in terms of wealth. 90% of Albanians came in US at the worst period of this nation and are still making a living honestly because of the way our families are structured. Same thing in Europe but is a tougher, hence crime participation is higher.
Just because Rudaj organization was taken seriously by the FBI(it was after all a competitor of the established families - if US can catch Bin Laden in Pakistan, I don't see why it can't catch the other mobs in its own soil!!!!) doesn't mean because now there's a reality show called "Mobster's Wives" the Italian mobsters are not taken seriously anymore!!!
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