st themselves. Power was the ultimate goal for the La Cosa Nostra now and they would do anything to obtain that power. Their early ways of providing protection to families for money and smuggling cigarettes were now gone and replaced by more serious ways of making money. The Federal Bureau of Investigation was able to identify these ways of making a living as drug trafficking, murder, assault, gambling, extortion, loan-sharking, labor racketeering, money laundering, arson, gasoline bootlegging, and infiltration of legitimate businesses. Their ways were no longer considered very honorable by many and there has been very little change.
             Now, one can see that the times had changed and the ways of the Mafia had to be altered also. Upon arrival, along with most of the migration in the 19th century, times were tough. In Europe jobs were hard to come by as the journey to America was made. Life did not obviously start out favorable. The new migrants were looked down upon and many "NINA" signs ap
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