Editing Philadelphia crime family (section)

==Federal prosecutions and organization==
Federal prosecutions describe a hierarchy of boss, underboss, consigliere, captains, soldiers and associates. In 2012, the Justice Department announced racketeering charges against alleged leadership, members and associates of the Philadelphia La Cosa Nostra family.<ref>[https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/leadership-members-and-associates-philadelphia-la-cosa-nostra-family-charged-racketeering “Leadership, Members and Associates of the Philadelphia La Cosa Nostra Family Charged with Racketeering”], United States Department of Justice, May 23, 2012.</ref> Subsequent guilty verdicts and pleas established participation by particular defendants; they do not make every person named in an indictment guilty.

A 2020 superseding indictment charged fifteen alleged members and associates with racketeering conspiracy, illegal gambling, loansharking, extortion and drug trafficking.<ref name="DOJ2020">United States Attorney's Office, Eastern District of Pennsylvania, [https://www.justice.gov/usao-edpa/pr/fifteen-members-and-associates-philadelphia-mafia-indicted-federal-racketeering-and “Fifteen Members and Associates of the Philadelphia Mafia Indicted on Federal Racketeering and Related Charges”], November 23, 2020.</ref> Later guilty pleas and sentences provide firm evidence of Philadelphia LCN activity into the 2020s.<ref>[https://www.justice.gov/usao-edpa/pr/philadelphia-lcn-associate-sentenced-five-years-prison-racketeering-and-drug-dealing “Philadelphia LCN Associate Sentenced to Five Years in Prison for Racketeering and Drug Dealing”], United States Attorney's Office, Eastern District of Pennsylvania, July 21, 2022.</ref>

These prosecutions support the organization's continued existence. They do not justify assigning a current boss or complete present membership roster without equally strong current evidence, so none is supplied here.