In the past few years, virtually all the leaders of the old Mafia families have been imprisoned or indicted, and police are now targeting the new organized-crime groups that run the U.S.'s cocaine traffic. The nation's mobsters and drug racketeers never needed good lawyers more than they do today. To law-enforcement officials, some of those lawyers are as suspect as the mobsters. Last week a staff study for the President's Commission on Organized Crime charged that a small group of "renegade attorneys" helps supply the "life-support system of organized crime."
The lawyers have made themselves "integral parts" of today's complex criminal...
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