Mobsters from New York City to Chicago saw an opportunity and either started or took over with money, intimidation or violence for hauling firms within a city, crews would divvy up the roots, rig contract bids and harass and extort non mob haulers and customers in order to quash competition and to keep their prices high. Well, soon gangsters, mostly from Italian and Irish American neighborhood crime families, have monopolies on trash collection all over the Northeast and the upper Midwest