On the other hand, once Southern District attorney, he successfully prosecuted non-corporate businessmen like Ivan Boesky, Michael Milken and Marc Rich. Perhaps then Giuliani doesn't run on his prosecutorial record because he doesn't want to remind potential corporate donors that there was a time he went after big business, even if it was individuals, not corporations.
Even beyond drugs, though, Giuliani, raised to resent the Mafia for how it smeared the good name of Italians, went after it with a vengeance. As Attorney for the Southern District he used the new RICO act, as well as loosened restrictions on electronic surveillance, to bypass indicting individuals, as in the past, and go after the famous Mafia commission instead.
Why then does he gloss over his spectacular success crippling New York's "five families"?
Perhaps Giuliani's people have convinced him that, supplanted by terror as America's Most Wanted, the mob is old news. Besides, with interest in "The Sopranos" peaking in its final season, maybe they fear invoking the specter of Giuliani's vendetta against America's favorite family.
*LIHOP = Let it happen on purpose; MIHOP = Made it happen on purpose.
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