31-35 Interesting Facts About Mobs, Gangs, Mafias, and Cartels 31. Between the years 2000 and 2012, the U.S. government had an arrangement with Mexico’s Sinaloa drug cartel that allowed the organization to smuggle billions of dollars of drugs into the USA, while Sinaloa provided information on rival cartels. – Source 32. Arnold Rothstein, a kingpin of the Jewish mafia who was behind the Black Sox scandal, refused to identify his killer to the police, saying “You stick to your trade. I’ll stick to mine.” – Source 33. In 2011, the Los Zetas drug cartel kidnapped hundreds of innocent bus passengers in Mexico and made them fight to the death like gladiators. The winners were then sent on suicide missions – Source