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Is this a serious question? human trafficking? yup. https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/new-atlanticist/how-to-stop-governments-from-trafficking-people/ http

• lIl-IIIl 8mo ago
  That was a serious question, thank you. I think of mafia as providing services that a government/legitimate private entities cannot provide. Human trafficking - yup, I should have thought of that. In the counties listed in the link the governments does serve that mafia function. I was US centric in my thinking. Prostitution - no. It can be legal, but the government does not engage in it. Drug trafficking - I am sure some governments do it. I wouldn't put US in that list. Both the government investigations and the newspaper investigations found the allegations unsupported, according to the given link. I would say it could happen incidentally but organized crime does not need to worry about the government as a competitor in this space. Gambling - the lottery is not illegal gambling. But you can argue that is tautologically true. Racketeering - I don't see where in that link it says that the government engages in racketeering. Rico is a law that makes prosecuting racketeering easier.