Government takeover to a T

The 1990 gangster movie Goodfellas was a hit with movie critics and aficionados of the genre; it had plenty of blood and guts and mafia "hits", but it was also mostly a true story of the desire of a young gangster (played by Ray Liotta) to move to the top of an Italian American criminal gang in America, a desire being thwarted by the fact he wasn't Italian American.