No yet but close he almost certainly does just by numbers and guns alone he almost definitively has the infrastructure never mind the infrastructural (intelligence networks, made men, lackey) advantages he does have to possess as a Crime Boss.
The main thing he's lacking I assume would be essentially Capital because time spent patrolling is time spent not making money which as a criminal Enterprise with hundreds if not multiple hundreds of members is a rather pressing concern
And you think American law enforcement lacks
guns of all things? That the guys able to get us spy satellite photos to back trace an intrusive power from another continent in less than an hour and had a delivery van for imprisoning vampires available for us to borrow on the spot can't do information games or whistle up help?
They are in a much better place to start and don't carry the same sort of problems.
You keep saying that but when they are relying on us to do literally everything of consequence and then they just act as police what do we need them for. Special investigations is still here when we need actual cops when we need enforcement apparatus (muscle & Intel) marcone's men are actually useful unlike the Library of Congress.
You keep saying they did good work but the only comparative scenario is if we completely shattered the red court and then the Mexican Belize Peruvian Bolivian Etc governments swept in and dealt with all the Mortal collaborators. They did a good job after everything that might have been an actual threat to them has already been eliminated. It's not impressive and it's not even particularly helpful.
The Library ended the flesh trade in Vegas after keeping a political lid on the idiots, got the information we needed in Boston, and the back channels we needed to head off the financial crisis of 2008.
They have done a lot of good for us that the mob simply couldn't. An association with the mob will make all of that more complicated and sets us on a collision course which will weaken all parties involved.
You keep insisting there's a fight when there really isn't there's no sanctioned or existing infrastructure there is no immune system. Daedalus isn't worth mentioning the Library of Congress isn't an enforcement arm they have no ability outside of... nothing actually they just have nothing.
He is a common goddamn criminal who literally has his own FBI task force hunting him. A task force that won't pack up and go home cause we decided he's nice. They won't even go home if he stops committing crimes because they won't believe it.
The mortal government will see this and treat it like what it looks like based on what they know even without the supernatural players.
When you bring them in we then have the Library, affiliated with the Mob through us but unable to explain why, versus Daedalus who we know want to take over and fight this battle themselves.
That leaves the Library stuck in a difficult spot, and makes weaponizing the system against the mobsters trivial. Which will eventually leave us to choose between losing something we've come to depend on or pushing around the legitimate authorities to keep them around.
If any of the many intrigue factions meddles at all it will get worse faster, because they barely need to do anything to move the pieces around.
Al Capone was a 6-year run from start to finish. Marcone has been the Crime Boss in Chicago for years prior to the storm front according to Dresden which takes place in 2000 and by the time story rolls around he's still The Crime Boss so... so far he's been a Crime Boss for at conservatively at least a decade of all of Chicago it's definitively implied that it's been considerably longer than that in the books.
Even if we're making a direct Al Capone reference then he's meeting him bar for bar just on the time in Canon has been going on so far from storm front onward he's already at the same level as Al Capone with nowhere near as much legal both local and National scrutiny.
Al Capone didn't try to take over a state.
This is very explicitly not surgery it is triage this is practicality the reality of the situation is the Library of Congress has nothing, Daedalus is less than nothing, Marcone has existing infrastructure for both information gathering and enforcement. The choice is clear subverting him to our purpose is infinitely more efficient and more likely if we can move him above board to save lives both mundanely and magically both of which are better than trying to forge something from nothing or in daedalus's case less than nothing.
Moving away from the surgery metaphor. Real resources are better than clean nothings any day of the week. Which is the only thing the Library of Congress can actually offer us at any given moment. One of those things saves lives and helps kill our enemies the other does well..
Marcone has less existing infrastructure, he barely has a presence anywhere he wants to expand into. The mortal government factions are changing policy to be more active because of our actions, that's what the letter they sent to the pope about Molly said outright.
Given the same support they can do better and don't have the same problems.
It seems to me that you're refusing to leave your own biases aside when looking at how other people will see things. You're projecting the beliefs it would be most convenient to us for them to hold onto factions who have no reason to have them.
The whole world won't stop on a dime and change how it feels because we want it to.
