Family businesses included extortion, loan sharking, Italian lottery, robbery and counterfeiting. He led the crime family in gambling, loan sharking and extortion. Both groups profited from illegal gambling, bookmaking, loan sharking, and labor rackets in northern Ohio. This crew was involved in activities such as extortion, loan sharking, and bookmaking. Mafias often engage in secondary activities such as gambling, loan sharking, drug-trafficking, prostitution, and fraud. They are also involved in racketeering and loan sharking. The making of usurious loans is often called loan sharking. Over the next decade, The Outfit moved into labor racketeering, gambling, and loan sharking. He also became involved in loan sharking, illegal gambling and pornography. The Family started loan sharking and extorting. Laws curtailing loan sharking were also passed. The shadow economy also includes loan sharking.