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Current Events => General Discussion => Topic started by: Chris_ on January 21, 2011, 01:12:11 PM
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Largest-ever Mafia sweep makes nearly 120 arrests
More than 800 law enforcement officers participated in the pre-dawn raids in New York City, New Jersey and New England, arresting defendants charged with crimes including murder, loansharking, extortion and labor racketeering. A total of 127 people have been charged, including alleged high-ranking members of some of the five New York City-based families, officials said.
The sweeping allegations against families with names such as Colombo and Gambino and men with titles such as consigliere and underboss recalled Mafia movies that have lingered in the popular imagination for decades. But authorities emphasized that the government still faces a deadly and resilient foe.
Federal officials said the scope and severity of the charges - which covered several alleged mob hits from the 1980s and 1990s and a 2002 murder in Queens, N.Y. - showed that the Mafia, also called La Cosa Nostra, is unbowed by the law enforcement crackdown.
Washington Post (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/01/20/AR2011012001417.html)
I could never be in the mob... I don't have an interesting nickname. :(
(http://i237.photobucket.com/albums/ff68/kayaktn/nicknames.jpg)
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Washington Post (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/01/20/AR2011012001417.html)
I could never be in the mob... I don't have an interesting nickname. :(
(http://i237.photobucket.com/albums/ff68/kayaktn/nicknames.jpg)
I really wonder how the DON'S of the very beginning would think of the NEW Mafia.
Up until the late 50's the Real Mafia refused to deal in drugs or prostitution. Up to then it was extortion, kidnapping, bringing in the booze during probation, paying off bribes to city hall, and getting involved with big city politics.
Gang wars, going to the mattress ,culling the family's for kids to educate as lawyers, doctors and most important undertakers with very large businesses.
Some where in the 60's the young kids came in to challenge the old Dons with the Prohibition against drugs and prostitution. The old Dons began to die out from age and the Lieutenants much younger took over and changed the Mafia into all the very things that put them at risk.
While some of the old Dons still lived they took over Vegas and a good part of the entertainment world that played there. They had the money to bribe members of the Senate and Congress's chests were over flowing.
In the 70's a threat arose for the mob, the outsiders that were walking on their turf. Gangs, well organised that moved in on them, they were the outsiders that had well organised prostuition and drug rings that came out of no where to challenge the Mob.
Today everything is a spider web, who knows what others are doing----what a mess, biker gangs run drugs and under age girls up the coast,
in the big city's who knows who is running the daily bets on numbers or horse races.
This was a big rumor--true or not, that in the late 70's the Mob was having a problem with the Black Mobsters that was cutting into their business. Now today the Mobs of all kinds fear the Latino gangs that are taking over. This is another kind of fish, these gangs cut off heads and over run neighborhoods.
Should be interesting who plays the game and wins. History marches on.
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Howie Carr tore this apart this week (it may have been yesterday actually) as the dons they picked up are elderly and most retired. The active mafia untouched.
It's a total joke. I will try to find the article.
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Shanks for the memories, Baby
By Howie Carr
Saturday, January 22, 2011 - Updated 1 day ago
He’ll always be “Baby Shanks†to me.
Why have the feds suddenly changed the name of former Mafia boss Luigi Manocchio to “Baby Shacks†in their you-gotta-be-kidding-me indictment of the Over the Hill Gang?
Did the G-men confuse him with Jasper White’s fine dining establishment, the Summer Shack?
The longtime Laundromat boss is 83 years old, the cops admit he’s retired, he’s a snowbird in Fort Lauderdale, and not only do they lug him, they can’t even get his underworld moniker straight.
http://bostonherald.com/news/columnists/view/20110122shanks_for_the_memories_baby/
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Former, I am a bit surprised that there are any of the old timers left.----I know Howie has been on the look out for Whitey Bolger for years now.
The only thing I remember from the Boston Mob is in the summer they would take their kids and summer on some of the lakes in this area.
The super smart kids went to Philips at Exeter and occasionally we would see big cars with Mass plates driving through town to visit their kids or return them after school vacation.
When I went to high school in Exeter, the girls all tried to date the Academy boys but few succeeded as these kids parents would have put a stop to that most quickly. Us Townies were off limits to the children of the wealthy.
Understated people, the parents of these kids, not flashy, their summer homes were not mansions just a few steps up from our grandparent of parents, no body guards or big lugs hanging around. No drugs or booze, no parties just a bunch of us kids that spent summer on the lake or in it. The last summer of innocence for most of us as we were now in our mid teens. That summer the boy I had such a crush on had graduated from Philips at Andover and was headed for law school. His father sold his business--he had been a small town Undertaker, put his camp up for sale, sold their home and out of the blue the family moved to Miami. In fact the intire family left Boston--They were the Bonanoes.-SP---?
It was a year or so later that the papers began to report on all the shake ups of the Mobs, who went where, that I made the connection, the abrupt move they made to Miami, the family business , I have wondered to this day what ever happend to that handsome young man.
My DAD would drive me crazy on a drive up to the camp for years, he said he knew where Jimmie Hoffa was buried. He figured he was in the town cemetery sharing space with a stranger that had used my "boyfriends" fathers business.
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I really wonder how the DON'S of the very beginning would think of the NEW Mafia.
Up until the late 50's the Real Mafia refused to deal in drugs or prostitution. Up to then it was extortion, kidnapping, bringing in the booze during probation, paying off bribes to city hall, and getting involved with big city politics.
There never was some noble, righteous, and romanceable 'real mafia'. They've always been nothing more than opportunistic criminals who were some-what organized.
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OK its been a few days. How many of them will be walking the streets again by lunch time today?
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Curiously enough, it was announced a few days before this that Obama was gearing up his campaign fund raising for 2012. Could this have been his way of putting the squeeze on the mob for donations? :whistling: