by Wiseguy » Wed Mar 20, 2019 8:30 am
crazyjoegallo wrote: ↑Tue Mar 19, 2019 4:34 pm
I read the crazy phil Leonetti book where he say that the philly mob was so strong to impose a street tax on any illegal bussiness in philly and that they made so many $$$ that scarfo had 3 milions hidden in his wall,in 1990s the merlino gang still imposed the tax but today the philly mob or the other families still impose a street tax?
In Philadelphia, Borgesi and his guys were reportedly trying to shakedown Ronald Maniscalco's bookmaking operation. Years before Ligambi, Massimino, and Staino simply took over the M&P video poker operation. And there's been articles of independent operators bringing payments to Ligambi at Christmas time. Point being, the mob still throws it's weight around at times, but I don't think there's the same all encompassing, everyone pays street tax today that there was under Scarfo.
In New England, you had independent bookmakers paying St. Laurent in Providence and DiNunzio is Boston.
In Chicago, Harry Aleman said in a 2005 interview there was no street tax anymore. Sarno, rather than attempting to tax a rival video poker company, simply tried to scare it off with a pipe bomb.
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I read the crazy phil Leonetti book where he say that the philly mob was so strong to impose a street tax on any illegal bussiness in philly and that they made so many $$$ that scarfo had 3 milions hidden in his wall,in 1990s the merlino gang still imposed the tax but today the philly mob or the other families still impose a street tax?
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In Philadelphia, Borgesi and his guys were reportedly trying to shakedown Ronald Maniscalco's bookmaking operation. Years before Ligambi, Massimino, and Staino simply took over the M&P video poker operation. And there's been articles of independent operators bringing payments to Ligambi at Christmas time. Point being, the mob still throws it's weight around at times, but I don't think there's the same all encompassing, everyone pays street tax today that there was under Scarfo.
In New England, you had independent bookmakers paying St. Laurent in Providence and DiNunzio is Boston.
In Chicago, Harry Aleman said in a 2005 interview there was no street tax anymore. Sarno, rather than attempting to tax a rival video poker company, simply tried to scare it off with a pipe bomb.