by antimafia » Tue Feb 11, 2025 1:33 pm
B. wrote: ↑Tue Feb 11, 2025 12:50 pm
antimafia wrote: ↑Tue Feb 11, 2025 7:16 am
From the earliest days of the
borgate in the United States, was there ever a rule that a member could not be on the payroll of a racketeer who was not a mafia member?
What I mean by "be on the payroll" is to actually receive a regular salary, e.g., weekly, for committing illicit activity at the behest of the racketeer.
A mafioso could work for or with non-mafiosi in an operational context and there is no issue. Obviously his loyalties are first and foremost to the mafia but I'm not aware of any rule, historic or otherwise, preventing a mafioso from earning money by providing assistance to a non-member.
A thoughtful response. Thanks, B.
Calogero Bordonaro was on the payroll of Rocco Perri in the 1920s. During that period, Perri's partner (romantic; business), the Canadian Jewess Besha (Bessie) Starkman, advanced significant sums of money to Bordonaro for drug deals.
Stefano Magaddino and Perri enormously profited during Prohibition; they needed each other. Each made enough money early on that they never would have had to "work" another day in their life.
But Perri was Magaddino's archenemy. Bordonaro, Antonio Papalia, and Frank Silvestro ("Sylvestro") were Perri loyalists at least up until the end of the 1930s -- the latter two were thus anti-Magaddino. At Perri's invitation, Bordonaro even accompanied him to a wedding in Calabria. By all appearances they were friends.
But eventually Papalia, Silvestro, and even Bordonaro withdrew their loyalty to Perri. We've come to know Silvestro and Bordonaro as Buffalo Family members, with Silvestro being the biggest heroin dealer in Canada in the 1950s.
Bordonaro might have pledged his loyalty to Magaddino in the 1920s and been made by the latter; maybe not on both counts, at least not that early. Of course it's quite possible that Magaddino wanted Bordonaro to spy on Perri.
But if Bordonaro were made by Magaddino in the 1920s, then Magaddino had no problem with the former being on Perri's payroll. I thought that this fact could have precluded Perri from being made by Magaddino while Bordonaro was paid a salary by Perri.
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From the earliest days of the [i]borgate[/i] in the United States, was there ever a rule that a member could not be on the payroll of a racketeer who was not a mafia member?
What I mean by "be on the payroll" is to actually receive a regular salary, e.g., weekly, for committing illicit activity at the behest of the racketeer.
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A mafioso could work for or with non-mafiosi in an operational context and there is no issue. Obviously his loyalties are first and foremost to the mafia but I'm not aware of any rule, historic or otherwise, preventing a mafioso from earning money by providing assistance to a non-member.
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A thoughtful response. Thanks, B.
Calogero Bordonaro was on the payroll of Rocco Perri in the 1920s. During that period, Perri's partner (romantic; business), the Canadian Jewess Besha (Bessie) Starkman, advanced significant sums of money to Bordonaro for drug deals.
Stefano Magaddino and Perri enormously profited during Prohibition; they needed each other. Each made enough money early on that they never would have had to "work" another day in their life.
But Perri was Magaddino's archenemy. Bordonaro, Antonio Papalia, and Frank Silvestro ("Sylvestro") were Perri loyalists at least up until the end of the 1930s -- the latter two were thus anti-Magaddino. At Perri's invitation, Bordonaro even accompanied him to a wedding in Calabria. By all appearances they were friends.
But eventually Papalia, Silvestro, and even Bordonaro withdrew their loyalty to Perri. We've come to know Silvestro and Bordonaro as Buffalo Family members, with Silvestro being the biggest heroin dealer in Canada in the 1950s.
Bordonaro might have pledged his loyalty to Magaddino in the 1920s and been made by the latter; maybe not on both counts, at least not that early. Of course it's quite possible that Magaddino wanted Bordonaro to spy on Perri.
But if Bordonaro were made by Magaddino in the 1920s, then Magaddino had no problem with the former being on Perri's payroll. I thought that this fact could have precluded Perri from being made by Magaddino while Bordonaro was paid a salary by Perri.