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antimafia wrote: ↑Sat Nov 02, 2024 9:16 am Cross-posting (I just made a post in the BOOK LOUNGE)
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Patrickgold wrote: ↑Mon Nov 04, 2024 5:38 pm

Coloboy wrote: ↑Mon Nov 04, 2024 2:00 pm A few articles ago Scott B. posted a "west coast power rankings" list.

Rocco Lombardo was listed at #9, and described as being "stationed" there on behalf of his deceased brother.

I'm familiar with the crazy horse strip club deal from around 2007, but is there anything at all that points to him being active in the outfit in any way in the last decade?

Last I heard Rocco was retired and not living in Vegas. He was living in Arizona. I guess Arizona is still considered West Coast but he lists him as LV.

I also saw his article on top non Italian associates in the mafia and he listed Porky on there when he’s been dead for 2 years

Coloboy wrote: ↑Mon Nov 04, 2024 2:00 pm A few articles ago Scott B. posted a "west coast power rankings" list.

Rocco Lombardo was listed at #9, and described as being "stationed" there on behalf of his deceased brother.

I'm familiar with the crazy horse strip club deal from around 2007, but is there anything at all that points to him being active in the outfit in any way in the last decade?

funkster wrote: ↑Fri Nov 01, 2024 6:40 am The Beatles of the outfit will always stuck in my mind. Was it ever confirmed that he posted here under the handle Chicago? For a moment I thought that asshole confederate was also him, but that may be wrong.

They always had such a weird way of talking, including fosco. My guess is that was more a product of being old dudes learning how to converse on a message board.

Snakes wrote: ↑Thu Oct 31, 2024 5:35 pm

funkster wrote: ↑Thu Oct 31, 2024 4:49 pm A great project would be to weed out the dogs shit from those threads. Maybe when Im old and retired. The format was soooo awful tooo half the time you couldn't follow who was responding to whom.

Remember when all of the comments wouldn't show and you had to keep expanding? The worst! Fosco was certainly one of the more accurate ones on there. It's been so long since I've read it, I can't remember any others. Of course The Don was full of shit. Black Angelo was also for the most part, but the Don made him look like Joe Valachi by comparison. They posted the most, if I remember correctly. I think Rick made a couple posts here and there but wasn't a regular.

funkster wrote: ↑Thu Oct 31, 2024 4:49 pm A great project would be to weed out the dogs shit from those threads. Maybe when Im old and retired. The format was soooo awful tooo half the time you couldn't follow who was responding to whom.

Patrickgold wrote: ↑Mon Oct 28, 2024 2:18 pm

Coloboy wrote: ↑Mon Oct 28, 2024 11:05 am I’ve brought up Fosco a few times recently, and I’m curious for everyone’s thoughts on a few things.

American news post back in the day was my introduction to the inner workings of the outfit. I have no idea how I stumbled upon that site. You have to sift through the ridiculousness and the bullshit, but the intel in those old threads is priceless to this day.

Fosco had a serious bone to pick with the outfit at that time. However, he pretty abruptly stopped writing about it, and has been silent since, with the exception of some generic outfit “addendums” a few years ago.

I have to wonder if he sort of settled his beef with members of the outfit, and that is why he doesn’t write anymore. I have to think that that is still his social circle in life to this day.

Does anyone have any clue what he is up to?

On that note, any updates on Mike Mags? I had heard rumors he might be active again because it seems like his crusade against the outfit has sort of quieted down.

Fosco stopped writing bc he agreed too with certain people. He now hangs out with Solly D’s son Vince, that clown that is always on Facebook making stupid posts, if that tells you anything about his character.