THE BLACK HAND FORUM

MikeyRiens11 wrote: ↑Wed Jul 25, 2018 11:02 am Schratweiser is saying on Twitter that Dom Grande's home was vandalized last week.

Pogo The Clown wrote: ↑Wed Jul 25, 2018 11:00 am So many of his sources "quotes" sound fabricated. I now I'm not the only one who has noticed that in the past. As for his LE sources, while I'm sure he has some, so much of his info that he attributes to his LE sources have been proven to be either totally wrong or completely at odds with what LE actually says. So it is impossible to tell how much of what he says actually comes from LE or is something he just includes to give his articles more credibility.


Pogo

Chucky wrote: ↑Wed Jul 25, 2018 5:31 am For what it's worth, Scott did mention Borgesi meeting with a Gambino member in Florida and it was later confirmed by Capeci to be Joe Bilotti.

Frank wrote: ↑Wed Jul 25, 2018 8:46 am He did mention Lancelotti as street boss a few years ago, which now seems to be accurate.

willychichi wrote: ↑Wed Jul 25, 2018 8:39 am I don't doubt Burnstein has reliable sources in Philly which he probably developed when he was doing the Leonetti book. His tabloid writing style is hard to take some times, but he has been right about this family's recent activities on several occasions.

SonnyBlackstein wrote: ↑Tue Jul 24, 2018 10:06 pm

Fughedaboutit wrote: ↑Tue Jul 24, 2018 11:45 am

SILENT PARTNERZ wrote: ↑Tue Jul 24, 2018 7:40 am We should not always throw ScottB out with the bath water fellas.
Over the years he has developed contacts in several areas. Tim White
in Providence is one of them...

While some may not like his writing style or think he is full of BS...I really don't think he just makes shit up. He gets it from somewhere...I mean speculation based on what he may have heard or been told is better than nothing IMO...Remember that he does have law enforcement contacts that some of you so highly tout

If we are going off the mob and pure fact on current affairs we would have nothing to talk about

Whilst he likely doesn't fabricate, his errors, non confirmation and general outright 'speculation' (refer example of Merlino giving the DePietro order) are so egregious and common that his trust-worthyness for 'journalism' is rendered almost completely useless.
The instances and examples are so numerous as to leave his work in the realm of simple speculation which is more oft than not proven false.
We read him because of his rarity in the field, not his quality or history of work.

And I WANT to believe him, but he's basically proven you do so at your own peril if youre looking for the truth.

TJ wrote: ↑Tue Jul 24, 2018 1:30 pm vetere was never jn a uniom, teamsters or otherwise, was never on a movie set, and never was a body guard, anywhere, ever..and i am pretty sure george and matty were never in the same facility

Fughedaboutit wrote: ↑Tue Jul 24, 2018 11:45 am

SILENT PARTNERZ wrote: ↑Tue Jul 24, 2018 7:40 am We should not always throw ScottB out with the bath water fellas.
Over the years he has developed contacts in several areas. Tim White
in Providence is one of them...

While some may not like his writing style or think he is full of BS...I really don't think he just makes shit up. He gets it from somewhere...I mean speculation based on what he may have heard or been told is better than nothing IMO...Remember that he does have law enforcement contacts that some of you so highly tout

If we are going off the mob and pure fact on current affairs we would have nothing to talk about