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Shellackhead wrote: ↑Sun Apr 07, 2024 12:31 pm

funkster wrote: ↑Sun Apr 07, 2024 11:53 am Is the VladTV interview worth watching?

Depending, he be on some Police shit but I like him.

What do you mean? Merlino is talking about the police?

Is the VladTV interview worth watching?

Remember like 10-12 years ago when posters on these types of forums were saying that the outfit was dead and that Difronzo “shut it down”? . There’s always so much more going on than we realise. The way I read this investigation is they were obviously going for something larger, but couldn’t quite ...

I think the problem is that if people don’t see a rico indictment they think there’s nothing. That stuff is fewer and further between these days. I also honestly think the mafia isn’t as big a priority like it was in the 80s and 90s. People forget how crazy and bloody the 70s/80s/and early 90s was i...

Either there really isn't much going on with the Outfit or they are pretty low key these days. I don’t think this has any bearing on this one way or the other to be honest. I got the sense from that article that the FBI in 2016 started a sprawling investigation they hoped would become Family Secret...

I would say there is no outfit guy after difronzo died that would be known to the general public here in Chicago, and JD might even be pushing it. These guys just aren’t well known any more.

If anything we’re seeing Gary Gags might be a bigger player than we might have realized, though Mags hinted at it on his short lived Fosco cast. The Feds build on things, can see more coming from it.z

I don’t put a ton of stock in the FS 2 thing, feels just like the usual outfit post family secrets throw in line. I think Chicago crime reporters are going to be using it for another 20 years.

Either there really isn't much going on with the Outfit or they are pretty low key these days. I don’t think this has any bearing on this one way or the other to be honest. We have no way to know whether there’s still an open investigation ongoing totally separate from this indictment or there was ...

Wow just coming to post. Had a feeling they would.

Now I’m very curious because I’d imagine it’d have to be a tough guy to give Cassano a beating, he’s not a spring chicken but he’s a big dude.

Snakes wrote: ↑Sun Mar 24, 2024 6:57 pm

funkster wrote: ↑Sun Mar 24, 2024 4:12 pm First I'm seeing it. Meisner is on the Trib's crime beat now and seems to put out most of their Outfit related stories these days.

I took this to be them describing *Joe* Gagliano, not Gary. They gave a little blurb after Damico, too.

yeah i think youre right.

First I'm seeing it. Meisner is on the Trib's crime beat now and seems to put out most of their Outfit related stories these days.

The first objection in the recent extortion trial of Addison businessman Gene “Gino” Cassano came about five seconds into opening statements, when a prosecutor mentioned the term “juice loan.” Three days later, the proceedings abruptly ended in a mistrial after an FBI agent testified he was assigned...