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How big of impact did the decline of the other midwest families have on the Outfit?

It wasn't a whole family but there was the "Colombo brother's crew" which never reintegrated with the Colombo's following the war in the 1990s and operated on their own for a decade

Did the recent court documents not put Mike Lancelotti as the acting boss

What happend to Sammy he was all over youtube kinda went dark. He tried to sell he videos he forgot he put them out for free for 2 years and wrote a book already Probably running out of stories, his last two videos are just videos of him fuck around He's been on a few podcasts lately, plus he got s...

A few years ago there was someone connected to Detroit that was arrested for gambling or drugs does anyone remember who this was? You might be thinking of Game Tax defendant John "Johnny Bananas" Sciarrotta, who was busted for trying to buy cocaine from an undercover federal agent in Marc...

A year or two ago, I saw it stated somewhere that Jimmy Caci ran a small bookmaking operation all the way up until his death in 2011. Does anyone know how true this is?

A few years ago there was someone connected to Detroit that was arrested for gambling or drugs does anyone remember who this was?

Also I know the Genovese are referred to as the westside, do any of the other four families have a nickname?

The Cali cartel had pretty extensive operations in New York specifically Queens in the mid 80s till the late 90s, is there any info on interactions between the Cali Cartel and LCN?

On wiki it says the purple gang was limited to only Italians but Meldish doesn't seem like a very Italian last name. Was this true?

NJShore4Life wrote: ↑Wed Jun 08, 2022 12:19 pm I always thought that Scarfo Jr’s sentence of 30 years for the FirstPlus Indictment was extremely harsh as well, people get less time for killing someone.

-Dante

I agree, I'm guessing it had to do with his last name

Did the West Coast families have any unique customs or slang they used? Similar to how Outfit had their own slang for different positions that was different from what the East coast guys used. Michael Niotta whose written a few books on LA said they in the early days they were called a Brugad rathe...

Did the West Coast families have any unique customs or slang they used? Similar to how Outfit had their own slang for different positions that was different from what the East coast guys used. Michael Niotta whose written a few books on LA said they in the early days they were called a Brugad rather...

Did this thing even ever come out?

When was the final time any LA member/associate got busted? Were the Blitzstein arrests the last hoorah of the LA family?