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I'm sitting on my couch ready to throw the remote at my TV. Dude interviews like he's being interrogated. And supposedly he has a podcast. Can't wait to have that urge to throw something again.

SonnyBlackstein wrote: ↑Fri Mar 21, 2025 12:03 pm

Uforeality wrote: ↑Thu Mar 20, 2025 5:42 pm How is Jr being a rat even an argument now? Just think about it like this. Would Jr be alive if this happened in the 70's or 80's? If the mob knew what he did, he would have been found with a canary stuffed in his mouth.

Can u shut up.

Stop being gay.

How is Jr being a rat even an argument now? Just think about it like this. Would Jr be alive if this happened in the 70's or 80's? If the mob knew what he did, he would have been found with a canary stuffed in his mouth.

I don't know, I've heard stories about the Gotti youth being quite the spectacle around town. High school sporting events get really heated tho.

Teddy taking the reigns as boss seems like old news. I always thought it was just a matter of him staying out of prison. Hopefully, he'll take a page out of the Genovese playbook and involve himself with legitimate businesses.

There’s been so little on Gene Gotti since his release. I always assumed he was awarded a Captain position once he hit the streets again. But I’ve heard nothing. Well, other than Calandra talking smack.

As a whole, LCN in America has been so thoroughly infiltrated by Law Enforcement that what we have left is only a memory of what Italian OC used to be. Longtime informants, occasional informants and quite often, jealousy towards one another has taken a very large toll on the organization of organiz...

As a whole, LCN in America has been so thoroughly infiltrated by Law Enforcement that what we have left is only a memory of what Italian OC used to be. Longtime informants, occasional informants and quite often, jealousy towards one another has taken a very large toll on the organization of organize...

You cant really murder anymore so you can't really intimidate your prey... other than kicking some ass here and there. More than anything, I think, the lifestyle of the mafia neighborhoods has evolved away from sheltering these guys from law enforcement.

It always seemed to me that the spirit of LCN were worlds apart from city to city. New York LCN and, for example, Chicago LCN handled internal affairs so differently it was almost comical. Maybe because New York was so much bigger and had upwards of seven mafia families. Chicago had one family and o...

Even if Merlino is shelved, it doesn't mean he's not a criminal making criminal money. Some people forget that Joey has been a criminal for most of his adult life. The idea that crime stops when you get shunned by your organization is silly. The only thing that has changed here is the notion that th...

Finally something to really talk about. And for all of the folks here that think NY can’t pressure Philly to make a move on its boss, you apparently haven’t read much about mafia geopolitics. The idea that Joey grew up with all of these guys and they won’t turn on him is naive. That’s mafia 101. You...

So much for the idea of a secret society.

We have a couple bookies here in the Beach communities where I live. I'm sure there are more. All of them do very well.

Being an informant is now a career of its own. The Feds let these guys run non-violent rackets in exchange for real-time info on organized crime activities. Its a side job for a lot of mobsters. I think the number of informants is a lot more than we know or suspect.