THE BLACK HAND FORUM

One more specific belief with no evidence: Barney received 0 illegal dollars from his involvement in the Genovese enterprise in the last 10 years, neither directly nor indirectly

Belief with no evidence: one of the reasons that the current Genovese admin (primarily, Barney) hasn't been indicted for such a long time is that they no longer demand any significant amount of money from their underlings/capos/crews. They are well set enough (real estate, legitimate business intere...

There was supposedly an edict sent down from the bosses during the 1990s (if I remember right) that put at least a temporary stop to sanctioned murders. That said, generally speaking, the common murders once seen have ceased for the reasons listed above. That was the main thing I was wondering abou...

Hi all, first-time poster here. Got a question for the mob archaeologists around here. Why did the mob stopped with the hits? Or rather, what was the underlying process? It's been well established that LCN now has pretty much stopped killing people, shelving guys instead. This trend probably started...