Car theft rings, chop shops
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Car theft rings, chop shops
A thing of the past for the mob? Don't hear about that any more like you did in the 80's.
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The last cases I'm aware of were the Gambinos (Carmine Agnello and those connected to him) and Genovese (Fritzy Giovanelli) in the early 2000s. Stolen goods in general seem to be an ad-hoc thing and not really a core racket. Certainly not like it used to be when you had truck hijacking and lots of other things.
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It's almost impossible to steal a car now due to the technology. The tracking devices are extremely difficult to get around.
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That’s why you don’t have truck hijackinng anymore because of the GPS tracking devices
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Ronnie The Wig Galati was running insurance scams out of his auto body shop in South Philly. One of Uncle Joe’s sons got jammed up with Ronnie for insurance fraud as well.
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I used to work in Oak Park during the early 2000s and our company had 8 work vans that had their catalytic converters sawed off one night. Didn’t have cameras on the lot at that time.
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who were the big car rings demeo crew ernest vacarelli genovese i think basciano had car thieves would also like to know more it seemed huge late 70 early 80s.
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Chicago was big into chop shops in the 80s and 90s. Maybe even into the 2000s.
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dont know to much about chicago pogo apart from roemer books do you know of other car rings linked to ny
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andrew didonto in his book speaks a little about it also duane who worked for massino patty testa was huge.
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Cars, Vehicles of all kinds, Chop shops, Parts,Junk yards, Shipping vehicles overseas, Tag jobs etc etc And everything and anything to do with trucks ,cars were one of the biggest rackets for the Mob up until the early 2000's . The end of this particular racket was like the others, A huge loss of steady income
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Cubans, Dominicans, South Americans, Africans, and others still make huge amounts of money every year from Truck hijackings, Rail car thefts, And stolen cars . The Mob doesn't have the man power anymore, And I'd say they don't have the balls either