CornerBoy wrote: ↑Sat Apr 20, 2024 4:36 amWiseguy, how can you say that definitively?
It's what the available evidence shows.
What does "based" in mean anyway?
Tommy Gambino was supposedly capo of a CT crew but lived in Manhattan.
Based means the main area where a crew operates, even though some crew members may live outside the area. That's hardly unheard of. As for Tommy Gambino, the crew once based in Connecticut merged with a New York crew in the 1980s. So it was essentially a New York crew with operations in Connecticut at that point. I'm not sure the Genovese family ever had a crew actually based in Connecticut. It seems their presence came from the Bronx crews and the Springfield, MA crew. Today, whatever the family has left in either Connecticut or Springfield has merged with the New York based Ianniello crew.
You don't think ppl in CT gamble and borrow money?
Sure. They were doing that very thing in the 2012 DePreta case. Doesn't mean a Connecticut-based crew was behind it.
if its from some govt chart, strong possibility that their info is incorrect or spreading misinformation.
Look at the drop-off in cases there over the past decade or more. Can you name a captain from any of the families in question based there?
Pmac2 wrote: ↑Sat Apr 20, 2024 6:00 am
There still making guys in NYC theyll be making a 1 or 2 guys every year in boston and its surburbs all the way south 45 min in Providence RI. The guy will be some dead made great guys son, nephew
or grandson. All these guys makes friends in the federal pens.and stay in touch with guys from other citys. Carmine brother anthony was boss for awhile his kid is inducted so that means his friends will be and the beat goes on. Doesnt mean they have more power then some street gangs but the tradition will continue.
Has the tradition continued in Pittsburgh or Cleveland or Tampa or Los Angeles? It declines and then eventually dies off.
The Providence faction has half the members it did 20 years ago. Boston has lost 1/3 of what they had 15 years ago. If they were making 1-2 guys every year, their numbers would be more stable.
So that leaves the simple assumption new guys are being made, and in sufficient numbers to counterbalance those dying off. That does seem to be the order of the day now on this forum.
Newyorkempire wrote: ↑Sat Apr 20, 2024 6:26 am
"Virtually" no presence but still possibly a presence? In "reality", maybe? Possibly? Absolutely? Virtual Reality?
"Wise"guy is out in the streets and has his own rackets going in all cities so he would for sure know if any made guys have a presence there from Patriarca. Guy is a great reporter and never stops investigating. We are blessed to have someone like him letting us know how many members are being made each year, the total number in each city and then the quick flip back to lack of indictments he tells us about to verify. Because after all, he knows what the Boston FBI field office and other agencies are investigating at all times, what cases they choose not to bring and ofcourse he can predict that no cases will ever come down again. He actually has rackets with law enforcement officials I have heard. Guy is a straight legend. He is one of the many great wonders of the modern world. A supreme blogger that has mastered the art of his own assumptions and narratives based on his experiences as an investigator of all families and crews from all over the world while moonlighting as a racketeer. I bet he knows what they are eating for breakfast right now!! Please, "Wise"guy come out with a book so you can finally have all your inside knowledge published to the masses.
I'm sorry I have to be the adult telling the children in the room there is no Santa Clause. The facts are what they are, no matter how much you want to cry about it.
Eddie mush wrote: ↑Sat Apr 20, 2024 11:39 am
Thank you New York . U saved me from another beef with the worlds most knowledgeable mafia poster
Guy lives in the middle of nowhere and knows everything about every family in the country
He is a true legend (in his own mind )
You'll have to forgive me. I assumed you started this thread actually wanting honest, evidence-based answers. Not simply fantasy some just want to hear. I should have remembered who I was talking to.
All roads lead to New York.