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Posted: 6/16/2021 3:15:49 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Not me, but a friend of mine from high school who went on to work for the wastewater utility moved his family to Providence, RI. I ran into him in the airport as he was getting ready to board the plane. By coincidence, he moved in a few houses down from where I was renting a few years later. I said "Hey, I thought you moved to Rhode Island." He went on to say how unbelievably corrupt the city government of Providence was and how half the workers did nothing but couldn't be fired because they were connected to the mob. He couldn't stand it and came back to AK. I’ve heard that about Rhode Island, it’s either Lobsters or Mobsters |
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Posted: 6/16/2021 3:30:14 AM EDT
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When I was a kid in the 70's, my dad was a Detective in the city/hometown we lived in. There was a fancy Chinese restaurant a few blocks away from the house that had all the cool dragons and pho dog statues outside, well I always wanted to go eat there but dad said we couldn't.
So one day in the 90's we were talking about where we lived and restaurant's, I mentioned the place, he then told me that it was a mob backed business that they used to wash money and many of them hung out in the bar. So about five years ago, I pick up a book on the N.J. mob and not that I did not believe my dad but it was mentioned in the book. |
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Posted: 6/16/2021 6:55:36 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: How did you arrive at that in a simple search? Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: The kid himself is just some MLM huckster. And i am sure he will hire a crew of illegal aliens or gypsies to slap some gutter guards on a house. But the money goes to the mob and they are running this in 43 states. How did you arrive at that in a simple search? 1) i have the kid’s name, cell number, and a decent photo. He uses the same name, cell number, and face to sell bullshit MLM diet supplements for the past four years with a large online presence 2) corporate entity search for the business in the state that is mentioned in the business name turns up squat, but searching elsewhere reveals 20 plus similar entities in different states all with the same registered agent and all n one state. Searching the reg agent leads back to a bigger central co, and searching its agent leads to a mob lawyer with mob parents and uncles convicted of bribery racketeering etc. |
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Posted: 6/16/2021 7:03:35 AM EDT
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I think you need to put parsley on every plate of food you serve in your eating establishment..................
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Posted: 6/16/2021 7:05:44 AM EDT
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The cheese supplier for Little Seizures Pizza.
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Posted: 6/16/2021 7:06:22 AM EDT
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I may or may not know of a certain Auto Repair shop in Pittsburg that is shall we say .... very pro Italian ..... right down to the shady back room where there are always multiple black haired fellas playing cards, eating, BS'ing, etc. Seriously it's straight up like a movie scene
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Posted: 6/16/2021 7:07:16 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: A former student told me his family had a repair garage in Chicago. Two guys came by forcing the business to have a gumball machine in the lobby. No wasn't an option. The Lions Club is no joke. 
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Posted: 6/16/2021 7:08:01 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: $300,000 isn't a lot of business these days... |
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Posted: 6/16/2021 7:09:05 AM EDT
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I worked at an Italian restaurant in HS. Everyone who worked there knew the owner was having problems.
One night 2 dudes, none of us had ever seen, walked in and told everyone to get the fuck out of the restaurant as it was now closed. They took the keys and locked the doors. The restaurant never opened back up. I always figured it was the mob. Who know? |
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Posted: 6/16/2021 7:09:46 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: The Lions Club is no joke. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: A former student told me his family had a repair garage in Chicago. Two guys came by forcing the business to have a gumball machine in the lobby. No wasn't an option. The Lions Club is no joke. Got nothing on United Way campaigners. |
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Posted: 6/16/2021 7:14:53 AM EDT
[#11]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Two bit job in high school. Our boss was part of an Italian crime family in Chicago. He had family members doing federal time. We'd even see newspaper articles about the family, complete with status photos, including his. The FBI would even drop in from time to time asking questions. He was a nobody in the family. Maybe he did real stuff back in the day, but out to pasture, he was relegated to funneling money to judges. Stupid stuff. We saw all of it. Ok, maybe not all of it, but enough of it. A thousand bucks to fix a hundred dollar problem. But, I think some established guys thrived on the idea of having a fixer, and they'd use him to fix things that simply didn't need to be fixed. No sane person would think to make these payoffs, but theses guys did. Guess it was a change from the boring, well established, society life. One of the judges ended up earning a federal conviction over it. Fucking stupid. I suppose, there was stuff that we didn't see that was bigger and more consequential, but still, just fucking stupid. I mean, fucking high schoolers are watching you do this, watching the money change hands, hearing what it's about, hearing what the fix is, and hearing names. And you are stealing money from these kids. How? Fucking? Smart? Is? That? He drove a 20 year old Cadillac. Always kept an axe and shovel in the trunk. Nothing AAA recommended in that trunk. Just the axe and shovel, and stuff he was moving from A to B. But, he was so old at this point, he couldn't lift the axe, nor stuff he was moving. So, he'd have us move the stuff to B. He always made a point for us to see the axe. Yeah, we get it. Back in the day, yeah, you were somebody. We get that. But, not now. You're out to pasture. Even we could see that. No need for theater. We've got two bit jobs, an you are our supervisor. You've got a three bit job. You done fucked something up in life to be stuck with us in your dimming years. For some reason I read that in Ray Liottas voice as Henry Hill
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Posted: 6/16/2021 7:18:13 AM EDT
[#12]
Quote HistoryQuoted: He went on to say how unbelievably corrupt the city government of Providence was and how half the workers did nothing but couldn't be fired because they were connected to the mob. He couldn't stand it and came back to AK. Ah yes. The Cianci family. It still goes on there. Even big players like Amazon have to “fill the drawer” when the permit guy leaves it open and gets up to “go check on something” when an application gets dropped off. |
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Posted: 6/16/2021 7:35:41 AM EDT
[#13]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Here in Utah we have Polygamist owned businesses. In terms of ethics some are sketchy AF some are not. Like Desert Tech Firearms, right? |
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Posted: 6/16/2021 7:38:56 AM EDT
[#14]
Worked at a (very) small Italian joint in central FL in high school. One afternoon cops escorted the owner out the door handcuffed. Apparently all those phone calls weren't to go orders after all. Small time book.
Not exactly mafia, but it's all I got. |
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Posted: 6/16/2021 7:44:56 AM EDT
[#15]
Quote HistoryQuoted: I took the $300M to mean $300 million. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: $300,000 isn't a lot of business these days... Oh not this again |
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Posted: 6/16/2021 7:57:17 AM EDT
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My ex father in law ran a waste disposal business in New Jersey Totally mobbed up. He ended up doing federal and state prison time over it.
It's very hard to run any kind of business like that, and not get some mafia involvement. |
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Posted: 6/16/2021 7:57:44 AM EDT
[#17]
Quote HistoryQuoted: I’ve heard that about Rhode Island, it’s either Lobsters or Mobsters Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Not me, but a friend of mine from high school who went on to work for the wastewater utility moved his family to Providence, RI. I ran into him in the airport as he was getting ready to board the plane. By coincidence, he moved in a few houses down from where I was renting a few years later. I said "Hey, I thought you moved to Rhode Island." He went on to say how unbelievably corrupt the city government of Providence was and how half the workers did nothing but couldn't be fired because they were connected to the mob. He couldn't stand it and came back to AK. I’ve heard that about Rhode Island, it’s either Lobsters or Mobsters Nah, there are a few wanna be pretenders. 
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Posted: 6/16/2021 7:58:54 AM EDT
[#18]
my family is in America as a direct result of the sicilian mob
few generations ago great great grand dad works like crazy, saves up to come to America saying he'll get a job and send money to the wife back home. Gets here, gets work, money never comes! He stops responding to letters or something, so the story goes. Wife is pissed! gets a "loan" from the old school guys in sicily. Comes to America to find her husband. Says "looks like you're stuck with me, by the way you owe the mob a shit ton of money..." He paid. We stayed. True story. My grandfather was high ranking police office in NY on the organized crime task forces and division. He helped some significant busts. There's a few documentaries that mention his work directly. |
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Posted: 6/16/2021 8:01:41 AM EDT
[#19]
Italian mafia? No
Mexican Cartel? Yes, all the time with my job. |
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Posted: 6/16/2021 8:10:23 AM EDT
[#20]
Back when there was such a thing Plasterers in my AO were mobbed-up. They are all dead and gone now but nobody without a Italian name did any plaster work.....It seems that plastering was one of the first construction entities to get mobbed-up as far back as the late 1800s-early 1900s when the Genovese crime family took over from the Morello family that set up shop in NYC as soon as they came off the boat.
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Posted: 6/16/2021 8:19:10 AM EDT
[#21]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Our area has had two landfills owned by one company for years. A normal dump haul would only cost about $25 and change. Waste Management apparently bought out the old company this quarter. My SIL tried to make a haul today and not only were they going to charge $200 for the dump fee, he'd have to rent their safety helmet and vest for an additional $15. I always heard trash management companies were mobbed up. Guess Guido, "no neck" has moved to central Bama. WM runs the dump in my neck of the woods, always have my own vest and hardhat in the truck when I go out there... Last time it was $70ish to dump an 1100 sq ft house's worth of carpet and pad, they charge by weight for most things. |
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Posted: 6/16/2021 8:20:01 AM EDT
[#22]
Yes. WNY still has a bunch of mobsters running around.
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Posted: 6/16/2021 8:21:25 AM EDT
[#23]
Quote HistoryQuoted: A former student told me his family had a repair garage in Chicago. Two guys came by forcing the business to have a gumball machine in the lobby. No wasn't an option. We used to have a gumball machine in our lobby. It surprisingly sold a whole lot of gumballs. There could be some money in a gumball mafia. |
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Posted: 6/16/2021 8:21:57 AM EDT
[#24]
My brother paid $1000 for the privilege of getting out of buying a home from a local developer with New York mafia connections.
My wife tells me my former friends first lawyer was mobbed up locally. |
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Posted: 6/16/2021 8:24:27 AM EDT
[#25]
Quote HistoryQuoted: The FBI is more concerned about the January 6th debacle than protecting working class Americans. Organized crime and the perpetrators have taken a back seat to the demands of leftist politicians. The fbi is organized crime |
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Posted: 6/16/2021 8:30:40 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: The fbi is organized crime Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: The FBI is more concerned about the January 6th debacle than protecting working class Americans. Organized crime and the perpetrators have taken a back seat to the demands of leftist politicians. The fbi is organized crime This. But the Italian “mafia” and to the lesser extent, Jewish and Irish “mafia” is long gone / shell of a former self. The Russian mafia / Eastern European is still around a bit. More so on the East coast area. The power the Italian mafia had in the US back in its hay day was crazy, especially in certain cities. Youngstown, Pittsburg, Cleveland, Chicago and of course NY. Youngstown had the power concentration just because it was a small city. So it was literally, completely mob run. Cops, politicians, etc. it’s legacy is why Tim fucking Ryan, can be a rapist yet still be in Congress. |
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Posted: 6/16/2021 8:34:06 AM EDT
[#27]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Its more profitable w/ bars/restaurants using "joker poker" machines. Average machine takes in 2k a month, say you had 25 machines... Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: A former student told me his family had a repair garage in Chicago. Two guys came by forcing the business to have a gumball machine in the lobby. No wasn't an option. Its more profitable w/ bars/restaurants using "joker poker" machines. Average machine takes in 2k a month, say you had 25 machines... Well now you know how they launder the money. |
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Posted: 6/16/2021 8:34:33 AM EDT
[#28]
Quoted: A very pushy door to door home services salesman visited a relative today. Search the company and two holding companies away, italian mafia in a midwest city. Evidently the company did $300M in home repair work in each of the past few years. How does this shit go on in 2021? Congress. |
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Posted: 6/16/2021 8:36:51 AM EDT
[#29]
About 19 years ago a close friend started up a video poker business here in town. Yea, that shit was mob run and they got fucked hard financially.
When I was a teenager I worked for a well known theater chain back in the '80's. If that shit wasn't mob run, nothing is. So damned easy to launder money selling popcorn. One of my co-workers I went to high school thought it would be cool to remove a few of the Altec-Lansing Voice of the Theater speakers from inside the surround sound units since back then a movie with surround sound was very rare. About 6 months later (we were both employed elsewhere by then) I had a couple of really big guys in suits show up at my new job looking for the guy. Told them I hadn't seen him since I changed jobs. After they left I called him at his new job and told him he needed to leave town and now and to even go as far as finding a new identity. He disappeared. Never knew if it was on his own doing or the suits. Finally about 5 years ago I heard from him. He survived. |
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Posted: 6/16/2021 8:38:26 AM EDT
[#30]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Oh not this again Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Quoted: $300,000 isn't a lot of business these days... Oh not this again $330,000,000.00 |
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Posted: 6/16/2021 8:58:00 AM EDT
[#31]
Quote HistoryQuoted: This. But the Italian “mafia” and to the lesser extent, Jewish and Irish “mafia” is long gone / shell of a former self. The Russian mafia / Eastern European is still around a bit. More so on the East coast area. The power the Italian mafia had in the US back in its hay day was crazy, especially in certain cities. Youngstown, Pittsburg, Cleveland, Chicago and of course NY. Youngstown had the power concentration just because it was a small city. So it was literally, completely mob run. Cops, politicians, etc. it’s legacy is why Tim fucking Ryan, can be a rapist yet still be in Congress. The dude who replaced Traficant...hell I'm a CO boy and I knew that. |
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Posted: 6/16/2021 9:00:39 AM EDT
[#32]
Quote HistoryQuoted: The dude who replaced Traficant...hell I'm a CO boy and I knew that. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: This. But the Italian “mafia” and to the lesser extent, Jewish and Irish “mafia” is long gone / shell of a former self. The Russian mafia / Eastern European is still around a bit. More so on the East coast area. The power the Italian mafia had in the US back in its hay day was crazy, especially in certain cities. Youngstown, Pittsburg, Cleveland, Chicago and of course NY. Youngstown had the power concentration just because it was a small city. So it was literally, completely mob run. Cops, politicians, etc. it’s legacy is why Tim fucking Ryan, can be a rapist yet still be in Congress. The dude who replaced Traficant...hell I'm a CO boy and I knew that. Ryan had… shall we say “issues” when he was in law school, with a female. He was working as an aid for Traficant ar the time. The deal was he would never pass the bar exam, And the issues would go away. This is just the start of what that dbag does. |
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Posted: 6/16/2021 9:03:28 AM EDT
[#33]
I used to haul expensive clothing out of a warehouse in Jersey City, NJ. After dark we got an escort to the Turnpike by either the JCPD or a big black Lincoln with 3 Italian guys. I never knew their names so I called them ‘Tony, Vito & Vito’, but not to their faces.
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Posted: 6/16/2021 9:21:26 AM EDT
[#34]
Not mob, but the best guy I ever found for changing motorcycle tires was definitely involved with Banditos. Did a bang-up job faster and better than any of the established shops I ever found though.
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Posted: 6/16/2021 9:25:09 AM EDT
[#35]
Back home, we were taught not to discuss such things.
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Posted: 6/16/2021 9:28:42 AM EDT
[#36]
Quote HistoryQuoted: There is a luxury women's clothing store in a high end downtown with just one rack of dresses in the window and nothing else. When you walk by the window all the dresses are marked $9,000. We al think that it's how the mob launders cash by "selling" dresses. I don't know for sure exactly what's going on... but I live in a boring western city of 120K. There is one of those "high end walll-hanging carpet/tapestry" store downtown. They've been around for several years. There is always a well-dressed middle-eastern guy out front with a phone in his hand (not always the same guy). I know that these places exist elsewhere and MIGHT be legit (I honestly have no clue). But I've NEVER seen anyone go in there to look at the 4-5 figure rugs. I used to work right down the street and walked by this store multiple times a day. The wife still works down there and is always walking by and has observed the same thing. We're pretty sure that there is something very wrong with that picture. But we're just basically hicks from the sticks, so what do we know. |
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Posted: 6/16/2021 9:36:25 AM EDT
[#37]
Not Mafia, but there is a money laundering business across the street from one of my businesses.
It's a ghetto used car lot that also does car rentals. They sell cars that obviously have a salvage title and they rent 90's and early 2000's Buicks and Pontiacs. Anyway, the black lady that runs the place dresses like a prostitute and currently drives a Maserati but changes cars monthly. She was arrested a couple of years ago for some kind of gang affiliation and wore an ankle monitor for about 6 months. She rents the "hoopties" on Friday afternoon to all the hood rats for some ridiculous amount of money and they return them on Monday. Quite often, I see the cars returned wrecked. It's my only entertainment at an otherwise boring business. |
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Posted: 6/16/2021 9:37:58 AM EDT
[#38]
My grandfather worked for a NYC union the ILGWU. That was his only job ever in America. He came to America and got hired by the union and worked for them for 40 years. He was a "recruiter" he encouraged shop owners to let the union organize their workers.
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Posted: 6/16/2021 9:43:39 AM EDT
[#39]
Quote HistoryQuoted: You'd be surprised. Not I. Small northeast town here with lots of pizza places and even more union reps. Every institution and organization has “relatives”. |
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Posted: 6/16/2021 9:43:52 AM EDT
[#40]
Quote HistoryQuoted: I may or may not know of a certain Auto Repair shop in Pittsburg that is shall we say .... very pro Italian ..... right down to the shady back room where there are always multiple black haired fellas playing cards, eating, BS'ing, etc. Seriously it's straight up like a movie scene Do they do good work for a decent price? I need a new shop
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Posted: 6/16/2021 10:01:12 AM EDT
[#41]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Meanwhile the FIB does nothing. Those nail salons are on every corner and manage to show up with a Thai restaurant when a new strip shop goes up. Vegas needs the mob back to run out the fuckers ruining this place. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: I worked for one for a while some years back. Restaurants and nail salons are still incredibly popular ways for those guys to launder money. Even more attractive if you can launder money under the radar and provide yourself a tidy second income stream by having a couple of slot machines in your places.  They took excellent care of us, and were more than happy when we comped drinks, food, and lost money for their "businesses." We were one of the last non-casinos in town that would drop $1k cash markers on request at the bar, and the "Old Vegas" regulars came and paid them the next day and took out another like clockwork, some of them 7 days a week. IIRC, if you won big on a marker, house got its marker back plus 20%. My boss did try to pay me with a half a brick of cocaine once, though, after hosting a private party with some guests that probably wouldn't have wanted their names associated. That was pretty interesting. He died of a massive heart attack a year later and his shitbag kids took over his business and managed to completely alienate every restaurant supplier in town, piss off the gaming control board, and lose their asses. I also managed a restaurant when I was fresh out of school back in Hawaii where we had a 30K/mo "rent", regularly hosted gentlemen from "The Company" (Samoan mob), and whose owners disappeared after their Yakuza-affiliated father was arrested in Japan. They were shitty to work for, but whenever the Samoans came in they paid everyone in the restaurant pretty good to shut the fuck up and look the other way - nobody hears or sees shit with an extra $500 in their pocket. Nothing exciting ever happened there but if that place *ever* turned a dime of profit with the 70% "food cost" we somehow were asked to run, then I'll eat my fucking shorts. Everyone was paid minimum wage and the rest of their wage backed in cash, and we definitely made more than the average for that state at that time. ETA: I know of at least three nail salons in Vegas that lose money hand over fist but manage to stay in business year after year who are 100% affiliated with Asian organized crime. I wouldn't be surprised in the least to hear that they're involved in human trafficking as well. Meanwhile the FIB does nothing. Those nail salons are on every corner and manage to show up with a Thai restaurant when a new strip shop goes up. Vegas needs the mob back to run out the fuckers ruining this place. I dunno about today, but even fifteen years ago the number of people in this town who were paid off was astounding. Always thought it was interesting that we got the same two guys who managed to check all the machines without ever leaving the office. We also never, ever, ever had a late or wrong delivery from our supplier and I about shit the first time I was logging reciepts on what we were allegedly paying for fresh live lobster and oysters before I was told to STFU and log the reciepts.
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Posted: 6/16/2021 10:04:00 AM EDT
[#42]
Quote HistoryQuoted: A little restaurant west of New Orleans is supposedly mobbed up. Cash only business. Do tell, please? |
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Posted: 6/16/2021 10:06:22 AM EDT
[#43]
The Mexican cartels have filled the vacuum left by the Italian syndicates in most places. I'm convinced they are laundering money through most of the Mexican restaurants in my area. In this small town of about 30K there are at least a dozen Mexican joints, in one place you can literally see 5 from one intersection. Every one of them is overstaffed and rarely ever anywhere near capacity, any other restaurant would have folded in 6 months with that kind of overhead but none of the Mexican places have ever closed.
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Posted: 6/16/2021 10:07:20 AM EDT
[#44]
Quoted: A very pushy door to door home services salesman visited a relative today. Search the company and two holding companies away, italian mafia in a midwest city. Evidently the company did $300M in home repair work in each of the past few years. How does this shit go on in 2021? Donations to Democrat political campaigns. |
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Posted: 6/16/2021 10:15:19 AM EDT
[#45]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Do they do good work for a decent price? I need a new shop Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: I may or may not know of a certain Auto Repair shop in Pittsburg that is shall we say .... very pro Italian ..... right down to the shady back room where there are always multiple black haired fellas playing cards, eating, BS'ing, etc. Seriously it's straight up like a movie scene Do they do good work for a decent price? I need a new shop I have no idea LOL ..... I went to college (and was friends) with the Owner's son and went home with him a few times and on several of those trips we would stop by his dad's shop while out and about. Every single time that back room looked like a scene straight out of a mob movie. |
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Posted: 6/16/2021 10:20:52 AM EDT
[#46]
My first off the farm job was working at a tube rental place for floating a river.
It is well known the place is mob run. The owner was a gruff big guy from back East and very nice if you worked hard and were polite. One day, working in the tube shed fixing and sorting inner tubes, I went to the attached snack bar. We could have all the water we wanted but we had to ask whoever was working to get it, we couldn’t get it ourselves. The tube shed was hot and dirty work, and I was covered in sweat and tube gunk. To my horror, there was Mrs. Mob Guy and across the counter was Mr. B himself!!! I politely asked “Please, ma’am, may I have a water refill please”? Mr. Big looked at me, then at her and said, “That is one hardworking respectful young man, get him an extra large Mountain Dew”. When I walked back into the shed with the giant drink my boss was impressed. Later that day I was sent for and asked if I would do Mr. Big a favor. I thought, Holy shit, mob guy is gonna ask me to do something important. And that is how I spent an afternoon in hot humid Wisconsin, dressed up has Yogi Bear, in a foul smelling costume, handing out candy to soaking wet urchins who climbed out of the pool to take strawberry candy from my pic in ic basket and thank me by punching me in the nuts. |
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Posted: 6/16/2021 10:21:18 AM EDT
[#47]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Not mob, but the best guy I ever found for changing motorcycle tires was definitely involved with Banditos. Did a bang-up job faster and better than any of the established shops I ever found though. A friend of mine rode with the Banditos for years but left the club and remained a friend and their mechanic. So, a Bandito named Snake fucks my buddy’s wife. The club broke the guys arms, my buddy kicked his ol lady out and the two of them moved into a fucking camper. I laugh thinking about her wiping his nasty, nasty ass.
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Posted: 6/16/2021 10:25:45 AM EDT
[#48]
Back in the 70s and 80s the largest mob businesses were paving and trucking.
Collusion on contracts. Price controls. Skimming jobs. Playing games with insurance, workers comp, etc. Part of that was trash collection as well. They could control the tipping fees. Trucking, labor, contracts with municipalities when there was only one bid (collusion.) Then came the politics. Instead of bribing politicians, they just ran for election. Mob sons and daughters became lawyers, cops and mayors, etc. made it easy to turn a blind eye. A “mob” restaurant looked just like any other restaurant from the outside, acted just the same, etc. the restaurants were a cash sink, a bit of money laundering. But more so the social “thing to do.” Cash only restaurants doesn’t mean mob by any stretch of the imagination. Real laundering was done with 24 hour laundry mats and car washes. All cash. No employees. No way to account for anything. |
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Posted: 6/16/2021 10:28:49 AM EDT
[#49]
At my last job one of our competitors (printing) in the Cleveland area was very mob infested. In fact, was where two people who embezzled the printer's union pension to almost insolvency many years ago worked and held their little fiefdom. We had limited interaction with them, but they would fuck with our accounts, salesmen, etc.
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Posted: 6/16/2021 10:29:35 AM EDT
[#50]
Are you sure it was a gun all machine?
I think it may have been a Goomba machine. |
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