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?

You'd be surprised.

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.

Heya. Maybe its best that you have this Thread uhh, deleted. YouknowhatImsayin?

That's kinda hilarious

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.

$300,000 isn’t a lot of business these days...

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.

A little restaurant west of New Orleans is supposedly mobbed up.  Cash only business.

My father was working as a warehouse manager in Chicago back in the late 60's when he was a young man.  He was contacted by an agency that said they had a client looking for a warehouse manager.  My father thought it was odd because he was rather young to have someone seeking him out for a management job.  He showed up to a warehouse near the shipping yard and met a few friendly guys who brought him in for a discussion.  About 10 minutes into the interview my dad noticed all of them were Italian, and quite uninterested in what he thought were important logistical issues.  The whole time he was speaking with them he noticed in the background the warehouse workers were moving all the pallets out of the warehouse.  The pay was quite generous and my dad said he would get back with them.  As he was leaving he noticed the workers were now moving the same pallets back into the warehouse for seemingly no reason.  My dad never went back but was certain it was a mob laundering outfit.  Always thought that was an amusing story.

Yeah I work with Operating Engineers in the North East. Glad I am not the one that has to sign off on T&M tickets.

First people say it's not fair that organized crime doesn't do work.

Then it's unfair they actually get regular jobs and do well.

There's no justice and no peace for Mobsters simply trying to earn a living.


Were the gumballs good? Were they extorted for anything else?

Have you not gone out of sheer curiousity? I want to go now.

Its more profitable w/ bars/restaurants using "joker poker" machines. Average machine takes in 2k a month, say you had 25 machines...

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.

Government is a business, right?

We had a video rental place that was mafia, great money laundering racket as there was very little stock rotation and the owners could claim multiple accounts renting movies…

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.

That's a whole heckuva lot of gumballs.

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.

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.

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.

The entirety of the Government.

Every day.


It’s Youngstown. And my family has been in business for 102 years.

I'm pretty sure that's who owns the company I work for now but I cannot prove it (It's like a 10 company deep rabbit hole with some branches).

I do know the guy has connections to Joebama and his daughter works for a think tank or a PAC that was pro Biden in 2020.  

He also did work for the NSA and some other fun .gov things.

To be fair, the fbi has been busting close family of the guy i found on the company docs which is how i concluded he was mafia, not just the name ending in a vowel.

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Its been too many years and too many concussions, but I think we "comped" something like $5k in fresh lobster, oysters and other food a month, and easily double that in drinks to any "regular" whether they were gaming or not. It was tough whenever we hired a new bartender who thought they were actually there to make the joint money.

The owner kept 20K in cash stashed above a tile in the office's drop-ceiling as "jackpot money" whenever they ran a "tournament." It never got paid out, but it would disappear from time to time for a few months before reappearing there again.

It was a really interesting place. I learned a depressing amount about how the world really works if you have fuck you money and know the right people to pay off.

There was a shop near my mom's old business that sold vintage typewriters but never had any customers. It used to be a bank so it had a decent sized floor space. All around the store was vintage typewriters on individual tall stands about 4-5 feet apart. The town was by no means a hipster type place either, the type of people into weird vintage stuff. On one side was a Jiffy Lube and the other was a dive bar.

My mom owned the business next door so she was there at all hours. She never once seen a customer in the 3 years it was there. Just a bunch of high end Mercedes and BMWs parked in the back with well dressed older men coming and going but never carrying a box like they purchased anything.

I was working for a strip club when I was told by the "girls" that if they didn't give notice they would be blackballed from any of the clubs owned by the the holding company which apparently operated across several states.

My GM was italian who was called out of another club in Florida to help with problems at the one I was at (before I started working there).

The card scanner was so shit that I had people admit they were fake IDs but they passed the elaborate scanning apparatus with flying colors.

The business management office was a lot more civilized looking, but I was always kept at arms length.

Associations with investment guys who were waaay above the level of girls the club ran, associations with motorcycle clubs.

Serious people watching me and cocaine as a demarcation of if they could trust you or not.

A few things.

I get the feeling I know exactly who you are talking about.  

the vending machine company here in town is mobbed up, they even threatned the local highway patrol troop commander that they would burn his house down if he didnt allow them to add another machine in the lobby.. his response was come get the one you already have in here and gtfo!!  his house wasnt burned down. but pretty ballsy

I guess it makes sense that MLM would have some mob ties as well.

I worked for a mob controlled business for many years, a large union company in their industry They treated their employees very well

I'm sure I worked at a couple mobbed up restaurants back in the day. When you can use only certain specific vendors for food delivery, bread, trash pick up, it started making sense. We could've gotten food and services far cheaper elsewhere, but higher management wouldn't allow it.

This thread is an eye opener.

When I drove flatbeds we got a contract to haul large bags of sand on pallets from a warehouse in an industrial district of Phoenix down to a warehouse in Nogales. 12 pallets per trailer in what's called a curtain van which is basically a flatbed trailer that looks like a normal dry van traililer. The sides are huge vinyl tarps held by aluminum framework on rollers that slide back and forth. That way it can be unloaded from the side instead of from a dock, and also protect flatbed type materials from the elements.

ANYWAYS every time one of our guys would pick up a load there, the pallets were already in the parking lot and there was a guy standing watch over them. He never moved or talked. Then a different guy would come out of the warehouse, hop on a forklift and load the pallets in the trailer with the first guy watching the whole time. None of our drivers ever went inside the warehouse (all bay doors were closed, always) nor did they ever speak to anyone other than the forklift guy. Just sign the paperwork right there in the yard and go.

It's about a 3hr drive to Nogales where the second warehouse was. We get to the second warehouse and there would be a guy waiting in the yard on a forklift. How did he know our truck was there?? It's hotter than hell, I highly doubt the guy had been waiting around all day for the truck to pull in. My theory is that someone was following our truck and notified the warehouse personnel before we arrived.

The warehouse in Nogales was directly on the border. The literal wall between the US and Mexico was the back boundary of their property. Same story there. Forklift guy unloads the truck, sets the pallets aside and signs your paperwork. You only see forklift guy and nobody else and you never see the inside of the warehouse. All bay doors closed, no receiving office. One time I asked the forklift guy (gnarly but kinda gay looking Hispanic dude with a mullet) in Nogales where the sand was going and he looked at me for about 5sec and then said "Mexico". Shit my pants.

None of this shit adds up.

Who the hell brings large 1-ton canvas bags of sand to Mexico? Does Mexico, a country that's like 60% desert have a fucking shortage on sand? Is the sand shortage so bad that they need to pay import tax and international shipping rates from America? Maybe because the price didn't matter? Why no contact with any warehouse employees except the same three scary looking hombrés?

Obviously my theory was that they took the big empty bag on the pallet, dumped a little sand in it, then put huge blocks of cash in it and then covered it up with more sand until the bag was full. Then they would go into the warehouse in Nogales, pull the cash out and send it through a tunnel into Mexico. I always wanted to stop on the way down there and dig out one of the bags but I never had the balls. Probably wouldn't be writing this if I did.

TLDR: We hauled semi trailers full of cash down to the border for El Chapo and Tuco Salamanca. I pussed out.

How did you arrive at that in a simple search?

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It’s a stereotype and it’s offensive.



Just because it’s hilarious-

Bar down the street never has but one or two cars in the lot many times none. Occasional semi and trailer or no trailer will be in the back of the lot.  

If it’s not for laundering money earned in some illicit method I would be supremely surprised.

Congress.

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.

Yep.And once you know what to look for mobbed up businesses are everywhere...I don’t even think much of it.Even places that aren’t mobbed up participate in the same shady practices.It’s fascinating how so many of them operate in the open.

The first firm I went to work for after immigrating to the US turned out to be.  I was such a naive turd.

My dad lived in Baltimore for awhile during the ‘90s. You can imagine what Baltimore was like in those days. He used to say Little Italy was the only safe part of town, because you didn’t start shit on their turf if you didn’t want to get fitted for cement shoes.

Lots....there are a lot of crime syndicates other than the mafia out there.

I used to work for a former east coast politician who was mob connected.  I had no idea until we became friends years later.  I didn't care to pry into his business which was a reason we became friends.

Here in Utah we have Polygamist owned businesses.  

In terms of ethics some are sketchy AF some are not.

Ex-FIL always talked about it in the food and beverage supply business. I moved here from LA and was alway pretty skeptical, mob in Central Ohio?

Now realize that was dumb.  Have heard stuff about Youngstown too. In for more stories.

Armenian friends in LA were the first people to tell me you could buy your way into college and Med school, decades before the recent scandals. I didn’t really believe them either.  

I was dumb.

Worked in one that was 100% mafia owned, legit no fuck around kind of folks.

Other place was rumored.  Owner was a legit bad motherfucker and a legit hard case. Even a few backed up cases of him pulling a Bronx tale style beating of bikers trying to shake him down for money.  Except it was him solo doing it not a horde of wise guys.

Fantastic cajun style bbq place, served huge portions and if you were fool enough to clear the plate the owner would start yelling “Hey, dis boy still gots room for moa food! Git dis boy some moa ribs!”

They got busted for money laundering, place got shut down.  Damnit!

After reading all these stories:
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