Does the mafia still exist?

[Shammon]

They still control a few key ports.

How?

I remember when watching the Wire they had all this sophisticated technology to analyze what was coming into and going out of ports and this was like 15 years ago so I'd imagine that it's a lot more difficult to get away with "controlling ports."

I can understand jacking trucks like they do in the Sopranos, but bigger than that? Seems dubious.

 

[DaleBoca]

Lol Mafia.... that was soooooo the trend back in the day.

Bunch of goofs.

 

[ajwbjj87]

The Gambinos seem to be doing the best for themselves out of the 5 NYC ones

 

[jefferz]

How?

I remember when watching the Wire they had all this sophisticated technology to analyze what was coming into and going out of ports and this was like 15 years ago so I'd imagine that it's a lot more difficult to get away with "controlling ports."

I can understand jacking trucks like they do in the Sopranos, but bigger than that? Seems dubious.

All those workers at those docks are "union" workers. When you're the one controlling that technology, it's easy to bypass it.

 

[emiraga]

I know the Chicago Outfit got hit hard in the mid 2000s with the Family Secrets thing, but they're still very much around.

 

[faustian]

My dudes Giuliani and Spitzer did a number on the Gambinos

 

[Uptown Swinger]

They are mainly into petty racketeering, extortion and drug dealing now.
To add some perspective: (The most infamous snitch ever) Sammy the Bull's whereabouts have been known for over 20 years and he hasn't been touched. Meanwhile while his daughter parades herself on reality television. LOL

 

[Toastytoy]

Yes of course, corruption runs deep in chicago, but its not blatent like it used to be. When my grandpa (moms side) got here from sicily and opened his first restaurant in '65 they ran the jukeboxes and gaming machines and came a knockin right away. For like 20 years they came weekly for collections on those (but of course it was all quarters back then so you could fudge the numbers). Rico decimated a lot of the organization as well as just shitty people. The last major case in chicago that i know of was https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Family_Secrets in 1998. My dad was a teamster at mccormick place in the 80s and knew Nick Calabrese, and all the other wack jobbers who were there.

There was a supposed mob hit near where my parents live in Park Ridge in '07, which is a very white bread neighborhood with no crime. Couple guys pulled up in front of the guys house early in the AM, blasted him with a shotgun and disappeared. No suspects. http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2007-11-08/news/0711071048_1_park-ridge-family-members-bag

 

[I Am Legion]

They are criminal enterprises but not like it was. The governement won. Now the mobsters are politicians and ceos.

 

[Eazy123]

Of course the mafia exists durr

How do you think sherdog came to be

 

[SRN]

If Tony Soprano`s kid wasn`t such a bitch, yes.

Or if Christopher wasn't such a disappointment!!

- I'm sorry Tony

 

[Revolver]

No one cares about fat guidos in track suits eating canolies. I'd single handily take them all to suplex city.

 

[TeTe]

No one cares about fat guidos in track suits eating canolies. I'd single handily take them all to suplex city.

and then read them Joel Osteen tweets after?

 

[Revolver]

and then read them Joel Osteen tweets after?

I don't have time for that. I'll pay someone to that for me though.

 

[chickenlip]

Yea it def does but its just not how it used to be. The owner of the famous L&B Spumoni Gardens pizzeria in Brooklyn was whacked last year, they tried to make it sound like a robbery gone wrong though

 

[Jack Reacheround]

The Mafia still controls Sicily.

 

[Hogey]

Italian America mafia still exist but I think they try to keep their affairs more legal like the yakuza.

 

[EL CORINTHIAN]

The mafia as we may know it doesnt exist but Italian organized crime absolutley still exists in a very big way. Look up Ndragheta.

 

[Loiosh]

How?

I remember when watching the Wire they had all this sophisticated technology to analyze what was coming into and going out of ports and this was like 15 years ago so I'd imagine that it's a lot more difficult to get away with "controlling ports."

I can understand jacking trucks like they do in the Sopranos, but bigger than that? Seems dubious.

More stuff drops off trucks and ships than you could possibly imagine.

All day, every day.

 

[MadSquabbles500]

That reminds me to rewatch Gomorra

When is second season coming out on DVD or netflix?