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Was in a bar called the copper monkey when these three huge guys in dark suits walked in at 4am wearing sunglasses. They called the girl I was with over and said all drinks were on their boss tonight as long as no one bothered him while he played video poker and didn't stare at him when he walked in.
She said he was a known local Nadia member

Spent a lot of time at Sig and the surrounding areas growing up. My family is from a small mountain town straight south of Catania. I've never seen it down there, but it's definitely still around. I think it's much more prominent in Palermo than anywhere in the southern portion of the country.

Marina Di Ragusa FTW

Pimp, do any names on that "made" list look familiar to you? As in, a skinny guy who drove a BMW in 1987, and was a good basketball player?...... nicknamed The Metairie Mirage?

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The ruskies are big at the port, the Italians may be around in some fashion but nothing big.

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The Russians have been buying up a lot of properties lately. Mostly mult-unit apartments. I got in good with one, and now I have a ton of Russian customers. Nice guys, but all of them look like they have been through hell. One has a glass eye and is like 35. Thick thick accents. Some pay only in cash and don't want receipts or change the address on the receipt.

The Italians never went away. There are still wise guys. I went to LSU with a couple of guys whose parents owned Italian restaurants and they told a lot of stories. Mostly protection and racketeering. The Chinese though, they have the best most legit scam.

All people from China are basically assigned where to live by a "Benevolent association" these people make money on the placements, all kinds of shady shite and they are in EVERY city that has a Chinese restaurant.

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every bar, nightclub, café, bodega, grocery, beach property, you name it, they have a hand in it.

you frick around and make trouble for a business under their protection, they'll kick the shite out of you before you have the chance to get arrested.

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A LOT of old timers say it was better back then too. Imagine if a restaurant under mob protection was robbed, the robbers would be floating in the lake withing a week.

More like a torture van . That's where the persuasion occurred apparently.

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They're good old boy political alliances now. The FBI doesn't frick around these days. If they start resorting to physical violence again then the hammer of justice gets dropped. Aside from some of the biker clubs, the mafia elements in the US are amongst more recent immigrants like Eastern Europeans, Latinos, and Asians.

Toronto has more true mafia elements then NYC and NOLA combined.

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That meeting was the beginning of a rift in New Orleans that split organized crime in the Crescent City into two factions and has effected it to this very day. As many already know Carlos Marcello's control was challenged by Anthony Carolla the son of Sylvestro "Sliver Dollar Sam" Carolla the former boss. Sylvestro Carolla was deported in 1947 and appointed Carlos Marcello as "acting boss" until his return which lasted only one year 1949 to 1950. In 1952 Sylvestro Carolla was arrested in Italy for narcotics trafficking and would not return to the U.S. until 1970 for medical treatment, he died in 1972. By the time of the La Stella's meeting in 1966 the Carolla faction of the New Orleans crime family were feeling very diminished due to Marcello's refusal to allow new membership. Marcello's refusal to allow new membership was a move to consolidate his power. What is not so well known is that Joseph Colombo set up the La Stella's meeting and sided with Anthony Carolla but was out voted. Colombo managed to gain one concession for Anthony Carolla, new membership would be allowed but limited. That limited new membership included Joseph "Joe The Nose" Tufaro a close friend of Anthony Carolla and former driver of Sylvestro Carolla. Joseph Tufaro's grandson Michael Tufaro is thought to be the guy calling the shots in New Orleans today. This LCN family is very very different than the families of the northeast. These guy's don't just operate in the shadows they are in the shadows of the room that's under the basement. Information on these wiseguys is hard to come by unless your really looking, but it is out there.

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