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Mobster board. How did Henry Hill survive?
Posted on 3/25/18 at 8:55 am
Posted on 3/25/18 at 8:55 am
Expelled from the witness protection program. How come the mob didn't have him whacked after everything he did to them?
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Posted on 3/25/18 at 8:56 am to prplhze2000
The people who wanted to whack him were all in jail. Plus a good bit of the book/movie was him stealing other people's stories.
Posted on 3/25/18 at 8:57 am to Bestbank Tiger
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The people who wanted to whack him were all in jail
This doesn’t matter
Posted on 3/25/18 at 8:57 am to Bestbank Tiger
They had friends.
Posted on 3/25/18 at 8:57 am to Bestbank Tiger
quote:he's still a rat though
a good bit of the book/movie was him stealing other people's stories.
Posted on 3/25/18 at 9:13 am to prplhze2000
Because he wasn’t the ‘big fish’ he made himself out to be.
Posted on 3/25/18 at 9:38 am to prplhze2000
You just watched Goodfellas on Netflix.
So did I.
So did I.
This post was edited on 3/25/18 at 9:39 am
Posted on 3/25/18 at 9:39 am to prplhze2000
He also had a big enough public profile that would make it risky
Posted on 3/25/18 at 9:40 am to prplhze2000
I think Hill’s survival is a sign that the organized crime families are a fraction of the force that they were a couple of generations ago.
Posted on 3/25/18 at 9:42 am to prplhze2000
I think it shows that the mob is not as well organized as the movies portray.
And by the time he was in public again, the folks who were mad at him were locked up or had moved on to new enterprises. They may have figured they had a good thing going, so why draw attention from the cops by going out to Arizona or wherever and whacking this well known informant. Stay low and keep earning.
And by the time he was in public again, the folks who were mad at him were locked up or had moved on to new enterprises. They may have figured they had a good thing going, so why draw attention from the cops by going out to Arizona or wherever and whacking this well known informant. Stay low and keep earning.
Posted on 3/25/18 at 9:46 am to prplhze2000
I didn't realize he was expelled from the witness protection program. I knew he became an FBI informant and I was going to say that he got protection, but I haven't really followed him that much..
Posted on 3/25/18 at 9:49 am to prplhze2000
The mob didn’t whack him because he never put too many onions in the sauce.
Posted on 3/25/18 at 9:55 am to TheHarahanian
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I think Hill’s survival is a sign that the organized crime families are a fraction of the force that they were a couple of generations ago.
This is true as well. Which brings up another question. What was the biggest contributor to the diminishing of crime families? Was a big part really due to NYPD cracking down? It seems like they could have relocated their operations to other places, but by the mid 90s they became a shell of what they use to be.
Posted on 3/25/18 at 9:57 am to prplhze2000
Guys he turned on were away and died.
By the time he was all public, newer made guys didn't care enough to risk life for his arse plus he never took the oath of omerta.
Goodfellas made Hill out to be bigger than he really was. He was an uneducated street hood who was just an associate of the mob
There are much more surprising people that have been in his shoes and still haven't been killed
By the time he was all public, newer made guys didn't care enough to risk life for his arse plus he never took the oath of omerta.
Goodfellas made Hill out to be bigger than he really was. He was an uneducated street hood who was just an associate of the mob
There are much more surprising people that have been in his shoes and still haven't been killed
Posted on 3/25/18 at 10:03 am to prplhze2000
Because he's a fraud
Guy would call into Howard Sterns show when Henry was on, and claim that Henry was a fraud and an errand boy. If he knew anything, he would of been 10 feet deep years ago.
This guy was friends with the mob guys and henry, so it wasn't some crazed person. He always said they laughed at Henry, and the movie is a farce.
Guy would call into Howard Sterns show when Henry was on, and claim that Henry was a fraud and an errand boy. If he knew anything, he would of been 10 feet deep years ago.
This guy was friends with the mob guys and henry, so it wasn't some crazed person. He always said they laughed at Henry, and the movie is a farce.
Posted on 3/25/18 at 10:06 am to Deactived
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He was an uneducated street hood
To some degree wasn't all mobsters "uneducated street hood"? Some just had more ambition than others and became more street smart than others?
Posted on 3/25/18 at 10:09 am to OweO
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To some degree wasn't all mobsters "uneducated street hood"
You're in the market for a camper as well I see.
Posted on 3/25/18 at 10:10 am to OweO
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Which brings up another question. What was the biggest contributor to the diminishing of crime families?
RICO. Tailored legislation to bring the mob down.
Posted on 3/25/18 at 10:12 am to OweO
Yea they kind of talked like that first sentence you wrote.
To some degree, yes most mobsters started off as street hoods, but a good amount of the upper level guys I wouldn't put into that category
To some degree, yes most mobsters started off as street hoods, but a good amount of the upper level guys I wouldn't put into that category
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