Posted on 06/16/2012 3:58:24 PM PDT by AtlasStalled
Spreading to the US? Really, when did they leave? The ‘mob’, ‘costra nostra’, ‘mafia’, ‘the family’ whatever you call them have been in the US for decades upon decades, they are not just arriving.
“Obscene profits?” Maybe that will motivate the Democrats to stamp it out.
And if do you beat them? Always someone else waiting in the wings to provide this high profit service.
And the reason why the Untouchables were necessary?
Prohibition was well nigh unenforceable.
Muscling in on the cartels of the Zetas, the Sinaloa and the MS-13 territories, are they? Those guys play HARD, and the Calabrian Mafia stand to be in for quite a turf war.
Are they sure they want this?
The “mob†has been around for a 100 years longer than the other groups you mentioned. They will not start anything they can not win and it will not be pretty. They are also a lot more subtle than a street war.
The ‘mob’ has been around for a 100+ years longer than the other groups you mentioned. They will not start anything they can not win and it will not be pretty. They are also a lot more subtle than a street war.
My 90 year old mother in law is first generation Italian. Her family is from Naples. She always complains about how her dad hated the Calabrese.
They haven’t gone anywhere. They just got a PR person.
My ‘family’ is from Palermo, they immigrated around 1915. They never said anything negative about any of the groups.
My mother in law is/was a Rizzuto.... the family genealogist made some interesting connections :0
My maternal grandfather came from Piopo, which is in Palermo province, at the turn of the century. His father was assassinated by the mafia, in front of the whole family.
Yes, the genealogies are fun.
I think Calbria is where Nancy Pelosi’s family is from. Oy vay
wow.
They are powerful.
My grandfather when he was nineteen, started a taxi cab company in NY....really 19?
The ‘mob’ is part of Sicily currently and historically.
The other side of my wife’s family is from Poland. Again first generation. I’ve been with the family almost thirty years. I am still looked upon with suspicion because I am not Polish. They never say anything good about anyone else.
Well, it says “spreading in the US”, not “spreading to the US”. Also, this is about the Calabrian mafia, not the Sicilian mafia, which has been the dominant force in the American branch of the Italian mafia for the better part of a century, at least. They are two separate organizations, sometimes they collaborate, other times they war with each other.
Did you read the story? They are setting up in NYC because they are able to purchase from the cartels directly there. They are partners, not competitors, at least at this point.
My GF came over at 17, and by the time he was 20 he had brought his brothers and mother over, and had a ranch in santa clara county, Ca that consisted of all of the arable land east of the coyote river, north of the town of Coyote, and south of Beryessa.
They lost it all to the bank in the depression.
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