127 Mobsters arrested in one of the Largest Mafia busts in history by the FBI.

[American Assasin]

Since I am a resident of this forum, I guess I should post this news here.

127 Mobsters arrested in one of the Largest Mafia busts in history by the FBI.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/21/ny...er=rss&emc=rss


Nearly 127 Arrested in Sweeping Mob Roundup

The criminal accusations spanned several states and several decades, encompassing figures from seven mob families, and led to the arrest of nearly 125 people on federal charges on Thursday.


There were murders, including a double homicide over a spilled drink in a Queens bar. There were the more run-of-the-mill activities associated with organized crime: racketeering, extortion, loan-sharking, money laundering, gambling and the like.
There were even some names from mob lore, including Luigi Manocchio, 83, the former boss of New England’s Patriarca crime family, who was said to have dressed in women’s clothing to avoid capture decades ago. He was arrested in Florida, accused of another mob standby: shaking down strip clubs, in Providence, R.I.

I love my homestate of New York. This is a job well done by the FBI.

[Ele'ill]

"I met bail so fast my soup was still warm when I got home"

[Fawkes]

Good.

Link doesn't work.

Also, remember how the CIA collaborated with the mob?

[Robert]

How are you guys going to control mobsters after the revolution without cops?

[Ele'ill]

How are you guys going to control mobsters after the revolution without cops?

What would the mobsters have to gain through being a mobster that they couldn't obtain otherwise?

[Frosty Weasel]

How are you guys going to control mobsters after the revolution without cops?I suppose they are basically Anarcho-Capitalists, so shooting them would be a good idea.

[Fawkes]

How are you guys going to control mobsters after the revolution without cops?

That's like asking how we'll control wealthy capitalists after the revolution, they won't have the property that once made them wealthy, nor will they be able to attain it.

Edit: also, it's naive to assume there will be no form of law enforcement, it will just be structured in a radically different manner

[La Comédie Noire]

What would the mobsters have to gain through being a mobster that they couldn't obtain otherwise?

After the revolution there will be a lucrative trade in black market lorna doones which they won't provide in the communal kitchens.

[Red Commissar]

OP, you broke the link when you copied. This is the working link:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/21/nyregion/21mob.html

[Robert]

The mob is going to eat you guys alive.

[gorillafuck]

Also, remember how the CIA collaborated with the mob?
You say that as if it has stopped.

[ComradeMan]

Since I am a resident of this forum, I guess I should post this news here.

127 Mobsters arrested in one of the Largest Mafia busts in history by the FBI.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/21/ny...er=rss&emc=rss


I love my homestate of New York. This is a job well done by the FBI.

This is nothing- it does nothing to smash the power of Cosa Nostra.

[Che a chara]

Fox's coverage was very moderate and the usual suspects were unhysterical and didn't seem to have too much of a problem with these white Italian American gangsters but can you imagine the right-wing response if it was a mob of people of Arabic origin or of Muslim faith that were lifted ......

[ComradeMan]

Good.

Link doesn't work.

Also, remember how the CIA collaborated with the mob?

Remember how the Sicilian mafia collaborated with the Allies in the "fight against fascism"? Lucky Luciano.....?

Cosa Nostra exists because the state exists- without one there isn't the other.

[Bud Struggle]

The mob is going to eat you guys alive.

If we don't eat them first. :D

[Ele'ill]

If we don't eat then first. :D

Well seeing how you're eating yourselves right now...

[Tomhet]

Always found organized crime rather interesting..