Scarfo made milion with the street tax ie extorsing to the other criminals part of their money: if you dont pay we'll whack you.

But also bulger and flemmi made a same thing.
But today ?
The 5 families or the other families still collect a street tax or are isolate extortions to drug dealers,bookies ecc

It's still active , but nothing like before . Now if you are a book and they get wind of it there will be a knock " at the door , and this is going back all the way to that fat fuck Ron P ,would even knock on doors of "small" guys .

New the boards always lurked funny you bring this up alot of the guys coming out have been trying to extort local books bit many of the locals could care less about these guys , many of them are idiots and contact on facebook just idiots

I no for a fact vince fillipelli has been trying to extort local books and i dont believe he is even a made guy, he was just stanfa's bodyguard

If you tried taxing street H dealers in Miami you wouldn't last 5 minutes.

There is a place where most of the drug activity is in Liberty City called the "Pork and Beans" projects.

Most all young black males are packing down there and many have taken bullets for their cause.

There are also Haitian gangs like "Zoe Pound" who will shoot you just for being White in little Haiti.

To think of some white wise guys going in those areas and telling those guys they have to pay a street tax is just silly.....

Oh no- if another ethnic group set up anything illegal in a mob controlled neighbourhood they too had to share some of their action

But ethnic groups tend to stick to their own- ie in London the Turks extort Turks, Chinese do Chinese, Viet's do Viet's

I personally know of one case where this notorious viet gangster who last I heard is doing life- went around to all the Vietnamese owned businesses to extort money

What's notable is that he did NOT enter any Chinese owned businesses

Purely because they probably would never have even heard of the guy. And that's the reason why the Italians didn't do it on a wide scale

Are you asking about, like, TODAY? About a mob street tax? Like......TODAY?

On other ethnic crime groups? In NEW YORK? Like the Dominicans? Or the Chinatowns? THE MEXICANS!! Or, like...the Russians? Uuuh, they got guns too bruh...

It's funny you even mention Danny Greene, he was one guy vs the Cleveland mob. And they were in conflict cause of,a shared interest, the Unions.

Y'all got funny ideas about who these guys are. Understand, the powerful mobsters are powerful mostly for their brains, NOT BRAWN. Take a guy like Victor Colletti. 70 plus years old, huge gambling and shy, runs the car service industry. How would that translate to local drug gangs? Like dude, mobsters, half of em are probably overweight. They DO NOT shoot guns on a regular basis. Or like, fight everyday with their hands. Lots of em are middle-aged. They are out there STEALING.

Don't take this personally my man, I'm not attacking you, but y'all be annoying acting like made guys have superpowers, like.... seriously.

Tough tony has it right.....

15-20 members for a gang? You can have 15-20 people working ONE drug spot, with lookouts, security, runners and all that.


The five families can't even tax the CALABRIANS in NY, let alone the Dominicans or anyone else man good lord, lol.....

Or take the Canadians. They can't just STRAIGHT UP MUSCLE THE HELLS ANGELS OR THE STREET GANGS. And they are powerful as fuck right now.

I feel compelled to ask, where are you from exactly?

You need to listen to like, I'll street Blues by Kool G Rap,( joke lol) people stopped paying the mob ( in the early 70s maybe?) when they hit the big drug money and formed organizations. Nicky Barnes, Cocaine 80s. You never even heard of the NY mob being that big into coke DURING the coke boom. Maybe only parts of Harlem where Fat Tony held sway. What does that tell you about their overall level of control over the street?


Search Pizzaboys post. One of his few last ones, he talks about going back to NY, to a gambling spot in Queens I think. He said people were telling him that middle eastern gangsters were running a game, and weren't kicking up shit. No repercussions. ( They don't even really hit rats anymore..) I believe his words were something like " How do muscle someone who willing to blow themselves up?"

And that reminds me of the Gambinos and the Albanians. Now the Albanians didn't Take Over the Italians, but they weren't about to kowtow and eat shit either.