Whatever you say John, but more times than not, families have paid lip service to the commission. Most of the time they just bend the rules instead of breaking them, but by the 1970s many associates were told to lie if they are asked about breaking the rules. Even made members were breaking the rules, not all of them, but by the 1980s and onwards it was apparent that they were.


"I have this Nightmare. I'm on 5th avenue watching the St. Patrick's Day parade and I have a coronary and nine thousand cops march happily over my body." Chief Sidney Green