There probably is a bond of some sort. I keep thinking about Montreal. There is something there, but you have to agree that times have changed. So many important people have died and a lot of those connections died with them.
Not exactly. Connections die more difficulty than people. If such ties are profitable and functional, groups will assure they’re kept in place, albeit with a different roster. It’d be like implying that after Frank Cali’s death connections between the Gambinos and Sicily were halted. How many times trans-Atlantic alliances were interrupted? Either by death or by the law? Plenty. Yet families have always managed to maintain or promptly re-build them.
The fact that we don’t know who all these liaisons are doesn’t mean these connections don’t exist.
