Philadelphia/ South Jersey/ Delco/Montgomery County/ Bucks in the Eastern District of PA are affluent with alot of bookies who are independent of any LCN ties. When Scarfo's family tried the Rouse Extoration, Rouse a very rich developer who lives on the mainline near Villanova University, wouldn't take it and there are alot of bookies that being of Italian Descent that don't have to kick up to Phila LCN. If you hang around there operations, your a wannabe, sure your gonna get taxed.
If you look at the bookmaking busts in the northeast region over the past decade, from up in Boston to down in south Jersey, there are ones that seem to be independent of the LCN. But they are in the minority. To this day, most of them do appear to have an LCN connection. Either run directly by the LCN, laying off to a larger LCN-controlled operation, funneling bets through an LCN-controlled network down to Costa Rica, or paying a street tax to the LCN. Illegal sports betting is one business that the LCN has been pretty successful in holding onto where it still has a significant presence.
