I always noticed that despite having a sizable Italian population, Baltimore never really had its own LCN family. They've had local mobsters like Lord Solsbury and Little Melvin Williams, but no recognized spot in the American Mafia hierchy. With the ports, industry and infrastructure down there moving through that city, you would think the Mafia would establish a foothold. Was Baltimore run by corrupt political machine with localized criminal organizations (a sort of Irish Mob town)or as satellite city, to say Philly, within the national crime syndicate?


Any MD guys, let me know/