Thanks Meatballs ..How ya been? hows the family?
Hey ya Dick. Fam's good man, bub's nearly 6 months. She poops a lot.
Good work.
If you only worked for the AUS Govt. Meatballs, at least they would acknowledge the existence of such OC threat and do something radical about it.
Instead they keep Italy to get its hands on Italian/Italian-Australian crooks convicted in abstentia, and still deny that they have an Ndrangheta epidemic.
Why the 4th best nation on this planet does this is far from my understanding.
Thanks Luan. The thing is, it seems to be all in the semantics. Is there an Australian mafia? According to the G, no. They will concede, however, that there are Italian mafia elements active in Australia.
What they seem to be unable to fathom is the homegrown nature of the phenomenom. These are guys with solid links to the Old Country, for sure, but there is an unmistakably Australian dynamic to the local operators. The vast majority of top guys these days are born and raised in Australia, and while they maintain links to their original cells conducive to rackets like the drug trade in particular, they are very much doing their own thing in this country. It's almost sad to admit how embedded they are, and how little of a shit the Fed's give.
Part 5 should be up before too long, which will deal with more of the Liborio Benvenuto era of Melbourne. Eventually, I will get into a Sicilian element that was big in the 70's, the Mackay murder and 'Aussie Bob' Trimbole's exploits in the 80's, the 'Aussie Brasco" case of the 90's and eventually the shit that's gone on post 2000, up to today.
