I disagree with you azguy, for the most part mob bosses are smarter today then they were in the eighties and nineties, the only way merlino gets lockedup again is if they can connect him to a crime that he committed in the past, theres no way they will catch him for doing something now or in the future, he will be so insulated they will not be able to touch him

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