trust me im not one to buy into the typical media headlines that says the mafia is dead everytime theres a bust. and if your saying theres 50 made guys in the whole patriarca family(both boston and providence) then i could buy that number. but if your trying to say theres 50 made guys in the providence faction alone, your facts are way off. there was a little more than half that number of made guys there when they were the power base under manocchio. and its pretty much the other way around, for every 5 guys the feds know about MAYBE thers one guy who flys under the radar. as JCB pointed if a guy like Joe Ruggiero who trys to go about as a legit business man and being well respected in his community cant even stay under the radar, i doubt there are so many who can.


"Let me tell you something. There's no nobility in poverty. I've been a poor man, and I've been a rich man. And I choose rich every fucking time."

-Jordan Belfort