Italians and Mexicans Involved In Business Together



Former Los Angeles capo Jimmy Fratianno said he was close to a member of the Mexican Mafia named Adolph "Champ" Reynoso in the 60's and 70's. I've also heard that after Salvatore Marino became a capo of the San Jose crime family in the mid 80's he had some drug dealers involved with a Mexican gang called Varrio Horse Shoe pay him a monthly percentage to operate. Varrio Horse Shoe is a popular Norteno gang in a really poor neighborhood in West San Jose. The neighborhood is next to the Willow Glen area, which is one of the wealthiest neighborhoods in the San Jose area and where Marino is from. That went on for about a year until the Nuestra Familia found out, after being told what was happening by the leader of Varrio Horse Shoe, who happened to be connected to the Nuestra Familia and let a few members of the San Jose Regiment of the NF know what was going on and they asked Marino to back off and he did. By that time the San Jose crime family was almost gone with around 16 made members and didn't have enough muscle as the NF did. The NF is one of five Mexican-American organized crime groups operating in the United States. Former Los Angeles crime family capo Mike Rizzi was paying the Mexican Mafia for protection after being sent away for 33 years in the 1980s. He was also close to Mexican Mafia boss Joe Morgan, a white gangster who grew up with Mexicans in East L.A. Robert "Robot" Salas was a Mexican Mafia member who was close friends with a Gambino crime family associate named Jimmy Coppola.




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