Originally Posted By: TheArm
Originally Posted By: mbo
Ask the extortion victim with the broken legs,the tenants paying overprice or all the people who just somehow got in the way of the mob making money, how they feel about the good side.


I have been in, and around the life for neaerly 40 years, and in all of that time I can not think of a single person who ended up in harms way, who one way or the other didn't put themselves in that position
Was there and is there violence and death that made no sense and were ill timed and an over reaction?
You bet.
But the bakery owner who just minded his own business and got shaken down and crippled becuse he didn't pay, is a myth much beyond 1925 or 30.


You're saying honest garbage haulers and construction companies in the NY/NJ areas aren't being threatened and shaken down? Did you ever hear of the Barstow and Kubecka case? They were honest garbage haulers who were murdered by the Lucchese Famiy.

It's much more rare for innocents to be killed by mob sanctioned hits than by the streetgangs, but don't deny that it happens.