So there as this crew and the Bath Avenue crew selling crack, I wonder if they any more powerful made men would have tried to shake down the main players such as Supreme, Fat Cat, Alpo Martinez etc. Many of these were very young and had become millionaires over night surely that would have made them targets for extortion from career criminals.
Its hard to imagine John Gotti and members of his crew, many who were deep in the heroin game not seeing these young, black kids with lots of money as easy pickings. Also with crack spreading in the 80s like it did, it must have had some impact on the amount of heroin been sold? This would have been impacting on the men who dealt in it's bottom line.
