LCN guys are going away for murder, murder conspiracy etc.
I think the feds are trying to tell them something: Curb the violence.
They curbed the violence in New York ten years ago. Look at the murder rates. And please don't tell me that they made the bodies disappear because when a wiseguy disappears it's still headline news. You would have read about it, and it would be included in the charts.
I know violence and the threat of violence is necessary for that line of business but perhaps LCN should lean more towards money-making rackets that DON'T require violence like credit card fraud, bank fraud, loan fraud, identity theft, intellectual property theft, insurance fraud, mortgage fraud etc.
They're already in most of those rackets.
The non violent white collar schemes combined with legitimate business fronts is the way of the future for LCN in my opinion.
What do you think?
That's all well and good. But without the tried and true blue collar twin pillars: Bookmaking and shylocking, there
IS no American Mafia. Period.
