I am a long time reader of this board and finally decided to sign up and post. I was wondering what is the situation with bergen county? Who is in charge? I live here and notice that basically every place in the county is under construction. Is that the main source of income for the rackets? Aside from the bookmaking, since everyone I know has a bookie or knows a bookie. I would assume a ton of money is made in drugs - mainly heroin and coke. If you read the local papers the heroin epidemic is at an all time high now. Between people I know and things I've heard, heroin use is nuts here, mainly among high school kids because their parents cut them off and heroin is much cheaper than oxy or other pain pills.

Thanks in advance for the responses and I look forward to talking more to everyone in the future.