Ted, I think you may be reading this in the wrong context. It's much more plausible to think a couple of guys George is lending money to are pilled out union workers who bought too many percs during the week on the arm. He probably also has a couple guys he's who are runners and work for the unions. It's probably where he's trying to get players for his book.

I can tell you with strong certainty that no one in philly family is running labor racketeering like you would normally associate the 2. The union officials here are largely Irish, not that they don't play, but they have higher aspirations than to get jammed up on the small residential/light commercial projects any of the south philly guys would be involved in.

The larger union jobs in the city, if they are corrupted, it's for their own personal gain, not to help LCN.