Now one thing I don't get.... Why do you guys think sports books, loan sharking, unions, can compete with narcotics as far as earning? Tom Hagen would disagree with you guys, lol. I routinely see these European gangs getting 100-200-300-400 million euros worth of shit taken from em on a REGULAR BASIS, it seems to do nothing to stop the system.
Bookmaking is a bigger moneymaker for the American mob because it is more deeply involved in and has more control over it than it does with narcotics. The NY families are the only ones who it could be said have a significant stake in the drug trade but even they have been marginalized in it to one degree or another.
