@JCrusher

If Castellano refused to get rid of Frank Piccolo; Do you think Chin would have still went on with a unsanctioned hit on Piccolo?


@JC

I agree; It was more then stepping on Gigante's toes.... There's way more too it.

HOMBRE (1967)

John Russell (Paul Newman), white guy raised by and lives with Apaches in 1880s Arizona, inherits a boarding house from his white father, which he sells immediately. He gets on a stagecoach out of town with an interesting bunch, including Cicero Grimes (Richard Boone, peerless bad guy), who's in with a group of holdup men who are after big bucks that one of the passengers, Dr. Favor (Frederick March) embezzled from Indians in his charge. The robbery leaves the passengers on foot and short of water, but the robbers without the money. The passengers, who dissed Russell, now need him to show them how to survive. The script (from an Elmore Leonard novel) is intelligent and sharp on the hypocrisy of the whites. Acting is superb, especially by Diane Cilento, as the tart-tongued boarding house manager Russell made jobless when he sold the place; Barbara Rush as Favor's world-weary wife; ever-versatile Martin Balsam (always good) as the stagecoach driver, and Frank Silvera (also always good) as one of the bad guys. One of my favorite Westerns.

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Van O. was part of several criminal groups called 'the Alliance' or Los Pepes, they formed a front against Taghi's reign of terror.
Los Pepes were called after the colombian vigilante group made up of enemies of Pablo Escobar.

Italian police on Tuesday arrested 28 people in a probe into the penetration of the Camorra's Senese clan into Rome's economic and business fabric.
Dawn raids were carried out in the provinces of Rome, Naples, Verona, Frosinone, and L'Aquila.
Over 200 police and finance guards took part in the operation.
Those arrested were accused of extortion, usury, fraudulent transfer of goods and assets, money laundering, and reusing ill-gotten gains.
Assets worth some 15 million euros were seized.
Police said they had "decapitated" the leadership of the Senese clan operating in the Italian capital.
They said the Camorra clan had been operating in Rome for many years.
Among those issued warrants were clan leader Michele Senese aka "O' pazz" (Crazy), currenty in jail for a 2001 murder; his brother Angelo Senese; his son Vincenzo; and his wife Raffaella Gaglione.
They are all accused of using mafia methods to help the Campanian mafia penetrate the Roman economy.
The Camorra is based in Campania, the region around Naples, but also operates elsewhere in Italy and abroad. (ANSA).

https://www.inquirer.com/philly/news/homepage/20071224_Probes_detailed_view_of_mob_life.html

Fredo and Michael had the decency and sensitivity -

1. Fredo waited until Greene exited before his angry outburst at Michael
2. Michael sent Neri and Rocco out of the Desert Inn room before discussing Fredo with Tom

The way Kay sprung such a personal and private “children are outside we're going” on Michael in front of 'hired help' whether they be Neri or Rocco, was in extreme poor taste

A very cool article...

The New England Mafia

A look at the notorious mafiosi who make up the membership of the New England Family of Cosa Nostra.

https://thenewyorkmafia.com/new-england-mafia-providence/

Big scoop from The Financial Times about the fact that from 2015 to 2019, Global investors, including one of the biggest Banks in Europe (Generali), bought about €1 billion bonds backed by front companies of the N'Drangheta.

Apparently, the N'dranghetta was able to issue these bonds through its activities in the Health sector in Italy.

While the involvement of the Mafia in the financial market is not news, this is clearly taking it to another level. This scheme enabled the N'Drangheta to get large quantity of funds from legitimate companies. Usually, it's the Mob who try to get into the capital of legitimate companies not the other way around.

Basically, a big European bank and many private financial actors unknowingly invested in the Calabrian Mafia.

This proves once again that the N'Drangheta is probably the most sophisticated criminal organization in the world.




Source :

International investors reportedly bought bonds backed by the Italian mafia

Published Tue, Jul 7 20203:13 PM EDT


The report said an estimated €1 billion in private bonds backed by front companies charged with working for the Calabrian ’Ndrangheta mafia group were bought by global investors between 2015 and 2019.

These bonds were bought by pension funds, hedge funds, family offices as well as Banca Generali — one of the biggest private banks in Europe — the FT reported.

Investors around the globe were buying bonds backed by a notorious mafia in Italy for four years, The Financial Times reported, citing financial and legal documents.

The report said an estimated €1 billion in private bonds backed by front companies charged with working for the Calabrian ’Ndrangheta mafia group were bought by global investors between 2015 and 2019.

These bonds were bought by pension funds, hedge funds, family offices as well as Banca Generali — one of the biggest private banks in Europe — the FT reported. The Italian bank purchased those bonds through an instrument constructed by Geneva-base investment bank CFE, the newspaper said.

These bonds, according to the FT, were created out of unpaid invoices to public health authorities in Italy from companies providing medical services. One debt deal, which was purchased by institutional investors, contained assets sold by a refugee camp in Italy’s Calabria region.

CFE said it did not knowingly buy assets linked to criminal activity. Banca Generali told the newspaper it was “getting to know right now of the mentioned bad news.”


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Peppino, there's a great deal of BS about Siegel and Dragna, most of it perpetuated by Mickey Cohen, a small timer and a publicity hound. Dragna's main racket was shaking down bookies. Siegel went West to expand gambling, which he saw as underdeveloped by Dragna and Tony "The Admiral" Cornero, who ran gambling ships out of LA harbor. Siegel and Dragna were in conflict, but they found a way to cooperate by building the Trans Continental Racing Wire, with NY's help, which the bookies needed and which brought in an enormous amount of revenue.

No one was ever arrested, much less tried and convicted, in Siegel's murder. Some writers think Dragna was responsible, out of resentment of Siegel. I think Siegel was murdered on NY's orders because of the Flamingo fiasco.

R.I.P. Charlie..."dont let devil steal your soul".....