Posted By: Galassi70
Question about Cleveland's own Shondor Birns. - 03/30/20 12:27 AM
Anybody that has watched numerous Danny Greene docs
On him and his war with Jack Licavoli in the mid 70s
The name Shondor Birns came up.
Well Birns kinda was a arbitrator of the policy games in
Cleveland and a loan shark.
But his feud with Greene was connected with the Gambinos.
Greene wanted a loan from Birns to open up a cheat spot after hours.
Birns got the money from the Gambino family.
Birns gives Greene 70,000.
The money got into the hands of a drug dealer.
Greene and Birns had a fallout from this leading to the
Cleveland being bombing capitol of the US.
My question is....why would Birns go to the Gambinos
For a 70 K loan?
Wouldn't you think he had that or he would have went to John Scalish for the $$$$$$.?
Why the Gambinos. Especially when Cleveland was represented by the Genoveses.?
On him and his war with Jack Licavoli in the mid 70s
The name Shondor Birns came up.
Well Birns kinda was a arbitrator of the policy games in
Cleveland and a loan shark.
But his feud with Greene was connected with the Gambinos.
Greene wanted a loan from Birns to open up a cheat spot after hours.
Birns got the money from the Gambino family.
Birns gives Greene 70,000.
The money got into the hands of a drug dealer.
Greene and Birns had a fallout from this leading to the
Cleveland being bombing capitol of the US.
My question is....why would Birns go to the Gambinos
For a 70 K loan?
Wouldn't you think he had that or he would have went to John Scalish for the $$$$$$.?
Why the Gambinos. Especially when Cleveland was represented by the Genoveses.?