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Re: Rank of the La Cosa Nostra Families today [Re: DBCooper] #764117
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It would be if it were true.


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Re: Rank of the La Cosa Nostra Families today [Re: NorthJeresyLife] #764137
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Originally Posted By: NorthJeresyLife
Originally Posted By: SonnyBlackstein
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Dago that was the smartest post I've seen since I've signed up. Kudos to you.

Seriously. Do u have to think real hard to breath or does it come natural?


Laugh. My. Fucking. Ass. Off.

You Chicago guys sure give me a chuckle. Thanks for the expense.


sonny u live in austrialia. have you even met an italian before


You obviously haven't a clue as to how many Italians, Calabrians in particular, are in Australia.


La madre degli idioti e' sempre incinta.

Re: Rank of the La Cosa Nostra Families today [Re: DBCooper] #764143
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carmela, what do you do besides embarrass and haress upstanding italians citizens with this mafia garbage

Re: Rank of the La Cosa Nostra Families today [Re: NorthJeresyLife] #764148
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Originally Posted By: NorthJeresyLife
carmela, what do you do besides embarrass and haress upstanding italians citizens with this mafia garbage


I was just trying to correct what you said about Italians in Australia. If you feel embarrassed by your ignorance, then do something about it. Read a book.


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Re: Rank of the La Cosa Nostra Families today [Re: carmela] #764158
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Originally Posted By: carmela
Originally Posted By: NorthJeresyLife
carmela, what do you do besides embarrass and haress upstanding italians citizens with this mafia garbage


I was just trying to correct what you said about Italians in Australia. If you feel embarrassed by your ignorance, then do something about it. Read a book.


Come on Carm, There may be italians in australia....but only jersey(particularly north jersey) can u find the rare breed of the SUPER ITALIANS!!! lol


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Re: Rank of the La Cosa Nostra Families today [Re: Dellacroce] #764165
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Now didn't the sarno case , family secrets and mannel current case all have rats / informants ? Ratting is an issue for all OC

Re: Rank of the La Cosa Nostra Families today [Re: DBCooper] #764169
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Yes that's true but Chicago has never had a major player rat. Aside from Nick Calabrese, who was a soldier, Chicago has never had a made guy rat.

Compared to New York who has had a boss (Massino), multiple underbosses (Casso, Gravano, Vitale), consiglieres, and capos flip.

To say nobody in Chicago rats is untrue but the ratio compared to other cities is far greater and there's no denying that. The lack of ratting could play a part on there being less indictments. And I'm pretty sure aside from family secrets, all the cases were from undercover agents, not rats.

Re: Rank of the La Cosa Nostra Families today [Re: DBCooper] #764171
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It's also much smaller than any of the New York families. You are talking about 28 made guys in Chicago (maybe) and 600+ in New York. So your sample size 95% New York, 5% Chicago- and then you express surprise when New York has more rats. Of course it does, the operation is orders bigger.

We are talking apples and oranges.


Should probably ask Mr. Kierney. I guess if you're Italian, you should be in prison.
I've read the RICO Act, and I can tell you it's more appropriate...
for some of those guys over in Washington than it is for me or any of my fellas here
Re: Rank of the La Cosa Nostra Families today [Re: DBCooper] #764174
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Detroit has also had only one rat, IIRC, but that sure as hell doesn't mean they are a more lucrative or successful organization than NYC. More soldiers, more rats, more attention from the feds, more indictments... NYC families will still be here fifty years from now. I cannot safely say that for any of the others.

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Re: Rank of the La Cosa Nostra Families today [Re: DBCooper] #764176
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I know that wop immigration to 'Straya has spiked big time over the past 50 years. Northjerseys jab made me chuckle regardless.

A lot of you armchair loudmouth punks have no qualms with dishing it out, but ya can't take it.

Re: Rank of the La Cosa Nostra Families today [Re: LittleNicky] #764193
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Originally Posted By: LittleNicky
It's also much smaller than any of the New York families. You are talking about 28 made guys in Chicago (maybe) and 600+ in New York. So your sample size 95% New York, 5% Chicago- and then you express surprise when New York has more rats. Of course it does, the operation is orders bigger.

We are talking apples and oranges.




600 members (god knows how many are wired) scrambling for the same dollar

30-40 members free to commit scams in the most crooked state in the country

so yeah it's apples and oranges

Re: Rank of the La Cosa Nostra Families today [Re: DBCooper] #764197
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True there's more members in New York but there's cities like Boston and Philadelphia that have just as much rats and have way less members than New York.

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Re: Rank of the La Cosa Nostra Families today [Re: DBCooper] #764199
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Philly has had more rats than the Genoveses and the Gambinos combined.


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Re: Rank of the La Cosa Nostra Families today [Re: cookcounty] #764202
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Good point.

Nothing to be proud of though. I was just hearing about the billion dollar shortfall in the state budget for this upcoming year.

We may end up the first state that needs to be bailed out by the federal government. Plus, we're like 48th or 49th for attracting business. We're fucked

Re: Rank of the La Cosa Nostra Families today [Re: DBCooper] #764210
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Who even gives a shit. Their all mostly low life's


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Re: Rank of the La Cosa Nostra Families today [Re: DBCooper] #764215
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What's up cheech

Re: Rank of the La Cosa Nostra Families today [Re: NickyEyes1] #764221
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Originally Posted By: NickyEyes1
Yes that's true but Chicago has never had a major player rat. Aside from Nick Calabrese, who was a soldier, Chicago has never had a made guy rat.

Compared to New York who has had a boss (Massino), multiple underbosses (Casso, Gravano, Vitale), consiglieres, and capos flip.

To say nobody in Chicago rats is untrue but the ratio compared to other cities is far greater and there's no denying that. The lack of ratting could play a part on there being less indictments. And I'm pretty sure aside from family secrets, all the cases were from undercover agents, not rats.


Nick calabrese was a made guy no?

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Re: Rank of the La Cosa Nostra Families today [Re: short841] #764226
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Originally Posted By: short841
Originally Posted By: NickyEyes1
Yes that's true but Chicago has never had a major player rat. Aside from Nick Calabrese, who was a soldier, Chicago has never had a made guy rat.

Compared to New York who has had a boss (Massino), multiple underbosses (Casso, Gravano, Vitale), consiglieres, and capos flip.

To say nobody in Chicago rats is untrue but the ratio compared to other cities is far greater and there's no denying that. The lack of ratting could play a part on there being less indictments. And I'm pretty sure aside from family secrets, all the cases were from undercover agents, not rats.


Nick calabrese was a made guy no?


He said that Nick was a soldier.

Re: Rank of the La Cosa Nostra Families today [Re: DBCooper] #764235
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Wtf was this thread about anyways...


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Re: Rank of the La Cosa Nostra Families today [Re: SonnyBlackstein] #764241
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It was about the subservience of Manhattan to Elmwood Park

Re: Rank of the La Cosa Nostra Families today [Re: SonnyBlackstein] #764287
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Originally Posted By: SonnyBlackstein
Wtf was this thread about anyways...


It was a dick-measuring contest between Chicago and NY. Glasgow won lol

Re: Rank of the La Cosa Nostra Families today [Re: DBCooper] #764318
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I am not a "Chicago fan" and frankly this pissing contest between NY and Chicago o0n this form is stupid, but everytime I see that "28 made guys" in Chicago myth I literally laugh out loud
WHEN will you guys learn that public FBI public information is deliberatly Misinformation and desighned to be misleading????
For the 5th time, they went to the US Supreme court for the right to use this misinformation as an investigative method.


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Re: Rank of the La Cosa Nostra Families today [Re: LittleNicky] #764319
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Originally Posted By: LittleNicky
I'm curious what people mean when they use the phrase "going legit"? If you are talking about like what happened in buffalo, going into a food business, that's complete legit and no longer really organized crime. They have to compete like every other guy and the LCN really is no longer LCN. That kind of going "legit" is another word for people just leaving the life all together and admitting the mafia in chicago is dying.

Then you got guys like Nicky Jr that believe that white collar scams are a form of going "legit".

I guess a middling position is using the front businesses for more than money laundering, but relying on them as a source of revenue. But there is still some criminal revenue.



In Chicago, more specificly Elmwood Park, Melrose park and the NW Burbs, as previously expalned, means going into legitamate dealings, and earning by the activity that surrounds it.
This is nothing new, if fact it is a throwback to the 50s and 60s.
For example, the construction of the interstate highway system MADE Buffalo,The LIUNA pension funds was like a money tree and money laundry all rolled into one. Buffalo controled everything from the heavy equipment to the Por a Pottys and no one got a contract without a "performence bond"
This is not unlike what the outfit and Rockford are doing in Cook, Lake, Mchenry, Boon and Winnebago counties, just on a smaller scale.


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Re: Rank of the La Cosa Nostra Families today [Re: NickyEyes1] #764325
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Originally Posted By: NickyEyes1
What's up cheech



Doing good Nick, just got back from a week in boca. Hope all is well.


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Yeah, but Chicago has never had a preponderance of made guys. Let's say for the sake of argument that they have 30-40 made guys now - that's about 40-50% of the total members at the Outfit's peak in the '50s and '60s, roughly proportional to the decline in the New York families over that same time period. 28 identified made guys, six or seven years ago, is not too preposterous of a notion.


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Originally Posted By: Snakes
Yeah, but Chicago has never had a preponderance of made guys. Let's say for the sake of argument that they have 30-40 made guys now - that's about 40-50% of the total members at the Outfit's peak in the '50s and '60s, roughly proportional to the decline in the New York families over that same time period. 28 identified made guys, six or seven years ago, is not too preposterous of a notion.


There are more than 28 made guys just in Bridgeview, Elmwood park and Melrose park. It is really a matter of Semantics becuse actually, no one in the outfit is "made" in the traditional sense anyway, never really have been.
You have to understand Chicago has always had a different layout and format than anyone else.
Since family secrets they have completly retooled.
No more Boss-Underboss, capos etc
It has been replaces by a chain of skippers and street bosses with no clearly defined hiarchey, and thus no one with a target on their back.


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Originally Posted By: TheArm
It has been replaces by a chain of skippers and street bosses with no clearly defined hiarchey, and thus no one with a target on their back.

smart move on their part, copying the calabrians! wink


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It has been replaces by a chain of skippers and street bosses with no clearly defined hiarchey, and thus no one with a target on their back.

smart move on their part, copying the calabrians! wink


They don't even have that much structure, becuse they have no single organization,just gangs and alliences.


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So to clarify the 'modern day outfit' is composed of non made guys with no defined structure involved in legitimate business.

Fuck me, I think I'm a member!


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Originally Posted By: TheArm
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Originally Posted By: TheArm
It has been replaces by a chain of skippers and street bosses with no clearly defined hiarchey, and thus no one with a target on their back.

smart move on their part, copying the calabrians! wink


They don't even have that much structure, becuse they have no single organization,just gangs and alliences.


You need to elaborate on statements like that & be a little bit more specific, or keyboard smart alecs like Sonny shithead will continue to make snide remarks.

Statements like the one you just made are a little bit too vague. Intriguing, but nonetheless vague.

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