Johnny_dio
If you believe that Ralph Perna made a billion dollars in a dream, never mind the real world, i have a few bridges to sell you. I certainly hope you are kidding.

Those Genovese capos are most likely all millionaires in someway or another. Whether it's through their assets/businesses or stashed cash.

I think he's a kid. He's very naive at the very least.

I'm telling you what I've read previously. And I doubt any of you are Mafia bookies, so who really knows?

I'm telling you what I've read previously. And I doubt any of you are Mafia bookies, so who really knows?

Those are total bets, Alfa. Not total wins or losses. And that doesn't factor in any of the overhead, like paying your sheet writers. Never mind the fact that at any given time most bookmakers have at least 30 percent in uncollected debts. Those numbers are ridiculously inflated by the Feds and their stooge lackeys in the media.

Everyone's input is valuable and respected.

I think this is what poster Johnny Dio was referring to:

$2.2 billion in wagers, primarily on sporting events, during a 15-month period.

From that number (2.2B) and time frame (15 months), you can calculate the gang's income based on the average payout ratio of the bets.

Someone else here will have to finish the calculus because many of us just don't know the nuts and bolts of that industry.

Thanks

former Lucchese acting boss and government witness Joseph DeFede reported that an average soldier in his family earned an estimated $40-50.000 a year. This is different for everybody, some are into drugs and gambling or whatever, Ralph Vito Perna is a Jersey Capo for the Luccheses and are believed to earn about 1 billion dollars over a 15-month period.

Bonnanos did well under Gigante, they had monopoly on most of the drug trafficking in america, only Gigante didn't share, and..oh well. Some Gambino ''rats'' says this about the Gotti regime;

Under John Gotti we had 20 capos and earned $100 million a year. Under Gotti Jr, we were down to 10 capos and $20 million a year.

I figure Gambino made a lot more than 100 mill.

PB. Why do I bother. I'll just let you run with it. Go Gators

gators behind now 21-16, I hope they win, if they do it will save the coaches job.

gators behind now 21-16, I hope they win, if they do it will save the coaches job.

At $2.2 billion, even at a 3% profit that's $66 million over 15 months. Was that split between 20 guys or 100 guys?

What's a bookie?

Don't get insulted, but how old are you and where are you from?

There are some very knowledgeable posters on these boards. It's true that most of them are researchers, but so what?

But there are also members here that have knocked around the life a little bit. You're not going to meet a made guy here. But your contention that a bookie wouldn't be here is silly.

I'm 55 years old and I grew up around Arthur Avenue when the life was still going full force. And we have posters with similar backgrounds from other parts of the country.

I am 24, born in Naples, moved to Jersey when I was 12, wasn't really good at school but my English quality depends on my mood, I noticed you commented it on an earlyer post of mine, but I was fascinated by the mob as a young kid. When I was 16 I meet a girl who knew a few pot dealers and I got connected to them and bought a few grams with the little cash I had, I sold it to some wannabe-alcoholic tough-guys at school and felt like a true Gangster. Once me and my friend tried to walk in to a well known ''Mob Social Club'' when we were at a party in Brooklyn. We weren't allowed inside though, but I fell into contact with some Irish guys from Hells Kitchen and got beat up pretty bad and sentenced to 18 months for possession, after that I grew a brain and got a job. Still seems tempting to join the life, especially since I am Italian you know. But after reading a lot of your posts about how the life is bad and at the beginning it's all about you taking the blame for the old guys, it doesn't seem that glamorous. I really look forward to read the bullshit comments about how this is fake.

Hells kitchen has been gentrified since 1990. Beat up at by some irish kids? You sure you you were'nt at a frat party at NYU and took a beating from a frat guy drinking an irish beer????
Whats next ? He dated an italian girl from east harlem?

he knows a bunch of italian street gangs from the lower east side.