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Prohibition Era Rackets #828228 02/11/15 06:16 PM 02/11/15 06:16 PM
Joined: Nov 2013 Posts: 97 JoeTheBoss OP Button
JoeTheBoss OP Button Joined: Nov 2013 Posts: 97	Bootlegging is the most obvious. Numbers, extortion... what else was big back then? Pardon my ignorance.. "Goodfellas don't sue Goodfellas....Goodfellas kill Goodfellas." - Salvatore Profaci

Re: Prohibition Era Rackets [Re: JoeTheBoss] #828247 02/11/15 07:23 PM 02/11/15 07:23 PM
Joined: Feb 2015 Posts: 19 O OldVines Wiseguy
OldVines O Wiseguy Joined: Feb 2015 Posts: 19	counterfeiting money, stamps, important type documents and items. union/trade assoc.

Re: Prohibition Era Rackets [Re: JoeTheBoss] #828252 02/11/15 07:38 PM 02/11/15 07:38 PM
Joined: Aug 2014 Posts: 3,021 far, northwest Binnie_Coll Underboss
Binnie_Coll Underboss Joined: Aug 2014 Posts: 3,021 far, northwest	ive read recently that there was a lot more heroin trafficking in that era, that most people know of. and a lot of cocaine, hard drugs were a lot more available than once believed. " watch what you say around this guy, he's got a big mouth" sam giancana to an outfit soldier about frank Sinatra. [ from the book "my way"

Re: Prohibition Era Rackets [Re: JoeTheBoss] #828260 02/11/15 09:04 PM 02/11/15 09:04 PM
Joined: Feb 2015 Posts: 19 O OldVines Wiseguy
OldVines O Wiseguy Joined: Feb 2015 Posts: 19	The Grocery Conspiracy http://www.gangrule.com/articles/the-grocery-conspiracy

Re: Prohibition Era Rackets [Re: Binnie_Coll] #828326 02/12/15 09:59 AM 02/12/15 09:59 AM
Joined: Aug 2011 Posts: 429 yigido Capo
yigido Capo Joined: Aug 2011 Posts: 429	Originally Posted By: Binnie_Coll ive read recently that there was a lot more heroin trafficking in that era, that most people know of. and a lot of cocaine, hard drugs were a lot more available than once believed. I read that Luciano started running drugs in his younger years when he was delivering hats as a front job.

Re: Prohibition Era Rackets [Re: JoeTheBoss] #828334 02/12/15 10:51 AM 02/12/15 10:51 AM
Joined: Jul 2013 Posts: 3,232 Serpiente Underboss
Serpiente Underboss Joined: Jul 2013 Posts: 3,232	Prostitution, Gun running Last edited by Serpiente; 02/12/15 10:55 AM. Cackling like a banty Rooster. I love this," "I just love this."

Re: Prohibition Era Rackets [Re: JoeTheBoss] #828345 02/12/15 11:16 AM 02/12/15 11:16 AM
Joined: May 2014 Posts: 778 Castellammare del Golfo Malandrino Underboss
Malandrino Underboss Joined: May 2014 Posts: 778 Castellammare del Golfo	Opium and heroin were widespread in those days (though not as much as they would become later in the 50s-70-s) but not coke. Coke was never used on a large scale back then and it wouldn't be used until the late 70s, and 80s. -I shot him a coupla' times. -What's a couple? -Hmm, more than a couple... Really I don't know the exact amount, maybe I shot him 10 times, 12 times? -Maybe fifteen? -Hmm, it could've been fifteen... -Anthony "Gaspipe" Casso

Re: Prohibition Era Rackets [Re: JoeTheBoss] #828375 02/12/15 01:28 PM 02/12/15 01:28 PM
Joined: Jul 2013 Posts: 3,232 Serpiente Underboss
Serpiente Underboss Joined: Jul 2013 Posts: 3,232	I do not know if you mean chopping and snorting and smoking it.But Coke was in almost everything back then. But i do not know about the mob using it as a money maker. Cackling like a banty Rooster. I love this," "I just love this."

Re: Prohibition Era Rackets [Re: JoeTheBoss] #828380 02/12/15 01:56 PM 02/12/15 01:56 PM
Joined: May 2014 Posts: 778 Castellammare del Golfo Malandrino Underboss
Malandrino Underboss Joined: May 2014 Posts: 778 Castellammare del Golfo	It was used for pharmaceutical purposes until the 1914(?) drug convention which outlawed it along with opium and heroin. It was still used in dentistry and maybe as an anesthetic but not abused on a large scale like in the 80s, and snorting, chopping or IVing are just routes of administrating it, we're still talking about the same substance. My point being that I doubt the mob, or anybody profited that much on coke because it wasn't abused on a large scale. -I shot him a coupla' times. -What's a couple? -Hmm, more than a couple... Really I don't know the exact amount, maybe I shot him 10 times, 12 times? -Maybe fifteen? -Hmm, it could've been fifteen... -Anthony "Gaspipe" Casso

Re: Prohibition Era Rackets [Re: Malandrino] #828384 02/12/15 02:14 PM 02/12/15 02:14 PM
Joined: Jul 2013 Posts: 3,232 Serpiente Underboss
Serpiente Underboss Joined: Jul 2013 Posts: 3,232	Originally Posted By: Malandrino It was used for pharmaceutical purposes until the 1914(?) drug convention which outlawed it along with opium and heroin. It was still used in dentistry and maybe as an anesthetic but not abused on a large scale like in the 80s, and snorting, chopping or IVing are just routes of administrating it, we're still talking about the same substance. My point being that I doubt the mob, or anybody profited that much on coke because it wasn't abused on a large scale. Yes , I thank you cos i knew through the years i would see shows saying the it was in many things that you would never think it would be in.. Cackling like a banty Rooster. I love this," "I just love this."

Re: Prohibition Era Rackets [Re: Binnie_Coll] #828407 02/12/15 04:22 PM 02/12/15 04:22 PM
Joined: Sep 2014 Posts: 1,442 Alfa Romeo Underboss
Alfa Romeo Underboss Joined: Sep 2014 Posts: 1,442	Originally Posted By: Binnie_Coll ive read recently that there was a lot more heroin trafficking in that era, that most people know of. and a lot of cocaine, hard drugs were a lot more available than once believed. Yes, to the heroin. "For us, rubbin'out a Mustache was just like makin' way for a new building, like we was in the construction business."

Re: Prohibition Era Rackets [Re: JoeTheBoss] #828409 02/12/15 04:45 PM 02/12/15 04:45 PM
Joined: Dec 2014 Posts: 495 Oscarthedago Capo
Oscarthedago Capo Joined: Dec 2014 Posts: 495	Here is a fantastic article on Prohibition in Pittsburgh: http://newsinteractive.post-gazette.com/prohibition/indexmobile.html As Uncle Charlie used to say, "Never get into pissing matches with skunks."

Re: Prohibition Era Rackets [Re: Malandrino] #829068 02/17/15 03:29 PM 02/17/15 03:29 PM
Joined: May 2012 Posts: 3,005 Mississippi - 662 B BlackFamily Underboss
BlackFamily B Underboss Joined: May 2012 Posts: 3,005 Mississippi - 662	Found this information from an online book Memphis: In Black & White " police had given up on trying to control the use of cocaine, which was routinely sold in pharmacies in small flat containers called "lids" for 50 cents." This was in 1909. If you think you are too small to make a difference, you haven't spend the night with a mosquito. - African Proverb

Re: Prohibition Era Rackets [Re: JoeTheBoss] #860138 09/15/15 09:30 AM 09/15/15 09:30 AM
Joined: Aug 2015 Posts: 186 D donplugconnected Made Member
donplugconnected D Made Member Joined: Aug 2015 Posts: 186	i always thought it was mainly alcohol,prostitution,gambling,drug and corruption. ma tongue hold life my belt hold death. make em bite the dust when they hit the floor. 4-5 to there chest us folk from gangsterbb aint playing. we smoke everyone in this b word like a hookah now. stupid steve hit the corner shooting.

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