PB what's your thoughts on the 25% reference

Is that accurate ? A way to maneuver around usury interest rate laws . I think NY is 30% annually like NJ

Wonder if lit was done legit , via finance companies , that's the trend now anyway

It could be a pre-emptive measure. NY and NJ were among the first states to deregulate PayDay loans.


My gut feeling is that as soon as the Feds have the resources to spare, they'll make the PayDay loans illegal across the board, and even the "friendly" offshore islands will be prohibited from making them.

And that's when small time shylocking will reappear (50 a week for 13 weeks on a five hundred dollar loan). That's a give or take number, by the way. But you know what I mean. And the Feds will start breaking balls there again.

This shit is a revolving door. It evolves, but the Feds are never that far behind. Like you say, a seventy-year-old goombah is still a better headline than a raghead shoe-bomber.

Mayor Giuliani is cashing in on the mafia ,as he calls it.
He is heading a series special that will run for weeks or months ? It will air on A&E and it starts soon ,and he says how he brought down the mafia.

PB told me a year ago that this was gonna happen. Hand to god.

Not just that, and I've posted his before because very few people know this (but they SHOULD):

It's Giuliani's security company that runs the background checks for the New York City building department today. Every new construction bid in this city has to be approved by his people. This doesn't apply to existing structures (where you can still earn real money). But for the new highrises? It all has to go through him and his people. Wiseguy companies don't have a prayer there. And the cocksucker is on salary for a few million a year.

I mean, look. Is this bad? To we want Mafia controlled companies building highrises in NYC?

I mean, look. Is this bad? To we want Mafia controlled companies building highrises in NYC?

I mean, look. Is this bad? To we want Mafia controlled companies building highrises in NYC?

Not just that, and I've posted his before because very few people know this (but they SHOULD):

It's Giuliani's security company that runs the background checks for the New York City building department today. Every new construction bid in this city has to be approved by his people. This doesn't apply to existing structures (where you can still earn real money). But for the new highrises? It all has to go through him and his people. Wiseguy companies don't have a prayer there. And the cocksucker is on salary for a few million a year.

No, and like I said in the thread about Giuliani, I loved him as mayor and would have voted for him again (It's funny how Bloomy was against term limits back then). It was only after his post 9/11 self-adulation that Giuliani turned me off.

It's the point. He used his mafia busting reputation to secure the background checks job. And I know for a fact there have been instances where people have been turned down contracts because of who their great uncle or grandfather was.

This happened to a cousin of mine who's as straight arrow as a Tea Partier, but 110% sincere in his convictions. It's not political whatsoever. The kid never had so much as a fucking parking ticket. He poured the concrete at the FEDERAL BUILDING on Quarropas Street in White Plains, yet he was denied a contract in Battery Park City because his grandfather was a skipper on 116th steet (and the kid was only eight years old when his grandfather passed away)

You're all about the downtrodden, equal rights, and a million other liberal causes (and that's all admirable, by the way). So tell me. Is this right? Is this America?

The fucking Kennedys went from running booze to a political dynasty in a single generation. One generation for the Irish is okay, but with the guineas three isn't enough to pour concrete? And it's not lost on me that Giuliani's Italian-American, so please don't go there.

The Irish got here first, with a basic grasp of the language. So they secured the political and city jobs for themselves. And don't get me wrong, the Italians would have done the same thing. It's human fucking nature to take care of your own. But there's still a bias is this country against Italian Americans if they're in a certain industry. Even when they're straight as an arrow. Like my cousin.

Yeah that's fine. I hate discussing politics and race on here too.

I just trusted PB to give a thoughtful response & was interested in what he had to say.

Should Italians civil liberties be valued more than blacks?

@MightyHealthy; Politics and race are debates which never fair well for either side. You are incredibly respectful and polite but I kindly ask the matter be dropped or redirected back to the thread topic as these things rarely end well or are productive.

Again, commend you on your manner.

Good post, Sonny. Cooler heads and all. I don't know what I'd do without you.

It's my father. It's killing me. And I have to either stop posting or learn to leave the anger off the board.

It's my father. It's killing me. And I have to either stop posting or learn to leave the anger off the board.

Please take care of your father and yourself first.

Dude quit your whining. Every post you make is you getting offended over every little thing.

Are they part of a LCN family or are they independent?