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Profaci and Narcotics
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02/27/16 05:59 AM
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Here is an excerpt from one of my favorite books on the mafia, I posted this for two https://books.google.com/books?id=_W6WBg...ate&f=false One, it explains the thing I'm always harping on, an enterprise vs power syndicate... Two, it says Profaci was a prolific narcotic trafficker since the 20s... Any thoughts?
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Re: Profaci and Narcotics
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02/27/16 03:56 PM
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One of the durable myths of the Mafia is that they don't deal drugs, and that the Dons will whack anyone who does. BS! The Mob has been dealing drugs since Don Vito Cascio Ferro started the first drug pipelines from Europe to the US in the early yeas of the last century. For decades, drugs were a small but profitable adjunct to the Mob's regular rackets. And, as long as the traffic was confined to people society didn't care about (like minorities, jazz musicians, etc.), it wasn't very risky.
The explosion of drugs in the Sixties ruined the lives of many nice, white-middle class kids, including sons and daughters of police and politicians. Double-digit sentences became common. "Even a Sicilian facing a 20-year sentence could break Omerta and talk his brains out, endangering higher-ups," as the drug wholesaler Virgil Solozzo told Vito Corleone in "The Godfather" novel. That made a predicament for the Dons: since the Mob is a pyramid scheme, drug earnings from street guys get kicked upstairs. But banning drug trafficking to protect higher-ups would simply drive it underground.
So the Dons created a typical piece of Mafia hypocrisy: they decreed death for anyone caught dealing drugs. That way, what they didn't know about (and wouldn't endanger them) wouldn't hurt. If you dealt drugs, kicked money upstairs--and didn't get caught--you were ok. That applied to Profaci and every other Don. And some, like Bonanno and Genovese, actually encouraged drug trafficking and made big, global deals for drugs.
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Re: Profaci and Narcotics
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02/28/16 12:41 PM
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Here is an excerpt from one of my favorite books on the mafia, I posted this for two https://books.google.com/books?id=_W6WBg...ate&f=false One, it explains the thing I'm always harping on, an enterprise vs power syndicate... Two, it says Profaci was a prolific narcotic trafficker since the 20s... Any thoughts? I've always felt, and still do, that the only reason and the only way such a tiny boss and such a tiny family would be incorporated onto the original commission was if they were primarily a narcotics operation. I don't buy into the legend that Luciano split the Maranzano family into halves, appointing Joe Bonnano boss of one side, and Profaci boss of the other. Historians say the Profaci group pre-dated the Commission. Therefore it remains to be explained why such a tiny gang would have their autonomy recognized by the other 4 major families. Narcotics is really the only viable answer. It might stretch all the way back to Profaci's home village of Villabate.
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Re: Profaci and Narcotics
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02/29/16 06:56 AM
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God damn, it took me for real like 15 tries, lol https://books.google.com/books?id=abWhCg...cos&f=false This is another book, same info basically... Also note as the chapter progresses, they explain the similarities of Palermo and NY, and the differences between power and enterprise organizations. It keeps popping up on the boards, ( in another thread, a guy compared LA to Tampa, they are two different types of syndicate, but beacause they are both MAFIA affiliated, people tend to see them as the same, they aren't...)
Last edited by CabriniGreen; 02/29/16 07:07 AM.
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