Not quite La Cosa Nostra, but Carlos Rafael was the Don Corleone of New England fishing until he got busted bragging to who he thought were Russian mobsters. Now the small fishermen are paying for his sins.
"...the successful annihilation of organized crime's subculture in America would rock the 'legitimate' world's foundation, which would ultimately force fundamental social changes and redistributions of wealth and power in this country. Meyer Lansky's dream was to bond the two worlds together so that one could not survive without the other." - Dan E. Moldea
Re: The Codfather
[Re: mike68]
#924934 12/19/1709:08 AM12/19/1709:08 AM
From the mother Jones article: "While all West Coast groundfish boats carry government-paid observers whenever they leave port, just 14 percent of groundfish trips in New England are similarly monitored."
This is my job. I'm a fisheries monitor. This is what I've been doing for 11 years (mostly west coast, but I am very familiar with Raphael.) He was always very nice to me. Had no idea what was going. If I did, I would have said something.
