trust me im not one to buy into the typical media headlines that says the mafia is dead everytime theres a bust. and if your saying theres 50 made guys in the whole patriarca family(both boston and providence) then i could buy that number. but if your trying to say theres 50 made guys in the providence faction alone, your facts are way off. there was a little more than half that number of made guys there when they were the power base under manocchio. and its pretty much the other way around, for every 5 guys the feds know about MAYBE thers one guy who flys under the radar. as JCB pointed if a guy like Joe Ruggiero who trys to go about as a legit business man and being well respected in his community cant even stay under the radar, i doubt there are so many who can.

When I say "Providence" I am indeed referring to the membership from the Hampshires to Boston and down the I95 corridor. perhaps I should have made that more clear.
When trying to get an accurate head count, it's not as easy as it used to be. Maybe more than any other family, the New England guys wore their buttons like a new suite. In the 80s, you could walk into The Classic and they might as well have had signs on their back. By "under the radar" I mean those days are over.

Thanks for seeing my point of view. No disrespect at all to Joerusso (because I do believe he knows some things that the government does not), but to say there are 20-30 made guys in Providence that nobody knows about in this day in age is "far fetched" IMO. And remember, Ruggiero was never charged with a crime...If the FBI wants to nab somebody, it's inevitable. 24/7 surveillance, phone taps, wiretaps, informants, regular citizens who hate the mafia and legitimate businessmen who run to the FBI when being shaken down, it's almost impossible to fly under the radar. If anything, the FBI has a jacket on somebody and is monitoring their daily routine.