interesting stuff, although definatly extremly convoluted. northeast philly still has a large irish population and there are probably some irish rackets, but alot of that made it seem like some super secret powerful org that works hand in hand with some of the most powerful mobsters and dominates irish org crime all over the place. also,Bradford "The German" Cox Shundler a capo under the merlino faction, wtf? still interesting, thanks for sharing.