I think the last viable and concrete Irish-American racketeer leader to come outta the K&A, would have to be John Berkery in the 1980s. Well, unless you count the vaguely Irish meth guys that were left with the remnants after he went AWOL.
Everything else is really just insubstantial rumormongering.
Altho, I'm sure there's still little crews and independent crooks in the Northeast of Irish descent.
Berkery was like a living legend in the philly area. I forget if it was picked up on tape or if someone testified about it but Angelo Bruno supposedly said he loved Berkery and that he would of made him in a second if he was italian. Berkery and Long John were around Bruno all the time and he never made Martorano but he said he would of made Berkery. Go figure. lol
They were real tight. Bruno was the Godfather to Berkery's son too and Berkery also had another son whose Godfather was a made guy from South Jersey I think.
When some guy called Hornblum was doing a book on the K&A crew he wanted to keep a lid on it cos he didn't want his name in any way associated to the burglary thing.
'So I say, “Live and let live.” That’s my motto. “Live and let live.” Anyone who can’t go along with that, take him outside and shoot the motherfucker. It’s a simple philosophy, but it’s always worked in our family.'
