This philly thing is a mess if u ask me. Even junior got bail after all those hung juries. Borgesi has to be distraught.
To be fair, jr's bail was over $10M in collateral put up which was a record for a criminal defendant at the time.
I dont think Uncle Joe has that kind of money to throw around.
I'm just guessing here but i don't think the guys in Philly are generating that kind of big money. More like grinding it out with the shark money and sports betting. But even the money from that is way down from the old days. A couple of those guys were picked up on wiretaps saying basically the same thing and even Nicodemo was caught on tape in the Borgata investigation telling Micali the wolves are starving or some shit like that.
Agreed.
Here's Gary Battaglini's take on the Philly mob's finances:
"It's a broke mob, that's the bottom line, and it's gotten worse every year," he said in one conversation."Broke, broke."
In another, he complained that gambling customers had gotten more sophisticated and state-run casino gambling was eating into the bookmaking market. Eventually, he predicted, sports betting, like the lottery/numbers racket, would be legitimized.
"Everybody's got computers," he said. "Everybody's making moves. It ain't like it used to be...You got to run it like it's a business...You better watch what you take. You got to limit people."
