Merlino and the boys always had a close relationship with the black community, you don't get to be a mafia boss by being a saint and them boston guys did thier job, it's a brotherhood, if it was phillie guys they would have done the same thing for boston, there's strength in numbers and all this nonsense ne about a bar being shocked down? Hello, it's the mafia!

"McGurn likes you, so I make you. So you are now one of us, if you fuck up, we take it out on McGurn. He is your sponsor. Fuck up, it's his ass. You work in his crew, he is your capo."