Originally Posted By: jonnynonos
You consider hiring a thug to break someone's legs a major bust?

Even Sarno was busted for burglaries, basically, if I remember correctly.

Family Secrets was like 90 percent from pre-80s.

This kind of stuff has absolutely nothing to do with the kind of rackateering they used to get caught for.

There has been nothing even remotely of the scale of PENDORF/STRAWMAN or even GAMBAT and there never will be.





I suppose "significant " is relative. For example the 2006 bookmaking bust in Detroit was significant for that family considering there aren't many cases there these days. Something like that in NY would be rather unremarkable.

The Sarno bust was significant because he was acting boss of the Outfit at the time. Fencing stolen goods was part of it but the main charges centered around video poker machines. That was also among the present day charges in the Family Secrets case. Most of the stuff that went back years were the murders.

The difference between the Outfit decades ago and today is certainly obvious. But there is still plenty of activity to show the family is still there.