gangland is respected by everyone even mobsters according to capeci alot of these guys have gangland article printed of then deleveried to them because the know hi articles are good and for guys in prison they are able to keep up with news from the street geogre borgesi is a well known example of this

here is a old article from 2013 not full thing


Gang Land A Must Read For Feds and Wiseguys

Testimony at the mob trial in Philadelphia has also led to several shout-outs for Gang Land, which is apparently must reading for both mobsters and the agents who track them.

Joaquin (Big Jack) Garcia, the retired FBI agent who worked undercover for years building a case against Greg DePalma and the acting hierarchy of the Gambino crime family a decade ago, discussed the phenomenon on the witness stand.

Garcia, who was called as an expert witness to provide details about mob structure and protocol, testified about a key piece of evidence against Ligambi — a secretly recorded conversation of a four-hour lunch meeting at LaGriglia, a popular North Jersey restaurant in Kenilworth. The tape was made by the late Nicholas (Nicky Skins) Stefanelli (see below), a Gambino soldier.

Prosecutors have called the session a meeting of the "board of directors" of organized crime. Ligambi and three other Philadelphia mobsters met with six members of the Gambino organization, including John Gambino who was described as a capo and part of the "administration" then running the family.

During his cross-examination, Garcia said that Domenico (Italian Dom) Cefalu is now the Gambino boss, but at the time of the meeting, in May 2010, the Gambinos were being directed by a panel that included John Gambino.

Cefalu's ascension in 2011 was well documented, he said, and under cross-examination said one of the first public disclosures of the change was by Gang Land.

"Capeci is pretty knowledgeable," Garcia said about the regular author of the column.

"Isn't it true guys in prison read Gang Land News to keep up?" asked defense attorney Christopher Warren.

"Absolutely," said Garcia. "A lot of it is good information."

But the Bureau of Prisons does its best to keep inmates from being as tuned into Gang Land as their federal pursuers .

Later in the trial it was disclosed that Warren's client, George Borgesi, routinely had his wife print out and mail the Gang Land column to him since he could not subscribe from behind bars. But a prison official testified that for undisclosed "security reasons,"Borgesi's jailers, who routinely read all incoming mail inmates receive, stopped Borgesi from receiving the weekly column.

At the time, according to trial testimony, Borgesi was an "inmate of concern" who was under investigation by the FBI and all his incoming and outgoing mail was read, copied, and forwarded to the FBI.

A BOP spokesman declined to discuss the "security" issues that Gang Land posed during the Borgesi investigation, but as a general rule, he said, the wardens of all BOP facilities make those determinations "on a case by case basis."