The Bonnanos are major players in the distribution of high end marajuana on Staten Island - huge racket .

The Viagra racket is also a high margin business , obtaining insurance subsidized product and selling 100 mg up to $20 per pill. A hundy can be broken up and used up to 4 times .

Both pretty solid from a profit and LE exposure standpoint . A CA weed connect likely nets them $500 a lb, so a 1,000 lb a month dealer is generating $50k a month . Plow this, gambling and loan sharking into real estate and construction busines which continues its ferocious bull market run in NYC , Hoboken, JC, Harrison and you can see how some guys can make a tremendous amount of yearly income with below avg. LE exposure if you can stay off the phone and minimize rat / wired up exposure lol . While this crew seemed pretty weak in the LE part some of these guys have this down to a science now

Just look at Barney , in 1 point LE says he is the Boss while also admitting they can't prove he has been involved in any crime since his prison release . Talk about some bullshit but IMO it shows the level of frustration LE currently has with them and it might not be a coincidence this was a little while after that big construction deal.

I refuse to condone their acts but you have to admire their skills at avoiding LE and the public in general. I went weekly to a restaurant they did business with for years, we would joke that I was the only Italian in there . Yet it laundered $400M of money thru the place . It appears the same is going on with the Ports , phasing out some of the more high risk lower profit street shit in favor of big money sophisticated lower key crimes. Just 7 or so years ago some higher risk stuff was still going on , shoot in 2011 or so there was a huge bust for some crazy stuff that you didn't even hear a peep about unless you knew people that worked there . To me at least it seems they are moving away from the low level thieving and small time extortion activities and into more quasi big time legit stuff . Any time you see a labor dispute over hiring practices you need to look into that lol, that was a show of strength IMO especially when there aren't many Italians left there

I strongly sense LE is very frustrated with them, business seems to be expanding rather than the opposite .