Originally Posted By: Serpiente
Originally Posted By: Moe_Tilden
Does the woman who was bothered by the panhandler actually exist or was she invented as a cover story?

I should beat up a random homeless guy or panhandler for arbitrary reasons sometime.

I never knew it was legal!

The mob - arbiters of street justice.

And @ DB

It isn't just gambling though. In cases such as this, gambling is almost always intertwined with extortion/drug dealing/fraud/violence/racketeering/all of the above.



I have seen Feds extort/ commit fraud and use violence on many family members that were so called connected to mob families.

You are just starting to see the truth coming out with technology and information trickling down to these folks that now know what's what .


On the other hand, I read King of the Godfathers, and I find it hard to believe how Josephine Massino didn't have to go to prison. She was balls deep in mafia enterprise too, as I suspect a lot of the wives and children are.

Thick as thieves a lot of them.

I invoke my right under the 5th amendment of the United States constitution and decline to answer the question.