Originally Posted by BensonHURST
Nicky,

If the Feds and local LE have basically written them off a long time ago and the news/press primary source is LE, so its not hard to understand that they share the same opinion more times than not.

But if that is the case that would mean they are not looking...
RIGHT??

If they are NOT looking how can they really see what's going on??

You see my point??

Would relying on them make the most sense?

Has anyone high up flipped that was really in the know of how many made men they have/had?

How do they really know what's going on in Canada?

case in point look at the Violi's LE stated they have big international connections and locally they had guys on the police force in their pocket, that is influence.

Before this bust what did the FBI have to say about Violi?

Never ever hears anything about them
Just recently with the Rizzuto's that one of them were seen meeting with someone the day before Nicolo was taken out.

So one of my points if they had nothing on Violi is it conceivable there are others running around they have nothing on either because they were not looking because they thought they were dead?





The feds certainly didn't pull that 45 number out of their ass. Why do you automatically assume they had more? Unless information comes out disproving it, we have to go with the feds on the 45 made men figure. Feds love to trump things up to get more funding and present more of a threat, which means that 45 might have even been tipping the scales.

Canadian police have known about Violi for years, as well as his crime group. His arrest did not present some mystical new figure.