Anybody that has watched numerous Danny Greene docs
On him and his war with Jack Licavoli in the mid 70s
The name Shondor Birns came up.
Well Birns kinda was a arbitrator of the policy games in
Cleveland and a loan shark.
But his feud with Greene was connected with the Gambinos.
Greene wanted a loan from Birns to open up a cheat spot after hours.
Birns got the money from the Gambino family.
Birns gives Greene 70,000.
The money got into the hands of a drug dealer.
Greene and Birns had a fallout from this leading to the
Cleveland being bombing capitol of the US.
My question is....why would Birns go to the Gambinos
For a 70 K loan?
Wouldn't you think he had that or he would have went to John Scalish for the $$$$$$.?
Why the Gambinos. Especially when Cleveland was represented by the Genoveses.?