Ratting / informing may be disgusting from the betrayed criminals point of view, but without them we wouldn't have much information to discuss on the forums, would we? The lack of loyalty in the underworld provides "gold mines" of information for average citizens interested in the subject.
Willie Marfeo to Henry Tameleo:
1) "You people want a loaf of bread and you throw the crumbs back. Well, fuck you. I ain't closing down."
2) "Get out of here, old man. Go tell Raymond to go shit in his hat. We're not giving you anything."
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