I honestly can't tell if half of you are just trolling or if you guys seriously have some sort of deficiency

Don't any of you here find it just the least bit strange, that its already been many weeks since this supposedly exclusive "inside" information, from anonymous "sources," about all these beatings and violence, firebombings, death threats, and other mob drama was first reported on, yet no other news media outlet whatsoever, or a single law enforcement agency (FBI, NYPD, NCPD, SCPD etc), or any major (or minor for that matter) newspaper, or reliable news reporter covering the "mob beat" like a Jerry Capeci or others has mentioned so much as one word about any of this?...In fact, there hasn't been one single peep out of any of them!

Because I do. In fact, I find it extremely strange, and more than just a little bit weird at this point.

Scott does say according to two and sometimes even three sources. To report it he must have at least two independent sources. If he considers himself a respectable journalist.

Really Hollander?...And I've got a bridge I wanna sell you in Brooklyn!

Don't any of you here find it just the least bit strange, that its already been many weeks since this supposedly exclusive "inside" information, from anonymous "sources," about all these beatings and violence, firebombings, death threats, and other mob drama was first reported on, yet no other news media outlet whatsoever, or a single law enforcement agency (FBI, NYPD, NCPD, SCPD etc), or any major (or minor for that matter) newspaper, or reliable news reporter covering the "mob beat" like a Jerry Capeci or others has mentioned so much as one word about any of this?...In fact, there hasn't been one single peep out of any of them!

Because I do. In fact, I find it extremely strange, and more than just a little bit weird at this point.

Lol I would love for you to have a sit down with Burnstein.

Honestly....all I see is him ordering a house shot up, maybe burning a business? I feel like this happens practically every month up there in Montreal. And no one really questions it that closely.
I dont know about the Tshirt and all that, but is this really THAT outlandish? He had to react SOME kind of way, shooting up a probably empty house is a violent GESTURE, without the threat of catching a murder beef. I dunno.....


I'm not condoning all the sensationalism, but the man is trying to get views and attention. It's a hustle too, I don't knock it.

I saw Anna Sergi on MBA pod talking about how she was trying to find a way how to make more money. She had her book out. She wants sales....no? People seem to love to bash Saviano, should Sergi go to the steps of the mountains of Aspromonte and scream FUCK Ndrangheta! Like Saviano did to the Casalesi, in Casale? Would she trade fame for personal safety?

Look at the NON ATTENTION garnered by the FIRST CONFIRMED ndrangheta clan operative in NY. Virtual fucking crickets. Without a headline...... no one seems to care. I actually felt the same way about the New Bridge case when it hit..... no one really seemed to care.....Imperiale.... ditto.


Compiling all this info and everything from sources and putting it in a format that is accessible and can be consumed by the average person, that takes a little more ingenuity.


Time will tell I guess....

#1, The N'drangheta in NYC generated "crickets" as you say, because they operated extremely surreptitiously and kept under the radar!

#2, Wanting to generate revenue is one thing. But not properly vetting "sources" who provide you information, and just completing believing what they say to you as whole cloth so you can then write a sensationalized article is something else entirely. Thats not called journalism. Or sensationalizing a story to the point of complete fantasy is also something else entirely...Thats called a "novel."

3#, Lastly, what the mob can get away with up in Canada is, once again, something completely different than what the American mob can do here. Today's U.S. Law Enforcement authorities would be all over them in 2 minutes flat! Especially in areas like the upscale suburbs of Long Island...This is not the 1920s-1980s era anymore. It's 2023 and a completely different underworld here.

So, I for one, absolutely, positively, do not believe any of this nonsense is actually going on...And that is my privilege, no?

But certainly, each of you also have free will, so believe what you like...or what you need to.

Oh make no mistake, it might be all bullshit. It just doesn't seem THAT crazy to me, that he had a house shot at. Now all that other stuff, Mannino and Bellomo and all that..... I dunno. I figured the other families wouldn't allow a war or even a high profile murder because of all the attention.

And I think you misunderstood me a little. I mean no news outlet that I know of, no newspaper or anything carried the Ndrangheta story. And it came and went on the boards too....

But it does go to my point, the average person KNOWS MAFIA. Ndrangheta? Imagine the paper article, they gotta spend 4, 5 paragraphs explaining the origins of ndrangheta to the public. It won't sell.

Hypothetical question here for all of you to ponder.........

Michael Mancuso and an associate are out together and a random mob enthusiast identifies them.

So the guy keeps making eye contact with Mancuso and eventually pushes his buttons where he mouths off to the guy and says "what you looking at? Are you a fucking dumb fuck or what?"

Random guy says "I'm looking at you and your ugly bf biatch!!!! You guinea fucking cocksucker."

Does Mancuso kill the guy right then and there?

Discuss.

Nothing like "deflecting" from the real subject at hand, when the conversation's not going your way, huh Rushstreet? Lol

Ya kidding with this one, right? This dumb question of yours is actually stupidly comical!

It kind of seems to me like there's a good segment of folks on here who really wish for more activity or sort of long for the glory days. I would venture to guess most of us are fascinated by cosa nostra/organized crime otherwise why be on this board? That being said, the amount of mob activity in the US is incredibly minimal. There are small presences in places like Chicago, Boston, NJ, Detroit, South Fla, etc. There's likely a bigger presence in NY, but make no mistake...it's an absolute shell of what it was and it ain't getting stronger anytime soon.

It's been alluded to here that in the coming years there will likely be some gambling busts, and i agree with that. However, that is only because as gambling becomes legal on a national level, the G is going to take out any kind of potential competition. That will likely be the extent of it. The days of mob wars, and killing people and all that is over. None of the families have power like that any longer. Unless they want to bring down a shit storm on themselves, that is.

Cosa Nostra will always be a huge part of history, and in my opinion, there will never be another criminal organization like it again. But the glory days are long gone, and I really doubt that they'll make any kind of comeback. This is all a long winded way of saying Mancuso isn't going to whack anyone.

This brings up a good question. Will we ever see a decline in cartel activity in the United States in say 20-30 years? Just like what has happened with the Italian American mob? Also will the cartels in general resort to other ways of conducting business without using violence?

Even if Mancuso never whacks anyone, that is NOT indicative of the mob's decline. Just because bodies aren't dropping everywhere means absolutely nothing. There are still several recent unsolved 21st Century mob hits out there, the mob still kills when it really has to. But Mancuso would be a complete imbecile to kill anyone right now. And if you ask me, mob wars within a crime family is a sign of its weakness, not its strength.