So many of these groups in Upstate cities seemed to mirror each other in what they did and how they did it,that it seems like they all kind of knew each other
To start a really good gambling operation,these guys had to know what they were doing. And in many of these cities it was Italians doing it
They had to learn from somebody-probably each other rather than just from the Jews and the Irish or other Medigons
They didn't bring it from Italy.
In many ways they did. Regardless of the particular city or town they operated in, most of these networks developed through the same circumstances and mechanisms,
