Blackjack, youre a GREAT poster. Seriously.
I genuinely value your contributions to this board.
But dude, seriously? This is just Scot Burnstein regurgitated, no?
Now SB is a lovely guy, no dispute, but as has been discussed ad nauseum, has made several ridiculous unsubstantiated claims and also a vested interest in propagating a thriving LCN in the D. So just because an unsubstantiated blog writes something, does not make it so.
Ever been to detroit? I have. Several times and a gentified middle class suburban Italian community IN THE LEAFY BURBS (to reinterate) a LCN family does not make.
Do they have some book n loan? Sure.
An Italian judge, biker gangs, the crips etc etc they don't.
The feds say so, anyone who's been there says so and the sooner you look at the evidence and not a vested interest unsubstantiated authors claim, you'll see that Detroit is not an LCN criminal genius lair, but a mostly extinct one.
They certainly had joint interests with the outlaws and highwaymen at the very least before the Bomb was demoted.
The other stuff, I guess we will have to agree to disagree on as we obviously don't see eye to eye.
I do believe Detroit has a viable family, albeit a very small family. You don't.
We aren't going to agree on everything.
And Ivy with the cheer leading?
