Now that I'm caught up, this is the other book Penguin Random house just sent me. It's called Little Vic and the Great Mafia War by Larry McShane. It's about Victor Orena who was recently denied compassionate release in 2022.
Victor Orena, also known as Little Vic became the acting boss of the Colombo crime family of New York City. OK we've heard of the Five Crime Families of New York. So this guy is big.
Wikipedia says Orena, who rose through the ranks of the Colombo crime family "operated in Brooklyn, Long Island, and New Jersey primarily in labor racketeering. Orena was a well dressed individual who projected a traditional business image."
(Labor racketeering is the illegal use of union power for personal gain.) Some unions are tied to Communism while others are tied to Organized Crime.
"In 1985, Persico, (the boss of that crime family) and several leading Colombo figures were convicted of racketeering charges. In 1987, Persico and underboss Gennaro Langella were each convicted in the Mafia Commission Trial and sentenced to 100 years in prison."
100 years in prison. Oh yeah, let's become part of the United States. Ah no. Let's not. I know the Canadian judicial system needs work but that is no reason to go from one extreme to the other. Later on in the post I'll explain why the Rico charges in the US are a complete farce.
While Persico was in prison he "named Orena as acting boss until his son, Alphonse 'Little Allie Boy' Persico, could take over."
Oerena worked with Joh Gotti and the Gambino crime family so yeah, this guy was big. He is as Finain's inferno would describe it, a don. He kept order on the streets.
I have a huge respect for Curtis Sliwa and learned many important life lessons from him. Yet we're different. Curtis has a lot more balls than I do. I'll mock idiots but I won't mock dons. Curtis was shot up in a cab and seriously injured for making fun of John Gotti. That's something I just wouldn't do. Yet Curtis bears the scars of his valor. That was him, this is me.
The book Little Vic and the Great Mafia War talks all about the subsequent Mafia War that took place in New York after a 1991 assassination attempt on Victor Orena when he tried to take over the family permanently. That triggered the last and bloodiest mob war in New York's history. This book is about that.
Now I realize a lot of US States have the death penalty for murder while New York City does not. Hence the 100 year sentence. However, all these Rico charges have an agenda. The good guys are trying to stop organized crime but the CIA are the ones benefiting from it. They burn assets all the time.
Look at Manuel Noriega. When Noriega was a Colonel, he assisted CIA and Mossad Agents in Operation Watch Tower. They supervised cocaine shipments from central America into the United States. They made Noriega president.
Then when the time came they burned their asset and sent him to prison while the CIA and Mossad agents that put him there walked free and continued to do business without him.
The same thing with El Chapo. El Chapo had a .50 cal sniper rifle from Operation Fast and Furious. Fast and Furious was a CIA op ran by the ATF that would sell the Mexican cartel guns and bring back tons of cocaine into the US as payment. The news obsessed about arming the cartel but barely mentioned the tons of cocaine the CIA was bringing into the US.
Mistreating El Chapo in prison diminishes all of US. There's no honor or valor in doing that. It's just finding a scapegoat to blame for the CIA's misdeeds. The same with these Mafia sentences. The Mafia has worked with the CIA ever since Operation Mongoose in Cuba.
Tucker Carlson interviewed Felix Rodriguez who was part of Operation 40. An assassination squad that worked with the Mafia. The CIA claim the end justifies the means. The only problem is the CIA lies about the end. They lie about their objective. Pablo Escabar worked for the CIA for f*ck's sake.
The CIA use the Hells Angels and the mafia to sell their drugs then systematically burn their assets and replace them with others to keep the money and the drugs flowing. Punitive jail sentences don't solve anything because the CIA is never sentenced. Now Trump wants to designate the Mexican cartel as a terrorist organization and bring in the military.
That's a farce. The US has a military base in Honduras with an airstrip. They bring in cocaine from Honduras in military planes. Designating the cartel as a terrorist organization is just a circus side show. Operation Watch Tower never stopped.
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