FBI charges 127 mobsters in the North East

[irishScott]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-12243086

Damn. Last time I saw something like this was a movie.

Edit:

Attorney General Eric Holder said the arrests amounted to the largest mafia crackdown in the history of the FBI.

 

[brandonb]

Does it include Goldman Sachs?

 

[IceBergSLiM]

Maybe they didn't get the memo not to talk on cell phones?

 

[IceBergSLiM]

Does it include Goldman Sachs?

title says mobsters not banksters. And besides we don't arrest banksters we send them to the white house.

 

[Schadenfroh]

Eric Holder an alias for Harvey Dent?

 

[Phokus]

Does it include Goldman Sachs?

Wall Street controls our government.

 

[MotF Bane]

But they're still looking for Whitey Bulger.

 

[Modelworks]

Maybe they can finally get someone to tell them where Hoffa is buried.

In related news the mansion used in the godfather movies is up for sale !
http://www.trendhunter.com/trends/rosebud-estate-165-million-beverly-hills-mansion-up-for-sale

 

[Phokus]

Wall Street controls our government.

Also, this is funny:

Mr Holder said mafia-controlled taxes, which can affect ports and small businesses, have a negative impact on the US economy.

"It [the mafia] is an ongoing threat to the economic well-being of this country," he said.

I bet wall street has a much more negative affect on the economy than the mafia does. White collar crime FTL.

 

[iGas]

Which mobster family played the FBI to take out their competition?

 

[brandonb]

title says mobsters not banksters. And besides we don't arrest banksters we send them to the white house.

Wall Street controls our government.

I know.

 

[DesiPower]

They are targeting a run by Italians and African Americans, that's racism

 

[Scotteq]

Which mobster family played the FBI to take out their competition?

Whitey Bulger, of course!***




(*** He really did do that.)

 

[nageov3t]

I wondered why the streets of my town seemed so empty today...

 

[mafia]

Wow.

 

[dfuze]

But they're still looking for Whitey Bulger.

Don't bother asking his brother

 

[ichy]

It's a pity we can't send the whole lot of them to the electric chair. That's the proper way to deal with gangsters.

 

[bamacre]

It's a pity we can't send the whole lot of them to the electric chair. That's the proper way to deal with gangsters.

Where I live we elect them to political office.

 

[Gooberlx2]

Damn. Last time I saw something like this was a movie.

I seem to remember a huge bust a couple years ago. It wasn't 100+ members, but it was many dozens.

 

[feralkid]

It's a pity we can't send the whole lot of them to the electric chair. That's the proper way to deal with gangsters.

Honey, before we can do that, the grown-ups have to allow those naughty naughty bad men what we call "due process under the law".

 

[Craig234]

They are targeting a run by Italians and African Americans, that's racism

You're an ass, for implying there's no such thing as racism.

 

[Craig234]

I'm surprised this is the biggest. JFK and his brother went after a far more powerful mafia, more dramatically. Reagan went after them pretty hard too. But it's good news.

JFK and RFK had a real feud with Carlos Marcello, who they illegally grabbed when Marcello registered at a federal office as he was required to do periodically under terms of not being deported for an earlier murder, and drove him to a waiting jet that dumped him off in Latin America.

When the the authorities there dumped Marcello in the jungle, Marcello barely made it out with broken ribs, and had quite a grudge.

The court ruled that act illegal the afternoon JFK was assassinated.

 

[trenchfoot]

Best selling tell-all book out in two weeks with star-studded movie to follow a week after that.

Whatever gap is left from those that are convicted.....well, the gaps are probably already filled in and its business as usual for all concerned.

 

[nonlnear]

Maybe they didn't get the memo not to talk on cell phones?

If that's the memo they got then they would still be screwed. The FBI can listen in on you using your cell phone even if it's off. You've got to remove the battery to be safe from the feds eavesdropping.

 

[Tristicus]

You're an ass, for implying there's no such thing as racism.

So because he said one thing wasn't racist basically (by using sarcasm by saying it is), he is saying there is no racism? I suppose at least he brought it up before some genius* like you joined the conversation.

*HINT CRAIG, THAT WAS SARCASM. I DO NOT MEAN THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS A REAL GENIUS.