Well, yeah
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March 24th, 2014 at 9:31 pm
“The Outfit” ran everything in Chicago. The police. The politicos. The laundries. (So you want to run a fancy restaurant in Chicago? White table clothes and linen napkins? Guess who you did business with – at least back-in-the-day.)
A couple of years ago, the FBI ran “Operation Family Secrets” in another attempt to shut down The Outfit. They netted 2 or 3 suburban cops (running interference for an Outfit bomb-maker), a Marshal in Witness Security (talking to “an old family friend” while on duty guarding a witness in a mob trial) and almost no one else. They counted it a huge success when the funeral of one-time boss was poorly attended.
4 of the last 6 Illinois governors have done federal time for corruption/racketeering. (Though one was arrested for something he did AFTER he was governor.)
Look up Paul Powell for an eye-opening lesson in Illinois-style corruption. He died with 750,000 bucks – in cash – stashed in a closet. That was 1970, when 750K really meant something. Even when it was discovered, the fact was covered up for 2 or 3 months. Servant the people? Not hardly. Even though he spent his whole career in IL politics.
March 25th, 2014 at 7:15 am
Same with New York’s Sullivan act. Same with most of the silly gun laws in the South if you want to elevate those booger-eating rednecks in the Klan to the status of an organized crime outfit, which if you look how they operate they sure are!
March 26th, 2014 at 2:25 pm
Well by definition of course, all attempts to violate human rights are conducted by criminals. So yeah.