Italian Mafia being hit on all fronts

[thewestside]

Giuseppe Liga, successor to Salvatore Lo Piccolo as boss of the top clan in Palermo, is arrested.
http://abcnews.go.com/International/sus ... 321&page=1

The brother of top Sicilian Mafia boss Matteo Messina Denaro arrested. Over the last year 1.4 billion euros have been seized from construction companies and supermarkets connected to Messina Denaro's clan.
http://italy.euroenews.com/entertainmen ... na-denaro/

400 million is seized from the Mallardo clan of the Camorra, including 30 companies, 198 lands , 456 apartments and buildings , 71 small local shopping centers, 49 bank accouts, 27 luxury cars and bikes (including some ferraries) and 2 yachts. The seziure and arrests are for big construction companies in the Lazio region that were front companies of the clan. Over the past two years now, authorities have seized over 1 billion euro from this one clan.
http://www.adnkronos.com/AKI/English/Se ... .159567112

A 2.7 billion euro money laundering operation connected to the 'Ndrangheta broken up.
http://www.businessweek.com/ap/financia ... 21H680.htm

[DutchGangster69]

Well you would think at todays day and age coming down on organized crime would be much easier and possible especially in a country like italy where the government is competent and well run.

[VsichkoEBosh]

Well you would think at todays day and age coming down on organized crime would be much easier and possible especially in a country like italy where the government is competent and well run.

We might be in the 21st century, but we're still years behind not being able to adapt. The technology is available - but surpressed.

You have no idea what you're talking about. The mafia functions by generations. In order to succeed it constantly needs new recruits otherwise it would age out, wither and die like it's members.

The only problem is as the newer generations join they destroy the previous culture - but the advantage is they're up to modern times.

I found the article on that clan who had 400 million of it's assets seized to be such a huge shame...

It was pretty entrenched...the only reason it was broken up was because it followed old traditions...oh well when old men insist...

There's mobsters who've never been mentioned in the papers, by the media, on television, on police reports, radio, whatever it is - EVEN THOUGH THE PEOPLE WHO PERSONALLY KNEW THEM ALL KNEW THAT MAN IS INVOLVED IN SOME MAJOR DIRTY BUSINESS - and time after time as word of mouth got around elsewhere there were parties such as Interpol who repedetly attempted to vanquish his operations without any success....

The concept of organized crime goes by three things. Two of them are having more balls and brains than most people. The third one is what alot of gangsters lack - the reason they end up being killed, jailed or forced to lose their fortunes/stop engaging in activities.

PATIENCE!!!!!!!!!!

Step one - plan ahead.

Trying something new is scary. This is like someone who has never gotten into a fight for their 30 or 40 year lifetime being very scared of the pain caused by fighting - blowing it out more than it actually is, seeing it as unbearable.

That discourages.

When a good person attempts to do bad things, he usually suffers concequences more often and more severe than his bad person counterpart. Karma my ass.

It's nothing about luck. It's merely because the bad one knows how to avoid or deal with the concequences, the reason he finds it amusing and constantly encouraging to construct evil.

Think ahead - branch out, branch out, branch out, like a tree.

Create scenarios and sub scenarios, and problems and resolutions and sub problems and sub resolutions. Make up a million what if impossible in the moment type of things...

Example being a hitman has made a complete list/schedule of a rich man and all his armed bodyguards and their rotation and patrol cycles. Fighting against everybody is impossible so he must go undetected. He figures out the best minute to slip in and suffocate the target. He does, and as he puts the pillow over the guy's head, the maid all naked opens the door in the before that night they arranged the sex thing with the guy ... starts screaming her stupid head off and they come in, bam bam, shoot the guy, yeah.

Think logically/realistically, real life wise. Do not think in mathematics or practicality - think in emotion.

If Fedor came and punched you in the face - the mathematical/emotionless thing would be to punch back - especially in an area that would destabalize or paralyze him such as the heart. The emotional thing - a probably good life saving idea - would be to run like hell.

[Nl1000]

400 million is seized from the Mallardo clan of the Camorra, including 30 companies, 198 lands , 456 apartments and buildings , 71 small local shopping centers, 49 bank accouts, 27 luxury cars and bikes (including some ferraries) and 2 yachts. The seziure and arrests are for big construction companies in the Lazio region that were front companies of the clan. Over the past two years now, authorities have seized over 1 billion euro from this one clan.
http://www.adnkronos.com/AKI/English/Se ... .159567112

I don't understand why families/clans soo rich don't quit crime. They worked decades to get this rich, now they have nothing, unreal. At one point, if you own 30 companies, 198 lands, 456 apartments and buildings, 71 small local shopping centers there should be/must be the thought the secure it all/legalize everything so you can keep it for generations. If you clan is so rich, they will stay rich the next generations, even if they only do legal business.

[Faciulina]

I don't understand why families/clans soo rich don't quit crime. They worked decades to get this rich, now they have nothing, unreal. At one point, if you own 30 companies, 198 lands, 456 apartments and buildings, 71 small local shopping centers there should be/must be the thought the secure it all/legalize everything so you can keep it for generations. If you clan is so rich, they will stay rich the next generations, even if they only do legal business.

the italian mafia works this way, it's a tradition, they don't clean themselves like triads or russian or jewish do, they are always present and they are the strongest

[BakalaKing]

THE ITALIANS THE STRONGEST ? WHEN IN THE 60´S ? THEY ARE THERE, BUT THERE ARE MORE POWERFUL THAN THEM, I DONT THINK ANY OF THESE NDRAGHETTA, COSA NOSTRA WOULD LAST A SEC IN ANY CITY RUN BY A MEXICAN CARTEL.

[thewestside]

THE ITALIANS THE STRONGEST ? WHEN IN THE 60´S ? THEY ARE THERE, BUT THERE ARE MORE POWERFUL THAN THEM, I DONT THINK ANY OF THESE NDRAGHETTA, COSA NOSTRA WOULD LAST A SEC IN ANY CITY RUN BY A MEXICAN CARTEL.

If we're talking about here in the U.S., the Italian mob was far and away the strongest organized crime group for about half a century, from the 1930's to the 1980's. Now the Mexican poly-drug trafficking groups, which are basically extensions of the cartels in Mexico, are considered to be the most significant organized crime threat in the U.S. with their dominance of much of the drug trade in the country. A good comparison to the cartels in Mexico is not the Italian-American Mafia but the Italian syndicates in Italy ('Ndrangheta, Camorra, Cosa Nostra, SCU) which are international in scope.