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  • surveyor
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    • Oct 2014
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    An ex-mob boss breaks down depictions of the mafia in movies and TV shows

    https://www.insider.com/ex-mob-boss-...chael-franzese

    Interesting read. There was also an excellent interview with Franzese in Cigar Aficianado years ago about how the mafia was involved with college sports and betting and how it was much more pervasive than anyone imagined with regard to fixing games.
    Extremism is so easy. You've got your position, and that's it. It doesn't take much thought. And when you go far enough to the right you meet the same idiots coming around from the left.

    Clint Eastwood
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    • Blue Heaven
      Senior Member
      • Oct 2014
      • 6283
      #2
      Originally posted by surveyor
      https://www.insider.com/ex-mob-boss-...chael-franzese

      Interesting read. There was also an excellent interview with Franzese in Cigar Aficianado years ago about how the mafia was involved with college sports and betting and how it was much more pervasive than anyone imagined with regard to fixing games.
      The Boston College scandal surely was in there. I will read the article. That was late 70s I believe.
      Isaiah 5:20

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        • Spiritof96
          Senior Member
          • Oct 2014
          • 13503
          #3
          Saw this a while back... pretty funny.
          Originally posted by John Stuart Mill
          ​He who knows only his own side of the case knows little of that... He must be able to hear them from persons who actually believe them...he must know them in their most plausible and persuasive form.
          Originally posted by Robert “Hoot” Gibson
          No matter how bad things may seem, you can always make them worse.
          RIP: Charlie Munger​

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