Forget the Arabs in the port deal. Its the ITALIANS we got to worry about!

NNN0LHI

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Sat Mar-11-06 05:20 PM
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Forget the Arabs in the port deal. Its the ITALIANS we got to worry about!

http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,,-5679006,00.html

Mafia's Role in Ports Also Raises Concerns

Saturday March 11, 2006 7:16 PM

By DAVID B. CARUSO

Associated Press Writer

NEW YORK (AP) - Justice Department lawyers warned eight months ago that a nefarious element had infiltrated important East Coast ports, but they weren't talking about terrorists or Arab shipping companies.

They were talking about the mafia.

In a civil suit filed in July, prosecutors accused the International Longshoremen's Association, the 65,000-member union that supplies labor to ports from Florida to Maine, of being a ``vehicle for organized crime'' on the waterfront.

Packed with tales of corruption, embezzling and extortion, the complaint accused union executives of being associates of the Genovese and Gambino crime families.

Whos next? The Jews?

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TreasonousBastard

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Sat Mar-11-06 05:25 PM
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1. Where they been-- the mob's been on...

the docks for as long as I can remember, and this is far from the first investigation. The worst of the "On the Waterfront" type stuff is long past, but they're still there.

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NNN0LHI

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Sat Mar-11-06 05:28 PM
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3. Yes, the Italians. They are everywhere n/t

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LoZoccolo

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Sat Mar-11-06 05:26 PM
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2. I hope your title is sarcastic. n/t

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NNN0LHI

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Sat Mar-11-06 05:31 PM
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4. My grandparents immigrated here from Italy. What do you think? n/t

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RazzleDazzle

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Sat Mar-11-06 06:00 PM
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7. I think your title is highly inappropriate

and I don't care what your ethnicity.

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Sat Mar-11-06 05:38 PM
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5. Careful! There are other mafias - Russian, Bulgarian, Chinese? nt

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NNN0LHI

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Sat Mar-11-06 05:41 PM
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6. Other mafias with the names Genovese and Gambino? n/t

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Prisoner_Number_Six

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Sat Mar-11-06 06:22 PM
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9. Don't forget Poland!

:rofl:

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