Posted on 12/04/2014 8:32:56 AM PST by Reaganite Republican
And "organized crime" is a tricky phrase. If a local entrepreneur buys a few cartons in Kentucky or West Virginia, or even Pennsylvania or New Jersey to sell in New York, he may have "organized" a "crime" but it doesn't necessarily mean the Mafia's behind his own actions.
This piece says he was part of a cigarette ‘syndicate’ and connected to ‘organized crime’ on Staten Island ‘for years’...
http://iotwreport.com/?p=264415
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