Before I cut the cable I watched a special on the mafia.
I think I remember hearing that Meyer Lansky merged the Jewish outfit in with Lucky Lucianos outfit when Lucky took over.
Seems Lansky saw the profit in working with the Sicilian mafia.
Lansky became one of the top guys under Lucky.
All I know about that Jewish business is they were well protected.
The last trip I made there we had gotten a message from dispatch to be on the lookout for a stolen trailer.
I got to the stop the evening before my appointment and parked in the alley as usual.
I looked at the trailer they had hooked to their truck and low and behold I had found our lost trailer.
They hadn’t even bothered to remove our company logo, just painted over it and painted their name above it.
Problem was our logo was red and showed through that single coat of white paint like a neon sign.
They even kept our trailer number on it!
I called dispatch and reported it to my dispatcher, the company owner got on the phone to verify the info.
He just laughed and then told me, very seriously, to forget I had even seen the trailer.
He said that if I said anything I would probably end up like Hoffa, missing forever.
Great story :)
Actualy it was MEYER who wanted to give it the italian image.
Lucky wanted it to just be a business with no ethnic attachments, such as the drawing of blood, swearing the oath, and the other stuff they brought over from Italy.
Meyer was smart. Keeping it an italian thing gave cover to the Jewish gangsters.
But Jewish gangsters didn’t get their sons involved. They went straight to college.
Too many ITalian mobsters brought their sons into the trade, or the family. That was a shame.
I could tell you some stories about when i had my vending machine route. Forget about it. Always trouble with somebody.
And then the people you knew had to sit down with the people they knew and whatever was decided, that was law.