Posted on 08/30/2009 6:21:47 PM PDT by AtlasStalled
Everybody is looking for stimulus money. From bridge builders to food stamp recipients, from roofers to subway riders, from teachers to housing project residents, people are eager to feel some part of a tidal wave of federal dollars in their lives. The mob is eager, too. Federal and state investigators who track organized crime believe that organized crime figures have geared up to take advantage of the swift and enormous cash influx — if they have not already — looking, as the old Sicilian expression goes, to wet their beaks. Nimble, innovative and with a seemingly boundless appetite for the taxpayer’s dollar, the mob’s more sophisticated cadre has plundered municipal, state and federal coffers for generations. So the F. B. I. office in New York has conducted an extensive analysis of the money flowing into the area to create a blueprint of its vulnerabilities, a process, an official said, that is being continually updated.
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The Mob, Unions, Acorn - who can really tell the difference?
Why not? The Chicago Mob is already in the White House.
What mob are these morons talking about?
If they mean the “tea baggers”, then their blowing smoke.
Tea baggers want the Porkulus and Bailout bills *REPEALED*!
I thought they got the first slice already.
The Mob never takes a big cut, they are smarter than the Federal Kleptocracy. A smart crook leaves enough for the marks so the marks can survive. To be a rich crook you need rich marks.
The mobs are the ones dispensing the “stimulus” money.
Alinsky was with the Mob for a few years before he organized communities.
It’s done legally now. Yesterday’s mafia is today’s ALCORN which is now receiving funds legally through the stimulus bill.
Exactly
“Now the G’s got Paulie as a partner. Any problems, they go to Paulie. Trouble with the bill? They can go to Paulie. Trouble with the cops, deliveries, Tommy, they can call Paulie. But now the G’s gotta come up with Paulie’s money every week, no matter what. Tax receipts bad? F**k you, pay me. Oh, you had a fire? F**k you, pay me. Place got hit by lightning, huh? F**k you, pay me.”
HEY! They just want to wet their beak!
And they’re all in Chicago.
Well Duh! (as they kids say) There is no “May Seek A Cut”.
The union goons already have their paws on large chunks of the gold.
Mr. Rashbaum should mind his words. The fishes don’t like to sleep alone.
DC
Between the total lack of accountability of the $780 BILLION in TARP funds and the amount the mob already rakes in from “union dues”, the kick-backs from the “shovel ready” projects, and countless other schemes, it would only be news if they didn’t get a big chunk.
I mean, what part of the Chicago Machine is NOT a “mob”?
It doesn’t have to be Italian to be a criminal enterprise!
bttt
There is no “Mob” any more. Government has supplanted it.
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