[neverdem]

Federal Bureau of Investigation
Alex Rudaj, outside Jimbo's Bar in Astoria, Queens, on April 15, 2003. Authorities say he runs the Corporation, an Albanian group that they believe is trying to become New York City's sixth mob family.

[neverdem]

In this country, investigators say, the numbers of such gangs are still unknown but are likely to be concentrated in several states where Albanians have settled in the past few decades, including New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania.

[DieHard the Hunter]

Better stomp on this before it gets itself well and truly established.

[Gaetano]

A shirt for sale in Florence circa 1995:

MAFIA - Italians Do It Better

[rogue yam]

Alex Rudaj, outside Jimbo's Bar in Astoria, Queens

You know, it's gotten so where I'm only surprised when a major crime figure doesn't look like Ringo Starr.

[Pete'sWife]

The cigarette smoke is thick...

Smoking in a cafe???

I am shocked, SHOCKED!!!

[Clemenza]

This is old news to me. When I lived in Belmont/Fordham, there was a pool hall on 187th and Hughes that held regular fundraisers for the KLA. A gentleman who owned the 24-hour pizzeria that I hung out at (an Eastern Orthodox Albanian) told me that many of his countrymen were sending money overseas to fight the Serbs.

The Albanians have largely taken over from the Italians in operating Pizzerias in New York. Perfect opportunity for money laundering.

[Cicero]

I credit clinton. After Billy Jeff helped his drug dealing friends take over Kosovo, drug exports to Europe more than doubled. Pretty nearly the only business in Albania is crime.

I expect they will want to start moving their hard drugs from Europe into America, and maybe billy jeff is still getting his rakeoff for enabling it.

Let's not forget that clinton has been in the drug trade most of his life.

[ZULU]

Maybe organized crime figures should be issued special licenses to blow each other away as long as they don't injure any "civilians".

With enough ammo and luck they might clean up society's garbage for us.