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They don’t make ’em like Capone anymore
By Howie Carr | Friday, July 13, 2012 | http://www.bostonherald.com | Columnists
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Here’s how things have changed in organized crime.
Back during the Depression, Al Capone was the welfare system in Chicago. He ran his own soup kitchens.
Now, the gangsters themselves are on welfare.
We have all these busts this week, and what have we learned from the gang of Juan “White Boy” Guzman? For one thing, they’re not just a “crime” family, they’re a welfare family.
White Boy’s future mother-in-law — she’s on “Social Security” (more likely SSI or SSDI) and lives in a “subsidized apartment.” Think Sect. 8. According to her lawyer, she “does try to get housecleaning jobs from time to time.” I’ll bet. When was the last time she filed quarterly estimated tax statements?
Providence has always been mobbed up. Raymond Patriarca operated out of the National Cigarette Service Company on Federal Hill. His successor, Baby Shanks, had a Laundromat.
This larger drug gang that was mixed up with White Boy — their Providence contact ran the Mango Bar & Grill. And the boss wasn’t some guy named Raymond or Luigi either. The Mango’s proprietor was one Thevenyn Nova.
In a gang where at least one of the members was a once-deported illegal alien — pardon me, “new American” — you will be shocked to know that multiple driver’s licenses were the norm.
From the 97-page DEA affidavit on the larger gang:
“Chala bears no resemblance to the RMV photograph (on his license) ... In addition to the name BONILLA, agents were also able to locate two additional MA driver’s licenses with ‘Chala’s’ photograph, under the names Erich Diaz and Jonathan C. Parilla, both of which have criminal records related to drug trafficking.”
Try not to let this destroy your faith in the security measures of the Registry of Motor Vehicles.
In the new gangs, discipline isn’t quite what it used to be. On June 12, a fellow named Kelmyn Mejia leaves the lovely city of Lawrence on his way to Providence with an alleged 130 grams of heroin in the car. The old-timers might have had a crash car travelling behind the drug vehicle, to ram any cop car that tried to pull over the mule.
None of that for Mejia. He gets out of I-495 by himself and guns the car up to 80 mph. Blue lights appear, the rest of memorialized in the DEA affidavit.
The Mafia bosses used to talk about “the old country.” Now, the new Americans talk about making a pickup in Costa Rica, only they call it the land “where the pineapples and yuccas are.”
One thing that’s no different? The new crowd’s texts are just as illiterate as everybody’s else. Here’s Toribio looking for some people:
“Heyyy Kathy wassup I need to get in contact with Onassi or mike if u have any of there numbers please.”
You wanna know wassup, Toribio? You have the right to remain silent ...
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I want to know what percentage of gang bangers collect Social Security Disability... I was in a Social Security Office some years back - in Florida of all places - and well over half the folks waiting were young blacks in their twenties and thirties - many looked like gang members... signing up for 'disability'.
When scammers break the system, the people who really are disabled will die. This is wrong.
In the culture of Ricky Ricardo, one has a plethora of names. José Gomez, could be one. But then, en español one also uses the mother's name, García, so jore name be José Gomez y García. Write that on your welfare app, and the clerk goes for García, it being your "last" name. A the next office, you fill out the app with Gomez. That's two. But waith there's more. José's madre is Not Mrs. Gomez. She is her maiden name La Señora Vila de Gomez. She gets three sets of documentos. Under "Vila," "de Gomez (which in gringo fashion starts with 'd') and just plain Gomez. Now if a certain branch of one's family is a bit more illustrious or wealthier than another, why you are free to appropriate their handles into your own, so José could be a 'de Vila," a Vila de Gomez, etc. ad inf. ... or a Cervantes, for all the welfare clerk knows.
In no time at all, one has 10-12 identities all properly papered. SS Checks go out every month to many a post office box throughout the Spanish-soeaking world to many of these identities. Sweet!
Being undocumented ... being illegal, has many advantages. You can start with a new identity as necessary. It's not a family tree ... more like really heavy underbrush. The only way to catch it is to catch the illegal in flagrante ... that way who the heck he or she is doesn't much matter. However, once released on bail, or even OR, they disappear into another identity.
It's so bad in LA that the cops don't even bother with traffic stops for speeding, stop signs, green lights ... takes too long and then the perps take a powder.
The multiple identity thing has also come in very handy in elections. A Latino illegal alien is not a person; more like a cottage industry.