Dizaster Posted June 5, 2020 Share Posted June 5, 2020 Shoutout to my homeboy Marcelo! Link to comment
Sacred Posted June 6, 2020 Share Posted June 6, 2020 At one time, the syndicate owned a massive network of gambling parlors and gambling machines. Agents estimate that it controlled at least 50 video poker machines throughout Queens, the Bronx, and Westchester County. Each machine pulled in at least $700 a week, or about $1.8 million a year altogether. A single dice game could bring in an additional $67,000 a week. “They were choking on money,” the case agent said. The Albanian ring eventually branched out into extortion, debt collection, and loan-sharking. The organization didn’t start from scratch. Many of its leaders had worked with established crime families in New York. But as other syndicates were decimated by criminal convictions, The Corporation moved in, muscling aside its competition through violence and intimidation. We got wind of the crime ring in June 2001, when gang members beat a member of the Astoria gambling scene in Queens, sending a message that The Corporation was now in charge. Two months later, heavily-armed members of the syndicate stormed a rival gambling parlor and shut it down. Link to comment
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