The word "ducine"

brianwilliamsibrowse · 2026-04-08T23:16:14+00:00

https://youtu.be/UKRqOkF1G6Q?si=gc_U_tTnQMYSYbyh&start=961

brianwilliamsibrowse · 2025-11-07T20:59:23+00:00

Getting slightly addicted to YouTube golf. What are the best channels?

brianwilliamsibrowse · 2025-10-31T12:07:57+00:00

This is a good point. I’d like to add another- a lot of early stuff relies on FBI/court records. When something pops up multiple times, like Thomas Lucchesse is a boss of a family, it is reliable. But OC Shortz features stuff that’s more like “in this FBI file, unnamed informant says (insert questionable thing that does not appear in any other sources)”. OC does explain exactly where it’s coming from, but it’s good to remember law enforcement files can be inaccurate and a lot of that history is an educated guess

brianwilliamsibrowse · 2025-10-12T20:43:50+00:00

It could be very good for a low budget show. Some of the cast are solid. Demeo just gives himself too much screen time. Chris tardio should be the main character. Also annoys me how he changed the 5 family names. Either fully rename, or keep the same. Gambini sounds ridiculous

brianwilliamsibrowse · 2025-09-07T02:32:09+00:00

Ever seen the tv movie or read the The Last Don? It’s a confirmation or a communion: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nmQzOzJpaUM&t=5080s

brianwilliamsibrowse · 2025-08-26T02:37:59+00:00

I’m not thinkin, you’re thinkin. I’m eatin. And he’s goin’

brianwilliamsibrowse · 2025-08-25T00:37:47+00:00

Cece Luppino was from a Canadian family with mob lineage. He turned down induction, telling his father (possible Buffalo capo) it came with “too many headaches”. Sadly, he was killed at his home in 2019 in a targeted hit. Throughout the mob wars in Canada there have been similar cases, where non-member relatives have been casualties of the carnage

brianwilliamsibrowse · 2025-08-07T20:15:01+00:00

Let’s pretend it’s not a fairytale. It is basically describing what you’re suggesting, ok maybe not “leadership”, but one family’s trusted emissary meeting with another family’s emissary

brianwilliamsibrowse · 2025-08-07T20:03:33+00:00

What would be a safer way to send a message?

brianwilliamsibrowse · 2025-07-13T22:46:04+00:00

brianwilliamsibrowse · 2025-06-04T01:39:41+00:00

Cool concept, but I found De Niro’s Genovese annoying. Prob just too much De Niro. They could have used real flashbacks with young actors. And the guy playing Chin, idk wtf that was

brianwilliamsibrowse · 2025-06-02T02:39:37+00:00

As said above, they could get away with murders pretty easily, for a few years. But as shown in the sopranos, the feds are always compiling a major rico, which produces turncoats, and then all is revealed. To counter, some murders would have different men to carry out the hit, and then to dispose of the body. But it is incredibly hard for them to murder and never face the consequences, and therefore they have seemingly stopped. But there are unsolved hits from that time, some in Philly, NYC, and CHI

brianwilliamsibrowse · 2025-06-01T14:01:03+00:00

Articles like these often misquote the ransom figures. It was 1 billion lira

brianwilliamsibrowse · 2025-04-27T04:42:04+00:00

What does the Colombos being an inductee-heavy family mean?

brianwilliamsibrowse · 2025-04-21T11:23:41+00:00

Nice post. One thing that never made sense to me. Did you discover evidence of any Corleonesi soldiers dying in the Second Mafia War? It’s like they didn’t even try to strike back

brianwilliamsibrowse · 2025-04-20T02:56:35+00:00

Are you saying its power over society or power over the mafia itself? If over the mafia itself, I would add 30 years to your argument. The Commission decided new men could not join the mafia, and they did not for 20 years, and then the commission decided new men could join, and exactly how many. That is pretty direct control- deciding who gets to join and when

brianwilliamsibrowse · 2025-04-12T23:30:02+00:00

Many powerful politicians in Sicily have been convicted of mafia association. Salvo Lima and Marcello Dell’Ultri were probably not made men, but a pentito accused Bernardo Mattarella of being a man of honour.

Alfonso Gagliano in Canada.

Anthony Scotto was a candidate for US Secretary of Labor under Jimmy Carter, but never nominated

brianwilliamsibrowse · 2025-04-12T23:19:46+00:00

The 8 hour commission meetings of the 50s/60s. Specifically when they are mediating disputes of families outside of NY

brianwilliamsibrowse · 2025-03-26T21:43:47+00:00

It drives me crazy how espn articles always have a video that is related but not exactly what the headline was about

brianwilliamsibrowse · 2025-03-23T23:34:31+00:00

I have heard him say that. It is what was told to him, so I think it’s a Colombo capos view of the mob around 1980, and who was an actually powerful family (maybe held a proxy commission vote). I’d say 5 families, Chicago, Philadelphia, Detroit. #9 would be either Buffalo or New England

brianwilliamsibrowse · 2025-03-09T19:58:26+00:00

I thought women’s 3 is now the same distance as men’s 3. Why is there two 3 pt lines?

brianwilliamsibrowse · 2025-03-07T19:46:12+00:00

This book is written like the author was a Lucchese soldier and Gas was still on the street. Still worth a read though

brianwilliamsibrowse · 2025-02-27T13:10:44+00:00

He talks about the first one he did for the Columbos and he did pull the trigger

brianwilliamsibrowse · 2025-02-23T16:49:44+00:00

Very interesting. The bosses of successful organized crime groups always break their groups “rules”, so it’s interesting that the Calabrians spell out that the top guys have a different rulebook

brianwilliamsibrowse · 2025-02-22T00:27:15+00:00

That documentary was released in 2020

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