The “New York Post” reported on Sunday that due to the coronavirus, the New York mafia was at a standstill.
With the end of sports competitions in the United States but also throughout the world, a whole underground economy is disappearing. The “New York PostThe New York Mafia reported on Sunday that it was having a hard time due to the coronavirus. Since the start of the pandemic, serial cancellations of sporting events have cost it millions of dollars because it cannot organize illegal bets. “There had never been a period before that she couldn’t make money from the game. Not since Lucky Luciano’s time when the Five Families started. It’s historic, “a source told the American daily. The Five Families bring together the Bonanno, Colombo, Genovese, Gambino and Lucchese.
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The “New York Post” reports that at the start of the pandemic, the Mafia believed they could get by with online betting, preventing people from traveling and allowing them to stay at home. But little by little, the biggest championships were suspended or postponed, like the NBA, which set the tone quickly after the contamination of the French Rudy Gobert. Have followed hockey, the gulf or horse racing.
Bettors have attempted to bet on football matches in Australia or even cricket, but the illegal activity has failed to continue. No more than the racketeering of certain restaurants or meetings in strip bars, these being closed for the moment, the extortion surrounding construction sites now also at a standstill, or else again the contracts signed with private garbage cleaning companies. But this decline in illegal activities is not necessarily good news for the city, which risks seeing Mafia criminals again focusing on drug trafficking. “The coronavirus is doing what (the authorities) have failed to do,” commented a source.
A resumption of mafia activities in the city
The authorities have been facing for several months in New York a resumption of mafia activities in the city. In October 2018, Sylvester Zottola, a 71-year-old Bonanno member, was shot and killed in the drive-through of a McDonald’s in the Bronx. Sylvester Zottola’s son had for his part survived an attempted murder three months earlier in front of his home in the Bronx. Then, in March 2019, the Gambino chief, Francesco “Franky Boy” Cali, Shot Outside His Home in Staten Island. The suspect, a young man apparently without history, had been arrested quickly. His crime was allegedly provoked because of a quarrel with Francesco Cali over a woman, member of the Gambino, who was dating the suspect. Annoyed at not having the right to see her, he decided to take revenge and kill him. According to the “New York Post”, the woman in question could be the niece of “Franky Boy”.
Francesco “Franky Boy” Cali was the first mafia boss killed in New York since John Gotti (who died of cancer in prison in 2002) ordered the murder of Paul Castellano, then head of the Gambino family, in 1985 He had been shot in a restaurant in Midtown.
New York State, which Donald Trump had considered on Saturday to place in quarantine before finally renouncing it, alone accounts for nearly half of the officially declared cases in the United States. Its governor Andrew Cuomo communicated Sunday a new toll of nearly 60,000 cases and 965 deaths.
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