http://www.smirkingchimp.com/thread/stephen-pizzo/33811/our-brooks-bros-sopranosIt was a dark day yesterday for the Tony Soprano-types in New York and New Jersey. The Dept. of Justice rounded up 120 wiseguys in one giant swoop. I suppose we should all be happy about that, but I just shook my head.
Let me explain.
First, despite my Sicilian heritage, I have no illusions about the mob or mobsters. I got to know enough of those guys during my years of covering them as reporter to know they are the scum of the earth. They are the sociopath's sociopaths. They would cheat their own mothers out of milk money given the chance. So, no tears here for yesterday's Mafia round up.
The reason I shook my head was because we I see this kind of time and energy by the DOJ when it comes to the Brooks Bros Mob that took down hundreds of banks and/or Wall Streeters who looted pension funds coast-to-coast, sparked a devastating wave of foreclosures, caused who knows how many suicides, gutted government coffers as property and business tax revenues plummeted, and nearly took down the entire world economy.
I know what the DOJ would say; "The Mafia is a cancer. It bleeds honest businesses of revenue. It robs workers of their union benefits. It corrupts public officials. It costs government, and ultimately taxpayers, hundreds of millions of dollars a year."
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