I don’t get it, how exactly did they make their money? What does “controlling” garbage routes even mean? Davey, Barone, and countless others could have turned these retards over to the cops at any moment.
DON'T SELL COKE ON THOSE ROUTES, IT'S SHORTSIGHTED!
>>219217932They're businessmen, they had businesses which earned profits
They’re a waste management business what more do you want? Get the fuck outta here capiche?
>>219217932no show jobs
>>219218010And how did they make money before the Esplanade?
>>219217932>Tony and his crew control garbage>This is handled through companies that they have thumbs in>Every time the bid is up, because they own all the garbage companies, they put up the bids>Tony, and the mobsters enjoy a salary, benefits, etc for no-show jobs while middlemen run the business for them
>>219217932In third world countries like NJ you have to pay private companies to remove your garbage because the state is too poor to do it. The competition is fierce so waste management companies usually resort to intimidation and outright violence to protect their routes and get new business.
>>219217932the people underneath Tony are called "earners", because they earn money through various means, kick some up to the bosses and keep the rest for themselves Ralph was a good earner but Tony saw red over him killing the horse and killed him in a fit of rageVito was another good earner which is the whole point of the storyline. Tony doesn't want to kill him because he brings in money, but Phil wants to kill him because Vito married Phil's cousin
>>219218057>>219218088>Hello officer, here is 5 years of records and bank transfers to Tony Soprano, extortionist mob boss
>>219218156>Hello snitch, here is a bullet in the back of your skull
>>219217932they did different things but a lot of it was with unions. basically they could negotiate deals with construction companies, shipping companies, waste management, and they would essentially get a piece or percentage of whatever money was being paid in all kinds of ways, sometimes through legal ways under the guise of things like being paid for union management fees or whatever, a lot of times just through skimming money that was coming in illegally. if the companies or the state refused to work with the mob's unions, they would just have their union boys strike until the state or companies caved, and the companies or state couldn't even hire scabs because the mob boys would beat the shit out of them and their families.as for the workers it was a weird situation where, on one hand, sometimes working in the mob unions got you more money, but the mob didn't atually care about the workers and would just as soon kill you if you didn't play by their rules.on the other hand, as a worker, a lot of the time you just had no choice.
>>219218156It isn't about what you know, it's about what you can prove. Tony's expenses are explained away because he '''works''' in sanitation and has investments.Is it all bullshit? Of course. Does the FBI know it? Sure. They still have to prove it.
>>219218038strip club
>>219218156>oh no! I am now dead and mutilated!
>>219218156>>219217932The garbage companies that they work with benefit from this system. They are the mobsters co-conspiritors.
>>219218523How could they possibly benefit? They are losing money to the mob.
>>219218088Is this actually true? USA doesn't even remove its own garbage?
>>219218563They give them intel.
>>219218563they benefit by not getting whacked lmao
>>219217962Yeah I never understood this. Wtf does it mean to sell cocaine "on a garbage route?" Did they have a dealer riding along on the back of the garbage truck, hopping off to hand the customers little baggies of cocaine then hop on to ride to the next stop?
He also had a store that sold Italian meats. Those can be quite lucrative.
>>219218714They were distributing it to street dealers.
>>219218714You've really never bought drugs from your garbage man?
Giants games. They printed money before draft kings
>>219217932>Davey, Barone, and countless others could have turned these retards over to the cops at any moment....did you not watch what happened to barone?
>>219218714Yes. This is, as you might imagine, very memorable and likely to lead the vice cops who hear about it to investigate the garbage company.
>>219218776fpbp
>>219218776>>219218804>>219218831But what's the point of involving the garbage company at all? Why not just take a more clandestine vehicle to the selling points at night, instead of on a big noticeable truck in broad daylight?
>>219218563imagine you put a car on ebay, someone goes "I'll pay 10 grand for that", then another person goes 15 grand, then a third person goes 20 grand, so on and so forthnow imagine the first person had a way to go "okay forget all those other bids, we're gonna pay 10 grand and that's the end of that" now you have to kick some money to the mob, but you're only paying 10 grand instead of 20-30 grand which you would have had to pay if it was a fair auctionbut now instead of a car, it's a contract to pick up garbage in a certain county of New Jersey
>>219219046Cops are less likely to inspect a large truck hauling garbage.
>>219217932New Jersey has like a million different towns, townships, cities—most all of which contract out to a private sanitation company to pick up their garbage. On top of that, you probably have big commercial customers with dumpsters that can choose their own companies to pick up their trash.The mafia divvies up geographical areas so only one company controls certain routes i.e. areas and then can charge higher prices due to the local monopoly. The mafia ensures that no other companies come in and underbid them and they get a cut of the profits.
>>219217932I always wanted to know how the college football thing worked. Chris didn't seem capable of winning legit, or rigging anything either.
>>219219046because garbage companies are blue collar and typically have people in them a little rough around the edges so they're more easily able to be persuaded to do illicit activity. compare that to the scene in S6 where they try to extort the starbucks guy
>>219219316Link?
>>219219212every bookie has something called the vig, which basically is their fee it's never "bet $100 on Rutgers to win and receive $100", it's always something like "bet $110 on Rutgers to win and receive $100" it's why Vegas is so obsessed with making sure the lines are perfect, because they make the most money when 50% of people are betting one way and 50% are betting the other
>>219219063Huh? The garbage company wants MORE money not less
