• Mafia/Porn

    From tsfortna@googlemail.com@21:1/5 to All on Sat Jan 30 03:15:56 2016
    Did they do Bob Crane?
    Dominic Brooklier supplied this sick fuck with women and Crane promissed to act to star in two softcore films. Crane broke his promiss and Brooklier orderd someone to break Cranes neck.

    http://www.nationalenquirer.com/photos/bob-crane-murder-solved-sex-tape-photos/photo/122356/

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
    * Origin: fsxNet Usenet Gateway (21:1/5)
  • From robt.tann@gmail.com@21:1/5 to luzd...@aol.com on Sun Nov 19 12:56:19 2017
    On Sunday, March 23, 1997 at 3:00:00 AM UTC-5, luzd...@aol.com wrote:
    Fredric Dannen's book Hit Men details the Mafia's domination of the rock music industry since the 1950s through crooks such as disc jockey Alan
    Freed and record company owners and executives like Morris Levy, Syd
    Nathan and Walter Yetnikoff. The music industry, like porn and the rest
    of entertainment, is largely run by Jews who work with the Mafia. Among Morris Levy's partners was the originator of the child porn industry -
    Tommy Eboli who became head of New York's Genovese family. Tommy died by gunfire in 1972. Morris Levy's friend from childhood Vincent Gigante now heads the Genovese family. Organized crime began its domination of the
    porn industry in the 1960s. Two grand juries - New York and Bexar County, Texas - found in the early '70s that organized crime controls 90% of America's hardcore pornography business. In 1978, a group of law
    enforcement officers, coordinated through the Investigative Services
    Division of the Washington D.C. Police Department studied the level of organized crime in porn because of its knowledge "that organized crime generally involves itself in situations where the gain far outreaches the risk. The pornography industry fits this description." The project found
    a high level of criminal control of the sex industry because of the
    billions of dollars involved and the low priority obscenity enforcement
    had within police departments and prosecutors' offices. The imposition of minimal fines and no jail time upon random convictions resulted in a low
    risk high profit endeavor for criminals in porn. A police captain in Fayetville, North Carolina told the Meese Commission, "Left unchecked, organized crime, in a traditional sense, can suck the lifeblood out of a community. Many times, their enterprises have been viewed as "service" oriented or victimless crimes. However, it teasrs at the moral fiber of society and through unbridled corruption, it can weaken the government."
    The 1978 Federal Bureau of Investigation Report Regarding the Extent of Organized Crime Involvement in Pornography concluded: "...Organized crime involvement in pornography...is significant, and there is an obvious
    national control directly, and indirectly by organized crime figures of
    that industry in the United States. Few pornographers can operate in the United States without involvement with organized crime.... The huge
    profits gathered by organized crime in this area and redirected to other lucrative forms of crime, such as narcotics and investment in legitimate business enterprises, are cause for national concern, even if there is community apathy toward pornography." The most organized part of
    organized crime is La Cosa Nostra - this thing of ours - better known as
    the Mafia. This group of thugs is best known to the public through The Godfather movies, made with the cooperation of La Cosa Nostra, portray
    the Mob sympathetically. The truth is much harsher. Over the past 60
    years, the Mafia has murdered thousands of people, many of them innocent,
    in its pursuit of money and power. The American Mafia remains the most dangerous and resilient criminal organization in the world, able to
    withstand until recently every legal assault, competition from new forms
    of organized crime, and social change. "In the past few decades, when
    every other social institution in America has either been shattered or changed forever, the Mafia has continued to thrive... Like a virulent parasite, it has adapted to the host body, fastening on whatever the law
    or social convention allowed: organized kidnapping was abandoned for rum-running during the Prohibition, bootlegging was replaced by the black market during World War II, which was replaced by illegal gambling and narcotics trafficking, and so on. "The Mafia is a big-city phenomenon, because the right conditions exist there for it: unholy alliances between politics, business and crime; police corruption..." (Goombata, 1993,
    p.2,3) The American Mafia is a coalition of 24 separate groups of
    organized criminals throughout the nation, with formal membership
    restricted to men of Italian-American descent. Each group is known as a "family," and the overall organization is usually called La Cosa Nostra
    (this thing of ours). Law enforcement estimates its annual take at over
    $100 billion a year. The boss of the Gambino family is America's most notorious organized crime figure - John Gotti. Few leading mafiosi die naturally. Most are knocked off. La Cosa Nostra has the world's worst retirement program. (Fredric Dannen) New York hosts more than two-thirds
    of the Mafia membership (about 3000 men) and the five ruling families
    collect most of the approximately thirty billion dollars earned by
    organized crime each year in this country. (Goombata, p.4) The Gambino
    family is the richest of all the families, taking that name in honor of
    its progenitor, the late Carlo Gambino who was the mafia's preeminent
    figure in the pornography trade. Carlo is also the model for Mario Puzo's godfataher. Gambino operated his porno business via his lieutenant,
    Ettore (Terry) Zappi and Zappi's son Anthony. When the video cassette revolution arrived, Carlo set up companies that handled the new
    business, which his family soon dominated. (Goombata, p. 77) "Gambino was much more circumspect about his connection to the extremely profitable
    field of child pornography. His family dominated that trade, despite the reluctance of some Gambino chieftains; their normally quiescent wives
    were raising hell about being involved in a "filthy" business. "Gambino,
    a premier criminal capitalist, plowed profits from crime into cash-transaction businesses in which the proceeds of illegal activities
    could be hidden. Favorites included garbage collection, vending machines, trucking, construction, garment manufacture, restaurants, and assorted restaurant supply companies. All of these specialized businesses were
    suited perfectly for Gambino's favorite ploy, the "vertical monoply," in which he controlled the business, it's workers and largest customers. The potential for profit under such an arrangement, a monopolist's dream,
    were breathtaking." (Goombata, p. 77-78) The Gambino family earns its millions through drugs, extortion, illegal gambling, pornography, union racketeering, robbery, business swindles, hijacking, auto theft,
    loansharking and murder. Competition can be deadly when the Mob enters
    the game. Fighting between mobsters over the sex industry killed at least
    25 persons in the last half of the 1970s in New York City, Long Island,
    upper New York state and northern New Jersey. At stake were Mob-dominated printing, distribution and sales of X-rated books, magazines, toys, and movies in addition to control of massage parlors and other forms of prostitution. The book Murder Machine details the exploits of the DeMeo
    gang who worked for the Gambino family. Roy DeMeo and his boss Anthony
    "Nino" Gaggi were made members of the Gambinos. Nino was particularly
    close with Carlo Gambino and his successor as godfather, Paul Castellano.
    In the late 1960s and early '70s, Paul Rothenberg, with his partner
    Anthony Argilla, dominated the processing of porno films in New York. Roy DeMeo muscled in on the business and on July 27, 1973, murdered Paul.
    "For 32-year old Roy, the murder was an epiphenous moment. He tried explaining it to his young followers. "Ya know somethin'? After you kill someone, anything is possible." (Murder Machine) After his initial
    killing, Roy and his followers mowed down about 100 persons in the next
    15 years. As well as dealing in extortion, car theft, drugs and murder,
    Roy DeMeo bought and sold pornography in the millions of dollars. He specialized in child pornography and bestiality. (Murder Machine) One
    evening Roy came by Nino's house and was drawn into an argument between
    Nino and his newphew Dominick. "Nino, a guy can't live on two-fifty a
    week with two kids and a wife. Tell you what: Let's let Dom take care of
    our New Jersey porno thing - that'll get him some more money." The
    suggestion set Nino off. "No way! If his grandmother ever saw him
    arrested with porno, it would kill her." "What would she say," Dominick
    said, "if she saw me arrested for helping shoot someone down in the
    street?" Nino: "It's not the same thing. End of discussion!" (Murder
    Machine)

    Go West Young Man

    In early 1970, elements of the Colombo, Bonanno, Gambino and DeCavalcante crime families moved from the East Coast and established porn operations
    in California. As money from Deep Throat poured into organized crime
    through the Perainos, the mob increased its infiltration of the porno business. During the mid - 1970s, they engaged in extortion and violence
    to gain control over independent pornographers. A report by the Administrative Vice Division of the Los Angeles Police Department
    estimated that by 1976 organized crime controlled 80% of the Los Angeles-based porno movie production and distribution business.
    "Organized crime families from Chicago, New York, New Jersey, and Florida
    are openly controlling and directing the major pornography operations in
    Los Angeles." An investigative report submitted to the California
    Legislature by the Attorney General of California discussed organized
    crime infiltration into the pornography industry: "In the early
    1970s...four organized crime groups moved in on pornography operations in California. They met relatively little resistance because the
    weak-structured organized crime group of Southern California lacked the strength to deter the infiltration of organized crime from the East. "Organized crime figures first focused on production and retail
    operations in California. In this effort, they established national distribution networks and effectively resorted to illegal and unfair
    business tactics. The newly arrived organized crime groups formed film duplication companies which illegally duplicated the films of independent producers and displayed them at nationwide organized crime controlled theaters. Faced with continued piracy and lost profits, many legitimate producers were forced to deal with organized crime controlled
    distribution companies and film processing labs. "After gaining control
    of many wholesale and retail companies, organized crime forced other independent retailers out of business through price manipulation.
    Wholesale prices to independent retailers were raised while prices to organized crime cdontrolled outlets were lowered. Independents were
    undersold by organized crime controlled outlets until lost profits forced them out of business. Many competitors were bought out which allowed the subsequent raising of prices in other parts of the market." In April,
    1975, Los Angeles boss Dominic Brooklier met with Jimmy Fratianno before Brooklier went off to prison for a couple of years on federal conspiracy charges. Fratianno remembers the meeting this way (Vengeance p. 255).

    I says, "How come you let all this pornography get away from you?" And he told me that Nick Licata thought it was por carilla - that's Italian
    meaning dirt. He didn't want to fool with it. And he says, "From now on
    we're going to fool with it." He says, "I want you to go to Cleveland. I
    want you to talk to Leo Moceri and Tony DelSanter and tell them to grab Reuben Sturman. Tell them he can't operate in California unless we have a piece of it. Also...grab...Teddy Gaswirth. Dominic told me that Sturman [would] run to [the] New York [Family] and New York would contact Los
    Angeles and we would split it three ways. He said, Cleveland a third, New York a third, and Los Angeles a third.

    When Dominic Brooklier and the hierarchy of his Los Angeles Mafia went to prison in June 1975 on a federal conspiracy charge, Brooklier authorized Fratianno, who lived in San Francisco, to become acting underboss for Los Angeles. According to former California Attorney General John Van De
    Kamp, the arrival of home video cassette recorders on the market in 1979 stimulated the Gambino, DeCavalcante, Luchese and Columbo crime families
    to enter the porn market through companies that produced, duplicated, distributed and sold adult video tapes. Because porn profits are usually
    in cash, no one knows exactly how large the porn business is. Also, cash
    can be more easily hidden from the IRS. Cash businesses such as porn
    allow the Mob to introduce money earned from drugs and other illegal
    schemes into the general economy. "...Meyer Lansky developed, refined,
    and nearly perfected the techniques now used by the Mob to protect and disguise their ill-gotten revenues. Lansky's larcenous genius must also
    be credited with developing hte use of tax havens, such as The Bahamas,
    as a shelter against IRS scrutiny." (Rachel Ehrenfeld, Evil Money, p.5) Mafiosi Joseph, Anthony and Louis Peraino became millionaires after
    making and distributing Deep Throat. "They used profits from the film to build a vast financial empire in the 1970s that included ownership of
    garment companies in New York and Miami, investment companies... The
    Perainos also used profits from Deep Throat to finance drug smuggling operation in the Caribbean." (FBI) Aladena Fratianno, a made member of a
    La Cosa Nostra organized crime family and a former Capo and later acting
    boss of the Los Angeles crime family, told the Meese Commission that
    large profits keep organized crime in porn. The 1986 Meese Commission concluded that "organized crime in its traditional LCN forms and in other forms exerts substantial influence and control over the obscenity
    industry. Though a significant number of producers and distributors are
    not members of LCN families, all major producers and distributors of
    obscene material are highly organized and carry out illegal activities
    with a great deal of sophistication." A 1975 LAPD memo claimed that the success of Deep Throat prompted a large migration of major New York mob figures to Los Angeles. The report warned that, once established in porn,
    the mob's next logical move would be into the legitimate Hollywood movie business. And that's what happened. In September of 1973, a Hollywood
    showbiz paper announced that "two New York businessmen" named Louis and Joseph Peraino had established "a major new film production and
    distribution company" called Bryanston, with plans for making "at least
    10 feature motion pictures within the next year." The Perainos
    established Bryanston in July, 1971, shortly after creating Damiano Film Productions. The two were "twin companies engaged in the financing, acquisition, production and distribution of motion picture film products
    of every kind, nature and gauge," according to a joint company prospectus that Louis Peraino prepared for a New York bank. Damiano did porn while Bryanston went legitimate. One of the first legitimate movies that
    Bryanston financed and produced inhouse - for $600,000 - was The Last
    Porno Flick which was released in August, 1974 as The Mad, Mad
    Moviemakers. It tells the story of two cab-driving buddies who, to raise $22,000 to make a porno, con their Italian Roman Catholic family and
    friends into investing in the projecting, telling the ladies it's a
    religious movie. Complications arise when the porno becomes a hit. The
    film, which bombed, also features a Brando-esque mafia boss. The story
    pokes fun at the Perainos experience with Deep Throat, which cost them $22,000 to make. According to a Bryanston press release, the film was
    "based on a story and concept by Joseph Torchio." As Louis Peraino took
    his share of Deep Throat profits and turned his attention to mainstream movies in 1973, father Anthony and uncle Joseph took over the
    distribution of Deep Throat, shifting the base of operations from New
    York to a network of companies in Miami. But Louis oversaw L.A. area distribution of Deep Throat even as he pursued respectibility in
    Hollywood. Playing 13 times a day for ten years at the Pussycat Theater
    in Hollywood, Throat earned $6.4 million at that one location according
    to the theater owner. One of Louis Peraino's key Throat reps was former Brooklynite Joseph (Junior) Torchio, described by one LAPD investigator
    as "the best-known trunk-buster (auto break-in artist) in New York." In
    1973, Joseph became Bryanston's director of finance. Torchio first came
    to the attention of police in 1969, when on March 14, he set up the
    shooting of mafia associate Alfred Adorno. Junior Torchio moved to LA
    later that year and set up a porn production company with Jacob (Jack) Molinas, described in a California Department of Justice report as a "con man, swindler, disbarred attorney and former pro basketball player [Fort Wayne Pistons]." An All American at Columbia University in the 1950s,
    Molinas was convicted in 1963 as the "master fixer" in a point shaving scandal that rocked college backetball in 1961. After his release from
    prison in 1968, Molinas moved to Los Angeles and entered the porn
    business. He delt with several known figures in organized crime including Michael Zaffarano. Torchio and Molinas received loans of $250,000 from
    Louis Peraino in 1973 and 1974, which they defaulted on. With partner
    Bernard Gussoff, Molinas used his money to set up a fur importing company called Berjac as a front for distributing porn. In September of 1974, Bryanston filed a lawsuit against Molinas for non-payment of the loan.
    Two months later, Gussoff was beaten to death in his Los Angeles
    apartment. The murder was never solved. Less than a year later, in
    August, 1975, Molinas was shot and killed as he stood with a female
    friend in the backyard of his Hollywood Hills home. Three weeks later, Torchio was struck by a car and killed on the Las Vegas strip. All the murders appear like mob hits.

    -------------------==== Posted via Deja News ====-----------------------
    http://www.dejanews.com/ Search, Read, Post to Usenet

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
    * Origin: fsxNet Usenet Gateway (21:1/5)