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Vogon_Glory

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7. If the old Mob was allowed back in, they'd have to settle for junior partner
Sun Apr 13, 2025, 09:06 AM
Apr 2025

status. They’ve been weakened by decades of successful prosecutions and the erosion of the old codes of silence that kept order and their mouths shut.

My bet would be on corporations for the hotel business and the better-armed, better-organized cartels flexing their muscles and edging into new areas of opportunity for casinos and other areas of vice.

As for which corporations, Considering what a wretched job Republicans do at administering occupied countries (Witness Iraq and Afghanistan under Bush and. Trump), I’d guess those corporations would likely be European, East Asian or possibly even Latin American.

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