Comments on: FTR #304 Illegal Procedure: Organized Crime in the NFL http://spitfirelist.com/for-the-record/ftr-304-illegal-procedure-organized-crime-in-the-nfl/ Web site and blog of anti-fascist researcher and radio personality Dave Emory. Wed, 23 May 2012 06:54:55 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: R. Wilson http://spitfirelist.com/for-the-record/ftr-304-illegal-procedure-organized-crime-in-the-nfl/comment-page-1/#comment-16693 R. Wilson Thu, 03 Nov 2011 04:53:27 +0000 http://spitfirelist.com/?p=1389#comment-16693 Mafia Takes Over Publicly Traded Company A Texas-based company and a one-time subprime lender that boasted former Vice President Dan Quayle as a board member, and used NFL Hall of Famer Dan Marino in its ads, has been charged by the FBI and Department of Justice with being a Mafia-run (Lucchese Family) enterprise, taken over by the use of threats and violence. They were able to remove the firm’s entire board of directors and managers, replacing them with their own. Only a tangential Mafia-NFL connection, but an interesting one. For more on the organized crime "hostile takeover" angle, read the full article here: http://www.dailyfinance.com/2011/11/01/mafia-takes-over-publicly-traded-company/ Mafia Takes Over Publicly Traded Company

A Texas-based company and a one-time subprime lender that boasted former Vice President Dan Quayle as a board member, and used NFL Hall of Famer Dan Marino in its ads, has been charged by the FBI and Department of Justice with being a Mafia-run (Lucchese Family) enterprise, taken over by the use of threats and violence. They were able to remove the firm’s entire board of directors and managers, replacing them with their own.

Only a tangential Mafia-NFL connection, but an interesting one.

For more on the organized crime “hostile takeover” angle, read the full article here:

http://www.dailyfinance.com/2011/11/01/mafia-takes-over-publicly-traded-company/

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