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    Default Was Mafia overlord, Salvatore Riina a billionaire?

    Mafia bosses are so secretive and elusive, we never find out their net worth unlike the partying lifestyles of the drug lords.

    What's known is that in the 1980s, Sicilian Mafia controlled 90% of the world's heroin trade (raking in $3 Billion / year)...not to forget the enormous revenue from arms trafficking, extortion, contract skimming etc...and as the "Boss of all Bosses" I'm sure Riina took a lion's share of the earnings

    Uptil now $125 million of Riina's assets have been confiscated, but that's "only a fraction" of his total assets according to Investigators.

    Was Riina a billionaire?

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    Default Re: Was Mafia overlord, Salvatore Riina a billionaire?

    Quote Originally Posted by BlakFrankWhite
    Mafia bosses are so secretive and elusive, we never find out their net worth unlike the partying lifestyles of the drug lords.

    What's known is that in the 1980s, Sicilian Mafia controlled 90% of the world's heroin trade (raking in $3 Billion / year)...not to forget the enormous revenue from arms trafficking, extortion, contract skimming etc...and as the "Boss of all Bosses" I'm sure Riina took a lion's share of the earnings

    Uptil now $125 million of Riina's assets have been confiscated, but that's "only a fraction" of his total assets according to Investigators.

    Was Riina a billionaire?
    Why do you care?

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    Default Re: Was Mafia overlord, Salvatore Riina a billionaire?

    Quote Originally Posted by KevinNYC
    Why do you care?
    Because Escobar was a multi billionaire...and I was wondering if Riina (the most powerful Boss ever) was a billionaire too?

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    Default Re: Was Mafia overlord, Salvatore Riina a billionaire?

    Does Salvatore Riina have a movie based on him yet?

    And there are probably Middle Eastern heroin f.ucks who made way more than Escobar, we just dont know about it

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    Default Re: Was Mafia overlord, Salvatore Riina a billionaire?

    Those bosses had to spend a lot to run their businesses as well.

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    Default Re: Was Mafia overlord, Salvatore Riina a billionaire?

    Quote Originally Posted by KevinNYC
    Why do you care?
    Same can be said about you and politics - he's looking at it as a historical perspective.

    You on the other hand care about politics as if you're going to amount to someone who's going to make a difference. Reality check, DRESTA checks on you a NBA messageboard. Good luck

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    Default Re: Was Mafia overlord, Salvatore Riina a billionaire?

    Quote Originally Posted by oarabbus
    Does Salvatore Riina have a movie based on him yet?

    And there are probably Middle Eastern heroin f.ucks who made way more than Escobar, we just dont know about it
    Not a movie, but a miniseries a critcally acclaimed one..which aired in Italy drawing 7 million viewers per episode..it was titled "Boss of Bosses"

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Il_Capo_dei_Capi

    http://m.imdb.com/title/tt1047931/
    Last edited by BlakFrankWhite; 11-06-2015 at 10:58 PM.

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    Default Re: Was Mafia overlord, Salvatore Riina a billionaire?

    Is OP A Pencil Necked Geek?

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    Default Re: Was Mafia overlord, Salvatore Riina a billionaire?

    Quote Originally Posted by warriorfan
    Is OP A Pencil Necked Geek?
    This is a goddamn message board and OP isn't doing anything different than what everyone else is doing.

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    Default Re: Was Mafia overlord, Salvatore Riina a billionaire?

    Quote Originally Posted by BigNBAfan
    Same can be said about you and politics - he's looking at it as a historical perspective.

    You on the other hand care about politics as if you're going to amount to someone who's going to make a difference. Reality check, DRESTA checks on you a NBA messageboard. Good luck

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    Default Re: Was Mafia overlord, Salvatore Riina a billionaire?

    The reason I asked is OP seems to be a fanboy.

    That there would be some reflected glory if he was a billionaire.

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