How did huge mob bosses that “everybody knew” was a mob boss, or criminal running the place, etc, get away with it?
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Money Laundering is easy and its not hard for someone with cash to get on a community’s good side. Your average criminal organization thats not just a few gang bangers has more in common with the way Gustavo runs things than Walter White. Set up a few okish resturants and do some community events and nobody will csre what you do if you keep it under wraps.
Al Capone ran a soup kitchen for example. Even if the locals thought the charity came from dirty money they were incentivised not to care. Same with El Chapo or a lot of other crime lords.
Think of the negative reputation a lot of police departments have due to shit thats happened. If the local cops are seen as corrupt or incompetent or just plain mean and the local criminals are helping the community in some way, the community is motivated to not side with the law.
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