Whilst the higher ups presumably have business fronts, surely not everyone has a business to launder money through?
In order to keep their people from moving on they must have to keep money in their pockets though.
Does the average grunt get paid a regular salary by someone? Can they use a bank or do they have to walk around with cash in their pocket all the time?
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It depends on the gang but something like I sell you $100 worth of product for $75 is the easy way or I’ve ‘negotiated’ with the business owner that he is going to pay us $100 for ‘protection’ and when you collect it you just give me $75.
Banks don’t really follow up on ‘low income’ things, if someone comes in and deposits $200 everyone just assumes he is working under the table somewhere
They don’t. They pay. The mob is a pyramid scheme for criminals.
The lowest level, called associates in the Italian American mob, run various crimes and scams to make money. They pay a portion of their ill gotten money to a captain. Think of it like a tax. Each mob family usually has a defined territory or area of crime. And if you want to do crime in the mobs territory, you pay the mob for that.
Sometimes for special work, hits, you may as associste get paid by contract. A one time payment for a special
Job done. But if you’re just hijacking trucks, or extorting small business, or running illegal gambling. You will be paying the mob family that runs the territory you’re working in. Good criminals who consistently make money for their bosses are called earners.
Associates belong to crews run by a captain. They all pay the captain, or capo in Italian. The capo then pays up to the boss of the family. Rarely does money trickle back down.
They get paid in cash and then live their life like everyone else who works under the table
The lower level grunts make an income with some illicit activity and then kick up a portion of their income to their boss. The most common arrangement is someone who is selling drugs and they pay their upper people by buying the drugs from them and their income they make reselling them. Or for something like thieves, they steal stuff and then sell it to a fence. The fences do not employ thieves, but they pay them for what they steal and bring to them.
They don’t.
In organized crime, money flows *up the ladder*, not down.
The rank-and-file of an organized crime group aren’t collecting a wage from the Boss. They, through various crimes and activities, make illegal income. They have to pass up some amount of this to their direct superior (who collects from all of their underlings and, in turn, pays a certain amount to the Boss), and whatever remains after the kick-ups is theirs to keep.
Its basically a pyramid scheme. The rank-and-file (and the middle-management) have to ensure they collecting enough cash in order to pass up the ladder so they don’t get …..ah, ‘cut loose’. This means they have to find things to earn money on, from extortion to fraud to ….. basically anything illegal.
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