I’ve been watching Sopranos lately, and a few times they’ve talked about construction jobs, the unions, and getting ‘no show’ jobs (whatever they are) and I realised a lot of Organised Crime I’ve heard about always seems to be tied them, yet I have no idea how it makes so much money for them.
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The mafia gains control of key union members in order to pressure the construction company for under the table concessions. Else the Mafia can use the union to halt construction at sites. The average union members receives less than what they should be receiving, while the Mafia itself and the key union leaders under its control gain a payout. Sometimes both the union leadership, and the construction company leadership is in on it.
A ‘no show’ job is legal employment for a member of the Mafia. Allowing them to file an income, and pay taxes for the purposes of making major purchases which can not be hidden from the authorities. Say for example a house. As the name implies, they are not required to actually show up for work.
A ‘no work’ job, is the same as the above. But they ARE required to actually show up for work, but not actually work. Except maybe the most basic of pretend busy work should anyone actually check in.
Tony Soprano has a similar arrangement with ‘Barone Sanitation’ a fictional waste management company. Where he works as a ‘waste management consultant’. Which allows him a legal health insurance, as well as the mansion him and his family live in throughout the series. This is without a doubt his most important racket. You can see how Paulie Walnuts lives in one episode, while he drives expensive cars, goes to fine restaurants and owns expensive suits. Paulie lives in a tiny apartment.
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