This week: #MobDepravity
A series of threads focusing on THE MOB & THE 7 DEADLY SINS.
Lust 💋🏩👯‍♀️
Gluttony🥃🍻💉💊
Greed💰💎💍
Sloth☠️
Wrath👹⚔️
Envy🤑
Pride👌
Today's thread will be on GLUTTONY: The mob's involvement in Prohibition, drug trafficking & THE OPIOID CRISIS.
To learn about the mob's involvement in supplying booze during Prohibition, you need to read the Mob Oracle @LincolnsBible.
LB has written a lot about the mob profiting off Prohibition. I'm just putting a small selection of threads here-go dig on @LincolnsBible's timeline for more.


Next up: Drug trafficking.
Organized crime has a long history in trafficking illegal drugs.
This UNODC document is from 1953:
unodc.org/unodc/en/data-…
Latin American cartels and the Russian mafia have been teaming up to traffic drugs since at least the 1990s
This is a global business and a MASSIVE profit center for organized crime.
The magnitude of the drug trade is staggering. This was just one bust:
Fentanyls are being trafficked into the US at an alarming rate. Here's the routes they take:
Now we look at how the mob profits off of & has exarcebated the opioid crisis.
An American company is to blame for MUCH of the crisis. Purdue Pharma.
Who helped them continue to spread their poison?
Rudy Giuliani.
What we are seeing with the opioid crisis is not a new phenomenon. History repeats.
washingtonpost.com/news/retropoli…
However, it's much more deadly this go-round. Why? Because synthetic opioids are FAR more potent, and thus FAR more deadly.
This ends our brief tour of how the MOB profits off GLUTTONY. Tomorrow, we'll look at GREED 💰💎💍
#MobDepravity
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