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al20
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24 Posts
7/04
Posted - Aug 24 2004 : 10:59PM
I know the Mafia and/or drug dealers have indirect and sometimes direct links to the porn industry and diffrent studios within the industry. I heard some shady characters are involved with RLD?

Edited by - al20 on Aug 24 2004

Spew
Deactivated User

Bend over for the rod and staff of Jesus!
334 Posts
7/04
Posted - Aug 24 2004 : 11:06PM
none actually i'd think thats just hollywood nowadays
baronorca
Member

Montana
528 Posts
1/01
Posted - Aug 24 2004 : 11:10PM
I have been involved in the retail end of porn for about 19 years, and I have never seen anything of an "underworld" nature. When (50's thru 70's) porn was illegal, sure it was contoled by "gangsters" & "shady characters", but that was a result of it being illegal. When porn was (for the most part) legalized, it gradually shifted to legal business models.
Mob controled businesses are very sloppy and only prosper when the prices are artificially high due to laws. BTW, it is my belief that the same would happen with drugs.
Remove the crime (legalize) and you remove most of the problem.
To actually answer the question: Very little (and only the real underground stuff).
Sir Noel Plum
Senior Studmuffin

1001 Posts
2/03
Posted - Aug 27 2004 : 2:22PM
23.63%
Zoid
Senior Member

Boobies and Anal
2004 Posts
5/04
Posted - Aug 27 2004 : 3:42PM
How did you calculate that?
 
jagerclown
Member

434 Posts
3/04
Posted - Aug 27 2004 : 5:07PM
Well, if you're Jerry Fahlwell then 100%.
jamesn
Senior Member

Cambridge, MA
750 Posts
1/04
Posted - Aug 27 2004 : 5:53PM
RLD and Metro seem to be more magnetic to the organized crime rumors. Someone wrote some stuff that was accurate about RLD's owners criminal histories and supposed involvement with the mafia. In fairness, they paid their debts and the grand-unifying-mob theory is just a theory that Luke Ford keeps digging up more on. Metro's RI roots/owner who seems to have stepped back were dodgy at one point, I don't know now.
What supports the innocence or mildness of involvement for both studios is that the IRS hasn't pulled the trigger on charging them with anything.

JKP, on the other hand, should raise eyebrows just looking through information that's publically available. When you look at how they're capitalized, structured, and shelled you've gotta wonder why it's set up like it is and why the parties involved are involved. It's unusual business practice until proven otherwise, but it looks like how you'd set up a stage of your operation if you've gotta clean some dollar bills.

sanchez_1960
Member

582 Posts
2/03
Posted - Aug 28 2004 : 2:56AM
So if you write a bad review on RLD, does that mean you get a visit...lol. Make us an offer we can't refuse...heh!
Jaggers
Member

140 Posts
9/03
Posted - Aug 28 2004 : 4:07AM
I think some ethnic defammation leagues would like to talk to you down at the end of the street as to where you get your numbers or if you just watched the Manchurian Candidate, ate some bad food, or need to see doctor about your bad dreams.
Jaggers
Member

140 Posts
9/03
Posted - Aug 28 2004 : 4:15AM
Who is better organized than Dubyah "Sonny" Bush's media machine? Who launders more money than Poppy Bush Sr's Iran-Contra machine and Zapata Offshore conglomerates, huh, eh, uh, duh? Ashcroft would say kids and their Peer to Peer networks. Gotta get back to watching the party in Melissa Lauren's butt!!!
Mike Quasar
Zero Tolerance

Reluctant pornographer
1765 Posts
7/01
Posted - Aug 28 2004 : 9:15AM
When porn was illegal it was run by thugs. Now that it is quasi-legal the thugs have moved on to other enterprises.

If only we could do the same with "The war on Drugs".

Quaze

Luvvy Duvvy
Deactivated User

228 Posts
5/04
Posted - Aug 28 2004 : 5:31PM
They're all evil EVIL people- EVIL I TELL YA! and fund terrorists. They also eat babies. And cute kittens too. Well perhaps according to Bush his speech would be "I'm a Christian, so you must all watch Praise on Sunday, Zieg Heil!" or "Nuke it from orbit. It's the only way to be sure"

Just be sure to do a pickup of Monica Sweetheart and Michelle Wild. :P

Edited by - Luvvy Duvvy on 8/28/2004 5:32:23 PM

monkey power
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Tim?
868 Posts
1/03
Posted - Aug 30 2004 : 3:43PM
2-4-6-8!
what do we appreciate?
....counting by twos!
Ra! Ra! Bush is the devil! The devil loves porn! Bush is the father of porn! All hail Bush!

Anyway, now that the ceremonial chanting of slogans is out of the way, what's up with organized crime "moving on?" Why would they do that?

(I recently started asking the local strippers, as a joke, "Have you seen any mobsters coming in here and leaving with a suitcase of cash?" Then I was told to look around at the male employees/bartenders/managers/bouncers, and I realized that a larger percentage of them were Italian than I had expected to see..... so I chose to stop that particular line of BS.)

The point being why would criminals just up and leave an industry that had been so good to them? (This is another question I should probably stop asking.)

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