The mafia makes money extorting protection payments of 5%-10% (or more) of legit businesses’ revenues, paid under trumped-up pretexts. Exactly what Trump’s doing with universities: pay us $50M-$221M-$500M Brown, Columbia, Harvard (because antisemitism) or we 86 your research grant billions.
Apple takes a 30% cut to host apps in their store. 😁
A more seemingly benign version is the feds taking a cut of Nvidia’s export profits. But still mafia-like.
Mafia Don!
Don't say "trumped up."
You got a nice quad there. Be too bad if something happened to it.
His daddy laundered money for the Italian mob and when the Russians pushed out the Italians the fatfuck laundered money for the Russian mob. That’s been the family business model—well, that and stiffing contractors and committing tax fraud—for decades.
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