How The Mob Was Involved In The Fishing Industry

The industry that brings fish from the water to the dinner tables and restaurants was also being controlled by the mob. In New York City, the Genovese crime family had exclusive access to a major waterfront that managed the Fulton Fish market. In the late '80s when the feds filed their case against the mob, they said that mobsters were profiting from racketeering the industry and driving up the costs of fish, per The New York Times. They had infiltrated everything from shipment and the fish unions to the distributors and companies they worked with. It was a large supplier of fish on the East Coast, and the mob was deeply entrenched in the sector and had been since the 1930s.

San Diego-based mobster Andy Lococo also was involved in the seafood industry. He apparently had spent millions on what would be the largest tuna boat in the world in the early 1970s (via Cockatoo Inn). Where'd he get the money to buy such a pricey rarity at the time? It was money he apparently "loaned" from the Teamsters union (via Ford Library Museum).

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