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- From: rburns@StarConn.com (Randall J. Burns)
- Subject: Re: Jewish Bankers
- Message-ID: <1993Jan26.010845.15371@StarConn.com>
- Organization: Starnet-Public Access UNIX--Los Altos, CA 415-949-3133
- References: <1993Jan18.131300.27961@midway.uchicago.edu> <1993Jan25.083137.28783@StarConn.com> <1k1jf7INNhmf@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu>
- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 01:08:45 GMT
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- In article <1k1jf7INNhmf@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> cj195@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (John W. Redelfs) writes:
- >
- >In a previous article, thf2@ellis.uchicago.edu (Ted Frank) says:
- >
- >Quote that Ted Frank is responding to:
- >>>Personally, I see Gritz's speculation in the same vein as the attempts
- >>>of ignorant people to attempt to undertand the dynamics of organized
- >>>crime-and Mr. Frank's comments in the vein of comments that attempted
- >>>to deny the existance of the Mafia.
- >>
- >>And what evidence do you have of a "Jewish banking Mafia"?
- >>--
- >Do you admit the possibility, Ted, that there might be a multicultural
- >banking Mafia? If there is no evidence that there is one, is there any
- >evidence that there is not one?
- Just for the record:
- 1) I tend to think that to the extent that there are "banking mafia's"
- the multicultural mafia's tend to be more important than the ethnic
- mafia's.
-
- 2) This does not mean that ethnic Mafia's do not exist. The Meyer Lansky
- organization is an example of an organization that served as a
- bridge between ethnic mafia's. (Meyer Lansky was Lucky Luciano's banker
- and at one time one of the ten wealthiest men in America. He probably
- lived up to the negative stereotype of a criminal Jewish banker
- better than any man about which solid information exists. )
-
- 3) Just as Mr. Lansky steadfastly claimed to be "a poor man living on a
- pension(and Mr. Frank denies the existance of any Jewish equivalent
- to the Sicilian Mafia) Mr. Gritz tends to endow such an organization
- with supernatural powers.
-
- -------------------------
-
- The bigger problem as I see it, is that it is so difficult to discuss
- this whole issue and look at it critically. I tend to think that the
- truth probably lies in between Mr. Frank and Mr. Gritz and that
- _both_ are engaging in ethnic posturing on this issue.
-
-
- The real question is:
- To what extent are ethnic mafias and organized crime important in the
- world of international business and finance?
-
- >Doesn't the BCCI scandal demonstrate that such a thing can happen? How
- >can we be sure that BCCI was the whole problem? Maybe it was just the
- >tip of the iceberg?
- I tend to agree with this statement. BCCI, was in many respects an
- example of an ethnic mafia(in this case an Arab one) that used etnic
- cohesion to bilk people outside their own ethnic group.
- .
-
-