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If I was under that kind of threat, why not buy a cottage in some remote country, get a dog, write books and go fishing all day? I mean life is probably not li

by mhomde 12y ago

If I was under that kind of threat, why not buy a cottage in some remote country, get a dog, write books and go fishing all day? I mean life is probably not like hollywood where they can find you "wherever" and as long as you stay under the radar you should be pretty safe

knodi123 12y ago
or move to america and change your name? how many bilingual international assassins are there, anyway?
- codyb 12y ago
  The FBI estimates the four Italian mafia families have about 25,000 members and 250,000 affiliates worldwide. They all are active in the United States [0]. I'm not sure what kind of ties the families keep with each other but considering the revenues of the Calabrian mafia alone ($80.5 Billion US Dollars in 2013) it's a safe bet that the ties of these families are very deep, and very wide [1]. Also if you look at Rob Saviano, he looks like a guy it would be hard to disguise. His hairline leaves very few options for drastic appearance changes unless he wears wigs which are a risk in their own right. He'd probably stick out in a lot of small towns (especially since if he wants to continue writing he'll just have to tell locals he's independently wealthy, which means he probably wouldn't hold a job, and would want to be at the scenes of interesting events) and in a lot of the big towns in America there's mafia family members he'd have to be worried about 24/7. That's just my speculation on the matter. [0] - http://www.fbi.gov/about-us/investigate/organizedcrime/italian_mafia http://www.fbi.gov/about-us/investigate/organizedcrime/itali... [1] - http://www.freenewspos.com/en/latest-news-article/d/1067995/italy/italy-039-s-calabrian-mafia-earns-more-than-mcdonald-039-s http://www.freenewspos.com/en/latest-news-article/d/1067995/...
hellbanner 12y ago
Maybe that's what he's doing and this piece is a bluff on his movements. It's very specific -- 3 days planning, weeks, months when travelling international. Sure someone could have guessed as much, but why say this information at all?

by mhomde 12y ago

knodi123 12y ago

or move to america and change your name? how many bilingual international assassins are there, anyway?

codyb 12y ago
The FBI estimates the four Italian mafia families have about 25,000 members and 250,000 affiliates worldwide. They all are active in the United States [0]. I'm not sure what kind of ties the families keep with each other but considering the revenues of the Calabrian mafia alone ($80.5 Billion US Dollars in 2013) it's a safe bet that the ties of these families are very deep, and very wide [1]. Also if you look at Rob Saviano, he looks like a guy it would be hard to disguise. His hairline leaves very few options for drastic appearance changes unless he wears wigs which are a risk in their own right. He'd probably stick out in a lot of small towns (especially since if he wants to continue writing he'll just have to tell locals he's independently wealthy, which means he probably wouldn't hold a job, and would want to be at the scenes of interesting events) and in a lot of the big towns in America there's mafia family members he'd have to be worried about 24/7. That's just my speculation on the matter. [0] - http://www.fbi.gov/about-us/investigate/organizedcrime/italian_mafia http://www.fbi.gov/about-us/investigate/organizedcrime/itali... [1] - http://www.freenewspos.com/en/latest-news-article/d/1067995/italy/italy-039-s-calabrian-mafia-earns-more-than-mcdonald-039-s http://www.freenewspos.com/en/latest-news-article/d/1067995/...

hellbanner 12y ago

Maybe that's what he's doing and this piece is a bluff on his movements. It's very specific -- 3 days planning, weeks, months when travelling international. Sure someone could have guessed as much, but why say this information at all?