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Angelis_Solaris ago

His wife knew about it? Was she a participant or simply suspected her husband was up to something?

This might be relevant since it is in New York: Rothstein interview pt. 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5kWrBMQoerw&t=26s Rothstein interview pt. 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FGVe4yZpffw&t=14s

Blacksmith21 ago

Care to provide a TL;DR?

Angelis_Solaris ago

Sure! Rothstein was an NYPD Detective for about a decade and a half. He explains in the interview that the NYPD is full of white-hats (essentially) and when he was assigned to work on prostitute cases, they first began realizing the horrible things that were going on in the "underground." They had to develop completely new tactics and work in utmost secrecy as opposed to a regular law enforcement office. Eventually, the State Secret's Privilege shut down each one of their cases. NYPD is a world-wide police force, the largest in the world (or one of the largest), and, at least during the Franklin Scandal which Rothstein did work on, was operating on that scale.

Blacksmith21 ago

Ah good. Yup, I know the backstory. This is the Prince/NYPD vector. Goes back to Kerik days. And Giuliani. NYPD has a larger intelligence arm than the bulk of countries around the world. Also is the only police agency with S2A weaponry.

They killed a bunch of them off as well.

Angelis_Solaris ago

I've never heard of any of that to be honest!

Blacksmith21 ago

LE Intel network. Good people, but I'm sure corruption exists: https://www.ialeia.org/

After 9/11 Guiliani built a network, in conjunction with his "quality of life" laws, meant to turn NYC around from what SF is now. It worked. Until Bloomberg, now De Blah Blah.

I have spent as much time in NYC as I have in SF. And DC.