Organized crime is a fundamentally treacherous lifestyle driven by greed and a lack of real loyalty.

“and it's it's a treacherous life and the reason why we're out here doing this stuff obviously some of the things I do magazines movies series TV series you do get paid for but the the drive for me to do this or any the things I do at schools yeah out of trying to help kids”

He believes the mafia life is treacherous and should be avoided because it leads only to prison or death.

“You kids out there, you're going to go to prison. Stay away from this kind of life. You're You're going to go to prison. If you don't go to prison, you're going to get killed. Okay? It's a bad, treachery treacherous life, okay?”

The mafia functions as an evil organization characterized by jealousy, envy, and the constant threat of betrayal among its members.

“it is an evil organization because you know once you get in now you start to understand that there's jealousy there's Envy just the human nature people are jealous and they're envious and they're they don't they they don't want to see you get ahead of them and and that's the mafia is just like that”

He believes the mafia is fundamentally dishonest because members are only loyal as long as you have money to provide them.

“I miss the only thing I do miss is seeing guys where you talk, you're hanging out, but not so much because everybody's a phony. You're only as good as your last dollar you give.”

The speaker claims that there is no true brotherhood within the mafia and that members frequently betray and kill one another for power and profit.

“they use an excuse or he was no good we got word he was bad all kinds of different excuses you know right of course and so you so man so if you want to do something that earns in the mafia you have to make damn sure that they can't replace you easily right because they will otherwise”

Christian Carmona claims that involvement in organized crime is often a generational cycle driven by the environment one grows up in.

“My both my mom, my dad, all my uncles are pretty much a second generation growing up from that barrio and and then >> Is that what your your dad is in in involved in that area? Is that what he did? Growing up as a teenager, yeah, because my grandmother ran a couple of uh bordellos or or how however ”

Criminal activity that yields high status and wealth is a natural path to pursue when growing up surrounded by criminal role models.

“when you're you're growing up and you see all the people that have status and money and respect are criminals then that's what you go for”

Criminal enterprise is a systemic issue rooted in poor socioeconomic conditions and a lack of positive role models for youth.

“when you're in environment where it's poor, and the richest person on the block is working and pimping or selling guns or selling dope, then those are your heroes when you're just a developing brain cuz those are your peers.”

Criminal investigations into commodity theft should prioritize understanding the underlying systemic reasons why these crimes occur, rather than focusing solely on identifying individual perpetrators.

“it's not like you found the criminal and it's over I think it's important to look at why it's happening and I think what it really exposes is that this this crime is only achievable because of how many people are hired on a contract basis and have no security”

Gambling has been a primary and sophisticated business operation for the mob for a long time.

“Gambling has been the main business of the mob ever since guys came into this country and started up. They know it very well. They're very sophisticated.”

The speaker claims that the Medellin Cartel operated effectively as an insured transportation service for drug traffickers.

“they didn't call it the cartel they're just like an insurance if if we we will send it to the mexican to miami for you for five ten thousand dollars a kilo if it gets busted anywhere between here and your man in miami we will replace it in columbia so you can't lose”

Piracy functioned like a joint stock company where investors provided startup capital for pirate vessels in exchange for a share of the eventual profits.

“So the way that a stock company works as I'm sure many people aware as you're aware is you fund a venture The Venture does something if it brings back profit you get to divide the profits amongst yourself so you put in 10 gold maybe you get back a 100 because it made a bunch of profit thing is pirac”

Duane Davis admits to participating in the narcotics trade as a business.

“So you never got paid for the free bird after you got When did you get paid for the for the >> They gave me the 17,000 and he said the rest of the money. So I just Okay, [ __ ] you. When he come around.”

He claims that all informants in organized crime cases are liars who fabricate stories to receive reduced sentences or immunity from prosecution.

“they all say the same [ __ ] you know like I've been saying on every show when they get caught they change no they didn't change till they got caught”

The code of the streets strictly forbids becoming an informant, and those who betray this principle by working for law enforcement are fundamentally dishonest.

“Never become an informant ever. And that's the first thing you learn when you're when you're in that life growing up and especially coming from southeast South Boston and um the largest an Irish enclave in Boston. You you never you're taught never to become a rat ever.”

Julito believes that true loyalty in criminal life is only proven when someone avoids cooperating with law enforcement even when facing severe legal consequences.

“If you doing crime, you know he's your friend. When he takes life and he don't tell on you, then you could say that's my friend. But till then, if you in the street, you don't know who's your friend when you in the street. Ain't really no friends in the street.”