Mobsters of today have found themselves disinclined to run the highly personal risk of bursting into banks, shooting people, stealing what for them is a paltry fifty thousand dollars, perhaps getting shot themselves and then serving a jail sentence.
They don't regard a potential fifty thousand dollar profit margin as sufficient return on the verious stresses and strains which they as sensitive souls are likely to encounter during such a process.
The modern method of bank robbery involves the mafia controlling bank staff through subversion, subborning or fear, and/or through the purchasing of control of the bank itself via the share register.
Modern mobsters when they've subborned a bank this way, then simply approve astronomical loans to themselves which they give to proxy businessmen who launder the money on their behalf.
The loans are never repaid and the trail is covered if necessary with declared bankruptcies.
Of course the proxy businessmen will actually engage in front businesses and may actually make some profits on a portion of the money they have helped steal. In which case they are free to repay the loans. It's not a problem. And such an occasional repayment delays the day of reckoning (when a systematically burlgarised bank must collapse) while also adding gloss to the fiction that these loans are anything other than a modern bank robbery carried out in plain sight by hoodlums in white collars.
Banks being robbed by the mafia in this way don't always collapse immediately. Mafia hubris being what is, they're not able to stop just because they've gotten away with it. The process continues with the same or with new proxies until the bottom finally falls out.
I would suggest that we see this method emerging into the public domain in New York in the 1980s when Donald Trump's construction related businesses repeatedly received billon dollars loans from banks, without repaying any of them. Companies related to Mr Trump had four known declarations of bankruptcies. These inevitable declarations of bankruptcy never stopped banks which I am suggesting were mafia controlled, from lending to him again.
Of course Mr Trump was engaging in some genuine property development business activities. When billions of dollars are being stolen, those involved fronting the borrowing end of the scam must be seen to spend some of the money in activities that appear legitimate. I am suggesting that most of the money was being laundered to the mafias who had leant to him.
The same methodology for bank robbery was also already becoming apparent in Italy in the 1980s when the Sicilian Cosa Nostra mafia in alliance with Freemasonic organisations (the Propaganda Due P2 Lodge) were using Banco Ambrosiano as the cover for their massive asset stripping bank looting illegal loans to themselves.
This operation also involved manipulation of the Vatican Bank, regarded by Cosa Nostra mobsters as a cash cow and long a target for mafia operations and subversion.
The Vatican Bank, as well as providing guarantees on behalf of the Cosa Nostra Freemasonic controlled mob shell Banco Ambrosiano, was found to be itself dispensing million dollar loans to borrowers who amounted to nothing more than addresses in the Bahamas. The borrowers didn't exist. The money was going directly to the mafia and the Freemasons.
The mafia and Freemasons covered their trails by murdering various individuals connected with the scam including the former chief of Banco Ambrosiano Roberto Calvi and his secretary Graziella Corrocher.
Both deaths were (I suggest) staged to look like suicides, Miss Corrocher purportedly leaping from a window at the Banco Ambrosiano headquarters and Mr Calvi being found hanging from Blackfriars bridge in London the following day.
I would postulate a satanic component in cases like this involving Mafias and Freemasons.
Modern mafia style bank robbery shows up on the radar in Ireland in 2008 with the collapse of the IRA mafia controlled Anglo Irish Bank.
The drug dealing, people trafficking, child abusing, IRA is the presiding mafia in Ireland. Other mafias (at least a hundred of them) do business in Ireland only with their permission.
The IRA directly controlled Anglo Irish Bank's senior management including Sean Fitzpatrick and David Drumm. Staff positions at Anglo Irish Bank were filled with IRA connected young men and women, not necessarily IRA members, but a significant proportion of them having direct familial links to the IRA. They were pliable and complicit.
The IRA's business proxy for multiple billion dollar loans to itself was a mobster called Sean Quinn along with Sean Quinn's extended family.
The IRA also used Quinn as a proxy to control the Anglo Irish Bank share register with shares purchased using only a comparatively small portion of the vast sums of money he had stolen during this illegal hundred billion dollar heist, disguised as bank loans.
Quinn and his odious sons and daughters were laundering their money into Russia and Ukraine in alliance with eastern European mobsters, including those loveable naifs known as the Russian mafia.
Lovely, lovely people.
After the bank collapsed in 2008, some of the senior management, were removed. Culpable lower level staff with IRA connections have kept their jobs.
Successively corrupt Irish governments bailed out Anglo Irish Bank using public money. Effectively the Irish people have paid to cover up Sean Quinn and the IRA's burglarisation of the IRA and Sean Quinn's own bank.
It is no surprise that Anglo Irish Bank, now renamed Irish Bank Resolution Corporation, has recently announced in court that it will no longer pursue Sean Quinn's adult children and their spouses (certainly a family in the mafioso sense of the term) for the illegal hundred million dollar loans the bank controlled by their Daddy and the IRA, had advanced each of them without security.
It is no surprise that in 2019 Sean Quinn's IRA kidnapped and tortured Kevin Lunney a businessman who had taken over the reins at another company formerly used by Quinn as a front for his illegal 100 billion dollar bank heist disguised as loans. Quinn's kidnappers tortured Kevin Lunney, broke his bones, knifed him, poured bleach on him, and tore out his fingernails.
That's how mobsters get away with robbing banks.
As we go to press, the Vatican bank is back in the news. Cardinal Angelo Becciu has been fired from his job at the Vatican on foot of revelations of million dollar bribes being sent via the Vatican Bank to Australia apparently to frame Cardinal George Pell on trumped up child abuse charges. George Pell as Cardinal had been cracking down on mafia activities within the Vatican until he was framed.
Of course since we know Cardinal Pell was framed, we should bear in mind the possibility that Angelo Becciu is currently being framed for framing him.
Whether robbing banks or covering their trails by murdering people or destroying reputations, Mafias and Freemasons do naughty things.
These are murky waters.
