George Anastasia, the Philadelphia Inquirer's veteran organized crime reporter, writes that the mob is still knee deep, so to speak, in the garbage business.
Not for nothing was Tony Soprano a solid-waste management consultant.
The writers of the HBO series made New Jersey's most famous, albeit fictitious, wiseguy a player in an industry that for decades has been targeted for exploitation by organized crime.
In that respect, Soprano was a "garbage mobster," a term used by the New Jersey State Commission of Investigation in a report made public last week that warned of the mob's continued presence in the multimillion-dollar waste-disposal business.
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