let’s have fun reading about the Rhode Island Banking Crisis caused by, you guessed it, a mobster in control of people’s money and fraudulent “insurers” securing the funds.

edit:

these guys also came to prominence in the 80s, citing Trump’s deals in NY as a framework for how to use political connections to make money flow from out of the public pockets and into private accounts.

bizarro America

but also, yeah, it’s been a nazi haven for a long time - it’s just becoming a lot less quiet about it