Criminal Connections Quotes

Billy Almon has all of his in-laws and outlaws here this afternoon.

I had worked in politics with Johnson and Nixon before becoming a historian and biographer. I kept discovering these dirtier, murkier threads in American politics that led back to Vegas' gambling interests and criminal connections.

In the actual story I got with the Bonannos, but I had dealings with other crime families and other criminals, using the Bonannos as my credibility.

My dad wasn't a gangster, and he wasn't a criminal, but he sure liked to rub padded shoulders with them.

I think one of the ways that these young singers got started is that they would end up in clubs. And a lot of them were mafia owned. And so there was almost an unspoken kind of mafia sponsorship, which is just a very interesting part of that area's music history.

If being a gangster were a prerequisite to being a musician, there'd be a lot less cello music, for example.

Young Thug, he gave me all the jewels. He literally paid me to leave the neighborhood.

Being in this game if you are gonna sell drugs and make records too then as many records you make is gonna be as many people that know you sell drugs. We got the hip hop cops listening now.

I know all those people. I have friendly, social, and criminal relations with the whole lot of them.

Before you kill somebody, make absolutely sure he isn't well connected. So it goes.