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A source told The Post, “Everyone understood that the Javits Center was going to be an unprecedented bounty of criminal rackets." Money floated to the Italian mob and the Westies who were so casually brutal that a murder victim's genitals wound up a in an empty milk carton.

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Brimstone Report is tracking this as a curated crime & justice brief. The source report from NY Post says: A source told The Post, “Everyone understood that the Javits Center was going to be an unprecedented bounty of criminal rackets." Money floated to the Italian mob and the Westies who were so casually brutal that a murder victim's genitals wound up a in an empty milk carton.

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  • Primary source: NY Post
  • Published: Jul 13, 2026, 2:51 PM UTC
  • Coverage area: Crime & Justice
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