The rackets

The mafiosini run four tight ships.

1. The West Indian nannies. Any parent who wants to hire a nanny has to go through one of the five families. Dogs (parents) better go through the proper channels and pay the foxes (the mafiosini) the fee, or enter a world of hurt. It’s mainly the mothers’ girls and god’s mercy that own this racket.

2. The pediatricians. It’s your basic loan-sharking operation. Squeezed by the health insurance rackets and the bleating economy, downwardly-mobile pedes need cash bad. The foxes come to their fiduciary rescue, and as long as the doctors get them the vig on time with no shots, everybody’s happy. Mainly the Zambians and Starry Brot run this one. The pequeños hermanos are making inroads.

3. The party clowns. Your basic human trafficking kind of thing. It seems as if the foxes own the clowns and rent them out for birthday parties. The petits anges and Nyet Moloko have this one.

4. The au pairs. My agents are still working on the particulars of this racket. All I know is that there are a lot of Kazakh 6-year-olds collecting salaries and benefits from the major au pair networks. I think the IRS is getting wise, but is too afraid to indict.