We are rock'n roll animals.

I'm reading this massive book about the mafia right now and what I find fascinating is the many complex scams and rackets operated by the mafia. Dummy companies, offshore bank accounts, entire lives lived in deceit and subterfuge. Most people during the course of their lives leave a long and extensive paper trail. Not mobsters. They exist as virtual phantoms with everything they own in their mother or a realtives name so that the only record of their existence is their birth certificate and arrest records. The crimes catalouged in the book by mafiosi range from simple bookmaking and extortion to kickbacks from unions and construction companies. It is interesting because as I was reading it I began to think of the whole underground economy the vast world hidden from the general populace hiding in the shadow.