Yeah, Jimmy was a powerful gangster.
But what I didn't fully get was how was he so powerful? I mean, from the movie it seems that he was the most powerful guy besides Paulie Cicero. But Paulie was the boss of his Mafia organization or "family" and was a made man, yet Jimmy didn't belong to that family and could never become a man made due to his Irish ascency.
So what exactly was Jimmy and how has he became the second most powerful guy from that "association"? Was Jimmy technically within the Mafia at all or was he an associate?
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Reply by HarrySkywalker
on August 28, 2020 at 1:03 AM
But wasn't Paulie a man made? And why would Tommy, who was just a psychopath and basically a hencheman, become a made man?
And Jimmy seemed to dominate everyone including many cops.
Reply by HarrySkywalker
on August 29, 2020 at 10:08 PM
Tommy was gonna "become" a made man but at the end that's not what happened, for the obvious reasons. But there was that possibility at hand.
Paulie seemed to be very powerful, his crew even bought so many cops during their time on the prison.
Jimmy was the main responsible for the biggest heist ever, at that time, and he surely had a giant crew of people working for him and many cops just preferred to not make him accountable. He really seemed to be way more than just a gangster responsible for some little or middle assaults.
Reply by HarrySkywalker
on August 30, 2020 at 9:46 PM
Tommy was obviously not gonna become a made man, it was a trap. But the thing is that it was the real scenario for almost everyone else, nobody knew it was a trap. So since nobody got suspicious, at least Jimmy and the others (and Jimmy was not dumb at all, he was extremely smart), then we should assume making Tommy a man made was some kind of realistic or logical scenario. If not then Jimmy would not be happy and would suspect it was a trap.
Regarding the Luftansha Heist, it really was the biggest ever at that time which was no joke at all. It was obviously stablished that Jimmy was very intelligent and some kind of mastermind, and in the case of this heist with the help of Morris, yet almost the others were really dumb... I mean, the Christmas party really showed us all that.
And regarding the cops, since Jimmy had many of them controlled (Paulie even more)...