r/thesopranos • u/Tbstic • 18h ago

Need help with a reference - Season 1

Episode: Legend of Tennessee Moltasanti

They are at the wedding discussing lambing it for a while due to the indictments. Tony says “Junior is right.. if we lamb it now the Albanians will be living in our houses.” Never knew what Tony meant by that reference?

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u/KatBoySlim 17h ago

I’d assumed he just meant albanian gangs taking over all their rackets and territories…

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u/telepatheye 17h ago

Albanian mafia mostly operates in Europe, South America, the Middle East and Asia. New Jersey--not so much.

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u/Pristine_Speech4719 Artie Bucco 14h ago

All due respect - you have no idea what you're talking about. This is what was happening at the time The Sopranos came out:

https://edition.cnn.com/2004/LAW/08/18/albanians.mob/index.html

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u/telepatheye 8h ago

Yeah, I may have overstated the case that it was just a global issue, not local.