Achilles Asylum: 1950s Organized Crime
Added 2025-05-23 21:12:10 +0000 UTCIn the late 1950s, the Genovese crime family caught wind of the mysterious activities in the asylum. Seeing it as both an opportunity to provide "security" to the facility at a price and also a potential learning experience for their own methods of persuasion, they sent one of their generals and his nephew to strong-arm the doctors into a business arrangement.
What the men didn't realize is that the asylum had anticipated this exact scenario and were ready for it. The men were separated and overpowered, and were subjected to six hour demonstrations of the doctors' methods. The sessions were filmed and many compromising pieces of information about their family's history and current activities were extracted from the men. The asylum never again heard from the Genoveses or any other family offering them protection.
One has to wonder if the men passed along the methods that had been so effective on them to their own hired muscle...
