She started by selling fake watches for her Aunt. Silvio had carved out a humble slice of the counterfeit Rolex business in lower Manhattan, but the Mafia was getting into the same market. Things were beginning to heat up. Silvio had spent several years developing her own source for the product, two nervous Taiwanese importers who received the fake watches directly from the Far East.
Valentina was very good at recruiting new salesmen and training them to sell the watches on the street.
Their problem was that they could not bring in large enough quantities to compete with the Mafia. The Mafia controlled all the docks in the New York area. At the moment, Silvio and her Taiwanese partners were paying people to smuggle the watches into the country on commercial flights, inside suitcases.
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