The politics here are that spano they son of a mob boss and all of the other Italian families have been running Yonkers since the eighties when they killed off the Polish mayor who had refused to give the Italians the city's contract for sanitation. Spano is about to break the law once again and make it so that he can run for a fourth term. A third one was illegal. Almost every city contract goes to somebody who is in bed with him. Local city and state regulators happen to be related to him or have connections with him or his father.