A quick Google search of the phrase “is Amish Mafia real” nets about 7,890,000 results in just 0.23 seconds.
Inquiring minds need to know.After all, what could possibly be fake about Amish men wielding baseball bats, shotguns and assault rifles while keeping the peace in Lancaster County's Amish community?
Let’s settle that score: Amish Mafia is not real. Amish Mafia is fake.
The only thing legit about Discovery Channel’s proclaimed "reality" show is the filming is done in Lancaster County. All storylines and character portrayals, according to our research, are not just fabrications, but complete creations of the show's producers. None of these characters actually exist as portrayed on the show. As for the characters in real life, some had Amish/Mennonite upbringings; others didn't....
On the show, listed atop main character’s Lebanon Levi’s “rap sheet” and mentioned by a show narrator as the arresting agency is “Lancaster County Police.”
Guess what? There is no such thing.
There is a Lancaster City Bureau of Police, but no countywide force, as the show depicts.
First up: Esther Schmucker.
Discovery Channel says: “Esther is the matriarch of a once powerful Lancaster Amish family. She’s known for being a strong female, something very uncommon in the Amish World.”
She’s actually just a normal Lancaster County girl. Regarding her "powerful" Amish family, we found zero evidence of that in our research. What we did find, in court records, were rap sheets full of petty crimes and violations for Esther and her brother and show co-star, John Schmucker.
Here’s what Esther really looks like when she’s not acting:
http://lancasteronline.com/news/local/amish-mafia-through-the-years-here-s-why-it-s/article_d45cea48-a3a4-11e3-9cc3-0017a43b2370.html
Well, she doesn't look too Amish to me.
Just another fake supposed reality show.
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