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wow great information maybe I can be a criminal like you too --- idiots that have access to the internet - you dont have to be smart to post a story on the net - as proven by this waste of time story .....
"Well, they blew up the Chicken Man in Philly last night; blew up his house too. Down on the boardwalk they're ready for a fight; gonna see what them racket boys can do"--Chucky Weinstein.
Makes me wonder what would have happened in NYC and Chicago when all the ‘peaceful protests’ were going on if the Mafia was still strong. Just sayin, because they made so much cash off protection rackets.
If youve ever been in a situation that makes the news.......then you know the news always gets it wrong. I have experianced that 1st hand a few times personally and a business l worked for in my early to late 20s were sued and it went all the way to Good morning America and literally everything that was said was all complete lies. The definition of journalism hasnt changed but in reality journalism is a joke and is used as a tool and its always for hire to the highest bidder. Lawyers share this trait 100% as well.
I caught “Kill The Irishman” once while flipping stations. I figured “What the hell? I’ll watch this because nothing else is on.” Turned out to be a pretty good movie.
Yep, no one ever talked about the Cleveland Mafia Scene before this movie, but somehow in almost every mafia movie Cleveland gets mentioned. I was a teen there when the bombing war between the Italians and Irish was going on. One of Shondir Birns' associates was a numbers runner named Don King, who after serving time for manslaughter became famous as a boxing promoter.
Those were the days. Worked in downtown Cleveland in the early 70s and my friends and I would go to the Theatrical on Vincent and Mr. Birns would be there. A bartender told us that he was a part owner and to not go near him. The Theatrical was like being in a mob movie.
@@MonGoalian That’s cool,I lived in Flint Mi. during the 70’s my aunt was florist on the same property as the Flint Home Juice company. The mobbed up juice company owned by the Giacolones won in a poker game. You don’t think about it when it’s happening.
Joe E. Lewis wasn't killed by Jack McGurn, an associate of McGurn slashed Lewis's face and neck and left him for dead, but he survived and died in 1971. This happened in 1927 and Sinatra played him in a movie about his life called The Joker Is Wild in1957.
One of the victims of the St. Valentines massacre wasn’t a gangster, he was just a mechanic who was in the garage doing a job, he was in the wrong spot at the wrong time
@@timsmith1323 It’s good way to learn about crime stories you may not have heard about. And from there you can do your own research. It’s a good jumping off point. People should always go find out sh!t for themselves anyway!
@timsmith1323 Well.. They do make mistakes in their researches but it does open the doors to people researching the story for themselves.. That's a good thing.. And I hope they do create a crime channel..
Yeah, The Masseria crime family was the predecessor to the Genovese crime family, and the same can also be said for the Morello and Luciano crime families (both being predecessors to the modern day Genovese crime family).
Phil Testa’s killing was also mentioned in the opening lines Bruce Springsteen song Atlantic City - “Well they blew up the Chicken Man in Philly last night, and they blew up his house too…”
What a stupid lyric. It makes it sound like they blew him up then went to his house and blew it up. Springsteen sucks so for him or whatever cretin song writer for him that is as good as any other of his awful lyrics. Born in the usa. Says it all.
you know they've uploaded this same stuff over a period of years ago in multiple different videos? i used to love watchmojo but when you've been a sub since they started, after a certain year they quit uploading anything new. i just watched a video uploaded 3 months ago that's still talking about area 51, freemasons, bohemian grove, roanoke colony except they called it "rowan oak"; my point being they aren't uploading anything NEW....
I remember watching "The Saint Valentine's Day Massacre" on television as a kid. At the time it was by far the most brutal violence I had ever witnessed in cinema.
Where's the Salvatore Maranzano hit...that was the final boss to fall in the Castelamarese War and his death allowed Lucky Luciano to form the Commission in NY and the National Crime Syndicate..as big a hit as they come!!
Joe Gallo died on the same day, at the same hour, in the same hospital in New York City, as I was born. Beekman Hospital (it is called New York-Presbyterian Lower Manhattan Hospital today) Wikipedia says he was pronounced dead at 5:30am April 7, 1972.. I was born at 5:45am April 7, 1972!
@Landon Miles RE: "Tony Accardo is probably the most successful crime boss of all time." I would say that Meyer Lansky, Carlo Gambino, and Santo Trafficante were more successful. All of them spent little to no time in jail and they all died of natural causes.
I'm a wrestling fan and I've heard of Dino Bravo, didn’t know he was murdered. PS. I didn't see that episode of Dark side of the ring yet, I just finished the Gino Hernandez episode.
I had a substitute teacher tell us he played starting linebacker for the 1960 Philadelphia Eagles championship team but was injured and didnt play in the championship so they didnt give him a ring but did give him a nfl east championship ring which he wore and showed us. He also walked using 2 canes in each hand and said he not only played against jim brown but tackled him many times. So you can probably imagine my disappointment when the internet came out. Strange lie for an old man to portray, but he sold it well.
Shondor Birns/Danny Greene took place in Cleveland-my home town. I didn't know about the history of the mob in Cleveland until a few years ago from a Reelz series. I'm in Chicago now. I used to live near the St. Valentine's scene.
Side note... When you see "g" next to an "l" like in famiglia, the g is silent. Same with GN. C-E and C-I the C sounds like CH. CH=K CHI = key CHE- "K" ZZ... The first Z sounds like a T and the second one sounds like a S. Like Abruzzo (Ah brut soh) or pizza(peet sah). The is what I picked up after 3 years of dating an Italian!
If you from Cleveland and didn’t know about the mob then brother you must have grew up sheltered. Them guys been around and ruled the city for over a century
@@valueofselfpodcast9593 I'll take that as a compliment. 😄 But... I really grew up in East Cleveland. So sheltered from the Italian/Irish war, but had other things around me.
@@janeentumbao8690 It wasn’t meant to insult you but it’s shocking that you didn’t know about them. You didn’t have to be around them to know of the presence/power they had. If it came off as sarcastic then I apologize ✌🏽
@@valueofselfpodcast9593 I know ya didn't. (air hug) All's groovy mahn. It takes alot to offend me. And I'm the queen of sarcasm. I work in insurance sales. 😁
I saw a documentary about Danny Greene. I wondered if he knew would be killed eventually. It was too much of a coincidence that, an art student was near the scene of his murder and drew a composite of his killers.
What about Vincent "Mad Dog" Coll hit (1932) He was whacked in a NY pharmacy phone booth while calling Owney Madden and threatening him A hit team was sent to the location and riddled the phone booth with a Thompson The gunman was so precise that shot out all the glass without touching the woodwork Coll was hit 15 times
Owney Madden was the Mafia's whiskey smuggler for New York. Madden's friend Joseph Kennedy--father of JFK--was the mob's whiskey smuggler for Massachusetts.
The two mobsters killed in the movie Casino have a strange connection to me! Me and my family were taking a vacation to the Grand Canyon when suddenly it came on the news two mobsters were found in an abandoned section of a cornfield lol.
Delivered papers in Cleveland during the mob war and business was great because of it and read every day about it. People found parts of Shondor Birns and his car a mile away. Heard and felt one bomb at 4 AM when I was out. At the time we were bombing capital of the world. My dad was going to get a washer and dryer from Shondor at 3 AM but my mom freaked out and wouldn't take it and Danny Green stories are a dime a dozen here because he was well known so we rooted for him. Like he had a magical power they tried to kill him so many times it was crazy.
Me to, it's still pretty fresh in my mind. I was 13 at the time. Sammy Gravano and the Teflon Don John Gotti did it. My wife watches brain numbing sh1t on the TV. She watches these real Housewive's reality show's. One is the New Jersey show. I pmsl because they are all mobsters wives. One of them even owns a trash collection company. Others deported back to Sicilly, fkn mental. Just normalize the sh1t.
Frankie DePaula a boxer from Jersey City was killed in a Mob hit.. My whole family is from Jersey City, my grandmother and was a good friend of the family so i grew up hearing the stories.. RIP Frankie DePaula
Joe massoria was murdered on my block in coney island it's was on 15 st and just off surf avenue there was a hotel/restaurant right on the boardwalk there's a really famous picture of the warriors (movie) that their standing in front of a wall that says warriors on it that's the hotel.
I grew up in West Philly and as a young kid in the early 80s it seemed like every week some mobsters was getting wacked in South Philly. Back then you would sometimes see the dead bodies on the cover of the Daily News.
Jesus! I couldn't imagine growing up with stuff like that. Around my area 3 cop cars were dispatched if a kid was riding his bike with flip flops on. And, all 3 cops were probably related to the kid. It was a small town.
Out of all the names that they mentioned how could they not talk about Joe Columbo. They put every boss that was "Whacked" on the that list except Joe. Someone clearly didnt do enough research
Joe Columbo drew too much attention to the mob. He was killed in Columbus Circle, surrounded by possibly two thousand people. The black man who was hired to kill him was then killed--by plan--within a few seconds of him killing Columbo.
I was goin on 2 when Bravo died in 93 and after watchin darkside of the ring the way his family found him was disturbing and was more traumatizing was his daughter saw it first if he would've listen to Rick Martel when Rick told him to come back to the WWF with he would still be here
@@frankwright3773 he's right though. there's a website you can go to that somehow has real time births, deaths, murders, accidents, etc. globally. i wonder how they pulled that off
1:00 M & M murders , they werent killed because they were robbers. They killed a guy who ran a bar and a waitress who had nothing to do w anything, and they did it in Elmwood park and area off limits to anyone doing crime since the mob bosses lived there in
Puggy wasn’t killed with an ice pick - they’d tied his arms and legs up behind his back while wrapped around his neck. As he struggled, or tried not to struggle, the rope around his neck got tighter and tighter Puggy essentially killed himself
@@cynhiacations9879 It was the mob, hired by Texas locals, including a former Chicago mobster, who then killed Lee Harvey Oswald. The killers were paid by about six Texas oil men. The assassination itself was planned and set in motion by the vice president, Lyndon Baines Johnson.
They don't know for sure that dino bravo was hit on the orders of the mob. He was working outside of mob activities and was exclusively involved with native gangs and the montreal chapter of the hells angel's, he was a known close associate of one Maurice "Mom" Boucher who was a high ranking member in the gang at the time.
Alot if Inconstinces in this Video, Like when they Say Angelo Bruno was Killed by His Under-Boss which isn't true it was His Consigliere(Advisor) Tony "Banana's" Caponigro at the time Ang UB(Underboss) Was Phillip Testa which would get killed a yr later(Via Nailbomb), The Window was Dropped Ang was Heavy Smoker to Discard his Cigarette & Caponigro came up behind & hit Ang behind the Head with they Shotgun(Boom!)
I am surrounded by corn fields and this area was frequented by Chicago mafia leaders back in the day... I wonder how many shallow graves are around here. 🤔
_"Mr. Gambini, I contacted a friend in New York and found something very interesting about Joe Gallo..."_ _"Joe Gallo? He's dead! I'm Joe CALLO."_ That joke lands differently, now. 😂
Joe Gallo was called "Crazy Joe" but was anything but crazy. From what I've read about him, he was ruthless, calculating and a cold blooded killer. I heard at my grandmother's funeral in 2002 that he could be related to the family, but I've never tried to confirm it. Not sure if that's something I want to know.
@17:36 "Bugsy" Siegel was found dead in his girlfriend Virginia Hill's home. The well-connected gangster moll had taken a sudden trip to Paris days before.
She conveniently left just before an back just in time. With all the mobsters she screwed, I'm sure she knew what was going to happen! She helped get him killed stealing from under his nose! She died alone, broke without a dime. By that time she wasn't worth looking at let alone touch!!!!
@@HAL9000s3 do you have proof that she was tipped off? Cause I have seen nothing to actually prove that. I just merely mentioned about there being the rumor. It definitely wouldn't surprise me if she was tipped off
That last one, it wasn't 7 gangsters who were put up against a wall. It was 6... and one "genius" civilian who enjoyed being a Hanger-On. That is to say, someone not part of the Life; but who thought that it and actual gangsters were exciting and fun. So he hung around them. And, those particular gangsters liked him enough that they let him.
@@karenblaine7266 RE: "A dentist who enjoyed hanging out with mobsters." I'm pretty sure that the "hanger-on" was a reporter for a Chicago newspaper. Today we'd call him a mob groupie.
Wait you’re telling me that Dino Bravo was killed by the mafia? I knew he was murdered but I never really looked into it and mob history and pro wrestling are my 2 favorite things, it’s like a fucked Crossover episode
Yeah, crazy story. He was in with a Canadian mob family tied to the NY Bonanno family. He started trafficking cigarettes & also got involved with cocaine smuggling. Him & the guy he was working with got busted. Not long after, he was shot to death in his home. His wife & daughter found him.
@@mattr2164he probably wouldn't have rolled anyways, which is the sad part. He knew how to keep industry secrets, and they could have washed a lot of cash through "meet and greet" sessions. Just bad business all around.
@@xerothedarkstarthere is more to it then just getting busted. I think he changed alliances and owed a few bucks. I think on of his stash houses got robbed and the bosses thought some thing funny was up. His father in law was pretty high up there so it had to be serious.
Oh yeah, history about mob punks always falls on the side of 'brilliance'. If you're into Italians that made historey, how about looking into Galileo, DaVinci, Rafael, Michelangelo, et al.
"Well they blew up the Chicken Man in Philly last night, and they blew up his house, too." --- Springsteen, "Atlantic City" Never knew those lyrics were about something real.
Yep. Interesting to note the following: Rocco Maranuchi was killed by Salvatore Testa approximately one year to the day Philip Testa was killed The person who actually made the 💣 which killed "the chicken man" Philip Testa turned himself in to police shortly after Maranuchi was killed. Salvatore "Salvie" Testa was killed himself a few years later.
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wow great information maybe I can be a criminal like you too --- idiots that have access to the internet - you dont have to be smart to post a story on the net - as proven by this waste of time story .....
Imagine that ALL these guys are NOW roasting in HELL! For ETERNITY!
"Well, they blew up the Chicken Man in Philly last night; blew up his house too. Down on the boardwalk they're ready for a fight; gonna see what them racket boys can do"--Chucky Weinstein.
❤
Chris Rock - " black on black crime ain't nothing compared to Italian on Italian crime "
Way more black on black crime tho
@@mrhumble2937 like bloods and crips
Everybody Hates Chris Tv Show 😀😀😀😀😀
@@99mrpogi yup
Makes me wonder what would have happened in NYC and Chicago when all the ‘peaceful protests’ were going on if the Mafia was still strong. Just sayin, because they made so much cash off protection rackets.
Joe E. Lewis died in 1971 from a stroke at age 69. McGurn did not kill him. He TRIED to kill him in 1927, but Lewis survived.
If youve ever been in a situation that makes the news.......then you know the news always gets it wrong. I have experianced that 1st hand a few times personally and a business l worked for in my early to late 20s were sued and it went all the way to Good morning America and literally everything that was said was all complete lies. The definition of journalism hasnt changed but in reality journalism is a joke and is used as a tool and its always for hire to the highest bidder. Lawyers share this trait 100% as well.
They got Luciano's picture wrong too.
My good buddy Bill.
@@drkilljoy6807 Sluggo, you dog!
I thought he died from a heart attack
I caught “Kill The Irishman” once while flipping stations. I figured “What the hell? I’ll watch this because nothing else is on.” Turned out to be a pretty good movie.
Yep, no one ever talked about the Cleveland Mafia Scene before this movie, but somehow in almost every mafia movie Cleveland gets mentioned. I was a teen there when the bombing war between the Italians and Irish was going on. One of Shondir Birns' associates was a numbers runner named Don King, who after serving time for manslaughter became famous as a boxing promoter.
Those were the days. Worked in downtown Cleveland in the early 70s and my friends and I would go to the Theatrical on Vincent and Mr. Birns would be there. A bartender told us that he was a part owner and to not go near him. The Theatrical was like being in a mob movie.
@@MonGoalian That’s cool,I lived in Flint Mi. during the 70’s my aunt was florist on the same property as the Flint Home Juice company. The mobbed up juice company owned by the Giacolones won in a poker game. You don’t think about it when it’s happening.
That movie was boring ASF.
“Alright the Valentines Massacre brought your condemnation, but I’m going to sink you faster than your income tax evasion.” Blackbeard
Epic Rap Battles of History!!
When I toss you overboard, like a mob abomination!
@@cyrusjcrittso prepared to learn the Davy Jones locker combination.
Yes. This made my day
Woke up to this video, saw this comment first. Today's gonna be a good day.
13:03 A hitman named Capanegro? You're shittin' me....
Caponegro
What's funny about being called "black-head"? Acne sufferers would not laugh...
no fucking way. No fucking way that was his name LMAO omg
It means "Black Cloak"
@dullahan7677 I'm laughing my Black ass off over here! 🤣🤘🏾
Joe E. Lewis wasn't killed by Jack McGurn, an associate of McGurn slashed Lewis's face and neck and left him for dead, but he survived and died in 1971. This happened in 1927 and Sinatra played him in a movie about his life called The Joker Is Wild in1957.
It also messed up his voice and that's why he went into comedy as he was, originally, more of a singer.
You beat me to the punch!
Aptly appropriate considering his ties to the Giancana Family
True
I bet you did more research by looking this up at wikipedia than this Clickbait YT-channel did for all its videos @Pooch1953
One of the victims of the St. Valentines massacre wasn’t a gangster, he was just a mechanic who was in the garage doing a job, he was in the wrong spot at the wrong time
and working too, to pay the bills
And the MAIN TARGET WAS NOT HIT, A GANG GRUPIE A DR.??WAS MISTAKEN FOR HIM. HE SAW THE COPS AND KEEP DRIVING.
Left a witness too. The garage dog.
Gangsters are nothing but animals
@@Zack-fu4lo Blundetto certainly was
Bravos wife’s Dad was also a mob boss and she magically left with the kids at 11pm to get ice cream in a snowstorm the night Dino was shot at home…..
Well if that doesn't sound funny
Interesting
A few people have said it already, but I’m gonna say it again…it’s time for a CrimeMojo channel yo!
Why? They are terrible with research and get just as much incorrect as correct
@@timsmith1323 It’s good way to learn about crime stories you may not have heard about. And from there you can do your own research. It’s a good jumping off point. People should always go find out sh!t for themselves anyway!
@@timsmith1323why are you watching this then if you are complaining?
@timsmith1323 Well.. They do make mistakes in their researches but it does open the doors to people researching the story for themselves.. That's a good thing.. And I hope they do create a crime channel..
Dino Bravo was shot while watching a hockey game. Can't get more Canadian than that.
🤔👍🤣👍
When Joe the boss was in charge of his organization it wasn't called the Genovese family yet
I wondered about that too.
Yeah, The Masseria crime family was the predecessor to the Genovese crime family, and the same can also be said for the Morello and Luciano crime families (both being predecessors to the modern day Genovese crime family).
Phil Testa’s killing was also mentioned in the opening lines Bruce Springsteen song Atlantic City - “Well they blew up the Chicken Man in Philly last night, and they blew up his house too…”
Michelle Obama was singing the back up vocals to glory days ! I used to love that song now I turn off Bruce stuff !
The Band covered that song and their version is so much better.
@Montilivio Monty lmaooo sucker! Bruce was always a liberal
What a stupid lyric. It makes it sound like they blew him up then went to his house and blew it up. Springsteen sucks so for him or whatever cretin song writer for him that is as good as any other of his awful lyrics. Born in the usa. Says it all.
@@montiliviomonty411weird
That scene in Casino is brutal
I think there's been an active hit on Yolanda Salvadar ever since she killed Selena. That's how loved she was as a singer.
IIRC she was put in protection at the prison since the moment she was incarcerated. Otherwise she would have been eaten alive in general population.
She’s getting out in 2025. That trick is done for the Mexican mafia put money on her head.
@@BackupPlans1 As soon as she hits general population it's over for her..
What still chocks me, is the American admiration for these creeps.
Blame the media and movies makes it look so interesting but in reality it’s horrible I love goodfellas but never wanted to be a gangster or support it
there is so many weird people out there
Not all Americans
@@marksamuelsen2750 for sure. But it's a big part of American culture.
Yeah, like the admiration of Europeans for Hitler and Mussolini.
Now this is content I live for
you know they've uploaded this same stuff over a period of years ago in multiple different videos?
i used to love watchmojo
but when you've been a sub since they started, after a certain year they quit uploading anything new.
i just watched a video uploaded 3 months ago that's still talking about area 51, freemasons, bohemian grove, roanoke colony except they called it "rowan oak"; my point being they aren't uploading anything NEW....
"Oh yeah, I remember that picture of Albert Anastasia lying there all amicable on the barbershop floor." 😂
“There were exceptions.”
I remember watching Dino Bravo on TV as a kid. Had no idea he went out like this, wow.
I remember watching "The Saint Valentine's Day Massacre" on television as a kid. At the time it was by far the most brutal violence I had ever witnessed in cinema.
It was all fake, pretend, actors, not real. You witnessed acting and that's all.
@@drats1279 Nice troll.
@@drats1279that’s why they said “witnessed in cinema”….lol they weren’t acting like they saw it happen in person 😂
@@drats1279 you might want to learn to actually read 🙄
@@drats1279
The pictures of bugsy's crime scene are actually disturbing. Overkill
They found one of his eyeballs on
the floor across the room.
Jack McGurn didn’t kill Joe E Lewis.
He slashed him up really good but he didn’t kill him. Lewis died from a heart attack in 1971.
It was still a hit though. Just an unsuccessful one.
Where's the Salvatore Maranzano hit...that was the final boss to fall in the Castelamarese War and his death allowed Lucky Luciano to form the Commission in NY and the National Crime Syndicate..as big a hit as they come!!
As a Wrestling fan the Dino Bravo murder shocked me
Same. Saw him wrestle many times with both the good and bad personas. I had never heard about this.
@@moleqle I was very young when he was killed so didn't understand at the time as I've got older and learned about it it's horrible
Me too used to watch him back in the 80s
The murder shocked Dino Bravo too.
@@kansasross wow stupid comment alert.
Joe Gallo died on the same day, at the same hour, in the same hospital in New York City, as I was born. Beekman Hospital (it is called New York-Presbyterian Lower Manhattan Hospital today) Wikipedia says he was pronounced dead at 5:30am April 7, 1972.. I was born at 5:45am April 7, 1972!
Yep. I was born in that hospital, too,just a couple years earlier
reincarnation
Wow, that was close dead at 5:30 AM and then you are born 15 minutes later. LOL
I think the police might have some questions for you.😂
You are him.
Caponigro wasn’t Angelo Bruno’s Underboss, he was Bruno’s Consigliere. Phil Testa was the underboss
an older guy in the nieghborhood served a lot of years of his life behind bars. I would listen to his stories for hours.
Thanks for the list of movies!
“The Chicken Man” is also what Gus Fring was sometimes called! The “Big Tuna” murders? Andy’s nickname for Jim on “The Office!” BIG TUNA!!
Funny enough, Gus Fring had a similar death to. Being exploded.
I was fishing off San Diego and I caught a blue fin tuna.
It was big.
Tony Accardo is probably the most successful crime boss of all time.
And he was from the orginal chicago outfit when Al Capone was around
@Landon Miles
RE: "Tony Accardo is probably the most successful crime boss of all time."
I would say that Meyer Lansky, Carlo Gambino, and Santo Trafficante were more successful. All of them spent little to no time in jail and they all died of natural causes.
Carlo Gambino and Tommy Lucchese can be compared, in terms of success.
No?
Donato Torrio was also quite good. Its sad they bash him in many Capone movies.
I'm a wrestling fan and I've heard of Dino Bravo, didn’t know he was murdered. PS. I didn't see that episode of Dark side of the ring yet, I just finished the Gino Hernandez episode.
Am also a wrestling fan,
Yeah. After his career, he got deep into trafficking things like untaxed cigarettes and the like. Those Canadians don't muck about.
Well worth the watch.
The Dino Bravo murder was shocking.
Wow never knew thay
My best friend growing up, his grandfather was in a neighboring building at the time of the Valentines day massacre
Joe E. Lewis died of a heart attack in 1969. But he was assaulted by Jack "Machine Gun" McGurn and left for dead.
I had a substitute teacher tell my class about how she felt the explosion that killed Danny Greene ,a couple years later kill the Irishman came out.
danny is my great grandfather... my dad has a family picture to proof it
@@michaelgreene2149I wanna see that picture. You still in Cleveland?
Al Capone was my great grandfathers cousin
The man that designed the Titanic was one of my relatives Thomas Andrews ! Im guessing that none of you want a boat built do you ? LoL
I had a substitute teacher tell us he played starting linebacker for the 1960 Philadelphia Eagles championship team but was injured and didnt play in the championship so they didnt give him a ring but did give him a nfl east championship ring which he wore and showed us. He also walked using 2 canes in each hand and said he not only played against jim brown but tackled him many times. So you can probably imagine my disappointment when the internet came out. Strange lie for an old man to portray, but he sold it well.
Shondor Birns/Danny Greene took place in Cleveland-my home town.
I didn't know about the history of the mob in Cleveland until a few years ago from a Reelz series.
I'm in Chicago now. I used to live near the St. Valentine's scene.
Side note...
When you see "g" next to an "l" like in famiglia, the g is silent. Same with GN.
C-E and C-I the C sounds like CH.
CH=K CHI = key CHE- "K"
ZZ... The first Z sounds like a T and the second one sounds like a S. Like Abruzzo (Ah brut soh) or pizza(peet sah).
The is what I picked up after 3 years of dating an Italian!
If you from Cleveland and didn’t know about the mob then brother you must have grew up sheltered. Them guys been around and ruled the city for over a century
@@valueofselfpodcast9593 I'll take that as a compliment. 😄
But... I really grew up in East Cleveland. So sheltered from the Italian/Irish war, but had other things around me.
@@janeentumbao8690 It wasn’t meant to insult you but it’s shocking that you didn’t know about them. You didn’t have to be around them to know of the presence/power they had. If it came off as sarcastic then I apologize ✌🏽
@@valueofselfpodcast9593 I know ya didn't. (air hug) All's groovy mahn. It takes alot to offend me.
And I'm the queen of sarcasm. I work in insurance sales. 😁
I saw a documentary about Danny Greene. I wondered if he knew would be killed eventually. It was too much of a coincidence that, an art student was near the scene of his murder and drew a composite of his killers.
I see Dino Bravo and immediately click it.
What about Vincent "Mad Dog" Coll hit (1932) He was whacked in a NY pharmacy phone booth while calling Owney Madden and threatening him A hit team was sent to the location and riddled the phone booth with a Thompson The gunman was so precise that shot out all the glass without touching the woodwork Coll was hit 15 times
The hitman's dad was probably a woodworker so he appreciated the artistry and left it alone. 😂
Owney Madden was the Mafia's whiskey smuggler for New York.
Madden's friend Joseph Kennedy--father of JFK--was the mob's
whiskey smuggler for Massachusetts.
The two mobsters killed in the movie Casino have a strange connection to me!
Me and my family were taking a vacation to the Grand Canyon when suddenly it came on the news two mobsters were found in an abandoned section of a cornfield lol.
Yea what a strange connection 🙄😆
How does that in anyway connect to you
@Leo Steventon it happened right down the street lol.
What a weird connection. I was at Knott's Berry
Farm in Buena Park on the Sunday that Pearl
Harbor was bombed.
I'll never forget it.
@@kansasross I forgot to add we were at a hotel two blocks down.
Supposedly, the cigar was placed in Carmine Galante’s mouth by the photographer. A cop said when he got to the scene, there was no cigar.
Delivered papers in Cleveland during the mob war and business was great because of it and read every day about it. People found parts of Shondor Birns and his car a mile away. Heard and felt one bomb at 4 AM when I was out. At the time we were bombing capital of the world. My dad was going to get a washer and dryer from Shondor at 3 AM but my mom freaked out and wouldn't take it and Danny Green stories are a dime a dozen here because he was well known so we rooted for him. Like he had a magical power they tried to kill him so many times it was crazy.
I'm sorry... getting a washer and dryer at 3 AM?
There was drug money in those machines.
Your dad was a mob guy.
😂
I remember Paul Castellano’s whacking that was huge here in New York shocked everybody.
Me to, it's still pretty fresh in my mind. I was 13 at the time. Sammy Gravano and the Teflon Don John Gotti did it. My wife watches brain numbing sh1t on the TV. She watches these real Housewive's reality show's. One is the New Jersey show. I pmsl because they are all mobsters wives. One of them even owns a trash collection company. Others deported back to Sicilly, fkn mental. Just normalize the sh1t.
Felt it here so much in Illinoid.even Gotti lived in the state.🤣🤣.
Castellano was shocked too.
Frankie DePaula a boxer from Jersey City was killed in a Mob hit.. My whole family is from Jersey City, my grandmother and was a good friend of the family so i grew up hearing the stories.. RIP Frankie DePaula
Indeed! He was an innocent pawn killed by cowards.
“Easter’s Holy Saturday” 😂😂😂😂
Joe massoria was murdered on my block in coney island it's was on 15 st and just off surf avenue there was a hotel/restaurant right on the boardwalk there's a really famous picture of the warriors (movie) that their standing in front of a wall that says warriors on it that's the hotel.
Jim Norton piping in as Joe Gallo is legendary.
What about Billy Leotardo? That animal Blundetto shot him 6 times without provocation whatsoever. He was just a kid, didn't even make it to 47.
Whatever happened there
I'm about to make it to 47, next month...
I still think I'm a kid! 😢
Quite the kid.
Sad when they go that young
@@NarwahlGaming46 next month and same
I find all these videos. So interesting. My grandmother grew up while this was going on. ❤❤❤
I grew up in West Philly and as a young kid in the early 80s it seemed like every week some mobsters was getting wacked in South Philly. Back then you would sometimes see the dead bodies on the cover of the Daily News.
Yikes !
That was Nicky Scarfo for you......
In West Philadelphia born and raised, on the playground’s where I spend most of my days…..thanks for that garbage
Jesus! I couldn't imagine growing up with stuff like that.
Around my area 3 cop cars were dispatched if a kid was riding his bike with flip flops on.
And, all 3 cops were probably related to the kid.
It was a small town.
@@NarwahlGaming 🤣🤣🤣
I always wondered why happened to Dino Bravo, had no idea he was murdered.
“Anybody can get got.”
- Odafin Tutuola, Law and Order: Special Victims Unit
14 year old Bugsy really had people paying him to protect them from him. 😂
Out of all the names that they mentioned how could they not talk about Joe Columbo. They put every boss that was "Whacked" on the that list except Joe. Someone clearly didnt do enough research
Probaly because Joe lived for years in a coma. Technically he wasn't whacked.
Literally the most famous mob boss to get a hit put out on him. That sparked a new era for the mob.
The only profiled hits they could find some docu-drama footage for.
Joe Columbo drew too much attention to the mob.
He was killed in Columbus Circle, surrounded by
possibly two thousand people. The black man
who was hired to kill him was then killed--by
plan--within a few seconds of him killing Columbo.
They missed the most infamous hit of all times, Hoffa one
"The Last Words Of Dutch Shultz" is fascinating...
I was goin on 2 when Bravo died in 93 and after watchin darkside of the ring the way his family found him was disturbing and was more traumatizing was his daughter saw it first if he would've listen to Rick Martel when Rick told him to come back to the WWF with he would still be here
What schocks me is the everyday murders
Not the Mob related ones.
You came HERE to say that?? 🤔🧐🤨
@@frankwright3773 he's right though. there's a website you can go to that somehow has real time births, deaths, murders, accidents, etc. globally. i wonder how they pulled that off
*shocks ..
3:10 So that is who Gus Fring's character was inspired by
Great video !
These guys get lucky that the witnesses keep forgetting to testify.
1:00 M & M murders , they werent killed because they were robbers. They killed a guy who ran a bar and a waitress who had nothing to do w anything, and they did it in Elmwood park and area off limits to anyone doing crime since the mob bosses lived there in
now this is what we watch your channel for
Puggy wasn’t killed with an ice pick - they’d tied his arms and legs up behind his back while wrapped around his neck. As he struggled, or tried not to struggle, the rope around his neck got tighter and tighter
Puggy essentially killed himself
Jack McGurn was gunned down in a phone booth. They found him with a nickel in the palm of his hand. The same calling card he used.
Frank Guzenburg not telling the police who did it even in death: Gangster AF.
*You forgot JFK*
The Mob or CIA ... we'll never know
@@cynhiacations9879 It was the mob, hired by
Texas locals, including a former Chicago
mobster, who then killed Lee Harvey Oswald.
The killers were paid by about six Texas oil
men. The assassination itself was planned
and set in motion by the vice president,
Lyndon Baines Johnson.
The Cia killed jfk but the Irish mob took out Lee Harvey Oswald
Maybe both @@cynhiacations9879
Central Intelligence Agency
Nice work, great video!!!! Very entertaining!
I saw Dino Bravo wrestle many times. I didn’t know about this.
Tony Accardo was one of the gunmen in the St. Valentine’s Day massacre. He lived forever after the shooting.
That's a lie he told.
UNBELIEVABLE
They don't know for sure that dino bravo was hit on the orders of the mob.
He was working outside of mob activities and was exclusively involved with native gangs and the montreal chapter of the hells angel's, he was a known close associate of one Maurice "Mom" Boucher who was a high ranking member in the gang at the time.
One of his uncles was a high ranking boss
Pretty sure Boucher was more than a high-ranking member, his word was law in "the gang".
I remember seeing Castellano's and Gillante's deas bodies on the front page of the Daily News
NOOOOO!!! The actual BODIES, not just pictures?
McGurn did not kill Lewis, just beat the hell out of him
Alot if Inconstinces in this Video, Like when they Say Angelo Bruno was Killed by His Under-Boss which isn't true it was His Consigliere(Advisor) Tony "Banana's" Caponigro at the time Ang UB(Underboss) Was Phillip Testa which would get killed a yr later(Via Nailbomb), The Window was Dropped Ang was Heavy Smoker to Discard his Cigarette & Caponigro came up behind & hit Ang behind the Head with they Shotgun(Boom!)
13:06 LOL. That’s…..an amazing last name. 🤣😂🤣😂🤣
Holy shit Joe Pesci was the perfect pick for Spilotro more then what I originally thought!!
Bugsy didn’t start Las Vegas. The Flamingo wasn’t his idea and he failed at it when he took it over
The Spilottro Brother were found in a Corn Field just down the country road from my old home.
I am surrounded by corn fields and this area was frequented by Chicago mafia leaders back in the day...
I wonder how many shallow graves are around here. 🤔
Chris Jericho narrating in the first few seconds caught me off guard at first
Gallo had nothing to do with the Anastasia hit. Gambino wasn't involved either. It was Joseph Biondo Charles Dongara and Joseph Ricobono
_"Mr. Gambini, I contacted a friend in New York and found something very interesting about Joe Gallo..."_
_"Joe Gallo? He's dead! I'm Joe CALLO."_
That joke lands differently, now. 😂
Ha-ha! You are so fonny!
Wait. How did these mob hits make the list but the hit on Joe Columbo Sr, and the hit on Jimmy Hoffa not make the list.
Two things killed Segal:
1. Bad timing
2. Bad choice in women
Can you do comic book origin of DC Hitman(Tommy Monaghan)?
U on to something with that❤💯
Ive seen the st valentine wall its insane to think about and see it in person...
Watching this, I was thinking the mob didn't fair too well as an equal opportunities employer. Women certainly dodged a bullet there.
Not really. Lots of women were killed by the mob. Wrong place wrong time.
Automatically knew the st Valentine’s Day massacre was gonna be number one
Joe Gallo was called "Crazy Joe" but was anything but crazy. From what I've read about him, he was ruthless, calculating and a cold blooded killer. I heard at my grandmother's funeral in 2002 that he could be related to the family, but I've never tried to confirm it. Not sure if that's something I want to know.
Oh come on , I'm sure he wouldn't hurt family
@@justincox119 He's been dead over 50 years, so that isn't a concern. Just not sure I want to know if my family is actually connected.
They called him crazy cuz he had schizophrenia. So saying he was anything but is false.
Ok
@Giulioricciardimusic😂
They say Tony Accardo was a gentle guy & he managed to outlive all those Chicago big shots & not die in prison.
@17:36 "Bugsy" Siegel was found dead in his girlfriend Virginia Hill's home. The well-connected gangster moll had taken a sudden trip to Paris days before.
She conveniently left just before an back just in time. With all the mobsters she screwed, I'm sure she knew what was going to happen! She helped get him killed stealing from under his nose! She died alone, broke without a dime. By that time she wasn't worth looking at let alone touch!!!!
Yeah with her sudden trip gave way to the longstanding rumor that she was tipped off before the hit
@@SteveSmith-fp9gn It's a fact. Mob hits don't occur in a vacuum.
@@HAL9000s3 do you have proof that she was tipped off? Cause I have seen nothing to actually prove that. I just merely mentioned about there being the rumor. It definitely wouldn't surprise me if she was tipped off
Hello youtube! I also have a relative, friend, and/or I am somehow connected to EVERYTHING in this video 😂
That last one, it wasn't 7 gangsters who were put up against a wall. It was 6... and one "genius" civilian who enjoyed being a Hanger-On. That is to say, someone not part of the Life; but who thought that it and actual gangsters were exciting and fun. So he hung around them. And, those particular gangsters liked him enough that they let him.
A dentist who enjoyed hanging out with mobsters. Should have picked collecting butterflies as a hobby.
@@karenblaine7266
RE: "A dentist who enjoyed hanging out with mobsters."
I'm pretty sure that the "hanger-on" was a reporter for a Chicago newspaper. Today we'd call him a mob groupie.
@@spaceman081447 He was a dentist.
Interesting list
Is that voice in the intro Chris Jericho?
Yes it is. He narrates on Dark Side of The Ring Quite Often.
I always wondered what happened to Dino Bravo. Now I know.
Wait you’re telling me that Dino Bravo was killed by the mafia? I knew he was murdered but I never really looked into it and mob history and pro wrestling are my 2 favorite things, it’s like a fucked Crossover episode
Yeah, crazy story. He was in with a Canadian mob family tied to the NY Bonanno family. He started trafficking cigarettes & also got involved with cocaine smuggling. Him & the guy he was working with got busted. Not long after, he was shot to death in his home. His wife & daughter found him.
Snitches get stitches and end up in ditches
@@mattr2164he probably wouldn't have rolled anyways, which is the sad part. He knew how to keep industry secrets, and they could have washed a lot of cash through "meet and greet" sessions. Just bad business all around.
Gene Hernandez is another one whom was possibly killed by the mob
@@xerothedarkstarthere is more to it then just getting busted. I think he changed alliances and owed a few bucks. I think on of his stash houses got robbed and the bosses thought some thing funny was up. His father in law was pretty high up there so it had to be serious.
Thanks for this, brilliant piece of history and well narrated and presented, well done.
Oh yeah, history about mob punks always falls on the side of 'brilliance'. If you're into Italians that made historey, how about looking into Galileo, DaVinci, Rafael, Michelangelo, et al.
I wonder what killed Giancana, the sausage or the bullet? Both are bad for you.
Beware and watch out for The mob
Mojo is Canadian talking about American mobs… lol 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
It’s ok to make a mistake on a video but there is way too much incorrect information in this one.
as a wrestling fan i think they chose the best thumbnail possible
"Well they blew up the Chicken Man in Philly last night, and they blew up his house, too."
--- Springsteen, "Atlantic City"
Never knew those lyrics were about something real.
Yep. Interesting to note the following:
Rocco Maranuchi was killed by Salvatore Testa approximately one year to the day Philip Testa was killed
The person who actually made the 💣 which killed "the chicken man" Philip Testa turned himself in to police shortly after Maranuchi was killed.
Salvatore "Salvie" Testa was killed himself a few years later.