Oh man I’m so glad somebody else said something. That Gotti movie with Travolta was the first time I walked out in the middle of a movie in probably 30 years!
How much did he actually enjoy his power/money 💰roaming around the lower east side. In a bath robe and slippers residing in a tenament apartment -???😱.
20:38 I said it before and I'll say it again, the voice of Angelo Ruggiero is exactly the same as Vincent Pastore's, the actor who portrayed Pussy Bonponsiero in the Sopranos. Exactly the same.
He was a dumbass with a child's mentality, like all these gangsters. Yeah, people fear them, but is that all they want from life? They're stuck in adolescence. Schoolyard bullies, all of them, with little boy brains. Why make them out to be more than they are? His downfall was his own childishness. "Mom! Look what I can do!!!"
My name is Tommy, I love taking a break from my shinebox and watching these documentary's, I had a customer today--Billy Batts I did a perfect shine job and he refused to pay,I wont forget this
Mickey Featherstone was my first customer. Couldn't pay, so I gave him another 6 months. (Then, I gave him a hot karl and he sucked me off in a broom closet, as he is known to do for rocks)
@@vicvega861 My cousins name is Tony and he loves kissing other men. Does it all the time. He also pleads loyalty to a bunch of gumbas over his own family. Goes through some gay ritual where they burn a Saint's mass card. How gay.
It was the wise decision, given the scenario, and being a Parent who put his son before himself. The most intelligent decision he had made. Living each day with the facts of countless murders, most of which were unnecessary would be a subject no one has the experience to judge. Ego Mind is where the negatives are found, Higher Mind is where balance and Wisdom resides. . It is clear which was the standard in this story's scenarios.
Philly born and raised. This stuff was on the 6 o'clock news everyday. Crazy times. I was 10yrs old when Bruno went down. Channel 6 Action News. My Mom would be cooking dinner while I watched this on a 10" black&white TV in the corner.
A full length movie about the Philly mob in the 70s and 80s would be such a hit I think if done right start with Bruno then chicken man testa and finally scarfos reign as boss no need to see Joey merlinos time
Not for nothing scarfo was a psycho before he became boss and Gotti had no business being anything above a capo. Due to law enforcement Organized crime's hey dey was way behind us but putting ppl in leadership roles that had absolutely no business being in them didn't help. Scarfo, Gotti, gaspipe, persico list goes on and on these guys single handily destroyed their given family. Families basically helped law enforcement by putting these guys in charge. What made it even worse was when they got life sentences they made their 20yr old sons Boss which further grenaded everything
I agree except Persico! He did well under thr circumstances imo. Gotti was the end of it all. Total clown! They were better served under Paul who was a greedy fk who ignored the street talk he wasn't a fkn idiot celebrity wannabe. The last thing you need in a mafia boss. The chin was the best the had in that time. Shrewed as they come.
@@lancesmith889 exactly... most of them are meat heads. But another serious issue which they themselves don't realize is that they all want to be show offs, capos, bosses. One of the true old world mafia tenet is to not be a show off. This is their demise in America. Its time to go back to mafia school for them.
Agreed on the Gotti comment. People talk about him like he was a god. Guy was a nightmare for the Gambinos. Sammy the bull should have led the family. Whilst he did a lot of hits, he wasn't a psychopath like Scarfo, and unlike Gotti, he knew that keeping a low profile was key to staying out of trouble. Frankie DeCicco would also have been a good pick for the top spot.
Frank Dichico wasn't the underboss to Big Paul... It was Neil Delecroche then Neil dies December 2nd 85' and that fast Big Paul nominates his bodyguard Tommy Boloti......Single biggest mistake was killing Roy Demeo though........
I thought they found out later that Fat Tony Salerno was only a figurehead for Vincent "the Chin" Gigante. Then after that the chin started his crazy "odd-father" routine. Because Salerno went down for him, he became the "capo di tutti capi" or whatever it's name is.
Interesting/informative/entertaining. Excellent photography news coverage. Enabling viewers to better understand what the orator is describing. Special thanks to veteran law enforcement officers/mob members/news reporters. Making this documentary more authentic and possible -!!! 😉. Wishing viewers a safe/healthy/prosperous ( 2024 )🌈🎉😉.
That O’Brien dude is a liar they posed as Cable repairmen and put the bug in the cable box while Biloti overwatched they didn’t break in using some magic code breaker
Espionage strageties can be done in many ways. Nowadays even more easier, with less intrusion. Just for example tv antennaes that extend above a house roof can be used to hear conversations. Voices are a vibration and anything that can pick vibrations can be used as a mic. Then an electronic frequency device is pointed at the tv antenae to receive the conversations. These electronic devices can be in a truck or house across the street or even on a communication pole half a mile away. Glass windows can also be used as mics. Even spy drones can be used for video survelance.
A soft-spoken murderer this Leonetti. Quite likeable. Anybody in his shoes would roll facing that kind of time. He wasn't going to be a martyr for Scarfo. Former Catholic altar boy: holy Communion confession & fear of hellfire just like me. From that to Scarfo's world. Reminds me of Dominic Montiglio: Catholic altar boy Vietnam Vet musician nice guy soft spoken. From that to Nino Gaggi's world & all that entailed. Who knows what darkness lurks in the hearts of men? The Shadow knows.
The reason the feds thought Big Paul was untouchable was because he didn't meet with capos left & right.He insulated himself well.That along with the fact that he owned many legit businesses.It turned out he wasn't untouchable to the feds because he was under indictment when he was killed, and he wasn't untouchable to his resentful soldiers & skippers.John wasn't gonna kill Big Paul until Neil died because who knows what Neil would've done had they killed Paul before he passed away.John knew he was old school.
Big Paul had all the Capos visit his mansion weekly to pay tribute. That's how bosses make their money at the top. Some of them sent messengers, like Nino, although Nino frequently went up there personally. Big Paul also held all his mob business meetings right in his kitchen, and that's where the listening device was installed that got him on tape talking about boatloads of incriminating evidence. This practice was fine in the 60s & 70s, and prior, and all the bosses did this. Things changed during the 80s with the introduction of court-ordered wiretaps and bugs that were backed by a sealed warrant, and admissable as evidence in court. This was all new to Castellano and even Gotti, and the bosses in the commission trial. Prior to the 80s, the mob was still being bugged everywhere, but it was on illegal wiretaps, not admissable in court, and only for intelligence gathering, not an active investigation looking to imprison the upper mafia echelon.
mickey is in a few gambino (and gambino big wigs) docs search domminick montiglia,phil leonetti and (one of mickeys associates cant recall his name but they all told on their leaders ,and theres a 2 hour doc on them but its very good
Ill never forget being a little kid and seeing Gotti on channel 7 every night. It was literally every night. People who didn't live through that era in that part of the country don't understand. Big as any other public figure.
I am Belgian, born in '74... was about 10yrs old when my parents let me watch the evening news. Seeing reports about the mafia stunned me. It was so intimidating and spooky. I remember the Paul Castalano murder and trials where these old mobsters were brought in court in wheelchair, hospital beds.. and later all indeed all the Gotti news and also Pablo Escobar came in the spotlight. I followed up on these things even at that age. These guys held jaw dropping power and it was hard to fathom as a kid. Governments seemed truly powerless. I even remember the Mickey Munday gang being arrested.
The Mafia 2 talks about Union and kind of companies they control. This is verybinteresting to me because most average person really never know about this much.
As much as I dislike criminals and crime, I still don't see how the hell phone tapping and bugging are not only legal, but admissible in court. I personally think it's unconstitutional... And what if an agent sneaks into your house thinking Noone is home and you end up shooting them? Think you'll get away with it as if it were a normal B&E ? Definitely not !
Phone taping or an recording is legal even in a constitution. For one, the police go to a private court and ask the judge for permission to record your convos, if you are involved with murder, or an illegal activity that harms the public safety like drugs and grand theft or fraud, human trafficking/prostitution. If a complaint was made by a citizen the police have to follow thru the process or else they are liable for misfiance/malfiance of the law if someone becomes a victim. Also it it perfectly legal for another country to do secret survellance on any American citizen because that other country does not have the same constitutional laws as America, it is not liable to the American justice system. The foreign country can pass the recordings to America authorities for assessment, and still be within the laws of the country. Snowden has proved this, Obama had passed a law on meta data, this allows any country to collect data on any American citizen. US can do the same, collect data including phone convos of foreign countries citizens and be within the law. Enjoy your constitutional rights while valid, then someone comes and takes it away thru legal loop holes.
They have teams of professional burglars with all kinds of surveillance support. They wouldn't try to break in unless they had seen everyone who is there leave first.
its called probable cause google it for the list, and today everytime you speak in the phone and your smartphones/laptops basically anything that can be connected to the internet record everything you say. even you invent a code and used the market devices the government has code breakers meaning the government dont care about your privacy
DeMeo was the psycho of psycho’s! Him, Tommy Karate, Anthony Casso, Tommy DeSimone and Greg Scarpa all running around loose at once. That had to be an extremely dangerous time to be in NY.
in line wit the BBC crime inc documentary definetely one of the best TV features about the US cosa nostra. No silly role play very comprehensive not only focussed on the violence but also how the mafia works. Why are these kind of documentary nowadays not possible anymore?
I grew up in Canarsie, and had no idea this shit was going on all around me. Hell... In like 1969, they opened a head shop a few blocks away from the Gemini where we bought rolling paper.
I believe the original name of this documentary interviews was *War Against The Mafia* On part 1 about 36 mins in is a single frame or two that that shows it was recorded in the uk and says the name ‘war against the mafia’ While coming back from a commercial break
Mr. Brown The best comment on here. I can't stand these You Tube trolls that try to act like they have "inside" information. I don't. I just think it's interesting.
***** The Westies had nothing to do with blowing up DeCicco, they were the Gambinos' farm team. It was Genovese associate Herbie 'Blue Eyes' Pate who manufactured and detonated the bomb that killed DeCicco..
Excellent, excellent documentary!! I've read a lot of books about La Cosa Nostra and I've seen a ton of documentaries and videos. These have to be the best documentaries I've seen. I know very much about Chicago but I've read about New York and Philadelphia. This series of documentaries is excellent for anyone who has not read any of that stuff. Obviously you can't get as much depth from film as you do from the books but this is a great primer for what went down with Castellano and Philadelphia. Great job Thanks for posting this
@Charles Andrews hey Charles, which, if any, crew from the Outfit controlled areas such as South Holland, Harvey, Cal City, Gary In and those areas south of the city? Was it the Chicago Heights crew? And do they still have a presence in those areas?
@@rickslick. That would have been Frankie LaPorte from Chicago Heights. He was very tight with the big boys. He was part of the Inner Circle for many years. I don't know how much influence the outfit has anywhere these days.
Crime inc is by far the best mob documentary in my opinion. It covers just about every aspect of the mob in depth over 6 episodes. It's on UA-cam if you haven't seen it.
With all the millions these guys were making you would think they would hire 24/7 security guards to watch over the Ravenite. Nope! They left themselves wide open and they got nailed.
Gotti was once memorably described as a 'stone cold moron' by one of the organised crime detectives in New York. Got caught exactly the same way as Castellano. Why would you not presume surveillance at all times?
@@sousafortes9041I believe in the video it said that Frank DeCicco was Castello's underboss. I'm just assuming it said that because I watched this a long time ago and I'm just going by my original comment I posted when my memory was more fresh right after watching this. Anyway, if the video said DeCicco was Castello's underboss, I'm pretty sure they're wrong because DeCicco was John Gotti's underboss.
I was 2 blocks away when they whacked Big Paul Castellano. Sirens were coming from every direction but I kept walking. "I didn't see a thing" so to speak !
LCN shoulda been run as a community. No bosses. No drugs. No killings. Ya kill, ya go away. Ya deal drugs,, ya go away. Prison terms are on your own crimes. MAFIA should be about what it was originally formed for. Protect the people from outsiders.
58:35 the look on Gotti and Sammy's face though, these dudes were built for this life, I donno how they don't look stressed or anything, Sammy looks like he's already decided to give up Gotti, he looks like he has plan or somethin'😂
If hell is what you believe in. No one ever came back from the dead to say what its like in the other world, heaven or hell, if any. I don't beleive in hell after death. I believe this world is hell. We aĺl go to another realm after death, good and bad.
@@knightstar1312 That'd the scary part... No warning for others who have been there. But it doesn't mean hell is not real ..the word of God is here in the Scripture if we only believe and take heed
Vito no man, he wasn't under John, I forget who he was under but it definitely wasn't John, he was actually in Paul's wing of the family but i forget who his capo was. But he was close to Paul. Guys would actually go to Frank to get a meeting with Paul. It was actually John who approached Frank to get them to join them. And he was the one who set up the meeting at Sparks SteakHouse. John rewarded him by making him underboss.
Gotti is my least favorite boss. They talk about this guy how good looking he is, what a great dresser he is.. I just don't see it. His daughter is very unattractive also.
G Mont508 Phil was already dead , that’s the reason Nicky took over .... he got car bombed at his house by his underboss a year after he became the boss after Angelo Bruno got killed ...... that’s when New York has Nicky take over
I heard that mobster Michael Franceze had a deal going where he was able to get a cut out of every gallon of gasoline that was pumped for 7 years out of NJ. He got 4 cents out of every sale and of course there were millions and millions of gallons pumped in those 7 years. I think he made like $400 million. Probably rivaled by what the Italians made in NYC.
Joh allen....I don't think it was for 7 years...he went to prison in 1985/86 for it...b/c he couldn't stay out of the public eye....he caught the Gotti bug and wanted fame, hanging out with Hollywood types, making horrible movies...buying jet planes... and several huge mansions ..he did not use his head...get in...make some money ....then get OUT....erase all trails...
How the hell did Angelo say?” if it was some asshole like buddy I’d give the tapes up in three seconds” to Neil when Buddy is Neil son.. very confusing
+the devil cried gotti talked to much carlo was wire tapped but he just wouldnt open his mouth ..gambino made the family powerfull .. paul was left to reap all the rewards ... gotti all though good for morale to his soldiers but gotti was a horrible boss he talks to much even about past murders he was a moron who exposed the family and brought them down
These stand up guys seem to gossip about each other more than my grandmother’s sewing circle…..😂. And then sometimes people died from said gossip…. Just crazy…. Sometimes brilliant… always fascinating……
5:12 Paul taking money from "Genie" knowing damn well the money came from heroin. Funny how he didn't question it, just take, take, take...17:19 Castellano didn't know the money was from heroin? LOL!! Of COURSE he knew.
Heroin is where the money was at in the 80s a lot of those mob guys made millions from it but they kept it to themselves and paid their bosses every week to keep them happy snd out of their business since heroin was looked down on and forbidden in the mob.
Part 1 and 2, are the most peaceful of all mob docs to fall asleep to😴
I listen to them to fall asleep to too, lol.
Same here lol@@IWannatalkpodcast
Anthony Quinn was perfect as Neil in the HBO Gotti movie. Great casting all round and it pisses all over that Travolta debacle.
The Travolta one was sincerely one of the worst movies I've ever seen
Oh man I’m so glad somebody else said something. That Gotti movie with Travolta was the first time I walked out in the middle of a movie in probably 30 years!
@@TheRealShawnCrowe hahaha I love ur descriptions of that idiot Travolta..that was a complete joke
The Travolta movie was so bad because they allowed the family a say in the script it mostly bullshit and boring.
Great movie 🍿🎥 but could have done better with big Paul
Really good documentary, thanks for upload.
Watching in Oct '24, great vid to relax too after a smoke, somehow, all their voices are calming, mint ! UK👍
im watching as i have a smoke nice and chilled and this is a good documentary
Amen ya it is
UK 🇬🇧 here too 🙏🏻
The head of the Genovese Crime Family was Vincent "The Chin" Gigante.
How much did he actually enjoy his power/money 💰roaming around the lower east side. In a bath robe and slippers residing in a tenament apartment -???😱.
what? I thought he was just some crazy guy wandering around talking to ghosts, looks like a harmless man to me
@@asullivan4047 its about family
@@asullivan4047He had a bunch of kids, all of which are making millions in legit union positions.
The pretend ( Insane) neighborhood robe wanderer-!!!😳
29:31 That man was a 5'5" super-psychopath..Nicodemo Domenico "Little Nicky" Scarfo Sr. If you angered him? You got THIS 👉
No he would make a gun with his hand and you was done
@@jesssheldon4869 Exactly!
20:38 I said it before and I'll say it again, the voice of Angelo Ruggiero is exactly the same as Vincent Pastore's, the actor who portrayed Pussy Bonponsiero in the Sopranos. Exactly the same.
Mafia and serial killers documentary will never get bored God bless youtube and whoever created the channel you rock!!!!!!
Forget about it!!!
Isnt that an oxymoron , praising god for a serial killing gangster video ? lol
Translucent love to idolize killers
Jodie def has the making of a varsity athlete
Danny Devito should play Harry the Hunchback if they make a movie on him.
Hardly likely, there is a documentary on here about the Dixie Mafia...can't see there being much interest in a Pixie Mafia 😂
@@TheScouseassassin 😆
Hey DeVito would have been a very good actor for the Harry “The Hunchback” Riccobene! Just think about the Taxi series and how he was Louie!!
@@TheScouseassassin the Dixie Mafia calls Goober whenever they need a ride.
DeVito could pull it off 🤘🤘🤘🤘
John had a mouth bigger than the holland tunnel and it was his down fall.
The public was The downfall plus he stabbed People and People turnd into rats
@@samir9gergis917 yes it was the public talking on those tapes
@TIGERWOODSBOYFRIEND u mean Sammy ,gotti didn't do shit
He was a dumbass with a child's mentality, like all these gangsters. Yeah, people fear them, but is that all they want from life? They're stuck in adolescence. Schoolyard bullies, all of them, with little boy brains. Why make them out to be more than they are? His downfall was his own childishness. "Mom! Look what I can do!!!"
@@FrankyBlack john was the first boss to rat his friends b4 he got arrested. Moron
Does anybody know if this was uploaded by JODIE5880?
My name is Tommy, I love taking a break from my shinebox and watching these documentary's, I had a customer today--Billy Batts I did a perfect shine job and he refused to pay,I wont forget this
Got a pen?
Mickey Featherstone was my first customer. Couldn't pay, so I gave him another 6 months.
(Then, I gave him a hot karl and he sucked me off in a broom closet, as he is known to do for rocks)
Now get your f.......shine box
Dam Irish hoodlums
@@vicvega861 My cousins name is Tony and he loves kissing other men. Does it all the time. He also pleads loyalty to a bunch of gumbas over his own family. Goes through some gay ritual where they burn a Saint's mass card. How gay.
Best 2 Part Documentary about the Mafia ever!!!!
Crime Inc is the best hands down
Ya that also
I have watched each video. AT least 6 times it’s so enthralling ........
Totally fascinating.
Would have never been able to do that now, with all these cameras and cell phones.
9:12 - now you know why the "Freedom Tower" took 12 years to build.
You couldnt build a doghouse
Pretty ironic isn't it
Who made this?
Great doc! Even the black and white photo of Neil Dellacroce would scare the shit out of an alligator.
lol
😂😂😂😂that was funny
Not some one of his caliber.
Love this documentary fall asleep to it all the time lol
Great upload. Watched this doc about 20 years ago on ITV.
A rat is A rat . All of a sudden leonetti or however it's spelled had a " moment of clarity" , i'm gonna TELL ON EVERYBODY.
More like a"moment of saving my arse"..
It was the wise decision, given the scenario, and being a Parent who put his son before himself.
The most intelligent decision he had made. Living each day with the facts of countless murders, most of which were unnecessary would be a subject no one has the experience to judge.
Ego Mind is where the negatives are found, Higher Mind is where balance and Wisdom resides. .
It is clear which was the standard in this story's scenarios.
Philly born and raised. This stuff was on the 6 o'clock news everyday. Crazy times. I was 10yrs old when Bruno went down. Channel 6 Action News. My Mom would be cooking dinner while I watched this on a 10" black&white TV in the corner.
A full length movie about the Philly mob in the 70s and 80s would be such a hit I think if done right start with Bruno then chicken man testa and finally scarfos reign as boss no need to see Joey merlinos time
Big Paul had such a high pitched voice. Definitely thought he would have a more gruff tone.
That surprised me too.
Not for nothing scarfo was a psycho before he became boss and Gotti had no business being anything above a capo. Due to law enforcement Organized crime's hey dey was way behind us but putting ppl in leadership roles that had absolutely no business being in them didn't help. Scarfo, Gotti, gaspipe, persico list goes on and on these guys single handily destroyed their given family. Families basically helped law enforcement by putting these guys in charge. What made it even worse was when they got life sentences they made their 20yr old sons Boss which further grenaded everything
I agree except Persico! He did well under thr circumstances imo. Gotti was the end of it all. Total clown! They were better served under Paul who was a greedy fk who ignored the street talk he wasn't a fkn idiot celebrity wannabe. The last thing you need in a mafia boss. The chin was the best the had in that time. Shrewed as they come.
After Carlo Gambino died they put a bunch of meat heads in charge, it was like handing LCN to the police on a silver platter.
@@lancesmith889 exactly... most of them are meat heads. But another serious issue which they themselves don't realize is that they all want to be show offs, capos, bosses. One of the true old world mafia tenet is to not be a show off. This is their demise in America. Its time to go back to mafia school for them.
Agreed on the Gotti comment. People talk about him like he was a god. Guy was a nightmare for the Gambinos. Sammy the bull should have led the family. Whilst he did a lot of hits, he wasn't a psychopath like Scarfo, and unlike Gotti, he knew that keeping a low profile was key to staying out of trouble. Frankie DeCicco would also have been a good pick for the top spot.
You got that right. They all were morons and drilled holes in their boats.
Frank Dichico wasn't the underboss to Big Paul... It was Neil Delecroche then Neil dies December 2nd 85' and that fast Big Paul nominates his bodyguard Tommy Boloti......Single biggest mistake was killing Roy Demeo though........
Roy wouldn't have stopped him from getting killed and he wouldn't have given a shit about Paul dying 😅
I thought DeCicco was made Gotti's underboss. Then he was blown up N the made Sam the 🐮 the U.B.
@@rodzorThat's exactly what happened, sir 🙏🏻
I believe the original name of this documentary interviews was *War Against The Mafia*
I thought they found out later that Fat Tony Salerno was only a figurehead for Vincent "the Chin" Gigante. Then after that the chin started his crazy "odd-father" routine. Because Salerno went down for him, he became the "capo di tutti capi" or whatever it's name is.
caputti tuditto dela marone
Even if they found out the odd father routine worked for the most part. So he can escape prosecution
On a crazy notion. He still died in prison tho.
Tony was at first the main man. Think like 2 years.
Interesting/informative/entertaining. Excellent photography news coverage. Enabling viewers to better understand what the orator is describing. Special thanks to veteran law enforcement officers/mob members/news reporters. Making this documentary more authentic and possible -!!! 😉. Wishing viewers a safe/healthy/prosperous ( 2024 )🌈🎉😉.
That O’Brien dude is a liar they posed as Cable repairmen and put the bug in the cable box while Biloti overwatched they didn’t break in using some magic code breaker
I don’t believe the cable repairmen story either. My guess is they had something over the maid & they convinced her to let them in.
Espionage strageties can be done in many ways. Nowadays even more easier, with less intrusion. Just for example tv antennaes that extend above a house roof can be used to hear conversations. Voices are a vibration and anything that can pick vibrations can be used as a mic. Then an electronic frequency device is pointed at the tv antenae to receive the conversations. These electronic devices can be in a truck or house across the street or even on a communication pole half a mile away. Glass windows can also be used as mics. Even spy drones can be used for video survelance.
You can tell he’s a snake
A soft-spoken murderer
this Leonetti. Quite likeable. Anybody in his shoes would roll facing that kind of time. He wasn't going to be a martyr for Scarfo. Former Catholic altar boy: holy Communion confession & fear of hellfire just like me. From that to Scarfo's world. Reminds me of Dominic Montiglio: Catholic altar boy Vietnam Vet musician nice guy soft spoken. From that to Nino Gaggi's world & all that entailed. Who knows what darkness lurks in the hearts of men? The Shadow knows.
@@fernandofuriaesq.6266 I totally see the comparison and I share your optic on Phil and Dominic: Two peas of pod, sort of.
@@FrankLoon Yes. Sort of. The comparison is instructive I believe.
Try telling the kids of the people he murdered what a lovely altar boy he is
@@chicoassmaster4293 I'll tell him if you come to the door with me, and you knock though?
Wonders what happened to both Leonetti and Montiglio.
The reason the feds thought Big Paul was untouchable was because he didn't meet with capos left & right.He insulated himself well.That along with the fact that he owned many legit businesses.It turned out he wasn't untouchable to the feds because he was under indictment when he was killed, and he wasn't untouchable to his resentful soldiers & skippers.John wasn't gonna kill Big Paul until Neil died because who knows what Neil would've done had they killed Paul before he passed away.John knew he was old school.
Big Paul met with Capos all the time. Along with soldiers and even unmade Irish Westies.
Big Paul had all the Capos visit his mansion weekly to pay tribute. That's how bosses make their money at the top. Some of them sent messengers, like Nino, although Nino frequently went up there personally.
Big Paul also held all his mob business meetings right in his kitchen, and that's where the listening device was installed that got him on tape talking about boatloads of incriminating evidence.
This practice was fine in the 60s & 70s, and prior, and all the bosses did this. Things changed during the 80s with the introduction of court-ordered wiretaps and bugs that were backed by a sealed warrant, and admissable as evidence in court. This was all new to Castellano and even Gotti, and the bosses in the commission trial. Prior to the 80s, the mob was still being bugged everywhere, but it was on illegal wiretaps, not admissable in court, and only for intelligence gathering, not an active investigation looking to imprison the upper mafia echelon.
Ur right,alot of people say Paul Costello was a wrong choice ,but I dont believe that ,he kept the Gambino family in line for 10 years
He always had captains at his house that's the one place he would meet them nonstop
RICO was a great law. Made them touchable after all, thank God.
Wow ive been looking for this mafia doc its rare to have mickey featherstone in documentary
mickey is in a few gambino (and gambino big wigs) docs search domminick montiglia,phil leonetti and (one of mickeys associates cant recall his name but they all told on their leaders ,and theres a 2 hour doc on them but its very good
He is in the “Westies” Mobsters episode....
@@batchagaloopytv5816 your talking about, the so call best docu. of the mob.
Scarfo shouldn't have been boss either if John wasn't supposed to be boss
I love these old TV references, good video, thanks
Ill never forget being a little kid and seeing Gotti on channel 7 every night. It was literally every night. People who didn't live through that era in that part of the country don't understand. Big as any other public figure.
I am Belgian, born in '74... was about 10yrs old when my parents let me watch the evening news.
Seeing reports about the mafia stunned me. It was so intimidating and spooky. I remember the Paul Castalano murder and trials where these old mobsters were brought in court in wheelchair, hospital beds.. and later all indeed all the Gotti news and also Pablo Escobar came in the spotlight. I followed up on these things even at that age. These guys held jaw dropping power and it was hard to fathom as a kid. Governments seemed truly powerless. I even remember the Mickey Munday gang being arrested.
The Mafia 2 talks about Union and kind of companies they control. This is verybinteresting to me because most average person really never know about this much.
the average person also doesnt realize thay they paid hidden taxes on a lot of products because of the mafia
What’s she actual name of this doc ?
23:50
The guy that yelled “ayyyy!” Is such a typical guito….
did i suspect alite not being in any of these? yes i did
As much as I dislike criminals and crime, I still don't see how the hell phone tapping and bugging are not only legal, but admissible in court. I personally think it's unconstitutional... And what if an agent sneaks into your house thinking Noone is home and you end up shooting them? Think you'll get away with it as if it were a normal B&E ? Definitely not !
Phone taping or an recording is legal even in a constitution. For one, the police go to a private court and ask the judge for permission to record your convos, if you are involved with murder, or an illegal activity that harms the public safety like drugs and grand theft or fraud, human trafficking/prostitution. If a complaint was made by a citizen the police have to follow thru the process or else they are liable for misfiance/malfiance of the law if someone becomes a victim. Also it it perfectly legal for another country to do secret survellance on any American citizen because that other country does not have the same constitutional laws as America, it is not liable to the American justice system. The foreign country can pass the recordings to America authorities for assessment, and still be within the laws of the country. Snowden has proved this, Obama had passed a law on meta data, this allows any country to collect data on any American citizen. US can do the same, collect data including phone convos of foreign countries citizens and be within the law. Enjoy your constitutional rights while valid, then someone comes and takes it away thru legal loop holes.
They have teams of professional burglars with all kinds of surveillance support. They wouldn't try to break in unless they had seen everyone who is there leave first.
its called probable cause google it for the list, and today everytime you speak in the phone and your smartphones/laptops basically anything that can be connected to the internet record everything you say. even you invent a code and used the market devices the government has code breakers
meaning the government dont care about your privacy
You can't be serious??!?!
@knightstar1312 Owning slaves used to be legal, too. Does that make it ok?
And all the "Tough guy Muscle" is in the Commentary!
@Ed u Kate sure lol but excluding you
The bugging of Paul's house is EPIC in this documentary; apparently, the detectives involved really like cheese😇 The best documentary 👍
DeMeo was the psycho of psycho’s! Him, Tommy Karate, Anthony Casso, Tommy DeSimone and Greg Scarpa all running around loose at once. That had to be an extremely dangerous time to be in NY.
That is a pretty good list. Serial killers and homicidal hotheads.
It was said that DeSimone would kill random people just to try out a new gun.
My mother used to talk about a "Tom Demeo" all the time he knew my aunt I never realized it was the same guy.
Demeo was more sociopath w psychotic tendencies, pitera def a psychopath
@Marsh M I wish. Court documents show the connections anyway.
in line wit the BBC crime inc documentary definetely one of the best TV features about the US cosa nostra. No silly role play very comprehensive not only focussed on the violence but also how the mafia works. Why are these kind of documentary nowadays not possible anymore?
Best part of the video is knowing it was uploaded by jodie5880!.....
32:36 🤣🤣 i thought leprechauns weren't aloud to join the mob because they aren't Italian 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Ah bejesus, tis a wee pixie with a crock o' gold, so it is ☘
@B00 050 they also gave me a right old erection they did!
It’s 915: pm on a Saturday night. I’m going into the mafia rabbit hole. See you Monday morning
Come on in the waters great!😎
The song at 46:20
What is it called?
We need a Roy Demeo movie. A GOOD Demeo crew film. Whatta rare fucking group of psychos... Even Gotti feared them...
His crew and Gotti were guys who sped up the deterioration of the Mafia...
@@darylmixan8170 Exactly ppl give them WAY too much credit. They lost sight of what the mob was supposed to be.
I grew up in Canarsie, and had no idea this shit was going on all around me. Hell...
In like 1969, they opened a head shop a few blocks away from the Gemini where we bought rolling paper.
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This was UNBELIEVABLE. Thank you for this amazing 90s upload. I wonder what the name of this documentary was; best I've seen.
This is a similar one; it says it can be bought on amazon. Loyalty & Betrayal: The Story of the American Mob
I believe the original name of this documentary interviews was *War Against The Mafia*
On part 1 about 36 mins in is a single frame or two that that shows it was recorded in the uk and says the name ‘war against the mafia’ While coming back from a commercial break
Thanks what channel made this?
Phil "My uncle made me do it" Leonetti
1:07:03 Leonetti explains here perfectly what it was that almost brought LCN to its knees.
Mr. Brown The best comment on here. I can't stand these You Tube trolls that try to act like they have "inside" information. I don't. I just think it's interesting.
*****
The Westies had nothing to do with blowing up DeCicco, they were the Gambinos' farm team. It was Genovese associate Herbie 'Blue Eyes' Pate who manufactured and detonated the bomb that killed DeCicco..
@@Guillermo_Carratero ducks corallo ordered the hit and gasspipe and Vic were behind it
@@dannychan1250 Spot on Danny!! Tony Ducks and The Chin couldn't stand Gotti..
@@Guillermo_Carratero because gotti took out paulie without the say so
Gravano always claimed it was ''John's mouth'' that got him indicted, but he was caught on tape in that apartment too on another occasion.
The War Against the Mafia Part 2: Death in the Family (1994)
They didn’t show how scarpo became the boss in Philadelphia,when Angelo Bruno was kill
Great documentarys keep um coming Jodie
I can't see any of the images here, just audio 🔉?
💵 “Keep’em comin’!!” -Jimmy Conway lol
Awesome doc, this one is awesome too ua-cam.com/video/QZ0n3B-uaNs/v-deo.html
Person from 8 years ago, the plural of documentary is documentaries not ''documentarys'' heh.
Excellent, excellent documentary!!
I've read a lot of books about La Cosa Nostra and I've seen a ton of documentaries and videos. These have to be the best documentaries I've seen. I know very much about Chicago but I've read about New York and Philadelphia. This series of documentaries is excellent for anyone who has not read any of that stuff. Obviously you can't get as much depth from film as you do from the books but this is a great primer for what went down with Castellano and Philadelphia. Great job Thanks for posting this
@Charles Andrews hey Charles, which, if any, crew from the Outfit controlled areas such as South Holland, Harvey, Cal City, Gary In and those areas south of the city? Was it the Chicago Heights crew? And do they still have a presence in those areas?
@@rickslick.
That would have been Frankie LaPorte from Chicago Heights. He was very tight with the big boys. He was part of the Inner Circle for many years.
I don't know how much influence the outfit has anywhere these days.
Awesome doc, this one is awesome too ua-cam.com/video/QZ0n3B-uaNs/v-deo.html
Crime inc is by far the best mob documentary in my opinion. It covers just about every aspect of the mob in depth over 6 episodes. It's on UA-cam if you haven't seen it.
It's exciting
With all the millions these guys were making you would think they would hire 24/7 security guards to watch over the Ravenite. Nope! They left themselves wide open and they got nailed.
they hired fredo corleone but he was banging cocktail waitresses 2 at a time
Why should they ? So they can send an undercover working as a security guard ? Daaah..are you from California ? Uff !😂
To much attention walking around with a group of men.
@RM-pg4js you find such trivial crap an excuse to disrespect people? Idiota!
Gotti was once memorably described as a 'stone cold moron' by one of the organised crime detectives in New York. Got caught exactly the same way as Castellano. Why would you not presume surveillance at all times?
Harry the hunch back looks like a little boy with a old man mask on damn
He was tiny I think he was under 5 feet
Ruth less
why use a British accented narrator for an American Mafia documentary?
Its a British made documentary that's why.
At least it’s not a robot.
You know I always wondered about that
is it Crime Inc.? I don't think so but that was a great UK Thames TV series.
people should check it out
Frank DeCicco was Castellano's under boss? I thought it was Tommy Bilotti?
Tommy billotti became the underboss after Neil Dellacrosse died
That's correct & died with Uncle Paulie in front of Sparks Steak house.😇😇.
@@sousafortes9041I believe in the video it said that Frank DeCicco was Castello's underboss. I'm just assuming it said that because I watched this a long time ago and I'm just going by my original comment I posted when my memory was more fresh right after watching this. Anyway, if the video said DeCicco was Castello's underboss, I'm pretty sure they're wrong because DeCicco was John Gotti's underboss.
I meant to type Castellano not Castello. My bad
I was 2 blocks away when they whacked Big Paul Castellano. Sirens were coming from every direction but I kept walking. "I didn't see a thing" so to speak !
Wow you can say you are a part of history mob stuff is so fascinating and scary
Right you didn’t see nothing lol I’d say the same thing I’m not getting wacked hell no
I’m blind can’t see I speak no english or Spanish hell I can’t speak getting whacked back then was no joke
Your a big lair
LCN shoulda been run as a community. No bosses. No drugs. No killings. Ya kill, ya go away. Ya deal drugs,, ya go away. Prison terms are on your own crimes. MAFIA should be about what it was originally formed for. Protect the people from outsiders.
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What’s with the obnoxious putrid green text at top left of whole video.. completely unnecessary 🤦🏻♂️
09:36 - Ok, I've seen my share of scary gangster mugshots, but this guy looks like Death himself.
that would be vito arena he was a part of the demeo crew and he was gay man it was him that told the feds everything about roys crew
@@mortenrahm Vito went into witness protection and was later shot and killed attempting a robbery in Houston.
I want to hear all of the audio on Paul
Bet you have some twisted Detrich for his voice.... warped summbitch
You can file a for a freedom of information act as if you where a reporter
l-l
You just wanna hear him and Gloria 🤣🤣
@@tylerdurden8959 You got schooled!
Anyone seen Richie? I'm gonna keep coming back until somebody remembers seeing richie ! Anyone know why richie did Bobby lupo?
Who's Richie
Was a good movie
@@juniorbarra8296 the best lol
Lupo was fucking Ritchie's woman if I remember correctly
@@BruteStrength99 lol yup
My son got a D- in civics class....I think I want to flip
That 45 year sentence sure made him worry about his son
58:35 the look on Gotti and Sammy's face though, these dudes were built for this life, I donno how they don't look stressed or anything, Sammy looks like he's already decided to give up Gotti, he looks like he has plan or somethin'😂
That Paul was more bothered with the personal tapes than the ones that indicating he's basically a murderer...unreal.
Yeah because that was their life. The woman and the kids, all of them were desensitized to murder.
He was more worried about people discovering his penile implant.
*You Reap what you Sow... ALL of these Gangsters are Rotting in HELL forever, ETERNITY !!*
If hell is what you believe in. No one ever came back from the dead to say what its like in the other world, heaven or hell, if any.
I don't beleive in hell after death. I believe this world is hell. We aĺl go to another realm after death, good and bad.
@@knightstar1312
That'd the scary part... No warning for others who have been there. But it doesn't mean hell is not real ..the word of God is here in the Scripture if we only believe and take heed
Tommy Bilotti was underboss at the time of his and Paul Castellano's death not Frank DeCicco.
DeCicco was one of Gotti's crew right?
Vito ye
Vito no man, he wasn't under John, I forget who he was under but it definitely wasn't John, he was actually in Paul's wing of the family but i forget who his capo was. But he was close to Paul. Guys would actually go to Frank to get a meeting with Paul. It was actually John who approached Frank to get them to join them. And he was the one who set up the meeting at Sparks SteakHouse. John rewarded him by making him underboss.
Vito yeppers
He owned the grocery stores , right ?
Restaurant on a stake out so order the food to take out
KAOS outside the Sparkx Steak House..!!
I find it strange they never bugged the Gemini lounge and hear the goings on.
Probably too much noise in that place, and you couldn't know who was talking.
They also had someone in there 24/7 for the exact reason. Also not to many cops are going to volunteer to sneak into the Gemini
Would like to sneak in there? If you're caught you're going out in boxes.
@@elliotspencer6656 FBI boss: we want you to place a bug in the Gemini lounge...Agent: I'd rather eat my own shit!!!
It's a church now...wtf!
That’s not Joseph O’Brien at the 3:50 mark...that’s Johnny Ola. 😄
A bit of info in the description would be helpful and appreciated.
Or just watch it and stop being lazy looking for free documentaries on UA-cam just be happy you got anything
This upload must be about 5th generation copy of the original as it's so fuzzy out of focus.
Gottis disrespectful behaviour to his own underboss is what sunk him...what a fool 😯
Egomaniac he was.
@@erichanhauser3190 true from England Manchester steve,
Gotti is my least favorite boss. They talk about this guy how good looking he is, what a great dresser he is.. I just don't see it. His daughter is very unattractive also.
Rats is what sunk him
@@daniellerivellese8408 🙄🙄🙄
I love this video I just wish I knew who to thank for uploading it.
Amazing stuff top video
FBI special agent McDonald shown here was in Goodfellas portraying the agent cutting the deal with Henry Hill and Karen
Was that were the term Karen came from 😂
Ed McDonald was the chief prosecutor in real life and he was awesome as himself in Goodfellas - that shit is harder than it looks!
Ya it is
love listening to Dominick's story's and wish someone would upload dark visions,would love to see that
its out there..I remember watching it in bits and pieces couple years ago I shared it on my Fb the video was from 2012
What's that film?
I feel the same, Dom spins a great yarn...
Trump's name flashed by at around 36:00 - interesting...
dad would always tell us...never.. ever... trust anyone... wears a suit.......
You mean like diabolically evil😈 democratic president " Bozo " Biden😈-???🤔
It was barzini all along 😡😡😡
Along with brother in law Paul (Sparks) Castellano. 🤗
Phil and Salvy should have wacked Nicky Scarfo and took over the family.... I bet they would still be in charge today
I would have seen it coming and woulda had em' both clipped. This family done in by rats.
@@aba192 😂
G Mont508 Phil was already dead , that’s the reason Nicky took over .... he got car bombed at his house by his underboss a year after he became the boss after Angelo Bruno got killed ...... that’s when New York has Nicky take over
@@chuchorodriguez1893 phil is NOT dead lol he's in this documentary, they're talking about phil leonetti NOT Phil testa
Lol
Everyone but Gene Gotti are all dead… maybe going to jail for 1000 years was the better deal? Then he got out
I heard that mobster Michael Franceze had a deal going where he was able to get a cut out of every gallon of gasoline that was pumped for 7 years out of NJ. He got 4 cents out of every sale and of course there were millions and millions of gallons pumped in those 7 years. I think he made like $400 million. Probably rivaled by what the Italians made in NYC.
Joh allen....I don't think it was for 7 years...he went to prison in 1985/86 for it...b/c he couldn't stay out of the public eye....he caught the Gotti bug and wanted fame, hanging out with Hollywood types, making horrible movies...buying jet planes... and several huge mansions ..he did not use his head...get in...make some money ....then get OUT....erase all trails...
Yes
You heard?
He’s been telling that story for years and years now.
How the hell did Angelo say?” if it was some asshole like buddy I’d give the tapes up in three seconds” to Neil when Buddy is Neil son.. very confusing
Why the f**k is this in doc's hermitcraft season 7 playlist????
Ed McDonald played himself in Goodfellas, offering the witness protection program to the Hills.
I would love to listen to more recorded tapes of paul castellano
+Dan Osanu Isn't it amazing that we haven't ever heard Carlo Gambino's voice? At least I am unaware of any recording.
Absolutely amazing, just goes to show how covert and discreet the man was almost anti John Gotti if you like lol
+Dan Osanu Paul was brilliant!
+the devil cried gotti talked to much carlo was wire tapped but he just wouldnt open his mouth ..gambino made the family powerfull .. paul was left to reap all the rewards ... gotti all though good for morale to his soldiers but gotti was a horrible boss he talks to much even about past murders he was a moron who exposed the family and brought them down
yes me too
Really what this is about is the government was mad they weren't getting their piece of the action. The government's a million times worse
the legal form of organized crime
These stand up guys seem to gossip about each other more than my grandmother’s sewing circle…..😂. And then sometimes people died from said gossip…. Just crazy…. Sometimes brilliant… always fascinating……
Ruby ridge...😢
Through everything I've watched and read... I think Aniello Dellacroce was/is still scary AF.
24:42 Philly mob
They all gangsters until they put handcuffs on
5:12 Paul taking money from "Genie" knowing damn well the money came from heroin. Funny how he didn't question it, just take, take, take...17:19 Castellano didn't know the money was from heroin? LOL!! Of COURSE he knew.
Karma is a bi*ch
Heroin is where the money was at in the 80s a lot of those mob guys made millions from it but they kept it to themselves and paid their bosses every week to keep them happy snd out of their business since heroin was looked down on and forbidden in the mob.