Joe Valachi: The First Ever Mafia Member Who Snitched To CIA | Mafia's Greatest Hits

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  • Опубліковано 21 лис 2024
  • Witness the historic testimony of Joe Valachi, a former mob hitman turned informant, whose disclosures to the FBI changed the course of the battle against organized crime forever. This episode uncovers Valachi's life-threatening decision to expose the Mafia and the impact of his courageous actions.
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КОМЕНТАРІ • 228

  • @Come-Jesus-Come
    @Come-Jesus-Come 3 місяці тому +115

    What a terrible deal. Tell on everyone and you still get life in prison.

    • @julioe.martinez4606
      @julioe.martinez4606 3 місяці тому +16

      That’s the government

    • @curiouslyme524
      @curiouslyme524 3 місяці тому +7

      Agree. He was very courageous.

    • @Frosty98206
      @Frosty98206 3 місяці тому +5

      Same thing happened to Casso he Flipped after doing a Blood Purge in his own Family/Wacking out several other members of Different family(Gambino's), The feds ripped up his deal 🤝, Cooperate & still get life than what's the Point 🤷‍♂️of flipping in the first place, Gaining Peace of Mind 🧠.

    • @joeb5678
      @joeb5678 3 місяці тому +7

      @@Frosty98206he actually got caught telling lies and kept on breaking his cooperating agreement! Big difference from this clown

    • @Gonefishing6572
      @Gonefishing6572 3 місяці тому

      You make me laugh. He was what? You clowns forget he was a hit man for the family. He was ripped off? I was 11 when I heard my first family hit on my way to school. Dummy slept with the wrong woman. 😊

  • @alking6633
    @alking6633 3 місяці тому +41

    I LOVE how metal pipes are lying around in the prison yard. ❤❤

    • @Ceerads
      @Ceerads 3 місяці тому +2

      Yeah, that’s crazy!

    • @richinmass
      @richinmass 3 місяці тому +5

      Right?? Left by construction workers is just crazy!

    • @lvi8957
      @lvi8957 3 місяці тому +1

      😅

  • @ABeautfulMess
    @ABeautfulMess 3 місяці тому +36

    Oh the ease to murder but the fear of death.. quite the conundrum

    • @3BK235Y
      @3BK235Y 3 місяці тому +3

      The exceptions are very few.

    • @reujr
      @reujr 3 місяці тому

      That’s how it be

  • @edlocks5112
    @edlocks5112 3 місяці тому +68

    So this guy was so paranoid that he kills an innocent man....then rats on evryone only to still get life in prison 😂😂😂 smh embarrassing

    • @mashmaina716
      @mashmaina716 3 місяці тому +4

      😂😂

    • @truracer20
      @truracer20 2 місяці тому +2

      The flip side was to be murdered, or sent to the electric chair. These days he would have been given full immunity for the information he gave and the family of the man he killed would have received no justice.

    • @jaymack6864
      @jaymack6864 22 дні тому

      😂😂😂

  • @liamwilsonwright4116
    @liamwilsonwright4116 3 місяці тому +29

    He wouldn’t have been the first snitch but what he did was still bad though for the mob and was one of many that eventually brought the mob down.
    The mob still exists just not as it used to be back then.

    • @curiouslyme524
      @curiouslyme524 3 місяці тому +3

      Agree. They're still around for sure.

    • @danielgood2662
      @danielgood2662 Місяць тому

      He definitely wasn't the first snitch but was definitely the first to testify

  • @Jay-Leigh863
    @Jay-Leigh863 3 місяці тому +47

    Why say CIA in the header when he snitched to the FBI? Is that really too difficult to get right?

    • @SSNESS
      @SSNESS Місяць тому +2

      Forget about it 🤌

  • @normankato
    @normankato 3 місяці тому +36

    Colin Teirney voice is a masterpiece 🙌

    • @3BK235Y
      @3BK235Y 3 місяці тому +3

      And beautiful, educated British English to boot.

    • @Ceerads
      @Ceerads 3 місяці тому +2

      But he pronounces “Mafia” as “Mah-fia,” instead of “Ma-fia.”

    • @3BK235Y
      @3BK235Y 3 місяці тому +3

      @@Ceerads Typical British pronunciation. Most good English/British dictionaries show that difference (Oxford, Collins, Cambridge, for example). But that shouldn't bother Americans.

    • @Ceerads
      @Ceerads 3 місяці тому

      @@3BK235Y Thank you. I figured as much, and I usually appreciate British pronunciation (the various British accents). But with the word “Mafia”….🤠

    • @3BK235Y
      @3BK235Y 3 місяці тому +1

      @@Ceerads Perhaps just another of our British excentricities. 😀
      Cheers.

  • @justisinus
    @justisinus 3 місяці тому +12

    Superbly narrated by Mr. Tierney

    • @3BK235Y
      @3BK235Y 3 місяці тому +3

      The voice, the beautiful, educated, elegant British accent, everything about him as narrator is good .

  • @Sosolidcrew
    @Sosolidcrew 3 місяці тому +36

    "Omerta" code of silince !! Th mob have been ratting on each other since the beggining of time

    • @mlassz009
      @mlassz009 3 місяці тому +12

      ' beginning '
      I am the Spelling Mafia...be warned

    • @bigwoogc
      @bigwoogc 3 місяці тому +3

      ​@@mlassz009😄🤫

    • @bigwoogc
      @bigwoogc 3 місяці тому +2

      Also : 'silence'

    • @mlassz009
      @mlassz009 3 місяці тому +5

      @bigwoogc To be honest, half the stuff I post on UA-cam, looks like it's been produced by an illiterate 5yr old

    • @fullyoutkast3320
      @fullyoutkast3320 3 місяці тому +1

      😂​@@mlassz009

  • @tatata1543
    @tatata1543 3 місяці тому +16

    The interesting thing about all this is that the Mafia existed way before the FBI and was extremely active all through Hoover’s time in charge and yet he spent years denying it even existed and only really went after them as a result of Appalachin meeting and Valachi talking allowing Bobby Kennedy to pressure him into action. All very odd.

    • @djquinn11
      @djquinn11 3 місяці тому +13

      The Mob had compromising photos of Hoover and his boyfriend, Clyde Tolsen.

    • @tatata1543
      @tatata1543 3 місяці тому +2

      @@djquinn11 yea, I heard that one . If that was the case why did they never release them?

    • @blackjohnny9570
      @blackjohnny9570 3 місяці тому +3

      Hoover spent his time chasing Marcus Garvey and later the black panthers. And yea I heard he was being blackmailed by mob.

    • @LeftistJuden
      @LeftistJuden 3 місяці тому

      If they release them they lose the power the pictures held
      Supposedly Hoover in a dress giving head to a man
      Supposedly Lanksy got the picture from another Jewish bootlegger and Roy Cohn

    • @aceloco817
      @aceloco817 3 місяці тому +2

      ​@@tatata1543tmz didn't exist to offer a good check for those pictures. 😅

  • @galebanks252
    @galebanks252 3 місяці тому +5

    I read the Valachi Papers when I was in elementary school...been intrigued by the Mafia ever since

    • @amina-pr8xt
      @amina-pr8xt 3 місяці тому +1

      How you make this deeplink ?

  • @sharrielee911
    @sharrielee911 3 місяці тому +5

    Very interesting indeed...thx for sharing😊

  • @williamlondon6269
    @williamlondon6269 3 місяці тому +7

    DUI conviction penalties are NOT NEARLY severe enough in this country

    • @rickallen1908
      @rickallen1908 3 місяці тому +6

      I agree I lost my girlfriend when we were 14. She was walking on a sidewalk. He got 3 years. That was 1971..

    • @danielwitmer3242
      @danielwitmer3242 3 місяці тому

      @@rickallen1908 He must have been italian, everyone knows the Sicilians run the show and Italians are just the same as todays Thugs. So whats the difference beween an Itallian and Sicilian you ake? Aout 200 million!

  • @Aristotelezz
    @Aristotelezz 3 місяці тому +6

    One thing I don't understand: Why would Vito Genovese let Valachi know he was gonna be killed? What's the benefit of that? It could make Valachi turn against him, and the mob. For Genovese that could mean death...

    • @wraynephew6838
      @wraynephew6838 Місяць тому +1

      Because Vito did not put out a hit on him. Valachi imagined everything and took everyone down with his imagination.

    • @Aristotelezz
      @Aristotelezz Місяць тому

      @@wraynephew6838 In life we all make mistakes. In the mob they may be all added up. You never know what the boss is thinking. I can imaging Valachi's paranoia...

    • @ZacharyWilson-25
      @ZacharyWilson-25 7 днів тому

      ​@@wraynephew6838exactly this. If Vito Genovese wanted him dead while they were in the same prison together, he would have been killed as he found out about it. The mob, not even the crazier ones don't warn people before killing them, closest to that would be an open hit put on someone

  • @rocketcityrob343
    @rocketcityrob343 3 місяці тому +8

    The kiss of death is insane

  • @richinmass
    @richinmass 3 місяці тому +3

    Very entertaining!

  • @BrianHamilton-zv6on
    @BrianHamilton-zv6on 3 місяці тому +6

    Great watch

  • @DebyMorgan
    @DebyMorgan 2 місяці тому

    Excellent video.

  • @williamemerson1799
    @williamemerson1799 3 місяці тому +19

    This would've been a lot more enjoyable if it hadn't been for all of that annoying background "music".

    • @TS-1267
      @TS-1267 3 місяці тому +2

      ... My Mam Hates Loud Background Music, Or "Bloody Whispering" & Really Loud Adverts 😂😂😂

    • @williamemerson1799
      @williamemerson1799 3 місяці тому +1

      @@TS-1267 Yeah, I guess it's common amongst us oldsters.😎

  • @algrand52
    @algrand52 2 місяці тому +1

    The Valachi Papers is my dad's favorite Charles Bronson movie.

  • @3BK235Y
    @3BK235Y 3 місяці тому +3

    7:00-7:15 That sound quite different from the "deals" criminals are offered today.
    32:09-32:17 Board of Directors of the great corporations are not much different from that.

  • @BensonCaisip
    @BensonCaisip 3 місяці тому +1

    "I knew it was you, Joe. You broke my heart. You broke my heart!"

  • @igordrakulovic6857
    @igordrakulovic6857 3 місяці тому +3

    So many nuns in the courtroom .. WHY ?

    • @SuperGreatSphinx
      @SuperGreatSphinx 3 місяці тому +3

      Deus Vult

    • @ScottieWallace
      @ScottieWallace 3 місяці тому

      @@igordrakulovic6857 catholicism is a front for the mafia/elders of Zion.

  • @mattsweeny3957
    @mattsweeny3957 Місяць тому +1

    Its crazy that a hit man (Valachi) that killed many was so terrified of dying himself

  • @jyfg5
    @jyfg5 3 місяці тому +2

    The bosses really ruined a good thing with their stupidity.

  • @q11k79
    @q11k79 3 місяці тому +1

    whats the music for your intro?

  • @Ceerads
    @Ceerads 3 місяці тому +3

    So there’s a real Cheech! I’m thinking of the Cheech in “Bullets Over Broadway.”

  • @WyreKarugu
    @WyreKarugu 3 місяці тому +2

    That was a terrible deal the government never keeps it word after they use u

  • @nickchambers3935
    @nickchambers3935 3 місяці тому +3

    It's pretty stupid to suggest that they didn't know the literal meaning of Cosa Nostra until Valachi told them. Of course they didn't know what it referred to but do you really think they couldn't look up the meaning of two simple Italian words?

  • @susiemckenna8160
    @susiemckenna8160 3 місяці тому +3

    background music and noise ruined it for me

  • @88napolitano
    @88napolitano 3 місяці тому +2

    Little did Valachi😮 know the impact he made.And the throngs of men that followed in his footsteps!! R.I.P JoeValachi

  • @ScottieWallace
    @ScottieWallace 3 місяці тому +12

    So.. the mafia snitched to the mafia.. hmmm.

  • @silverstem2964
    @silverstem2964 2 місяці тому +3

    The CIA doesn't deal with mob cases, that's the FBI's gig.

    • @gtagameplayvidz
      @gtagameplayvidz 2 місяці тому +1

      Everyone knows this. What, does that have to do with Valachi being a rat?

    • @ZacharyWilson-25
      @ZacharyWilson-25 7 днів тому

      Yeah, CIA is more likely to help organized crime in America like protecting the French connection or supplying Rick Ross and shit like that. FBI definitely are the ones to go after this kind of thing, DEA if drugs are involved and maybe ATF

  • @benf1111
    @benf1111 2 місяці тому +2

    Now we have billionaires pulling heists in the open and having the government foot the bill because they're too big to fail.

  • @SuzanPeters-p4e
    @SuzanPeters-p4e 3 місяці тому

    Joe was the hero of decent society. Thanks Joe.

  • @samuelwhite7831
    @samuelwhite7831 3 місяці тому +2

    😢why would you take a where you had to murder and hurt people. 😢

  • @aedaniengo8998
    @aedaniengo8998 3 місяці тому +2

    So sad.

  • @AndyHoward
    @AndyHoward 3 місяці тому +4

    La Cosa Nostra "Our Thing" or "This thing of ours"
    You could be an "earner" a long time and still never be "made". "getting your bones" (killing someone) speeds up the process

  • @curiouslyme524
    @curiouslyme524 3 місяці тому +3

    A good-looking older man.

  • @SwordOfS
    @SwordOfS 2 місяці тому +1

    The first one...in the US.

  • @joeb5678
    @joeb5678 3 місяці тому +2

    26:15 goombah? Or gombah?

  • @vincentbarney3091
    @vincentbarney3091 9 днів тому

    The same Joe Valachi who squeal to the Senate committee about organize crime!?!

  • @XB1AEW
    @XB1AEW 3 місяці тому +5

    The background music is ruined the whole documentary

    • @lvi8957
      @lvi8957 3 місяці тому

      Toooo loud

  • @mattsweeny3957
    @mattsweeny3957 Місяць тому

    RFK questioned Valachis Credibility??? Ha ha

  • @freedompeace2025
    @freedompeace2025 3 місяці тому +5

    that's my grandpa

  • @Americaisgreat1-w3f
    @Americaisgreat1-w3f 3 місяці тому +5

    I find it funny when a person from the streets tells Congress or law enforcement about serious crimes they are called a snitch or a rat. But when the person comes from a corporation or a government position they are called whistleblowers. No matter what your social position in life is, telling law enforcement about a serious crime is a good thing. The double standards in America give me headaches.

  • @noeljr.7724
    @noeljr.7724 3 місяці тому +3

    So they were right that he was the bad apple.

  • @SanKoKo-se3cb
    @SanKoKo-se3cb 3 місяці тому +1

    Ok brother in law😂😂❤

  • @triggerhappy8872
    @triggerhappy8872 3 місяці тому +5

    That kiss 💋 looked a bit to affectionate 😳 maybe they were more than cell mates??

  • @mattsweeny3957
    @mattsweeny3957 Місяць тому

    A soldier in a Million man army is not the same as a soldier in a 450 man army...Ratio vastly different

  • @joeb5678
    @joeb5678 3 місяці тому +1

    Wasn’t he known as Joe cago?

  • @DominicRanallo-nh6uj
    @DominicRanallo-nh6uj 2 місяці тому +2

    What u sow in life is what u reap. That simple

  • @Valerie-n7s
    @Valerie-n7s 3 місяці тому

    Danger for the Kennedys.

  • @KIRRAH1
    @KIRRAH1 3 місяці тому +2

    Did you say low life?? What are you?! That's why you'll never understand people in this type of life and you will be under such people.

  • @SuperGreatSphinx
    @SuperGreatSphinx 3 місяці тому +1

    THE QUEEN OF MERCY
    The Blessed Virgin Mary

  • @robertalpy
    @robertalpy 3 місяці тому

    Yeah. When the soldiers realized that loyalty only extended as far as the bosses face, the dominoes fell.
    Luciano was a character who held it together and maybe he did have loyalty that extended down. But not most of the bosses. When you are in it for yourself but depend on others, the law will exploit that and rightly so.

  • @timeresrch
    @timeresrch 3 місяці тому

    With its "production values" this thing is really drawn out! It just takes too long to get the point across! And why were they smoking in Congress?

  • @roberthicks7021
    @roberthicks7021 3 місяці тому +1

    It couda been so sweet, and we fucked it all up. Lol

  • @CharlesGrays
    @CharlesGrays Місяць тому

    He was going to talk about Mafia anyway.

  • @Adam-oy4ix
    @Adam-oy4ix 28 днів тому

    He gives a wealth of evidence that they have never heard before...names all the names and tells them how the whole system works and only and gets his crimes
    knocked down to just a life sentence...other mafia killers ratted after him and got complete immunity....dude had a shit lawyer...

  • @f0urstr1ng
    @f0urstr1ng 2 місяці тому +1

    27:41 Scooby Doo Velma

  • @DDBAA24
    @DDBAA24 3 місяці тому +1

    One bad apple... One bad patch of grass.

  • @gasperstarina9837
    @gasperstarina9837 3 місяці тому

    To CIA ? 😂😂😂 CIA literally have nothing to do investigating organized crime in USA😂

  • @marvinsmith9826
    @marvinsmith9826 3 місяці тому +3

    BS Const. Workers don't leave pipe layin in the yard

  • @aceloco817
    @aceloco817 3 місяці тому

    Host said "Atlanta State Prison" at the beginning. How werw they in a State facility? Smh. I'm sure he meant the Fed joint.....

  • @kkonaukko5814
    @kkonaukko5814 27 днів тому

    Song 42:19?

  • @Tampo-tiger
    @Tampo-tiger 2 місяці тому

    I don't see what he did that was so wrong. Nowadays you'd get a small fine.

  • @Cosmosis462
    @Cosmosis462 Місяць тому

    Too much music

  • @simoharjane7823
    @simoharjane7823 3 місяці тому +1

    He was first 🐀. They wanted to kill him in jail ! He killed one claimed was one of them started ratting . Mafia sometimes create 🐀.. paranoia

  • @joeb5678
    @joeb5678 3 місяці тому

    47:10 didn’t he die of cancer ??? Cmon get it right !

  • @brianbelton3605
    @brianbelton3605 3 місяці тому +1

    @ 2:06 narrator says Atlanta STATE prison. Wrong! Its a FEDERAL pen

  • @DominicRanallo-nh6uj
    @DominicRanallo-nh6uj 2 місяці тому

    The government is know different in many ways. It just legal for them.

  • @SanKoKo-se3cb
    @SanKoKo-se3cb 3 місяці тому +1

    Go to the jail 😂😂❤

  • @mattsweeny3957
    @mattsweeny3957 Місяць тому

    Did Valachi write his book while he was doing life? Was it worth it???

    • @mattsweeny3957
      @mattsweeny3957 Місяць тому

      Kinda sucked they didn't have Witsec for Valachi

  • @edwardvwhusqv9915
    @edwardvwhusqv9915 29 днів тому

    The FBI coulnt translate 2 Italian words?

  • @poonambhatia8867
    @poonambhatia8867 3 місяці тому +2

    uuuuuuuuuu😮😮ùuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu😮auuuuuuuuuuuu

  • @mattsweeny3957
    @mattsweeny3957 Місяць тому

    Looks like Valachi was rather short...5 foot 5??

    • @mattsweeny3957
      @mattsweeny3957 Місяць тому

      Gotta give Valachie his due...Violent little maniac

  • @joeflippo520
    @joeflippo520 3 місяці тому

    Kid twist was the first 🐀

    • @africanblue
      @africanblue 2 місяці тому

      Jewish, an therefore no member of the mafia

    • @joeflippo520
      @joeflippo520 2 місяці тому

      @@africanblue your right there but he did a lot of work for just an associate. Him being part of Anastasia's "Brownsville boys" must have been very busy working at the beck and call of the national syndicate.

  • @draganjankovic8164
    @draganjankovic8164 3 місяці тому

    It was way better when they were doing business then these corporations

  • @blizzy6392
    @blizzy6392 Місяць тому

    CIA…?

  • @terrencewilliams8739
    @terrencewilliams8739 3 місяці тому

    I'm a custodian for the AOC and I work on the Senate side as I am watching this I'm wondering which room and building this hearing was in cause we have 3 buildings on the Senate side which are all connected

  • @mannycampo4137
    @mannycampo4137 2 місяці тому

    Dies in prison anyways , what was the point on being a rat?

  • @woodsy5081
    @woodsy5081 Місяць тому

    Al Pacino that

  • @GeorgiePats
    @GeorgiePats 3 місяці тому

    07:16

  • @VScarfo
    @VScarfo Місяць тому

    Bro really a dh hate folk like em

  • @stevia3162
    @stevia3162 2 місяці тому

    I didn't know Vito Genovese was such a sweet man. He gave Joe Valachi a kiss!

  • @BryanBlane-zn8je
    @BryanBlane-zn8je 2 місяці тому

    Joe velocity was a rat

  • @veggigoddess
    @veggigoddess 3 місяці тому

    It's laughable how incredibly stupid and juvenile a mob a mafia a Cosa Nostra is. It's just so unbelievably stupid that I can't believe it's seriously was or is still a thing😂😂😂😂😂

  • @SanKoKo-se3cb
    @SanKoKo-se3cb 3 місяці тому +1

    Cia is no fool you ok

  • @whoobibi
    @whoobibi 2 місяці тому

    I find it interesting that people watch Valachi being led around by his government handlers, asked leading questions by Senators, and not smell the rat. Valachi wasn't what he appeared to be. Ask yourself what was really happening here.

  • @alientejanopt9066
    @alientejanopt9066 3 місяці тому +4

    JOE VALACHI
    The First SNITCH

  • @DominicRanallo-nh6uj
    @DominicRanallo-nh6uj 2 місяці тому

    U always make a mistake. What u sow us what u reap.

  • @conradrice9666
    @conradrice9666 2 місяці тому

    Rat.

  • @MGB18
    @MGB18 2 місяці тому

    Nothing but a rat.

  • @davidwoermansr
    @davidwoermansr 3 місяці тому +1

    If he'd been rosettastone they'd know there was no lefttennants

    • @bigwoogc
      @bigwoogc 3 місяці тому +1

      Lieutenants
      I am also in the Spelling Mafia 😉

    • @3BK235Y
      @3BK235Y 3 місяці тому

      Are you referring to Tierney's pronunciation of "lieutenant" or to something else?

    • @Ceerads
      @Ceerads 3 місяці тому +2

      In the UK it’s pronounced “leftenants.”

    • @3BK235Y
      @3BK235Y 3 місяці тому +1

      @@Ceerads Perhaps many Americans don't know that.

    • @Ceerads
      @Ceerads 3 місяці тому +1

      @@3BK235Y I guess they/we don’t. But it’s damn well time they/we learned!

  • @erebusl
    @erebusl 3 місяці тому

    Never collected.

  • @sniper10666
    @sniper10666 2 місяці тому

    He whata rat and nuddin budda a rat

  • @ronaldgraham864
    @ronaldgraham864 3 місяці тому +1

    King rat😅

  • @gregorygarcia7807
    @gregorygarcia7807 2 місяці тому

    who the hell cares?