April 17, 2023 - MyronGainesX
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| And we are alive. | |
| What's up, guys? | |
| Welcome to Fed. | |
| I'm here with Fed with here with Angie. | |
| Because y'all already know, man. | |
| And we're gonna be covering La Cosa Nosh. | |
| You guys will wait in a while for this one. | |
| Let's get into it. | |
| I'm a special agent with Homeland School investigations, okay, guys. | |
| HSI. | |
| The cases that I did mostly were human smuggling and drug traffic. | |
| No one else has these documents, by the way. | |
| Here's what FedEx covers. | |
| Dr. Lafredo confirm lacerations due to stepping on glass. | |
| Murder investigation. | |
| And he's positioning. | |
| You're facing two counts of meditating. | |
| Racketering and Rico conspiracy. | |
| Young slime life here and after referred to as YSL to the 6ix9ine. | |
| And then this is Billy Seiko right here. | |
| Now, when they first started, guys, 6ix9ine Randle. | |
| I'm a fed. | |
| I'm watching this music video. | |
| You know, I'm bobbing my highlight. | |
| Hey, this is lit. | |
| But at the same time, I'm pausing. | |
| Oh, wait, who this? | |
| Right? | |
| Well, who's that in the back? | |
| Firearms and violence. | |
| AKA, Blue Shite Seat violated. | |
| In order to stay away from the victim. | |
| The rapper Blue Shite Seat arrested after shooting at King of Diamond, Miami Slip Club injured. | |
| One person. | |
| This is the one that that's gonna fuck him up because this gun is not tracing. | |
| Well, it happened at the gun range. | |
| Here's your boy 42 Doug right here on the left. | |
| Okay. | |
| Sex trafficking and sex cries. | |
| They can effectively link him to paying an underage girl. | |
| I'm gonna look like 50 words. | |
| And the first bomb went off right here. | |
| Check down the back. | |
| The site of the second explosion inspired by Al-Qaeda. | |
| Two terrorists, brothers, the Zokar, Sarnev, and Tamar Land Sarnev from the cartel ships drugs into the country. | |
| As this guy got arrested for um espionage, okay, trading secrets with the Russians for monetary compensation. | |
| The largest corrupt police bust in New Orleans Street. | |
| So he was in this bad boy. | |
| We're going to go over his past, the gang time, so that this all makes sense. | |
| We're going to go over his past. | |
| Alright, we're back. | |
| What's up, guys? | |
| Welcome to FedEx Man. | |
| I'm really excited to do this episode. | |
| Before I get into it real quick, Angie, introduce yourself to the people real fast. | |
| Yeah, uh, hey guys, it's me again. | |
| It's Angie, the Venezuelan that can speak English. | |
| Um we had left that out for a while now. | |
| Yeah, but um, yeah, we're back. | |
| We're finally finally finally covering the most requested. | |
| I will say the most requested case. | |
| Yeah, they ask you the most they spam you the most about this, right? | |
| Yes. | |
| A lot of people have been asking about the the Italian mafia, so we're finally delivering it. | |
| This is gonna be a deep episode, guys. | |
| So you gotta pay attention to it because we're gonna be playing a lot of videos and we're gonna be splaying a lot of terms and shit. | |
| So yeah, I hope you guys stay tuning the whole video, okay? | |
| Cool. | |
| Yeah, guys. | |
| Um, so quick announcements. | |
| Uh, as you guys know, I'm cut I was sick all week, man. | |
| So uh we're finally back. | |
| Uh shout out to Angie. | |
| She helped me. | |
| She made me quite a bit of tea. | |
| I actually got some tea here. | |
| Yeah. | |
| Um, so my voice doesn't sound as crappy. | |
| Um no, guys, we did we were not smashed before the show. | |
| Tardy I'll say this guy. | |
| Damn it. | |
| We know she guys, she came right from work here. | |
| Uh that's why we have to start the show a little bit later. | |
| Um, but yeah, man, no, no fornication before the show, bro. | |
| Come on, man, we gotta stay focused over here. | |
| Fornication. | |
| Uh okay, so real quick, what we're gonna be covering in today's episode, guys, we're gonna be obviously covering um the origins of the Sicilian mafia, then get into the Italian American mafia. | |
| Um, and then we're gonna go into the Casta Maurice War, right? | |
| And Lucky Luciano, the formation of the five families, uh, terms of definitions and hierarchy. | |
| Um, and yeah, after today's episode, you guys have a very good awareness of how um the Italian mafia originated back in Italy, uh, and then came over to the United States and took over and made their money, etc. | |
| And then what we're gonna do is we're gonna switch over to the actual five uh families, uh, which we're probably gonna I'm deciding whether I'm gonna do it maybe one family a week or we do two families a week. | |
| Um, and then we're gonna cover how the FBI was able to dismantle um the mafia, the mafia still exists to this day, guys, but obviously not to the same extent as they used to exist. | |
| Um, but yeah, you know, their heyday was you know in the 30s, all the way up until the 1980s when Rudy Jali Rudy Giuliani, you know, took them down. | |
| Uh so anything, Angie, you got before I hit these chats. | |
| Yeah, uh well, sorry guys, we we're being a little we're a bit late because I was working. | |
| Apparently, there is uh a game tonight. | |
| I don't know. | |
| Basketball game. | |
| So yeah, I work at a sports bar, so you know it's crazy. | |
| And also I want to request you guys that ask you actually that you stop requesting cases here in the chat because it's really difficult for me to keep track of all the cases. | |
| So if you please please please leave it in the comment section at the end of the video, or like meanwhile when you're watching the video, that'll be way easier for me to keep track of the cases that you drop. | |
| She reads the comments. | |
| Yes, because I'd read all the comments. | |
| And haters are not haters. | |
| So yeah. | |
| And also, um, Cena and I are working on the FedEd Instagram. | |
| We finally have a new one. | |
| Uh it's Fed it what? | |
| It's FedEx, you know, with two D's. | |
| Uh-huh. | |
| Uh 1811. | |
| That's gonna be we're we're working on the username and everything. | |
| Myron is have has this idea of changing the name, but um, we're gonna work that out. | |
| So you can follow the Instagram. | |
| So we're gonna, you know, we're gonna keep active there. | |
| Yeah, that's it. | |
| All right. | |
| I think that's uh that's about it right now. | |
| Um, all right. | |
| So uh quick real announcements, real fast. | |
| Or I'll hit some of these chats. | |
| Uh Joe Pro goes, hey Myron, can you look into the Delphi murders sometime? | |
| It was a huge deal here in Indiana for the last five years because they couldn't find the guy, they finally caught him, but the case is still going. | |
| Okay. | |
| Uh can you write that down, Angie? | |
| Yeah. | |
| Uh can't stick around because I have to be up early. | |
| Have a good night, guys. | |
| No worries, Nick. | |
| Uh, appreciate the support, my friend. | |
| This episode will be up for you later with timestamps. | |
| Uh Caden Hines goes, like the video, appreciate it. | |
| Uh, Andrew Mayhem goes, a lot of people have been asking for the try-ad Chinese mafia, especially when Myron did a personal case on it, but Angie keeps forgetting to add it on the list. | |
| No, it's on a list. | |
| It's on the list, man. | |
| It's it's on the list. | |
| Uh W Angie for taking care of Myron Wink Wink. | |
| Of course, yeah, I would say that. | |
| Uh Myron, when you decide to marry, can Angie be wife number one? | |
| No, she's wife number two, guys. | |
| You guys know this already. | |
| I don't like that joke. | |
| Uh well, too bad. | |
| Anyway, uh, guys, so we're gonna get uh into it here. | |
| So the first thing we're gonna play is uh we're gonna play this video from uh Kings in Generals, okay. | |
| Uh shot in this pretty good YouTube channel from a historical sense. | |
| Um and this covers the origins of the Sicilian mafia, okay. | |
| And um, I like this video, it's pretty damn accurate. | |
| I I did some independent research as well to make sure. | |
| Um, but yeah, this you know, in a very nice cartoony way, describes the origins of the Siliconian mafia. | |
| So, which obviously then leads into the American mafia that you guys have come to learn and love now. | |
| So I'm gonna go ahead and you know, stop it at certain points to give some commentary uh between me and Angie. | |
| But yeah, without further ado, guys, let's get into the history of the mafia. | |
| Yeah. | |
| Hmm. | |
| you you And like the goddamn video. | |
| There's 885 what you guys watch right now, actually, 900 of you plus you guys watching right now. | |
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| Let's get it. | |
| Be it money laundering or drug smuggling, intimidation, or assassination. | |
| Money has always inspired humanity to do sinister things. | |
| With this comes the phenomenon of organized crime, a tragic inevitability in developed cultures all across the world. | |
| Welcome to a brand new series on the history of the world's most famous criminal empires. | |
| We will be exploring the origin stories of iconic syndicates from around the globe, examining shadowy past that often extend back centuries. | |
| So sit back as we delve into the underbelly of society and uncover the historical origins of today's organized crime, beginning with the Sicilian Mafia. | |
| Shoutout to Blinkist for sponsoring this video. | |
| Referred to by its own members as Cosa Nostra, a phrase meaning our thing, is an infamous association of criminal syndicates. | |
| They are famous for their heavy-handed role in protection racketeering, alcohol and drug smuggling, and other organized illegal activities across Italy, the United States, and uh so I want to make a quick little point here on the uh drug smuggling guys. | |
| Typically, um, especially with the older school guys, um uh drug smuggling, drug trafficking in general was very frowned upon. | |
| Okay, uh, you can get killed for participating in drug trafficking. | |
| Now, with that said, I want to make this very clear. | |
| I'm not saying that guys didn't, you know, traffic drugs. | |
| They obviously did, but they did it behind the scenes. | |
| People didn't really know about it, etc. | |
| It could get you killed, you know, guys like John Gaudy, etc. | |
| You know, uh they got caught, you know, drug trafficking on wiretaps or whatever, but you can hear him on the wiretaps saying, like, yo, we gotta, we can't let anybody else from the family know about this, blah, blah, blah. | |
| So, um, though the mafia was involved in drug trafficking, it wasn't something that was uh it was done in secret, and it was typically wasn't like them doing a lot of the trafficking. | |
| A lot of times what it would be is like them being involved with maybe some uh Hispanic gang or some other criminal organization that specialized in drug trafficking and them taking taking cuts from it, whatever. | |
| But the reason why, right? | |
| Drugs were so frowned upon with the mafia was because it drew a lot of attention, okay, and there was football numbers for time. | |
| So, and on top of that, drug traffic in itself is a conspiracy-based crime, a lot of snitching, etc. | |
| So they didn't want that. | |
| You know, as you guys know, when it comes to, and we're gonna talk more about the definitions, the mafia's big on a code of silence, okay, okay, also known as omerta, right? | |
| But let's get back into it. | |
| Beyond these Italian gangsters have been immortalized in iconic 20th century literature and film, which often depicts them at the height of their power in and around the 1950s. | |
| Yet rarely explored are the earliest origins of the mafia, a history that goes back a century before the era depicted in the likes of the Godfather and Goodfellas. | |
| In 1972, Italian journalist Luigi Barzini had this to say about Italy's southernmost island. | |
| The reason why Sicily is ungovernable is that the inhabitants have long ago learned to distrust and neutralize all written laws and to govern themselves in their own rough homemade fashion, as if official institutions did not exist. | |
| This arrangement is highly unsatisfactory because it cures no ills, promotes injustice and tyranny, leaves crimes unpunished, does not make use of the Sicilians' best qualities, and has kept the country's stagnant and backward in almost every way. | |
| Guys, hold on. | |
| So this right here is probably like the like it hits the nail on the head when it comes to how the mafia operates in general, okay? | |
| Um, and this is how the mur mafia was kind of birthed from uh distrust or an unavailability of government intervention to provide protection and security. | |
| And you guys are gonna see that here in a second. | |
| Since antiquity, Sicilian history has been defined by foreign rule. | |
| Greeks, Carthaginians, Romans, Byzantines, Arabs, Vikings, Normans, Germans, and Spaniards had all claimed dominion over the island over various periods. | |
| At the turn of the 19th century, Sicily had been the domain of the ancestrally French Bourbon kings who ruled the island and much of southern mainland Italy. | |
| Most of Sicily's previous dynasties had practiced a form of feudal rulership, and the Bourbons were no exception. | |
| Under their rule, Sicilian land was exclusively in the hands of either the Catholic Church or feudal barons, who held vast estates and made up a tiny percentage of the population. | |
| However, by the year 1812, this had begun to change. | |
| Primogeniture, the law by which a noble's domain is passed down to his firstborn son, was abolished, and the barons of Sicily began gradually selling off parcels of their land to the peasantry. | |
| Soon, over one-fifth of Sicilian land was made up of these small holdings of private citizens. | |
| This slow shift from feudalism to capitalism was sped up exponentially in the year 1860, when the intrepid Italian general Giuseppe Garibaldi led a volunteer force of 1,000 men into Sicily, waging a bloody war of liberation that resulted in the island's annexation into the nascent kingdom of Italy. | |
| Disdainful of the old world order, the Italian kingdom wished to form itself on the model of a modern nation state. | |
| As such, the bulk of the land that remained in the possession of the church or the nobility was seized and distributed among the peasantry. | |
| In Sicily, the number of landowners increased tenfold from 2000 to 20,000. | |
| Most of these new plots were small farms, grazing lands, lemon groves or vineyards. | |
| This was a colossal societal shift. | |
| And as you guys could see, whenever opportunity presents itself like that, and there's economic growth, there's always going to be criminals ready to exploit that growth. | |
| If you guys think about it nowadays, right, with the explosion of technology, right? | |
| Think about it. | |
| We've went from like brick and mortar type crimes of robbing banks and selling drugs and set, you know, selling illicit material, even like, you know, let's call it, you know, child uh corn, if y'all know what I'm saying, right? | |
| Used to be hard in VHS, whatever, but now it's on internet, everything is digital now. | |
| So, uh, so what's the fastest growing crime? | |
| It's fraud, right? | |
| Identity theft, etc. | |
| So any time there's growth to some degree or human progress, there's always criminals there ready to exploit that progress. | |
| And you guys are going to see that here in a second, with the explosions of lemons, vineyards, etc., how the mafia gets involved, even at this early stage. | |
| Prior to Italy's modernization, most barons with vast feudal landholdings had the resources and manpower to ensure their properties remained protected. | |
| The same was true for the immensely wealthy and influential Catholic clergy. | |
| However, this was not the case for peasant-owned small estates that now made up the bulk of Sicilian land. | |
| Many Sicilians would resist the imposition of Italian rule and Italian laws, and take arms in the form of populist uprisings that raged from 1860 all the way to 1876. | |
| The violent upheaval born of this fighting further destabilized the region, and the poverty caused by the war drove many desperate and starving peasants to steal from Sicily's many new landowners. | |
| Unlike the old feudal barons who bought their own protection, these small land-owning citizens were dependent on federal soldiers and policemen to safeguard their property, neither of which were able to effectively monitor depending on the police back then for them to uh protect your property. | |
| The United States has been a long-term private plot in the face of widespread political unrest across the island. | |
| The situation was grim, for the Italian government had distributed land to tens of thousands of middle class peasants, but left them helpless when it came to actually protecting it. | |
| To any man with a nose for business and a constitution for violence, late 19th century Sicily was a dreamland, right for exploitation, and that is exactly what happened. | |
| In lieu of any presence of law enforcement, the island's landowners were forced to turn to private thugs to protect their property. | |
| These loose gangs of hired gunmen soon realized they were the only real authority in the region and began taking advantage of the situation, turning against the very people they were meant to protect, forcing many local farmers into their clientele under threat of violence. | |
| Landowners no longer had a choice. | |
| And this guy's right here is the birth of extortion, my friends, okay. | |
| Anytime you basically have a monopoly of violence on someone and you're telling them they need to pay you or else they have to deal with some kind of physical consequence, right? | |
| Uh and a lot of times they say this with uh, you know, oh, we're protecting you, air quotes lol. | |
| No, they're not protecting you, they're extorting you for money at the threat of violence. | |
| which you guys are going to see here throughout this broadcast. | |
| This becomes honestly the bread and butter of a lot of organized crime, the mafia especially. | |
| ...choice in whether or not they would hire these contractors. | |
| Either they paid out a handsome sum for the protection of their estate, or they would suffer dire and violent consequences. | |
| Anton Bloch, an anthropologist who studied the gangs of Italy, defined the central characteristic of mafia as the private use of unlicensed violence as a means of control in the public arena. | |
| That is probably one of the best definitions ever. | |
| I would give him a Don DeMarco for that one. | |
| The private use of unlicensed violence is a means of control in the public arena. | |
| music And from the 1860s onward, this phenomenon would be the principal method by which the Sicilian people were ruled. | |
| Due to the inherently clandestine nature of organized crime, the scope and influence of the various factions of Cosa Nostra are hard to quantify. | |
| Although it is safe to say that by 1865, they had accumulated vast sway in Sicily, controlling much of its farms and ranches, especially in the western regions surrounding Palermo. | |
| As a result of this, stories of their machinations during this era have been well recorded. | |
| The extent of the Mafia's reach is first mentioned in a book published in 1864, plainly titled Public Safety in Sicily, and written by one Niccolò Teresi Colonna. | |
| However, the publication never used the word mafia specifically, instead referring to a sect of thieves that had ties across the whole island. | |
| Colonna was an Italian patriot and a staunch unionist, the kind of man who brought with him the law and order that criminals reviled. | |
| He had narrowly survived an assassination attempt a year earlier, when five armed hitmen had tried to gun him down with muskets while he travels down a rural road outside Palermo by carriage. | |
| Luckily, his guards managed to fend off that's how they used to shoot at you back in the day. | |
| That's how they used to slide on the ops. | |
| hey, you go out in your carriage and then they just shoot at you with muskets. | |
| The attackers with their pistols, causing them to flee. | |
| This brush with death had inspired Colonna to raise awareness about Sicily's ever-growing underground criminal lords. | |
| Colonna's book brought attention to many of the mafia's sinister powers. | |
| The sect of thieves that he wrote about was described to have no fear of policemen who they could easily elude. | |
| They had no trepidation for the courts either, due to their ability to pressure any witnesses into silence. | |
| Colonna's testimony grows even more morbid, as he claimed that any civilian caught approaching a military policeman would be caught and executed. | |
| This was a practice done to enforce a disconnect between lawmen and the citizenry, born of fear, and instill a law known as humility, by which the mafia coerced total devotion and respect out of the peasantry which they ruled over. | |
| Far removed from being simple extortionists, Cosa Nostra had evolved into a dangerous cult, with deep tendrils in every facet of Sicilian society. | |
| The mafioso were especially prominent among the owners of lemon groves. | |
| Introduced by the Arabs in the 9th century, lemons had quickly become a valued Sicilian export, and by the 19th century was the island's most lucrative cash crop. | |
| For instance, by 1855, over 2.5 million crates of Sicilian citrus made it to New York alone annually. | |
| However, they were a fickle plant, with even slight changes in soil acidity being able to sabotage an entire field. | |
| This made them especially easy for the mafia to threaten and doubly lucrative for them to own. | |
| A seminal example of this is the story of a man known as Dr. Gasperi Galati. | |
| In 1874, the former surgeon had inherited a four-hectare lemon grove known as the Fondo Biella. | |
| The land was only a short stroll away from Palermo's city walls, putting it in the heart of Mafia territory. | |
| Furthermore, Galati had only inherited the grove because the previous owner, his brother-in-law, had suffered a heart attack upon receiving a string of death threats. | |
| Sure enough, Galati soon realized that the men who worked the farm kept dubious company. | |
| The person responsible for sending the death threats had been the warden of the estate, Benedetto Carollo, a man undoubtedly linked to the mafia. | |
| Dr. Galati may not have been aware of the death threats that led to his brother-in-law's demise, but he certainly picked up on Carol's problematic nature quickly, as the man undercut the sale value of the farm's produce. | |
| And also I want you guys to understand that back then, right? | |
| Like they didn't have the same modern conventions that we have now to preserve, you know, fruits and vegetables to the same level of sophistication that we have now. | |
| So the mafia obviously was able to exploit this and be like, all right, listen, if you don't pay up, we're gonna fuck with your product and you're not gonna be able to eat seller or make money. | |
| So you gotta pay up, or else not only will physical violence come your way, but we're also going to destroy your crops, which obviously for a lot of people back then, you know, people were a lot of people made their money from being farmers, etc. | |
| That was their livelihood, so they didn't really have a choice. | |
| So, um, you know, this shows just goes to show uh their ability to control and dominate people and be able to basically get their tentacles into your business. | |
| You know, that whole use work for me now. | |
| that comes from them basically coming in and taking over your business old coal from the estate steam pumps and lemons from the trees all while stretching about like he owns the place Dr. Galati was no fool. | |
| Realizing his farm was being sabotaged, he had Carollo fired. | |
| Naturally, this drew upon him the attention of malicious shadows. | |
| Many of Galati's close friends implored him to rehire Corollo, friends who previously had no vested interest in his business and had no doubt been pressured or bribed by Cosa Nostra. | |
| However, the doctor did not relent on his decision. | |
| He had forced the mafia's hand, and on the 2nd of July, the man he had hired to replace Carollo was gunned down on a narrow rural street. | |
| Naturally, Galati's attempt to report this murder to the police turned out to be a pointless affair, for they had already been paid off to look the other way. | |
| The doctor soon received a string of letters with the heavy-handed promise that if he did not rehire Carollo, he and his family would face the same fate as the replacement warden they had shot dead. | |
| Eventually, the doctor abandoned the Fonda Riella and fled to Naples, leaving his property entirely in the mafia's hands. | |
| The doctor wrote a written testimony of his misfortunes, giving us a key example of how the early Sicilian mafia operated. | |
| A system in which mafioso strong men operated from the shadows, forcing non-compliance landowners out of town by either planting saboteurs on their farms or with threats of violence. | |
| The mafia faction that harried Galati was based in the village of Ugitore, where out of a population of only 800, 23 souls had been gunned down in the year 1874 alone. | |
| No doubt. | |
| Wow, out of 800, 23 killed through violence. | |
| Remember, guys, this is before them extorting people. | |
| Uh, like you know nowadays, you know what modern businesses, gambling, loan sharking, all the crimes that we know the mafia for is started with extorting farmers. | |
| You know, okay, um, and then it blossoms to something else. | |
| Go ahead. | |
| Somebody said that this happens a lot in Venezuela, and that's true. | |
| My my my dad has a farm, and that happens a lot, still, like to this day. | |
| Like people uh in Venezuela we call them vacunas, but it's it's literally this: like people will store or farm owners, so they can keep like their production or the farm. | |
| Yeah, it happens a lot. | |
| It's crazy. | |
| Yeah, Venezuela's crazy, man. | |
| Very dangerous. | |
| Alright. | |
| They were individuals who had defied the rule of the mafia. | |
| While Dr. Galati's case was maybe only one story out of many, there exists countless cases just like it in lemon groves, farms, and villages all over Sicily throughout the latter half of the 19th century. | |
| The 1870s saw not just the steady increase of mafia power, but also the development of many of their rituals which still survive to this day. | |
| In 1875, Palermo's chief of police reported on the initiation rites of mafia, in which new members were made to prick their finger and smear blood over the image of a Christian saint, after which the bloodied image was then burned, binding the initiate to undying loyalty and symbolizing the death of all traitors to Cosa Nostra. | |
| Another sacred tenet that had now, guys. | |
| And we're gonna talk about that as well a little bit later on, but this is the process of becoming a maidman, and we're gonna define that as well. | |
| Okay, but it's an ancient well, not ancient, but extremely old uh ritual that's done for guys to become fully initiated into the mafia. | |
| Okay, we're gonna go into a little bit more detail that later on. | |
| Originating from the Sicilian word omilta, meaning humility, ometa was a law that compelled all Mafioso to never speak about their affiliations to anyone outside of their inner circle under threat of death. | |
| It was clear now that what had begun as a loose association of opportunistic brutes had evolved into something much deeper, born from the chaos of Sicily's upheaval. | |
| An entire society existing in The shadows bound by blood. | |
| A society whose hooks sunk deep into the lives of countless men, women, and children. | |
| The 1880s saw Cosa Nostra power grow even further. | |
| Terisi Colonna, the man who had first brought public attention to the mafia, some 20 years earlier, was elected mayor of Palermo in 1881. | |
| Supposedly a staunch opponent of Sicily's criminal overlords. | |
| In reality, Kelona had been paid off by the very people who had tried to gun him down decades before. | |
| Heavy Oh boy. | |
| He was he was uh a straight arrow before, now he's corrupted. | |
| The allegations pointed to a crooked mare of a crooked city, protecting mafioso from the law, even hiring a mafia member as his chief of police. | |
| Colonna was just one of many and this is something that you guys are gonna notice. | |
| Uh, you know, when it comes to mafia cases in general, there is always some level of corruption, bribery, and payments to government officials to allow them to continue to continue uh you know commit their criminal activity unhindered. | |
| Public servants whom the mafia had ingratiated themselves with the mob's ability to pull powerful politicians into their pocket became a key strategy of theirs in the years to come, and an essential source of their growth as an organization. | |
| So far was its reach that around this era, a Roman correspondent of the British Daily, the Times, remarked that the gangsters were an intangible sect whose organization is as perfect as that of the Jesuits or the Freemasons, and whose secrets are more impenetrable. | |
| From here, we begin to enter the era known more broadly through popular film. | |
| Between the 1880s and 1930s, one million Sicilians emigrated to America, and naturally the mafioso went with them. | |
| The prohibition era of the 1920s saw Mafia activity explode in the United States, as they made a fortune from smuggling boots like liquor and later on branching out into prostitution and drugs. | |
| While the Cosa Nostra of America operated independently from their cousins back home in Sicily, they shared the same rituals of shadow and blood. | |
| Mafia factions would continue to hold Sicily. | |
| Bam. | |
| Alright, so that pretty much summarizes it right there, right? | |
| The origins of the Sicilian mafia guys in uh in Sicily, and then how they came over to the United States. | |
| Um you have some energy? | |
| Yeah. | |
| Do you know what? | |
| Um, in Wikipedia, yeah, it says that the word mafia comes from mafioso, which is like a mafia member, which is called Sicily. | |
| You know, like it's a was it was it was his like mafios mafia? | |
| Mafioso, yeah. | |
| In English, is this like Swagger? | |
| Uh Swagger, right? | |
| I don't know about that. | |
| Yeah, it's the I think it's Swagger. | |
| Anyways, um, the word mafia comes from Mafia, like Mafia, because uh uh Sicilian woman apparently got her daughter abused by uh an officer. | |
| Oh, yeah, French guy. | |
| What? | |
| A French guy, yeah, it was a French invader. | |
| Ah, yeah, yeah, yeah. | |
| Yes. | |
| So uh you know you saw in the video that I heard about so um she started like running through the streets uh screaming like my daughter, my daughter, which means mafia in in Sicilian, but it will be like in Italian, I think it's ma m mia figlia, something like that. | |
| So people started like seeing the word mafia as um as a resistant moving movement or something like that. | |
| Resistance movement. | |
| Yeah. | |
| Okay. | |
| Alright, so uh now we're gonna get into guys the Italian mafia here. | |
| Uh so now that we know the origins, right? | |
| We've we pretty much went over how they were formed, right? | |
| Three through honestly through lawlessness, and they saw an opportunity where there was a bunch of economic growth through farming, agriculture, and they were able to stick their tentacles inside of that, extract the resources, and become very wealthy in the process. | |
| And if you don't pay up, you end up getting, you know, fucked up. | |
| So uh I'll hit some of these chats real quick, and then we'll get into the history of the American mafia. | |
| Um we got here 06 Byron goes, uh guys, stop saying me and Angie bang before the show. | |
| Y'all know it's always after work comes first. | |
| I appreciate it. | |
| Yeah, I know. | |
| Gotta start extorting these uh OF304s for protection. | |
| Get your bag, kings. | |
| Uh AC Slater, three bucks, I appreciate that. | |
| Jacob, uh, a dollar, thank you. | |
| Uh Elevate Entertainment Fedema number one, Mar and you a top G. I appreciate that, my friend. | |
| Uh Caden Hines goes, like the video, cool. | |
| Uh Brian uh Messina goes, do a GFK, do GFK. | |
| Yep, definitely the Mafia was involved in his murder as well. | |
| Uh Michael Meanstroke and uh them boys. | |
| Uh you gotta say too much more than that, so we don't get cancelled. | |
| Uh Kareem Lewis goes, uh, do you hear Hakimi is gonna be paid all alimony by his wife? | |
| Since she is worth more than him, he deserves to be on City Boys Hall of Fame. | |
| Yeah, bro, that's what we're talking about, baby. | |
| Uh you got Marin Javante Davis or Ryan Garcia. | |
| Uh, I have no clue, my friend. | |
| Um, super sticker. | |
| I think he meant because you were sick. | |
| So, what virus you got? | |
| Something like that. | |
| Oh, I don't know. | |
| Uh, if you if I live close to Delphi, if you need help getting the paperwork for that case. | |
| Okay, monitors. | |
| And then Homeland Secure Security Investigations. | |
| We've watched your streams, Mar and keep it up. | |
| Thanks, bro. | |
| I appreciate that, man. | |
| Shout out to the government in the house. | |
| My old employer. | |
| No way they just made that. | |
| Oh man, you guys, you guys names. | |
| Yeah, so very creative. | |
| Very creative, my friends. | |
| Alright, let's get into the history of the American mafia, alright? | |
| Let's get into it. | |
| Shout out to Kings of Generals, man. | |
| I'm gonna give these nunjas a subscribe and a like. | |
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| Subscribe, like their stuff. | |
| Uh show them some support. | |
| Alright. | |
| Okay. | |
| Okay. | |
| I watch a lot of history, guys, so for me, this stuff is very enjoyable. | |
| Hope you guys are enjoying it as well. | |
| Again, I'll stop in between and give you guys some commentary. | |
| June 30th, 1931. | |
| A portly man sits before the defendant's stand in the Chicago federal courthouse, nervously wiping his brow with a white handkerchief. | |
| An employee of the internal rev y'all in the chat! | |
| Can y'all guess who they're talking about? | |
| Comment in the comment section right now if y'all know who they're talking about right now in this uh courtroom. | |
| Revenue service rises to the witness stand and begins to drone on about missing tax returns and unreported income. | |
| Without context, this scene appears to be about as mundane and boring as can be. | |
| However, millions more recognize this court proceeding for what it is. | |
| The technicality that allowed the United States justice system to finally catch the most notorious mobster of someone said Al Capone of syphilis. | |
| Don't die Don't die Okay. | |
| Oh my god, this chap bro. | |
| And they said them boys. | |
| Oh my god, bro. | |
| Uh, them boys definitely had a had a play. | |
| Uh here, guys. | |
| We're gonna talk about them boys a little bit as well, because you can't talk about the Italian mafia without talking about them boys. | |
| Yeah, you without talking about them boys. | |
| You know what time it is. | |
| Yeah, I know what time it is, man. | |
| Full time. | |
| Indeed, to many, the era of the speakeasy, the Tommy gun, and the illicit bootlegger needs no introduction. | |
| But how did criminals like Al Capone grow so powerful? | |
| Welcome to the latest video in our series on organized crime, where we will explore the origins of the American mobsters and explain how the era of prohibition allowed them to become some of the most powerful criminals in world history. | |
| Today's video is sponsored by Babble. | |
| Fuck you, Babble. | |
| We don't give a shit about you, bro. | |
| Fuck out, forgot about it. | |
| As war, poverty, oppression, and famine robbed their homelands. | |
| Millions of Irish, Southern Italians, and Eastern European Jews crossed the Atlantic in search of new opportunities. | |
| See, them boys came through as well, man. | |
| Y'all know what I'm saying. | |
| In 1892, the iconic federal processing station on Ellis Island opened its doors. | |
| But as thousands of migrants passed through its crowded lines each day, they soon found that the United States was not quite the dreamland they hoped it to be. | |
| Nativist sentiment was strong amongst the upper crust of American society, and many movements sprang up as a result. | |
| These cultural conservatives claimed that the United States was founded upon the principles of an Anglo-Saxon Protestant society and had no place for the Jews or the Catholics. | |
| Consequently. | |
| Sorry, I just got to laugh at that, guys. | |
| My bad. | |
| Let's keep going. | |
| New migrants were often denied respectable jobs, forced to perform menial labor while being crammed into slums like the infamous Five Points in New York, where poor families were stuffed into homes built atop landfills amidst tanneries and blue factories. | |
| Most immigrants made the most of the hand dealt to them and worked hard to provide for their families. | |
| Others turned to more insidious means to make ends meet. | |
| The story of organized crime in America begins as early as the 1830s, with the rise of a handful of predominantly Irish gangs in the slums of New York. | |
| The most now if you guys notice, right? | |
| Whether it's you know, because I talked about this with the Bloods in the Crips. | |
| Uh now you guys are seeing it here with the Irish, with the Jews, with the Italians, etc., right. | |
| What's basically happening is when a group is oppressed to a degree, a lot of times what they do is they stick together and they form an alliance. | |
| And this alliance ends up being a gang a lot of the times, and what they do is they say, okay, if we're not going to be given these opportunities, we're gonna take these opportunities. | |
| So a lot of time oppression, right, leads to poverty, which then leads to some type of rebellion/slash crime, which is typically done in the uh done through the formation of alliances of a like-minded, like religion-like looked upon people. | |
| Okay. | |
| So uh yeah, let's keep going. | |
| Prominent of these gangs was known as the Dead Rabbits. | |
| Based out of the poverty-stricken Five Point, they arose as a defiant movement against class oppression imposed on poor Irishmen. | |
| Consequently, their main rival, the Bowery Boys Gang, was a xenophobic posse of Protestant American-born nativists, led by Bill the Butcher Pool. | |
| The gangs fought street battles with knives, hatchets, spiked clubs, brass knuckles, tomahawks, and muskets, and their conflict became an inspiration for Herbert Asprey's 1927 non-fiction book, The Gangs of New York, and its movie adaption by Martin Scorsese. | |
| The most prominent leader of the Dead Rabbits was John Oldsmoke Morrissey, a professional boxer who had made his fortune in prize fights, even becoming the champion of America in 1853. | |
| Morrissey soon took his violent lifestyle to the streets of Five Points, having his most bitter rival Bill Poole gunned down in a Broadway saloon in a morbid statement against anti-Irish activism. | |
| In the following years, Morrissey became the king of New York's gambling scene, owning racetracks and clubs that attracted such prestigious guests as Mark Twain, John D. Rockefeller, and Ulysses S. Grant. | |
| Morrissey was soon so influential that with the help of the Democratic Party political organization known as Tamanny Hall, he was elected into the United States Congress in 1867, where he Wow. | |
| Always looked out for the Irish, using strong-armed tactics to accomplish his goals. | |
| The story of his life left a dubious legacy. | |
| Felonious violence was a valid path to wealth for the disenfranchised immigrants. | |
| Throughout the 1880s and 1890s, new waves of Jewish and Italian migrants would arrive to carve a place for themselves in the streets of New York and beyond. | |
| And again, guys, you see a trend here. | |
| At the time, the United States was growing through immigration, and there was many opportunities being given. | |
| The United States was starting to quickly become a powerhouse in the global realm. | |
| So what ends up happening is these immigrants come here and they see the opportunity, and what do they do? | |
| Well, obviously, some people put their nose to the ground and ended up working really hard and creating wealth naturally, right? | |
| Through hard work and perseverance. | |
| Others saw opportunity to exploit it and be criminals and make money through that regard. | |
| So like I said before, anytime there's economic explosion, there's always people ready to scan the system and make money nefariously. | |
| You got something, Angie? | |
| I said I'll be the first one that you mentioned. | |
| *laughter* | |
| A charismatic thug named Monk Eastman knit together an insidious order made up predominantly of young Jews from Brooklyn. | |
| His organization became known as the Eastman Gang, and he became a local kingpin in gambling, prostitution, opium dealing, and violent extortion. | |
| Eastman's main rival was Paolo Antonio Vaccarelli, better known by his Americanized name, Paul Kelly. | |
| Styling himself as a sophisticated gentleman, Kelly made a name as a dexterous flyweight boxer, riding the fame of his victories in the ring to open up several brothels and clubs. | |
| He eventually cobbled together the largest and most vicious Italian mob in New York. | |
| By 1901, Kelly and Eastman's cronies were locked in a bloody turf war in the Lower East Side. | |
| Consequently, the two gangs were also in the pocket of Tammany Hall, who used the violent mobsters to further their political goals in the New York State Legislature. | |
| Mamma mia through bribery, extortion, and voter fraud. | |
| In order to enforce a peace between the two, Tammany Hall organized a boxing match between Kelly and Eastman to determine the fate of their gang war. | |
| The two mob bosses beat each other bloody for two hours, but the match ended in a draw, and the war resumed. | |
| Not all the gangs in New York were started by impoverished laborers. | |
| Some had deep ties to well-established secret societies, which had been formed in Italy decades earlier and carried over to the United States by its powerful criminals. | |
| Two of these groups were the Camora and the infamous Cosa Nostra, whose rise to power in 19th century Sicily we have covered in a previous video. | |
| Meanwhile, Irish gangs held out against the Jewish and Italian advance. | |
| Morrissey's Dead Rabbit Society had long since been absorbed into the Five Points Gang. | |
| But many Irish factions that remained united to form the White Hand Gang, named in juxtaposition to the Italians who practiced a form of extortionism known as black hand violence. | |
| It should be noted that not all these gangs were divided entirely on ethnic lines. | |
| For example, some Jews served under the Five Points Gang, while some Italians worked for the Eastmen. | |
| Plenty of Irish, alongside Poles, Slovaks, and other marginalized immigrant communities were present in all gangs. | |
| And uh this is very true, guys, because even though at the time, which you guys were gonna talk about this here in a little bit as well, uh there was frowned upon for Mafia guys to work with, let's say, other organized criminal factions, such as like maybe the Jewish mafia, whatever, aka Demboys, right? | |
| They still did so because they could make money together and they were being oppressed regardless. | |
| So they're like, yo, let's just work together and make money. | |
| So this is very common for people of different groups to work together, even though sometimes it was frowned upon, and we're gonna talk about that with Lucky Luciano, okay, and Mayor Lansky here in a little bit. | |
| But let's not get too ahead of ourselves, we'll keep going. | |
| At the turn of the century, the foundations had been laid for an era of lawlessness in the heart of the United States. | |
| But it would be two decades later that a certain constitutional amendment would pass, allowing the mobsters of America to explode in prominence, and initiating an age of criminal kings who ruled by right of barley, hops, and rye. | |
| Now, guys, I want to make this very clear. | |
| Prohibition, okay. | |
| Which basically was I think it was the 80th amendment. | |
| Uh basically made alcohol illegal in the United States. | |
| The amount of opportunity this created for Mafia dudes to make bootleg alcohol and sell was ridiculous. | |
| They made billions of dollars in today's, you know, if you were to like use uh you know, account for inflation, whatever maybe in today's dollars, they made billions of dollars on the sale of uh fake alcohol and alcohol in general to people while it was banned, | |
| and it allowed them to Take this money and invest it into other legitimate businesses and become very, very wealthy, where they had influence over politicians, law enforcement, and government officials. | |
| So prohibition is what allowed the mafia to have a meteoric rise in social status and financial um power. | |
| Because it was because everyone just wanted a drink and they couldn't get it, and the only per way to get it was through who organized crime. | |
| Dating back to the colonial era, America was a nation that loved its liquor. | |
| In lieu of access to clean water and unable to afford tea and coffee, the beverage of choice for the average Yankee was a nice cool tankard of beer. | |
| However, it was also a nation founded by Puritans. | |
| So its society had civil watchdogs who decried the effects of the alcohol, namely the rise of domestic abuse and substance addiction, and a dive in the physical and mental health of the average working man. | |
| In 1873, a group of disgruntled wives who had long suffered at the hands of their drunk husbands, formed a society known as the women's crusade, whose prayers and songs against excessive drinking rang out throughout the nation. | |
| The anti-alcohol sentiment grew in the following decades, as temperance movements soon evolved into the total prohibition of any and all alcoholic beverages. | |
| The L wives, this is why chicks deserve less, guys. | |
| Mama Mia! | |
| The leading organization in this was the Anti-Saloon League, whose relentless lobbying soon had changed most of the... | |
| Which, by the way, guys, book in stores, ninjas. | |
| Why women deserve less? | |
| So if y'all don't want to get alcohol banned again, make sure to get this goddamn book, all right? | |
| In stores right now, Amazon. | |
| I'll put the link below for y'all. | |
| You can go ahead and get on Audible, Kindle, hardcover, soft cover. | |
| It's all out there, man. | |
| Okay, if you want to hear me yell at you on Audible, yes, I narrated myself. | |
| Go check it out. | |
| Why women deserve less so that we don't end up with alcohol being banned. | |
| I want to say, I want to say something. | |
| I got all my people that my Hispanic people. | |
| Um finally said yes, and I'll be translating the book. | |
| So yeah. | |
| So yes, it's gonna be out there Spanish. | |
| Don't go. | |
| Because the Mamasitas know that they deserve less too. | |
| So y'all need to go ahead and get the book when it comes out of Spanish, translated by fucking Andrew over here. | |
| Okay. | |
| You know what time it is, baby. | |
| Okay. | |
| Alright. | |
| I thought you were gonna say Gorditas. | |
| Yeah, well, the Gorditos need to know too that they deserve less, deserve less food, less comida. | |
| All right, let's get back to the show. | |
| United States Congress to their side. | |
| By the winter of 1919, the Great War was over, Charlie Chaplin was rising in popularity, and lively jazz clubs rocked America. | |
| On paper, the economy was booming. | |
| However, the nation would soon be shaken to its core. | |
| The federal government, under pressure from anti-alcohol abolitionists, passed the 18th Amendment to the United States Constitution. | |
| The era of alcoholic prohibition had begun. | |
| As saloons, taverns, and distilleries across the nation shut their doors. | |
| Puritans from coast to coast celebrated the beginning of a golden age of Christian righteousness and virtues. | |
| In reality, by taking drink out of the hands of legal businessmen, they had thrown it into the clutches of the shadowy gangs that had been developing in the country for nearly a century. | |
| Bam. | |
| And guys, you gotta understand that this was already like the perfect storm brewing. | |
| So you got an influx of immigrants coming from Italy, right? | |
| Uh, you know, you got them boys coming in, you got people from all over Europe coming into the United States, right? | |
| And a lot of them are are already involved in organized crime because they're being ostracized and they're being oppressed by the people that already run the country, right? | |
| So what are they doing? | |
| They're also already involved in criminal activity. | |
| So now you take away alcohol, which is something that everyone wants, right? | |
| And the only way that you could get it is through who? | |
| The very people that are being oppressed the most, because they're the ones willing to break the laws to supply the alcohol to the people that want to be able to get drunk, right? | |
| And we, this is a nation that was founded upon alcohol. | |
| People were drinking beer for centuries over here. | |
| So now it gives them what? | |
| That opportunity that I talked about to make a ridiculous amount of money. | |
| So it was the perfect storm brewing to allow the mafia to have a meteoric rise, which you guys are gonna see. | |
| Throughout the 1920s, almost every major city became the home of some form of criminal organization that supplied its population with alcohol in defiance of the law. | |
| Before long, America was full of illicit establishments known as speakeasies, in which bootleg alcohol flowed freely. | |
| Al Capone is one of the most recognizable names in American history, and his repeated presence in this video should surprise no one. | |
| Born in Manhattan in 1899 to a pair of poor Italian immigrants, he dropped out of school at 14 to join Paul Kelly's Five Points gang, working as a bouncer in one of their saloons. | |
| At 18, he was savagely attacked by a knife-wielding patron in a dispute over a woman. | |
| The assault left the young gangster with three grotesque serrations on the left side of his face, which would give birth to his infamous nickname, Scarface. | |
| In 1919, he moved to Chicago, where he found work under the mob boss Johnny Torio. | |
| Torrio soon retired and handed his criminal empire to Capone, which the young gangster proved to be exceptionally capable at running. | |
| By 1927, the Portley mob boss was the undisputed king of the Windy City, having made a fortune off hundreds of underground breweries, distilleries, speakeasies, racetracks, and brothels he controlled across the entire Greater Chicago area. | |
| And guys, don't worry, I'm going to go ahead and cover in detail the different crime families. | |
| So we're going to cover the five families of New York. | |
| We're going to cover the Chicago outfit. | |
| Okay, also known as the Chicago Mafia, also known as the outfit. | |
| Um, we're gonna cover the Traficantes down in Florida, we're gonna cover the guys out in Vegas, we're gonna cover all of it, man. | |
| So don't worry, like I said before. | |
| The reason why I put off doing the Italian Mafia for so long is because I knew that it was gonna take a while to cover all this because it's a lot of content, it's a lot of stuff. | |
| So what's more than likely gonna happen, just so y'all know, by the way, as well. | |
| Quick little announcement we're gonna um be this is the first episode of the mafia that we're dropping today, right? | |
| Which gives you guys the history, and we're gonna go over terms, etc. | |
| And then every subsequent episode from this point forward, it's gonna be dropped on Thursdays, okay? | |
| We're gonna pre-record a drop for y'all, and we're gonna cover whether it's a family, the FBI taking them down, uh, something we're gonna be doing. | |
| I estimate that this is gonna be somewhere between a five to ten part series, depending on whether we consolidate some families together or whatever may be. | |
| But uh, but don't worry, we're gonna go over some of the bigger mobsters uh in detail when we cover the different families, right? | |
| So, like when we do the Gambinos, for example, we're gonna be covering John Gotti extensively. | |
| Uh, when we do the Chicago Alfred, we're gonna be covering Al Capone and the Valentine's Day Massacre. | |
| So we're gonna cover the Philly mob. | |
| Uh, we're gonna cover the Anjulos up in Boston, you know, and John Connolly and Body Bulger and all that. | |
| So don't worry, I got y'all baby. | |
| Domonka. | |
| Right, which by the way, for some of you guys that if you want a sneak preview of that, I covered that to a pretty significant degree already when I did Whitey Bulger uh on Fed it as well. | |
| So if you guys want a little bit and you can't wait, go ahead and check out that episode of Whitey Bulger that I did before. | |
| Also, we got 1700 of you guys watching the show right now. | |
| Do me a favor, like the video, subscribe to the channel, because y'all are not gonna get a former Fed out here breaking down organized crime for you guys and giving you guys this level of detail and entertainment, of course, at the same time. | |
| And you're not gonna get uh a Q Venezuelan girl that can't speak English any words, alright? | |
| So Yeah, you guys were 1700 people watching right now, so you better like the video. | |
| You better like the video because Angie needs a new pair of pants because she got attacked by a tiger somewhere. | |
| All right, you guys better like the goddamn video. | |
| All right, let's keep going. | |
| His main rival was George Bugs Moran and his Irish Northsiders gang. | |
| Back east, a new generation of ambitious crime lords had emerged from the old gangs and divided New York amongst themselves. | |
| Arnold Rothstein's origin story was unlike most mobsters. | |
| Rothstein. | |
| Son of a businessman of high standing and the younger brother of a rabbi in training. | |
| The Jewish youth took a darker path than the rest of his family, delving into the world of gambling and blackmail. | |
| It was even alleged that he managed to fix the 1919 baseball world series between the Chicago Red Sox and Cincinnati Reds by bribing the Red Sox to throw the game. | |
| When prohibition became law, Rothstein turned to illegal alcohol to make his fortune. | |
| By 1925, he was one of the most powerful crooks in the country, forging a criminal empire based out of Broadway and becoming the largest bootlegger in the nation. | |
| Charles Lucky Luciano was born in 1897 in Palermo, Sicily, as the son of a poor sulfur miner. | |
| The Lucky Luciano is critical to this entire formation, by the way, guys here. | |
| So please pay attention at this point. | |
| We're gonna cover Lucky Luciano a little bit more as well later. | |
| In 1906, his family emigrated to New York. | |
| As a teenager, Luciano fell in love with the five points and came into the employ of a faction of the Cosa Nostra led by the ruthless Giuseppe Joe the boss Maseria. | |
| Unlike other Italian-American gangs, the Sicilian Cosa Nostra was staunchly conservative, refusing to work with non-Itans, and even reluctant to work with non-Sicilian Italians. | |
| This young Americanized Luciano was shocked when his old Sicilian-raised boss referred to his good friend Frank Costello as a dirty Calabrian. | |
| Calabria was right next to Sicily, and anyway. | |
| Yo, W racism against your own country. | |
| My man was racist to a whole other level. | |
| And just so you guys know, the reason why Luciano frowned upon this is because Luciano worked very closely with Mayor Lansky, who was what? | |
| One of them boys, okay. | |
| And Mayor Lansky actually was responsible for helping get Luciano out of prison, right? | |
| As a part of a naval intelligence thing, okay, which uh them boys were involved in some things back in the day, which we're gonna talk about that with Ryan Dawson as well. | |
| If you don't believe me, watch the documentary Numek, okay. | |
| Uh on Rumbo. | |
| You can't watch that shit on YouTube for obvious reasons. | |
| But uh, yeah, and y'all will see what Mayor Lansky was really doing uh back then. | |
| But yes, Lucky Luciano worked very closely with them boys, and his boss, Maseria did not like that at the time, which is gonna lead to a war, which we're gonna talk about as well after this. | |
| Anyway, they were both Americans now. | |
| Luciano soon began to dream of a new world order where Jewish, Irish, and Italian gangs alike could breach racial lines and work together. | |
| And in all Luciano cared about was making money. | |
| He didn't care about color, religion, race, none of that. | |
| Luciano worked with anyone where he could make money, and his bosses didn't like that, which messed with his ability to earn money. | |
| ...rich one another in defiance of the government. | |
| At the height of prohibition, mobsters across the country were suddenly making exponentially more money than their predecessors. | |
| Before, the gangs had been limited to immigrant neighborhoods in poorer parts of cities, but prohibition had transformed them into high-flying international businessmen. | |
| It now became commonplace for every major crook to hire lawyers, accountants, real estate investors, and shipping contractors. | |
| By the mid-20s, the most powerful of kingpins were spending the equivalent of seven million modern US dollars a month on bribes alone. | |
| Still, they remained violent. | |
| Holy rewind that how much money? | |
| What? | |
| US dollars a month full of kingpins were spending the equivalent of 7 million modern US dollars a month on bribes alone. | |
| Guys, on bribes alone, they were spending 7 million dollars of today's money. | |
| That's $84 million a year, if I'm not mistaken. | |
| Guys, that is crazy, just to pay politicians off. | |
| But I've told y'all guys, this is what it takes to run organized crime at the level that these guys were, where their tentacles were literally in everything, making big money thanks to prohibition. | |
| Still, they remained violent, merciless criminals, using brutal methods to maintain control over their territory. | |
| Before long, it became evident that those who lived by the Tommy Gun would die by it. | |
| Even the most powerful of bosses were far from untouchable. | |
| In 1928, Rothstein was gunned down during a meeting at the luxurious park central hotel over an unsettled gambling debt. | |
| In Chicago, the escalating war between Capone and Moran reached its crescendo on St. Valentine's Day of 1929, when seven Northsiders were openly murdered. | |
| This brazen borderline public execution shocked the American public. | |
| And although everyone knew the portly scarface gangster was behind it, no court had enough evidence to convict him. | |
| In October of that same year, Luciano was ambushed and forced into a limousine, where he was beaten, stabbed, and strung up by his hands from a wooden beam in a storehouse. | |
| Despite all this, he lived, thus earning his moniker. | |
| Lucky. | |
| And as you guys can see here, he has a lazy left eye, sorry, lazy right eye. | |
| Um, and that was from the assault. | |
| These acts of violence quickly soured public opinion of the booze runners who committed them. | |
| No longer were the likes of Capone seen as righteous Robin Hoods, supplying the people with alcohol in defiance of an unjust law. | |
| The veil was lifted, and everyone saw the gangsters for what they truly were. | |
| Nevertheless, the power of the American mobster continues to grow. | |
| In 1931, Luciano murdered his boss Maseria and defected to the organization of his biggest rival, fellow Sicilian Salvatore Marenzano. | |
| Marenzano consolidated control over all the major Italian crime families in New York and declared himself Capoditu Capi, boss of all bosses. | |
| However, young Luciano was not content with second place, and that same year hired the brutal Irish hitman, Vincent Mad Dog Cole, to take out his new boss. | |
| With Marinzano out of the picture, Luciano became the most powerful mobster in the country, and finally ushered in his new world order, spearheading the formation of the Commission, a unification of all of America's major Italian crime families. | |
| For his efforts, Luciano came to be known as the father of organized crime in the United States, creating a confederation of Italian-American gangs across New York, Boston, Chicago, and Philadelphia, while also promoting open cooperation with Jewish and to a lesser extent, Irish outfits as well. | |
| Despite moving away from the political conservatism of the old Cosa Nostra, the new American Mafia Confederation created cultural unity by following a strict set of rules that originated in its Sicilian heartland. | |
| This included the adoption of Cosa Nostra initiation rituals, hierarchical structure, and the famous policy of Ometa, the code of silence. | |
| In 1931, Al Capone was that basically, um, and we'll talk more about Al Capone later on. | |
| But here's Lucky Luciano here, guys, okay. | |
| Um, this guy is literally probably responsible. | |
| They call him the father of organized crime for a reason. | |
| So Charles Lucky Luciano, born Salvatore Luciano, uh November 24th, 1897, died January 26, 1962, was an Italian-born gangster who operated mainly in the United States. | |
| Luciano started his criminal career in the Five Points gang and was instrumental at development of national crime syndicate. | |
| Luciano is considered the father of organized crime in the United States for the establishment of the Commission in 1931, after he abolished the boss of our bosses settled by Salvatore Maronzano following the Casta uh Castell Marie's war. | |
| He was also the first official boss of the modern Genevieve crime family. | |
| I find it important to kind of define what's uh commission. | |
| Oh, yes, we will. | |
| We will. | |
| Okay. | |
| Uh in 1936, Luciano was taught was tried and convicted for uh compulsory prostitution and running a pro uh prostitution racket after years of against investigation by district attorney Thomas E. Dewey, who was sentenced to 30 years, 30, 50 years of prison. | |
| But during World War II, an agreement was struck with the Department of the Navy through who them boys okay, aka Marilansky to provide naval intelligence. | |
| Hmm. | |
| Again, if you guys want to know more about that, watch the documentary New Mec. | |
| If you guys want to know about them boys and their involvement where Mayor Lansky, uh Luciano and Naval Intelligence in 1946, for his alleged wartime cooperation, the sentence was commuted to the condition that he be deported to Italy. | |
| Luciano died in Italy on January 26, 1962, and his body was permitted to be transported back to the United States for burial. | |
| Okay, which is crazy in itself, okay. | |
| So, anyway, uh with that said as well, guys. | |
| I wanted to cover the um the Casamillaries uh Castamular Casamiller's war, okay. | |
| Um, it was a bloody power struggle for the control of the Italian American Mafia that took place in New York City, New York from February 1930 until April 15, 1931, between the partisans of Joe the Boss Maseria and those of Salvatore Maronzano. | |
| The war was named after the Sicilian town of Casamalar Casamalari Castel Amare del Golfo, the birthplace of Maronzano, Maronzano's faction won and divided New York's crime families into the five families. | |
| Maronzano declared himself Capo de Tuti de Capi, boss of all bosses. | |
| However, Maronzano was murdered in September 1931 on orders of Lucky Luciano, who established a power-sharing arrangement called the Commission, a group of mafia families of equal stature to avoid wars in the future. | |
| Now you guys are probably wondering what is the commission. | |
| Well, the guys, the commission, okay, is the governing body of the Italian-American Mafia formed by 19 in 1931 by Charles Lucky Luciano following the Casa Miller's war. | |
| The commission replaced the title of Capo de Tu Capi, boss of all bosses, held by Salvatore Maronzano before his murder with a ruling committee that consists of the bosses of the five families of the New York City, as well as the boss of the Chicago outfit, and at various times the leaders of the smaller families, such as Buffalo, Philadelphia, uh Detroit, and others. | |
| The purpose of the commission was to oversee all mafia activities in the United States and to serve to meet and to uh serve to mediate conflicts among families. | |
| Throughout the history of the commission, the body has been involved in several incidents, including the Appalachian meeting in 1957, a plot to kill seven members of the commission in 1963, and the mafia commission trial in 1985. | |
| As y'all know, this was run by your boy uh Jerudy Giuliani. | |
| Okay. | |
| So now uh to document this war a little bit more with you guys. | |
| Where I got a documentary here, the Mafia and the Casa Miller's war, because again, this war led to the formation of the commission and the five families and put lucky Luciano at the top of it all. | |
| And unlike Maronzano, right? | |
| Lucky Luciano, what he cared about, guys, was making money. | |
| So when he took over, he didn't say, I'm the boss of all bosses. | |
| He didn't say no dumb shit like that. | |
| I said, Hey, I don't want nothing from none of y'all. | |
| You guys run your own families every five years. | |
| We meet together, we have a meeting, make sure that we meet you know, mediate and don't you know squash any beefs, you know, deal with any issues, and we all make money. | |
| Luciano only cared about making money. | |
| He didn't care if he had to work with them boys, he didn't care if he had to work with Albanians, he didn't care if he had to work with blacks, he didn't care. | |
| As long as he can make money, that's what he cared about. | |
| He didn't want anyone interfering with that. | |
| So his thing was I'm gonna make the commission, it's a ruling body. | |
| We all work together. | |
| Let's get this money. | |
| Meanwhile, Maronzano and them, they wanted all power, which is what which is what Luciano did not want, which is why he was involved in killing Maseria, Maronzano. | |
| He backstabbed them, but at the end of the day, it allowed everyone to make more money, which is what his main bottom line was. | |
| All right, let's go ahead and uh play uh this war so you guys kind of get a better idea of it because this is this war is what led to the formation of the modern-day mafia as we know it. | |
| We're gonna go over the terms and the hierarchies after which was created through this war in 1928, when peace could not be reached, the two factions put their hands to their guns, and the shooting began between the years 1920. | |
| Remember, guys, the two factions are the Massaria side and the Maranzano side. | |
| 28 to 1930, it was estimated by the New York police that the death toll in the Costello-Marisi war was greater than 50 men. | |
| Tired of the war and viewing it as unprofitable, Mazaria's lieutenants, Charles Lucky Luciano, Frank Costello, Dito Genovisi, and others conspired to have their boss Mazaria killed. | |
| They did so they're originally W Mazaria, okay. | |
| And also, guys, do me a favor, like the video. | |
| We got uh almost 1800 you guys watch right now, but we only got 994 likes, man. | |
| Let's get up to at least 1500. | |
| Then sought peace with Maronzano. | |
| It was Maronzano who gave structure to the current organization in New York, known as the Five Families, and it was Maronzano who first coined the phrase Cosa Nostra, meaning our thing. | |
| Please note that this phrase was only applied to the New York Borgadas. | |
| It was not used by other families throughout the country. | |
| For example, Chicago simply referred to themselves as the outfit. | |
| The original five families, as set up by Maronzano, included Charles Lucky Luciano, Thomas Gagliano, Joseph Profaci, Frank Scalesi, and Joseph Bonano. | |
| And this, my friends, was the beginning of the New York five families that you guys famously know now, okay, which ended up becoming uh the Lucchese, the Gambinos, the Colombo, uh the Bonano, etc. | |
| Though Bonano never heard Maronzano called himself the boss of bosses, many, even a few inside his own family, believed this was his intention. | |
| In their view, they had simply traded one tyrant for another. | |
| What was well known is that Marazzano did not trust the new alliance, and therefore he put a contract on Luciano, Costello, Genovisi, Joey Adonis, Willie Moretti, Dutch Schultz, and Al Capone. | |
| Bam. | |
| So obviously he wanted he wanted them all dead. | |
| Okay. | |
| So this is why Lucky Luciano conspired and had some other hitmen go ahead and take Maronzano out because he knew that there was a contract on his head, and he had to get rid of him first. | |
| And that he had hired Vincent Mad Dog Cole to take them out. | |
| Ironically, the tip-off to Luciano came from a Maronzano man, Thomas Three Finger Brown Lucesi, who had secretly backed the plan of a new commission. | |
| A plan conceived, not because Maronzano was acting ridiculous, saying, I'm the boss of all bosses, and y'all need to all answer to me, blah blah blah. | |
| And they're like, bro, what the hell? | |
| Not in the mind of Charles Luciano, but in the brilliant foresight. | |
| And he also didn't like them boys. | |
| So obviously Luciano, who works very closely with them boys, wanted him gone. | |
| Of Johnny Torio, one-time partner with Al Capone. | |
| With this information, Luciano struck first, hitting Marinzano. | |
| He arranged for Samuel Red Levine and three other gangsters. | |
| Lavine. | |
| The boys are about to strike. | |
| Provided by Meyer Lansky. | |
| So Mayor Lansky provided the people, right? | |
| AK the boys. | |
| All right. | |
| To go ahead and take out the boss of all bosses, Maronzano. | |
| I do have a question though. | |
| Uh how these guys didn't have well, I don't know if they did. | |
| That's my question. | |
| They had like a security um securities with them. | |
| Like, you know, like oh, you're gonna see how they did it now. | |
| Watch. | |
| You're gonna see how how uh Mayor Lansky and them boys did it to go to Maronzano's office on September 10th, 1931, posing as accountants and taxmen. | |
| Translation. | |
| They went and posed as IRS agents, guys. | |
| That's how they were able to get in. | |
| So them boys walked in pretending to be, you know, some IRS agents. | |
| Hey, use all us some money. | |
| Next thing you know. | |
| Once inside his office on the ninth floor of the Helmsley building, they disarmed Maronzano's guards. | |
| The four men then shot and stabbed Salvatore Marazzano to death. | |
| As they fled down the stairs, they came face to face with Vincent Mad Dog Cole on his way up for a scheduled appointment that he had had with Maronzano. | |
| They warned him that there had been a raid, and he fled the scene. | |
| Bonano and more than likely Profanci were not happy about this turn of events. | |
| Banano wrote in his book, Honor Thy Father. | |
| If told to fight to vindicate Maronzano, the men in my family would have fought. | |
| But what good would it have done to fight Luciano? | |
| He had claimed self-defense in the killing of Maronzano. | |
| Bonano had previously explained that Maronzano was behaving unusually after the death of Nazaria. | |
| Now he, that is to say Luciano, mainly wanted to be left alone to run his enterprises. | |
| That's all he cared about, was making the money. | |
| Now here's the scene, by the way, guys, of them boys walking in. | |
| Hopefully I don't get hit with a copyright. | |
| Somebody in the chat said them keelas. | |
| Hopefully I don't get hit with a copyright for this, but it's only a minute 21. | |
| So let's see what happens. | |
| Let's let's uh we'll take the risk, boys. | |
| We'll take the risk. | |
| Let's do it. | |
| All right. | |
| I'm gonna stop it frequently so that we can go ahead and make some commentary, etc., so they uh don't hit us with it as much. | |
| All right, guys. | |
| I know they're going crazy right here. | |
| All right, let's let's do it, man. | |
| The boys coming in. | |
| Bureau of Internal Revenue, we have a zapoina for Mr. Salvatore Maranzano. | |
| Because they alleged that he had not been paying taxes for a very long time and owed quite a bit of money to the uh to the government and they sat stab him the boys is attacking. | |
| What the hell? | |
| Oh, you thought he's and remember, he doesn't like them boys. | |
| He didn't want anyone to do business with these guys, right? | |
| Like, cause he was, he thought, you know, everything should be Sicilian only. | |
| He didn't ever like other Italians. | |
| *music* | |
| Why are you holding that? | |
| Then they ended up shooting him in the head. | |
| Oh Lord! | |
| Oh Lord, I don't think that's safe for YouTube, so we'll just go ahead and uh uh move on. | |
| But you guys get the idea here. | |
| All right, this was basically the murder of your boy Maronzano. | |
| Okay. | |
| He's not trying to impose himself on us as Mazzaria had done. | |
| Lucky demanded nothing from us. | |
| After the death of Maronzano, and Luciano was smart. | |
| That's what actually kept them from killing him. | |
| Is that once he took power, he didn't say I want the power. | |
| He just said, yo, let me be the boss of my family, like I'm already doing, let me make my money, let's create a commission so that the power is distributed amongst all, and let's work together and make money. | |
| That's all I care about. | |
| There was a change in one of the families, the one headed up by Frank Scalese. | |
| He may have been the Luca Brassi of his day. | |
| Not even Joe Bonano could call off Frank Scalese. | |
| He had been a strong supporter. | |
| And then bam, here is the commission, guys. | |
| You can see here all the different crime families. | |
| You got Lucesi here in New York City, uh, Zarilli Detroit, uh, Patriarca Providence, Banano, New York, uh, Maggiano, I think that is, or Major Magadin Magadino. | |
| Okay, Buffalo, uh, Gambino, New York City. | |
| Uh, I can't even see Chicago, Genovese. | |
| I don't know why it's hold on. | |
| Let me try to increase the quality of this thing. | |
| That's why. | |
| Yeah, on our on my screen, it's really blurry. | |
| Uh Bruno, Philadelphia, Colombo, New York City, uh Buffalo, Scratch, Scranton, Buffalino. | |
| Uh, so yeah, y'all get the idea though, right? | |
| You got the Trafficante here as well. | |
| So WFBI. | |
| Yeah. | |
| Intelligence, yeah, facts. | |
| WFBI, bro, in the fucking house, man. | |
| And the emerging new commission, for one reason or another, considered him to be a liability. | |
| Scalisi was forced to retire by Luciano and replaced by Vincent Mangano. | |
| It should be noted that the commission was not an all-Sicilian organization, nor were New York's rackets divided up only amongst the five families. | |
| Guys, wait, got 1800. | |
| Y'all in here, man. | |
| Do me a favor. | |
| Let's get to 1800 likes on this thing. | |
| Because this video took quite a bit of research. | |
| Me and Angie watching literally abundant so much content to make sure that we gave y'all uh the best videos in the most concise format that has the most historical value that is pertinent to the topic at hand. | |
| Dutch Schultz, a German Jew, owned a large slice. | |
| The boys of the pot. | |
| He was by all accounts the most powerful single member of the commission. | |
| Other non-Sicilians also had a voice and a vote on the commission board. | |
| A short list includes Meyer Lansky, Lewis Lepke Baculter, and Abner Longy Zwilman. | |
| Oh, what? | |
| Them boys. | |
| Oh my god. | |
| Them boys had a seat at the commission too, man. | |
| Throughout the country, others, such as the Neapolitan Al Capone, was a member of the commission. | |
| And it should be noted that contrary to popular opinion, Capone was not Mafia. | |
| Mafioso came from Sicily, and Capone's roots were in Naples. | |
| The five families were set up as a way of keeping the peace within the Sicilian Mafia ranks. | |
| During the 1940s and 50s, the five families began ruling the whole of the commission. | |
| Hence the term mafia, though originally only used for and by Sicilians, became a slang term for all organized crime. | |
| Bam. | |
| All right. | |
| So that covers the war and the formation, guys, okay, of the um of the families. | |
| And this is kind of the ill this uh board here, real quick. | |
| Uh kind of illustrates the war, the Marinzano group and uh the Masaria group. | |
| Okay. | |
| Um, I'm gonna drop a link for you guys so you can see like some of these charts. | |
| Yeah, like older charts, so you can understand more like the family and everything. | |
| And like the they have like older charts about like the mafia, like general mafia, and also like the wars and everything. | |
| So I'm gonna drop it here so you guys can see it. | |
| Bam. | |
| And you can study more the Italian mafia if you're interested. | |
| Cool. | |
| Shout out to Angie for doing that. | |
| Um, and yeah, so guys, so let's go ahead and I'm gonna show you guys now, okay, what the organization chart looks like. | |
| This actually comes from the FBI, okay. | |
| Uh from directly from their websites. | |
| You guys know the FBI was the main agency that done uh did the Lacosa Nostra investigations. | |
| So let's go ahead real quick with the hierarchies you guys understand. | |
| Yeah, this is yeah, the most accurate by far. | |
| Okay, and you got the five crime families, right? | |
| So New York's five families in New York City. | |
| Five uh this again, this was Lucky Luciano, the the Casamillarese war, and Lucky Luciano basically led to the formation of the five families, which is the hierarchy chart that you guys see here now. | |
| Okay, so New York City, five major Italian uh American mafia families demon dominate organized crime activities, the banano, the Colombo, Gambino, Genovese, and Lucchese crime families, while the mafia, also known as La Cosa Nostra, aka our thing, may no longer possess the robust national presence and influence it once had. | |
| It remains a significant threat in the extended New York metropolitan area, New England, Philadelphia, Chicago, and Detroit. | |
| And as you guys know, why did they get you know have that crazy rise of fame and power? | |
| Thanks to Prohibition. | |
| Okay. | |
| So the Mafia Organization chart is the boss or Don, the undisputed leader of the organization. | |
| Okay. | |
| And every every family has a top guy. | |
| Under him is a guy called the consiglieri, okay? | |
| A counselor and advisor to the boss. | |
| The consigliari is a trusted friend and confident, usually the number three man in the family. | |
| Okay. | |
| So he's like right across. | |
| And then number two, the number two guy in the family is the underboss, a powerful second-in-command. | |
| The underboss could be a family member, such as a son who's being groomed to one day take over the family business. | |
| Okay. | |
| Then you got the capos. | |
| The scribing describes a member, a ranking maid member of a family who leads a crew of soldiers. | |
| A capo is similar to a military captain who commands soldiers. | |
| So typically, this is what you would call a street boss, also, okay, capo. | |
| And then you got a soldier, also known as a maid man. | |
| Soldiers are the lowest members of the cry family, but still command respect in the organization to become made. | |
| Soldiers are required to take an oath of silence called or marta. | |
| In some families, another requirement uh is that uh candidates commit murder, okay. | |
| And then an associate, okay, is someone an individual who is part of a crew but has not been made and commits crimes under the protection slash direction of made members and remits a share of its illegal proceeds to his direct made superior. | |
| Okay. | |
| So basically, guys, what is a made man? | |
| All right, because for you to be a part of the mafia, you got to be a made man. | |
| Okay. | |
| So made man, guys, is basically uh someone who is uh in the mafia officially, okay. | |
| He's been basically blessed in through uh the ritual, okay. | |
| And it's called opening the books and bringing in new members in. | |
| And they take the oath of allegiance to the mafia, right? | |
| And the code of Amurta to become a made guy. | |
| All right, and we're gonna go ahead and play this video, right? | |
| From your boy, Michael Francis, who I like his YouTube channel a lot here. | |
| So go ahead and subscribe and like. | |
| And he describes a Halloween night, 1975, the Blood Oath, the night I became a maid man. | |
| He was a pentito. | |
| And he was at the time a capo, or excuse me, he be this is before he became a capo. | |
| Uh, this is when he became a made guy, all right? | |
| And he's gonna describe what the ritual is like. | |
| So now I'm getting the feeling. | |
| Oh, they okay. | |
| This and yes, guys, I'm in the process right now of working to get him on the Fresh of Fit Podcast. | |
| Don't the monk so shout out to him. | |
| We're gonna get him on eventually. | |
| We'll make it happen. | |
| Uh, I really like this guy's content. | |
| Uh, and he talks about he gives a lot of stories about being in the mafia. | |
| So, yeah. | |
| Could be my day. | |
| Well, we're hanging around, hanging around. | |
| Then it was about, I would say 11 o'clock at night. | |
| Andrew said, Let's go. | |
| We get in the car, and I drive him to uh Anthony Columbo, uh, had a uh a catering hall. | |
| I think where it's called the El Doro, and it was in Brooklyn. | |
| And he was a member of the Colombo Crime Family, guys. | |
| And he was probably one of the highest earners for the family ever. | |
| Guy was making millions of dollars a week. | |
| And we'll talk about Michael Francis in detail when we cover the Columbo crime family. | |
| Drive to that KD Hall. | |
| I kind of had a feeling this is it. | |
| And we get there, and there's about five other guys that were also recruits at that time. | |
| I knew each one of them. | |
| And uh we realized this was going to be on night. | |
| And so again, that feeling of exhilaration kind of came over me. | |
| Um, that special feeling that I got, you know, that uh I said, hey, this is it for me. | |
| Something important in my life, life-changing experience. | |
| And we were kind of waiting outside in a room, and uh then we got called into the room one by one. | |
| The underboss, the console, to his left and right. | |
| All the cop regimes were alongside of them. | |
| We had about 15 in our family at that point. | |
| And uh, I walked down the aisle, I stood in front of the boss, held out my hand. | |
| He took a knife right here, cut my finger, just light cut, squeezed it, some blood drop uh fell on the floor. | |
| He also pricked my finger with a pin just to make sure that you know I was gonna bleed the right way. | |
| So I kind of got two little uh uh you know marks at that time. | |
| And uh then he took a saint, he told me to cut my hands, took a saint, it was a Catholic altar cog, put it on my hands, and Andrew lit it a flame. | |
| It didn't hurt, it burned quickly, it was merely symbolic. | |
| And he looked at me and he said, Tonight, Michael Francis, you are born again into a new life until it goes an Austra. | |
| Violate what you know about this life, betray your brothers, and you will die and burn in hell like this saint is burning in your hands. | |
| He said, Do you accept? | |
| And I said, Yes, I do. | |
| And that's it. | |
| That's the oath. | |
| It's not a long drawn-out affair. | |
| It's pretty simple, very serious, a very imposing night. | |
| There was a dimly lit room. | |
| He really wanted you to understand the seriousness of what you were getting involved in. | |
| And uh that was it. | |
| That was my turn. | |
| I was excused at that point. | |
| I went into another uh room in the uh catering hall until the other five guys or four guys, whatever was left, uh, went in and took their oath. | |
| And uh when we were done, we went into another section of the catering hall, and there was a banquet let out for us, right? | |
| That's what all Italians do, no matter what the occasion is, we go in and eat. | |
| And so we're sitting down, you know, the six new made guys, uh, all of the Capor de jeans are under boss, Tom De Bella, the boss, Andrew Russo, and we just start to to chatter and talk, and everybody's feeling real good. | |
| And I'll never forget the boss looked at us and he said, you know, let me give you some of the rules here. | |
| He said, any act of violence, any murder, we're gonna be straight out. | |
| He says, You don't get involved in anything unless it's approved by me. | |
| He told us how to we we report again to our couple regimes. | |
| He said, We were new men now, nobody can ever uh touch another made guy. | |
| He went through the whole thing, and he said, Listen, you can't touch a made guy unless the um the family, the boss, basically gives a green light on a made guy, so it needs to go higher up for a maid guy to be murdered. | |
| You know, I'll never forget what happened. | |
| A little guy by name of Joe Vaitaco, who was very close to my dad. | |
| And you can't kill a boss without going through the commission and asked for permission. | |
| He was a soldier, but he asked for permission to be um in that ceremony. | |
| Normally it's only the couple of regimes, the captains that are allowed, but he asked for special permission because he knew me since I was a kid, and it was real special to him that I was becoming a made guy. | |
| So he walks in the room with a bag of money, well, an empty bag, and he says, Hey, boss, should I give all these new guys their bag of money now? | |
| And the irony in that is is that people think that once you become a member of that life that they start throwing money at you, that all of a sudden you become wealthy. | |
| Not true, it's just the opposite. | |
| Okay, in that life, you got to be paying up all the time. | |
| You can use that life as an advantage to you if you know how, in order to make your way, maybe make you know some more money. | |
| If you know how to use that life, like I believe I did to benefit you in business, it can go a long way. | |
| But not everybody had that expertise, that talent, that whatever you want to call it. | |
| And um uh everybody started laughing. | |
| And a boss looked at us and he said, Don't expect this life to make money for you. | |
| You got an advantage here, go out and use it. | |
| If you can't use it, that's tough luck. | |
| That's on you. | |
| We're not throwing money on you. | |
| Made it very clear, and I got the message that night. | |
| And as a made guy, guys, your job is to earn money for the family, and then that money gets kicked up, okay, to the bosses and the higher ups. | |
| So that's your job. | |
| And then the more money you earn for the family, that's how you get promoted up to a capo to an uh, you know, to an underboss to ancient, or whatever it may be. | |
| But that's how you rise the ranks, is earning money for the family. | |
| And guys, remember, they'll have hundreds of guys, but you know, just like with anything in the world, the Pareto principal, 20% of the people end up doing 80% of the work most of the time. | |
| And in this case, Michael Francis was actually one of the highest earning capos for any uh mafia family. | |
| And we're gonna talk about him in more detail uh when we cover the Colombo Crime family. | |
| But he has an he had an ingenious scheme with gas tanks and meters and taxes. | |
| That was his thing that was unique to him that he earned quite a bit of money. | |
| But I don't want to give away too much. | |
| Yeah, I don't want to give away too much. | |
| But it was uh this guy, a very sharp guy. | |
| We're gonna talk about uh him more when we cover the Colombo Crime Family. | |
| But now you guys see, okay, how sophisticated, how complex, how deep this can get with the Italian mafia, and why I said, if we're gonna do this, we need to do it right. | |
| We're gonna have to do this over multiple episodes. | |
| you guys understand what the hell is going on here. | |
| All right. | |
| Uh, we got 1841 of you guys in here, but we only got 1.2k likes. | |
| Do me a favor, like the video because I'm losing my voice. | |
| But I'm growing back my goddamn hair. | |
| Hey, K. Don't do my ball no more. | |
| All right. | |
| So, well, still a little bald, but not as bald as before. | |
| Uh, we here hit some of these chats. | |
| Remotely culture aida goes. | |
| Fun fact, most of the drugs that uh the New York mob had was actually from the Detroit mob. | |
| Okay. | |
| Michael Meestroke, one dollar. | |
| Appreciate that. | |
| Jory Choi, two bucks, appreciate that. | |
| Shout out, Myron, Adam Russell, uh, five bucks. | |
| Uh Umo Nation goes, Myron Habibi, can you please do one on Gin Kid? | |
| It would be beautiful. | |
| A lot of red pill talking points. | |
| I've never heard of Jit Kid. | |
| Uh K and G great YouTube channel there, Ukraine War Vids AMA plus plus. | |
| Okay. | |
| Christopher Kelly, great job, Myron. | |
| Love Mafia content. | |
| Got you. | |
| There's many more to come. | |
| Problematic immigrants, it's time to build a wall. | |
| From your boy Donald, aka Trump. | |
| Uh, we got here, um, Chris 17 goes, W to Myron and Angie. | |
| I always get something, I always got something interesting to listen to uh while I work to my uh my two jobs. | |
| My child goes with the butt baby mama, and I get that money and learn some crazy shit. | |
| Hey, that's what it's about, my friend. | |
| Uh I approved the sound effect, Byron LMAO. | |
| Give me my cut. | |
| Hey, Mario, I ain't giving you nothing. | |
| All right. | |
| Uh Mr. Bixer, any police officers, high value men? | |
| Or uh, yeah, if you earn quite a bit of money and you got respect in your career field and you're a top tier officer, then yeah, could be. | |
| Myron, when's the Ryan Dawson interview? | |
| Coming soon. | |
| I just need to plan a date of when we're gonna do it and how we're gonna do it, what topic we're gonna cover. | |
| Um, because I know he already done a 9-11 thing with Sneeko. | |
| Uh, and we're talking about doing the Iraqi war, but I just gotta figure that out and iron it out with him. | |
| But we definitely are uh because he has quite a bit of information on them boys, if you know what I'm saying, but that definitely ain't gonna be on YouTube. | |
| Mike Ward, 20 bucks, appreciate that. | |
| Steady T Macett goes, could you break down Kanika Jenkins' case? | |
| Girl found dead and freezer after partying with friends in Crown Plaza Hotel, was ruled a suicide. | |
| You have freezer only locked from the outside. | |
| Friends lie too. | |
| Uh okay. | |
| Can you write that down? | |
| Guys, again, leave your request in the comment section. | |
| Yeah, yeah. | |
| But he but he he said the chat. | |
| So right now. | |
| No, but okay, I'll write it down. | |
| So it's okay. | |
| But yeah, leave in the comments, leave uh leave uh cases in the comment section too. | |
| But we'll write that one down. | |
| We got you. | |
| Uh so I saw three, this in a chat. | |
| I was actually interested, but can you cover the case of Joko Faruto? | |
| Love the concept, brother. | |
| Which one? | |
| The uh, I think it was Japanese, the Japanese girl that got raped by 100 people plus oh, okay. | |
| Oh my god. | |
| That one was terrible. | |
| That was horrible. | |
| That one was really bad. | |
| Uh smash the like button, ninjas, okay. | |
| Uh AC Slater, put a hit on that like button, boys. | |
| Got you. | |
| Toxically masculine. | |
| When you say them, boys, what is a reference to dudes with mad moolah? | |
| I guess you'll have to figure that one out, my friend. | |
| Black Wolf Inc., welcome as a member. | |
| Uh Michael Meestro, a dollar again, fresh as dog. | |
| These names sounding like Olive Garden Secret Menu. | |
| Yeah, bro. | |
| Like, seriously, no. | |
| We we've watched like a lot of videos on Italian mafia and stuff, and I'll be like, Myron, I can't, I can't watch anymore because these names got me so confused. | |
| You know, there's so many names. | |
| There are so there are so many names. | |
| Weird pronunciations as well. | |
| Yes. | |
| But he the fact that he said it sounds like Olive Garden secret menu is hilarious. | |
| Uh Slippery Beast, 10 bucks. | |
| Yo, you gotta bring Tommy Silmarieta back on the show. | |
| Bring Darius M2. | |
| He's funny. | |
| My favorite RP concept creator. | |
| When is stuff is cold coming? | |
| Uh, I don't know, man. | |
| Whenever he wants to come. | |
| Uh, we invited him. | |
| Doors open, so uh Steph is always welcome. | |
| Uh, and then we got here Black Wolf Ingo is Myron for a future episode. | |
| Can you talk about Crazy Eddie, a raining multi-chain business in New York that was all an organized scam? | |
| Crazy Eddie. | |
| All right. | |
| Um, remember, guys, leave comments below cases that you guys want. | |
| Angie will go through it. | |
| But since you guys super chatted these ones in, uh, Angie will write them down here. | |
| Uh, and then what else here? | |
| So, yeah, guys. | |
| So, quick little summary of today's show. | |
| We went over the Susane Mafia, right? | |
| Which went ahead and created the foundation for the Italian American Italian mafia to come into the United States and flourish. | |
| All right, we talked about the Casta Marie's war, uh, which led to Lucky Luciano basically becoming the boss of all bosses. | |
| He quickly relinquishes that title, unlike his former uh Maronzano, and he lets and uh that creates the formation of the commission, right? | |
| Which basically it's an alliance of the five crime families as well as the other crime families from other areas to basically have a big board, right? | |
| To make decisions and come, you know, squash out beefs, etc., so that all the families can earn and make money. | |
| We define some of the terms, what being a made guy is, what the ceremony is like, what omurta means, which is the code of silence, well, of course no straight our thing, uh, what an associate is. | |
| It's not a made guy, but someone that helps out with the mafia and committing criminal activity, and then we talked about you know the books, which means basically opening the books up and uh, you know, bringing guys on as made guys, and uh, yeah. | |
| So we basically covered all uh, you know, what I would call uh we covered the hierarchy, right? | |
| What a boss is a consiglieri, an underboss, a capo, a soldier, etc. | |
| So, yeah, man, we pretty much covered everything when it comes to the origins of the Italian mafia. | |
| All right, so let's see here if we got any uh last questions before we close this bad boy out. | |
| Five super chats more. | |
| We have more, yeah. | |
| Five more five more. | |
| Okay, let me uh catch these that came through. | |
| Just became authorized now with a 767 credit score. | |
| Good shit, my friend. | |
| Uh we got here um Taz Noah goes, Myron, do an interview of Michael Francis. | |
| Come in, guys. | |
| I'm working on it right now as we speak. | |
| Break the like buttons, kneecaps. | |
| Yes! | |
| Break the like buttons, kneecaps, guys. | |
| Give us some cement shoes because we did a lot of studying on this topic for y'all. | |
| So like the goddamn video. | |
| I only see 1.3k likes. | |
| We should be at 1.8k likes, goddammit. | |
| Because uh I worked really hard to put this all together for y'all, you know, making sure that we get the right videos, fact checking stuff. | |
| Uh Jorge Diaz goes, Myron, I'm a professional translator. | |
| I love to translate your book if you don't have someone doing it already. | |
| Uh, don't worry, Angie's on it. | |
| Yeah, he's gonna be translating. | |
| Translating it. | |
| Uh, but if you speak another language, let me know. | |
| Uh should we maybe in Italian when do you drop uh episodes on Spotify? | |
| I do I drop episodes on Spotify all the time. | |
| Mo handles Fed it on Spotify, guys, which is Fed at 1811 on Spotify. | |
| Um then we keep clicking on it at the same time. | |
| SEO goes, salute to Myron and Angie. | |
| I've been watching Trap Laura Ross Vid on King Vaughn. | |
| Was he a serial killer? | |
| Uh, yes, according to FBI definition, and I think Trap Lord Ross does make a strong case for uh King Von being a serial killer. | |
| I think he does make a strong case for it. | |
| Shout out to Trap Laura Ross. | |
| That was a fantastic documentary he did. | |
| Uh, should I go with a 700 plus credit score, credit card or discover it SEC? | |
| Uh if you got a 700 plus credit score, then uh should I go with this? | |
| Yeah, you could go ahead and get a good credit card. | |
| You don't need a uh secured credit card. | |
| Do a fed it with the Albanian mob next. | |
| Uh we will do uh I'll do the uh I still gotta cover the Russian mob and the triads, bro. | |
| I'll be uh yeah, I gotta cover that. | |
| Uh do a video with the modern day mafia. | |
| Uh at the end, we'll cover that modern day mafia, but first we gotta cover all the families historically. | |
| Yeah. | |
| Uh that'll be it. | |
| Yeah, yeah, guys. | |
| Um, we'll be drop in what the mafia episodes on Thursday, right? | |
| Yes. | |
| From now on. | |
| So uh so we won't be like caught off with the with the copyright and shit because we will be watching these documentaries and uh quite strong for YouTube. | |
| And yeah, like I said, I said uh I made a uh live on Friday, I think, with Cena, and I said some of you guys asked me about this, and I said that we'll be covering just regular canto for Freddy on on Sunday. | |
| So yeah, stay tuned. | |
| Mamma mia! | |
| Got y'all, man. | |
| So, guys, hope you guys enjoyed that one. | |
| Like the video, man. | |
| Share this with a friend. | |
| Time stamps are gonna do them here in a little bit for y'all. | |
| Um, we'll probably record. | |
| Well, you know what? | |
| Let's take a vote. | |
| What crime family do y'all want us to cover first? | |
| Let's see what the chat says. | |
| Maybe I'll do a poll here. | |
| Let me let me maybe you know what? | |
| Let me do a what like after this? | |
| Uh like for for Thursday. | |
| Yeah, for Thursday. | |
| But I want to see what they uh what what family they want us to cover um next here. | |
| So I'm gonna go ahead and do a poll. | |
| All right. | |
| Which family? | |
| You guys want. | |
| All right. | |
| So we're going to go... | |
| Beano. | |
| No, no, I probably might spell some of these wrong, guys. | |
| Okay. | |
| So don't get mad. | |
| Okay. | |
| Luke Casey. | |
| Alright. | |
| Uh Genoese. | |
| Damn, they only let me put four. | |
| Lane. | |
| Sucks. | |
| Well, that's okay. | |
| You can leave the last one for for last. | |
| Yeah. | |
| Yeah, and then and then if it's none of these four, uh, let me know. | |
| But hold on one second. | |
| All right. | |
| Uh so we got uh excuse me, guys. | |
| My voice sucks. | |
| There you go. | |
| Uh yeah, Luke. | |
| Uh let me know. | |
| Hold on. | |
| Let me make sure I spell the channel. | |
| So Bonanno, Colombo, Gambino, Genovese, and Luci. | |
| Yeah, I uh you know what? | |
| Let me switch Genovese for Colombo. | |
| Remember, guys, when you speak Italian, you gotta do the hen like this. | |
| Columbo. | |
| Well, switch it up right now. | |
| Oh, it's you, okay. | |
| Go ahead. | |
| Yeah, like this. | |
| I know this is a stereotype, but you know, we don't we don't give a fuck about stereotypes in this channel. | |
| So yeah, when you speak Italian, you gotta do this. | |
| Oh, you gotta do that all the time. | |
| That's a tough one. | |
| Now we're gonna get whacked. | |
| Good job, Angie. | |
| Now they're coming at us. | |
| Come on. | |
| Okay. | |
| You'll be saying worse stuff. | |
| Uh this is true. | |
| Uh okay, guys. | |
| So go ahead. | |
| I got the poll up. | |
| Which family do you guys want for the next episode of Fed it? | |
| It's up to y'all to pick. | |
| Let's see. | |
| Or if you guys want the Genovese, comment Gen of V's below. | |
| Ha ha. | |
| Bruce Gaines family. | |
| Oh wow. | |
| They're literally okay. | |
| It looks like Gambino is in the lead with 58%. | |
| Damn. | |
| Y'all want John Gotti, don't y'all? | |
| That's why. | |
| I think that's why they want uh the Gambinos. | |
| They want they want John Gotti. | |
| Let's see. | |
| We'll give it a minute while you guys do that. | |
| Well, while we go ahead and wait for you guys to go ahead and vote, because you know, we're obviously a commission over here on our own. | |
| Like the video. | |
| Let's get up to 80 uh 1700 likes, 1800 likes. | |
| Uh guys, again, the Fed it uh Instagram. | |
| So I won't forget. | |
| Oh, yeah, yeah. | |
| I'll be repeating this in the video. | |
| Um fed it dot 1811. | |
| So you guys can leave. | |
| Uh requests there. | |
| I won't be giving my Instagram anymore. | |
| Don't hit me on my Instagram, please, because you guys are weird. | |
| So please uh like just leave your request on the FedEd uh Instagram. | |
| It will be like the official FedEd Instagram from now on. | |
| It's at FedEt dot 1811. | |
| So yeah. | |
| And Angie runs that, so y'all can go ahead and you know. | |
| No, no, no, no. | |
| No. | |
| I know what you're gonna say. | |
| Send that dick pick! | |
| Yeah, no, don't. | |
| Anyway, uh, so let's see here. | |
| Uh yeah, Angie, they want Gambino. | |
| 64%. | |
| Because uh your boy uh John Gotti. | |
| So all right, cool. | |
| I think it's settled that we are going to cover the Gambino Crime family on the next episode of Fed it that will drop on Thursday for the mafia episodes. | |
| But uh cool, Angie. | |
| Uh what do you gotta say to people before I close this thing up? | |
| Um, just that like just follow the Instagram. | |
| We got two more super chat if you want to read them. | |
| Two more? | |
| Yeah. | |
| Oh, okay. | |
| Uh, we got here um not Nacho Singos. | |
| Great work, Myron and Angie. | |
| I recent wrote a novel regarding the mafia in the late 60s and 70s in NYC. | |
| Your information is on point as always, brothers. | |
| I appreciate that, bro. | |
| That means a lot. | |
| Uh that historian likes it. | |
| Hey Martin and Angie, glad to see you guys again. | |
| Looking forward to the mafioso series. | |
| Careful not to get whacked on the subject. | |
| Well, we probably are thanks to Angie's uh racist comment about you know you got a dog. | |
| You know, we want to. | |
| Hey, mama mia, we gonna die. | |
| Mamma mia! | |
| Uh so okay. | |
| Hope you guys enjoyed that episode of Fed it man. | |
| Um I think uh so yeah, Thursday, we're gonna do the Gambinos, and then Sunday we'll cover uh a regular topic. | |
| We might cover um loads of that bank shooter, maybe the Luce Luciana? | |
| No, no, no, no, no, no, no. | |
| The no the one the the shooting at the bank. | |
| Oh no, no, no, no, no. | |
| But that we were watching whatever. | |
| Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. | |
| Maybe we'll cover that one for y'all next Sunday. | |
| So Sunday will be regular Fed episodes, Thursday is gonna be Mafia. | |
| Oh shit, Makado. | |
| Thank you so much, bro, for the $100 super chat. | |
| That means a lot. | |
| Like I said, guys, this channel isn't necessarily about making money. | |
| It's about giving y'all entertainment education. | |
| Helps me live my old life of you know being uh working for the government. | |
| Uh Maron, uh boys goes, Mara, what do you think about uh what's going on in Sudan right now? | |
| Uh it's crazy, bro. | |
| It's it's wild. | |
| Uh the the two armed factions uh fighting right now. | |
| There's basically like a little uh like a civil war almost going on over there. | |
| So yeah, it's it's wild, man. | |
| Uh it always sucks. | |
| But you know, this is not new for Sudan. | |
| This has been, you know, if you guys remember Sudan used to be one country, and then there was a war, a civil war there, and it split into North and South Sudan. | |
| Sudan used to be the biggest country in Africa, but now it's not uh because of that war. | |
| So, you know, it's it's it's it's a war torn country. | |
| It's kind of how it is how it is, unfortunately. | |
| Um yeah, guys, like the video, subscribe to the channel. | |
| Uh I'll catch you guys on the next episode of Fed. | |
| Hope you guys enjoyed that one, man. | |
| Very informative. | |
| Timestamps will be in very soon. | |
| Love y'all. | |
| Peace. | |
| Oh, wrong one. | |
| My bad. | |
| I was a special agent with homelands investigation. | |
| Okay, guys, HSI. | |
| The cases that I did mostly were human smuggling and drug trafficking. | |
| No one else has these documents, by the way. | |
| Here's what FedEx covers. |
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