Published: August 1, 2020
Updated: August 1, 2020 1:05 p.m. Edt
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New York has long had a parasite that sucks its blood to the gout.
This parasite is known as the Mafia.
Now, a new three-part Netflix documentary series called Fear City: New York vs. The Mafia shows how cops and prosecutors began to demolish the fierce control of the Mafia in the Big Apple.
With the waves of Italian immigrants in the early 20th century, many men who discovered the streets paved with gold but misery turned to crime.
In the 1970s, the five families controlled almost every facet of life in New York. From the Fulton St. Fish Market to unions, road transportation, construction, the apparel industry and everything in between.
Not to mention some politicians.
And because of that iron fist, the Big Apple rotted in the middle with homicide and crime rates fired.
“New York without law,” former FBI agent Lindley DeVecchio told the show. “No matter how much manpower we put in there, the mafia acted virtually unhindered.”
Anyone who annoys the crowd can count on a brutal beating or end up in the undergrowth in New Jersey. In the 1980s, it was transparent who handled the streets of New York and not the police.
But as the documentary points out, it’s not just a New York problem, it’s a gun pointing at America’s head.
“Early 80s, the golden age of our life, the multitude. New York, the seat of the strength of this life throughout the United States,” said former columbo’s family circle captain, Michael Franzese, in the series.
“You unions, the truckers, the docks. You’re the country.”
The series uses a wide range of former gangsters and order agents to paint a terrifying picture of what happened.
The former member of Gambino’s family circle, Johnny Alite, alludes to the concern that sensible men instill in Joe Citizen.
“You to motivate them, when a guy comes up to me and insults me with $1,000, I do hurt him,” Alite told the producers.
“After hurting him, I tell him to come in and get me the rest of my money. Now there’s no patience, if he has the money, I beat him in baseball.”
Former U.S. Mayor and Southern District attorney Rudy Giuliani added, “They put their tentacles in society.”
For decades, the police and the government gave the impression of wearing cement shoes when they came to fight organized crime. It has long been said that the sexual provisions of the former G-Man J.J. Edgar Hoover has slowed down his roles.
This meant that in the 1970s, the FBI was starting from scratch, but had a hard gun in its back pocket for this new war: the Corrupt and Racketeer-Influenced Organizations Act (or RICO for short). That’s how they cut off the snake’s head.
Now the government has attacked the boys: fat Tony Salerno, Tony ‘Ducks’ Corallo, Gennaro Langella, Carmine ‘The Snake’ Persico and Gambino Paul’s boss “Big Paulie” Castellano – the boss.
“We call it the white-collar gift because I read the Wall Street Journal. He did very well financially. But the most vital thing he understood is that to lead a family of criminals, you have to instill concern in your infantrymen and captains,” he said. Former FBI agent Bruce Mouw.
“Castellano ran the circle of relatives as a Fortune 500 company.”
Authorities also started a wiretap operation that put gangsters in their homes and social clubs.
And many began to skip their oath of silence and sang like canaries.
Finally, on Valentine’s Day 1986, the federal government beat and arrested all the heads of households.
“It was sensational, all the bosses were taken at the same time. It was a day I probably won’t forget,” Franzese told the documentary series.
Alite added: “Suddenly, all the gangsters who couldn’t count to 10 were looking to figure out what RICO meant.”
This Christmas, Big Paulie filmed in a sensational outdoor thicket Sparks Steak House in Manhattan through one of his captains, a guy named John Gotti.
And at the end of what is known as The Commission Trial, a lot of gangsters were sent to criminals for life.
Franzese said, “And you know what Array put the icing on the cake for me? I said, “I know, when you can start doing this, this life will be in real trouble, real trouble.”
Alite added: “We were untouchable, who was going to stop us? We felt like we had all the strength we wanted.”
FEAR CITY: NEW YORK VS. MAFIA IS ALREADY ON NETFLIX
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