All 19 Ways The New York Mafia Makes Money | How Crime Works | Insider
Former New York Mafia made member John Pennisi speaks to Insider about all the ways the mob make their money.
John Pennisi was born and raised in an Italian New York neighborhood where the mob had huge influence. He became a made member of the Lucchese crime family in 2013. Pennisi says he decided to leave the mob in 2018 after members of his crew falsely accused him of cooperating with law enforcement. Since leaving the mob, Pennisi has been writing blogs on sitdownnews.com and producing a podcast covering topics of organized crime on / sitdownnews .
00:00 - Intro
00:09 - Range Rover Scam
00:53 - Legitimate Businesses
01:39 - Food Industry
02:46 - Hollywood
03:02 - Sanitation Industry
03:30 - Money Laundering
04:03 - Insider Trading
04:22 - Counterfeiting
04:49 - Cryptocurrency
05:16 - Loan sharking
05:39 - Gambling
06:27 - Online Gambling
06:55 - Gun Trafficking
07:25 - Drug Dealing
07:40 - Prostitution
07:55 - Sex Calls Hotlines
08:11 - Extortion
08:59 - Construction Industry
09:38 - Fiber Optics
10:10 - Outro
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If you didn’t know any better, you would think he was talking about members of congress.
I mean the words are interchangeable... the mafia knows the biggest mafia is the government
Sad, but true
Briallant comment
🤣
How do you think Pelosi learned this?
One of my favorites scenes in The Sopranos was when a couple guys tried to go and shakedown Starbucks or something like that. They have the manager the whole "this neighborhood can get dangerous, you need protect, etc." The exasperated manager just says "look, this is a corporation with 20,000 stores, of a single bean in missing, they'll fire me and replace me with another guy. They can just do this over and over." The 2 guys left and you almost felt sorry for them, they're still living in the past and can't see the writing on the wall.
Very allegorical
It’s over for the little guy
@@tanveerhasan2382 the sacred and the propane
@@nrw9724 Lol, the mob wasn't the little guy. They just got replaced by smarter criminals (aka corporations).
@@TheGrumbliestPuppy It's a Sopranos quote. The character in the scene, Patsy, says this right after leaving the Starbucks. Referring to the big corporations taking over from small local business owners.
I worked for the Attorney General's office in New Jersey. After Hurricane Sandy, because of all the debris I called some of the "carting companies" who deal with garbage and trash removal. Everybody I called was like an audition for a Scorsese movie. It was hilarious when I said I was calling from the Attorney Generals office. "I don't know nuttin', ah-ight?"
Did they really think you were the New Jersey mob was calling for a contract on waste management lmao
@@raidernation2163 I don’t know nuttin’. Ah-ight?
@@raidernation2163I think the point is those “carting companies” were Wash businesses and the op was calling the mob, you dense pine cone
this made my day :D
Gotta love mafia types; "we live by a code we have morals" while scamming hardworking normal people
They’re no different than government so I never understood why they’re glorified
When people want what you have, the excuse what it took to get it.
And the majority flip as soon as they get jammed up!
Everyone has a moral code. I understand that studies of convicted criminals show that they think they are more moral and generous than the general public.
You have no clue at all what you're talking about and ignorant. The biggest mafia in the world is what you see every day now being exposed by some real news. If You're NOT in the life, you'll never know it exists.
"Fiber optic cable. High speed internet access" - Benny Fazio, criminal mastermind
immediately what i was thinking
remember when is the lowest form of conversation.
I’m confused what’s this mean?
Web-istics is looking pretty good right now... Just sayin
Benny Fazio - Vinnie Delpino
The RICO act is what really did them in. If the government could prove a criminal enterprise, that meant a boss fairly far removed from a crime commited by someone in that organization, could be charged also. Some legal scholars strongly question it's constitutionality, but as far as what it was intended to do, there isn't much question that it worked.
The biggest criminal organization is the government itself.
government doesn't like competition, only accomplices...cough...Iran/Contra...
Have you been indicted by rico? Not true at all. Most get indicted for murder and racketeering, easier to prove Do more homework before making silly statements
@@joeshmo2577 actually Kevin Match is very accurate with his statement. You completely missed the point he was trying to make
@@joeshmo2577 What are you talking about? RICO taking down the mafia is well known. Rudy Giuliani has even talked about RICO openly. There is a Netflix documentary where mob members are literally talking about how RICO ended things. Also, you don't get indicted for RICO. It's not a criminal charge like murder or racketeering. It's a statute that allows prosecutors to tie the bosses to the murder and racketeering that lower level guys were doing. For the longest time they could never get the bosses because they were too far removed from the crimes, but RICO closed that loophole and allowed prosecution for all the members involved in the "Corrupt Organization."
I love how he says that they were kicked out of legitimate businesses. It's more like they were blocked from laundering money.
Ahh... That definitely makes more sense
how about when he says that they deal drugs - but not nearly as much as they used to when they always swore they were never involved in drugs - LOL
@@pjpredhomme7699 IKR
Not all business was about money laundering. need legit clean business to show it’s your money is valid.
@@Chyeahokay Not an expert on law in NY by any means but I believe that after you are laundering money pretty much any business you own would be perceived as part of the laundry money scheme. I might be wrong tho
I managed an auto dealership & a gentleman with a large amount of money wanted us to buy at least a dozen vehicles in a similar way and send them to China but while I was investigating this I found that we'd either have to deceive both governments or pay hefty fees & either way it wasn't worth it. Of course, then I find out that the reason he wanted us for this is because he was banned by that auto manufacturer entirely for this exact reason. Imagine doing something like this so much with cars that the manufacture actually tells dealers they can't sell you a new vehicle.
I am from China, I am also a petrol head, I drive imported cars, but I only can aford the used ones. But I bet you are talking about the German brand but US made ones, like the X5, or Japanese brand but US made like Lexus LX570, they are very expensive in the local dealer ship. So many people buy them directly from the Port of Tian Jing.
With US or Canadian spec.
@@ljonathan304but why don't the brands send the better versions of the cars to China?
@@muradlekov3679 its a complicated question to answer. Those cars are big in emission, so the offical like Lexus will compromise of selling cars like 570 with sells more EVs or pay over emission fines to the goverments. Its like the "coffee deal" . So they can only be imported by the unoffical way.
So, most of what you said isn't correct. I normally wouldn't care, but you have a lot of people liking your comment. To start, you don't have to deceive any government to do that. You just buy a car and send it over on a boat if you have someone in China with the ability to pick it up. Dealerships sign agreements with their respective governments and are not allowed to export cars themselves without permission. Customers, however, are allowed to do whatever they want (with special exceptions to restricted/sanctioned countries like North Korea). I have a friend (another dealer) who made at least $5M doing that over the last four years. Also, being banned by a manufacturer isn't hard. You get banned right away if you export a single Range Rover or Porsche (ask me how I know). Porsche will even ban you if you domestically sell one of their high-end cars (GT3, GT2, etc.) within a year or two of buying it. I plan to buy Lamborghini from the dealer, so to avoid a ban, I've never exported one despite the huge profit margin on the Urus when they were first launched. That doesn't mean I didn't pay someone else a commission to buy one on my behalf though. I flipped a Range Rover into China two years ago and made $75K (the margins are much more slim now because other people caught on). The reason you make so much is that there are extremely high taxes and regulations on foreign manufacturers in that country, making foreign luxury vehicles absurdly expensive. The Chinese government also provides incentives to buy Chinese domestic cars (it's all about economics).
He left off one of the big ones: Truck Hijackings. Especially from the 70s through 80s, there was big money in stealing semi trailers. They would target trucking lanes and wait for a specific load to come off the interstate. There was usually someone who informed on the trucks and their contents, sometimes even the drivers themselves were in on it. The families had their hands in a lot of unions so finding someone looking to make side money helping them wasn't too difficult. In some cases they would take stuff off the trailer but in others they would just take the truck. These days it's more difficult due to GPS systems and drivers being financially accountable for their loads.
He wasn't around those times. He's a relative new comer probably started in the 90s.
@Ricky Moore he did like 20 years for manslaughter… before he even got involved with the mob
The Hells Angels and Bloods alliance are planning to eradicate the Gambino, the Bonnano, the Lucchese, the Colombo and the Genovese families by summer 2023 by causing chaos in the hierarchy. I have access to informations from high ranked Hells Angels and Bloods. They will deny this until it is done but don't wait until it is too late to prevent what is coming. You must save your ancestors work by boycotting and killing your local Hells Angels and Bloods members and chapter leaders as soon as possible. They think that the Italians and the other races members will not realize and prevent their fall before it is too late then making their Hells Angels and Bloods alliance more influent. Do you part to not let this happen, prove your worth! For your ancestors hard work!
pov: you just watched Goodfellas
How can a driver be financially accountable for the load... that's a heavy burden. Even with GPS trackers, it's not as if the driver can just go reclaim the stolen property. The trucking company needs to purchase insurance.
The major lesson is that any organization, Mafia or otherwise, cannot remain static; they must constantly adapt and evolve in order to survive.
just like any other business.
I grew up in Boston and the Mob was all around me. It's not anything like it was in the 60's and 70's. We would see these guys going in and out of the stores, pizza shops and package stores all day long. We were immune to it. My Mother just told me not to talk to them.
Quick question. How did you know it was them? Like do they have a distinct look
Grew up in Boston area also. In Somerville, the new owner of a taxi company was approached by some mob guys, the first week he owned it. They wanted protection money. He went to the FBI the next day, and reported it. They followed up on it, and caught the guys. He didn't have problems after that. They take it seriously.
They do have a distinct look and we knew who they were by name and reputation. We lived in the neighborhood they operated in. They weren't strangers to us.
Some of us didn't listen to our mother.
He is basically just saying all of the ways they used to make money in the past. Every sentence starts with used to this and used to that. The feds have gone full out in putting the squeeze on organized crime. It still exists, just not to the extent it did in the 30s-90s
36 people didn't watch the video. Every sentence does not. He's speaking about how things are. Specific examples are from when he was in the mafia obviously because he isn't anymore. Ex. Online gambling and crypto either didn't exist or were not a significant source of income in the 90s or earlier.
@@AnarexicSumo he's still correct. The Mafia is long past its glory days.
he says how it used to be because you know, obviously he's not involved with the Mafia today and would not know how things are now.
The FBI is organized crimes
The “feds” aka the state or the man just legalizes rackets and they make the money off em now numbers or lotto is a perfect example or payday loans for ludicrous vigorous at time 25% the mob use to charge around 10 and no hit to ur credit score . justice or “ just us” the Top 3% in the USA is a billionaire boys club of tax dodgers
Thank you very much for the insight and the knowledge that you bring to common people like us!
Imagine paying $400,000 for a Range Rover 😂😂😂
Lmfao!! Fr
Not even that but the bare bones basic version of it,
Don't see it as a car but see it as rare items that can only be get illegally. It more like investment or collection
In some parts of the world, Range Rover is luxurious
Imagine paying that for a land cruiser. Yep. That’s how much it cost in my country after taxes. Unless you’re a MP, then it’s just MSRP
Great insight into the life John. Thanks for sharing big guy 👍
Or you can run for Congress or Senate. You can do insider trading legally as much as you want and you'll never get in trouble.
From what I have seen, being the governor of a state is a perfect way to make lots of money. In most states the governor controls state agencies who spend money funded by legislators. There are hundreds of ways for organized crime to illegally syphon money from these state agencies, and it is much more lucrative and easier if the governor okays it. If you have paid state and/or federal taxes, you can be certain that you have contributed money to the coffers of organized crime.
@@wiv2631 absolutely.
@@wiv2631 and is the law enforcement so helpless to prevent it? Or they're hugely corrupted too?
@@muradlekov3679 Good question, but the answer would be too lengthy too post here. To make the answer appropriately short but incomplete, in most states, corruption is not pervasive and exists primarily at higher levels of government where discretionary funds are provided by the legislature. Mis-spending in this situation does not come to the attention of the public nor law enforcement in most cases. There are a few states, however, where there exists a culture of corruption which pervades all levels of government, including law enforcement.
@@wiv2631 ok kinda got it. How much, do you think, a congressman can make in a year by that kind of mis-spending? And what states are those for example?
I thought the bad guys in hollywood were stereotypes but this guy is the exact italian mob in every movie.
I always wondered how this worked. Great insight!
Thank you for all ideas 💡
Fulton fish market: anyway, four dollars a pound 🐟
Big uhh Kitty is an informant
Really brave of this guy to put himself out on the internet like this. Major props.
@MobbedUp I know, but you think that system’s foolproof? He’s just putting a bigger target on himself for the whole world to see.
Not brave. Mafia isn’t what it used to be. Nothing will happen to him for doing this.
@@kylecriswell1053 Not true. Didnt the last genovese family boss get killed in Staten Island like in 2016?
yeah, super brave for this criminal to capitalise on his past crimes
@@EpicAndMore We don’t know his motivations, and as such I’m giving him the benefit of the doubt. It’s possible you could be right about him, but it’s just as possible that he’s repentant and wanting to spread awareness of what goes on behind the curtain to help facilitate the decline of organized crime. It’s easy to assume the worst in people, let’s acknowledge the potential good.
Good interview,I hope this gig is a good earn.
Great stuff John 👏 👍 👌
I always thought the easiest way to do an extortion scam is get a couple health inspectors in your pocket. "Oh the city shut down your restaurant? Well I know a few people at the health department. I could talk to em for a price." I mean it's not like they do polygraphs for health inspectors.
Most likely you'd create a sanitary inspection buisness first, associated with someone already familiar with the work, then you create a fast food franchise so it grows fast and spreads fast, and then every inspection ever is done with a warning and you can control whether or not you'll be in trouble and if you are going to, then you got time to put the blame on your manager or whatever. Most likely need to have an accountant in the game that runs the numbers for both the restaurants and the inspection buisness so that it doesn't seem suspicious. We have a good amount of those here. Worked for some of these fast foods.
I have a feeling this does exist bu not in the way you said.
Selwyn Raab's 'Five Families' is a great book if you're interested in the history of the American Mafia. I just wish he'd update it to cover the last 15 years. I am actually really curious about the state of Cosa Nostra today. But it seems like they have gone back to being low profile, after 3 decades of governmental crackdown It's why I find John Pennisi, John Alite and others interesting, because they really were in that thing during the absolute tail end of the mafia in the late 90's early 00s. You don't actually ever hear of anybody who's been in the life more recently. Maybe there just isn't alot to tell nowadays
John alite is a clown tho . Don’t believe what he’s saying.
@@Emory_OrginalG_Tate I take anything any of these guys say with a huge ton of salt. They're all former hustlers, lol. They're interesting though. Most of the former CN guys that are still alive and talking about it came up in the 70's and 80's, is all I'm saying. There really is a dearth of recent guys.
@@TomOostenrijk Agree , it’s also why I find penisi interesting. But everything that alite said is bullshit , he said that he was the acting boss of the gambino family while he was just an associate . But besides that I offer to look at Bobby luisi who was a philly capo in the late 90s and Alan gunner Lindbloom who was an associate of the Detroit mob in the early 2000 .
@@Emory_OrginalG_Tate I know of Bobby ofcourse,. I didn't actually know he was in it as recently as the late 90s. He seems OG. Will look into Lindbloom. Thanks!
@@Emory_OrginalG_Tate Agree that Pennisi is a legit, interesting guy who presents a credible view of how LCN operates and generates cash. Alite and that Lindbloom guy on the other hand, are complete charlatans who embellish their limited roles and importance in LCN.
I feel like you could’ve combined a couple of these into one entry. The Food Industry, Hollywood, Sanitation Industry, Construction Industry and Fiber Optics could’ve all been combined under the “Legitimate Businesses” name. Online Gambling and Gambling are basically the same thing as well
of all the former mob guys on you tube. John has the best delivery and presentation. So New York but such a distinguished use of the engish language and delivery. Great Job
Thx for the advice
Lmfao
Scammers these days barely have to put in any work compared to the old days. Back then it was backbreaking work (you had to break someone else’s back once in a while to prove a point). Now any idiot can invent a crypto or NFT and scam half his followers into buying it.
If it's that easy, then everyone would be rich.
@@999------ it has more to do with having the skill set and overall willingness to commit those types of activities rather than it being easy. It is easy to commit ostensibly "white collar computer crimes" such as IDF, Pump and dump schemes including Cryptos, NFT's etc. The only thing preventing everybody and their mother that works at Google that would have the knowledge to pull off a scam involving NFT's or Cryptos is fear of going to jail or prison. There are hundreds of thousands of not millions of people in the US alone that has the skills to pull it off. But again, it is simply the fear of going to jail, or perhaps even a bit of personal morality that makes these people not scam others.
@@999------ It is that easy, just the pool of idiots is relatively small.
@@999------ Its easy, people are just lazy. What do you need? -Website coding skills -Learning to generate NFT using some graphic design software -Have a theme to your NFT -Market your NFT in tiktok, your website, what is the NFT project about etc. If IcePoseidon can scam for $400k in less than 2 weeks, I'm sure you can too
ya gotta go buy the crypto, buy the crypto..
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I really enjoyed listening to his accent. It's icing on the cake of such an interesting topic
Don't get any better than John!! He is a stand up guy!
“Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.” ― Oscar Wilde
Love that quote 💯💯💯
Don't take advice from Oscar Wilde...
so wat is thee lesson here? we should all just scam each other?
@@brianpdavis07 who is saying that why scam others use law of attraction to attract things
@@maysemali5382 Are you suggesting wearing a magnet? or relocating to one of the Poles?
Thanks this is very interesting
Very interesting. I either missed it or the speaker did but I always thought that creating a market for goods was another big revenue stream - finding stores that would sell stuff that fell off a truck, maybe a bust out or cigarette that didn't have the tax stamp that just sort of fell into someone's hands.
Very interesting video 2 of my uncles used to be in the Italian mob in Montreal🇨🇦 during the 70/80s Cheers from San Diego California
I had no idea that there was Italian's in Montreal of all places and out of like the >a thousand Italians there they were still mafia lol
@@Phoenix-J Yeah, the "Rizutto Family", they have close ties to the Bonannos. The unrelated video by the "Jim Can't Swim" true crime channel involving the Sorrella murders discusses them in some detail.
@@Phoenix-J the Montreal family are the 6th family. Tied to the Lucchese or Bonanno family I dont remember which
He talked about this on his yt channel .he has quality content imo
I love hearing an italian from the mafia say "Legitimate business". It just has that pefect ring to it.
I like the use of the term “earn”
Wow this is really interesting
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@@andrewsteven836 Atomic Shrimp wants to know your location. :D
If anyone is interested in learning how the Italian mob works in Hollywood, read The Godfather. The movie is great but the book is so much more graphic!
Good stuff
Shineboxs and softdrinks of choices are also lucrative
I’m imagining calling up a 1800 sex line and Paulie Walnuts answers “ay tone get a load of this guy, heh heh”
I like how the title is “All 19 Ways…” as if there are only 19 ways. I can think of a few off the top of my head: carding (the buying and selling of large dumps of credit card numbers), that big gasoline tax scheme that one mafia guy had years ago, counterfeiting cigarettes, smuggling, elderly advantage scams, scams in general, bank robberies (it’s well documented that several high profile bank robbers through the years were members of the mafia), not just sports betting but also sports fixing (horse races, the huge World Series scandal back in like 1917 or around then)… those are just from me riffing for a couple of minutes, there’s far more than just 19 ways that organized crime makes/made (“years ago” hahaha) their money. Still, it was an entertaining video.
“scams in general” 😂🤣
Guessing they mean "all 19 ways we're willing to mention".
drinking game: take a shot every time he says "years ago"
It be nice to see someone doing a new block buster movie on the mafia in the 1920s era.
I like how most of the crimes he talks about are ones they don't do anymore.
He is basically minimizing what mafia does, making it "not such a big deal" or even like "just good guys trying to clean their way out"
@@wiskifrac Well he was part of that life for years so makes sense if he sees that life in a good light. If he'd thought Mafia is a full-on evil organization full of monsters he probably wouldn't have become a member of it.
He said loan sharks are still a thing. Pretty sure they do loan cash to people they know can be shaken down.
Could you speak to organized crime involvement in movie houses(theaters), funeral homes, shopping centers(not necessarily malls), cement/concrete making and delivery?
Go to sit-down news channel to ask John about ut
Amazing!
I think the concept of Mafia owning restaurants is fascinating. Food is, supposedly, a huge part of Italian culture, so I guess this makes sense. And it gives them a semi-public yet controlled domain to do business in. Do they take pride in the quality of the food served? Probably, right? They wanna make good food. Nothing wrong with that. I could go for a good slice of pizza right now, really. Just like mama used to make in the old country.
What you'd call pizza didn't come from Italy. Italian pizza wasn't very popular until America made their version of it very popular and now that American pizza is popular even in Italy.
Yeah, especially when you can ship cocaine in tomato cans from Sicily ha ha !
“Nothing wrong with that.” They show up to innocent family restaurant owners and threaten to break their legs if they don’t buy their shitty tomato sauce. There is no honor or pride in that.
@@dcgregorya5434 🤣🤣 oh stop
Just look into the brownstone in New Jersey
So basically sopranos is a pretty realistic depiction of the mafia
With regards to loansharking, in Singapore loansharks or illegal moneylenders are referred to as ‘Ah Longs’, because most of the loansharks are usually ethnic Chinese. The term ‘Ah Long’ probably came from the time when Chinese secret society or triad members wore dragon tattoos (the word ‘long’ is Chinese for ‘dragon’). And one of the common tactics to force debtors of loansharks to pay up is to have their addresses painted on the walls of an apartment block with the symbols ’O$P$’ or ‘owe money, pay money’.
I just love listening to the accent!
Back home,years ago! Reminds me of casino
The more I watch this, the more I realize how much of world around me the Mafia owns...
Yes! I'm starting to feel like oh my gosh, they're everywhere
Not anymore, but 50s-80s, they had a piece of everything in NYC, where I grew up
One way John forgot to mention, although I have no inside knowledge myself it MUST surely go on still, is through insurance scams.
Russians are big into that especially medical field
Thanks, now I can finally start my career!
3:40 , the one piece sling bag lol 😹
Cheer me up sil.. just when I thought I was out... they pull me back in..
HES ON A ROLL!
I always wondered if all these mattress stores that suddenly appeared out of nowhere were money laundering operations.
Yeah, that and businesses that are just for either carpets, furniture, vacuums, etc. There's never ANYONE inside, how are they in business? Sketches me out lol. I think cuz these are big purchases, that might make them good "legitimate businesses".
I heard him say "sauce" so that's a win.
Bruhh from the thumbnail i thought it was cake boss buddy valastro 🤣🤣
This is so weird, because I thought for sure the Mob was into a lot of these gray markets, and the only one he mentioned was Land Rover, and it was a REVERSE market out of the States. I know that cameras, certain types of electronics, traditionally watches, fashion apparel and accessories, certain types of legal drugs, and imported foods would have been Mob gold mines. I know someone on the streets of NYC is doing those things!
Its interesting to see that some of the ways they used to make money have no been taken over by corrupt politicians instead.
Exactly. Cosa nostra is being muscled out by the government.
It went on then too. Do some research into woody Harrelsons dad . He was a mob hit man the govt. Bought out occasionally. Who just so happened to be in Dallas the day Kennedy was killed . Who killed Oswald a mob enforcer John Rockefeller was a literal snake oil salesman who got into economical pollitics And oil. Basically the people we call the mafia work for uncle Sam in a weird unspoken way.
SOME???LOL the government is squeezing the mob out of the rackets across the board slowly but surely
I was thinking the same then I thought that this kind of operation would need so many resilient, motivated and not greedy people involved that its basically impossible. More than thousand corrupt g-men who are getting the same share have to work together without causing any conflict inside otherwise one guy will spoil it for everybody else. We are just not cable of this as humans.I guess. There is always this one guy that will spoil it for everybody else 😆😅
Imagine few dozens politicians who are not causing any conflict to cover this whole operation. I just cant believe that would work, as soon as one feels that hes getting cheated by other or one feels the need to cheat the others, people will rebel and blow the whole cover.
3:45 - Hahaha the One Piece backpack
how about a video on how organize crime benefited from and suffered from Covid 19 ?
he seems like the kind of guy who would tell me to forget about it. so i'm gonna forget about it.
I like how this guy actually has a Italian mafia accent like as if the movies were spot on, I'm shocked lol
He's a rat from my neighborhood
Ah fugheddiabouttit!!!
That’s just a New York City accent
@@danevertt3210 "I'm commenting 'ere "
Go talk to anyone from south Brooklyn they all sound like this. It’s not a “Italian mafia accent”
I love that Cosa Nostra sounds to my ears. That's why whenever I play online games and create a clan or guild, I always name it Cosa Nostra.
Cosa Nuestra en español. Our Thing in English
Very informative
This guy is the type of Italian Americans who think they are Italian but when asked about Italy they say " you know, Italy and Sicily "
I think a lot of Scicilians still distinguish!
This guy is very well spoken and articulate I must say.
So Sopranos was actually pretty accurate.
I appreciate he’s not “divulging any secrets” here, any cursory look into the mafia would reveal what he’s telling us in terms of revenue generation for the organisation….but they’re also well known for being highly sensitive about those within Cosa Nostra who speak publicly about their dealings….I’m amazed he still only has the 7 holes he was born with.
Man, his cousin Nostra is involved in a lot of stuff.
So crazy cuz he seems like your regular, kind-hearted, pizza shop owning, Catholic Italian that mows the lawn when his wife tells him to
Most high up gang members are like that. The stereotypical rude, mean and coked out of their minds gangsters don't make it past 25, usually. And they don't get into power positions since they got nothing in life that could help the mob in any way other than by being a yes man. Everytime you see a rapper/Hollywood actor/etc. that isn't calm, collected, respectful... You're seeing a yes man. Regardless of what they're telling you. They aren't in charge. And if they somehow do get in charge, it won't be for long.
You left out the $250 M Franzese gasoline tax scheme. That was a biggie.
Nigerians in my city were doing the car straw buyers scam. They'd have parking lots full of luxury suvs besides my place
The vibe of this video is, in the words of Patsi Parisi from the Sopranos, "It's over for the little guy."
I use to work in an office of a commercial linen factory in NY that supplied and did the laundry for restaurants all over NY. Didn't take me long to realize it was mafia owned.
As a Brit, most American accents really grate on me. Could listen to this guy talk all day, though.
What's that Micheal quote? "Everytime I leave they keep pulling me back in or sumting" this is it with mob Documentaries 😭😹
Just when I thought I was out... They pull me back in.
@@Matt-cw1mv Silvio😂🤞
Jeez that's alot of business dealings.
I can just imagine this vide in the years: organized crime are using nfts to launder money
obviously they are. thousands for a low effort piece of "art" you'd see in a 2004 flash game? obviously a money laundering scam
Nah that's just cretins giving money to each other.
It's what criminal profilers may call the grey market. The point is what has allowed this organisations to servive is how they chose to work outside the law based on wider public interest. Numbers running, forgery, stock manipulation, online crime/ransomware, there becoming more subtle they dont want to create the crimes that will create headlines.
Right. No one in the US is going to tolerate massive mafia wars in the street, cops, lawyers and judges getting murdered and intimidated. This just isn’t a thing you can do anymore. If that were to happen, it would result in an even more formidable squeeze on the mafia than it has now. Just isn’t worth it.
‘He’s over there singing the blues at the police station’
I wonder if a cashless currency would affect mafia monies. I don’t like the idea to begin with which prompted me to think about this.
Bro really broke the first rule within 5 seconds
He was already flipped u stunnad He’s already a rat
@@unclephillymya sorry uncle Philly please don’t turn into a building
@@The_Dude_Rugs u never admit the existence of this thing ! ! eveerr!
Get mafia prosecutors to lay down what was going on.
those have become the bigger crooks
Love the fact u dont try to put the extra wiseguy,tuffguy talk on...
I wonder when this was recorded. Seems a bit old.
Damn this dude is an informative snitch but im here for it. The mob knows how to make 💵
Propagandista. I was going to place an emoji with a halo here, but I couldn't find one.
@@wiv2631 😇
only reason normal people see "snitches" as a bad thing is cause people who needed ratting out threatened people
Notable that he identifies several key industries that the Cosa Nostra abandoned (for reasons unclear), but which still clearly thrive today. Obviously someone else stepped in to take over.
Often, the Mafia let's guys like this guy go, and even become public figures as long as they don't raise attention towards their dealings - no names, no current activities. It's entirely possible they're still doing some of these things. It's just in his interests to downplay them.
Should round it up to 20
Restaurants are, of course, nice cash businesses that make for easy money laundering. Have to have a legitimate front so that there are less questions about how you afford that house…
Godfather 3 was a terrible movie but it was prophetic in how the mafia has been trying to go legitimate, more so out of necessity.
"Just when I thought I was out, they pull me back in" - Steven Van Zandt as Silvo Dante as Al Pacino as Michael Corleone
@@sonny9493 _Sil... Cheer me out babe_
It wasn't terrible. Just not as good as the first two.
In light of recent humiliations, it's an honour to be joined by men
Not like that #!#!? @!#!? cousin of mine!!!!
Now THAT’S how mafia works.
Danny trio really raked you through the coals