Name: Becoming the Boss (Full Episode) | Inside the American Mob Compilation
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Duration: 43 min 44 s
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I was introduced to the American mob through an uncle of mine.

I meet this guy, say, listen, you know what?

Here, here's an address, and here's a name.

He says, that's what you're gonna drive when you go to this house.

He opens up a drawer and he says, now take this with you.

The girl opens the door and I say, take me to the back.

She goes to the back of the house, opens the door, says, john.

I tie him to the pool table and I sit her down.

Took the sheffield knife, stuck the knife under his testicles and sliced him.

Went back to New York and never talked about it.

And that's how wild and crazy the mob was.

I mean, I'm sure the guy didn't die, and I'm sure we didn't sever his testicles.

But it was some blood on the pool table and I left.

A low level mobster is put to rest, shot dead in broad daylight.

Days later, another reputed gangster snuffed out execution style.

It seems incredible, but many cities across America were built on a hidden empire of crime.

And in the 1970s, crime bosses ruled the streets with violence and money.

These people are witnesses, stepping forward now to tell their story firsthand.

A few stay in the shadows for personal safety, fearful of an organization that most Americans know only as legend.

La Cosa Nostra, as we call it here in America.

The ultimate goal of the Mafia was making money, and lots of it.

We're Gonna find what you have and find a way to take it.

The Mafia is much more like a pack of rats that eat anything in their path, including each other.

It is the most enduring, powerful, and venal organized criminal organization to exist and to continue in America.

So in many ways, you almost had a shadow government that controlled huge amounts of economic activity in a totally unaccountable way.

The golden age of the Mafia was the beginning of the 70s, when they had the strongest grip on legitimate business in the United States of America.

In the 1970s, they controlled trucking, the ports, the garbage business, and

a lot of the meat produce and fish markets.

Much of the building trade was in their hands.

The carpenters and the electrical unions, they had judges on their payroll and police in their pockets.

No criminal organization in the history of our country has ever infiltrated legitimate institutions of society the way the Mafia was able to do.

And around the country, mob bosses seem to always be a step ahead of the FBI.

No one in law enforcement is going to do anything to hurt them.

The FBI did not have the tools to deal with a major criminal enterprise like that.

By 1970, law enforcement faced an overwhelming challenge.

How do you take down a secret criminal organization with such deep roots, so much power, but

But we were faced with a mammoth challenge, and that was, how do you deal with this enterprise?

How do you actually have an impact on it?

In New York, that enterprise is divided into five families.

Genovese, Lucchese, Gambino, Bonanno, and Colombo.

Mr. Colombo, are you a boss of the Mafia?

But Joe Colombo was lying with the confidence of a seemingly untouchable mom.

he was the boss of the most violent of the five New York families, the Colombos.

He was credited for at least 18 or more murders.

So he did a lot of work for the family, a lot of work being killing people.

And Colombo oversaw an army of psychopathic killers.

Chief among them, this man, one of his capos, Crazy Joe Gallo.

He was good, breaking legs, shooting people in the basement.

And the idea was he brought people down there to show them that if they got him angry, he might feed them to the lions.

But Gallo answered to the boss, and that boss made a big impression on everyone who met him.

He had a farm upstate that we would go to, and I just knew him as Joey.

People respected him and he was just a nice guy.

So I met him at an early age, you know, before I really realized who he was.

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