1 00:00:20,321 --> 00:00:22,321 Jimmy Calandra: I'm from Brooklyn, New York, 2 00:00:22,356 --> 00:00:24,256 Bensonhurst. 3 00:00:24,292 --> 00:00:28,062 The neighborhood is run by the Italian mafia. 4 00:00:28,096 --> 00:00:29,626 One day, April 4th, 5 00:00:29,663 --> 00:00:32,403 my friend John Polio was murdered. 6 00:00:32,433 --> 00:00:34,073 The kid Michael Hamster 7 00:00:34,102 --> 00:00:35,802 was taking credit for his murder. 8 00:00:35,836 --> 00:00:37,466 It goes around in the neighborhood, 9 00:00:37,505 --> 00:00:39,605 this kid's bragging that he killed John Polio, 10 00:00:39,640 --> 00:00:43,240 you know, so I wanted some payback. 11 00:00:43,277 --> 00:00:46,247 I go to Joey Calco and Pauly Gulino. 12 00:00:46,280 --> 00:00:48,580 And Pauly G. gave us a 380, 13 00:00:48,616 --> 00:00:51,346 me and Joey, and we go hunt 14 00:00:51,385 --> 00:00:53,485 for Michael Hamster. 15 00:00:53,521 --> 00:00:55,791 We see him get into Bobby DeCicco's car. 16 00:00:55,823 --> 00:00:57,393 We follow him. 17 00:00:57,425 --> 00:01:01,155 He stops at a red light on 17th Avenue and Benson. 18 00:01:01,195 --> 00:01:02,555 He rolls down the window 'cause he thinks 19 00:01:02,596 --> 00:01:04,566 he's a tough guy and all of a sudden Joey 20 00:01:04,598 --> 00:01:06,198 puts out the pistol, 21 00:01:06,234 --> 00:01:07,174 and he starts unloading on him, 22 00:01:07,201 --> 00:01:10,441 pop-pop-pop-pop-pop-pop. 23 00:01:11,272 --> 00:01:13,342 The kid, Michael Hamster, 24 00:01:13,374 --> 00:01:17,184 is jumping one leg across the street like hopping. 25 00:01:17,211 --> 00:01:19,651 The kid Joey Calco with the shotgun boom 26 00:01:19,680 --> 00:01:22,250 hits him and he falls. 27 00:01:22,283 --> 00:01:23,283 Joey hands me the gun. 28 00:01:23,317 --> 00:01:25,217 I put it down my pants. 29 00:01:25,253 --> 00:01:28,163 Joey takes off. 30 00:01:28,189 --> 00:01:30,659 As we're driving, there's a cop car. 31 00:01:30,691 --> 00:01:32,631 This is a true story. 32 00:01:32,660 --> 00:01:35,360 Therefore, he pulls us over. 33 00:01:35,396 --> 00:01:37,166 Now, we're a little nervous. 34 00:01:37,198 --> 00:01:38,698 I got a gun down my pants, you know, 35 00:01:38,732 --> 00:01:41,672 we just shot this kid 5 times and 36 00:01:41,702 --> 00:01:44,442 all of a sudden on the cop's radio we hear, 37 00:01:44,472 --> 00:01:46,712 "Man shot, 17th and Benson." 38 00:01:46,740 --> 00:01:48,410 Police Radio: All units report. 39 00:01:48,442 --> 00:01:49,882 Jimmy Calandra: The cop goes like this, 40 00:01:49,910 --> 00:01:52,280 "Today's your lucky day." 41 00:01:52,313 --> 00:01:53,383 And he just takes off. 42 00:01:53,414 --> 00:01:54,854 Phew. 43 00:01:54,882 --> 00:01:57,552 He had us right there. 44 00:02:06,560 --> 00:02:09,660 Narrator: It is 1992 and most of the old bosses of 45 00:02:09,697 --> 00:02:13,427 the five families of Cosa Nostra are in prison. 46 00:02:13,467 --> 00:02:16,667 Fearing life sentences and payback from their own side, 47 00:02:16,704 --> 00:02:18,744 gangsters everywhere start cooperating with 48 00:02:18,772 --> 00:02:20,772 the United States government. 49 00:02:20,808 --> 00:02:22,808 Sammy Gravano: As part of my cooperation, 50 00:02:22,843 --> 00:02:25,413 I told the government about my life of crimes, 51 00:02:25,446 --> 00:02:28,416 including the fact that I participated in 19 murders. 52 00:02:28,449 --> 00:02:30,549 Narrator: Which leads to the take down of the 53 00:02:30,584 --> 00:02:34,294 most famous boss of modern times, John Gotti. 54 00:02:34,322 --> 00:02:36,692 But the remnants of the five families remain 55 00:02:36,724 --> 00:02:38,394 loose on the streets, 56 00:02:38,426 --> 00:02:40,286 trying to rebuild on the ashes, 57 00:02:40,328 --> 00:02:42,298 and none is more determined and dangerous 58 00:02:42,330 --> 00:02:44,200 than the Bonanno family, 59 00:02:44,232 --> 00:02:48,442 which begins their ascent below law enforcement's radar. 60 00:02:48,469 --> 00:02:51,469 These people are witnesses to that secret history, 61 00:02:51,505 --> 00:02:53,235 stepping out of the shadows to tell 62 00:02:53,274 --> 00:02:55,314 their story first-hand. 63 00:02:55,343 --> 00:02:57,913 A few remain concealed for personal safety, 64 00:02:57,945 --> 00:03:00,545 fearful of an organization that even in 65 00:03:00,581 --> 00:03:03,781 the 1990s is fully capable of resurrecting itself, 66 00:03:03,817 --> 00:03:06,587 like the Bonanno's. 67 00:03:06,620 --> 00:03:08,890 Jim Walden: I think it's fair to say that 2 events 68 00:03:08,922 --> 00:03:11,432 brought the Bonanno family to the edge of extinction. 69 00:03:11,459 --> 00:03:13,329 First obviously its boss was murdered, 70 00:03:13,361 --> 00:03:15,931 Carmine Galante, famous image of him lying dead 71 00:03:15,963 --> 00:03:18,533 with a cigar still in his mouth. 72 00:03:18,566 --> 00:03:20,696 But at the same time there was the Donnie Brasco 73 00:03:20,734 --> 00:03:23,404 infiltration and subsequent prosecution. 74 00:03:23,437 --> 00:03:26,007 Agent Pistone: This operation really kicked 75 00:03:26,039 --> 00:03:27,779 the Bonanno's in the arse. 76 00:03:27,808 --> 00:03:29,908 We kind of really decimated them. 77 00:03:29,943 --> 00:03:31,913 Mitra Hormozi: That was a huge blight on the Bonanno 78 00:03:31,945 --> 00:03:33,645 organized crime family. 79 00:03:33,681 --> 00:03:36,451 As a result they were kicked off the commission. 80 00:03:36,484 --> 00:03:38,824 It was a major embarrassment. 81 00:03:38,852 --> 00:03:41,262 Narrator: The commission is the board of executives 82 00:03:41,289 --> 00:03:43,589 that oversees the five families of the mob: 83 00:03:43,624 --> 00:03:47,604 Gambino, Colombo, Lucchese, Genovese and Bonanno. 84 00:03:49,663 --> 00:03:51,503 They call the shots determining who lives 85 00:03:51,532 --> 00:03:53,502 and who dies. 86 00:03:53,534 --> 00:03:55,844 Ironically, the Bonanno family's expulsion from 87 00:03:55,869 --> 00:03:58,509 the commission turns out to be their big break. 88 00:03:58,539 --> 00:04:00,869 Agent Pistone: The FBI and other law enforcement 89 00:04:00,908 --> 00:04:04,578 agencies moved on to other cases so they didn't really 90 00:04:04,612 --> 00:04:06,682 keep a clamp on the guys that were 91 00:04:06,714 --> 00:04:08,384 left in the family. 92 00:04:08,416 --> 00:04:10,676 Jim Walden: Their headlines were about the Gambino's and 93 00:04:10,718 --> 00:04:13,488 about the Lucchese's, and about the Genovese family, 94 00:04:13,521 --> 00:04:16,021 and the internal war in Colombo family. 95 00:04:16,056 --> 00:04:17,656 Edward McDonald: You know, Gotti's gone, 96 00:04:17,691 --> 00:04:18,961 Castellano's gone. 97 00:04:18,992 --> 00:04:20,492 And the Colombo family, 98 00:04:20,528 --> 00:04:22,498 they're having a Colombo family war. 99 00:04:22,530 --> 00:04:24,030 The Genovese family: Fat Tony is gone, 100 00:04:24,064 --> 00:04:25,734 he's been convicted. 101 00:04:25,766 --> 00:04:27,666 The Lucchese family is in total disarray. 102 00:04:27,701 --> 00:04:29,501 Chin Gigante is on the run, he's been indicted 103 00:04:29,537 --> 00:04:32,507 or about to be indicted. 104 00:04:32,540 --> 00:04:34,380 Jim Walden: These different problems within 105 00:04:34,408 --> 00:04:36,538 these families allowed the Bonanno's to 106 00:04:36,577 --> 00:04:39,407 continue to exist to keep a lot of its turf, 107 00:04:39,447 --> 00:04:43,417 and for a period of time to fly low on the radar 108 00:04:43,451 --> 00:04:46,791 to give it a chance to rebuild its infrastructure, 109 00:04:46,820 --> 00:04:49,720 and that's exactly what they did. 110 00:04:49,757 --> 00:04:51,857 Narrator: While Bonanno boss Joe Massino 111 00:04:51,892 --> 00:04:54,662 is in prison serving 6 years for racketeering, 112 00:04:54,695 --> 00:04:57,765 his subordinate, old school gangster Anthony Spero, 113 00:04:57,798 --> 00:05:00,098 takes over daily operations. 114 00:05:00,133 --> 00:05:02,903 Spero is one of the last major mob figures still on 115 00:05:02,936 --> 00:05:05,436 the street, and a believer in traditional 116 00:05:05,473 --> 00:05:09,513 mafia values of secrecy, respect and murder. 117 00:05:09,543 --> 00:05:11,553 Jim Walden: He had strong connections with 118 00:05:11,579 --> 00:05:13,679 the other families, and he had the respect 119 00:05:13,714 --> 00:05:15,084 of lower level members. 120 00:05:15,115 --> 00:05:16,915 Detective Dades: He was a gentleman to 121 00:05:16,950 --> 00:05:19,690 law enforcement, and he was very well respected, 122 00:05:19,720 --> 00:05:21,820 you know, in the neighborhood. 123 00:05:21,855 --> 00:05:24,955 Jim Walden: He was known to host an extravagant 124 00:05:24,992 --> 00:05:27,602 fireworks show every year for members 125 00:05:27,628 --> 00:05:29,028 of the community. 126 00:05:29,062 --> 00:05:30,962 Detective Dades: But he was a lethal guy 127 00:05:30,998 --> 00:05:33,628 and he would kill you. 128 00:05:33,667 --> 00:05:37,407 Jim Walden: He was a bit of an eccentric guy though. 129 00:05:38,739 --> 00:05:40,609 Anthony Spero: Come on baby, come on. 130 00:05:40,641 --> 00:05:44,011 Detective Dades: He was very big into pigeon races 131 00:05:44,044 --> 00:05:47,924 and pigeon coops and whatever you do with pigeons. 132 00:05:51,552 --> 00:05:55,462 Jim Walden: They would fly in a big sweeping flock 133 00:05:55,489 --> 00:05:57,429 around the neighborhood and ultimately 134 00:05:57,458 --> 00:05:59,088 come right back home. 135 00:05:59,126 --> 00:06:01,926 Jimmy Calandra: He was going like this, voof, 136 00:06:01,962 --> 00:06:03,662 and all the pigeons are following him, 137 00:06:03,697 --> 00:06:05,127 you see them flying. 138 00:06:05,165 --> 00:06:06,895 Jim Walden: And if you think about it, 139 00:06:06,934 --> 00:06:09,174 it's almost a metaphor for Spero's criminal 140 00:06:09,202 --> 00:06:12,942 organization, where he's releasing not pigeons 141 00:06:12,973 --> 00:06:16,883 but villains, murderers, thugs, out on the streets, 142 00:06:16,910 --> 00:06:22,050 all for them to make money and to bring it back to him. 143 00:06:25,118 --> 00:06:26,948 Narrator: Spero excels at taking children 144 00:06:26,987 --> 00:06:28,987 off the streets of his neighborhood 145 00:06:29,022 --> 00:06:31,632 and grooming them for a life of crime and violence. 146 00:06:31,659 --> 00:06:33,859 Kids like Jimmy Calandra, 147 00:06:33,894 --> 00:06:35,934 who grows up in the Bensonhurst neighborhood 148 00:06:35,963 --> 00:06:38,533 of Brooklyn in the 1980s at a time 149 00:06:38,566 --> 00:06:40,566 when the mafia is fighting for its life 150 00:06:40,601 --> 00:06:42,801 against law enforcement but still has the power 151 00:06:42,836 --> 00:06:46,506 and glamour to make a big impression on little boys. 152 00:06:46,540 --> 00:06:48,640 Calandra and his best friends are nothing 153 00:06:48,676 --> 00:06:50,076 but kids when they start their journey 154 00:06:50,110 --> 00:06:52,180 into the underworld. 155 00:06:52,212 --> 00:06:53,982 Jimmy Calandra: The core group of my friends 156 00:06:54,014 --> 00:06:57,824 was Pauly Gulino, Tommy Reynolds, Joey Calco, me, 157 00:06:57,851 --> 00:07:00,091 and Fabrizio DeFrancisci. 158 00:07:00,120 --> 00:07:01,590 We were troubled kids in the neighborhood, 159 00:07:01,622 --> 00:07:03,222 we were bad kids. 160 00:07:03,256 --> 00:07:06,226 You know, we decided to form a crew. 161 00:07:06,259 --> 00:07:08,999 Jim Walden: They got tattoos on their ankles 162 00:07:09,029 --> 00:07:11,969 to label themselves number 1 through number 7. 163 00:07:11,999 --> 00:07:13,729 Jimmy Calandra: We were making a pact 164 00:07:13,767 --> 00:07:15,067 with each other. 165 00:07:15,102 --> 00:07:17,102 You know, we were all in the same crew together, 166 00:07:17,137 --> 00:07:18,537 you know. 167 00:07:18,572 --> 00:07:22,482 One for all, all for one. 168 00:07:23,010 --> 00:07:25,080 Narrator: The boys of Bath Avenue have each other's 169 00:07:25,112 --> 00:07:27,082 backs in a Brooklyn neighborhood steeped 170 00:07:27,114 --> 00:07:29,224 in the code of Cosa Nostra. 171 00:07:29,249 --> 00:07:31,889 All five families have a foothold here. 172 00:07:31,919 --> 00:07:34,089 Jimmy Calandra: Bath Avenue was a known avenue for 173 00:07:34,121 --> 00:07:36,261 mob-related activity. 174 00:07:36,289 --> 00:07:38,029 Detective Dades: Bath Avenue was filled 175 00:07:38,058 --> 00:07:39,888 with social clubs, you know. 176 00:07:39,927 --> 00:07:42,157 There was three on the block. 177 00:07:42,195 --> 00:07:44,625 You knew who were the guys that were connected, 178 00:07:44,665 --> 00:07:47,265 who were the guys that were up and coming. 179 00:07:47,300 --> 00:07:49,840 Jimmy Calandra: You know, I was a young kid 180 00:07:49,870 --> 00:07:52,170 growing up around wise guys. 181 00:07:52,205 --> 00:07:53,905 The guys making the money, you know every time 182 00:07:53,941 --> 00:07:56,741 they see us, here, here's 20, you know. 183 00:07:56,777 --> 00:07:58,607 As soon as I leave my house, I got 20 dollars. 184 00:07:58,646 --> 00:08:00,646 I go to the corner, I hang out, you know? 185 00:08:00,681 --> 00:08:02,781 What do I got to work for? 186 00:08:02,816 --> 00:08:04,746 We had Nick's Candy Store right around 187 00:08:04,785 --> 00:08:06,185 the corner from my apartment. 188 00:08:06,219 --> 00:08:07,289 That's where we would all come together. 189 00:08:07,320 --> 00:08:09,760 Detective Dades: You know, there was a group of guys 190 00:08:09,790 --> 00:08:12,060 on every other block, no matter what time, 191 00:08:12,092 --> 00:08:14,662 day and night, there was always somebody there. 192 00:08:14,695 --> 00:08:16,855 That corner was home base. 193 00:08:16,897 --> 00:08:18,627 Jimmy Calandra: And we would do errands for them. 194 00:08:18,666 --> 00:08:19,726 They would give us a couple dollars, 195 00:08:19,767 --> 00:08:23,297 "Here, go up the block and get me two French bread." 196 00:08:23,336 --> 00:08:26,636 Say they need someone's window broke, 197 00:08:26,674 --> 00:08:28,584 thrown us the keys, "Go wash my car," 198 00:08:28,609 --> 00:08:30,179 whatever the case may be. 199 00:08:30,210 --> 00:08:31,910 You knew they controlled the neighborhood, 200 00:08:31,945 --> 00:08:33,645 you know, with their walk and talks. 201 00:08:33,681 --> 00:08:36,221 In the neighborhood, you know who was who. 202 00:08:36,249 --> 00:08:39,849 You know, these were the guys that I looked up to. 203 00:08:41,254 --> 00:08:44,664 Jim Walden: Imagine that you are an eight-year-old boy 204 00:08:44,692 --> 00:08:48,562 in a working class neighborhood in Brooklyn. 205 00:08:48,596 --> 00:08:52,566 Most of the men and women that you know are struggling 206 00:08:52,600 --> 00:08:55,300 to make ends meet, they're working their fingers to the 207 00:08:55,335 --> 00:08:58,665 bone but what you see down the street at the 208 00:08:58,706 --> 00:09:01,576 social club are Cadillac's pulling up and 209 00:09:01,609 --> 00:09:05,109 men dressed in $500 suits getting in and out 210 00:09:05,145 --> 00:09:06,845 of the Cadillac's. 211 00:09:06,880 --> 00:09:09,580 Jimmy Calandra: These men were my father figures. 212 00:09:09,617 --> 00:09:10,877 You know, if I needed anything 213 00:09:10,918 --> 00:09:12,218 they just helped me. 214 00:09:12,252 --> 00:09:15,022 If we had a problem, we knew where to go. 215 00:09:15,055 --> 00:09:17,985 Jim Walden: These kids really did start as kids. 216 00:09:18,025 --> 00:09:20,725 Some of them were 8 or 9 years old when they first 217 00:09:20,761 --> 00:09:23,731 started running numbers at the social clubs. 218 00:09:23,764 --> 00:09:26,374 Detective Dades: Social clubs were really big. 219 00:09:26,399 --> 00:09:29,699 Gambling parlors, you know, were really big. 220 00:09:29,737 --> 00:09:32,667 They were bookmakers and if you tried to use 221 00:09:32,706 --> 00:09:35,606 the payphone on a Sunday they'd cut your hands off. 222 00:09:35,643 --> 00:09:37,683 Jimmy Calandra: We'd do straight bets, 223 00:09:37,711 --> 00:09:38,951 we'd do parlays; 224 00:09:38,979 --> 00:09:40,909 we were gambling every football game, 225 00:09:40,948 --> 00:09:42,648 Sundays, everything. 226 00:09:42,683 --> 00:09:44,183 I was loaning out money. 227 00:09:44,217 --> 00:09:45,717 I was a little kid. 228 00:09:45,753 --> 00:09:47,153 I was maybe 13 years old. 229 00:09:47,187 --> 00:09:48,987 We thought we were somebody, you know, 230 00:09:49,022 --> 00:09:50,392 and we were looking up to these guys and 231 00:09:50,423 --> 00:09:52,133 we actually thought we were doing something. 232 00:09:52,159 --> 00:09:54,059 Jim Walden: 8 or 9 they're running numbers, 233 00:09:54,094 --> 00:09:56,704 12, 13, 14 they're parking cars and 234 00:09:56,730 --> 00:09:59,130 hiding weapons and moving money, 235 00:09:59,166 --> 00:10:02,366 and they move up the ranks to do more violent 236 00:10:02,402 --> 00:10:04,872 and more profitable things. 237 00:10:04,905 --> 00:10:07,165 Narrator: As the Bath Avenue boys grow up 238 00:10:07,207 --> 00:10:09,337 what starts with trips to the bakery ends 239 00:10:09,376 --> 00:10:11,776 in crime and violence. 240 00:10:11,812 --> 00:10:13,312 Jimmy Calandra: As we got older, 241 00:10:13,346 --> 00:10:15,216 we just got more dangerous. 242 00:10:15,248 --> 00:10:18,688 You know, so instead of boys, now we're just a crew. 243 00:10:18,719 --> 00:10:22,059 Narrator: It's now the 80s, the era of crack cocaine, 244 00:10:22,089 --> 00:10:24,689 a drug that ignites rampant street violence in 245 00:10:24,725 --> 00:10:27,725 New York City and the Bath Avenue Crew fits right in. 246 00:10:27,761 --> 00:10:29,231 Fat Sal: The Bath Avenue Crew, 247 00:10:29,262 --> 00:10:31,932 they would smoke drugs, rob drug dealers, 248 00:10:31,965 --> 00:10:33,395 and then they got into the drug business, 249 00:10:33,433 --> 00:10:36,243 started extorting drug dealers. 250 00:10:36,269 --> 00:10:37,839 Jimmy Calandra: We were doing bookmaking, 251 00:10:37,871 --> 00:10:40,111 we had the cocaine business on beepers, 252 00:10:40,140 --> 00:10:42,310 we had the pot business. 253 00:10:42,342 --> 00:10:45,282 We were stealing cars. 254 00:10:46,413 --> 00:10:48,983 I was doing banks, I was doing burglaries. 255 00:10:49,016 --> 00:10:51,076 Detective Dades: They're out there earning because 256 00:10:51,118 --> 00:10:53,988 being a good earner is a way to get in good graces, 257 00:10:54,021 --> 00:10:56,221 you know, by sending money up the ladder, 258 00:10:56,256 --> 00:11:00,126 getting some respect from some of the wise guys. 259 00:11:01,294 --> 00:11:03,704 Jim Walden: So the Bath Avenue Crew was 260 00:11:03,731 --> 00:11:06,471 embraced by the Bonanno family as associates because 261 00:11:06,499 --> 00:11:08,299 they were good at their jobs. 262 00:11:08,335 --> 00:11:11,235 And the job of an associate is to earn money 263 00:11:11,271 --> 00:11:15,211 and to engage in violent acts when they're needed, 264 00:11:15,242 --> 00:11:18,982 and this group really excelled at both. 265 00:11:19,012 --> 00:11:22,222 Detective Dades: They were a gruesome bunch of guys. 266 00:11:22,249 --> 00:11:25,119 Jim Walden: Fabrizio Defrancisci, 267 00:11:25,152 --> 00:11:28,862 one of the most ruthless enforcers the group had. 268 00:11:28,889 --> 00:11:32,859 He took a blowtorch and literally tortured one 269 00:11:32,893 --> 00:11:37,063 crack dealer who was using product on the street. 270 00:11:37,097 --> 00:11:39,427 Tommy Reynolds, out of anger, 271 00:11:39,466 --> 00:11:42,366 picked up a fork and jabbed it in someone's eye. 272 00:11:42,402 --> 00:11:44,242 That's how violent these guys were. 273 00:11:44,271 --> 00:11:46,411 Fat Sal: They killed a lot of innocent people; 274 00:11:46,439 --> 00:11:49,079 they committed a double homicide for I think an 275 00:11:49,109 --> 00:11:51,009 eight ball of cocaine. 276 00:11:51,044 --> 00:11:53,514 Jim Walden: They were doing exactly what associates 277 00:11:53,546 --> 00:11:56,416 had been doing, maybe more violently, 278 00:11:56,449 --> 00:11:58,749 but doing for many, many years. 279 00:11:58,786 --> 00:12:00,316 Jimmy Calandra: We're Spero's muscle. 280 00:12:00,353 --> 00:12:01,963 And when Spero needs something done, 281 00:12:01,989 --> 00:12:06,159 we are at his disposal. 282 00:12:06,193 --> 00:12:07,933 Narrator: The acting boss of the Bonanno family 283 00:12:07,961 --> 00:12:09,861 soon puts them to work. 284 00:12:09,897 --> 00:12:11,797 Jim Walden: Spero had a daughter 285 00:12:11,832 --> 00:12:13,232 in the neighborhood. 286 00:12:13,266 --> 00:12:15,036 One day there was a drug addict 287 00:12:15,068 --> 00:12:17,098 named Vincent Bickelman. 288 00:12:17,137 --> 00:12:20,807 He broke into her house and stole a necklace. 289 00:12:23,911 --> 00:12:25,851 Jimmy Calandra: After he stole it, 290 00:12:25,879 --> 00:12:28,279 he went to somewhere on 86th street to sell it. 291 00:12:28,315 --> 00:12:30,845 It had Jill's name on the necklace, it said, 292 00:12:30,884 --> 00:12:33,794 "Jill," and it got back to Spero. 293 00:12:33,821 --> 00:12:38,431 He broke into a Bonanno boss's daughter's house. 294 00:12:38,458 --> 00:12:41,558 Jim Walden: Spero went to Gulino to pass the 295 00:12:41,594 --> 00:12:44,104 order to kill Bickelman and of course, 296 00:12:44,131 --> 00:12:47,971 Gulino saw this as his opportunity to get 297 00:12:48,001 --> 00:12:51,041 inducted into the Bonanno family. 298 00:12:51,071 --> 00:12:53,071 Detective Dades: Pauly Gulino was 299 00:12:53,106 --> 00:12:55,006 the leader of that group. 300 00:12:55,042 --> 00:12:56,442 Vicious guy. 301 00:12:56,476 --> 00:12:58,106 Jimmy Calandra: He didn't give a (bleep). 302 00:12:58,145 --> 00:12:59,475 He wasn't afraid of nobody, 303 00:12:59,512 --> 00:13:01,312 he was a ballsy kid he was a tough kid, 304 00:13:01,348 --> 00:13:03,448 and a lot of wise guys were afraid of him. 305 00:13:03,483 --> 00:13:05,353 So when a thief inadvertently robs the 306 00:13:05,385 --> 00:13:07,415 daughter of Bonanno family crime boss, 307 00:13:07,454 --> 00:13:11,264 Anthony Spero, the Bath Avenue boys get the call. 308 00:13:11,291 --> 00:13:13,861 Jimmy Calandra: It was a big opportunity for us. 309 00:13:13,894 --> 00:13:17,534 This was a very, very important piece of work to 310 00:13:17,564 --> 00:13:20,874 do for Anthony Spero because this was gonna get 311 00:13:20,901 --> 00:13:25,041 Pauly Gulino recognized and hopefully become a made 312 00:13:25,072 --> 00:13:26,912 member in the family. 313 00:13:26,940 --> 00:13:29,010 Agent Pistone: You know, there are certain rules to 314 00:13:29,042 --> 00:13:33,912 become a made guy and one of them is you have to earn 315 00:13:33,947 --> 00:13:37,547 your button, you have to kill somebody. 316 00:13:37,584 --> 00:13:40,294 Jimmy Calandra: One day Pauly Gulino's driving 317 00:13:40,320 --> 00:13:42,260 around, he saw the kid and he runs up on the kid, 318 00:13:42,289 --> 00:13:44,859 Vincent Bickelman, right around the corner 319 00:13:44,892 --> 00:13:47,292 from the police station, right off the corner, 320 00:13:47,327 --> 00:13:51,867 he jumped out and he just shot the kid 5 times. 321 00:13:56,069 --> 00:13:58,209 That's it, drop. 322 00:13:58,238 --> 00:14:00,208 We all went to the bar, 323 00:14:00,240 --> 00:14:01,910 Pauly told all of us what happened, 324 00:14:01,942 --> 00:14:03,312 we celebrated, we were drinking, 325 00:14:03,343 --> 00:14:06,153 are you kidding we had a great (bleep) time. 326 00:14:06,179 --> 00:14:08,149 Narrator: The Bickelman murder cements 327 00:14:08,181 --> 00:14:09,921 the Bath Avenue Crew's reputation. 328 00:14:09,950 --> 00:14:11,950 It tells everyone on the street there's a new 329 00:14:11,985 --> 00:14:14,185 gang in town, guys who are on their 330 00:14:14,221 --> 00:14:16,521 way to becoming made men in the Bonanno family. 331 00:14:16,556 --> 00:14:19,056 Detective Dades: They want people to know that 332 00:14:19,092 --> 00:14:23,432 they just killed this guy because you're recognized 333 00:14:23,463 --> 00:14:28,573 now by made guys, by captains, that you're 334 00:14:28,601 --> 00:14:31,341 capable of doing things like that. 335 00:14:31,371 --> 00:14:33,041 Jimmy Calandra: We ain't kids no more. 336 00:14:33,073 --> 00:14:34,673 You know, we're looking to you know 337 00:14:34,707 --> 00:14:37,207 move up to the next level. 338 00:14:37,244 --> 00:14:39,484 Narrator: The members of the Bath Avenue Crew want 339 00:14:39,512 --> 00:14:41,312 to join the Bonanno family at a crucial moment: 340 00:14:41,348 --> 00:14:43,178 just as Joe Massino, 341 00:14:43,216 --> 00:14:45,446 the family boss, gets released from prison 342 00:14:45,485 --> 00:14:47,445 after serving six years for racketeering. 343 00:14:47,487 --> 00:14:50,087 Edward McDonald: So Joe Massino gets out of 344 00:14:50,123 --> 00:14:52,293 prison and all the other bosses have been convicted. 345 00:14:52,325 --> 00:14:54,625 They're replaced by underlings, 346 00:14:54,661 --> 00:14:56,401 people who were not that significant. 347 00:14:56,429 --> 00:14:59,629 So Joe comes out and he is someone who is revered. 348 00:14:59,666 --> 00:15:04,396 He is like the last don, the one well-respected boss. 349 00:15:04,437 --> 00:15:06,607 Agent Devecchio: Unlike a lot of organized 350 00:15:06,639 --> 00:15:08,979 crime members, Massino was very friendly. 351 00:15:09,009 --> 00:15:10,239 Very affable. 352 00:15:10,277 --> 00:15:11,977 Mitra Hormozi: Very jovial, 353 00:15:12,012 --> 00:15:13,612 beloved by members of his family. 354 00:15:13,646 --> 00:15:15,446 Agent Sallet: He worked with John Gotti, 355 00:15:15,482 --> 00:15:17,382 they were close friends and close 356 00:15:17,417 --> 00:15:21,117 confidants in truck hijacking. 357 00:15:21,154 --> 00:15:23,124 Narrator: He's also one more made guy with 358 00:15:23,156 --> 00:15:25,556 a violent past, routinely ordering associates 359 00:15:25,592 --> 00:15:28,202 like Sal Polisi to use their muscle. 360 00:15:28,595 --> 00:15:31,155 Sal Polisi: The Bonanno family had a case running, 361 00:15:31,198 --> 00:15:33,228 and Joe Massino who later became the boss, 362 00:15:33,266 --> 00:15:34,966 called Foxy and I said, 363 00:15:35,002 --> 00:15:36,472 "Look, you gotta do us a favor. 364 00:15:36,503 --> 00:15:38,343 There's a witness you gotta go, 365 00:15:38,371 --> 00:15:39,641 you gotta go beat this guy up. 366 00:15:39,672 --> 00:15:41,542 I want you to break his arms and legs to give 367 00:15:41,574 --> 00:15:45,084 a message, give a beating so that he wouldn't testify." 368 00:15:45,112 --> 00:15:46,512 So we beat this guy up with bats, 369 00:15:46,546 --> 00:15:49,176 broke his arms and legs, only to find out 370 00:15:49,216 --> 00:15:51,446 he was the wrong guy, he was the father. 371 00:15:51,484 --> 00:15:54,294 And then when Massino called us in for a meeting he said, 372 00:15:54,321 --> 00:15:57,521 "Look, you beat up the wrong guy, but it's okay. 373 00:15:57,557 --> 00:16:00,057 The witness disappeared anyway." 374 00:16:00,093 --> 00:16:01,633 Narrator: But Massino doesn't 375 00:16:01,661 --> 00:16:03,461 just subcontract his killing, 376 00:16:03,496 --> 00:16:05,166 he's done it himself. 377 00:16:05,198 --> 00:16:06,998 His claim to fame is as one of the shooters in 378 00:16:07,034 --> 00:16:09,374 the Three Capos Murder, an infamous gangland massacre 379 00:16:09,402 --> 00:16:11,402 from the early 1980's. 380 00:16:11,438 --> 00:16:13,008 Agent Pistone: Three captains wanted to take 381 00:16:13,040 --> 00:16:15,040 over the family: Sonny Red Indelicato, 382 00:16:15,075 --> 00:16:17,435 Phil Lucky Giaccone, and Dominick Trinchera. 383 00:16:17,477 --> 00:16:19,507 Mitra Hormozi: Massino goes to the commission, 384 00:16:19,546 --> 00:16:21,646 he then gets permission to go ahead 385 00:16:21,681 --> 00:16:24,351 and kill the three captains. 386 00:16:27,320 --> 00:16:29,390 Narrator: But when Massino gets out of prison in 387 00:16:29,422 --> 00:16:33,562 1992 after six years, he's faced with a new reality. 388 00:16:33,593 --> 00:16:35,703 He needs to keep a low profile. 389 00:16:35,728 --> 00:16:38,298 He recognizes the mistakes of other bosses like 390 00:16:38,331 --> 00:16:40,671 John Gotti and Joe Colombo who spent 391 00:16:40,700 --> 00:16:43,100 too much time in public or got caught on tape 392 00:16:43,136 --> 00:16:45,306 by electronic listening devices. 393 00:16:45,338 --> 00:16:48,438 So Massino reforms the Bonanno family starting with 394 00:16:48,475 --> 00:16:51,035 his own extreme variation on that tried 395 00:16:51,078 --> 00:16:54,008 and true code of silence. 396 00:16:54,481 --> 00:16:56,451 Mitra Hormozi: No one is allowed to say his name. 397 00:16:56,483 --> 00:16:58,623 Instead, he says anyone who wants to refer 398 00:16:58,651 --> 00:17:04,061 to the boss must just use the visual hand to the ear. 399 00:17:04,091 --> 00:17:05,831 Edward McDonald: Just like Chin Gigante in the 400 00:17:05,858 --> 00:17:07,528 Genovese family, you had to touch your chin, 401 00:17:07,560 --> 00:17:09,500 well Joey was gonna be called the ear. 402 00:17:09,529 --> 00:17:12,769 Mitra Hormozi: Also, he did not go to weddings 403 00:17:12,799 --> 00:17:15,799 and funerals where people would be photographed. 404 00:17:15,835 --> 00:17:17,735 Agent Sallet: He doesn't use a cell phone, 405 00:17:17,770 --> 00:17:21,370 he doesn't use a pager, he doesn't use his home phone. 406 00:17:21,408 --> 00:17:23,338 Narrator: He also takes the extreme measure 407 00:17:23,376 --> 00:17:25,106 of ending a decades old tradition, 408 00:17:25,145 --> 00:17:26,745 closing down the places that were once the 409 00:17:26,779 --> 00:17:30,649 hub of all mob activity: social clubs. 410 00:17:31,251 --> 00:17:33,391 Agent Devecchio: For many, many years I'm sure they 411 00:17:33,420 --> 00:17:35,390 thought they were invincible in social clubs, 412 00:17:35,422 --> 00:17:38,132 but we managed to bug a number of social clubs 413 00:17:38,158 --> 00:17:40,858 and overheard a lot of incriminating information. 414 00:17:40,893 --> 00:17:43,333 Agent Sallet: Joe Massino learned 415 00:17:43,363 --> 00:17:46,673 what he should and should not do. 416 00:17:46,699 --> 00:17:47,729 Narrator: At the same time, 417 00:17:47,767 --> 00:17:49,567 he encourages a major new front in the 418 00:17:49,602 --> 00:17:52,372 way the mob earns money: 419 00:17:52,405 --> 00:17:55,635 Wall Street. 420 00:17:56,243 --> 00:17:58,413 Agent Barrows: 90s brought a tremendous bull market, 421 00:17:58,445 --> 00:18:03,745 enormous amounts of money and some loose regulations. 422 00:18:03,783 --> 00:18:05,453 Everybody wanted to be in the market, 423 00:18:05,485 --> 00:18:07,285 everybody was making money who was in the market. 424 00:18:07,320 --> 00:18:09,420 So it was really a perfect and fertile ground 425 00:18:09,456 --> 00:18:12,856 for organized crime. 426 00:18:12,892 --> 00:18:15,462 Narrator: By 1993, Bonanno family boss, 427 00:18:15,495 --> 00:18:16,655 Joe Massino, 428 00:18:16,696 --> 00:18:18,696 is the last of his kind, an old school Godfather 429 00:18:18,731 --> 00:18:20,831 who believes in the code of silence and secrecy 430 00:18:20,867 --> 00:18:25,367 characterizing the Golden Age of the American mob. 431 00:18:25,405 --> 00:18:27,765 But he's also an innovator when it comes to earning, 432 00:18:27,807 --> 00:18:29,837 seizing new opportunities not in 433 00:18:29,876 --> 00:18:32,176 Bensonhurst but on Wall Street. 434 00:18:32,212 --> 00:18:33,812 Edward McDonald: By the time Joe got out of 435 00:18:33,846 --> 00:18:36,316 prison the heady days of labor racketeering were 436 00:18:36,349 --> 00:18:38,289 pretty much coming to an end. 437 00:18:38,318 --> 00:18:40,918 So the big, big money that the mafia was making 438 00:18:40,953 --> 00:18:44,263 through labor racketeering was really just not available 439 00:18:44,291 --> 00:18:48,631 anymore and they began to move towards Wall Street. 440 00:18:49,662 --> 00:18:51,332 Agent Barrows: In the 90s, it was 441 00:18:51,364 --> 00:18:53,174 certainly a bull market. 442 00:18:53,200 --> 00:18:54,870 There were tons of new companies, 443 00:18:54,901 --> 00:18:56,771 the internet was sort of new and burgeoning 444 00:18:56,803 --> 00:18:59,313 at the time and certainly where there's a lot of 445 00:18:59,339 --> 00:19:01,209 easy money to be made you can be rest assured 446 00:19:01,241 --> 00:19:04,241 that the mob's gonna be there to make it. 447 00:19:04,277 --> 00:19:06,247 Narrator: Legitimate stockbrokers must follow 448 00:19:06,279 --> 00:19:08,579 the rules of the Securities and Exchange Commission, 449 00:19:08,615 --> 00:19:11,245 but not Joe Massino and the Bonanno family. 450 00:19:11,284 --> 00:19:14,224 Fraud is the key to their success. 451 00:19:14,254 --> 00:19:15,964 Agent Barrows: The underbelly of Wall Street 452 00:19:15,988 --> 00:19:17,618 is where the mob operates. 453 00:19:17,657 --> 00:19:20,257 That's where the boiler rooms come in. 454 00:19:20,293 --> 00:19:23,203 These boiler rooms are filled with very young kids, 455 00:19:23,230 --> 00:19:26,270 unsophisticated kids, who have one task and that 456 00:19:26,299 --> 00:19:28,599 is to sell stock and to say whatever it is they 457 00:19:28,635 --> 00:19:30,735 need to say, follow whatever script they have 458 00:19:30,770 --> 00:19:33,840 in front of them to make sure they accomplish that task. 459 00:19:33,873 --> 00:19:36,443 Most of the boiler rooms look like New Year's Eve 460 00:19:36,476 --> 00:19:38,576 party had been thrown the night before, 461 00:19:38,611 --> 00:19:41,511 often scantily clad women walking around, 462 00:19:41,548 --> 00:19:46,318 stacks of papers, cigarettes, alcohol. 463 00:19:46,353 --> 00:19:48,563 Looks nothing like you'd imagine 464 00:19:48,588 --> 00:19:51,858 that a brokerage house looks like. 465 00:19:51,891 --> 00:19:53,731 Narrator: The game is called "Pump and Dump," 466 00:19:53,760 --> 00:19:56,630 and it works like this: mobbed up traders acquire 467 00:19:56,663 --> 00:19:59,973 large blocks of stocks worth 5 dollars or less. 468 00:19:59,999 --> 00:20:02,569 By controlling supply, they increase demand, 469 00:20:02,602 --> 00:20:05,442 artificially inflating the stock's price. 470 00:20:05,472 --> 00:20:07,572 Then they sell those stocks to unsuspecting 471 00:20:07,607 --> 00:20:09,937 investors for much more than the original value, 472 00:20:09,976 --> 00:20:13,446 in turn earning an enormous profit. 473 00:20:13,480 --> 00:20:15,580 Agent Barrows: The mob makes sure things stay 474 00:20:15,615 --> 00:20:18,585 in order and if they don't successfully do their job, 475 00:20:18,618 --> 00:20:19,848 they're going to get a beating. 476 00:20:19,886 --> 00:20:21,686 Sal Polisi: Violence, threats, 477 00:20:21,721 --> 00:20:23,661 extortion, blackmail; 478 00:20:23,690 --> 00:20:25,830 the mob was a master at bullying. 479 00:20:25,858 --> 00:20:28,258 Salmieri: The fear of the violence is 480 00:20:28,295 --> 00:20:30,255 what keeps everybody in line. 481 00:20:30,297 --> 00:20:32,667 Agent Barrows: They make sure those boiler room kids 482 00:20:32,699 --> 00:20:34,329 keep that stock put away. 483 00:20:34,367 --> 00:20:35,967 They sell it and they don't let it get sold 484 00:20:36,002 --> 00:20:37,572 back to the market. 485 00:20:37,604 --> 00:20:39,674 Agent Barrows: It's paid in cash and it's undisclosed. 486 00:20:39,706 --> 00:20:41,266 There's no paper trail, nobody knows about it. 487 00:20:41,308 --> 00:20:44,008 Get a bag of cash on Friday. 488 00:20:44,043 --> 00:20:45,883 Narrator: The cash is divvied up, 489 00:20:45,912 --> 00:20:47,682 some going into the brokers pocket, 490 00:20:47,714 --> 00:20:50,424 the rest going to the bosses. 491 00:20:50,450 --> 00:20:52,450 Raking in the cash for Joe Massino of the 492 00:20:52,485 --> 00:20:55,915 Bonanno family is this guy, Robert Lino. 493 00:20:55,955 --> 00:20:57,955 Agent Barrows: Lino was the muscle at the higher level. 494 00:20:57,990 --> 00:20:59,560 He was the Capo. 495 00:20:59,592 --> 00:21:00,762 He was the one who represented 496 00:21:00,793 --> 00:21:02,603 them in sit-downs. 497 00:21:02,629 --> 00:21:04,529 He was the one who essentially ran a 498 00:21:04,564 --> 00:21:05,734 investment firm in lower Manhattan 499 00:21:05,765 --> 00:21:07,465 called DMN Capital, 500 00:21:07,500 --> 00:21:10,900 which was under the auspices of the Bonanno family. 501 00:21:10,937 --> 00:21:13,467 Narrator: To rat out the Bonanno family's corruption 502 00:21:13,506 --> 00:21:15,536 on Wall Street, Agent Kevin Barrows 503 00:21:15,575 --> 00:21:17,775 needs to get inside DMN Capital. 504 00:21:17,810 --> 00:21:19,910 Agent Barrows: It was too risky in this day and 505 00:21:19,946 --> 00:21:21,846 age to have an agent try to go undercover, 506 00:21:21,881 --> 00:21:23,581 because you had to know somebody. 507 00:21:23,616 --> 00:21:26,316 It wasn't the days of, you know, Joe Pistone, 508 00:21:26,353 --> 00:21:28,523 where it was somewhat easier to infiltrate. 509 00:21:28,555 --> 00:21:31,515 My partner and I began to really develop a lot 510 00:21:31,558 --> 00:21:34,528 of co-operating witnesses. 511 00:21:34,561 --> 00:21:36,931 Narrator: But not just any cooperating witness. 512 00:21:36,963 --> 00:21:38,833 His informant works as a mole inside 513 00:21:38,865 --> 00:21:40,595 the mob's boiler rooms. 514 00:21:40,633 --> 00:21:43,973 With his help, Operation Uptick is born. 515 00:21:44,003 --> 00:21:45,613 Agent Barrows: The goal of an informant 516 00:21:45,638 --> 00:21:49,038 is always to get the next person up in the chain. 517 00:21:49,075 --> 00:21:50,935 As we always say, "We gotta eat our way up 518 00:21:50,977 --> 00:21:53,807 the chain and get to the top." 519 00:21:53,846 --> 00:21:56,576 Narrator: The Feds want Bonanno Boss Joe Massino, 520 00:21:56,616 --> 00:21:58,816 but before they can reach the top of that food chain, 521 00:21:58,851 --> 00:22:01,551 FBI agents must snare a smaller fish and 522 00:22:01,588 --> 00:22:05,828 catch Bonanno Capo Robert Lino on tape first. 523 00:22:05,858 --> 00:22:08,698 So they send their DMN informant to work wearing 524 00:22:08,728 --> 00:22:11,698 a wire and the stakes couldn't be higher. 525 00:22:11,731 --> 00:22:14,871 If discovered, they'll almost certainly be killed. 526 00:22:14,901 --> 00:22:16,871 Robert Lino: [on tape] You better get my (bleep) 527 00:22:16,903 --> 00:22:18,973 money and Louis, I better have it soon. 528 00:22:19,005 --> 00:22:20,905 I am going to put the word out with everybody 529 00:22:20,940 --> 00:22:23,080 I know, everybody, you are done. 530 00:22:23,109 --> 00:22:26,109 You understand me, you rotten (bleep)! 531 00:22:26,145 --> 00:22:28,005 Agent Barrows: There were times when we had him wired 532 00:22:28,047 --> 00:22:29,747 up and ready to go and found out somebody was coming, 533 00:22:29,782 --> 00:22:33,692 and we'd take the wire off seconds before he walked in. 534 00:22:33,720 --> 00:22:36,460 Simply because Robert Lino was a very tough, 535 00:22:36,489 --> 00:22:38,729 very violent guy. 536 00:22:38,758 --> 00:22:41,728 But my partner and I were extraordinarily successful 537 00:22:41,761 --> 00:22:44,061 at getting people to cooperate and we just kept 538 00:22:44,096 --> 00:22:46,466 getting more and more cooperators who gave us more 539 00:22:46,499 --> 00:22:49,099 and more information about more and more people, 540 00:22:49,135 --> 00:22:51,495 who, which led to more and more indictments. 541 00:22:51,538 --> 00:22:53,438 Narrator: Operation Uptick grows, 542 00:22:53,473 --> 00:22:55,043 putting increasing numbers of mobsters in 543 00:22:55,074 --> 00:22:59,154 the FBI's crosshairs, including Robert Lino. 544 00:22:59,779 --> 00:23:02,109 Man: In the largest federal arrest operation 545 00:23:02,148 --> 00:23:04,978 ever in the New York City metropolitan area, 546 00:23:05,017 --> 00:23:08,857 more than 600 FBI agents began arresting 547 00:23:08,888 --> 00:23:12,658 120 defendants as a result of a 10-month 548 00:23:12,692 --> 00:23:17,002 investigation code-named: Uptick. 549 00:23:17,029 --> 00:23:19,569 Agent Barrows: It really awakened the public 550 00:23:19,599 --> 00:23:21,699 and it awakened regulators. 551 00:23:21,734 --> 00:23:23,944 Narrator: But Joe Massino knows how to play the system 552 00:23:23,970 --> 00:23:26,540 like an old school boss, and his anti-surveillance 553 00:23:26,573 --> 00:23:28,713 techniques pay off. 554 00:23:28,741 --> 00:23:30,841 He's never caught on tape and gets away 555 00:23:30,877 --> 00:23:33,607 clean in Operation Uptick. 556 00:23:33,646 --> 00:23:35,746 While the Bonanno family tries its hand 557 00:23:35,782 --> 00:23:37,782 at white-collar crime in Manhattan, 558 00:23:37,817 --> 00:23:40,117 back in Brooklyn the old friendships on Bath Avenue 559 00:23:40,152 --> 00:23:42,122 are about to disintegrate, 560 00:23:42,154 --> 00:23:44,724 starting with this guy, Tommy Reynolds. 561 00:23:45,792 --> 00:23:47,732 Fat Sal: With Tommy Reynolds, 562 00:23:47,760 --> 00:23:50,060 he's a cracked-out maniac. 563 00:23:50,096 --> 00:23:53,526 Smoking crack, kill you for a $100 piece of crack. 564 00:23:53,566 --> 00:23:55,636 Narrator: Reynolds and fellow Bath Avenue member, 565 00:23:55,668 --> 00:23:57,768 Jimmy Calandra, join a third guy, 566 00:23:57,804 --> 00:24:00,174 a street thug named Chris Ludwigsen, 567 00:24:00,206 --> 00:24:02,776 on a heist that is supposed to be an easy score. 568 00:24:02,809 --> 00:24:04,179 Jimmy Calandra: He notified me, he says, 569 00:24:04,210 --> 00:24:05,910 "Jimmy, I got this score with this guy, 570 00:24:05,945 --> 00:24:07,245 big money in his house, 571 00:24:07,279 --> 00:24:08,919 safe in his house in his basement." 572 00:24:08,948 --> 00:24:10,648 The money Chris was talking about, you know, 573 00:24:10,683 --> 00:24:12,653 he said it was close to a million dollars. 574 00:24:12,685 --> 00:24:14,145 Detective Dades: There's just gonna be a 575 00:24:14,186 --> 00:24:18,116 guy at home, it's an easy score. 576 00:24:18,691 --> 00:24:20,261 Jimmy Calandra: I said, "Okay, sounds good." 577 00:24:20,292 --> 00:24:21,962 So I brought Reynolds with me because 578 00:24:21,994 --> 00:24:23,904 Reynolds was always my guy to do scores with. 579 00:24:23,930 --> 00:24:25,600 Jim Walden: And at the time, 580 00:24:25,632 --> 00:24:27,172 Tommy Reynolds was one of the key 581 00:24:27,199 --> 00:24:29,539 people who was organizing the crack 582 00:24:29,569 --> 00:24:31,769 distribution ring and he started using 583 00:24:31,804 --> 00:24:34,014 some of the product himself. 584 00:24:34,040 --> 00:24:35,740 Jimmy Calandra: No one else was supposed 585 00:24:35,775 --> 00:24:37,135 to be in this house. 586 00:24:37,176 --> 00:24:40,806 Only this guy was supposed to be there. 587 00:24:40,847 --> 00:24:43,917 So we all get out, Chris waits in the car. 588 00:24:50,790 --> 00:24:53,830 I knock on the door. 589 00:25:00,567 --> 00:25:06,807 All of a sudden, I see this woman. 590 00:25:07,907 --> 00:25:11,107 I hear "boom." 591 00:25:11,143 --> 00:25:14,013 The lady goes flying across the room. 592 00:25:14,046 --> 00:25:17,916 Jim Walden: Reynolds in his crack stupor accidentally 593 00:25:17,950 --> 00:25:20,920 pulled the trigger to the gun and shot her in the head 594 00:25:20,953 --> 00:25:25,993 in front of her then 9-year-old daughter. 595 00:25:30,062 --> 00:25:33,202 Jimmy Calandra: I went there to go rob a safe and 596 00:25:33,232 --> 00:25:35,272 Tommy Reynolds ends up shooting the lady by accident. 597 00:25:35,301 --> 00:25:37,241 I said, "What the (bleep) did I 598 00:25:37,269 --> 00:25:40,339 just get myself involved in?" 599 00:25:40,372 --> 00:25:41,972 I was so ashamed of it. 600 00:25:42,008 --> 00:25:43,708 I mean it's one thing, you know, 601 00:25:43,743 --> 00:25:45,583 killing someone from the street but you're 602 00:25:45,612 --> 00:25:47,252 killing an innocent woman. 603 00:25:47,279 --> 00:25:50,019 It was like so (bleep) hard for me to live with. 604 00:25:50,049 --> 00:25:51,919 Detective Dades: Jimmy lived with that, 605 00:25:51,951 --> 00:25:54,651 I know, I know that still affects him to this, 606 00:25:54,687 --> 00:25:56,057 to this day. 607 00:25:56,088 --> 00:25:58,158 Jim Walden: As it turned out, 608 00:25:58,190 --> 00:26:00,030 there was no safe in the house at all, 609 00:26:00,059 --> 00:26:04,099 and they had just gotten bad information. 610 00:26:04,130 --> 00:26:06,230 Narrator: The violence is starting to get out of hand 611 00:26:06,265 --> 00:26:09,735 even for a rough crew like Bath Avenue. 612 00:26:09,769 --> 00:26:11,999 A bloody battle over turf and bragging rights 613 00:26:12,038 --> 00:26:14,368 is about to start and no one can imagine 614 00:26:14,406 --> 00:26:16,006 where it will end. 615 00:26:17,877 --> 00:26:19,247 Jim Walden: The Bath Avenue Crew, 616 00:26:19,278 --> 00:26:20,948 given the violence of its members, 617 00:26:20,980 --> 00:26:24,720 had more pride, ego, than just about anyone else. 618 00:26:24,751 --> 00:26:26,391 But there was a rival in the area. 619 00:26:26,418 --> 00:26:29,288 A group on 20th Avenue was 620 00:26:29,321 --> 00:26:31,621 extraordinarily violent as well. 621 00:26:31,658 --> 00:26:34,728 Turf is an issue and pride is an issue. 622 00:26:34,761 --> 00:26:37,701 Jimmy Calandra: They had a little crew that 623 00:26:37,730 --> 00:26:39,330 grew up just like us. 624 00:26:39,365 --> 00:26:41,295 They lost some of their friends; 625 00:26:41,333 --> 00:26:43,973 they retaliated at the guys who killed their friends, 626 00:26:44,003 --> 00:26:45,003 so they were like tough like us. 627 00:26:45,037 --> 00:26:47,867 Jim Walden: There were a number of extraordinarily 628 00:26:47,907 --> 00:26:48,837 violent shoot-outs. 629 00:26:48,875 --> 00:26:50,135 Jimmy Calandra: With the 20th Avenue kids, 630 00:26:50,176 --> 00:26:52,406 everybody was always on high alert. 631 00:26:52,444 --> 00:26:55,954 I never left my house without a pistol. 632 00:26:55,982 --> 00:26:58,322 I had a bulletproof vest, with a plate in the front, 633 00:26:58,350 --> 00:27:00,020 plate in the back. 634 00:27:00,052 --> 00:27:01,992 Plus I also had the strap-on where you got a 635 00:27:02,021 --> 00:27:04,221 pistol over here and you got a pistol over here, 636 00:27:04,256 --> 00:27:06,256 you know, you got 2 pistols like this. 637 00:27:06,292 --> 00:27:09,102 We were ready to go to war. 638 00:27:09,128 --> 00:27:10,998 We didn't trust anybody. 639 00:27:11,030 --> 00:27:12,900 My friends were being killed left and right. 640 00:27:12,932 --> 00:27:14,332 We were shooting people left and right. 641 00:27:14,366 --> 00:27:16,796 Detective Dades: When I think back how much 642 00:27:16,836 --> 00:27:19,166 craziness was going on up there it really was, 643 00:27:19,205 --> 00:27:21,835 it was like a shooting gallery up there. 644 00:27:21,874 --> 00:27:26,354 Narrator: Violence gets so extreme that Spero steps in. 645 00:27:27,947 --> 00:27:30,317 Jimmy Calandra: There was a sit down with their people, 646 00:27:30,349 --> 00:27:32,319 and Spero told them, you know what we're gonna 647 00:27:32,351 --> 00:27:35,121 straighten this out, we're gonna put this 648 00:27:35,154 --> 00:27:36,364 underneath the table; 649 00:27:36,388 --> 00:27:38,218 let's go forward, stuff like that. 650 00:27:38,257 --> 00:27:40,927 But Pauly Gulino didn't want that. 651 00:27:40,960 --> 00:27:42,960 Narrator: Gulino, the hothead of the 652 00:27:42,995 --> 00:27:45,695 Bath Avenue Crew, wants more respect. 653 00:27:45,732 --> 00:27:48,702 Jim Walden: Gulino was very upset about the lack 654 00:27:48,735 --> 00:27:51,735 of support he was getting and he obviously felt, 655 00:27:51,771 --> 00:27:54,471 as the person that carried out the Bickelman murder, 656 00:27:54,506 --> 00:27:58,706 that his place should be more important. 657 00:27:58,745 --> 00:28:00,705 Narrator: So Gulino does the unthinkable for 658 00:28:00,747 --> 00:28:02,817 a small time mob associate, 659 00:28:02,849 --> 00:28:04,719 he challenges Spero, 660 00:28:04,751 --> 00:28:06,921 one of the most respected men in the Bonanno crime 661 00:28:06,953 --> 00:28:09,363 family and a seriously dangerous individual. 662 00:28:09,388 --> 00:28:12,488 Jimmy Calandra: Pauly G. wanted his full support. 663 00:28:12,524 --> 00:28:15,134 You know, I'm with you, you're supposed to 664 00:28:15,161 --> 00:28:17,501 defend me, (bleep) them. 665 00:28:17,529 --> 00:28:20,129 Detective Dades: He wanted to kill Spero. 666 00:28:20,166 --> 00:28:22,496 Jim Walden: Everyone knows that Anthony Spero 667 00:28:22,534 --> 00:28:25,304 is, you know, one of the kings, one of the 668 00:28:25,337 --> 00:28:28,067 few bosses that still lives in the area. 669 00:28:28,107 --> 00:28:31,207 And in the middle of this heated confrontation 670 00:28:31,243 --> 00:28:35,383 on the public street, Gulino pushes Spero, 671 00:28:36,482 --> 00:28:40,052 puts his hands on him. 672 00:28:42,454 --> 00:28:45,294 Jimmy Calandra: He gave himself a death sentence. 673 00:28:45,324 --> 00:28:49,304 Jim: Walden: There are some rules you cannot break. 674 00:28:49,328 --> 00:28:51,398 I mean you can't stay in the neighborhood after 675 00:28:51,430 --> 00:28:53,530 you hit a made member in a crime family, 676 00:28:53,565 --> 00:28:55,795 because your own friends are gonna be the 677 00:28:55,835 --> 00:28:57,895 one to take you out. 678 00:28:57,937 --> 00:29:00,037 Spero essentially turned around and walked away, 679 00:29:00,072 --> 00:29:02,312 turned his back on Gulino. 680 00:29:02,341 --> 00:29:07,251 That was the day that Paul Gulino became a marked man. 681 00:29:07,279 --> 00:29:10,079 Jimmy Calandra: Spero gave the order to kill Pauly, 682 00:29:10,116 --> 00:29:12,146 and you know, who's gonna kill Pauly? 683 00:29:12,184 --> 00:29:14,424 Pauly's a hard person to kill. 684 00:29:14,453 --> 00:29:19,763 The only people that could kill Pauly were his friends. 685 00:29:21,027 --> 00:29:24,157 Jim Walden: He was holed up in his apartment. 686 00:29:24,196 --> 00:29:26,466 He doesn't know when the day of reckoning is 687 00:29:26,498 --> 00:29:30,138 going to come and so he can trust almost no one. 688 00:29:30,169 --> 00:29:34,369 But he does trust Joey Calco and Tommy Reynolds. 689 00:29:34,406 --> 00:29:40,076 It's those two that were in the short list of people 690 00:29:40,112 --> 00:29:43,122 whose knock Gulino would have responded 691 00:29:43,149 --> 00:29:46,449 to with an open door. 692 00:29:47,586 --> 00:29:49,486 Jimmy Calandra: Tommy and Joey went to Pauly Gulino's 693 00:29:49,521 --> 00:29:51,521 house on a Sunday. 694 00:29:51,557 --> 00:29:53,287 They asked him for something to drink, 695 00:29:53,325 --> 00:29:56,155 he opened the refrigerator door. 696 00:29:56,195 --> 00:29:58,225 As he opened the refrigerator door, 697 00:29:58,264 --> 00:30:02,474 Joey put a couple bullets in the back of Pauly's head. 698 00:30:04,103 --> 00:30:08,573 Jim Walden: Gulino fell to the floor dead. 699 00:30:10,042 --> 00:30:12,482 Detective Dades: You know, you can go from being on top 700 00:30:12,511 --> 00:30:16,081 of the list to, you know, to get a nod, 701 00:30:16,115 --> 00:30:19,915 and two friends blow your brains out. 702 00:30:19,952 --> 00:30:23,862 Jim Walden: Gulino, Reynolds, Calco, 703 00:30:23,890 --> 00:30:27,360 they've been friends for their whole lives. 704 00:30:27,393 --> 00:30:29,963 They grew up together, they marked their ankles 705 00:30:29,996 --> 00:30:33,366 together, and yet, at that critical moment, 706 00:30:33,399 --> 00:30:36,899 it was the two best friends that snuffed out 707 00:30:36,936 --> 00:30:40,036 Paul Gulino's life because they were ordered to, 708 00:30:40,072 --> 00:30:42,642 but more importantly, because they wanted to, 709 00:30:42,674 --> 00:30:44,884 because they knew that it would be a path to 710 00:30:44,911 --> 00:30:47,311 their own rise within the Bonanno family. 711 00:30:47,346 --> 00:30:50,446 Jimmy Calandra: They left like nothing happened. 712 00:30:50,482 --> 00:30:52,992 That's it. 713 00:30:53,019 --> 00:30:54,949 Narrator: But Pauly Gulino's murder will 714 00:30:54,987 --> 00:30:57,887 change everything for the Bath Avenue Crew. 715 00:30:59,158 --> 00:31:02,128 At the time of the killing, Jimmy Calandra, 716 00:31:02,161 --> 00:31:04,331 one of the original members in the Bath Avenue Crew 717 00:31:04,363 --> 00:31:08,503 is in jail where he hears about the hit. 718 00:31:08,534 --> 00:31:10,344 Jimmy Calandra: I call Tommy Reynolds that night 719 00:31:10,369 --> 00:31:12,399 from federal prison. 720 00:31:12,438 --> 00:31:14,208 I said, "Was it you? 721 00:31:14,240 --> 00:31:16,140 Was that, was it you?" 722 00:31:16,175 --> 00:31:18,535 And he was crying. 723 00:31:18,577 --> 00:31:21,107 He said, "No," he said, "No." 724 00:31:21,147 --> 00:31:23,517 But I knew it was my friends. 725 00:31:23,549 --> 00:31:27,919 Detective Dades: Jimmy saw a lot of deceit and 726 00:31:27,954 --> 00:31:30,924 treachery and saw his best friend get killed. 727 00:31:30,957 --> 00:31:32,357 Jimmy Calandra: I felt sick. 728 00:31:32,391 --> 00:31:34,061 I wanted to throw up. 729 00:31:34,093 --> 00:31:35,293 I was sad. 730 00:31:35,327 --> 00:31:37,497 I was like a baby crying in my cell, seriously. 731 00:31:37,529 --> 00:31:39,329 Pauly was a really good friend of mine, 732 00:31:39,365 --> 00:31:42,325 a dear friend, a childhood friend and just you know, 733 00:31:42,368 --> 00:31:46,068 I was never the type to kill my own friends. 734 00:31:46,605 --> 00:31:48,935 That wasn't me. 735 00:31:48,975 --> 00:31:51,475 You know, if Spero would've gave me the hit, 736 00:31:51,510 --> 00:31:55,080 in all honesty, I probably would've told Pauly. 737 00:31:55,114 --> 00:31:57,424 I stopped and I looked, said, "You know what; 738 00:31:57,449 --> 00:31:59,649 we're not friends no more over here. 739 00:31:59,685 --> 00:32:01,285 You know what we are? 740 00:32:01,320 --> 00:32:03,390 We became gangsters." 741 00:32:03,422 --> 00:32:05,722 Narrator: Law enforcement round up the remaining 742 00:32:05,757 --> 00:32:07,627 members of the crew while Calandra is still in prison. 743 00:32:07,659 --> 00:32:09,659 But when he gets out, his past catches up 744 00:32:09,695 --> 00:32:11,625 to him again. 745 00:32:11,663 --> 00:32:14,603 He's under investigation for an old murder in 746 00:32:14,633 --> 00:32:16,743 Staten Island, the unsolved killing of a 747 00:32:16,768 --> 00:32:19,238 woman with no connection to organized crime. 748 00:32:19,271 --> 00:32:21,511 New York Police Detective Tommy Dades 749 00:32:21,540 --> 00:32:23,480 has been piecing together the details 750 00:32:23,509 --> 00:32:25,409 and is getting close to an arrest. 751 00:32:25,444 --> 00:32:27,754 Detective Dades: I was investigating him 752 00:32:27,779 --> 00:32:29,449 to lock him up. 753 00:32:29,481 --> 00:32:34,051 He did some jail time, he got out and he knew 754 00:32:34,086 --> 00:32:36,586 that we had just locked everybody else up and 755 00:32:36,622 --> 00:32:38,492 he knew that the axe was gonna fall 756 00:32:38,524 --> 00:32:42,334 on him sooner or later. 757 00:32:42,361 --> 00:32:43,661 Jimmy Calandra: The feds knocked on my door 758 00:32:43,695 --> 00:32:46,395 and told me your past came back to haunt you. 759 00:32:46,432 --> 00:32:49,072 When I got home, I didn't say a word about nothing. 760 00:32:49,101 --> 00:32:50,201 Then all of a sudden, 761 00:32:50,236 --> 00:32:52,366 people are flipping on me again. 762 00:32:52,404 --> 00:32:53,674 You know? 763 00:32:53,705 --> 00:32:54,705 I said, "(Bleep) this." 764 00:32:54,740 --> 00:32:57,010 I said, "What the (bleep) kind of life is this? 765 00:32:57,043 --> 00:32:58,383 I keep my mouth shut and then I come home 766 00:32:58,410 --> 00:33:00,380 (bleep) want to tell on me? 767 00:33:00,412 --> 00:33:01,682 There's no (bleep) loyalty, 768 00:33:01,713 --> 00:33:03,423 I might as well flip too. 769 00:33:03,449 --> 00:33:07,189 What am I gonna do, be a sucker?" 770 00:33:07,819 --> 00:33:10,689 Narrator: By the 1990s, dozens of guys are flipping. 771 00:33:10,722 --> 00:33:13,162 The old code of silence, what used to be called 772 00:33:13,192 --> 00:33:15,562 "omerta", no longer holds. 773 00:33:15,594 --> 00:33:18,204 Faced with the threat of life sentences in prison, 774 00:33:18,230 --> 00:33:19,800 or getting whacked by their own side, 775 00:33:19,831 --> 00:33:21,671 gangsters up and down the 776 00:33:21,700 --> 00:33:23,340 ladder reconsider their options. 777 00:33:23,369 --> 00:33:25,699 Jimmy Calandra: After my friend Pauly was murdered, 778 00:33:25,737 --> 00:33:27,237 I was at the point of my life you know, 779 00:33:27,273 --> 00:33:28,643 where I had enough. 780 00:33:28,674 --> 00:33:30,544 I wanted away from this life. 781 00:33:30,576 --> 00:33:32,106 I sat down with a prosecutor, 782 00:33:32,144 --> 00:33:33,354 I made an agreement with him 783 00:33:33,379 --> 00:33:35,809 and I testified against Anthony Spero. 784 00:33:35,847 --> 00:33:38,517 Narrator: Spero, the onetime acting boss 785 00:33:38,550 --> 00:33:40,320 of the Bonanno family. 786 00:33:40,352 --> 00:33:42,352 Jimmy Calandra: You know, it was hard. 787 00:33:42,388 --> 00:33:43,658 It wasn't easy; 788 00:33:43,689 --> 00:33:45,519 it's not an easy thing to do. 789 00:33:45,557 --> 00:33:47,487 Spero was someone I knew for a very long time 790 00:33:47,526 --> 00:33:49,726 since I was a little boy that told 791 00:33:49,761 --> 00:33:52,601 me never tattletale on anybody, 792 00:33:52,631 --> 00:33:54,201 you know, because at one time 793 00:33:54,233 --> 00:33:55,573 I really liked this guy. 794 00:33:55,601 --> 00:33:57,571 You know, I had respect for him. 795 00:33:57,603 --> 00:34:00,143 But when I sat down on the stand all I 796 00:34:00,172 --> 00:34:03,382 thought about was how Anthony Spero used to send 797 00:34:03,409 --> 00:34:06,479 us out on missions for him. 798 00:34:06,512 --> 00:34:10,622 He might put on the nice guy appearance, you know, 799 00:34:10,649 --> 00:34:14,349 that gentle way about him, but I know deep inside, 800 00:34:14,386 --> 00:34:17,756 I know that he was a gangster and if he could, 801 00:34:17,789 --> 00:34:19,829 he would have me killed right there and then. 802 00:34:19,858 --> 00:34:21,528 If he could get away with it. 803 00:34:24,396 --> 00:34:26,396 Jim Walden: So Anthony Spero was 804 00:34:26,432 --> 00:34:28,432 sentenced to life in prison and he went to prison 805 00:34:28,467 --> 00:34:29,867 and he died in prison. 806 00:34:29,901 --> 00:34:32,101 He did not cooperate, even though we very much 807 00:34:32,138 --> 00:34:33,868 wanted him to cooperate to build a case against 808 00:34:33,905 --> 00:34:36,175 Massino and the other members of the Bonanno family 809 00:34:36,208 --> 00:34:39,278 that were on the rise. 810 00:34:40,512 --> 00:34:42,652 Narrator: So Bonanno Boss Joe Massino remains 811 00:34:42,681 --> 00:34:44,881 insulated from the problems created by the 812 00:34:44,916 --> 00:34:47,346 Bath Avenue Crew and continues running his 813 00:34:47,386 --> 00:34:50,116 increasingly profitable empire. 814 00:34:50,156 --> 00:34:52,556 Fat Sal: Joe Massino was able to come home from 815 00:34:52,591 --> 00:34:55,531 prison and run a well-greased machine, 816 00:34:55,561 --> 00:34:57,561 and they made a lot of money. 817 00:34:57,596 --> 00:34:59,626 Edward McDonald: Joe Massino was running 818 00:34:59,665 --> 00:35:01,665 the Bonanno crime family in an effective way, 819 00:35:01,700 --> 00:35:03,240 but what they were doing was they were leaving 820 00:35:03,269 --> 00:35:04,769 a lot of paper trails. 821 00:35:04,803 --> 00:35:06,713 Mitra Hormozi: You have agents in the 822 00:35:06,738 --> 00:35:08,508 Bonanno Organized Crime Squad who are 823 00:35:08,540 --> 00:35:10,210 trying to figure out, 824 00:35:10,242 --> 00:35:12,642 how can we get to this family? 825 00:35:12,678 --> 00:35:16,518 And they thought maybe the way to this is, 826 00:35:16,548 --> 00:35:18,418 "Let's follow the money," 827 00:35:18,450 --> 00:35:22,220 because a lot of these captains are now very wealthy, 828 00:35:22,254 --> 00:35:24,694 living the good life. 829 00:35:25,824 --> 00:35:28,164 Narrator: One of them is Sal Vitale, 830 00:35:28,194 --> 00:35:30,404 Joe Massino's brother in law. 831 00:35:30,429 --> 00:35:32,529 Mitra Hormozi: Joe Massino taught Sal Vitale 832 00:35:32,564 --> 00:35:34,404 how to swim when they were little kids. 833 00:35:34,433 --> 00:35:37,743 I mean, they were just very, very close. 834 00:35:37,769 --> 00:35:41,339 Once Massino gets out of prison, 835 00:35:41,373 --> 00:35:45,783 their relationship becomes a little bit strained. 836 00:35:45,811 --> 00:35:49,921 Other members of the Bonanno organized crime family 837 00:35:49,948 --> 00:35:52,448 perhaps were jealous of Vitale, 838 00:35:52,484 --> 00:35:55,594 or did not like his style of running the show, 839 00:35:55,621 --> 00:35:57,861 and so they're starting to whisper in Massino's 840 00:35:57,889 --> 00:36:00,189 ears about Vitale. 841 00:36:00,226 --> 00:36:02,586 Narrator: After Mob Boss Joe Massino is released from 842 00:36:02,628 --> 00:36:05,798 prison in 1992, he makes a series of sweeping reforms 843 00:36:05,831 --> 00:36:07,701 that turns the Bonanno family into a 844 00:36:07,733 --> 00:36:09,873 well-greased machine. 845 00:36:09,901 --> 00:36:12,271 But the family's foundation trembles when 846 00:36:12,304 --> 00:36:14,644 Massino's Underboss, Sal Vitale, 847 00:36:14,673 --> 00:36:17,213 believes a rumor that the boss wants him whacked. 848 00:36:17,243 --> 00:36:18,843 Mitra Hormozi: This is the ultimate betrayal 849 00:36:18,877 --> 00:36:20,777 for Sal Vitale. 850 00:36:20,812 --> 00:36:23,952 Here's the man who he loved more than anyone else, 851 00:36:23,982 --> 00:36:26,892 who he believes he served faithfully, 852 00:36:26,918 --> 00:36:29,658 and the fact he may have wanted to kill 853 00:36:29,688 --> 00:36:34,458 him just switches something in Sal Vitale. 854 00:36:35,761 --> 00:36:38,361 Jim Walden: The underboss deciding to cooperate 855 00:36:38,397 --> 00:36:40,897 against his brother-in-law was 856 00:36:40,932 --> 00:36:43,642 the last nail in the coffin for Massino. 857 00:36:43,669 --> 00:36:45,499 Sue Simmons: Federal prosecutors are 858 00:36:45,537 --> 00:36:47,807 claiming victory tonight after reputed mob boss 859 00:36:47,839 --> 00:36:50,479 Joseph "Big Joey" Massino was convicted 860 00:36:50,509 --> 00:36:54,509 on all counts of murder, extortion and racketeering. 861 00:36:55,547 --> 00:36:57,777 Edward McDonald: He's charged with 8 murders. 862 00:36:57,816 --> 00:36:59,616 One of the murders, Joe was facing the 863 00:36:59,651 --> 00:37:01,391 death penalty on that case. 864 00:37:01,420 --> 00:37:03,520 So he reaches out to the trial judge and 865 00:37:03,555 --> 00:37:05,515 he says that he wants to cooperate. 866 00:37:05,557 --> 00:37:07,457 Agent Pistone: Joey Massino finds out 867 00:37:07,493 --> 00:37:09,333 he's gonna get the death penalty, 868 00:37:09,361 --> 00:37:11,501 the first thing he does is he cooperates. 869 00:37:11,530 --> 00:37:15,570 He had that fear that he was gonna die in the chair, 870 00:37:15,601 --> 00:37:18,471 and he cracked. 871 00:37:19,671 --> 00:37:22,511 Mitra Hormozi: And that was the first time 872 00:37:22,541 --> 00:37:25,511 that an official boss of an organized crime family 873 00:37:25,544 --> 00:37:27,654 had decided to become a turncoat. 874 00:37:27,679 --> 00:37:29,819 Bruce Cutler: Imagine! 875 00:37:29,848 --> 00:37:31,448 The head of the group! 876 00:37:31,483 --> 00:37:32,883 Fat Sal: He knew how to play the system. 877 00:37:32,918 --> 00:37:34,748 But when the (bleep) hit the fan, 878 00:37:34,786 --> 00:37:36,016 the (bleep) hit the fan! 879 00:37:36,054 --> 00:37:37,764 Michael Franzese: Gosh. 880 00:37:37,789 --> 00:37:40,689 I mean that's the ultimate betrayal in my view, 881 00:37:40,726 --> 00:37:43,396 for a boss, somebody that is supposed to 882 00:37:43,429 --> 00:37:45,599 be so entrenched in this life, 883 00:37:45,631 --> 00:37:47,931 so entrenched in the ideology of this life, 884 00:37:47,966 --> 00:37:49,866 a leader. 885 00:37:49,901 --> 00:37:51,901 The fact that a boss could do that is, 886 00:37:51,937 --> 00:37:54,767 is devastating. 887 00:37:54,806 --> 00:37:57,376 Narrator: By 2003, the sun's finally setting 888 00:37:57,409 --> 00:37:59,349 on the American Mob. 889 00:37:59,378 --> 00:38:01,578 After 70 years as the most powerful organized 890 00:38:01,613 --> 00:38:03,683 crime force in the United States, 891 00:38:03,715 --> 00:38:06,515 Cosa Nostra is decimated. 892 00:38:06,552 --> 00:38:09,052 The mob first stumbles in 1970, 893 00:38:09,087 --> 00:38:11,517 when Mafia Boss Joe Colombo steps out of 894 00:38:11,557 --> 00:38:13,627 the shadows and into the public eye 895 00:38:13,659 --> 00:38:15,459 and is gunned down shortly 896 00:38:15,494 --> 00:38:17,634 thereafter by a mob hired hit man. 897 00:38:17,663 --> 00:38:19,903 It continues with the landmark infiltration of 898 00:38:19,931 --> 00:38:23,371 the Bonanno family by FBI Agent Joe Pistone, 899 00:38:23,402 --> 00:38:25,502 and the prosecution of the leaders of the 900 00:38:25,537 --> 00:38:27,537 five families in the commission case by U.S. 901 00:38:27,573 --> 00:38:29,983 Attorney Rudolph Giuliani in the 1980s. 902 00:38:30,008 --> 00:38:32,038 Rudolph Giuliani: We have now proven in a court of law 903 00:38:32,077 --> 00:38:33,877 beyond a reasonable doubt not only that there's a 904 00:38:33,912 --> 00:38:35,682 mafia, but that there's a commission 905 00:38:35,714 --> 00:38:37,654 that it runs the mafia. 906 00:38:37,683 --> 00:38:39,693 Narrator: Publicity hungry don John Gotti 907 00:38:39,718 --> 00:38:41,918 turns out to be another nail in the coffin in the 90s. 908 00:38:41,953 --> 00:38:44,393 But it all culminates with the betrayal by the 909 00:38:44,423 --> 00:38:46,633 last don, Joe Massino when he becomes the 910 00:38:46,658 --> 00:38:48,758 first boss of a family to cooperate with 911 00:38:48,794 --> 00:38:50,434 the federal government. 912 00:38:50,462 --> 00:38:52,732 Mitra Hormozi: Joe Massino's conviction 913 00:38:52,764 --> 00:38:55,604 really was the end of an era for 914 00:38:55,634 --> 00:38:57,644 the five families in New York. 915 00:38:57,669 --> 00:38:59,469 Rudolph Giuliani: That's sort of the real 916 00:38:59,505 --> 00:39:00,905 deterioration of all their values, 917 00:39:00,939 --> 00:39:02,909 all their principles. 918 00:39:02,941 --> 00:39:05,111 Bruce Cutler: The underworld as I knew it 919 00:39:05,143 --> 00:39:07,483 has been pulverized! 920 00:39:07,513 --> 00:39:08,983 Pummeled! 921 00:39:09,014 --> 00:39:12,424 What there was then certainly, I don't see now. 922 00:39:12,451 --> 00:39:14,391 Edward McDonald: They're on the run because the 923 00:39:14,420 --> 00:39:16,460 Justice Department and local law enforcement 924 00:39:16,488 --> 00:39:18,458 in those regions have gone after the 925 00:39:18,490 --> 00:39:19,860 mafia with a vengeance. 926 00:39:19,891 --> 00:39:21,831 Jimmy Calandra: Too much technology. 927 00:39:21,860 --> 00:39:23,130 Too many people talking. 928 00:39:23,161 --> 00:39:24,461 Too much law enforcement. 929 00:39:24,496 --> 00:39:25,796 Too many cameras. 930 00:39:25,831 --> 00:39:27,031 You know? 931 00:39:27,065 --> 00:39:28,665 Too many people taking pictures. 932 00:39:28,700 --> 00:39:30,940 [makes clicking sound] 933 00:39:30,969 --> 00:39:32,999 Narrator: Organized crime still exists, 934 00:39:33,038 --> 00:39:35,108 but it's not the same. 935 00:39:35,140 --> 00:39:37,410 Agent Kallstrom: There's still thugs that hijack 936 00:39:37,443 --> 00:39:40,453 and sell dope and run prostitution 937 00:39:40,479 --> 00:39:44,079 and gambling rackets, but it's nothing like it was. 938 00:39:44,115 --> 00:39:45,615 Detective Dades: Is there a handful of real 939 00:39:45,651 --> 00:39:47,051 tough guys out there? 940 00:39:47,085 --> 00:39:48,685 Is there a handful of guys out there 941 00:39:48,720 --> 00:39:49,990 that got good schemes going on? 942 00:39:50,021 --> 00:39:51,021 Yeah. 943 00:39:51,056 --> 00:39:56,186 To compare it to anything of like it used to be? 944 00:39:56,227 --> 00:39:59,597 Those days are over forever. 945 00:39:59,631 --> 00:40:01,701 Narrator: The mob's downfall is the culmination 946 00:40:01,733 --> 00:40:03,773 of a determined decades-long campaign 947 00:40:03,802 --> 00:40:05,672 by law enforcement. 948 00:40:05,704 --> 00:40:08,574 Bruce Cutler: The goal that the government had 949 00:40:08,607 --> 00:40:12,107 was to denude La Cosa Nostra 950 00:40:12,143 --> 00:40:14,653 of all its armaments. 951 00:40:14,680 --> 00:40:16,150 They have succeeded. 952 00:40:16,181 --> 00:40:18,551 Agent Devecchio: We took a lot of their assets 953 00:40:18,584 --> 00:40:19,894 and their moneymaking opportunities 954 00:40:19,918 --> 00:40:21,518 away from them. 955 00:40:21,553 --> 00:40:23,893 Agent Pistone: We took 'em from being the 956 00:40:23,922 --> 00:40:26,592 top organized crime group in the country 957 00:40:26,625 --> 00:40:28,485 to just another organized crime group. 958 00:40:28,527 --> 00:40:32,697 We really kicked the (bleep) out of the mob. 959 00:40:32,731 --> 00:40:34,201 Narrator: One key victory: 960 00:40:34,232 --> 00:40:36,132 the breaking of the code of secrecy 961 00:40:36,167 --> 00:40:38,537 known as Omerta, practiced on pain 962 00:40:38,570 --> 00:40:41,970 of death for decades, now in ruins. 963 00:40:42,007 --> 00:40:45,737 Michael Franzese: What separated us is that we had 964 00:40:45,777 --> 00:40:47,147 that structure, we had that respect, 965 00:40:47,178 --> 00:40:48,848 we had that honor, 966 00:40:48,880 --> 00:40:50,250 and we had to abide by it or 967 00:40:50,281 --> 00:40:51,481 there were serious consequences. 968 00:40:51,517 --> 00:40:52,677 Salvatore Polisi: There was greed, 969 00:40:52,718 --> 00:40:53,888 there was jealousy, 970 00:40:53,919 --> 00:40:55,549 and all of the sudden the principles 971 00:40:55,587 --> 00:40:56,787 and the honor was out the window. 972 00:40:56,822 --> 00:40:57,992 Philip Leonetti: La Cosa Nostra, 973 00:40:58,023 --> 00:40:59,123 you know, I believed in it one time. 974 00:40:59,157 --> 00:41:02,687 It's like when I was a kid I believed in Santa Claus. 975 00:41:02,728 --> 00:41:04,498 As I got older, 976 00:41:04,530 --> 00:41:06,000 I didn't believe in Santa Claus anymore 977 00:41:06,031 --> 00:41:07,971 and it's the same way with La Cosa Nostra. 978 00:41:07,999 --> 00:41:10,799 Rudolph Giuliani: They had these delusions of grandeur. 979 00:41:10,836 --> 00:41:12,636 I think by the time you get to 2003, 980 00:41:12,671 --> 00:41:14,211 all the delusions of grandeur are gone and 981 00:41:14,239 --> 00:41:16,909 they're just a bunch of, a bunch of creeps. 982 00:41:16,942 --> 00:41:18,782 My father, from the time I was young, 983 00:41:18,810 --> 00:41:20,550 would describe them as bullies. 984 00:41:20,579 --> 00:41:22,649 "If you need 2 or 3 men to fight your battles, 985 00:41:22,681 --> 00:41:24,251 you're not a real man," my father would say, 986 00:41:24,282 --> 00:41:28,292 "a real man can fight his own battles." 987 00:41:28,319 --> 00:41:30,189 Narrator: But almost no one believes the mob 988 00:41:30,221 --> 00:41:32,161 is gone for good. 989 00:41:32,190 --> 00:41:34,190 Selwyn Raab: The mob has taken a lot of hits. 990 00:41:34,225 --> 00:41:36,855 They're wounded, gravely. 991 00:41:36,895 --> 00:41:38,655 But not mortally. 992 00:41:38,697 --> 00:41:40,127 Michael Franzese: This thing is cyclical. 993 00:41:40,165 --> 00:41:41,695 Organized crime, boom. 994 00:41:41,733 --> 00:41:43,303 They pound on everybody, they pound on everybody 995 00:41:43,334 --> 00:41:45,004 for a period of time and then 996 00:41:45,036 --> 00:41:46,636 something else becomes important. 997 00:41:46,672 --> 00:41:48,042 Terrorism becomes important. 998 00:41:48,073 --> 00:41:50,183 So they take the agents off, they focus on that, 999 00:41:50,208 --> 00:41:54,078 and the guys on the street they build up again. 1000 00:41:54,112 --> 00:41:56,282 Selwyn Raab: It's what some people call 1001 00:41:56,314 --> 00:41:58,184 "the cockroach theory": 1002 00:41:58,216 --> 00:42:00,016 when the lights are out the 1003 00:42:00,051 --> 00:42:01,891 cockroaches roam freely. 1004 00:42:01,920 --> 00:42:05,620 If you turn the spotlight on them they have to scurry. 1005 00:42:05,657 --> 00:42:07,227 Agent Mouw: I remember talking to 1006 00:42:07,258 --> 00:42:09,158 Sammy "the Bull" Gravano about this. 1007 00:42:09,194 --> 00:42:11,204 And he said, "One theory is everybody 1008 00:42:11,229 --> 00:42:12,959 lay low for 10 years, 1009 00:42:12,998 --> 00:42:14,328 the government will go away, we'll come back, 1010 00:42:14,365 --> 00:42:15,925 we'll be stronger than ever." 1011 00:42:15,967 --> 00:42:17,197 Fat Sal: It's gonna grow again. 1012 00:42:17,235 --> 00:42:18,735 There's gonna be a spike. 1013 00:42:18,770 --> 00:42:20,210 And this time when it spikes, 1014 00:42:20,238 --> 00:42:21,868 it's gonna spike bad. 1015 00:42:21,907 --> 00:42:24,637 There's a fresh crew coming out after serving 20 years, 1016 00:42:24,676 --> 00:42:26,106 they're coming out in the next year, 1017 00:42:26,144 --> 00:42:27,214 the next two years, 1018 00:42:27,245 --> 00:42:28,975 they're coming back to Brooklyn. 1019 00:42:29,014 --> 00:42:30,754 They know nothing but to commit crimes. 1020 00:42:30,782 --> 00:42:34,652 They're gonna come back old, tight and hungry. 1021 00:42:34,686 --> 00:42:36,086 God knows what's only gonna happen when 1022 00:42:36,121 --> 00:42:38,291 they hit them streets.