1 00:00:20,342 --> 00:00:22,344 Jimmy Calandra: I'm from Brooklyn, New York, 2 00:00:22,377 --> 00:00:24,279 Bensonhurst. 3 00:00:24,313 --> 00:00:28,083 The neighborhood is run by the Italian mafia. 4 00:00:28,117 --> 00:00:29,651 One day, April 4th, 5 00:00:29,684 --> 00:00:32,421 my friend John Polio was murdered. 6 00:00:32,454 --> 00:00:34,089 The kid Michael Hamster 7 00:00:34,123 --> 00:00:35,824 was taking credit for his murder. 8 00:00:35,857 --> 00:00:37,492 It goes around in the neighborhood, 9 00:00:37,526 --> 00:00:39,628 this kid's bragging that he killed John Polio, 10 00:00:39,661 --> 00:00:43,265 you know, so I wanted some payback. 11 00:00:43,298 --> 00:00:46,268 I go to Joey Calco and Pauly Gulino. 12 00:00:46,301 --> 00:00:48,603 And Pauly G. gave us a 380, 13 00:00:48,637 --> 00:00:51,373 me and Joey, and we go hunt 14 00:00:51,406 --> 00:00:53,508 for Michael Hamster. 15 00:00:53,542 --> 00:00:55,810 We see him get into Bobby DeCicco's car. 16 00:00:55,844 --> 00:00:57,412 We follow him. 17 00:00:57,446 --> 00:01:01,183 He stops at a red light on 17th Avenue and Benson. 18 00:01:01,216 --> 00:01:02,584 He rolls down the window 'cause he thinks 19 00:01:02,617 --> 00:01:04,586 he's a tough guy and all of a sudden Joey 20 00:01:04,619 --> 00:01:06,221 puts out the pistol, 21 00:01:06,255 --> 00:01:07,189 and he starts unloading on him, 22 00:01:07,222 --> 00:01:10,459 pop-pop-pop-pop-pop-pop. 23 00:01:11,293 --> 00:01:13,362 The kid, Michael Hamster, 24 00:01:13,395 --> 00:01:17,199 is jumping one leg across the street like hopping. 25 00:01:17,232 --> 00:01:19,668 The kid Joey Calco with the shotgun boom 26 00:01:19,701 --> 00:01:22,271 hits him and he falls. 27 00:01:22,304 --> 00:01:23,305 Joey hands me the gun. 28 00:01:23,338 --> 00:01:25,240 I put it down my pants. 29 00:01:25,274 --> 00:01:28,177 Joey takes off. 30 00:01:28,210 --> 00:01:30,679 As we're driving, there's a cop car. 31 00:01:30,712 --> 00:01:32,647 This is a true story. 32 00:01:32,681 --> 00:01:35,384 Therefore, he pulls us over. 33 00:01:35,417 --> 00:01:37,186 Now, we're a little nervous. 34 00:01:37,219 --> 00:01:38,720 I got a gun down my pants, you know, 35 00:01:38,753 --> 00:01:41,690 we just shot this kid 5 times and 36 00:01:41,723 --> 00:01:44,459 all of a sudden on the cop's radio we hear, 37 00:01:44,493 --> 00:01:46,728 "Man shot, 17th and Benson." 38 00:01:46,761 --> 00:01:48,430 Police Radio: All units report. 39 00:01:48,463 --> 00:01:49,898 Jimmy Calandra: The cop goes like this, 40 00:01:49,931 --> 00:01:52,301 "Today's your lucky day." 41 00:01:52,334 --> 00:01:53,402 And he just takes off. 42 00:01:53,435 --> 00:01:54,869 Phew. 43 00:01:54,903 --> 00:01:57,572 He had us right there. 44 00:02:06,581 --> 00:02:09,684 Narrator: It is 1992 and most of the old bosses of 45 00:02:09,718 --> 00:02:13,455 the five families of Cosa Nostra are in prison. 46 00:02:13,488 --> 00:02:16,691 Fearing life sentences and payback from their own side, 47 00:02:16,725 --> 00:02:18,760 gangsters everywhere start cooperating with 48 00:02:18,793 --> 00:02:20,795 the United States government. 49 00:02:20,829 --> 00:02:22,831 Sammy Gravano: As part of my cooperation, 50 00:02:22,864 --> 00:02:25,434 I told the government about my life of crimes, 51 00:02:25,467 --> 00:02:28,437 including the fact that I participated in 19 murders. 52 00:02:28,470 --> 00:02:30,572 Narrator: Which leads to the take down of the 53 00:02:30,605 --> 00:02:34,309 most famous boss of modern times, John Gotti. 54 00:02:34,343 --> 00:02:36,711 But the remnants of the five families remain 55 00:02:36,745 --> 00:02:38,413 loose on the streets, 56 00:02:38,447 --> 00:02:40,315 trying to rebuild on the ashes, 57 00:02:40,349 --> 00:02:42,317 and none is more determined and dangerous 58 00:02:42,351 --> 00:02:44,219 than the Bonanno family, 59 00:02:44,253 --> 00:02:48,457 which begins their ascent below law enforcement's radar. 60 00:02:48,490 --> 00:02:51,493 These people are witnesses to that secret history, 61 00:02:51,526 --> 00:02:53,262 stepping out of the shadows to tell 62 00:02:53,295 --> 00:02:55,330 their story first-hand. 63 00:02:55,364 --> 00:02:57,932 A few remain concealed for personal safety, 64 00:02:57,966 --> 00:03:00,569 fearful of an organization that even in 65 00:03:00,602 --> 00:03:03,805 the 1990s is fully capable of resurrecting itself, 66 00:03:03,838 --> 00:03:06,608 like the Bonanno's. 67 00:03:06,641 --> 00:03:08,910 Jim Walden: I think it's fair to say that 2 events 68 00:03:08,943 --> 00:03:11,446 brought the Bonanno family to the edge of extinction. 69 00:03:11,480 --> 00:03:13,348 First obviously its boss was murdered, 70 00:03:13,382 --> 00:03:15,950 Carmine Galante, famous image of him lying dead 71 00:03:15,984 --> 00:03:18,553 with a cigar still in his mouth. 72 00:03:18,587 --> 00:03:20,722 But at the same time there was the Donnie Brasco 73 00:03:20,755 --> 00:03:23,425 infiltration and subsequent prosecution. 74 00:03:23,458 --> 00:03:26,027 Agent Pistone: This operation really kicked 75 00:03:26,060 --> 00:03:27,796 the Bonanno's in the arse. 76 00:03:27,829 --> 00:03:29,931 We kind of really decimated them. 77 00:03:29,964 --> 00:03:31,933 Mitra Hormozi: That was a huge blight on the Bonanno 78 00:03:31,966 --> 00:03:33,668 organized crime family. 79 00:03:33,702 --> 00:03:36,471 As a result they were kicked off the commission. 80 00:03:36,505 --> 00:03:38,840 It was a major embarrassment. 81 00:03:38,873 --> 00:03:41,276 Narrator: The commission is the board of executives 82 00:03:41,310 --> 00:03:43,612 that oversees the five families of the mob: 83 00:03:43,645 --> 00:03:47,616 Gambino, Colombo, Lucchese, Genovese and Bonanno. 84 00:03:49,684 --> 00:03:51,520 They call the shots determining who lives 85 00:03:51,553 --> 00:03:53,522 and who dies. 86 00:03:53,555 --> 00:03:55,857 Ironically, the Bonanno family's expulsion from 87 00:03:55,890 --> 00:03:58,527 the commission turns out to be their big break. 88 00:03:58,560 --> 00:04:00,895 Agent Pistone: The FBI and other law enforcement 89 00:04:00,929 --> 00:04:04,599 agencies moved on to other cases so they didn't really 90 00:04:04,633 --> 00:04:06,701 keep a clamp on the guys that were 91 00:04:06,735 --> 00:04:08,403 left in the family. 92 00:04:08,437 --> 00:04:10,705 Jim Walden: Their headlines were about the Gambino's and 93 00:04:10,739 --> 00:04:13,508 about the Lucchese's, and about the Genovese family, 94 00:04:13,542 --> 00:04:16,044 and the internal war in Colombo family. 95 00:04:16,077 --> 00:04:17,679 Edward McDonald: You know, Gotti's gone, 96 00:04:17,712 --> 00:04:18,980 Castellano's gone. 97 00:04:19,013 --> 00:04:20,515 And the Colombo family, 98 00:04:20,549 --> 00:04:22,517 they're having a Colombo family war. 99 00:04:22,551 --> 00:04:24,052 The Genovese family: Fat Tony is gone, 100 00:04:24,085 --> 00:04:25,754 he's been convicted. 101 00:04:25,787 --> 00:04:27,689 The Lucchese family is in total disarray. 102 00:04:27,722 --> 00:04:29,524 Chin Gigante is on the run, he's been indicted 103 00:04:29,558 --> 00:04:32,527 or about to be indicted. 104 00:04:32,561 --> 00:04:34,396 Jim Walden: These different problems within 105 00:04:34,429 --> 00:04:36,565 these families allowed the Bonanno's to 106 00:04:36,598 --> 00:04:39,434 continue to exist to keep a lot of its turf, 107 00:04:39,468 --> 00:04:43,438 and for a period of time to fly low on the radar 108 00:04:43,472 --> 00:04:46,808 to give it a chance to rebuild its infrastructure, 109 00:04:46,841 --> 00:04:49,744 and that's exactly what they did. 110 00:04:49,778 --> 00:04:51,880 Narrator: While Bonanno boss Joe Massino 111 00:04:51,913 --> 00:04:54,683 is in prison serving 6 years for racketeering, 112 00:04:54,716 --> 00:04:57,786 his subordinate, old school gangster Anthony Spero, 113 00:04:57,819 --> 00:05:00,121 takes over daily operations. 114 00:05:00,154 --> 00:05:02,924 Spero is one of the last major mob figures still on 115 00:05:02,957 --> 00:05:05,460 the street, and a believer in traditional 116 00:05:05,494 --> 00:05:09,531 mafia values of secrecy, respect and murder. 117 00:05:09,564 --> 00:05:11,566 Jim Walden: He had strong connections with 118 00:05:11,600 --> 00:05:13,702 the other families, and he had the respect 119 00:05:13,735 --> 00:05:15,103 of lower level members. 120 00:05:15,136 --> 00:05:16,938 Detective Dades: He was a gentleman to 121 00:05:16,971 --> 00:05:19,708 law enforcement, and he was very well respected, 122 00:05:19,741 --> 00:05:21,843 you know, in the neighborhood. 123 00:05:21,876 --> 00:05:24,979 Jim Walden: He was known to host an extravagant 124 00:05:25,013 --> 00:05:27,616 fireworks show every year for members 125 00:05:27,649 --> 00:05:29,050 of the community. 126 00:05:29,083 --> 00:05:30,985 Detective Dades: But he was a lethal guy 127 00:05:31,019 --> 00:05:33,655 and he would kill you. 128 00:05:33,688 --> 00:05:37,426 Jim Walden: He was a bit of an eccentric guy though. 129 00:05:38,760 --> 00:05:40,629 Anthony Spero: Come on baby, come on. 130 00:05:40,662 --> 00:05:44,032 Detective Dades: He was very big into pigeon races 131 00:05:44,065 --> 00:05:47,936 and pigeon coops and whatever you do with pigeons. 132 00:05:51,573 --> 00:05:55,477 Jim Walden: They would fly in a big sweeping flock 133 00:05:55,510 --> 00:05:57,446 around the neighborhood and ultimately 134 00:05:57,479 --> 00:05:59,113 come right back home. 135 00:05:59,147 --> 00:06:01,950 Jimmy Calandra: He was going like this, voof, 136 00:06:01,983 --> 00:06:03,685 and all the pigeons are following him, 137 00:06:03,718 --> 00:06:05,153 you see them flying. 138 00:06:05,186 --> 00:06:06,921 Jim Walden: And if you think about it, 139 00:06:06,955 --> 00:06:09,190 it's almost a metaphor for Spero's criminal 140 00:06:09,223 --> 00:06:12,961 organization, where he's releasing not pigeons 141 00:06:12,994 --> 00:06:16,898 but villains, murderers, thugs, out on the streets, 142 00:06:16,931 --> 00:06:22,070 all for them to make money and to bring it back to him. 143 00:06:25,139 --> 00:06:26,975 Narrator: Spero excels at taking children 144 00:06:27,008 --> 00:06:29,010 off the streets of his neighborhood 145 00:06:29,043 --> 00:06:31,646 and grooming them for a life of crime and violence. 146 00:06:31,680 --> 00:06:33,882 Kids like Jimmy Calandra, 147 00:06:33,915 --> 00:06:35,950 who grows up in the Bensonhurst neighborhood 148 00:06:35,984 --> 00:06:38,553 of Brooklyn in the 1980s at a time 149 00:06:38,587 --> 00:06:40,589 when the mafia is fighting for its life 150 00:06:40,622 --> 00:06:42,824 against law enforcement but still has the power 151 00:06:42,857 --> 00:06:46,528 and glamour to make a big impression on little boys. 152 00:06:46,561 --> 00:06:48,663 Calandra and his best friends are nothing 153 00:06:48,697 --> 00:06:50,098 but kids when they start their journey 154 00:06:50,131 --> 00:06:52,200 into the underworld. 155 00:06:52,233 --> 00:06:54,002 Jimmy Calandra: The core group of my friends 156 00:06:54,035 --> 00:06:57,839 was Pauly Gulino, Tommy Reynolds, Joey Calco, me, 157 00:06:57,872 --> 00:07:00,108 and Fabrizio DeFrancisci. 158 00:07:00,141 --> 00:07:01,610 We were troubled kids in the neighborhood, 159 00:07:01,643 --> 00:07:03,244 we were bad kids. 160 00:07:03,277 --> 00:07:06,247 You know, we decided to form a crew. 161 00:07:06,280 --> 00:07:09,017 Jim Walden: They got tattoos on their ankles 162 00:07:09,050 --> 00:07:11,986 to label themselves number 1 through number 7. 163 00:07:12,020 --> 00:07:13,755 Jimmy Calandra: We were making a pact 164 00:07:13,788 --> 00:07:15,089 with each other. 165 00:07:15,123 --> 00:07:17,125 You know, we were all in the same crew together, 166 00:07:17,158 --> 00:07:18,560 you know. 167 00:07:18,593 --> 00:07:22,497 One for all, all for one. 168 00:07:23,031 --> 00:07:25,099 Narrator: The boys of Bath Avenue have each other's 169 00:07:25,133 --> 00:07:27,101 backs in a Brooklyn neighborhood steeped 170 00:07:27,135 --> 00:07:29,237 in the code of Cosa Nostra. 171 00:07:29,270 --> 00:07:31,906 All five families have a foothold here. 172 00:07:31,940 --> 00:07:34,108 Jimmy Calandra: Bath Avenue was a known avenue for 173 00:07:34,142 --> 00:07:36,277 mob-related activity. 174 00:07:36,310 --> 00:07:38,046 Detective Dades: Bath Avenue was filled 175 00:07:38,079 --> 00:07:39,914 with social clubs, you know. 176 00:07:39,948 --> 00:07:42,183 There was three on the block. 177 00:07:42,216 --> 00:07:44,653 You knew who were the guys that were connected, 178 00:07:44,686 --> 00:07:47,288 who were the guys that were up and coming. 179 00:07:47,321 --> 00:07:49,858 Jimmy Calandra: You know, I was a young kid 180 00:07:49,891 --> 00:07:52,193 growing up around wise guys. 181 00:07:52,226 --> 00:07:53,928 The guys making the money, you know every time 182 00:07:53,962 --> 00:07:56,765 they see us, here, here's 20, you know. 183 00:07:56,798 --> 00:07:58,633 As soon as I leave my house, I got 20 dollars. 184 00:07:58,667 --> 00:08:00,669 I go to the corner, I hang out, you know? 185 00:08:00,702 --> 00:08:02,804 What do I got to work for? 186 00:08:02,837 --> 00:08:04,773 We had Nick's Candy Store right around 187 00:08:04,806 --> 00:08:06,207 the corner from my apartment. 188 00:08:06,240 --> 00:08:07,308 That's where we would all come together. 189 00:08:07,341 --> 00:08:09,778 Detective Dades: You know, there was a group of guys 190 00:08:09,811 --> 00:08:12,080 on every other block, no matter what time, 191 00:08:12,113 --> 00:08:14,683 day and night, there was always somebody there. 192 00:08:14,716 --> 00:08:16,885 That corner was home base. 193 00:08:16,918 --> 00:08:18,653 Jimmy Calandra: And we would do errands for them. 194 00:08:18,687 --> 00:08:19,754 They would give us a couple dollars, 195 00:08:19,788 --> 00:08:23,324 "Here, go up the block and get me two French bread." 196 00:08:23,357 --> 00:08:26,661 Say they need someone's window broke, 197 00:08:26,695 --> 00:08:28,597 thrown us the keys, "Go wash my car," 198 00:08:28,630 --> 00:08:30,198 whatever the case may be. 199 00:08:30,231 --> 00:08:31,933 You knew they controlled the neighborhood, 200 00:08:31,966 --> 00:08:33,668 you know, with their walk and talks. 201 00:08:33,702 --> 00:08:36,237 In the neighborhood, you know who was who. 202 00:08:36,270 --> 00:08:39,874 You know, these were the guys that I looked up to. 203 00:08:41,275 --> 00:08:44,679 Jim Walden: Imagine that you are an eight-year-old boy 204 00:08:44,713 --> 00:08:48,583 in a working class neighborhood in Brooklyn. 205 00:08:48,617 --> 00:08:52,587 Most of the men and women that you know are struggling 206 00:08:52,621 --> 00:08:55,323 to make ends meet, they're working their fingers to the 207 00:08:55,356 --> 00:08:58,693 bone but what you see down the street at the 208 00:08:58,727 --> 00:09:01,596 social club are Cadillac's pulling up and 209 00:09:01,630 --> 00:09:05,133 men dressed in $500 suits getting in and out 210 00:09:05,166 --> 00:09:06,868 of the Cadillac's. 211 00:09:06,901 --> 00:09:09,604 Jimmy Calandra: These men were my father figures. 212 00:09:09,638 --> 00:09:10,905 You know, if I needed anything 213 00:09:10,939 --> 00:09:12,240 they just helped me. 214 00:09:12,273 --> 00:09:15,043 If we had a problem, we knew where to go. 215 00:09:15,076 --> 00:09:18,012 Jim Walden: These kids really did start as kids. 216 00:09:18,046 --> 00:09:20,749 Some of them were 8 or 9 years old when they first 217 00:09:20,782 --> 00:09:23,752 started running numbers at the social clubs. 218 00:09:23,785 --> 00:09:26,387 Detective Dades: Social clubs were really big. 219 00:09:26,420 --> 00:09:29,724 Gambling parlors, you know, were really big. 220 00:09:29,758 --> 00:09:32,694 They were bookmakers and if you tried to use 221 00:09:32,727 --> 00:09:35,630 the payphone on a Sunday they'd cut your hands off. 222 00:09:35,664 --> 00:09:37,699 Jimmy Calandra: We'd do straight bets, 223 00:09:37,732 --> 00:09:38,967 we'd do parlays; 224 00:09:39,000 --> 00:09:40,935 we were gambling every football game, 225 00:09:40,969 --> 00:09:42,671 Sundays, everything. 226 00:09:42,704 --> 00:09:44,205 I was loaning out money. 227 00:09:44,238 --> 00:09:45,740 I was a little kid. 228 00:09:45,774 --> 00:09:47,175 I was maybe 13 years old. 229 00:09:47,208 --> 00:09:49,010 We thought we were somebody, you know, 230 00:09:49,043 --> 00:09:50,411 and we were looking up to these guys and 231 00:09:50,444 --> 00:09:52,146 we actually thought we were doing something. 232 00:09:52,180 --> 00:09:54,082 Jim Walden: 8 or 9 they're running numbers, 233 00:09:54,115 --> 00:09:56,718 12, 13, 14 they're parking cars and 234 00:09:56,751 --> 00:09:59,153 hiding weapons and moving money, 235 00:09:59,187 --> 00:10:02,390 and they move up the ranks to do more violent 236 00:10:02,423 --> 00:10:04,893 and more profitable things. 237 00:10:04,926 --> 00:10:07,195 Narrator: As the Bath Avenue boys grow up 238 00:10:07,228 --> 00:10:09,363 what starts with trips to the bakery ends 239 00:10:09,397 --> 00:10:11,800 in crime and violence. 240 00:10:11,833 --> 00:10:13,334 Jimmy Calandra: As we got older, 241 00:10:13,367 --> 00:10:15,236 we just got more dangerous. 242 00:10:15,269 --> 00:10:18,707 You know, so instead of boys, now we're just a crew. 243 00:10:18,740 --> 00:10:22,076 Narrator: It's now the 80s, the era of crack cocaine, 244 00:10:22,110 --> 00:10:24,713 a drug that ignites rampant street violence in 245 00:10:24,746 --> 00:10:27,749 New York City and the Bath Avenue Crew fits right in. 246 00:10:27,782 --> 00:10:29,250 Fat Sal: The Bath Avenue Crew, 247 00:10:29,283 --> 00:10:31,953 they would smoke drugs, rob drug dealers, 248 00:10:31,986 --> 00:10:33,421 and then they got into the drug business, 249 00:10:33,454 --> 00:10:36,257 started extorting drug dealers. 250 00:10:36,290 --> 00:10:37,859 Jimmy Calandra: We were doing bookmaking, 251 00:10:37,892 --> 00:10:40,128 we had the cocaine business on beepers, 252 00:10:40,161 --> 00:10:42,330 we had the pot business. 253 00:10:42,363 --> 00:10:45,299 We were stealing cars. 254 00:10:46,434 --> 00:10:49,003 I was doing banks, I was doing burglaries. 255 00:10:49,037 --> 00:10:51,105 Detective Dades: They're out there earning because 256 00:10:51,139 --> 00:10:54,008 being a good earner is a way to get in good graces, 257 00:10:54,042 --> 00:10:56,244 you know, by sending money up the ladder, 258 00:10:56,277 --> 00:11:00,148 getting some respect from some of the wise guys. 259 00:11:01,315 --> 00:11:03,718 Jim Walden: So the Bath Avenue Crew was 260 00:11:03,752 --> 00:11:06,487 embraced by the Bonanno family as associates because 261 00:11:06,520 --> 00:11:08,322 they were good at their jobs. 262 00:11:08,356 --> 00:11:11,259 And the job of an associate is to earn money 263 00:11:11,292 --> 00:11:15,229 and to engage in violent acts when they're needed, 264 00:11:15,263 --> 00:11:19,000 and this group really excelled at both. 265 00:11:19,033 --> 00:11:22,236 Detective Dades: They were a gruesome bunch of guys. 266 00:11:22,270 --> 00:11:25,139 Jim Walden: Fabrizio Defrancisci, 267 00:11:25,173 --> 00:11:28,877 one of the most ruthless enforcers the group had. 268 00:11:28,910 --> 00:11:32,881 He took a blowtorch and literally tortured one 269 00:11:32,914 --> 00:11:37,085 crack dealer who was using product on the street. 270 00:11:37,118 --> 00:11:39,453 Tommy Reynolds, out of anger, 271 00:11:39,487 --> 00:11:42,390 picked up a fork and jabbed it in someone's eye. 272 00:11:42,423 --> 00:11:44,258 That's how violent these guys were. 273 00:11:44,292 --> 00:11:46,427 Fat Sal: They killed a lot of innocent people; 274 00:11:46,460 --> 00:11:49,097 they committed a double homicide for I think an 275 00:11:49,130 --> 00:11:51,032 eight ball of cocaine. 276 00:11:51,065 --> 00:11:53,534 Jim Walden: They were doing exactly what associates 277 00:11:53,567 --> 00:11:56,437 had been doing, maybe more violently, 278 00:11:56,470 --> 00:11:58,773 but doing for many, many years. 279 00:11:58,807 --> 00:12:00,341 Jimmy Calandra: We're Spero's muscle. 280 00:12:00,374 --> 00:12:01,976 And when Spero needs something done, 281 00:12:02,010 --> 00:12:06,180 we are at his disposal. 282 00:12:06,214 --> 00:12:07,949 Narrator: The acting boss of the Bonanno family 283 00:12:07,982 --> 00:12:09,884 soon puts them to work. 284 00:12:09,918 --> 00:12:11,820 Jim Walden: Spero had a daughter 285 00:12:11,853 --> 00:12:13,254 in the neighborhood. 286 00:12:13,287 --> 00:12:15,056 One day there was a drug addict 287 00:12:15,089 --> 00:12:17,125 named Vincent Bickelman. 288 00:12:17,158 --> 00:12:20,829 He broke into her house and stole a necklace. 289 00:12:23,932 --> 00:12:25,867 Jimmy Calandra: After he stole it, 290 00:12:25,900 --> 00:12:28,302 he went to somewhere on 86th street to sell it. 291 00:12:28,336 --> 00:12:30,872 It had Jill's name on the necklace, it said, 292 00:12:30,905 --> 00:12:33,808 "Jill," and it got back to Spero. 293 00:12:33,842 --> 00:12:38,446 He broke into a Bonanno boss's daughter's house. 294 00:12:38,479 --> 00:12:41,582 Jim Walden: Spero went to Gulino to pass the 295 00:12:41,615 --> 00:12:44,118 order to kill Bickelman and of course, 296 00:12:44,152 --> 00:12:47,989 Gulino saw this as his opportunity to get 297 00:12:48,022 --> 00:12:51,059 inducted into the Bonanno family. 298 00:12:51,092 --> 00:12:53,094 Detective Dades: Pauly Gulino was 299 00:12:53,127 --> 00:12:55,029 the leader of that group. 300 00:12:55,063 --> 00:12:56,464 Vicious guy. 301 00:12:56,497 --> 00:12:58,132 Jimmy Calandra: He didn't give a (bleep). 302 00:12:58,166 --> 00:12:59,500 He wasn't afraid of nobody, 303 00:12:59,533 --> 00:13:01,335 he was a ballsy kid he was a tough kid, 304 00:13:01,369 --> 00:13:03,471 and a lot of wise guys were afraid of him. 305 00:13:03,504 --> 00:13:05,373 So when a thief inadvertently robs the 306 00:13:05,406 --> 00:13:07,441 daughter of Bonanno family crime boss, 307 00:13:07,475 --> 00:13:11,279 Anthony Spero, the Bath Avenue boys get the call. 308 00:13:11,312 --> 00:13:13,882 Jimmy Calandra: It was a big opportunity for us. 309 00:13:13,915 --> 00:13:17,551 This was a very, very important piece of work to 310 00:13:17,585 --> 00:13:20,889 do for Anthony Spero because this was gonna get 311 00:13:20,922 --> 00:13:25,059 Pauly Gulino recognized and hopefully become a made 312 00:13:25,093 --> 00:13:26,928 member in the family. 313 00:13:26,961 --> 00:13:29,030 Agent Pistone: You know, there are certain rules to 314 00:13:29,063 --> 00:13:33,935 become a made guy and one of them is you have to earn 315 00:13:33,968 --> 00:13:37,571 your button, you have to kill somebody. 316 00:13:37,605 --> 00:13:40,308 Jimmy Calandra: One day Pauly Gulino's driving 317 00:13:40,341 --> 00:13:42,276 around, he saw the kid and he runs up on the kid, 318 00:13:42,310 --> 00:13:44,879 Vincent Bickelman, right around the corner 319 00:13:44,913 --> 00:13:47,315 from the police station, right off the corner, 320 00:13:47,348 --> 00:13:51,886 he jumped out and he just shot the kid 5 times. 321 00:13:56,090 --> 00:13:58,226 That's it, drop. 322 00:13:58,259 --> 00:14:00,228 We all went to the bar, 323 00:14:00,261 --> 00:14:01,930 Pauly told all of us what happened, 324 00:14:01,963 --> 00:14:03,331 we celebrated, we were drinking, 325 00:14:03,364 --> 00:14:06,167 are you kidding we had a great (bleep) time. 326 00:14:06,200 --> 00:14:08,169 Narrator: The Bickelman murder cements 327 00:14:08,202 --> 00:14:09,938 the Bath Avenue Crew's reputation. 328 00:14:09,971 --> 00:14:11,973 It tells everyone on the street there's a new 329 00:14:12,006 --> 00:14:14,208 gang in town, guys who are on their 330 00:14:14,242 --> 00:14:16,544 way to becoming made men in the Bonanno family. 331 00:14:16,577 --> 00:14:19,080 Detective Dades: They want people to know that 332 00:14:19,113 --> 00:14:23,451 they just killed this guy because you're recognized 333 00:14:23,484 --> 00:14:28,589 now by made guys, by captains, that you're 334 00:14:28,622 --> 00:14:31,359 capable of doing things like that. 335 00:14:31,392 --> 00:14:33,061 Jimmy Calandra: We ain't kids no more. 336 00:14:33,094 --> 00:14:34,695 You know, we're looking to you know 337 00:14:34,728 --> 00:14:37,231 move up to the next level. 338 00:14:37,265 --> 00:14:39,500 Narrator: The members of the Bath Avenue Crew want 339 00:14:39,533 --> 00:14:41,335 to join the Bonanno family at a crucial moment: 340 00:14:41,369 --> 00:14:43,204 just as Joe Massino, 341 00:14:43,237 --> 00:14:45,473 the family boss, gets released from prison 342 00:14:45,506 --> 00:14:47,475 after serving six years for racketeering. 343 00:14:47,508 --> 00:14:50,111 Edward McDonald: So Joe Massino gets out of 344 00:14:50,144 --> 00:14:52,313 prison and all the other bosses have been convicted. 345 00:14:52,346 --> 00:14:54,648 They're replaced by underlings, 346 00:14:54,682 --> 00:14:56,417 people who were not that significant. 347 00:14:56,450 --> 00:14:59,653 So Joe comes out and he is someone who is revered. 348 00:14:59,687 --> 00:15:04,425 He is like the last don, the one well-respected boss. 349 00:15:04,458 --> 00:15:06,627 Agent Devecchio: Unlike a lot of organized 350 00:15:06,660 --> 00:15:08,997 crime members, Massino was very friendly. 351 00:15:09,030 --> 00:15:10,264 Very affable. 352 00:15:10,298 --> 00:15:12,000 Mitra Hormozi: Very jovial, 353 00:15:12,033 --> 00:15:13,634 beloved by members of his family. 354 00:15:13,667 --> 00:15:15,469 Agent Sallet: He worked with John Gotti, 355 00:15:15,503 --> 00:15:17,405 they were close friends and close 356 00:15:17,438 --> 00:15:21,142 confidants in truck hijacking. 357 00:15:21,175 --> 00:15:23,144 Narrator: He's also one more made guy with 358 00:15:23,177 --> 00:15:25,579 a violent past, routinely ordering associates 359 00:15:25,613 --> 00:15:28,216 like Sal Polisi to use their muscle. 360 00:15:28,616 --> 00:15:31,185 Sal Polisi: The Bonanno family had a case running, 361 00:15:31,219 --> 00:15:33,254 and Joe Massino who later became the boss, 362 00:15:33,287 --> 00:15:34,989 called Foxy and I said, 363 00:15:35,023 --> 00:15:36,490 "Look, you gotta do us a favor. 364 00:15:36,524 --> 00:15:38,359 There's a witness you gotta go, 365 00:15:38,392 --> 00:15:39,660 you gotta go beat this guy up. 366 00:15:39,693 --> 00:15:41,562 I want you to break his arms and legs to give 367 00:15:41,595 --> 00:15:45,099 a message, give a beating so that he wouldn't testify." 368 00:15:45,133 --> 00:15:46,534 So we beat this guy up with bats, 369 00:15:46,567 --> 00:15:49,203 broke his arms and legs, only to find out 370 00:15:49,237 --> 00:15:51,472 he was the wrong guy, he was the father. 371 00:15:51,505 --> 00:15:54,308 And then when Massino called us in for a meeting he said, 372 00:15:54,342 --> 00:15:57,545 "Look, you beat up the wrong guy, but it's okay. 373 00:15:57,578 --> 00:16:00,081 The witness disappeared anyway." 374 00:16:00,114 --> 00:16:01,649 Narrator: But Massino doesn't 375 00:16:01,682 --> 00:16:03,484 just subcontract his killing, 376 00:16:03,517 --> 00:16:05,186 he's done it himself. 377 00:16:05,219 --> 00:16:07,021 His claim to fame is as one of the shooters in 378 00:16:07,055 --> 00:16:09,390 the Three Capos Murder, an infamous gangland massacre 379 00:16:09,423 --> 00:16:11,425 from the early 1980's. 380 00:16:11,459 --> 00:16:13,027 Agent Pistone: Three captains wanted to take 381 00:16:13,061 --> 00:16:15,063 over the family: Sonny Red Indelicato, 382 00:16:15,096 --> 00:16:17,465 Phil Lucky Giaccone, and Dominick Trinchera. 383 00:16:17,498 --> 00:16:19,533 Mitra Hormozi: Massino goes to the commission, 384 00:16:19,567 --> 00:16:21,669 he then gets permission to go ahead 385 00:16:21,702 --> 00:16:24,372 and kill the three captains. 386 00:16:27,341 --> 00:16:29,410 Narrator: But when Massino gets out of prison in 387 00:16:29,443 --> 00:16:33,581 1992 after six years, he's faced with a new reality. 388 00:16:33,614 --> 00:16:35,716 He needs to keep a low profile. 389 00:16:35,749 --> 00:16:38,319 He recognizes the mistakes of other bosses like 390 00:16:38,352 --> 00:16:40,688 John Gotti and Joe Colombo who spent 391 00:16:40,721 --> 00:16:43,124 too much time in public or got caught on tape 392 00:16:43,157 --> 00:16:45,326 by electronic listening devices. 393 00:16:45,359 --> 00:16:48,462 So Massino reforms the Bonanno family starting with 394 00:16:48,496 --> 00:16:51,065 his own extreme variation on that tried 395 00:16:51,099 --> 00:16:54,034 and true code of silence. 396 00:16:54,502 --> 00:16:56,470 Mitra Hormozi: No one is allowed to say his name. 397 00:16:56,504 --> 00:16:58,639 Instead, he says anyone who wants to refer 398 00:16:58,672 --> 00:17:04,078 to the boss must just use the visual hand to the ear. 399 00:17:04,112 --> 00:17:05,846 Edward McDonald: Just like Chin Gigante in the 400 00:17:05,879 --> 00:17:07,548 Genovese family, you had to touch your chin, 401 00:17:07,581 --> 00:17:09,517 well Joey was gonna be called the ear. 402 00:17:09,550 --> 00:17:12,786 Mitra Hormozi: Also, he did not go to weddings 403 00:17:12,820 --> 00:17:15,823 and funerals where people would be photographed. 404 00:17:15,856 --> 00:17:17,758 Agent Sallet: He doesn't use a cell phone, 405 00:17:17,791 --> 00:17:21,395 he doesn't use a pager, he doesn't use his home phone. 406 00:17:21,429 --> 00:17:23,364 Narrator: He also takes the extreme measure 407 00:17:23,397 --> 00:17:25,133 of ending a decades old tradition, 408 00:17:25,166 --> 00:17:26,767 closing down the places that were once the 409 00:17:26,800 --> 00:17:30,671 hub of all mob activity: social clubs. 410 00:17:31,272 --> 00:17:33,407 Agent Devecchio: For many, many years I'm sure they 411 00:17:33,441 --> 00:17:35,409 thought they were invincible in social clubs, 412 00:17:35,443 --> 00:17:38,146 but we managed to bug a number of social clubs 413 00:17:38,179 --> 00:17:40,881 and overheard a lot of incriminating information. 414 00:17:40,914 --> 00:17:43,351 Agent Sallet: Joe Massino learned 415 00:17:43,384 --> 00:17:46,687 what he should and should not do. 416 00:17:46,720 --> 00:17:47,755 Narrator: At the same time, 417 00:17:47,788 --> 00:17:49,590 he encourages a major new front in the 418 00:17:49,623 --> 00:17:52,393 way the mob earns money: 419 00:17:52,426 --> 00:17:55,663 Wall Street. 420 00:17:56,264 --> 00:17:58,432 Agent Barrows: 90s brought a tremendous bull market, 421 00:17:58,466 --> 00:18:03,771 enormous amounts of money and some loose regulations. 422 00:18:03,804 --> 00:18:05,473 Everybody wanted to be in the market, 423 00:18:05,506 --> 00:18:07,308 everybody was making money who was in the market. 424 00:18:07,341 --> 00:18:09,443 So it was really a perfect and fertile ground 425 00:18:09,477 --> 00:18:12,880 for organized crime. 426 00:18:12,913 --> 00:18:15,483 Narrator: By 1993, Bonanno family boss, 427 00:18:15,516 --> 00:18:16,684 Joe Massino, 428 00:18:16,717 --> 00:18:18,719 is the last of his kind, an old school Godfather 429 00:18:18,752 --> 00:18:20,854 who believes in the code of silence and secrecy 430 00:18:20,888 --> 00:18:25,393 characterizing the Golden Age of the American mob. 431 00:18:25,426 --> 00:18:27,795 But he's also an innovator when it comes to earning, 432 00:18:27,828 --> 00:18:29,863 seizing new opportunities not in 433 00:18:29,897 --> 00:18:32,200 Bensonhurst but on Wall Street. 434 00:18:32,233 --> 00:18:33,834 Edward McDonald: By the time Joe got out of 435 00:18:33,867 --> 00:18:36,337 prison the heady days of labor racketeering were 436 00:18:36,370 --> 00:18:38,306 pretty much coming to an end. 437 00:18:38,339 --> 00:18:40,941 So the big, big money that the mafia was making 438 00:18:40,974 --> 00:18:44,278 through labor racketeering was really just not available 439 00:18:44,312 --> 00:18:48,649 anymore and they began to move towards Wall Street. 440 00:18:49,683 --> 00:18:51,352 Agent Barrows: In the 90s, it was 441 00:18:51,385 --> 00:18:53,187 certainly a bull market. 442 00:18:53,221 --> 00:18:54,888 There were tons of new companies, 443 00:18:54,922 --> 00:18:56,790 the internet was sort of new and burgeoning 444 00:18:56,824 --> 00:18:59,327 at the time and certainly where there's a lot of 445 00:18:59,360 --> 00:19:01,229 easy money to be made you can be rest assured 446 00:19:01,262 --> 00:19:04,265 that the mob's gonna be there to make it. 447 00:19:04,298 --> 00:19:06,267 Narrator: Legitimate stockbrokers must follow 448 00:19:06,300 --> 00:19:08,602 the rules of the Securities and Exchange Commission, 449 00:19:08,636 --> 00:19:11,272 but not Joe Massino and the Bonanno family. 450 00:19:11,305 --> 00:19:14,242 Fraud is the key to their success. 451 00:19:14,275 --> 00:19:15,976 Agent Barrows: The underbelly of Wall Street 452 00:19:16,009 --> 00:19:17,645 is where the mob operates. 453 00:19:17,678 --> 00:19:20,281 That's where the boiler rooms come in. 454 00:19:20,314 --> 00:19:23,217 These boiler rooms are filled with very young kids, 455 00:19:23,251 --> 00:19:26,287 unsophisticated kids, who have one task and that 456 00:19:26,320 --> 00:19:28,622 is to sell stock and to say whatever it is they 457 00:19:28,656 --> 00:19:30,758 need to say, follow whatever script they have 458 00:19:30,791 --> 00:19:33,861 in front of them to make sure they accomplish that task. 459 00:19:33,894 --> 00:19:36,464 Most of the boiler rooms look like New Year's Eve 460 00:19:36,497 --> 00:19:38,599 party had been thrown the night before, 461 00:19:38,632 --> 00:19:41,535 often scantily clad women walking around, 462 00:19:41,569 --> 00:19:46,340 stacks of papers, cigarettes, alcohol. 463 00:19:46,374 --> 00:19:48,576 Looks nothing like you'd imagine 464 00:19:48,609 --> 00:19:51,879 that a brokerage house looks like. 465 00:19:51,912 --> 00:19:53,747 Narrator: The game is called "Pump and Dump," 466 00:19:53,781 --> 00:19:56,650 and it works like this: mobbed up traders acquire 467 00:19:56,684 --> 00:19:59,987 large blocks of stocks worth 5 dollars or less. 468 00:20:00,020 --> 00:20:02,590 By controlling supply, they increase demand, 469 00:20:02,623 --> 00:20:05,459 artificially inflating the stock's price. 470 00:20:05,493 --> 00:20:07,595 Then they sell those stocks to unsuspecting 471 00:20:07,628 --> 00:20:09,963 investors for much more than the original value, 472 00:20:09,997 --> 00:20:13,467 in turn earning an enormous profit. 473 00:20:13,501 --> 00:20:15,603 Agent Barrows: The mob makes sure things stay 474 00:20:15,636 --> 00:20:18,606 in order and if they don't successfully do their job, 475 00:20:18,639 --> 00:20:19,873 they're going to get a beating. 476 00:20:19,907 --> 00:20:21,709 Sal Polisi: Violence, threats, 477 00:20:21,742 --> 00:20:23,677 extortion, blackmail; 478 00:20:23,711 --> 00:20:25,846 the mob was a master at bullying. 479 00:20:25,879 --> 00:20:28,282 Salmieri: The fear of the violence is 480 00:20:28,316 --> 00:20:30,284 what keeps everybody in line. 481 00:20:30,318 --> 00:20:32,686 Agent Barrows: They make sure those boiler room kids 482 00:20:32,720 --> 00:20:34,355 keep that stock put away. 483 00:20:34,388 --> 00:20:35,989 They sell it and they don't let it get sold 484 00:20:36,023 --> 00:20:37,591 back to the market. 485 00:20:37,625 --> 00:20:39,693 Agent Barrows: It's paid in cash and it's undisclosed. 486 00:20:39,727 --> 00:20:41,295 There's no paper trail, nobody knows about it. 487 00:20:41,329 --> 00:20:44,031 Get a bag of cash on Friday. 488 00:20:44,064 --> 00:20:45,899 Narrator: The cash is divvied up, 489 00:20:45,933 --> 00:20:47,701 some going into the brokers pocket, 490 00:20:47,735 --> 00:20:50,438 the rest going to the bosses. 491 00:20:50,471 --> 00:20:52,473 Raking in the cash for Joe Massino of the 492 00:20:52,506 --> 00:20:55,943 Bonanno family is this guy, Robert Lino. 493 00:20:55,976 --> 00:20:57,978 Agent Barrows: Lino was the muscle at the higher level. 494 00:20:58,011 --> 00:20:59,580 He was the Capo. 495 00:20:59,613 --> 00:21:00,781 He was the one who represented 496 00:21:00,814 --> 00:21:02,616 them in sit-downs. 497 00:21:02,650 --> 00:21:04,552 He was the one who essentially ran a 498 00:21:04,585 --> 00:21:05,753 investment firm in lower Manhattan 499 00:21:05,786 --> 00:21:07,488 called DMN Capital, 500 00:21:07,521 --> 00:21:10,924 which was under the auspices of the Bonanno family. 501 00:21:10,958 --> 00:21:13,494 Narrator: To rat out the Bonanno family's corruption 502 00:21:13,527 --> 00:21:15,563 on Wall Street, Agent Kevin Barrows 503 00:21:15,596 --> 00:21:17,798 needs to get inside DMN Capital. 504 00:21:17,831 --> 00:21:19,933 Agent Barrows: It was too risky in this day and 505 00:21:19,967 --> 00:21:21,869 age to have an agent try to go undercover, 506 00:21:21,902 --> 00:21:23,604 because you had to know somebody. 507 00:21:23,637 --> 00:21:26,340 It wasn't the days of, you know, Joe Pistone, 508 00:21:26,374 --> 00:21:28,542 where it was somewhat easier to infiltrate. 509 00:21:28,576 --> 00:21:31,545 My partner and I began to really develop a lot 510 00:21:31,579 --> 00:21:34,548 of co-operating witnesses. 511 00:21:34,582 --> 00:21:36,950 Narrator: But not just any cooperating witness. 512 00:21:36,984 --> 00:21:38,852 His informant works as a mole inside 513 00:21:38,886 --> 00:21:40,621 the mob's boiler rooms. 514 00:21:40,654 --> 00:21:43,991 With his help, Operation Uptick is born. 515 00:21:44,024 --> 00:21:45,626 Agent Barrows: The goal of an informant 516 00:21:45,659 --> 00:21:49,062 is always to get the next person up in the chain. 517 00:21:49,096 --> 00:21:50,964 As we always say, "We gotta eat our way up 518 00:21:50,998 --> 00:21:53,834 the chain and get to the top." 519 00:21:53,867 --> 00:21:56,604 Narrator: The Feds want Bonanno Boss Joe Massino, 520 00:21:56,637 --> 00:21:58,839 but before they can reach the top of that food chain, 521 00:21:58,872 --> 00:22:01,575 FBI agents must snare a smaller fish and 522 00:22:01,609 --> 00:22:05,846 catch Bonanno Capo Robert Lino on tape first. 523 00:22:05,879 --> 00:22:08,716 So they send their DMN informant to work wearing 524 00:22:08,749 --> 00:22:11,719 a wire and the stakes couldn't be higher. 525 00:22:11,752 --> 00:22:14,888 If discovered, they'll almost certainly be killed. 526 00:22:14,922 --> 00:22:16,890 Robert Lino: [on tape] You better get my (bleep) 527 00:22:16,924 --> 00:22:18,992 money and Louis, I better have it soon. 528 00:22:19,026 --> 00:22:20,928 I am going to put the word out with everybody 529 00:22:20,961 --> 00:22:23,096 I know, everybody, you are done. 530 00:22:23,130 --> 00:22:26,133 You understand me, you rotten (bleep)! 531 00:22:26,166 --> 00:22:28,035 Agent Barrows: There were times when we had him wired 532 00:22:28,068 --> 00:22:29,770 up and ready to go and found out somebody was coming, 533 00:22:29,803 --> 00:22:33,707 and we'd take the wire off seconds before he walked in. 534 00:22:33,741 --> 00:22:36,477 Simply because Robert Lino was a very tough, 535 00:22:36,510 --> 00:22:38,746 very violent guy. 536 00:22:38,779 --> 00:22:41,749 But my partner and I were extraordinarily successful 537 00:22:41,782 --> 00:22:44,084 at getting people to cooperate and we just kept 538 00:22:44,117 --> 00:22:46,487 getting more and more cooperators who gave us more 539 00:22:46,520 --> 00:22:49,122 and more information about more and more people, 540 00:22:49,156 --> 00:22:51,525 who, which led to more and more indictments. 541 00:22:51,559 --> 00:22:53,461 Narrator: Operation Uptick grows, 542 00:22:53,494 --> 00:22:55,062 putting increasing numbers of mobsters in 543 00:22:55,095 --> 00:22:59,166 the FBI's crosshairs, including Robert Lino. 544 00:22:59,800 --> 00:23:02,135 Man: In the largest federal arrest operation 545 00:23:02,169 --> 00:23:05,005 ever in the New York City metropolitan area, 546 00:23:05,038 --> 00:23:08,876 more than 600 FBI agents began arresting 547 00:23:08,909 --> 00:23:12,680 120 defendants as a result of a 10-month 548 00:23:12,713 --> 00:23:17,017 investigation code-named: Uptick. 549 00:23:17,050 --> 00:23:19,587 Agent Barrows: It really awakened the public 550 00:23:19,620 --> 00:23:21,722 and it awakened regulators. 551 00:23:21,755 --> 00:23:23,957 Narrator: But Joe Massino knows how to play the system 552 00:23:23,991 --> 00:23:26,560 like an old school boss, and his anti-surveillance 553 00:23:26,594 --> 00:23:28,729 techniques pay off. 554 00:23:28,762 --> 00:23:30,864 He's never caught on tape and gets away 555 00:23:30,898 --> 00:23:33,634 clean in Operation Uptick. 556 00:23:33,667 --> 00:23:35,769 While the Bonanno family tries its hand 557 00:23:35,803 --> 00:23:37,805 at white-collar crime in Manhattan, 558 00:23:37,838 --> 00:23:40,140 back in Brooklyn the old friendships on Bath Avenue 559 00:23:40,173 --> 00:23:42,142 are about to disintegrate, 560 00:23:42,175 --> 00:23:44,745 starting with this guy, Tommy Reynolds. 561 00:23:45,813 --> 00:23:47,748 Fat Sal: With Tommy Reynolds, 562 00:23:47,781 --> 00:23:50,083 he's a cracked-out maniac. 563 00:23:50,117 --> 00:23:53,554 Smoking crack, kill you for a $100 piece of crack. 564 00:23:53,587 --> 00:23:55,656 Narrator: Reynolds and fellow Bath Avenue member, 565 00:23:55,689 --> 00:23:57,791 Jimmy Calandra, join a third guy, 566 00:23:57,825 --> 00:24:00,193 a street thug named Chris Ludwigsen, 567 00:24:00,227 --> 00:24:02,796 on a heist that is supposed to be an easy score. 568 00:24:02,830 --> 00:24:04,197 Jimmy Calandra: He notified me, he says, 569 00:24:04,231 --> 00:24:05,933 "Jimmy, I got this score with this guy, 570 00:24:05,966 --> 00:24:07,267 big money in his house, 571 00:24:07,300 --> 00:24:08,936 safe in his house in his basement." 572 00:24:08,969 --> 00:24:10,671 The money Chris was talking about, you know, 573 00:24:10,704 --> 00:24:12,673 he said it was close to a million dollars. 574 00:24:12,706 --> 00:24:14,174 Detective Dades: There's just gonna be a 575 00:24:14,207 --> 00:24:18,145 guy at home, it's an easy score. 576 00:24:18,712 --> 00:24:20,280 Jimmy Calandra: I said, "Okay, sounds good." 577 00:24:20,313 --> 00:24:21,982 So I brought Reynolds with me because 578 00:24:22,015 --> 00:24:23,917 Reynolds was always my guy to do scores with. 579 00:24:23,951 --> 00:24:25,619 Jim Walden: And at the time, 580 00:24:25,653 --> 00:24:27,187 Tommy Reynolds was one of the key 581 00:24:27,220 --> 00:24:29,557 people who was organizing the crack 582 00:24:29,590 --> 00:24:31,792 distribution ring and he started using 583 00:24:31,825 --> 00:24:34,027 some of the product himself. 584 00:24:34,061 --> 00:24:35,763 Jimmy Calandra: No one else was supposed 585 00:24:35,796 --> 00:24:37,164 to be in this house. 586 00:24:37,197 --> 00:24:40,834 Only this guy was supposed to be there. 587 00:24:40,868 --> 00:24:43,937 So we all get out, Chris waits in the car. 588 00:24:50,811 --> 00:24:53,847 I knock on the door. 589 00:25:00,588 --> 00:25:06,827 All of a sudden, I see this woman. 590 00:25:07,928 --> 00:25:11,131 I hear "boom." 591 00:25:11,164 --> 00:25:14,034 The lady goes flying across the room. 592 00:25:14,067 --> 00:25:17,938 Jim Walden: Reynolds in his crack stupor accidentally 593 00:25:17,971 --> 00:25:20,941 pulled the trigger to the gun and shot her in the head 594 00:25:20,974 --> 00:25:26,013 in front of her then 9-year-old daughter. 595 00:25:30,083 --> 00:25:33,220 Jimmy Calandra: I went there to go rob a safe and 596 00:25:33,253 --> 00:25:35,288 Tommy Reynolds ends up shooting the lady by accident. 597 00:25:35,322 --> 00:25:37,257 I said, "What the (bleep) did I 598 00:25:37,290 --> 00:25:40,360 just get myself involved in?" 599 00:25:40,393 --> 00:25:41,995 I was so ashamed of it. 600 00:25:42,029 --> 00:25:43,731 I mean it's one thing, you know, 601 00:25:43,764 --> 00:25:45,599 killing someone from the street but you're 602 00:25:45,633 --> 00:25:47,267 killing an innocent woman. 603 00:25:47,300 --> 00:25:50,037 It was like so (bleep) hard for me to live with. 604 00:25:50,070 --> 00:25:51,939 Detective Dades: Jimmy lived with that, 605 00:25:51,972 --> 00:25:54,675 I know, I know that still affects him to this, 606 00:25:54,708 --> 00:25:56,076 to this day. 607 00:25:56,109 --> 00:25:58,178 Jim Walden: As it turned out, 608 00:25:58,211 --> 00:26:00,047 there was no safe in the house at all, 609 00:26:00,080 --> 00:26:04,117 and they had just gotten bad information. 610 00:26:04,151 --> 00:26:06,253 Narrator: The violence is starting to get out of hand 611 00:26:06,286 --> 00:26:09,757 even for a rough crew like Bath Avenue. 612 00:26:09,790 --> 00:26:12,025 A bloody battle over turf and bragging rights 613 00:26:12,059 --> 00:26:14,394 is about to start and no one can imagine 614 00:26:14,427 --> 00:26:16,029 where it will end. 615 00:26:17,898 --> 00:26:19,266 Jim Walden: The Bath Avenue Crew, 616 00:26:19,299 --> 00:26:20,968 given the violence of its members, 617 00:26:21,001 --> 00:26:24,738 had more pride, ego, than just about anyone else. 618 00:26:24,772 --> 00:26:26,406 But there was a rival in the area. 619 00:26:26,439 --> 00:26:29,309 A group on 20th Avenue was 620 00:26:29,342 --> 00:26:31,645 extraordinarily violent as well. 621 00:26:31,679 --> 00:26:34,748 Turf is an issue and pride is an issue. 622 00:26:34,782 --> 00:26:37,718 Jimmy Calandra: They had a little crew that 623 00:26:37,751 --> 00:26:39,352 grew up just like us. 624 00:26:39,386 --> 00:26:41,321 They lost some of their friends; 625 00:26:41,354 --> 00:26:43,991 they retaliated at the guys who killed their friends, 626 00:26:44,024 --> 00:26:45,025 so they were like tough like us. 627 00:26:45,058 --> 00:26:47,895 Jim Walden: There were a number of extraordinarily 628 00:26:47,928 --> 00:26:48,862 violent shoot-outs. 629 00:26:48,896 --> 00:26:50,163 Jimmy Calandra: With the 20th Avenue kids, 630 00:26:50,197 --> 00:26:52,432 everybody was always on high alert. 631 00:26:52,465 --> 00:26:55,969 I never left my house without a pistol. 632 00:26:56,003 --> 00:26:58,338 I had a bulletproof vest, with a plate in the front, 633 00:26:58,371 --> 00:27:00,040 plate in the back. 634 00:27:00,073 --> 00:27:02,009 Plus I also had the strap-on where you got a 635 00:27:02,042 --> 00:27:04,244 pistol over here and you got a pistol over here, 636 00:27:04,277 --> 00:27:06,279 you know, you got 2 pistols like this. 637 00:27:06,313 --> 00:27:09,116 We were ready to go to war. 638 00:27:09,149 --> 00:27:11,018 We didn't trust anybody. 639 00:27:11,051 --> 00:27:12,920 My friends were being killed left and right. 640 00:27:12,953 --> 00:27:14,354 We were shooting people left and right. 641 00:27:14,387 --> 00:27:16,824 Detective Dades: When I think back how much 642 00:27:16,857 --> 00:27:19,192 craziness was going on up there it really was, 643 00:27:19,226 --> 00:27:21,862 it was like a shooting gallery up there. 644 00:27:21,895 --> 00:27:26,366 Narrator: Violence gets so extreme that Spero steps in. 645 00:27:27,968 --> 00:27:30,337 Jimmy Calandra: There was a sit down with their people, 646 00:27:30,370 --> 00:27:32,339 and Spero told them, you know what we're gonna 647 00:27:32,372 --> 00:27:35,142 straighten this out, we're gonna put this 648 00:27:35,175 --> 00:27:36,376 underneath the table; 649 00:27:36,409 --> 00:27:38,245 let's go forward, stuff like that. 650 00:27:38,278 --> 00:27:40,948 But Pauly Gulino didn't want that. 651 00:27:40,981 --> 00:27:42,983 Narrator: Gulino, the hothead of the 652 00:27:43,016 --> 00:27:45,719 Bath Avenue Crew, wants more respect. 653 00:27:45,753 --> 00:27:48,722 Jim Walden: Gulino was very upset about the lack 654 00:27:48,756 --> 00:27:51,759 of support he was getting and he obviously felt, 655 00:27:51,792 --> 00:27:54,494 as the person that carried out the Bickelman murder, 656 00:27:54,527 --> 00:27:58,732 that his place should be more important. 657 00:27:58,766 --> 00:28:00,734 Narrator: So Gulino does the unthinkable for 658 00:28:00,768 --> 00:28:02,836 a small time mob associate, 659 00:28:02,870 --> 00:28:04,738 he challenges Spero, 660 00:28:04,772 --> 00:28:06,940 one of the most respected men in the Bonanno crime 661 00:28:06,974 --> 00:28:09,376 family and a seriously dangerous individual. 662 00:28:09,409 --> 00:28:12,512 Jimmy Calandra: Pauly G. wanted his full support. 663 00:28:12,545 --> 00:28:15,148 You know, I'm with you, you're supposed to 664 00:28:15,182 --> 00:28:17,517 defend me, (bleep) them. 665 00:28:17,550 --> 00:28:20,153 Detective Dades: He wanted to kill Spero. 666 00:28:20,187 --> 00:28:22,522 Jim Walden: Everyone knows that Anthony Spero 667 00:28:22,555 --> 00:28:25,325 is, you know, one of the kings, one of the 668 00:28:25,358 --> 00:28:28,095 few bosses that still lives in the area. 669 00:28:28,128 --> 00:28:31,231 And in the middle of this heated confrontation 670 00:28:31,264 --> 00:28:35,402 on the public street, Gulino pushes Spero, 671 00:28:36,503 --> 00:28:40,073 puts his hands on him. 672 00:28:42,475 --> 00:28:45,312 Jimmy Calandra: He gave himself a death sentence. 673 00:28:45,345 --> 00:28:49,316 Jim: Walden: There are some rules you cannot break. 674 00:28:49,349 --> 00:28:51,418 I mean you can't stay in the neighborhood after 675 00:28:51,451 --> 00:28:53,553 you hit a made member in a crime family, 676 00:28:53,586 --> 00:28:55,823 because your own friends are gonna be the 677 00:28:55,856 --> 00:28:57,925 one to take you out. 678 00:28:57,958 --> 00:29:00,060 Spero essentially turned around and walked away, 679 00:29:00,093 --> 00:29:02,329 turned his back on Gulino. 680 00:29:02,362 --> 00:29:07,267 That was the day that Paul Gulino became a marked man. 681 00:29:07,300 --> 00:29:10,103 Jimmy Calandra: Spero gave the order to kill Pauly, 682 00:29:10,137 --> 00:29:12,172 and you know, who's gonna kill Pauly? 683 00:29:12,205 --> 00:29:14,441 Pauly's a hard person to kill. 684 00:29:14,474 --> 00:29:19,779 The only people that could kill Pauly were his friends. 685 00:29:21,048 --> 00:29:24,184 Jim Walden: He was holed up in his apartment. 686 00:29:24,217 --> 00:29:26,486 He doesn't know when the day of reckoning is 687 00:29:26,519 --> 00:29:30,157 going to come and so he can trust almost no one. 688 00:29:30,190 --> 00:29:34,394 But he does trust Joey Calco and Tommy Reynolds. 689 00:29:34,427 --> 00:29:40,100 It's those two that were in the short list of people 690 00:29:40,133 --> 00:29:43,136 whose knock Gulino would have responded 691 00:29:43,170 --> 00:29:46,473 to with an open door. 692 00:29:47,607 --> 00:29:49,509 Jimmy Calandra: Tommy and Joey went to Pauly Gulino's 693 00:29:49,542 --> 00:29:51,544 house on a Sunday. 694 00:29:51,578 --> 00:29:53,313 They asked him for something to drink, 695 00:29:53,346 --> 00:29:56,183 he opened the refrigerator door. 696 00:29:56,216 --> 00:29:58,251 As he opened the refrigerator door, 697 00:29:58,285 --> 00:30:02,489 Joey put a couple bullets in the back of Pauly's head. 698 00:30:04,124 --> 00:30:08,595 Jim Walden: Gulino fell to the floor dead. 699 00:30:10,063 --> 00:30:12,499 Detective Dades: You know, you can go from being on top 700 00:30:12,532 --> 00:30:16,103 of the list to, you know, to get a nod, 701 00:30:16,136 --> 00:30:19,940 and two friends blow your brains out. 702 00:30:19,973 --> 00:30:23,877 Jim Walden: Gulino, Reynolds, Calco, 703 00:30:23,911 --> 00:30:27,380 they've been friends for their whole lives. 704 00:30:27,414 --> 00:30:29,983 They grew up together, they marked their ankles 705 00:30:30,017 --> 00:30:33,386 together, and yet, at that critical moment, 706 00:30:33,420 --> 00:30:36,924 it was the two best friends that snuffed out 707 00:30:36,957 --> 00:30:40,060 Paul Gulino's life because they were ordered to, 708 00:30:40,093 --> 00:30:42,662 but more importantly, because they wanted to, 709 00:30:42,695 --> 00:30:44,898 because they knew that it would be a path to 710 00:30:44,932 --> 00:30:47,334 their own rise within the Bonanno family. 711 00:30:47,367 --> 00:30:50,470 Jimmy Calandra: They left like nothing happened. 712 00:30:50,503 --> 00:30:53,006 That's it. 713 00:30:53,040 --> 00:30:54,975 Narrator: But Pauly Gulino's murder will 714 00:30:55,008 --> 00:30:57,911 change everything for the Bath Avenue Crew. 715 00:30:59,179 --> 00:31:02,149 At the time of the killing, Jimmy Calandra, 716 00:31:02,182 --> 00:31:04,351 one of the original members in the Bath Avenue Crew 717 00:31:04,384 --> 00:31:08,521 is in jail where he hears about the hit. 718 00:31:08,555 --> 00:31:10,357 Jimmy Calandra: I call Tommy Reynolds that night 719 00:31:10,390 --> 00:31:12,425 from federal prison. 720 00:31:12,459 --> 00:31:14,227 I said, "Was it you? 721 00:31:14,261 --> 00:31:16,163 Was that, was it you?" 722 00:31:16,196 --> 00:31:18,565 And he was crying. 723 00:31:18,598 --> 00:31:21,134 He said, "No," he said, "No." 724 00:31:21,168 --> 00:31:23,536 But I knew it was my friends. 725 00:31:23,570 --> 00:31:27,941 Detective Dades: Jimmy saw a lot of deceit and 726 00:31:27,975 --> 00:31:30,944 treachery and saw his best friend get killed. 727 00:31:30,978 --> 00:31:32,379 Jimmy Calandra: I felt sick. 728 00:31:32,412 --> 00:31:34,081 I wanted to throw up. 729 00:31:34,114 --> 00:31:35,315 I was sad. 730 00:31:35,348 --> 00:31:37,517 I was like a baby crying in my cell, seriously. 731 00:31:37,550 --> 00:31:39,352 Pauly was a really good friend of mine, 732 00:31:39,386 --> 00:31:42,355 a dear friend, a childhood friend and just you know, 733 00:31:42,389 --> 00:31:46,093 I was never the type to kill my own friends. 734 00:31:46,626 --> 00:31:48,962 That wasn't me. 735 00:31:48,996 --> 00:31:51,498 You know, if Spero would've gave me the hit, 736 00:31:51,531 --> 00:31:55,102 in all honesty, I probably would've told Pauly. 737 00:31:55,135 --> 00:31:57,437 I stopped and I looked, said, "You know what; 738 00:31:57,470 --> 00:31:59,672 we're not friends no more over here. 739 00:31:59,706 --> 00:32:01,308 You know what we are? 740 00:32:01,341 --> 00:32:03,410 We became gangsters." 741 00:32:03,443 --> 00:32:05,745 Narrator: Law enforcement round up the remaining 742 00:32:05,778 --> 00:32:07,647 members of the crew while Calandra is still in prison. 743 00:32:07,680 --> 00:32:09,682 But when he gets out, his past catches up 744 00:32:09,716 --> 00:32:11,651 to him again. 745 00:32:11,684 --> 00:32:14,621 He's under investigation for an old murder in 746 00:32:14,654 --> 00:32:16,756 Staten Island, the unsolved killing of a 747 00:32:16,789 --> 00:32:19,259 woman with no connection to organized crime. 748 00:32:19,292 --> 00:32:21,528 New York Police Detective Tommy Dades 749 00:32:21,561 --> 00:32:23,496 has been piecing together the details 750 00:32:23,530 --> 00:32:25,432 and is getting close to an arrest. 751 00:32:25,465 --> 00:32:27,767 Detective Dades: I was investigating him 752 00:32:27,800 --> 00:32:29,469 to lock him up. 753 00:32:29,502 --> 00:32:34,074 He did some jail time, he got out and he knew 754 00:32:34,107 --> 00:32:36,609 that we had just locked everybody else up and 755 00:32:36,643 --> 00:32:38,511 he knew that the axe was gonna fall 756 00:32:38,545 --> 00:32:42,349 on him sooner or later. 757 00:32:42,382 --> 00:32:43,683 Jimmy Calandra: The feds knocked on my door 758 00:32:43,716 --> 00:32:46,419 and told me your past came back to haunt you. 759 00:32:46,453 --> 00:32:49,089 When I got home, I didn't say a word about nothing. 760 00:32:49,122 --> 00:32:50,223 Then all of a sudden, 761 00:32:50,257 --> 00:32:52,392 people are flipping on me again. 762 00:32:52,425 --> 00:32:53,693 You know? 763 00:32:53,726 --> 00:32:54,727 I said, "(Bleep) this." 764 00:32:54,761 --> 00:32:57,030 I said, "What the (bleep) kind of life is this? 765 00:32:57,064 --> 00:32:58,398 I keep my mouth shut and then I come home 766 00:32:58,431 --> 00:33:00,400 (bleep) want to tell on me? 767 00:33:00,433 --> 00:33:01,701 There's no (bleep) loyalty, 768 00:33:01,734 --> 00:33:03,436 I might as well flip too. 769 00:33:03,470 --> 00:33:07,207 What am I gonna do, be a sucker?" 770 00:33:07,840 --> 00:33:10,710 Narrator: By the 1990s, dozens of guys are flipping. 771 00:33:10,743 --> 00:33:13,180 The old code of silence, what used to be called 772 00:33:13,213 --> 00:33:15,582 "omerta", no longer holds. 773 00:33:15,615 --> 00:33:18,218 Faced with the threat of life sentences in prison, 774 00:33:18,251 --> 00:33:19,819 or getting whacked by their own side, 775 00:33:19,852 --> 00:33:21,688 gangsters up and down the 776 00:33:21,721 --> 00:33:23,356 ladder reconsider their options. 777 00:33:23,390 --> 00:33:25,725 Jimmy Calandra: After my friend Pauly was murdered, 778 00:33:25,758 --> 00:33:27,260 I was at the point of my life you know, 779 00:33:27,294 --> 00:33:28,661 where I had enough. 780 00:33:28,695 --> 00:33:30,563 I wanted away from this life. 781 00:33:30,597 --> 00:33:32,132 I sat down with a prosecutor, 782 00:33:32,165 --> 00:33:33,366 I made an agreement with him 783 00:33:33,400 --> 00:33:35,835 and I testified against Anthony Spero. 784 00:33:35,868 --> 00:33:38,538 Narrator: Spero, the onetime acting boss 785 00:33:38,571 --> 00:33:40,340 of the Bonanno family. 786 00:33:40,373 --> 00:33:42,375 Jimmy Calandra: You know, it was hard. 787 00:33:42,409 --> 00:33:43,676 It wasn't easy; 788 00:33:43,710 --> 00:33:45,545 it's not an easy thing to do. 789 00:33:45,578 --> 00:33:47,514 Spero was someone I knew for a very long time 790 00:33:47,547 --> 00:33:49,749 since I was a little boy that told 791 00:33:49,782 --> 00:33:52,619 me never tattletale on anybody, 792 00:33:52,652 --> 00:33:54,221 you know, because at one time 793 00:33:54,254 --> 00:33:55,588 I really liked this guy. 794 00:33:55,622 --> 00:33:57,590 You know, I had respect for him. 795 00:33:57,624 --> 00:34:00,160 But when I sat down on the stand all I 796 00:34:00,193 --> 00:34:03,396 thought about was how Anthony Spero used to send 797 00:34:03,430 --> 00:34:06,499 us out on missions for him. 798 00:34:06,533 --> 00:34:10,637 He might put on the nice guy appearance, you know, 799 00:34:10,670 --> 00:34:14,374 that gentle way about him, but I know deep inside, 800 00:34:14,407 --> 00:34:17,777 I know that he was a gangster and if he could, 801 00:34:17,810 --> 00:34:19,846 he would have me killed right there and then. 802 00:34:19,879 --> 00:34:21,548 If he could get away with it. 803 00:34:24,417 --> 00:34:26,419 Jim Walden: So Anthony Spero was 804 00:34:26,453 --> 00:34:28,455 sentenced to life in prison and he went to prison 805 00:34:28,488 --> 00:34:29,889 and he died in prison. 806 00:34:29,922 --> 00:34:32,125 He did not cooperate, even though we very much 807 00:34:32,159 --> 00:34:33,893 wanted him to cooperate to build a case against 808 00:34:33,926 --> 00:34:36,196 Massino and the other members of the Bonanno family 809 00:34:36,229 --> 00:34:39,299 that were on the rise. 810 00:34:40,533 --> 00:34:42,669 Narrator: So Bonanno Boss Joe Massino remains 811 00:34:42,702 --> 00:34:44,904 insulated from the problems created by the 812 00:34:44,937 --> 00:34:47,374 Bath Avenue Crew and continues running his 813 00:34:47,407 --> 00:34:50,143 increasingly profitable empire. 814 00:34:50,177 --> 00:34:52,579 Fat Sal: Joe Massino was able to come home from 815 00:34:52,612 --> 00:34:55,548 prison and run a well-greased machine, 816 00:34:55,582 --> 00:34:57,584 and they made a lot of money. 817 00:34:57,617 --> 00:34:59,652 Edward McDonald: Joe Massino was running 818 00:34:59,686 --> 00:35:01,688 the Bonanno crime family in an effective way, 819 00:35:01,721 --> 00:35:03,256 but what they were doing was they were leaving 820 00:35:03,290 --> 00:35:04,791 a lot of paper trails. 821 00:35:04,824 --> 00:35:06,726 Mitra Hormozi: You have agents in the 822 00:35:06,759 --> 00:35:08,528 Bonanno Organized Crime Squad who are 823 00:35:08,561 --> 00:35:10,230 trying to figure out, 824 00:35:10,263 --> 00:35:12,665 how can we get to this family? 825 00:35:12,699 --> 00:35:16,536 And they thought maybe the way to this is, 826 00:35:16,569 --> 00:35:18,438 "Let's follow the money," 827 00:35:18,471 --> 00:35:22,242 because a lot of these captains are now very wealthy, 828 00:35:22,275 --> 00:35:24,711 living the good life. 829 00:35:25,845 --> 00:35:28,181 Narrator: One of them is Sal Vitale, 830 00:35:28,215 --> 00:35:30,417 Joe Massino's brother in law. 831 00:35:30,450 --> 00:35:32,552 Mitra Hormozi: Joe Massino taught Sal Vitale 832 00:35:32,585 --> 00:35:34,421 how to swim when they were little kids. 833 00:35:34,454 --> 00:35:37,757 I mean, they were just very, very close. 834 00:35:37,790 --> 00:35:41,361 Once Massino gets out of prison, 835 00:35:41,394 --> 00:35:45,798 their relationship becomes a little bit strained. 836 00:35:45,832 --> 00:35:49,936 Other members of the Bonanno organized crime family 837 00:35:49,969 --> 00:35:52,472 perhaps were jealous of Vitale, 838 00:35:52,505 --> 00:35:55,608 or did not like his style of running the show, 839 00:35:55,642 --> 00:35:57,877 and so they're starting to whisper in Massino's 840 00:35:57,910 --> 00:36:00,213 ears about Vitale. 841 00:36:00,247 --> 00:36:02,615 Narrator: After Mob Boss Joe Massino is released from 842 00:36:02,649 --> 00:36:05,818 prison in 1992, he makes a series of sweeping reforms 843 00:36:05,852 --> 00:36:07,720 that turns the Bonanno family into a 844 00:36:07,754 --> 00:36:09,889 well-greased machine. 845 00:36:09,922 --> 00:36:12,292 But the family's foundation trembles when 846 00:36:12,325 --> 00:36:14,661 Massino's Underboss, Sal Vitale, 847 00:36:14,694 --> 00:36:17,230 believes a rumor that the boss wants him whacked. 848 00:36:17,264 --> 00:36:18,865 Mitra Hormozi: This is the ultimate betrayal 849 00:36:18,898 --> 00:36:20,800 for Sal Vitale. 850 00:36:20,833 --> 00:36:23,970 Here's the man who he loved more than anyone else, 851 00:36:24,003 --> 00:36:26,906 who he believes he served faithfully, 852 00:36:26,939 --> 00:36:29,676 and the fact he may have wanted to kill 853 00:36:29,709 --> 00:36:34,481 him just switches something in Sal Vitale. 854 00:36:35,782 --> 00:36:38,385 Jim Walden: The underboss deciding to cooperate 855 00:36:38,418 --> 00:36:40,920 against his brother-in-law was 856 00:36:40,953 --> 00:36:43,656 the last nail in the coffin for Massino. 857 00:36:43,690 --> 00:36:45,525 Sue Simmons: Federal prosecutors are 858 00:36:45,558 --> 00:36:47,827 claiming victory tonight after reputed mob boss 859 00:36:47,860 --> 00:36:50,497 Joseph "Big Joey" Massino was convicted 860 00:36:50,530 --> 00:36:54,534 on all counts of murder, extortion and racketeering. 861 00:36:55,568 --> 00:36:57,804 Edward McDonald: He's charged with 8 murders. 862 00:36:57,837 --> 00:36:59,639 One of the murders, Joe was facing the 863 00:36:59,672 --> 00:37:01,408 death penalty on that case. 864 00:37:01,441 --> 00:37:03,543 So he reaches out to the trial judge and 865 00:37:03,576 --> 00:37:05,545 he says that he wants to cooperate. 866 00:37:05,578 --> 00:37:07,480 Agent Pistone: Joey Massino finds out 867 00:37:07,514 --> 00:37:09,349 he's gonna get the death penalty, 868 00:37:09,382 --> 00:37:11,518 the first thing he does is he cooperates. 869 00:37:11,551 --> 00:37:15,588 He had that fear that he was gonna die in the chair, 870 00:37:15,622 --> 00:37:18,491 and he cracked. 871 00:37:19,692 --> 00:37:22,529 Mitra Hormozi: And that was the first time 872 00:37:22,562 --> 00:37:25,532 that an official boss of an organized crime family 873 00:37:25,565 --> 00:37:27,667 had decided to become a turncoat. 874 00:37:27,700 --> 00:37:29,836 Bruce Cutler: Imagine! 875 00:37:29,869 --> 00:37:31,471 The head of the group! 876 00:37:31,504 --> 00:37:32,905 Fat Sal: He knew how to play the system. 877 00:37:32,939 --> 00:37:34,774 But when the (bleep) hit the fan, 878 00:37:34,807 --> 00:37:36,042 the (bleep) hit the fan! 879 00:37:36,075 --> 00:37:37,777 Michael Franzese: Gosh. 880 00:37:37,810 --> 00:37:40,713 I mean that's the ultimate betrayal in my view, 881 00:37:40,747 --> 00:37:43,416 for a boss, somebody that is supposed to 882 00:37:43,450 --> 00:37:45,618 be so entrenched in this life, 883 00:37:45,652 --> 00:37:47,954 so entrenched in the ideology of this life, 884 00:37:47,987 --> 00:37:49,889 a leader. 885 00:37:49,922 --> 00:37:51,924 The fact that a boss could do that is, 886 00:37:51,958 --> 00:37:54,794 is devastating. 887 00:37:54,827 --> 00:37:57,397 Narrator: By 2003, the sun's finally setting 888 00:37:57,430 --> 00:37:59,366 on the American Mob. 889 00:37:59,399 --> 00:38:01,601 After 70 years as the most powerful organized 890 00:38:01,634 --> 00:38:03,703 crime force in the United States, 891 00:38:03,736 --> 00:38:06,539 Cosa Nostra is decimated. 892 00:38:06,573 --> 00:38:09,075 The mob first stumbles in 1970, 893 00:38:09,108 --> 00:38:11,544 when Mafia Boss Joe Colombo steps out of 894 00:38:11,578 --> 00:38:13,646 the shadows and into the public eye 895 00:38:13,680 --> 00:38:15,482 and is gunned down shortly 896 00:38:15,515 --> 00:38:17,650 thereafter by a mob hired hit man. 897 00:38:17,684 --> 00:38:19,919 It continues with the landmark infiltration of 898 00:38:19,952 --> 00:38:23,390 the Bonanno family by FBI Agent Joe Pistone, 899 00:38:23,423 --> 00:38:25,525 and the prosecution of the leaders of the 900 00:38:25,558 --> 00:38:27,560 five families in the commission case by U.S. 901 00:38:27,594 --> 00:38:29,996 Attorney Rudolph Giuliani in the 1980s. 902 00:38:30,029 --> 00:38:32,064 Rudolph Giuliani: We have now proven in a court of law 903 00:38:32,098 --> 00:38:33,900 beyond a reasonable doubt not only that there's a 904 00:38:33,933 --> 00:38:35,702 mafia, but that there's a commission 905 00:38:35,735 --> 00:38:37,670 that it runs the mafia. 906 00:38:37,704 --> 00:38:39,706 Narrator: Publicity hungry don John Gotti 907 00:38:39,739 --> 00:38:41,941 turns out to be another nail in the coffin in the 90s. 908 00:38:41,974 --> 00:38:44,411 But it all culminates with the betrayal by the 909 00:38:44,444 --> 00:38:46,646 last don, Joe Massino when he becomes the 910 00:38:46,679 --> 00:38:48,781 first boss of a family to cooperate with 911 00:38:48,815 --> 00:38:50,450 the federal government. 912 00:38:50,483 --> 00:38:52,752 Mitra Hormozi: Joe Massino's conviction 913 00:38:52,785 --> 00:38:55,622 really was the end of an era for 914 00:38:55,655 --> 00:38:57,657 the five families in New York. 915 00:38:57,690 --> 00:38:59,492 Rudolph Giuliani: That's sort of the real 916 00:38:59,526 --> 00:39:00,927 deterioration of all their values, 917 00:39:00,960 --> 00:39:02,929 all their principles. 918 00:39:02,962 --> 00:39:05,131 Bruce Cutler: The underworld as I knew it 919 00:39:05,164 --> 00:39:07,500 has been pulverized! 920 00:39:07,534 --> 00:39:09,001 Pummeled! 921 00:39:09,035 --> 00:39:12,439 What there was then certainly, I don't see now. 922 00:39:12,472 --> 00:39:14,407 Edward McDonald: They're on the run because the 923 00:39:14,441 --> 00:39:16,476 Justice Department and local law enforcement 924 00:39:16,509 --> 00:39:18,478 in those regions have gone after the 925 00:39:18,511 --> 00:39:19,879 mafia with a vengeance. 926 00:39:19,912 --> 00:39:21,848 Jimmy Calandra: Too much technology. 927 00:39:21,881 --> 00:39:23,149 Too many people talking. 928 00:39:23,182 --> 00:39:24,484 Too much law enforcement. 929 00:39:24,517 --> 00:39:25,818 Too many cameras. 930 00:39:25,852 --> 00:39:27,053 You know? 931 00:39:27,086 --> 00:39:28,688 Too many people taking pictures. 932 00:39:28,721 --> 00:39:30,957 [makes clicking sound] 933 00:39:30,990 --> 00:39:33,025 Narrator: Organized crime still exists, 934 00:39:33,059 --> 00:39:35,127 but it's not the same. 935 00:39:35,161 --> 00:39:37,430 Agent Kallstrom: There's still thugs that hijack 936 00:39:37,464 --> 00:39:40,467 and sell dope and run prostitution 937 00:39:40,500 --> 00:39:44,103 and gambling rackets, but it's nothing like it was. 938 00:39:44,136 --> 00:39:45,638 Detective Dades: Is there a handful of real 939 00:39:45,672 --> 00:39:47,073 tough guys out there? 940 00:39:47,106 --> 00:39:48,708 Is there a handful of guys out there 941 00:39:48,741 --> 00:39:50,009 that got good schemes going on? 942 00:39:50,042 --> 00:39:51,043 Yeah. 943 00:39:51,077 --> 00:39:56,215 To compare it to anything of like it used to be? 944 00:39:56,248 --> 00:39:59,619 Those days are over forever. 945 00:39:59,652 --> 00:40:01,721 Narrator: The mob's downfall is the culmination 946 00:40:01,754 --> 00:40:03,790 of a determined decades-long campaign 947 00:40:03,823 --> 00:40:05,692 by law enforcement. 948 00:40:05,725 --> 00:40:08,595 Bruce Cutler: The goal that the government had 949 00:40:08,628 --> 00:40:12,131 was to denude La Cosa Nostra 950 00:40:12,164 --> 00:40:14,667 of all its armaments. 951 00:40:14,701 --> 00:40:16,168 They have succeeded. 952 00:40:16,202 --> 00:40:18,571 Agent Devecchio: We took a lot of their assets 953 00:40:18,605 --> 00:40:19,906 and their moneymaking opportunities 954 00:40:19,939 --> 00:40:21,541 away from them. 955 00:40:21,574 --> 00:40:23,910 Agent Pistone: We took 'em from being the 956 00:40:23,943 --> 00:40:26,613 top organized crime group in the country 957 00:40:26,646 --> 00:40:28,515 to just another organized crime group. 958 00:40:28,548 --> 00:40:32,719 We really kicked the (bleep) out of the mob. 959 00:40:32,752 --> 00:40:34,220 Narrator: One key victory: 960 00:40:34,253 --> 00:40:36,155 the breaking of the code of secrecy 961 00:40:36,188 --> 00:40:38,558 known as Omerta, practiced on pain 962 00:40:38,591 --> 00:40:41,994 of death for decades, now in ruins. 963 00:40:42,028 --> 00:40:45,765 Michael Franzese: What separated us is that we had 964 00:40:45,798 --> 00:40:47,166 that structure, we had that respect, 965 00:40:47,199 --> 00:40:48,868 we had that honor, 966 00:40:48,901 --> 00:40:50,269 and we had to abide by it or 967 00:40:50,302 --> 00:40:51,504 there were serious consequences. 968 00:40:51,538 --> 00:40:52,705 Salvatore Polisi: There was greed, 969 00:40:52,739 --> 00:40:53,906 there was jealousy, 970 00:40:53,940 --> 00:40:55,575 and all of the sudden the principles 971 00:40:55,608 --> 00:40:56,809 and the honor was out the window. 972 00:40:56,843 --> 00:40:58,010 Philip Leonetti: La Cosa Nostra, 973 00:40:58,044 --> 00:40:59,145 you know, I believed in it one time. 974 00:40:59,178 --> 00:41:02,715 It's like when I was a kid I believed in Santa Claus. 975 00:41:02,749 --> 00:41:04,517 As I got older, 976 00:41:04,551 --> 00:41:06,018 I didn't believe in Santa Claus anymore 977 00:41:06,052 --> 00:41:07,987 and it's the same way with La Cosa Nostra. 978 00:41:08,020 --> 00:41:10,823 Rudolph Giuliani: They had these delusions of grandeur. 979 00:41:10,857 --> 00:41:12,659 I think by the time you get to 2003, 980 00:41:12,692 --> 00:41:14,226 all the delusions of grandeur are gone and 981 00:41:14,260 --> 00:41:16,929 they're just a bunch of, a bunch of creeps. 982 00:41:16,963 --> 00:41:18,798 My father, from the time I was young, 983 00:41:18,831 --> 00:41:20,567 would describe them as bullies. 984 00:41:20,600 --> 00:41:22,669 "If you need 2 or 3 men to fight your battles, 985 00:41:22,702 --> 00:41:24,270 you're not a real man," my father would say, 986 00:41:24,303 --> 00:41:28,307 "a real man can fight his own battles." 987 00:41:28,340 --> 00:41:30,209 Narrator: But almost no one believes the mob 988 00:41:30,242 --> 00:41:32,178 is gone for good. 989 00:41:32,211 --> 00:41:34,213 Selwyn Raab: The mob has taken a lot of hits. 990 00:41:34,246 --> 00:41:36,883 They're wounded, gravely. 991 00:41:36,916 --> 00:41:38,685 But not mortally. 992 00:41:38,718 --> 00:41:40,152 Michael Franzese: This thing is cyclical. 993 00:41:40,186 --> 00:41:41,721 Organized crime, boom. 994 00:41:41,754 --> 00:41:43,322 They pound on everybody, they pound on everybody 995 00:41:43,355 --> 00:41:45,024 for a period of time and then 996 00:41:45,057 --> 00:41:46,659 something else becomes important. 997 00:41:46,693 --> 00:41:48,060 Terrorism becomes important. 998 00:41:48,094 --> 00:41:50,196 So they take the agents off, they focus on that, 999 00:41:50,229 --> 00:41:54,100 and the guys on the street they build up again. 1000 00:41:54,133 --> 00:41:56,302 Selwyn Raab: It's what some people call 1001 00:41:56,335 --> 00:41:58,204 "the cockroach theory": 1002 00:41:58,237 --> 00:42:00,039 when the lights are out the 1003 00:42:00,072 --> 00:42:01,908 cockroaches roam freely. 1004 00:42:01,941 --> 00:42:05,645 If you turn the spotlight on them they have to scurry. 1005 00:42:05,678 --> 00:42:07,246 Agent Mouw: I remember talking to 1006 00:42:07,279 --> 00:42:09,181 Sammy "the Bull" Gravano about this. 1007 00:42:09,215 --> 00:42:11,217 And he said, "One theory is everybody 1008 00:42:11,250 --> 00:42:12,985 lay low for 10 years, 1009 00:42:13,019 --> 00:42:14,353 the government will go away, we'll come back, 1010 00:42:14,386 --> 00:42:15,955 we'll be stronger than ever." 1011 00:42:15,988 --> 00:42:17,223 Fat Sal: It's gonna grow again. 1012 00:42:17,256 --> 00:42:18,758 There's gonna be a spike. 1013 00:42:18,791 --> 00:42:20,226 And this time when it spikes, 1014 00:42:20,259 --> 00:42:21,894 it's gonna spike bad. 1015 00:42:21,928 --> 00:42:24,664 There's a fresh crew coming out after serving 20 years, 1016 00:42:24,697 --> 00:42:26,132 they're coming out in the next year, 1017 00:42:26,165 --> 00:42:27,233 the next two years, 1018 00:42:27,266 --> 00:42:29,001 they're coming back to Brooklyn. 1019 00:42:29,035 --> 00:42:30,770 They know nothing but to commit crimes. 1020 00:42:30,803 --> 00:42:34,674 They're gonna come back old, tight and hungry. 1021 00:42:34,707 --> 00:42:36,108 God knows what's only gonna happen when 1022 00:42:36,142 --> 00:42:38,310 they hit them streets.