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PRODUCER: My brother. Wassup?
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DOPE BOY PAPI: Wassup, wassup?
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Dope Boy Papi,
El Jefe, the big boss.
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Dominican Republic is mine.
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Anything that comes
and leaves outta here,
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it needs to come through me.
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DOPE BOY PAPI: I distribute
to New York and to Miami.
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I use mules, and I use boats.
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PRODUCER: Do you ever feel
guilty about selling drugs?
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DOPE BOY PAPI: You never
feel guilty about making money.
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PRODUCER: Do you think
drugs should be legalized?
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DOPE BOY PAPI: It
will never be legalized.
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That's how we make money.
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PRODUCER: So, you prefer
it to be illegal, or?
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DOPE BOY PAPI: Illegal.
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MAN: Shake this square world
and blast off for Kicksville.
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NIXON (over PA):
America's public enemy
number one is drug abuse.
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NANCY: Just say no.
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GEORGE: The mafia
is a major player in the
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international drug underworld.
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ANTHONY: But at
the end of the day,
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it's all about the dollar.
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It's all about the dollar.
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REAGAN (over PA): The American
people want the mob and its
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associates brought to justice
and their power broken.
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HARRIS (over PA): There's
now an understanding that the
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war on drugs was
an abject failure.
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MAN: You have to stop
and ask yourself,
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"How did we get here?"
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ANGELA: We were so excited
every time daddy came home,
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because daddy wasn't
really home a lot.
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I was under the
impression that he worked
for the CIA or the FBI,
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and he was on these missions.
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He wasn't tall, he was stocky.
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But it wasn't fat,
he was all muscle,
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and he had a punch that
you wouldn't believe.
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He put up one of those
punching bags in the basement,
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and I used to watch him,
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and it would
just blow my mind.
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How does the bag even get
back to him, he's so fast?
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He was very strong.
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Very strong.
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When he hit you, he hit you.
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My name is Angela Tucceri,
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and I am the daughter
of Carmine Galante,
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also known as "The Cigar".
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(laughs)
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BILL: Carmine Galante was,
far and away, the biggest
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heroin kingpin in the world.
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He developed a whole
system of smuggling tons of
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heroin into the country.
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CARMINE: Heroin trafficking
turned out to be the most
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profitable venture that
the mafia went into.
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ANGELA: He saw drugs as
his opportunity to almost
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take over the world.
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RALPH: The apprentice
to the Bonanno family,
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which is one of the five main
crime families in New York.
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He was particularly
close to Joseph Bonanno,
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who was the boss.
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RALPH: Carmine Galante was
a street thug for the mob,
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and he was ruthless,
which helped him rise in
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the mafia organization.
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He was just the kind of
guy they were looking for.
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ANGELA: I do have to say this,
what he did might be wrong,
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but he excelled in it.
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RALPH: In the 50s,
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Joe Bonanno sent him
to Montreal to organize
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the rackets there.
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It's not really
that well known,
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but Canada became a big
nurturing place for the mafia,
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and for organized crime
and drug trafficking.
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Border controls were relaxed,
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and it was easy to
bring in shipments of
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drugs from Europe,
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particularly the French
speaking parts, like Montreal.
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MAN: Montreal is the
largest city in Canada.
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Its great seaport and
industry gives the city a
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transcontinental economy.
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RALPH: The fact that Bonanno
dispatched him to Canada
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showed the trust
that they had in him.
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CARMINE: Galante was termed the
"Foreign Minister" of Bonanno.
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He headed Bonanno's operation
of drug trafficking, gambling,
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loan sharking, etc.
and from there,
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he made a lot of
money for Bonanno.
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ANGELA: Montreal, to me,
was a very glamorous city
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at the time.
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It never felt anything
but a vacation to me.
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He had in his passport
"occupation", and it said,
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"restaurant owner".
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So, even when I was younger,
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I knew that daddy owned
a restaurant in Canada.
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It never dawned on me that,
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"Oh, this is a great
place for dad to start
bringing in his drugs."
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It just, you know,
I didn't know any of that.
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RALPH: The French Connection
really grew out of World War II,
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because the French
would arrange shipments
through Turkey,
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where opium was prevalent,
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to processing
plants in Marseille.
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From there, French
organized crime brought it
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into the US, through Canada.
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MAN: Whose stuff is it?
Is it any good?
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WOMAN: It's very good.
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REPORTER: The commodity
of this marketplace is
the narcotic drug, heroin,
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packaged in small white bags.
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There are $3 bags and $5 bags.
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REPORTER 2: What is happening
on this street corner is part
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of an international
multimillion dollar
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a year business.
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CARMINE: The United States
was a pure market for heroin,
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and the Mafia saw that this
was the fast way of making
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a lot of money.
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WOMAN: Take it now.
Take it down, that's all.
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CARMINE: Present at this
meeting were members of the
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American Mafia, including
Joe Bonnano, Carmine Galante.
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On the Sicilian side,
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among others,
there was Lucky Luciano,
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Tommaso Buscetta.
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They put a plan together
to make a lot of money.
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The way to make a lot of
money was through drugs.
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RALPH: That meeting
established the contours of
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the drug trafficking
between Italy and the US,
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how it would be divided up,
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and laid out the
groundwork of cooperation
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between the Sicilian Mafia
and the American Mafia.
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RALPH: The Sicilians had no
criminal records in America,
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and they were an
unknown quantity to
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American law enforcement.
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CARMINE: As the underboss
of the Bonanno family,
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Galante took it upon
himself to mention to the
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young mafiosi in Sicily,
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"You guys can come to America.
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You can form your own crews.
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You'll be under my direction,
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and you're gonna make
a lot of money with me."
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ANGELA: He knew that this
was gonna be his big shot.
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But they wanted him
put away and they succeeded.
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(door slams)
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(overlapping chatter)
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FIORDILINO: Carmine Galante's
been in jail for nearly
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a third of his life.
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There's a
Sicilian term that says,
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"He was a dog
that had no leash."
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FIORDILINO: My name
is Fransesco Fiordilino,
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and in 2003,
in federal court,
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I pled out to
arson, gambling,
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distribution of drugs,
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murder, attempted murder,
conspiracy to murder,
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all while being part of
Bonanno crime family.
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Carmine Galante's ego was
bigger than all of New York,
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and he wants to be the top.
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He wants to be the guy.
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CARMINE: While in jail,
Galante thought a lot about
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his greatest ambition
to become a boss,
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to become somebody
that he wasn't.
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At the time he went to jail,
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he was the underboss
of the Bonanno family.
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But, being the way he was,
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that wasn't
good enough for him.
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RALPH: Carmine Galante had
problems from an early age,
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and he had a long history
of run‐ins with the law,
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which ended up sending
him to Sing Sing,
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where his psychology was
evaluated for the first time.
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RALPH: And they found
he had an IQ of 90,
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which is below average, a
psychopathic personality.
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Even then, he was known to
fly into unaccountable rages.
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So, the warning signs
were clearly there.
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ANGELA: My dad told
me this story once,
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that his father
tried to sell him.
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He was so appalled.
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I'm sure that that made him
get in with the wrong company.
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Even at the early stages,
he feared nothing,
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and I think that that
was a big part of him
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becoming who he was.
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RALPH: In '62, jail offered
many opportunities to keep up
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with other mobsters in prison
who he could consult with,
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so it was
not a huge impediment to
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his criminal business.
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But he had to bide his time,
and he couldn't be thinking
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anything except that
it was his rightful due to
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be the next boss.
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CARMINE: Galante got
out after 12 years of
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his 20‐year sentence.
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He was obviously on parole.
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He had to abide by
certain conditions,
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such as not associating
with criminal cohorts.
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But he was hungry to
get back into the game and
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enforce his authority.
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CARMINE: He wanted to come out
and make more money and be the
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king of the heroin
trafficking activities between
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Sicily and the United States.
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FIORDILINO: In 1972, in
New York, the French Connection,
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based out of Marseille,
gets broken up.
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RALPH: New York in the 70s
was really downtrodden.
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The city was in terrible
financial shape,
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a lot of hopelessness
in the streets.
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And that, of course,
fostered drug addiction.
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And a lot of people
felt helpless and were
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driven to drugs.
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MAN: Well, I shoot, maybe,
ten bags a day, three,
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three times a day.
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REPORTER: And how much
does that cost you?
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MAN: Well, it varies
from 20 to $25 a day.
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RALPH: It was a very ready
market for Galante's heroin.
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FIORDILINO: Carmine started
networking all over the
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United States with some of his
old drug dealing friends and had
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a little walk and talk about
what they're gonna do.
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RALPH: He needs to put
together a new crew of people.
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The question is, how can he
be assured of their loyalty,
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and that they will defend
him and not turn on him?
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DIMATTEO: So he put a
crew together from Sicily,
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and they were younger guys.
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My name's Frank DiMatteo.
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I was part of the Mafia
crime family in the 1970s.
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Sicilians always
thought they were better,
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'cause they think
they're the root of
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the Sicilian Mafia,
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and that they do things
properly and we don't.
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So, yeah, of course, they
think they're better than us.
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And they still do.
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They did then, they still do.
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To them, we're wild cowboys.
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That's what they
called us, "cowboys".
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RALPH: One of the sources for
his young Sicilian recruit was
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his parent's hometown of
Castellammare del Golfo.
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It's very picturesque,
very colorful,
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stronghold of the Mafia.
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Joe Bonanna came from there,
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which gave Galante
his sense of security.
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ANGELA: My father should
have been born in Sicily.
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That's how Sicilian
my father was.
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He trusted Sicilian people more
than he trusted anyone else,
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because like the mob,
you're all intertwined,
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you're all a family.
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GREENBERG: The Sicilians,
and that would include my
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father‐in‐law, were
described as Zips.
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And I don't even know what
Zips mean, but I can tell you,
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that has a connotation
that gets my Irish up.
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It's like saying the
Sicilians are the Dalits
of some caste system,
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you know what I mean?
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The word is
inherently disgusting,
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and I don't accept that.
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So, my name is
Howard Greenberg.
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I'm a criminal
defense attorney.
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And once upon a time,
I was married to the mob.
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I remember meeting them at
my house when I lived in
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Stonebridge with my then wife.
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They were guests of
my father‐in‐law,
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and that really was it.
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One of 'em, Cesare Bonventre,
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the government alleged
was a bodyguard for Galante,
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who stuck to him like glue.
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Flashy, in terms of
the jewelry, sunglasses,
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and had an appearance straight
out of central casting,
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if you ask me.
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Along the way,
I also met Amato and he was
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also a bodyguard.
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Physically, I would
describe him, sort of,
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like a teenager, you know.
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Salvatore Catalano was
Galante's street boss,
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and he had a
nondescript appearance.
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He, for all intents
and purposes,
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could have been a baker.
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Never had anything much,
if anything, to say.
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He was as quiet
as a church mouse.
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So, he could've been either
a baker or a church mouse.
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If they were books,
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the Sicilian Mafiosi
would be hardcover,
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first edition, first printings.
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American wise guys
would be cheap second‐hand
versions of paperbacks.
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CARMINE: They had
a common mission,
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bring the heroin from
Sicily to the
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United States at a great scale,
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so we can all make money.
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The Sicilians made contact
with the remaining members of
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the French Connection,
who were still around,
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and take them to Sicily
and form their own labs.
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And so, Galante, the people
that he had here in New York,
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the connections that
he had in Sicily,
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here was now the Sicilian
Connection that replaced the
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French Connection.
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RALPH: But, a street boss for
the Bonanno family who crossed
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the Galante faction, and
opposed his foray into drugs,
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was an Italian Mafioso
named Peter Licata.
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Licata was
against drugs, by all accounts.
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DIMATTEO: Street bosses
are a dime a dozen,
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but everybody knew
Carmine Galante would kill you,
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if didn't go along
with his game.
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He wasn't a negotiator,
he was a junk dealer.
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That's where he
makes his money.
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The guy comes out of jail and
you wanna tell him that you
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don't think it's a good idea.
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Really?
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Okay. So, you gotta go.
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(honking)
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RALPH: Knickerbocker Avenue in
Brooklyn was a stronghold of
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the Bonanno family, one of
the five mafia crime families.
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There was a so‐called
street boss, Peter Licata.
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And Licata thought drug
dealing would provide a
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problem for the family, and
he said to his underlings,
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"First deal,
deal at wholesale,
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then you'll deal at retail,
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and then it'll
end up destroying the
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entire Italian community."
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FIORDILINO: He was
not thinking at that time
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that he was ruffling some
feathers by saying something
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so in your face to somebody
who might just act on it.
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'Cause if he did, he probably
wouldn't have said it.
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DIMATTEO: He was giving
Carmine's guys a hard time,
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and that was not a
smart move on his part.
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FIORDILINO: One night,
Licata went home,
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he went to his family,
guys came up there, boom.
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CARMINE: Peter Licata was
gunned down and murdered.
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Lo and behold, who takes
over as street boss of
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Knickerbocker Avenue?
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Salvatore Catalano.
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RALPH: The message
was unmistakable,
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don't get in Galante's way.
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CARMINE: There was a lot
of upheaval in the Bonanno
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family at that time.
324
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Joe Bonanno, the former
boss of the family, had retired.
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And the boss of the Bonanno
family, at this time,
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was Philip Rastelli.
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But Rusty Rastelli
was in jail,
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and Galante saw this vacuum.
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He figured,
"I'm gonna step in here.
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He's out of the picture.
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This is what I've really
hoped for all my life,
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to be the boss of the family."
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At the same time,
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Carlo Gambino dies, and
word got out that he not only
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wanted to become boss
of the Bonanno family,
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but he also wanted to
tackle the Gambino family,
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because they had the
most powerful family in
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New York at that time.
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RALPH: The Gambinos had
a strength of about 1,000
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members in New York
in the mid‐70s,
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as opposed to
the Banannos, only about 200.
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When Carlo Gambino dies,
there's clearly a tectonic
343
00:23:34,600 --> 00:23:37,120
shift in the leadership
of the Mafia in New York
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at that time.
345
00:23:38,560 --> 00:23:41,520
So, that must've appealed
to Galante as an opportunity.
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DIMATTEO: In his mind,
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he wanted to
be the boss of bosses.
348
00:23:46,680 --> 00:23:49,560
But, guy's a psychopath
in the first place.
349
00:23:49,560 --> 00:23:51,160
The guy's not a normal guy.
350
00:23:51,160 --> 00:23:52,720
And he wasn't
following any rules,
351
00:23:52,720 --> 00:23:54,880
so it was gonna get dirty.
352
00:23:57,480 --> 00:24:00,680
RALPH: There were
a series of attacks on
Gambino family businesses,
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00:24:00,680 --> 00:24:03,600
pizza parlors
and other businesses.
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CARMINE: A lot of these
pizzerias wound up being
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00:24:05,560 --> 00:24:07,560
burned to the ground.
356
00:24:11,240 --> 00:24:13,360
Galante said, "Now I'm
gonna set up pizzerias.
357
00:24:13,360 --> 00:24:16,280
And from these pizzerias,
I'm gonna conduct the heroin
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00:24:16,280 --> 00:24:17,760
trafficking activities."
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00:24:26,520 --> 00:24:29,920
ANGELA: My father started
opening up pizza restaurants.
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00:24:30,240 --> 00:24:32,160
I remember he opened
one up not far from my
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00:24:32,160 --> 00:24:33,720
house on Broadway.
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00:24:33,720 --> 00:24:37,160
Why he chose pizza places,
I'll never know.
363
00:24:38,080 --> 00:24:40,480
But it was nice getting
free pizza all the time.
364
00:24:43,080 --> 00:24:45,720
PISTONE: Using pizza parlors
made a lot of sense because
365
00:24:45,720 --> 00:24:49,440
they had 'em throughout the
United States and they don't
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00:24:49,440 --> 00:24:51,400
draw a lot of attention
from law enforcement.
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00:24:55,840 --> 00:24:57,680
My name is Joseph D. Pistone,
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00:24:57,680 --> 00:24:59,760
Special Agent of the FBI.
369
00:24:59,760 --> 00:25:02,400
I was undercover in
the Bonanno crime family,
370
00:25:02,400 --> 00:25:04,920
and my undercover name
was Donnie Brasco.
371
00:25:08,480 --> 00:25:11,120
Pizza parlors
was a perfect idea.
372
00:25:11,120 --> 00:25:13,080
Perfect way to run
your cash through,
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00:25:13,080 --> 00:25:16,040
perfect way to
import the heroin.
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00:25:18,040 --> 00:25:20,080
CARMINE: The supplies from
Italy were being shipped to
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00:25:20,080 --> 00:25:23,080
them in containers
that contained tomato cans,
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00:25:23,680 --> 00:25:27,120
olive cans, pasta.
377
00:25:27,720 --> 00:25:30,800
PISTONE: They'd have false
bottoms on the olive oil cans,
378
00:25:30,800 --> 00:25:32,560
and have the heroin
on the bottom,
379
00:25:32,560 --> 00:25:35,360
and then the olive oil on top.
380
00:25:50,760 --> 00:25:52,440
PISTONE: I think it was,
"We're the big dogs,
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00:25:52,440 --> 00:25:55,120
and if we wanna
take over something,
382
00:25:55,120 --> 00:25:56,680
we're gonna take it over.
383
00:25:56,680 --> 00:26:00,880
You don't have the
ability to step in and
stop us from doing it."
384
00:26:17,480 --> 00:26:18,560
HAROLD:
Discreetly as possible.
385
00:26:18,560 --> 00:26:20,200
Just kinda keep it low.
386
00:26:35,080 --> 00:26:37,240
HAROLD: Our office
received information,
387
00:26:37,240 --> 00:26:38,640
from one of our local airlines,
388
00:26:38,640 --> 00:26:41,320
that one of their station
managers located in the
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00:26:41,320 --> 00:26:43,600
Caribbean was contacted by a
drug trafficking organization,
390
00:26:44,560 --> 00:26:47,400
and they enquired if
they could put suitcases
391
00:26:47,400 --> 00:26:50,480
on a flight to Atlanta.
392
00:26:50,920 --> 00:26:53,600
We felt like there were some
ramp agents here in Atlanta,
393
00:26:53,600 --> 00:26:56,360
that were involved
in a conspiracy.
394
00:26:56,360 --> 00:27:00,040
We set up surveillance.
395
00:27:00,040 --> 00:27:02,320
We saw a ramp worker
approach the flight.
396
00:27:02,320 --> 00:27:04,720
This ramp worker was not
scheduled to work the flight,
397
00:27:04,720 --> 00:27:07,120
nor was he scheduled to work
the international concourse.
398
00:27:18,720 --> 00:27:20,600
Alright, gentleman,
the bag has been ripped.
399
00:27:20,600 --> 00:27:22,680
They have it on top
of the tug pulling the
400
00:27:22,680 --> 00:27:24,280
first luggage cart.
401
00:27:24,280 --> 00:27:27,280
They're putting
everything else in a can.
402
00:27:28,880 --> 00:27:29,960
OFFICER: That's it,
right there, right?
403
00:27:29,960 --> 00:27:32,320
HAROLD: Yep.
That's it. He's got it.
404
00:27:35,040 --> 00:27:37,520
Alright, he's pulling
into the main terminal,
405
00:27:37,520 --> 00:27:39,560
so everybody look alive.
406
00:27:40,600 --> 00:27:42,560
OFFICER: There he is.
407
00:27:44,320 --> 00:27:47,600
OFFICER (over radio): Hey,
have you got any visual yet?
408
00:27:47,600 --> 00:27:49,440
HAROLD: Roger.
409
00:27:49,440 --> 00:27:51,360
He is putting it in the
vehicle at this time.
410
00:27:52,200 --> 00:27:55,320
OFFICER (over radio):
So, it's been delivered,
delivery's complete?
411
00:28:22,480 --> 00:28:25,480
RALPH: The Mafia had no
shortage of collaborators,
412
00:28:25,480 --> 00:28:28,520
and they found collaborators
at Alitalia Airlines.
413
00:28:28,840 --> 00:28:30,840
They had a baggage handler
who was in on it,
414
00:28:30,840 --> 00:28:33,480
would put the suitcases
aboard the flight.
415
00:28:34,120 --> 00:28:36,000
On the other end,
when the flight landed,
416
00:28:36,000 --> 00:28:38,800
two trusted baggage handlers
would remove the suitcases and
417
00:28:38,800 --> 00:28:41,000
send them on their way
to their destination,
418
00:28:41,000 --> 00:28:43,000
and it didn't attract
any attention.
419
00:28:46,240 --> 00:28:49,560
Those Alitalia suitcases
were worth millions
and millions of dollars,
420
00:28:49,560 --> 00:28:52,120
because the heroin could
be compactly fit in.
421
00:28:52,120 --> 00:28:54,160
So, the incentive was huge.
422
00:28:54,520 --> 00:28:57,200
That's what
increased the appetite
of people like Galante,
423
00:28:57,200 --> 00:28:59,680
that the profits to
be made were extraordinary.
424
00:29:06,920 --> 00:29:09,120
PISTONE: He probably
was grating on Rastelli,
425
00:29:09,120 --> 00:29:10,680
who was in jail,
426
00:29:10,680 --> 00:29:13,240
how Galante was
running the family,
427
00:29:13,240 --> 00:29:16,400
and how he was keeping
all the drug profits.
428
00:29:17,480 --> 00:29:19,560
DIMATTEO: Galante believed
he should be the boss.
429
00:29:21,080 --> 00:29:22,920
And he wasn't kicking up,
but it's a pyramid.
430
00:29:24,000 --> 00:29:26,720
The boss, underboss,
consigliere, captains.
431
00:29:26,720 --> 00:29:28,920
Everybody pays up.
432
00:29:30,640 --> 00:29:33,680
The big guy gets everything.
That's how this thing works.
433
00:29:35,280 --> 00:29:36,920
So, if you're making
trillions of dollars,
434
00:29:36,920 --> 00:29:38,440
you're supposed
to give me my end,
435
00:29:38,440 --> 00:29:40,400
but you didn't give it.
436
00:29:48,080 --> 00:29:50,240
ANGELA: One time,
we went to Florida,
437
00:29:50,240 --> 00:29:52,600
stayed in a hotel.
438
00:29:52,600 --> 00:29:54,760
He was just being
watched constantly,
439
00:29:56,080 --> 00:29:59,200
and all of a sudden,
in the middle of the night,
440
00:29:59,200 --> 00:30:02,400
pounding on the door,
people on the balcony.
441
00:30:02,400 --> 00:30:05,080
It was, like, it was insane.
442
00:30:05,880 --> 00:30:08,080
You'd think they were
taking down, you know,
443
00:30:08,080 --> 00:30:11,000
an army of people,
and it was just my dad.
444
00:30:11,960 --> 00:30:14,000
And when they arrested him,
445
00:30:14,000 --> 00:30:16,120
it was, to me, it was a joke.
446
00:30:34,240 --> 00:30:35,840
PISTONE: Of course, with parole,
447
00:30:35,840 --> 00:30:39,040
you're not supposed
to associate with other
known Mafia members.
448
00:30:41,080 --> 00:30:43,640
But he did violate the parole.
449
00:30:45,960 --> 00:30:47,880
REPORTER: Sir, can you tell me
why you're hiding like that?
450
00:30:48,120 --> 00:30:50,080
(overlapping chatter)
451
00:30:50,080 --> 00:30:52,080
REPORTER: Sir, can you tell me
why you're hiding like that?
452
00:30:52,360 --> 00:30:53,640
PISTONE: Carmine Galante chose,
453
00:30:53,640 --> 00:30:55,240
very shrewdly,
a good lawyer,
454
00:30:55,240 --> 00:30:57,920
who had a long history of
clashing with the establishment,
455
00:30:57,920 --> 00:31:00,160
going back to the
Senator Joseph McCarthy days.
456
00:31:02,160 --> 00:31:04,040
Very powerful lawyer,
very well connected.
457
00:31:04,840 --> 00:31:07,800
ROY: Everything
they've said is totally
incorrect and inaccurate.
458
00:31:07,800 --> 00:31:09,680
REPORTER: You believe
they're not treating your
client fairly, then?
459
00:31:09,680 --> 00:31:11,040
ROY: Pardon me?
460
00:31:11,040 --> 00:31:12,560
No, I just said, it's
just a total publicity stunt,
461
00:31:12,560 --> 00:31:15,120
or all of you
wouldn't be here, right?
462
00:31:15,120 --> 00:31:16,840
REPORTER:
What're you doing here today?
463
00:31:16,840 --> 00:31:18,880
ROY: I'm a lawyer.
464
00:31:21,080 --> 00:31:24,240
RALPH: He became a very
sought‐after criminal lawyer.
465
00:31:24,240 --> 00:31:26,560
Very successful in getting
his clients sprung.
466
00:31:28,240 --> 00:31:32,440
GREENBERG: My personal
opinion of Roy Cohn
was that he was sick,
467
00:31:32,440 --> 00:31:34,560
demented,
and in many ways,
468
00:31:34,560 --> 00:31:36,800
worse than the criminals
he represented,
469
00:31:37,480 --> 00:31:41,080
because he
fashioned the pretense
of being their advocate,
470
00:31:41,080 --> 00:31:43,800
when the truth be told,
he was no better than they were.
471
00:31:44,200 --> 00:31:45,320
PHOTOGRAPHER: Ernie, get out!
472
00:31:45,600 --> 00:31:47,080
GREENBERG: He did
not play by the rules.
473
00:31:47,080 --> 00:31:48,840
PHOTOGRAPHER:
Hey, Ernie, come on.
474
00:31:50,400 --> 00:31:53,080
RALPH: 1978, Carmine Galante
goes back to prison
475
00:31:53,080 --> 00:31:54,800
for violating parole.
476
00:31:54,800 --> 00:31:56,640
They should have held
him there, clearly,
477
00:31:56,640 --> 00:31:59,280
because he was consorting
with criminal associates,
478
00:31:59,640 --> 00:32:01,200
violating parole.
479
00:32:01,200 --> 00:32:04,360
But Roy Cohn got him out
of prison in record time.
480
00:32:05,840 --> 00:32:08,640
PISTONE: So, he got
let out early '79.
481
00:32:08,640 --> 00:32:11,040
How that happened,
I don't know.
482
00:32:11,600 --> 00:32:13,320
RALPH: He became very cocky.
483
00:32:13,320 --> 00:32:17,560
And amazingly, he goes on
60 Minutes, and his lawyer,
484
00:32:18,160 --> 00:32:21,400
Roy Cohn, gets to interview
him and present this simple
485
00:32:21,400 --> 00:32:24,720
Italian man, who likes only
to be growing tomato vines.
486
00:32:25,400 --> 00:32:26,640
CARMINE: I'm
going to the country.
487
00:32:26,640 --> 00:32:28,120
ROY: Good, what're
you gonna do when you get
to the country?
488
00:32:28,120 --> 00:32:31,000
CARMINE: Well, I mean, I
planted peppers last week,
489
00:32:31,000 --> 00:32:32,240
and now I'm gonna
plant tomatoes.
490
00:32:32,240 --> 00:32:34,320
RALPH: And this completely
phony picture of this
491
00:32:34,320 --> 00:32:36,160
mob boss is ludicrous.
492
00:32:36,840 --> 00:32:38,560
ROY: You think that had any
influence on the federal judge
493
00:32:38,560 --> 00:32:40,040
when he held that
you were right,
494
00:32:40,040 --> 00:32:41,240
and the parole
commission was wrong?
495
00:32:41,240 --> 00:32:42,600
CARMINE: I think so,
I think so.
496
00:32:42,600 --> 00:32:44,520
ROY: He thinks the farmer ought
to be able to seed, right?
497
00:32:44,520 --> 00:32:45,800
CARMINE: I think so.
498
00:32:45,800 --> 00:32:48,520
I mean, it's very well
known that that's what I do.
499
00:32:50,120 --> 00:32:52,440
DIMATTEO: When he made those
stupid moves on 60 Minutes,
500
00:32:52,440 --> 00:32:54,600
act like an old man,
it don't work.
501
00:32:54,600 --> 00:32:56,320
You ain't fooling nobody, man.
502
00:32:56,320 --> 00:32:57,840
Forget about you
talking about tomatoes,
503
00:32:57,840 --> 00:32:59,200
wear an old hat,
ripped sweater.
504
00:32:59,200 --> 00:33:01,520
You can't do this.
You can't go public.
505
00:33:01,520 --> 00:33:04,520
It don't work that way.
You're not supposed to that.
506
00:33:05,800 --> 00:33:07,200
CARMINE: He had his own rules,
507
00:33:07,200 --> 00:33:08,680
his own ways of doing things.
508
00:33:08,680 --> 00:33:11,040
He was earning money, he
was also skimming money.
509
00:33:13,120 --> 00:33:14,960
But the Mafia operates
to make money,
510
00:33:14,960 --> 00:33:17,320
and in order to make money,
you have to follow the rules.
511
00:33:18,120 --> 00:33:19,400
If you don't abide
by the rules,
512
00:33:19,400 --> 00:33:21,760
there are repercussions.
513
00:33:43,240 --> 00:33:46,960
RALPH: July 12th, 1979 was
a very hot day in New York.
514
00:33:50,080 --> 00:33:54,240
And a Cadillac was rumbling
its way down the streets of
515
00:33:54,240 --> 00:33:57,000
Bushwick, Brooklyn.
516
00:33:57,480 --> 00:33:59,600
There was a lot of
street life going on.
517
00:33:59,600 --> 00:34:02,000
It was a typical
day in Bushwick.
518
00:34:04,840 --> 00:34:09,720
This Cadillac makes its way
down Knickerbocker Avenue,
519
00:34:09,720 --> 00:34:12,000
and stops outside Joe & Mary,
520
00:34:12,000 --> 00:34:14,320
Italian‐American Restaurant,
521
00:34:14,320 --> 00:34:17,360
run by cousins of
Carmine Galante.
522
00:34:20,200 --> 00:34:21,840
And Galante, who was
well‐known there,
523
00:34:21,840 --> 00:34:24,800
made his way to the back, and
there was a backyard garden.
524
00:34:25,680 --> 00:34:28,160
The bodyguards he had
taken with him that day were
525
00:34:28,160 --> 00:34:31,120
Cesare Bonventre
and Baldo Amato.
526
00:34:32,120 --> 00:34:35,840
And the mood was set for
a relaxing afternoon.
527
00:34:36,400 --> 00:34:40,760
(overlapping chatter)
528
00:34:46,240 --> 00:34:48,800
(sizzle)
529
00:34:52,200 --> 00:34:53,000
(car doors closing)
530
00:34:55,800 --> 00:34:58,080
(footsteps)
531
00:34:58,080 --> 00:35:00,360
(sizzle)
532
00:35:00,360 --> 00:35:02,240
(overlapping chatter)
533
00:35:02,240 --> 00:35:03,600
(gun cocks)
534
00:35:03,600 --> 00:35:05,040
(gunshots)
535
00:35:05,040 --> 00:35:06,520
(shotgun blast)
536
00:35:07,360 --> 00:35:09,520
DISPATCHER (over radio):
13‐8‐61, 13‐8‐61.
537
00:35:09,520 --> 00:35:12,640
BILL: I was in an unmarked
police car by myself,
538
00:35:12,640 --> 00:35:15,680
and I happened to be just a
couple of blocks away from
539
00:35:15,680 --> 00:35:18,960
Knickerbocker Avenue, when
I hear this job come over.
540
00:35:19,960 --> 00:35:22,000
DISPATCHER (over radio):
785, no record, NCIC.
541
00:35:24,680 --> 00:35:26,320
ELLEN: Shortly before
3:00 this afternoon,
542
00:35:26,320 --> 00:35:28,120
a blue Chevy pulled up
here in front of
543
00:35:28,120 --> 00:35:29,400
Joe & Mary's restaurant.
544
00:35:29,400 --> 00:35:33,240
Three men got out, wearing
ski masks, armed, shotguns,
545
00:35:33,240 --> 00:35:35,120
automatic weapons.
546
00:35:36,440 --> 00:35:39,160
BILL: And as I get there,
I run into the backyard.
547
00:35:40,400 --> 00:35:43,320
I'm the first detective there,
there was maybe three cops.
548
00:35:44,480 --> 00:35:46,360
I see the dead bodies.
549
00:35:46,680 --> 00:35:50,000
MICHAEL: There are multiple
gunshot and shotgun wounds.
550
00:35:50,400 --> 00:35:52,200
REPORTER: And as a
result of those wounds,
551
00:35:52,200 --> 00:35:54,480
would you say the death was
instantaneous on both parts?
552
00:35:55,360 --> 00:35:57,800
MICHAEL: It would appear that
the death was very rapid.
553
00:36:07,640 --> 00:36:08,880
MAN: Okay, let's go.
554
00:36:08,880 --> 00:36:10,720
Out of the way.
555
00:36:11,920 --> 00:36:13,360
WOMAN: Get out of the way!
556
00:36:17,080 --> 00:36:20,120
ANGELA: My mother called me,
557
00:36:20,120 --> 00:36:21,800
screaming "They killed him,
they killed him,
558
00:36:21,800 --> 00:36:23,960
they killed him."
559
00:36:27,520 --> 00:36:31,200
My mother was destroyed.
560
00:36:31,800 --> 00:36:35,120
She was just destroyed,
'cause she loved him.
561
00:36:35,120 --> 00:36:37,040
She never stopped loving him.
562
00:36:37,040 --> 00:36:38,840
She loved this man.
563
00:36:38,840 --> 00:36:40,640
It amazed me, but it was true.
564
00:36:44,400 --> 00:36:47,440
It was almost surreal,
the whole thing.
565
00:36:49,680 --> 00:36:52,960
I don't think he thought
he would ever die.
566
00:36:53,560 --> 00:36:55,960
He's got that God complex.
567
00:36:56,680 --> 00:36:59,640
He just didn't think
anything could ever,
568
00:36:59,640 --> 00:37:01,520
ever happen to him.
569
00:37:06,160 --> 00:37:10,040
I was very surprised he
wasn't killed much sooner,
570
00:37:11,360 --> 00:37:14,840
and that's probably why I
was so shocked when he died,
571
00:37:14,840 --> 00:37:16,600
because now you don't
expect it anymore,
572
00:37:16,600 --> 00:37:19,360
'cause it didn't happen
for such a long time.
573
00:37:22,200 --> 00:37:24,760
Then there was the wake,
which was a joke.
574
00:37:24,760 --> 00:37:26,120
It was a zoo.
575
00:37:26,120 --> 00:37:27,760
Reporters, bah‐bah‐bah.
576
00:37:30,400 --> 00:37:33,200
RALPH: For the FBI, it was a
big mystery why he was hit,
577
00:37:33,200 --> 00:37:34,600
who was the killer.
578
00:37:34,600 --> 00:37:36,840
And that had to be
pieced together.
579
00:37:39,360 --> 00:37:41,240
FIORDILINO: There
was no love lost.
580
00:37:41,240 --> 00:37:44,280
When he passed away, there
was 40 people at his funeral.
581
00:37:44,640 --> 00:37:46,880
There's a reason for that,
nobody liked him.
582
00:38:01,040 --> 00:38:03,200
RALPH: Carmine Galante
was front page news in the
583
00:38:03,200 --> 00:38:05,040
New York Times.
584
00:38:07,240 --> 00:38:10,720
But the big question was, what
about Bonventre and Amato?
585
00:38:12,200 --> 00:38:14,560
That's the question that the
police grappled with later,
586
00:38:14,560 --> 00:38:16,120
and one said,
587
00:38:16,120 --> 00:38:18,680
"It was raining bullets
and they didn't get wet".
588
00:38:18,680 --> 00:38:21,120
So, how did they
avoid getting mowed down
589
00:38:21,120 --> 00:38:24,360
in that scene of mayhem?
590
00:38:29,640 --> 00:38:31,120
REPORTER: Good evening.
591
00:38:31,120 --> 00:38:33,240
Two men walked into
the Brooklyn DA's office
this afternoon.
592
00:38:33,240 --> 00:38:34,960
The police have been looking
for them ever since
593
00:38:34,960 --> 00:38:37,720
Carmine Galante was
gunned down earlier this month.
594
00:38:37,720 --> 00:38:40,760
Cesare Bonventre and
Baldo Amato were having lunch
595
00:38:40,760 --> 00:38:43,040
with Galante when the
hitmen broke in and killed him.
596
00:38:44,040 --> 00:38:48,240
BILL: They had nothing to
help with any investigation.
597
00:38:48,240 --> 00:38:51,840
They took the fifth, so they
were totally useless as far as
598
00:38:51,840 --> 00:38:53,640
the investigation went.
599
00:38:55,600 --> 00:38:58,840
They were supposedly
innocent witnesses to it.
600
00:38:58,840 --> 00:39:01,240
But they didn't know
I spoke Italian,
601
00:39:01,240 --> 00:39:02,720
and there were some
remarks being said,
602
00:39:02,720 --> 00:39:04,120
"Watch what you
say to this guy",
603
00:39:04,120 --> 00:39:05,480
and everything, in Italian.
604
00:39:05,480 --> 00:39:08,200
So, I knew they were
not gonna level with me.
605
00:39:11,240 --> 00:39:13,400
CARMINE: Not only did they
see Cesare Bonventre and
606
00:39:13,400 --> 00:39:16,200
Baldo Amato show up,
but Salvatore Catalano.
607
00:39:16,200 --> 00:39:19,000
That really piqued
our interest,
608
00:39:19,840 --> 00:39:23,160
because one of the suspects
was heard coming into the
609
00:39:23,160 --> 00:39:26,360
place being mentioned
by the name "Sal".
610
00:39:29,440 --> 00:39:32,160
CARMINE: As a result, it was
suspected that Sal Catalano
611
00:39:32,160 --> 00:39:36,120
also participated in the
murder of Carmine Galante.
612
00:39:44,240 --> 00:39:47,520
PISTONE: Galante put a lot
of trust in Cesare and Baldo.
613
00:39:47,520 --> 00:39:50,000
They had to be on the set up.
614
00:39:50,000 --> 00:39:53,400
And they saw the opportunity,
they figured they're gonna
615
00:39:53,400 --> 00:39:57,040
make a bigger piece of the pie
with Galante out of the way,
616
00:39:57,040 --> 00:39:59,000
so they snatched it.
617
00:39:59,000 --> 00:40:00,160
PISTONE: They were definitely
in on the conspiracy
618
00:40:00,160 --> 00:40:02,440
from the get‐go.
619
00:40:03,520 --> 00:40:06,440
And also, Cesare Bonventre
got up to Capo,
620
00:40:06,440 --> 00:40:08,880
he became the captain
in the family.
621
00:40:08,880 --> 00:40:12,120
And Sal Catalano became
the boss of Sicilians.
622
00:40:13,480 --> 00:40:16,360
DIMATTEO: All three of them were
100% offered a better deal.
623
00:40:16,360 --> 00:40:19,560
I think it was like an
offer you couldn't refuse.
624
00:40:25,160 --> 00:40:26,800
RALPH: There were many clues.
625
00:40:26,800 --> 00:40:29,360
One was that the boss
of the Bonanno family,
626
00:40:29,360 --> 00:40:31,360
Phil Rusty Rastelli,
627
00:40:31,360 --> 00:40:35,480
got an excessive number of
visits in prison before the hit,
628
00:40:36,120 --> 00:40:38,000
and that was pretty telling.
629
00:40:45,080 --> 00:40:48,080
BILL: It was surveillance
of the Ravenite Social Club.
630
00:40:48,080 --> 00:40:52,360
And when a call came over
about Galante being killed,
631
00:40:52,360 --> 00:40:54,720
they started filming
everybody coming and going.
632
00:40:56,480 --> 00:40:59,160
PISTONE: The Ravenite was
a Gambino social club.
633
00:41:00,160 --> 00:41:03,720
And after the hit went down,
a guy by the name of
634
00:41:03,720 --> 00:41:08,320
Bruno Indelicato shows up,
and he's seen talking with
635
00:41:08,320 --> 00:41:11,080
the underboss of the
Gambinos at the time.
636
00:41:12,120 --> 00:41:16,120
RALPH: Bruno Indelicato
seemed to be getting quite
637
00:41:16,120 --> 00:41:19,000
some attention outside the club.
638
00:41:19,360 --> 00:41:21,720
And later, they put it
together that, perhaps,
639
00:41:21,720 --> 00:41:24,160
he had something to do
with the killing of Galante and
640
00:41:24,160 --> 00:41:25,960
was being congratulated.
641
00:41:27,400 --> 00:41:32,560
PISTONE: So, right there,
it shows you that the Gambinos
642
00:41:32,560 --> 00:41:35,240
sanctioned it, and if the
Gambinos sanctioned it,
643
00:41:35,240 --> 00:41:38,960
all the other bosses
sanctioned it.
644
00:41:45,720 --> 00:41:50,080
CARMINE: The authority to
assassinate Carmine Galante
645
00:41:50,080 --> 00:41:53,880
had to be authorized by
the so‐called "Commission"
646
00:41:53,880 --> 00:41:55,040
of the Mafia.
647
00:42:01,320 --> 00:42:04,960
RALPH: It had to have
been some kind of
high‐level decision,
648
00:42:05,280 --> 00:42:08,280
because bosses, or underbosses,
don't get whacked on a whim
649
00:42:08,280 --> 00:42:11,080
by some lower soldier, or capo.
650
00:42:11,840 --> 00:42:14,640
It's a Commission
decision usually.
651
00:42:17,320 --> 00:42:20,120
CARMINE: He had done
things against the Mafia rule.
652
00:42:20,120 --> 00:42:22,800
They had to make an
example of Galante.
653
00:42:24,800 --> 00:42:29,240
It was a daylight assassination
to send a message that,
654
00:42:29,240 --> 00:42:31,160
"We are the ones who rule.
655
00:42:31,160 --> 00:42:33,000
The rules are
not to be broken".
656
00:42:43,440 --> 00:42:46,160
BILL: Once I started
the investigation of
the death of Galante,
657
00:42:46,160 --> 00:42:48,840
I kept winding up
in a pizzeria after pizzeria.
658
00:42:51,080 --> 00:42:53,440
The Mafia at that time
was considered involved in
659
00:42:53,440 --> 00:42:56,120
bookmaking and possession
of stolen property,
660
00:42:56,640 --> 00:42:58,080
and all that stuff.
661
00:42:58,080 --> 00:43:01,040
But I don't think anybody
really knew how involved they
662
00:43:01,040 --> 00:43:03,920
were in the importing of
drugs into the country.
663
00:43:12,280 --> 00:43:16,320
RALPH: The killing of Galante
was the key to opening up this
664
00:43:16,320 --> 00:43:19,840
vast drug conspiracy
that became known as
665
00:43:19,840 --> 00:43:21,400
the Pizza Connection.
666
00:43:22,600 --> 00:43:26,160
It became unimaginably
important in shifting the
667
00:43:26,160 --> 00:43:30,840
focus of the FBI from
individual cases to a broader
668
00:43:30,840 --> 00:43:34,120
perspective of prosecuting
drug organizations.
669
00:43:35,680 --> 00:43:39,080
It was really the linchpin
to a vast revolution in
670
00:43:39,080 --> 00:43:41,320
law enforcement, not only
in the United States,
671
00:43:41,960 --> 00:43:44,200
but in Italy and
around the world,
672
00:43:44,200 --> 00:43:47,280
in terms of awareness of the
international drug conspiracy.
673
00:43:51,720 --> 00:43:53,840
ANGELA: He followed
the American dream,
674
00:43:53,840 --> 00:43:56,960
at least what his mind thought
was the American dream.
675
00:43:56,960 --> 00:43:59,840
You start at the bottom
and you work your way up.
676
00:43:59,840 --> 00:44:03,880
Then, eventually, you're gonna
be at the top, and he was.
677
00:44:03,880 --> 00:44:06,000
He just went about
it the wrong way.
678
00:44:07,400 --> 00:44:08,760
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