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MAN: Shake this square world
and blast off for Kicksville.
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NIXON: America's public enemy
number one is drug abuse.
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NANCY: Just say no.
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MAN 2: The Mafia is
a major player in the
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international drug underworld.
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MAN 3: At the end of the day,
it's all about the dollar.
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It's all about the dollar.
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REAGAN: American people want
the mob and its associates
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brought to justice and
their power broken.
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HARRIS: There's now an
understanding that the
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War on Drugs was
an abject failure.
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MAN 4: You have to
stop and ask yourself,
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"How did we get here?"
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(fans cheering)
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JIMMY D: When I was in college,
we never lost a game.
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The other teams would be
exhausted by halftime and
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we came out like it was
the beginning of the game.
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We just annihilated
other people.
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We could have beat anyone.
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This feeling of being'
on top of the world.
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The football team went
undefeated 'cause I had 'em
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all methed up.
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My name was on the lips
of every student there.
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Everyone on the college
campus was wired up.
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Everybody got straight As.
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These other kids
were ridin' the bus,
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I had a brand‐new Cadillac.
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JIMMY D: Long John became
the methamphetamine king pin
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in Philadelphia.
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And he would step
over your dead body if
he was done with you.
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His name was Long John
because he had long
pockets and short arms.
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He'd rather eat his
young than part with a buck.
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MARTORANO: My name
is George Martorano.
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I'm the son of
Long John Martorano.
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My father's reputation was
made in the meth business.
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He made a lotta money.
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Millions and millions
and millions.
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(laughs)
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You don't become "Long John"
by sellin' ice cream.
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MARTORANO: It all started
from our vending company
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right in the neighborhood.
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So he supplies, you know,
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pinball machines, juke boxes,
cigarette machines
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to restaurants
and other businesses.
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He was a money maker,
it was just unbelievable.
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It wasn't a week go by that
he didn't come up with another
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idea how to make money.
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GEORGE: Philadelphia's
a blue‐collar town.
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Meth was a drug that made you
feel you could work really hard,
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you could go for hours.
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If I pop some meth,
16 hours in a flash won't
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even affect me.
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Meth was the preferred
drug of choice for a lotta
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different segments
of the community.
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Boom, it exploded.
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JIMMY D: Long John offered to
supply me with bags of a gram,
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of a half a gram, of
small quantities you sell
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person‐to‐person.
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Meth was such an
addictive drug,
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you got a line waiting around
the corner to buy this.
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JIMMY D: Long John was sneakin'
his drug dealing on the side,
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on the down low,
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that's why he recruited kids
like me so it couldn't get
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back to the other Mob guys.
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Long John would pay maybe 7,
8 grand for the pound, cut it,
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put it out on the street,
gross 30.
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He'd walk away with
$23,000, in three days.
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GEORGE: Long John settles
in Cherry Hill, New Jersey,
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which is a very upscale
suburban community.
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And he became a
very wealthy man.
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He had summer homes.
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He would go for long
vacations with the family.
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JIMMY D: He was flashy, jewelry.
Flashy cars.
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Money.
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Everything in Long John's
life was money.
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LOU: But then there's
something that money can't buy.
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JIMMY D: He played himself
up as the Godfather, the Don,
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the Boss of Bosses.
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But in fact,
he wasn't a made guy.
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LOU: By becoming
a member of the Mob,
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it is status.
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It adds a special
gravitas to your name.
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JIMMY D: That's definitely
Long John's goal in life.
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That's why he had to
impress Angelo Bruno.
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GEORGE: Angelo Bruno, who
emerged as the boss in 1959,
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was a businessman.
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Angelo Bruno was
an entrepreneur.
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Angelo Bruno understood
the idea was to make money
not headlines.
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Long John was an earner.
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That's why Bruno liked him.
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He and Bruno kinda
spoke the same language.
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It's about money.
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(pop)
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MARTORANO: I remember one
time we were havin' lunch.
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It was me,
my father and the Boss,
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Angelo Bruno, at the table.
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A big money guy on the streets
came out with a wisecrack.
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Your Boss got very upset.
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My father picked up
the sugar container and...
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(thud and breaking glass)
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That guy will never
say a wisecrack again.
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I think it cost him
thousands of dollars to get
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his teeth done.
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Attempted killings, beatings.
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My father would get
up and do it himself.
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And everyone knew that's
what kinda man he was.
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GEORGE: Angelo Bruno was one
of the old school Mafia guys
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who said drugs are
forbidden and he saw drugs
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as a dirty business.
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Heavy law enforcement
attention and if you deal drugs,
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you're violating the
principles of our organization.
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MARTORANO: In the Mob
you cannot sell drugs.
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If you got caught with drugs,
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you're gonna get
the death penalty.
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(sirens)
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(overlapping radio chatter)
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REPORTER: There is a major
story tonight in Philadelphia.
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Here's what's happening.
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WOMAN: It's absolutely
shocking here.
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This is a
gangland‐style killing,
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certainly not something
we expected to see in
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Philadelphia tonight.
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GEORGE: There's Angelo Bruno,
the Boss, his mouth agape,
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his head back on
the seat of the car.
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A hole in the back of
Angelo Bruno's head.
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And that's the end of
Angelo Bruno's era,
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right there on the
streets in South Philly.
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MAN: I know he was a good man.
That's all I can tell ya.
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WOMAN: Nice man to
everybody that I know of.
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MAN 2: The big thing I guess
was that he would never be
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involved in drugs around this
neighborhood and now people
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are wondering, you know,
what's gonna happen,
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is there gonna be a lot of
drug traffic around here now?
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REPORTER: There was a
funeral in Philadelphia today
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for Angelo Bruno.
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It was well attended
by his family,
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friends and fellow
Mob members.
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(overlapping chatter)
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It is even possible that
the man who paid to have him
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killed was there too.
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LOU: The reason that Bruno
was killed involved drugs.
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You had these associates and
drugs would be another revenue
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source that they were
being deprived of.
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JIMMY D: There never
was any proof of it,
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but it's almost like
Long John had something
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to do with Bruno's murder.
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MARTORANO: My father had
nothin' to do with it.
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He was very heart broke,
very sad, very sad.
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INTERVIEWER (over PA): Well,
how would you characterize your
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relationship or
acquaintance with Mr. Bruno?
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LONG JOHN (over PA): He was a
very dear friend of mine, sir.
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LOU: Nicky Scarfo
was a psychopath.
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What came first was
violence as a tool to
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enforce discipline
to maximize profits.
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His DNA was the bullet
and he loved it.
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LOU: What was Long John's
first thing that he wanted to
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know with respect to Scarfo?
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He wanted to know
what's your position
with respect to drugs,
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because this was his business.
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JIMMY D: Scarfo was
anti‐drugs out in the open,
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but he certainly opened
it up for Long John.
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Nicky Scarfo wasn't gonna
pay us up on all that money
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Long John offered.
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Scarfo turned a blind eye,
got his cut of Long John's
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business and allowed
him really to explode
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in the drug business.
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JIMMY D: Long John stopped
dealing finished product,
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he just wanted the chemicals.
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That's where the money was,
it was fast turnover.
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You didn't have to
turn it into powder,
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you just buy it and sell it.
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The chemicals
you need are P2P,
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Phenyl‐2‐Propanone.
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A pint of P2P will make one
pound of pure methamphetamine.
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The biggest problem
is getting P2P.
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RONALD: I felt that as a
marketing major in college,
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find a need and fill it.
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I've been told I
was the largest P2P seller
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in the United States.
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We had a large
cocaine division,
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but I liked the P2P business
better because I was able to
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control it from the source.
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We were getting the large
quantities from Germany.
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We had it shipped
into the Bahamas.
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I purchased a yacht, we would
load it up and come back to
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Fort Lauderdale.
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We'd pick up the shipment and
bring it back to Philadelphia.
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I liked the business,
and I had no competition.
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RONALD: Word had gotten
out to Long John that we
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were a source.
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We would meet at a car wash.
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Long John said,
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"Look, I'd like you to sell
P2P to a couple of my people
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and we'll take care of
any problems you have."
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I sold 200 gallons
to Long John's people.
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RONALD: We could put 28
gallons in the trunk of a car
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and deliver the car to them.
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JIMMY D: Long John started
selling me Raiton P2P which
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was far and away better
than anything on the street.
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At this point I'm no
longer dealing in a product,
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I was full‐time meth cooker
for the Pagan Motorcycle Gang.
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Manufacturing meth was
like havin' a good union job.
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Philadelphia in my era was
the meth capital of the world.
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The Pagans distributed
it all over the country.
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LOU: Long John was an agent
of destruction with respect to
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the drugs that he
was dealing in.
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MAN: Leave me alone!
Guys, leave me!
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REPORTER: This man exhibits
a very common reaction.
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Anxious, agitated, disturbed
and acutely frightened.
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MAN: Oh I never hurt nobody!
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WOMAN: The risk involved
is death with speed.
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Inevitably the
result will be death.
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JIMMY D: He had a lotta money,
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but Long John still
wanted to be a made man.
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He had to impress Scarfo,
so Scarfo ordered a hit.
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It's your job, kill him.
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I don't give a
(bleep) how you do it.
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Kill him.
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♪ ♪
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GEORGE: The Italian American
Mob in Philadelphia
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was Philadelphia‐based,
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but it had tentacles
into southern New Jersey,
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as far east as the
Atlantic City Resort.
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LOU: In the late '70s
where legalized gambling
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came to Atlantic City,
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this was like a treasure
trove for the Mob.
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JIMMY D: Atlantic City
went from a ghetto to a very
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powerful union city.
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The Bartender's Union,
the Waitress Union,
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the Linen Union.
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The Philadelphia Mob with
Scarfo wanted to own those
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unions 'cause then you could
go to the casino Presidents,
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tell 'em, "We're gonna have a
strike unless you kick up to
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us "X" amount
of dollars annually."
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It was big money.
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JIMMY D: John McCullough
was a union leader.
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McCullough took control of
the unions in Atlantic City and
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he wouldn't go along
with any of the Mob's plans
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of working with them.
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MARTORANO: John McCullough
made the mistake getting his
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eyes on Atlantic City.
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All's I know he was told to
keep out of Atlantic City.
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He shoulda listened.
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LOU: Scarfo goes to Long John,
wants to set up McCullough,
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you do the murder.
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Long John's going to willingly
accept that because this is
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how he's going to prove
himself with respect to
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becoming a Mob member.
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JUNIOR: People don't realize,
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it takes a lotta balls
to walk up and put a gun
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up to someone's head.
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(gunshot)
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JUNIOR: I met
Long John, he said,
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"You got balls
like an elephant.
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Basically, we gotta
piece of work to do.
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I want you
to do it, do a murder."
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With a guy that's
right next to the Boss,
it's an honor to be asked.
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I said,
"All right, no problem."
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JUNIOR: Got a box of
flowers so I could lay the
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piece and the
silencer in there,
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try and be like
a dumb delivery guy.
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We arranged to meet
about 5:00 that night.
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Long John, I think he had
his gold Lincoln that day.
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I got in the back,
nodded at each other.
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We proceeded over the
Benjamin Franklin Bridge,
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headin' towards
Northeast Philadelphia.
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Long John pointed
out the house.
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He turned around and
sat a couple of houses down
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in his car.
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I got out with the flowers.
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I went up,
knocked on the door.
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(knock)
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As soon as John
answered the door,
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he looked at me just like
you're lookin' at me and
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I just put the silencer
up to his forehead.
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(silened gunshots)
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It was over and that was that.
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JUNIOR: Long John said,
"Man, I love you, I love you."
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He handed me $5,000
in cash and said,
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"Listen, buy
yourself some suits."
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REPORTER: 60‐year‐old
McCullough was gunned down
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nine days before
Christmas in his
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Northeast Philadelphia home.
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LOU: Delivery man kills
him in front of his wife.
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People were just
absolutely stunned by that.
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You wonder what is the
darkness of the individual
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who's a member of the Mob.
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GEORGE: Long John got made
and became an initiated member
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because of that hit.
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He was worthy of being
part of the organization.
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JIMMY D: He became Scarfo's
number one man on the street.
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JIMMY D: Long John
definitely wanted to control
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the whole business
of meth in every aspect.
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Someone won't
cooperate, kill 'em.
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We'll just take over
his whole operation.
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♪ ♪
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OFFICER:
We ready to rock 'n roll?
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OFFICER 2: Yeah.
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OFFICER:
Have we got the equipment?
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OFFICER 2: Yeah.
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COOKE: This is a
pretty dangerous operation.
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So we are gonna be very
careful about any of these
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people that arm
themselves in a panic.
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(camera shutter)
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(knock)
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OFFICER 3: Hit it, hit it!
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OFFICER 4: On the floor!
On the floor!
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On the ground!
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OFFICER 5: Hands out,
hands where I can see 'em!
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00:27:00,240 --> 00:27:02,840
Now! Hands behind your head.
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COOKE: This is the
dope that was found.
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It was in a thermos container.
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A little over 40 ounces.
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MAN: There's probably at least,
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probably 10,000
to 20,000 in there.
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COOKE: Here we have
Jesús Malverde,
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00:27:26,200 --> 00:27:28,680
patron saint of
drug traffickers.
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00:27:29,080 --> 00:27:31,000
Our head honcho here is
wearing some jewelry around
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00:27:31,000 --> 00:27:33,880
his neck with Jesús Malverde's
picture on it.
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So he's the real deal.
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♪ ♪
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LOU: Long John's ultimate
goal was to be the sole
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source of P2P in Philadelphia.
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00:28:24,280 --> 00:28:27,760
Whenever you have a monopoly
over anything that's in demand,
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you're gonna be able
to control its price,
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00:28:30,480 --> 00:28:33,360
you're gonna become
even more powerful.
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00:28:43,280 --> 00:28:46,320
RONALD: Steve Bouras was the
head of the Greek Mafia in
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Philadelphia and he was
one of my larger customers.
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He was Long John's
main competition.
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00:28:59,360 --> 00:29:02,360
JIMMY D: Steve Bouras
was a P2P supplier
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00:29:02,360 --> 00:29:04,640
all over the city.
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00:29:04,640 --> 00:29:07,680
He had his own gang,
they were very successful.
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00:29:08,560 --> 00:29:11,320
It was
multi‐million‐dollar money
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00:29:11,320 --> 00:29:13,280
and Long John
wanted their action.
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00:29:21,000 --> 00:29:23,640
LOU: Long John gets
close to Stevie Bouras.
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00:29:24,120 --> 00:29:27,720
Says, "Let's go to dinner."
Your guard is down because
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00:29:28,200 --> 00:29:30,280
you're going to dinner
in a public place.
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00:29:33,480 --> 00:29:37,280
JIMMY D: Long John brought his
wife and Bouras brought a date.
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00:29:37,280 --> 00:29:38,560
(pop)
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00:29:39,000 --> 00:29:40,880
It's a social event.
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00:29:46,440 --> 00:29:48,760
During the dinner, two
masked men came in.
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00:29:51,240 --> 00:29:55,080
The shooter himself
motioned the gun to Long John
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00:29:55,080 --> 00:29:57,280
to sit back.
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00:29:57,280 --> 00:29:59,600
It was obvious they
were working together.
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00:30:00,040 --> 00:30:02,000
(gunshots)
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00:30:04,440 --> 00:30:08,040
The shooter murdered
Bouras and his date,
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00:30:08,040 --> 00:30:10,440
an innocent woman who
just thought she was going
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00:30:10,440 --> 00:30:11,920
out to have dinner.
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00:30:12,760 --> 00:30:15,160
REPORTER: Reportedly
present at the table
when the shooting broke out,
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00:30:15,160 --> 00:30:16,680
Long John Martorano,
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00:30:16,680 --> 00:30:19,120
a business associate of the
late crime boss Angelo Bruno.
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00:30:20,720 --> 00:30:22,720
JIMMY D: No‐one in their
right mind would go to
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00:30:22,720 --> 00:30:23,840
dinner with Long John.
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00:30:23,840 --> 00:30:25,840
You talk about
the last supper.
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00:30:30,640 --> 00:30:33,800
LOU: Long John's
thinking is so twisted.
357
00:30:35,800 --> 00:30:37,760
Who ends up committing a
murder with family members in
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00:30:37,760 --> 00:30:41,480
attendance and then with
the danger that you have a
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00:30:41,480 --> 00:30:43,280
civilian who ends up dead.
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00:30:46,480 --> 00:30:48,520
JIMMY D: The street
business on it is,
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00:30:48,520 --> 00:30:52,200
the shooter was Long John's
own son, Georgie Martorano,
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00:30:55,320 --> 00:30:58,360
which is a little hard to
understand that he not only
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00:30:58,360 --> 00:31:01,320
murdered the
girlfriend or the date,
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00:31:01,320 --> 00:31:02,920
an innocent bystander,
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00:31:02,920 --> 00:31:05,120
by he did it in front
of his own mother.
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00:31:07,800 --> 00:31:09,480
MARTORANO: They tried to
say I was involved in it,
367
00:31:09,480 --> 00:31:11,880
but I wasn't.
368
00:31:12,360 --> 00:31:16,720
My father he was capable
of orchestrating anything
369
00:31:16,720 --> 00:31:18,160
if he wanted to.
370
00:31:31,960 --> 00:31:33,360
MARTORANO: Me and my father,
371
00:31:33,360 --> 00:31:35,400
we knew the family of
the woman that got killed.
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00:31:35,400 --> 00:31:38,400
We actually went to her house
and consoled the family and
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00:31:38,400 --> 00:31:42,160
make sure they
had any kinda funds they
needed for the funeral,
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00:31:42,440 --> 00:31:44,800
had coffee with them.
375
00:31:45,320 --> 00:31:46,440
And that was it.
376
00:31:46,440 --> 00:31:48,360
The next day it
was onto business.
377
00:31:48,760 --> 00:31:51,240
My father probably
got all his customers.
378
00:31:53,440 --> 00:31:55,320
They can't buy
from a dead guy,
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00:31:55,320 --> 00:31:57,080
they're gonna buy
from a living guy.
380
00:31:57,800 --> 00:31:59,680
You know, it's the
name of the game.
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00:32:18,800 --> 00:32:24,120
♪ ♪
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00:32:24,960 --> 00:32:27,000
RONALD: We met sitting
on the park bench.
383
00:32:30,000 --> 00:32:33,320
We talked about P2P and
that I was selling too much
384
00:32:33,680 --> 00:32:35,000
to other people.
385
00:32:35,840 --> 00:32:39,080
Long John wanted to
be my only customer.
386
00:32:40,720 --> 00:32:44,760
He said he wants to buy
52 gallons of P2P from me.
387
00:32:45,880 --> 00:32:49,880
I said okay, and we made
arrangements to meet again.
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00:32:51,360 --> 00:32:52,320
RONALD (over speaker):
First of all,
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00:32:52,320 --> 00:32:53,840
this is what it'll cost.
390
00:32:53,840 --> 00:32:56,440
RONALD: I was wearing a wire.
391
00:32:57,880 --> 00:33:00,600
There were several
FBI agents watching us.
392
00:33:01,840 --> 00:33:04,920
I was thrilled to be
participating.
393
00:33:04,920 --> 00:33:07,280
I wanted out of the business.
394
00:33:14,800 --> 00:33:19,280
♪ ♪
395
00:33:19,280 --> 00:33:22,320
RONALD: I got arrested on a
cocaine distribution charge.
396
00:33:23,360 --> 00:33:26,120
The punishment could
be five years in prison.
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00:33:27,320 --> 00:33:29,560
I thought I could make a deal.
398
00:33:31,560 --> 00:33:33,760
I met two agents from the FBI,
399
00:33:34,280 --> 00:33:37,320
I gave 'em a list of my
customers and they were very
400
00:33:37,320 --> 00:33:38,960
interested in Long John.
401
00:33:43,080 --> 00:33:48,440
LOU: Raiton had the criminal
credentials to be able to meet
402
00:33:48,440 --> 00:33:50,760
with Long John Martorano.
403
00:33:50,760 --> 00:33:54,080
He was a prize as far as
the FBI was concerned.
404
00:33:57,200 --> 00:33:58,720
RONALD: They got
back to me and said,
405
00:33:58,720 --> 00:34:02,280
"Look, if you wear a wire,
we'll make a deal with you."
406
00:34:05,160 --> 00:34:07,840
I would be free,
and I'd be out of the business.
407
00:34:19,920 --> 00:34:22,680
LOU: So they set the meet
up for Rittenhouse Square.
408
00:34:28,080 --> 00:34:30,320
The city has all these
different beautiful squares,
409
00:34:30,320 --> 00:34:32,400
Rittenhouse Square
is one of them.
410
00:34:36,600 --> 00:34:39,720
MARTORANO: The FBI needed
where they can get him on film
411
00:34:40,560 --> 00:34:42,480
and what better place
than an open park?
412
00:34:49,800 --> 00:34:51,680
RONALD: I sat down
on the bench where
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00:34:51,680 --> 00:34:53,760
Long John was sitting.
414
00:34:54,640 --> 00:34:57,360
LOU: Now, this is something
out of the movies, all right.
415
00:34:58,200 --> 00:35:03,280
There's $100,000 he has
in a shoebox in 1981.
416
00:35:04,280 --> 00:35:08,640
That would be the equivalent
of more than a quarter of a
million dollars
417
00:35:08,640 --> 00:35:11,240
in a shoebox.
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00:35:19,360 --> 00:35:22,240
RONALD: I gave him the keys
to the van with 52 gallons
419
00:35:22,240 --> 00:35:24,520
of P2P in it.
420
00:35:24,840 --> 00:35:28,720
Told him where the van
was parked, and I left.
421
00:35:29,720 --> 00:35:31,760
I walked out with
the shoebox of money.
422
00:35:32,440 --> 00:35:34,200
(camera shutter)
423
00:35:34,480 --> 00:35:36,760
LOU: The FBI's takin'
pictures of this whole thing.
424
00:35:37,280 --> 00:35:39,720
Long John's arrested.
425
00:35:40,520 --> 00:35:42,600
His P2P empire
came crashing down.
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00:35:49,440 --> 00:35:51,040
MARTORANO: He told
me that very night.
427
00:35:51,040 --> 00:35:52,560
"I'm bein' indicted."
428
00:35:58,080 --> 00:36:00,000
He was very upset with himself,
429
00:36:00,280 --> 00:36:03,440
very upset 'cause he
felt he made a mistake,
430
00:36:03,440 --> 00:36:05,720
and he wasn't a man to
make a lotta mistakes.
431
00:36:23,760 --> 00:36:25,280
GEORGE: From
Long John's perspective,
432
00:36:25,280 --> 00:36:27,720
you wanna remain in good
standing with the organization
433
00:36:27,720 --> 00:36:30,080
because they gotta have
your back when you're in jail.
434
00:36:30,440 --> 00:36:32,320
They gotta watch out for
your family when you're away,
435
00:36:32,320 --> 00:36:35,640
so he's gonna stay active even
though he's under indictment.
436
00:36:38,480 --> 00:36:39,960
MARTORANO: I gotta
give it to my father.
437
00:36:39,960 --> 00:36:42,200
No matter what
happened he had no fear,
438
00:36:42,200 --> 00:36:44,520
he had no fear of anything.
439
00:36:46,160 --> 00:36:49,280
And sometimes that
works against you.
440
00:36:54,920 --> 00:36:56,320
He was out on bail,
441
00:36:56,320 --> 00:36:58,400
but while he was out
on bail Nicky Scarfo
442
00:36:58,400 --> 00:37:02,160
and my father wanted
a tax from the Pagan.
443
00:37:05,160 --> 00:37:08,240
The Pagans would have to pay
tens of thousands of dollars
444
00:37:08,240 --> 00:37:10,440
if they wanted
to exist in the speed
445
00:37:10,440 --> 00:37:12,320
business in Philadelphia.
446
00:37:16,200 --> 00:37:18,840
JIMMY D: When he attempted
to pass a street tax onto the
447
00:37:18,840 --> 00:37:22,320
Pagans that was not tolerable.
448
00:37:25,440 --> 00:37:28,080
I figured that a dynamite
vest on his son Georgie
449
00:37:28,080 --> 00:37:29,920
would get my point across.
450
00:37:34,640 --> 00:37:37,680
A Pagan grabbed up Georgie
with three other Pagans,
451
00:37:38,080 --> 00:37:40,080
put the vest on him, said,
452
00:37:40,080 --> 00:37:41,840
"Georgie this is what
we're gonna do to you til
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00:37:41,840 --> 00:37:43,680
your father comes around."
454
00:37:44,680 --> 00:37:46,480
MARTORANO: They kidnapped me
and they throw me in this van.
455
00:37:46,480 --> 00:37:47,920
I don't know why
I'm being kidnapped.
456
00:37:47,920 --> 00:37:50,880
All I know is I'm lookin'
at this kid and he has
457
00:37:50,880 --> 00:37:53,280
a kill switch in his hand.
458
00:37:53,280 --> 00:37:55,240
And he says,
"Anybody comes nears us,
459
00:37:55,240 --> 00:37:56,960
we're all gonna get blown up."
460
00:37:59,120 --> 00:38:01,800
JIMMY D: Georgie called
up Long John and told him
461
00:38:01,800 --> 00:38:04,720
that we had a dynamite
vest on him and if things
462
00:38:04,720 --> 00:38:07,600
didn't go our way,
we were gonna use it.
463
00:38:18,320 --> 00:38:21,080
(sirens)
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00:38:21,080 --> 00:38:24,560
JIMMY D: Long John lost his
mind when he thought he could
465
00:38:24,560 --> 00:38:25,960
shake down the
Pagan Motorcycle Club.
466
00:38:27,920 --> 00:38:30,160
The dynamite vest
on his son Georgie,
467
00:38:30,160 --> 00:38:34,480
I guarantee you I got
Long John's fullest attention.
468
00:38:36,240 --> 00:38:38,760
MARTORANO: You're not
dealin' with mental giants,
469
00:38:38,760 --> 00:38:42,160
a lotta these bikers they're
all high as kites, you know,
470
00:38:42,160 --> 00:38:45,000
they're all methed out
and it was pretty bad.
471
00:38:52,000 --> 00:38:55,160
JIMMY D: Within an hour,
Long John had $10,000
472
00:38:55,160 --> 00:38:58,920
delivered to me to
show that he was serious
about stopping this.
473
00:39:00,240 --> 00:39:02,360
About getting that
vest off his son.
474
00:39:04,800 --> 00:39:06,240
MARTORANO:
Listen, sometimes you win,
475
00:39:06,240 --> 00:39:08,400
sometimes you lose.
476
00:39:08,920 --> 00:39:11,040
Thank God I'm here to
live to tell about it.
477
00:39:29,200 --> 00:39:31,920
REPORTER: Reputed mobster,
Raymond "Long John" Martorano,
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00:39:31,920 --> 00:39:34,120
accused of being a key figure
in a half a billion dollar
479
00:39:34,120 --> 00:39:37,400
drug ring, is facing Federal
charges of conspiracy and
480
00:39:37,400 --> 00:39:39,640
possession of the drug P2P,
481
00:39:40,160 --> 00:39:42,400
which is an ingredient
used in methamphetamine.
482
00:39:44,040 --> 00:39:47,080
RONALD: I had no problem
testifying against him.
483
00:39:48,560 --> 00:39:50,800
I just knew which
side I was on,
484
00:39:51,120 --> 00:39:53,080
so I did whatever I had to.
485
00:39:55,880 --> 00:39:58,160
LOU: All the things that
Raiton represented with
486
00:39:58,160 --> 00:40:00,440
respect to his criminal past,
487
00:40:01,240 --> 00:40:04,160
that he was a huge
distributor of P2P.
488
00:40:04,960 --> 00:40:08,240
His credibility was
attacked and rightfully so.
489
00:40:09,040 --> 00:40:11,320
RONALD (over speaker): First
of all, this is what it costs.
490
00:40:11,320 --> 00:40:13,040
LOU: Then on the other hand,
491
00:40:13,040 --> 00:40:14,920
you had the power of the
recorded conversations.
492
00:40:15,440 --> 00:40:17,760
RONALD (over speaker):
I'll have it for
you in four weeks.
493
00:40:18,280 --> 00:40:21,120
LOU: We built the case
around the surveillance of
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00:40:21,120 --> 00:40:22,360
the FBI agents.
495
00:40:22,360 --> 00:40:25,160
We built the case around
the seizure of the P2P.
496
00:40:25,160 --> 00:40:26,960
We exposed
Long John for what he is,
497
00:40:26,960 --> 00:40:28,600
a drug dealer.
498
00:40:44,440 --> 00:40:46,400
JIMMY D: At the time
they had parole,
499
00:40:46,400 --> 00:40:49,040
so he was looking at
maybe six or seven years.
500
00:40:50,240 --> 00:40:52,400
He could do that much
time standin' on his head.
501
00:41:02,040 --> 00:41:05,000
MARTORANO: I mean, he didn't
lose no sleep over it.
502
00:41:08,280 --> 00:41:09,960
He did good time
just like that.
503
00:41:09,960 --> 00:41:12,200
Had all the food he wanted.
504
00:41:12,560 --> 00:41:15,440
Everything was
okay, no trouble.
505
00:41:17,920 --> 00:41:20,680
He didn't know
what was coming.
506
00:41:42,440 --> 00:41:44,080
REPORTER: The District
Attorney's Office in
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00:41:44,080 --> 00:41:46,120
Philadelphia is processing
the warrants right now for
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00:41:46,120 --> 00:41:49,160
reputed mobster
Raymond "Long John" Martorano
509
00:41:49,160 --> 00:41:50,880
accused of murdering
Philadelphia Roofers Union
510
00:41:50,880 --> 00:41:53,160
President John McCullough.
511
00:41:56,000 --> 00:41:59,200
JUNIOR: I testified in
court in 1983 against
512
00:41:59,200 --> 00:42:01,080
Long John Martorano.
513
00:42:02,800 --> 00:42:05,240
It's packed with press,
wall‐to‐wall,
514
00:42:05,240 --> 00:42:07,400
people fighting to get seats.
515
00:42:08,520 --> 00:42:10,480
It was pretty big news.
516
00:42:22,080 --> 00:42:25,320
MARTORANO: My dad did not
think he was invincible,
517
00:42:25,320 --> 00:42:27,600
he just knew that
you took the shots,
518
00:42:27,600 --> 00:42:28,960
you did what you did,
519
00:42:28,960 --> 00:42:32,240
and you went to jail and
he wound up with life.
520
00:42:53,600 --> 00:42:56,240
GEORGE: Long John made
phenomenal amounts of money
521
00:42:56,240 --> 00:42:58,520
in the meth business.
522
00:42:58,520 --> 00:43:02,760
But he got too full of himself
and that was his demise.
523
00:43:13,720 --> 00:43:17,480
LOU: When you're dealing in
drugs to the amount that he
524
00:43:17,480 --> 00:43:21,920
was dealing in and the
destruction that that imposes
525
00:43:22,960 --> 00:43:24,440
on the community,
526
00:43:24,440 --> 00:43:29,120
I believe Long John's
legacy is an example of the
527
00:43:29,120 --> 00:43:30,920
destructive powers of the Mob.
528
00:43:32,520 --> 00:43:37,880
(sirens)
529
00:43:38,560 --> 00:43:39,720
Captioned by
Cotter Media Group.
530
00:43:53,560 --> 00:43:57,520
(sirens)