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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: The Mafia is a major
player in the international
drug underworld.

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MAN 2: 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,

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and its associates
brought to justice,

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and their power broken.

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HARRIS: There's now an
understanding that the war on
drugs was an abject failure.

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MAN 3: You have to
stop and ask yourself,
how did we get here?

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(thunder)

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(wind)

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(helicopter rotors)

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JOHN: You have to be pretty
top‐notch in your profession,

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just to survive it all.

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You get heavy turbulence.

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You gotta slow the aircraft
down because you could
have structural failure.

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Like, losing a wing
wouldn't be much fun.

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A North Atlantic
storm in November,

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it's a pretty impressive event,
to put it mildly.

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My name is
John Raymond Boulanger.

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I'm what you would
call a mercenary pilot.

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I fly for hire, to
he who pays the most.

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I had 4,343 kilos of cocaine,

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and I was flying from Colombia,

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directly to Canada.

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Normally the flight
would be about nine
hours, give or take.

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But I ran into the storm,
for about 45 minutes or an
hour, before I broke out.

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And, low and behold,
there were the F‐18s.

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Then they were off to my rear.

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And the other guy came
up close beside us,
and flying around me,

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making signals to go down.

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And I just waved to him.

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They can't shoot at you.

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But they were
running out of gas.

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We were just timing
it and say, okay, how
long is it gonna be before

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they're gonna run out?

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It was interesting.
He gave us a nice little show.

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I went down to treetop level.

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I flew the rest of
the way treetop level.

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Below radar, so nobody knew
where the airplane was.

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The authorities put out an
alert, to all the airports.

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There's a big white Convair,

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somewhere in Canada,

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if anybody saw
it to report it.

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I should have arrived
around 6:00 in the morning,

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but I arrived at
quarter to nine, instead.

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I was standing
out on the runway,

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waiting for the crew hired
to go and do the pick‐up.

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I looked all over the place,

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couldn't figure out where
the hell these guys were.

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Turns out they had been
there since 3 in the morning.

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At around 7:30,
they decided I wasn't coming,

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and they left!

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So, anyway, I started walking.

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And a truck went by.

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I hitch‐hiked.

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And he gave me a lift all
the way down to the lumber camp,

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and that's where I was when
the RCMP arrived by helicopter,

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'cause the Police had
blocked off all the roads.

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So they asked,
"What's in the airplane?"

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I said, "Cocaine."

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And he says, "How much?"

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I says, "A lot!"

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ANCHOR: It's being
touted as the biggest drug
bust in Canadian history,

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and probably the
most dramatic.

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CHRIS: The seizure of 4,300
kilos of cocaine really
reverberated through DEA.

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That's a staggering
amount of cocaine,

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coupled with the fact
that it was flown directly

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from the North Coast of
Colombia, into Canada.

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JOHN: I would have
made around 45 million.

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It's a pretty good payday.

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For one day's work,
that's not bad.

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I was arrested.

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Pled guilty and got 23 years.

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And that was it
and became famous.

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But I take things
with a grain of salt.

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It was and I
believe it still is,

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the biggest bust ever in Canada.

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CHRIS: We were just wondering,
who could be behind this?

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JOHN:
Everybody knows who it is,

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but I don't technically
wanna say their names,

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but they know.

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PIETRO: Don't get me wrong,
these people are killers.

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But he was always a
gentleman, very charismatic.

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Everywhere he went,
he showed respect.

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VITO: Best lawyer in
the country, over here.

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ANTONIO: Nick Rizzuto
was very ambitious.

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He came from a major
crime family in Sicily.

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Nick talked it up that
he belonged to the kind of,
the aristocracy of the Mafia.

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But when he came to Canada,

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he realized there was
a well‐established criminal

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organization in power.

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PIETRO: Anybody that lived
in Canada would tell you,

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I wanna go to
Montréal and enjoy myself,

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because of all
the nightclubs.

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The downtown core
of a two‐kilometer radius,

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we had 480 licensed
alcohol establishments.

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And, for the great part,
they were controlled
by the Cotroni family.

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The gambling,
the loan sharking,

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protection, if you
had a business you had to

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buy their cheese, you
had to buy their ice‐cream.

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They controlled everything.

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ANTONIO: Vic Cotroni
came from Calabria.

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Nick Rizzuto came from Sicily.

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And there was bad
blood between them,
since the beginning.

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They never like one another.

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Nick Rizzuto found
himself among powerful men,

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and he tried to find
an area of operation.

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NICK: Rizzuto's
organization had three main

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profile‐driven schemes:

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drugs, particularly heroin,

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money laundering, and
public construction contracts.

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Nick Rizzuto Senior's
intentions were to create
profits that would endure,

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not only his lifetime,

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but the lifetime of
his grandchildren.

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PIETRO:
There was gonna be violence.

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There was gonna be a turf war.

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He knew that was coming.

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(gunshots)

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ANTONIO: Nick Rizzuto,
with his family,

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left the Canada
and moved to Venezuela,

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because he fear for his life.

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He had to run.

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PIETRO: Rizzuto had a lot
of connections in Venezuela.

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He had family there.

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And he used that family to
really strive and gain power.

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ANTONIO: Venezuela,
at that time,

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was a place where the
Mafia was well‐established,

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and they were able to
infiltrate institution,

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banks, to corrupt
the politicians,

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because they willing
to accept their money.

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It was the perfect
place to establish a
criminal enterprise.

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Because they were
very close to Colombia,

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and very close to
drug traffickers there.

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NICK: Cocaine was emerging
as a popular drug of
choice in North America.

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JOHN: Cocaine pretty well
displaced the heroin market,
the beginning of the 80s.

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PIETRO: Heroin was
for addicts, junkies,

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whereas cocaine was part
of having a glass of wine,

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everybody would consume.

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There was cocaine
all over the place.

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JOHN: Once it started
getting popularized,

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with the disco culture
and all that sort of stuff,

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then it went skyrocket.

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NICK: Nick Rizzuto
saw the opportunity to
create millions of dollars

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from cocaine.

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CHRIS:
The Cali Cartel got their
start in the early 1970s,

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by sending smaller
quantities of cocaine
into the United States.

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And they were slowly able
to evolve into bringing
in larger quantities.

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They were able to really
present themselves
as businessmen.

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CHRIS: So they wore suits.

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They socialized with the
upper society, the elites.

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CHRIS: Drugs would
leave Colombia, go into
Venezuela, depart Venezuela,

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and go into Canada.

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CHRIS: Cocaine was coming
in camouflaged, in anything
that you could think of:

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seafood, fish, shrimp, coffee.

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REPORTER: Agents find more
than seven tons of cocaine,
hidden in broccoli boxes.

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CHRIS: These kind of
shipments and these methods
were extremely effective for

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bringing drugs
into the United States.

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PIETRO: Nick Rizzuto groomed
his son, Vito, very well.

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And, today, we don't see
mobsters of that caliber,
of that personality.

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He was a tall man,
with a deep voice,

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and he spoke
four languages fluently.

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ANTONIO: For
Vito Rizzuto, the son of Nick,

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was the baptism of fire.

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PISTONE:
My name is Joseph Pistone,
Special Agent in the FBI.

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I was undercover
for six years, in the
Bonanno crime family,

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and my undercover name
was Donnie Brasco.

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During this operation,
I found out that the
Mafia crew, up in Montréal,

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were considered a faction
of the Bonanno Mafia family.

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They had their own boss,
and everything, but they were

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loyal to the Bonanno family,
in New York City.

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PISTONE: There was
a lot of friction within
the Bonanno family.

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There were three capos
that were not loyal to
the boss, who was in jail.

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They wanted to take
over the family.

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So they called
a sit‐down, which is a
meeting, and the plan was,

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when the three opposition
capos got to the meeting,
they would kill them.

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One of the guys they
brought in for the hit was
Vito Rizzuto, from Montréal.

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When the three capos
walked in, the guys
were hiding in a closet,

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and these guys jumped out,
and Vito Rizzuto yelled,

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"This is a stick‐up."

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(gunshots)

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Hitting three capos,

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at one time, is a
big deal within the Mafia.

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To Vito Rizzuto, it
was a feather in his cap,

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to solidify his
place in the family.

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REPORTER:
Two shotgun blasts,
at close range.

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Paolo Violi dead, in
his own Montréal coffee bar.

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Violi's death
was part of a gang war,
that has not yet ended.

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REPORTER 2: The
hotel killers wore masks
and used submachine guns.

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Police say they knew
exactly who they were after.

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They shot three men in the
bar and a fourth outside.

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PRODUCER: Okay good,
we are good to go.

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We're rolling on this end.

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REPORTER: The self‐confessed
hitman told the court
he saw Montréal mobster,

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Frank Cotroni as
a father figure.

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When asked why he killed for
Cotroni, Simard answered,

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"I wanted to be
part of the family.

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I wanted to treat
him with respect."

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PIETRO: Real Simard brought
down the Cotroni family.

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He brought down
the Cotroni family.

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NICK:
Vito was to be the godfather,
le parrain, of Montréal.

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PIETRO: The legitimate
economy was booming, and
so was organized crime.

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The Rizzutos came
along with the cocaine.

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That was the new product.
That was the new thing.

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NICK: The Rizzuto crime
family did not have the
will to distribute,

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because they wanted to remain
anonymous, and to avoid
detection from the different

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law enforcement
agencies in Canada.

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They had to develop a
relationship with those
that had the capacity,

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and the manpower, to
distribute on the street.

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Thereby you see a relationship
developing between the Rizzuto
crime family and the outlaw

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motorcycle gangs.

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CHRIS: Thousands of kilos
were coming into Canada,

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that were being distributed
by the Rizzutos,

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was going to the Hells Angels,

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the West End Gang,
other street gangs.

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ANTONIO: He succeed
by creating the strategic
alliances between the Mafia,

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the Colombian cartels,
the street gangs,
the Hells Angels.

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PIETRO: He was a visionary.

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He had the talent of
getting people together.

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REPORTER: Drugs and money,
they go hand in hand.

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Cocaine and marijuana sales
generate so much money that

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smugglers literally have
no place to put it all.

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PIETRO: In order
to combat organized crime
and money laundering,

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you gotta follow the money,

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not the individual,
not the product...

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Follow the money.

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ANTONIO: At one point,
Colombians want to be
paid in American Dollars.

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And so, Vito Rizzuto
had this major issue,

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to convert Canadian Dollars

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in American Dollars.

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PIETRO: The RCMP and Montreal
Police opened up an exchange
bureau, a money exchange.

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Like, in every major city
in the world, you would
change your currency.

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It wasn't phony,
it was a real exchange bureau,

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with real employees,
right smack downtown Montreal.

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And the service was
excellent, and they were
acting like Western Union,

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that everybody knows today.

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But it's a sting operation.

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Wise guys would bring
in their money to exchange
from Canadian to American,

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and then wire it to
Venezuela, Peru, or Colombia,
for the purchase of narcotics.

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It was fantastic.

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All the serial numbers
were noted, of every bill.

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It was a brilliant
undercover operation.

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Brilliant.

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REPORTER:
More than 40 suspects
were rounded up yesterday,

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during a massive
sweep by the RCMP.

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Security at
the Montréal Courthouse
was particularly tight,

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as the accused were arraigned
on more than 500 charges.

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CHRIS: Sabatino Nicolucci
was an important conduit for

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the Rizzuto crime family,

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with the Cali Cartel.

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He had contact
with the Cali Cartel,

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and was able to coordinate
a lot of drug shipments,

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from Colombia into
Canada, for the Rizzutos.

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And Sabatino Nicolucci
laundered in excess of
$30 million,

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through this undercover
currency exchange house.

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He was wanted on over
400 counts of drug trafficking,

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and money laundering.

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Nicolucci had done loads,
on behalf of Vito Rizzuto,

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in Montreal.

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We deployed to Cali,
and set up surveillance on
the apartment complex that

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we had identified through
the telephone tone analysis.

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We made a phone
call into the residence,
'cause we had the number.

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(ringing)

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And, a few minutes later,
we did a raid on the apartment.

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And Sabatino Nicolucci
was arrested.

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This was definitely
a significant arrest,

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because of the overall
player that he was.

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REPORTER: The RCMP says the
operation had dealt a major
blow to organized crime.

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Rizzuto's name appears
on this court document,

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of people allegedly involved
in the money laundering.

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REPORTER 2: He's been
called Canada's Teflon Don.

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In the 80s, the man the
RCMP calls The Godfather
of the Montreal Mafia,

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dodged the bullet on
drug trafficking charges.

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VITO: Best lawyer in
the country, over here.

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PIETRO: Vito Rizzuto was
never directly involved with it.

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He was never charged.

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His associates were.

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He never directly put his
hands in the cookie jar.

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He always had somebody
else do it for him.

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He had a art of delegating.

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He should have given
management courses,
in university.

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The Rizzutos make a lot
of money,

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and they reinvest
it back into gaming,

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internet gambling,
finance companies, construction.

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So, basically,
they became parallel banks.

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And, slowly,
they're getting away from it,

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because with cocaine
you do a lot of time.

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The moneymaker was the drugs.

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But Vito wanted his kids to
go straight, go legitimate.

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NICK: Vito Rizzuto's most
important legacy he wanted to

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leave behind was the fact that
his children had not

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adopted the lifestyle
that he had for himself.

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CHRIS: If you give
law enforcement enough time,

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they will be able to take
down any criminal organization.

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REPORTER: Killings, that took
place more than 20 years ago.

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The victims,
three members of the notorious
Bonanno crime family.

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They were shot dead
in a New York city
social club, in 1981,

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during a bloody internal war.

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PISTONE: Cases like
that never go away.

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And eventually somebody's
gonna get arrested,

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somebody's gonna talk.

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It took over
20 years to solve the case,

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but at the time of the
hits of the three capos,

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Joey Massino was one of the
main players in the killing.

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And then, from this hit,

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Joey Massino becomes a
boss of the Bonanno family,

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and then Vito becomes
boss up in Montreal.

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He didn't wanna die
in an electric chair.

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When Joey turns, he actually
testifies against Vito.

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His information is that
Vito was in on the hit, and
he was one of the shooters.

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So, it gave the
Government enough ammunition,

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and enough evidence,
to indict Vito.

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PIETRO: It was the 20th of
January, it was a cold day.

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We went at his
house with Nick Milano,

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at six in the morning.

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It was all coordinated
with the United States, also.

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NICK: Pietro and I
arrived at the door.

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We were welcomed by his wife.

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Upon entering, Mr. Rizzuto
was at the top of the stairway.

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PIETRO: Actually,
the first thing he says,

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he asks his wife to
"make me a coffee."

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I knew Vito.

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And he says, "Pietro,
what are you here for?"

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I said, "I have a
warrant to execute."

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NICK: We stepped
into the parlor,

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and I informed him
that I was arresting him,

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with regards to the triple
murders conducted in New York.

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PIETRO: He didn't really
take it seriously, in
the sense that he says,

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"My lawyer is working
on that."

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He was wearing his jeans and,
I guess, when I'm nervous

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I tend to joke around
more than anything else,

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so I asked him,

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"Mr. Rizzuto,
it's a big arrest for me,
could you put a suit on?"

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You know, and he did.

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(sirens)

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REPORTER:
Today, Vito Rizzuto's
luck finally ran out,

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in a Brooklyn courtroom.

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Rizzuto was sentenced to ten
years, for his role in a brutal,

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triple murder,
in New York, 26 years ago.

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ANTONIO: Nick and Vito were
in power for at least 25 years.

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One of the longest reign
in the history of the Mafia,

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in North America.

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Vito Rizzuto was able to
build a criminal enterprise

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worth billions of dollars.

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When he was in a prison
in the United States,

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that was the most difficult
ten years of his life,

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because old enemies
and new enemies get together
and start to kill the people

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very close to Rizzuto.

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REPORTER: Nick Rizzuto
Senior, the 86‐year‐old head
of Canada's most

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famous Mafia family,

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has been shot and
killed in his own home.

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REPORTER 2: His shooting,
in his home last week,

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comes less than
a year after grandson,

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Nick Junior, was
gunned down in public.

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PIETRO:
He lost his father while he
was in jail, and then his son.

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That devastated him.

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His closest allies
actually turned on him.

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And he never thought that
he had so many people
that would back‐stab him.

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I saw him when he came
out of jail, and he was
totally a different person.

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Totally a different person.

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NICK: Vito Rizzuto's
claim to fame, if you will,

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his strength,
had always been negotiation.

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ANTONIO: Vito Rizzuto
pioneered the way criminal
organization should

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work and operate.

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The idea of building
the strategic alliance
to conquer new markets.

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Today, the 'Ndrangheta is
the most globalized Mafia.

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They operate in
almost five continents,

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and they use the same
system of Vito Rizzuto.

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PIETRO: You can control it,

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but we'll never
eliminate organized crime...

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Never.

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