History of the New York Mafia ( 1/5 )

[Danzakisan]

That is his brother, Peter Gotti.

[XXDodgerSoxxXX86]

who was that big man with glasses walking behind John Gotti at 0:59

[MadeInOregon27]

GOV > MAFIA

in terms of evil/criminal.

[flexxo1000]

fascinating.

[Lombardo826]

Can someone explain this to me?

So arabs came to sicily, and took over the place, gave them the word mafia, meaning refugee, and then later made organized crime?

I think I read some where that sicilians are actually have africans, because they fucked all the italian sicilian woman... because in the old days they where light skin with blue eyes and blond hair

[DarkosApprentice]

@Lombardo826

Yeah that could be true, or italians are the descendants of people from northern europe who fled down there and adapted to the heat of the mediterranean.

[Lombardo826]

@DarkosApprentice that's another posibility.

[shaneme5]

vinny sounds just like steven van zandt, aka silvio on the sopranos

[gokharol]

Sorry... What is "Mob"?

[martpast1]

@gokharol a criminal gang.

[peadarrock12]

I suspect that "Vinny" is Vincent "Vinny Ocean" Palermo the former de facto boss of the DeCavalcante crime family based in Northern New Jersey.

[mrtundra45]

@123supersizeme italians killed a bunch of jews......probably more than the kkk lol

[RUPERTDOUGLAS90]

@mrtundra45

kkk never killed jews they killed blacks, hitler killed jews aka the nazis, italians haven't killed shit but other italians lol.

[mrtundra45]

@RUPERTDOUGLAS90 Bugsy Segal, Dutch Schults etc......

[PeterMayer]

@RUPERTDOUGLAS90 and you get your info from where? The KKK never killed Jews. Yes they did...

[mrtundra45]

these documentaries are kinda one sided

[Alternativemusic213]

EHHH OHHH

[mckinneyfoundation]

I got to meet Prince of the Mafia , Michael Franese . which was part of the Colombo family . which was in Lexington KY

[mrtundra45]

America was built on Organized Crime...... and Mass Murder.

The Mafia is only a smaller version of the american federal gov.

[abdullazeidan]

i bet u this documentary was made by cosa nostra themselves ... thats how gangsta they are

[MrRichbrave]

its amazing and great experience but stfu u can actually get killed easily by fucking up or by betrayal or even being a big puzzy guess wat anyhow your dead u get so if any chance u got guts good luck talking with that sweet mouth mafia is still and it havent died yet and its incredible from so many years when the Glorious Italian men whom am i Italian by the way came to NEW YORK but settle the mafia in NEW YERSEY cuz of problems wild sadly there were other mobs in the big apple

[5tonyvvvv]

FORGETABOUT IT!!!!!!

[superdeluxeist]

Who made this? A junior in high school, recording in his bathroom with a Jensen tapedeck?

[Aspanaut]

This video needs some old sicilian music playing in the background,what is this disney world shit?

[danbearpig1]

@onlypedro well the mafia was started in sisily to protect people from the spanish rooler and when america opened its gates in the 1920's the mafia came in as well. they learned to make money by selling elegal substances sutch as liquor. coke was thought to not be in the mafia world because to many connections. now if you thing thats not amazing u havnt seen life or thought it through. now get pwned

[MrBecomingBadass619]

@bombjapan actually even if you go to school and get a good job you're still very likely to go to jail atleast once on a bullshit offence.if not the government will always find a way to fuck you.........very hard

[bonzelite]

I find it highly laughable and ironic that this documentary slams the mafia when in reality the us govt is not any different; in fact is it worse than the mafia as it orchestrates criminal cartels such as the federal reserve and the armed forces to oppress and murder people

[twinpeninsulas]

@bonzelite the two really cant be compared.

[twinpeninsulas]

Respond to this video... the italian mob is all but dead. its a shell of itself. supplanted by the triads/russian mafia who are more energetic, ruthless and have more global connections.

[twinpeninsulas]

@bonzelite like it or not, the government always wins.

[DrHooty911]

@twinpeninsulas Nope, look at Somalia

[RUPERTDOUGLAS90]

@twinpeninsulas

You're one funny guy if you think all the bosses of the new york italian mafia are not existent anymore. Last I checked some fled the country, others are still alive inside. The government will never get rid of the mob.

[mrtundra45]

@twinpeninsulas If the Government always wins howcome the Mafia is making Billions upon Billions of dollars while the FBI and CIA are barely living middle class and being corrupted to the very core.

the Mob owns these fucks!

[standupEFC]

@mrtundra45 The Mafia are the goverment I've learnt they're no different they extort, murder, bribe they're way to the top.

[MARVIA35]

@bonzelite not to mention the hypocrisy

[martpast1]

@bonzelite if government is mafia--then mafia exists all history of mankind. always there was killling people by people by a state. how mafia could be called the state organization? how a dog could be called a cat? they both have tails and so on --but there is some difference , isn't it?

[deathclock2690]

@bonzelite very true.they opress and murder people all around the world and then they claim the armed forces are legit

[11DNA11]

1:21 Henry Hill

[1XMarksSpot]

LOL a former federal agent calling the mafia parasites!

[cristianoronaldo780]

MAFIA - MOTHERS AND FATHERS ITALIAN ASSOCIATION

[pitbullpower90]

this is the real deal not some skinny nigger selling crack cocaine of wtf you're smoking in the land of the free and home of the brave this is international Big Buisness So Fuck What You Heard

[TheGrandCapt]

@pitbullpower90 I love it......You used the N word. My friend always said it was a word not a person

[pitbullpower90]

@TheGrandCapt you lost me there

[TheGrandCapt]

@pitbullpower90 My friend would always use the "N" word. Then if some one told him to not use that word, he woud say it was a person not a word

[pitbullpower90]

@TheGrandCapt indeed he is right your friend. moulinyan just dont cut it

[big88wang]

1st witness is Zach Galifianakis

[musicmayhem1212]

my boss doesnt have a dick :O

[musicmayhem1212]

this video helped me alot o.o

[mgdisthebest]

@BombJapan dont forget your just a nerd in the office who gets no pussy and not even close to the amount of fun they have, an i wouldnt say joke those guys would fucking murder you if you ever had the balls to say that to there faces and most of the big time mafias DO MAKE MILLIONS and get away with it so stfu and go back to your bank and suck your bosses dick

[twinpeninsulas]

@mgdisthebest the "big bosses' dont exist anymore. only small time players with fragmented local power at best.

[BombJapan]

These mafia faggots are a joke! Stupid as fuck, hardly make any money, and then get killed while smelling like shit! Guys that are smart go to school then get into banking like me, make millions more than these mafia faggots AND we'll never go to jail. Fucking greaseball motherfuckers! Total fucking scum, good thing they kill each other off!

[MTCoblivsicas12345]

@BombJapan corporations are just as corrupt as the mafia they pay so little tax and killed loads of people. For example Ford knew they had a defect on one of their cars but still let it go through it ended up killing 700 people. Furthermore the thermidolayte drug ended up killed thousands of unborn babies. Bankers are corrupt aswell leaving taxpayers to pay to get them out of their mess In my opinion we should of just let them rot and introduced new banks.

[5tonyvvvv]

@MTCoblivsicas12345 before the drugs and alcohol took over the mafia, they were robin hood figures! GoodFellas!

[mrtundra45]

@BombJapan hahaha FAG

[5tonyvvvv]

@BombJapan So true morons!

[Martinez1887]

italian shits

[amanneygangstaa]

new york gangsta Smoking bread with marlboro.

Words: by A Manney Gangsta> hip hop king

Thugz Ink In The Desk, (2011).

[thedarkwordofgom]

I wished i lived in that era of time. I would soo be a mafioso

[rooizilver]

Organised crime families share one important secret; they're all jewish families, and the bosses are all heads of jewish families. Not the soldiers, the heads of family. that's the reason why they're powerful, and why they're seldom convicted.

[dustinsd123]

@rooizilver organized crime still goes on today... I know people who are involved in organized crime who are'nt jewish and what about other countrys mafias

[HybridD91]

@dustinsd123 Organized crime=government.

[dustinsd123]

@HybridD91 you said they're all jewish...

[xavierandlarryshow]

henry hill goodfellas

[bikegirl2]

the punishment for being a gangster should be a brutal death with a sledge hammer!!!!!

[sycoshredder]

@bikegirl2 crime should be punishable but you sound like a nut

[bikegirl2]

id make suspicion of being a mafi member a death sentence!!!

[mrtundra45]

@bikegirl2 Id make being a stupid whore a death sentence!!!!

[danbearpig1]

mafia=amazing

[MrRichbrave]

@danbearpig1

read my message not to offend you but mafia is troubledly dangerous is not even easy to get in family that you think is your wife and kids but the mafia is a family u get on and get to shoot people by messacre u know wat im saying and get to have loyal to them u get to be don while by saying that u have power and become dangerous for appearance and last name of yours and major respect i gotta say is great but risky that would get your throat into saliva most of the time lol

[ordosancti]

@mafiososamgiancana

dont comment u fucker .

dont.

[mafiososamgiancana]

@ordosancti why PIG (^_^)?

[thedarkwordofgom]

@ordosancti Hey go fuck yourself asshole. cause your the only fucker here.

[trailerparkboy101]

if i started my own mafia we would sell weed and lots of it

[SnookiGaga]

Wtf? It's Cosa Nostra not La Cosa Nostra. Some fucked up cop made that up, its not "the our thing", it's just "our thing". You don't add the La(the in english)

[99681655]

@SnookiGaga you learn pratic english

[xXx7777Mari07777xXx]

mafia > gangsters

[muttilo]

Funny Henry Hill Before he was Famous LOL !!

[LETTOISBACK]

what up with the music in this video?

[andreasegde]

Hey, you talk to the guy about the thing?

[rizzi2007]

arabs ruled sicily? didnt know that, i knew there is alot of arab influence there but occupation?

[golds335]

pop pop pop your wacked......

[ngelo4987]

@Zeno711 yes you DO have to claim full Italian or Sicilian heritage to be accepted into La Cosa Nostra, and you have to be able to trace your great grandparents back to their birthplaces and names, you need all of this to be "Made" which does require a ceremony

[Zeitgeist74]

Shiiet! Are "Vinny" and "MIchael" for real? They freakin' sound so stereotypical like Big Pussy and Silvio! LOL

[asdda2]

gangsters of 2day are pussy's sorry, but true.., the mafia is the real deal.;

[zeno711]

@anthr0maj0r u dont hav to be italian but u hav to be added in a ceremony

[ldogin]

the former mobsters sound like idiots

[flyguy206]

Lol whites don't want to admit that the moors aka black men ran Italy

[WRH90059]

@flyguy206 actaully the people from the city of rome conquered all of italy so really roman people created italy from what it was today and sicilians are from greek/italian/carthaginian blood ;)

[ulverup]

@flyguy206 saracens = arabs

arabs ran a tiny part of italy , for a tiny time

black people never set foot on italian shore , but if it makes you feel proud about yourself for some reason , ,you can believe whatever you want

[warriorofwrestling]

Heh heh, first guy is Henry Hill, the guy whose life Goodfellas is based on. Suprised they disguised him considering he's pretty much given a complete history of his time in the Mafia

[bearchild69]

The cartels of south america are much more violent than the mafia of today.

[tellurye]

You must have done something as a citizen, what are they? I paid my taxes.  I love that!!

[Frankiesmarts]

Frank costello: payed my tax!

[TheLoneShooter]

The idiot who made this program thinks that "the sopranos" and "goodfellas" are romanticised versions of the mafia. he's clearly not that intelligent because anyone who has seen either the sopranos or goodfellas knows neither are that. Tony soprano especially is one of the least likeable people on television by the end of the finale season.

[JOHAUK86]

Russian Mafia the one of the power full in the world.For the statement you do not need to be a Russian.usually all members from middle Asian or from Kavkaz. So don't mess with us u mothefuckers lol))))))))))))))))

[ulverup]

@JOHAUK86 shut up , you're a nobody

[LordBifford]

04:30 This is a romanticized version of the Mafia, the image they like to promote of themselves.

[xlawlawx]

thanks for the post.

[TheDonLyno]

Full blooded Italian my friend!

[mcuuvb86]

@TheDonLyno These days you don't have to be full blooded. John Gotti Jr was a quarter Russian Jew. "Cadillac" Frank Salemme, one time boss of the Patriarca Family in Rhode Island was half Irish. Philadelphia crime family boss John Stanfa was known to recruit men who were not of Italian heritage

[TheDonLyno]

@TheDonLyno Great if this is true, im coming over to join. i want to be in the Gambino family, HAH HAH, I wonder would they take me?

[anthr0maj0r]

Do you have to be sicilian to be in the mafia, or just italian?

[skull9111]

@anthr0maj0r you can work for the mafia if you aren't italian but you can't become a made man unless you are italian unless you are in a mafia from a different nationallity like In Canada it is the French and the Gangs under them are mainly the Hells Angels or the warrior as for the southern states it is the columbian cartel so if you want to be in the original Mafia you need to be Italian to be a made Man

[mcuuvb86]

@anthr0maj0r These days you don't have to be full blooded. John Gotti Jr was a quarter Russian Jew. "Cadillac" Frank Salemme, one time boss of the Patriarca Family in Rhode Island was half Irish. Philadelphia crime family boss John Stanfa was known to recruit men who were not of Italian heritage

[TheWhoLive73]

@anthr0maj0r YOU have to be 100% italian to join a family.You don't have to be sicilian.Gotti family was from naples whoever said gotti is a jew russian ia a moron.

Trust me i know alot of these gangsters working in little italy in NYC.Gotti jr and his family came to my father's club in Manhatten every week along with vicki gotti and her kids and many other members of la cosa nostra.

[Bakudan666]

@TheWhoLive73 doesn't sound like you know much bout cosa nostra.if you wanted to join the sicilian mafia you have to 100% sicilian.for the Italian/American Cosa Nostra you don't need to be 100% Italian anymore...they will accept you if your half Italian on your fathers side now.

[metalhead4311]

I am Italian

[jnjfaith5]

the westies were more intresting..look it up its on here...irish mafia

[samy310383]

Hey ! Good to see that show back on youtube. there used to be 9 or 10 parts (10 min each) (before it was deleted)when I watched it the first time. here are only 5. Something's missing ?

[jkatz44]

My dad lived in the projects in NY in Sheep heads bay. Down the streets were the most notorious mafia gangsters in NY.

[colm2012]

mafia guys are all the same man, all trying to make a name for themselves cos' they think that macho bullshit actually means something. check out 'richard pryor on the mafia'

[SuperColin74]

@colm2012 easy to say that on youtube..

[yougonasorry]

Gay Talese hahaha xD

[amsalespush]

organized crime is US - he has the balls to say it

[xdevelopingminds1by1]

Modern day robin hoods.>I dont htink anyone lookat the mob as robin hoods ..oh yes they are they be robin from the people and giving it to their hoods..What ajoke ..like their these noble fellas who steal from the rich they extort the rgular business owner or the members of their unions and dont care how much money you have as long as a portion is going to them..

[akvalues]

RIP MAFIA!

[akvalues]

joe profaci is the last great mobster!

[TonyBranston]

@akvalues I hear a sane, reasonably bright man has also taken over the Philly mob.

[queekers]

Comment has been removed and commenter has been shot to death by Big Tony.

[dirty06maggot]

isnt cosa nostra? instead of la cosa nostra?

[dropletsofwords]

@dirty06maggot "la" means the. so it's "the cosa nostra" :D

[dirty06maggot]

@dropletsofwords thanks :)

[GREENnPURP]

this video cant e for real...the mobster interviews seem like an SNL skit

[jlgruener]

@GREENnPURP yeah the bloody corpses look like snl stuff too.

[fredhubner]

The glamour of the Mafia and organized crime alike lies in the eye of the beholder ... apart from that, they're nothing but a bunch self-serving stooges ...

[ufofreak1947]

really intresting, thanks for uploading

[whiskeyspray]

Holy Shit its Joaquin Pheonix!

[masayuki83]

How can these guys be commenting on how Joe the Boss was or how Maranzano was? They weren't even born yet...Oh and Paul Vario was not just 'only' a capo he was one-time Underboss of the Lucchese Family...Paul Vario was very low-key member of the Lucchese not a loud-mouth drunk and he was one of the highest earners so I doubt that he was unpopular with the bosses.

[TheElephant79]

Fuckin scary.

[JoeyD12345678]

the word mafia actually stands for Mazzini Autorizza Furti Incendi Avvelenamenti the first 5 big mafia dons.

[masayuki83]

That's very unlikely

[JoeyD12345678]

Its also true look it up.

[masayuki83]

Really? Joe Valachi always refers to it as 'Cosa Nostra' and throughout it's history it went by other names as well as 'Fratuzzi' etc...but from what Valachi sayid quote 'Mafia is what you call it.'

[JoeyD12345678]

Cosa Nostra is a sicillian phrase which means "This thing of ours" Thats another thng you can call the mafia but the word mafia its self is a acronym for the 5 mafia boss's.

[masayuki83]

There are several theories about the origin of the term "Mafia" (sometimes spelled "Maffia" in early texts). The Sicilian adjective mafiusu may derive from the slang Arabic mahyas (مهياص), meaning "aggressive boasting, bragging", or marfud مرفوض meaning "rejected". Roughly translated, it means "swagger", but can also be translated as "boldness, bravado".

[masayuki83]

In reference to a man, mafiusu in 19th century Sicily was ambiguous, signifying a bully, arrogant but also fearless, enterprising, and proud, according to scholar Diego Gambetta. In reference to a woman, however, the adjective "mafiusa" means beautiful and attractive.

[JoeyD12345678]

let me tell you somthing. Itallians hate arabs for some reason and they would never take a word from arabic.

[masayuki83]

You're telling me something? No, you're not I just don't regard your explanation for the origin of the word as fact...and Italians hate arabs? Like Cosa Nostra is Sicilian dude and did you get that from the movie True Romance?

[JoeyD12345678]

I dont even know what that is and no i got it from italian class. And it is fact that, thats what MAFIA stands for look it up.

[masayuki83]

I have, but I just don't see how the word can be a acronym...considering the history behind it I just can't see it. But agree to disagree, good discussion none the less

[JoeyD12345678]

lol i agree

[akvalues]

@JoeyD12345678 no bitch you hate arabs! speak for yourself.

[TheArthen]

mafia has a code of honor.

IRS has no code. of honor

[ARTT17]

3:16 aaahahahah

see what ya call that guy lol

[IIAdolescentII]

Carlo Gambino <3

[mafiososamgiancana]

hehe mr colombo r u a boss of the mafia ? NO I AM NAT hehehehe i like it

[sonnyred5050]

@mafiososamgiancana and he has a smirk on his face while he says it.... ;)

[dirty06maggot]

@mafiososamgiancana lol

[paul452531]

gd point

[dahoss65]

What did the Saint Valentine's Day Massacre at the beginning of this video have to do with the New York Mafia?

[playajaydaboss]

i paid my tax lol gotta love it

[shqipe1mafija]

fuck italian mafia there finished

albanian mafia is in control now in europe

[theycallmechili]

lol. albanian mafia....... :) thats funny.

[fnAmericanS]

yeah sure,yes all of europe is in control of albanians ha ha ha your full of shit

[carsieplg]

lol albanian thats a cracker made me laugh

[rizzi2007]

here in the u.k its the turks n albanians, there has never been an Italian mob. the ones here are very low key

[bigbaltimore08]

Jeez dont you racists realize that were all from the same gene pool. The Bible says we all came from adam and eve and if you dont believe in God than you must believe that we have all evolved from one being. So when you hate a race because of thier color you are really just hateing your own family and more importantly your own kind.

[elchessboy0wnzuagain]

LOL. Italians are not white. Italians are from latin heritage...more to hispanics. The italans here in USA try to be white though.

[TheReconMission]

elchessboy0wnzuagain-

You so right, this is fact.

Naples is the highest populated place on the earth for Mafia.

[TheReconMission]

The word Latin means to be from Rome.

[Brent3334]

34: maranzano is the ugliest person i have ever seen.

[lyfe1zruff]

lmao