Tony (Big Tuna/Joe Batters) Accardo testifies to Congress

[lexpocalik]

i Gambled lol

[rub3nski]

roth is a jew motherfucker not Tony

[serveandcollectable]

WHAT MOBB BOSS you know can straight up lie infront of congress at the age of 84

wile everybody knows it after spendin more than 50 years on topp of the most succesfull and dangerious mobb in the USA and not even spent one full night in jail!! he was recruited by al capone himself at the age of 26!!!

EVEN THEM RICO LAWS NEVER GOT HIM

THIS GUY WAS AS CLOSE YOU CAN GET TO BEEING AN ABSOLUTE GODD

and made a clean gettaway!!

[serveandcollectable]

In my mind i always picure tony accardo to be like tony soprano.

having total controle over everything and all around him!!

Having his men shitting there pants for him,having the F.B.I cant do shit about him! and having everybody on there knees for him!! and that for 50 years!! wile ruling with an iron fist!!

BY CEEPING MIND CONTROLE!!!

WHAT A GUY A TRUE LEGEND!!!!

[serveandcollectable]

@starryian007 your right tony accardo aint a man to be worshiped butt in him line of work he was the best his luck was that chicago only has one mob family so when he reached the top of it he only had to maintain but still he played it so slick and smooth that his name is a bigg hair across the FBIs ass he played them and his mob underlings like fools and that for more than 50 years wile staying on the background!! he made a clean gettaway!! butt still hes probaply rotting in hell!!

[serveandcollectable]

THIS GUY WAS THE BOSS OF THE CHICAGO MOBB SINCE THE FORTHYS UNTILL HIS DEATH IN 92 MAKIN HIM THE THE MOST POWERFULL AND SUCCESFULL DON EVER!! never went to jail and never had someone come after him!! even them RICO laws never got him!! he stayed down and dirty till the end!! FROM CAPONE TILL AFTER GOTTI!!

[killapain]

@serveandcollectable

absolutley right! Accardo was a man's man..a true standup guy and was last of a dead breed...him and Carlo gambino. Dame....Accardo goes back to the days of Capone...as his chief body guard to his Chief enforcer of the capone gang. He murdered alot of people during those times (20's and 30's and gave countless orders. a true legend 

[starryian007]

@killapain Tony Accardo is not a person to be feted or admired. It saddens me that anyone could speak in glowing terms about this viscious, calculating murderer. His moniker 'Batters' says it all. How many people are lying in their graves because of him? How many lives cut short? How much pain, misery and destruction did this man willingly inflict on others? And please dont give me the line about 'they only kill their own' Accardo would have murdered his own mother if it was expedient to do so.

[killapain]

@starryian007

What do you know. Mind your business. im not glorifying that he killed. you talk about how many lives he took...only other gangster's lives. he never killed or had any innocent people killed, never. he was not a cerial killer. he was a gangster and a gentlemen. he wasnt a jeffrey dahmer, a ted bundy or albert desalvo ( the boston strangler)!! those guys killed innocent people and were far more Vicious and brutal than Tony.  they were animals. Know many lives they took!

[starryian007]

@killapain That was a very ignorant statement to make. He only took 'other gangsters lives' What a stupid thing to say. This bastard would have killed anyone that would have got in his way. Why dont you research the burglary that took place at his home - he had six of them murdered. All young guys. And before you start praising him for doing it (as sickly hero-worshippers often do) look at Accardo's track record - he was a bully, a murderer, racketeer, loan shark and pimp. You wanna admire him??

[XMENstokes]

@starryian007 if fbi agent bill roemer, who spent his career putting mobsters away, agrees that tony accardo is in fact a man of honor and respect, then you my friend are wrong. if you hate criminals, fine, and tony was defiently a criminal. but tony accardo, meyer lansky, luciano, curly humphrys, bonnano, they were real criminals wih class. they had honor and brains. soldiers kill terrorists, mobsters kill mobsters and idiots involved. thats the way it is.

[starryian007]

@serveandcollectable Fart alight pal...............learn how to spell will you??

[serveandcollectable]

I GAMBLED hahahha ( and i killed i stole i was the leader of a crime group who kept a major city under siege and i corrupted city officals and cops orders a 100 people killed and made about 200 million off it and i never spend more than a couple of hours behind bars I AM THE MOST POWERFULL AND SUCCES GANGSTER AMERICA HAS KNOWN MR SENATOR HAHHAHA

[serveandcollectable]

TONY ACCARDO AND CARLO GAMBINO ARE THE MOST POWRFULL,SUCCESFULL AND CAPABLE BOSSES AND THERE FOR MOBSTERS EVER

[mrtundra45]

@serveandcollectable cant forget Lucky !!!

[serveandcollectable]

He enjoyed his role as the big boss, he liked having his men gossip about him, having them bow and fall all over themselves trying to keep him happy. Accardo made no secret of the fact that he looked down on them and made sure they understood that they were subordinate to him. However he was careful not to act superior around Paul Ricca, the man who had trained him for his position

[mrtundra45]

Accardo was not a jew nor was he a follower of judiasm,... although being sicilian its possible he had a drop or two of semetic blood, doesnt make him a jew though.

Italians never really liked jews all that much anyhow.

[couragio235]

@mrtundra45 Remember Meyer Lansky?

[mrtundra45]

@couragio235 what about him? he wasnt a mafia boss and he WAS a known jew. not italian.

[gino26gman]

@mrtundra45 ur a retard

[mrtundra45]

@gino26gman why

[mrtundra45]

@gino26gman i was talking about myer lansky who infact was a jew, but tony accardo was not, he was of course italian american..... doesnt make much difference though... big time criminals like that All the the same things in common, theyll make lots of money and put almost anyone in a box in the ground.....they were different than most to say the least.

[wesisdadon]

he gambled a little bit , thats funny shit ...

besides gambino he was the most powerful boss in the country , i myself believe

they were equals

[kimura2Loc]

@wesisdadon

Accardo step down as Boss when Gambino became boss in 1957

so in his days Accardo was the most powerful Boss ,..the New York had 5 Families while the outfit had only one Boss

[MrUgotz472]

This is very disgusting...interrogating an elderly, medically ill tax paying citizen!!

"JB" was a Man amongst Men. Dragging a man his age into a court room to be asked STUPID ?'s, why not go after some "REAL" criminals and let these gentlemen live in peace!! Talk about WASTING TAX DOLLARS...nothing was gained from this head line hungry commission!

[SaoirseGoDeo1]

i gambled

[vill5263]

Tony Accardo was the boss of bosses

[carmen5503]

Guy was a legend . I got to meet him once when I was a kid at the Star Lounge in Cicero IL. Nicest guy you could meet on the street. He was the Boss of Bosses. Brass balls I tell ya. Nothing like dropping your cock in the coffee of a U.S Sentor and walking away to tell the story. A part of Cicero died when this man passed and it will never be the same.

[STOPCRIME1000]

Accardo's son owns a dump called Club O in Harvey Illinois where the strippers and prostitutes are Wanted Felons and/or traffiked. It is a sleeze joint that displays Accardo's demeanor to the fullest--sleazy. Vegas is where the class is, not Chicago--the Accardo family is more concerned with Russian Jews in Chicago and across the nation and furthering their plans to control the US government. I heard a rumor that this family is too weak now and is on the way out of Chicago-send them to Israel

[muttilo]

@STOPCRIME1000 Oye Vey

[joeypolanski]

(* chuckle *)

[larrywheels]

dis guy goes back to capone- they had vegas skimmed every which way. yeah he gambled- nuttin wrong with dat- but dem boys had pieces of everything that could make a buck..

[VolumedMusicMan]

Thanks pal I knew the story I overlooked it. The "waiter" wanted Nitti to take the blame for the outfit.

[vette72green]

accardo was slick.died of old age

[shredder1965]

He ran Chicago behind the scenes fo almost fifty years.....badassed.

[hormelsanchez]

the handle of his cane is a big tuna. Ganster

[xanadu77]

Tony Accardo was the real deal. John Gotti wouldn't have made a pimple on Accardo's ass.

[chicagogeorge]

This is true....

[Oskarovvv]

tony looks so sweet here ..like a old grandpa who,s lost

[gummoboy69]

Notice how expertly he plays up the "confused old man" routine. This guy was one of the sharpest godfathers around.

[BijanMetallica]

@gummoboy69

No doubt about it. Guy never spent a day in prison, truly smarter than the rest of the pack.

His act here kind of remiends me of Junior Soprano.

[jimmym02]

20 years? c'mon save 20 years for those nyc gangsters, well over 20.

[gamehound83]

From what I understand Accarto and Gencana were thought to be the gunmen who commited the St Valentine's day massacre therfore earning their positions as number 1 and 2. Correct me if I'm wrong please

[STOPCRIME1000]

Accardo Jr., and his sisters and family are alive and well in Chicago streamling the prostitution ring for pilots out of O'hare. Some women I worked with were raped and murdered by them. He is a hard man to pin down because he is Jewish and many Jews in Chicago protect him from the law. Check out the book The Enforcer. Talks about his days developing prostitution in Chicago. He murdered my cousins, etc., so I hope they all rot in hell

[06calcio]

Accardo is a Jew???? What shit are you smoking?? What is his real name...Moishie Accardbergstein??LMFAO you stupid piece of shit. To bad they didn't murder you.

[STOPCRIME1000]

Not smoking any shit. Accardo, the Jew, was let in by the Italian mob then he took over. Look it up in the book The Enforcer before you so ignorantly strut your stuff to someone who knows him and his family, etc.,. To bad you were born. Too stupid for words.

[STOPCRIME1000]

Yes, born Sicilian, but practicing Jew.

[MrNomad81]

@06calcio "Moishie Accardbergstein" hahaha nice

[VolumedMusicMan]

Accardo was also Capone's bodyguard, and Nitti's capo.The Hollywood Extortion Trial caused the top leaders like Nitti and Ricca to step down while it gave Accardo the top spot in the outfit in the mid 40's.

[gamehound83]

I know he was Capone's driver and bodyguard but didnt know about Nitti. I know Nitti commited suicide and it gave Acardo an opening

[VolumedMusicMan]

I read from Roemer's book "Accardo: The Genuine Godfather", that Nitti got into a argument with Ricca over the Hollywood Extortion mishap and kicked Ricca out of his office, which was a big insult because Ricca had more stroke in the outfit than Nitti. Like you mentioned gamehound83, Nitti did comitt suicide, due to the fact he was going to jail and was claustrophobic, and that he also had cancer. Tony was at ther right place at the right time. When Accardo became Don he got Ricca out of jail.

[TheJipJones]

@VolumedMusicMan You SD read Sam Giancana's BIO DOUBLE CROSSED written by his little bro and his nephew and godson!!! FRANK NITTI was just a front man to take all the heat!!! RICCA order Nitti to take the RAP for all of them so the rest of them wd walk thagts y nitti commited suicide

[chicagogeorge]

I used to teach Nitti's great nephews, and niece about 6 years ago..... When we studied the 1920's they did a power point presentation on their infamous uncle's life....

[JohnDavidStutts1]

@gamehound83 Accardo has long been suspected of being one of the triggerman in the St Valentine's Day massacre. But, as these things often go, it has never been conclusively proven one way or the other. On the other hand, I for one have never heard that Giancana took part in the massacre. Then again, it could be I just never heard about it. Who can say?

[killapain]

@JohnDavidStutts1

Actually, John Scalise n Albert Anselmi who were Capone Shooters n his chief enforcers before Tony Accardo were behind da shootings of da St. Valentine's day massacre n its proven fact. but Tony Accardo on orders from Capone n da mid 1930's brutally killed Both Scalise n Anselmi by smashing both of their heads n wit a baseball bat at a dinner Banquet held by capone which n fact was a front 2 lure Scalise n Anselmi 2 there doom. accardo wasnt nick named Tony Batters 4 nothin!

[AGDAKING]

The man never spent one night in jail and ran the Outfit for over 20 yrs, NOW THATS A GANGSTER

[bodhitaichi]

20 years? Where you been son? He had final say in the outfit from the 40's until he died. Lot longer than 20 years.

[Georgie2500]

Try  60 years

[EDGEWOMAN]

I met his son and he tried to force me into prostitution for pilots at O'hare Airport. Accardo streamlined the prostitution rings for the airport and Chicagoland. His family is carryout the sam campaigns. They begun an organizeds stalking campaign on me to get me to do what they want, prostitute for pilots on layover. They murdered two of my coworkers who I don't think went along with it. Sick people.

[bodhitaichi]

You're a liar!

[PriestPepone]

The Genuine Omerta

[shiest13]

The greatest mob boss of all time and nobody knows who he is

[ExplosiveThinMan]

Thats why he was the greatest.

[bodhitaichi]

Nobody like Accardo. Ever!

[luv2bud]

His instinct was to deny everything, but his lawyer didn't want him to get caught in a lie. So he had to change his story, because he had already admitted to illegal gambling.

[dalton616]

thats my grampas uncle

[watsurflavr5]

lol thats pretty cool! my grandpa and his brothers used to be friends with him but my grandpa is way younger than him. maybe our grandparents grew up in the same neighborhood

[WRJCLAYTON]

Thanks for posting.Always good to see any sort of clips on guys like this.There's so little on Youtube.