Inside The Mafia - Mafia, What Mafia? NatGeo HD 1/5

Part 1: Mafia What Mafia?

The first of a four-part series on the American mafia reveals how the FBI ignored their existence until a meeting in a sleepy upstate New York hollow showed them something they couldn't deny. In the 1950s, America was booming. The economy was flourishing and the population was basking in post-war prosperity. Capitalising on all this prosperity was organised crime, run by Italian mobsters known as the Mafia. Run from the top by a board of directors, it had its fingers in many pies - including the unions, gambling, prostitution, the building industry and the waterside.

The law enforcement authorities however, denied their existence, preferring to focus attention on the 'red peril' of communism. But a meeting in November 1957 in the sleepy town of Apalachin, upstate New York, attended by dozens of Italian businessmen in fedoras and sharp suits, aroused the suspicion of local police. When they went to investigate, the party guests tried to flee. The police had unwittingly stumbled upon the leadership of the entire American mafia, who had gathered to discuss the introduction of heroin smuggling from Sicily to the US. The crime fighters could not ignore them any longer.

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[Lyrikalstylez]

The only difference between the mafia and the government is the government doesnt go to jail!!

[TheMafiaguy22]

@fatnixie347 you are really a dumbass you know that?

[JohnZabowski]

song name please?

[pcpaulius]

Mafia do like to eat feces and suck on Horse 's anus during defecation, that's a scientifically proven fact and mafia themselves admit it without any denial whatsoever, they think it makes them stronger, also they like to copulate with baby pigs, and when someone is sworn in to mafia, they must put their little finger up to boss arsehole and give to their mother to lick it off if they don't have mother, then grandma will do just fine, but if they don't have neither, then no mafia for them.

[Tazmaneer]

I want some steak now..

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[LeeroyJimboBerkowitz]

If ISRAEL has the "right to exist" as a terrorist state and modern day nazi regime......why cant the us govt ease up off the italian mafia? smh they dont instill religious-ethnic racism and genocide on anybody...mafia loan sharks arent nearly as bad as the sharks over at goldman and chase..... what Hypocrisy USA! wtf ???

[skinnyttobuff]

0:41 like many denied the Illuminati sure their was government corruption 15 trillion and debt and an economy that was going down hill but...

[Henrymj79]

Back in the day the mafia were just like colored people are today.... just the colored could not oranize peee peee or poop-