In total eighteen people had been arrested along with Nicky. ibid.
But Nicky didn’t stop talking. For the next year he helped set up undercover drug deals with DEA agents and informants so the government could collect evidence against the Council. On 10th March 1983 arrest warrants were issued for Guy Fisher and four other Council members. ibid.
66-year-old Nicky Barnes was released into the police protection program. ibid.
November 6th 1990: the two detectives Louis Eppolito and Stephen Caracappa, men sworn to protect and serve, were in fact hired guns for the Mafia. And possibly the most corrupt cops in NYPD history. Mobsters s3e1: Mafia Cops
Gambling was a key racket for the Eppolitos. ibid.
Stephen Caracappa – a tight-lipped cop with a killer instinct. ibid.
As partners in Brooklyn’s robbery squad Louis Eppolito and Stephen Caracappa were a winning combination. Together they were also dangerous. ibid.
Using their badges to lure a man into a Mafia hit – performing this service for mobster Bert Kaplan. ibid.
Eppolito and Caracappa funnelled secret police intelligence to their bosses back in the Mob. ibid.
Guilty on all counts. ibid.
Anastasia got away with the murder [Arnold Schuster] just as he had for decades. Mobsters s3e3: Albert Anastasia, Bio 2010
[Joe] Masseria was alone: enter Albert Anastasia and three others. ibid.
Anastasia’s muscle would also be valuable to a group of Mafia leaders called the Commission … Murder Incorporated. ibid.
Anastasia had risen through the Mob ranks. ibid.
The tax trial of Albert Anastasia … Anastasia walked out of prison and right into a power grab. ibid.
June 1990 Staten Island, New York ... The woods were home to a mobster’s dumping ground. After three days of digging they found what they were looking for. Buried in shallow graves, dismembered and stuffed inside suitcases were the remains of those unfortunate to have crossed mobster Tommy Pitera. Mobsters s3e4: Tommy Karate Pitera
All the victims were neatly cut up into six pieces. ibid.
In the late ’70s heroin and cocaine were the Family’s big money maker. ibid.
One of his closest allies Frank Gangi had turned. ibid.
‘Anthony Casso was the single most treacherous organised crime figure in New York.’ Mobsters s3e5: Anthony Gaspipe Casso
Exclusive audio tapes and his only television interview take us deep inside the twisted world of a viscous Mob boss and career killer. ibid.
Casso decided to go with … the Lucchesi family. ibid.
The hit propelled Casso to the next level in his crime family. ibid.
In the mid-1970s Anthony Gaspipe Casso was raking in millions from his burglary ring known as the Bypass Gang. ibid.
In the spring of 1990 the heat came down on the kings of the Lucchese crime family. ibid.
May 5th 1981: a quiet night on the streets of south Brooklyn, New York. Inside a vacant social club a Bonanno crime family captain watched and waited. He’d invited three couples for a meeting. Word on the street was the three were planning a revolt. They wanted to overthrow the family’s new boss Phil Rastelli. Massino had told the three: come to the club ... Four men jumped out of a supply cupboard with guns blazing. Mobsters s3e6: Big Joey Massino
As his numbers and loan-sharking operations flourished, he expanded into a new mob racket: lorry hijackings. ibid.
He would take on a new job – murder for hire. ibid.
That July Sonny found out that one of his closest Mob associates Donnie Brasco was actually an undercover FBI agent named Joe Pistone. ibid.
Joe Massino was determined to restore the family name. ibid.
Joe Massino not only won the battle of the bug, he was defeating the FBI at its own game. ibid.
In 1992 after six years behind bars Massino was released. He returned home to a Bonanno family in total disarray. Massino got to work rebuilding the organisation. ibid.
By the mid-90s Joe Massino was something of a rarity in New York; all the other major Dons ... were behind bars. Big Joey Massino was the last boss standing. ibid.
Facing murder charges Vitale turned on his brother-in-law Big Joey and agreed to cooperate. It was nothing short of devastating. ibid.
Facing a possible execution Massino became the thing he always said he despised the most: he became a rat. ibid.
Over the next few years Joe bounced from one reform school to another. It was brutal. Mobsters s4e1: Mad Dog Sullivan
When he was nineteen, after six years in juvenile detention, Joe was released. He returned to Queens to live with his family ... After a couple of weeks he took off hitchhiking with a friend but they quickly ran out of money and to get by they began mugging people. ibid.
At the age of twenty-six Joe was paroled. ibid.
Returned to New York and convicted of manslaughter for the bar shooting. This time he got up to thirty years and was sent to one of America’s toughest prisons – Attica. ibid.
A massive search was launched for the one man who’d escaped Attica. ibid.
Sullivan was seized in Greenwich Village and returned to prison. Four years later in 1975 Sullivan was paroled. He was thirty-six years old. ibid.
The killing marked the beginning of Joe’s double life. ibid.
Mad Dog was beginning to tire of his profession. ibid.
Joe went into hiding but the heat was on. ibid.
22nd February 1982 Sullivan was arrested. ibid.
The act of betrayal against his former ally [Gallo] earned Persico his nickname: the Snake. Mobsters s4e6: Carmine the Snake Persico: Snake Eyes
The street gangs of Brooklyn battled for neighbourhood turf. ibid.
One by one the rebels snatched five top Profaci lieutenants, including underboss Joe Magliocco and Capo Joseph Colombo. ibid.
By March 1963 nine Gallo soldiers had been killed. ibid.
Once again the Colombo family was set on a war path and Carmine Persico would be the last man standing. ibid.
Created in 1970, RICO gave authorities a short cut. ibid.
The so-called Commission Trial began in September 1986. ibid.
Greg Scarpa was born in Brooklyn on May 8th 1928. Mobsters s4e7: Grim Reaper: Greg Scarpa
In the early 1950s Greg Scarpa was making a name for himself on the hard streets of Brooklyn as an earner and enforcer for the Profaci family. ibid.
Scarpa ran his own crew ambushing truck drivers at gunpoint. ibid.
On October 27th 1961 Greg Scarpa delivered his first bit of insider info ... As an FBI informant he traded information for cash and protection. (Murder Cases: Scarpa & Gangs US: New York & Mafia US: New York & New York) ibid.
The Colombo family war had just got personal. ibid.
December 11th 1978: a black van pulled up to the Lufthansa cargo terminal. Four men got out ... The money was completely untraceable ... Nearly six million dollars. Mobsters s4e8: Jimmy the Gent Burke
He kept money flowing to Paul Vario and the Lucchese crime family. ibid.
The [cargo] hijackings brought in cash by the truckload. ibid.
Lufthansa: seventy-two boxes of cash, jewellery and gold bullion into the back of the van. ibid.
[Henry] Hill was arrested on April 27th 1980. ibid.
He [Lucky Luciano] came in 1906 at the age of 8 as part of the great tide of Italian immigrants to the Lower East Side, Little Italy ... At the age of 18 he was sent to the notoriously harsh Hampton Farms Penitentiary for a year for peddling narcotics. His reward for keeping silent when arrested was to be made a full member of the Five Points Gang alongside the infamous Al Capone, Frankie Yale and Johnny Torrio. Great Crimes & Trials: Lucky Luciano and the Mob: Narcotics