as far back as I can remember I always
wanted to be a gangster it’s a world
where a code of silence or omerta is
essential otherwise you may end up
sleeping with the fishes what the hell
is this that’s just a cydia message it
means your local brush he sleeps with
the fishes
welcome to watchmojo.com down the five
most interesting and surprising facts
that we could find about the Mafia be
they the Sicilian Cosa Nostra the
Camorra of Naples or mafia activity in
the United States shall try and Center a
few clams myself now number five the
Mafia first rose to prominence in the
u.s. due to Prohibition we got a product
the fellas gotta have it even better is
that we got a product Ian allowed it
there’s a saying possibly coined by
Jello Biafra which goes if evolution is
outlawed then only outlaws will evolve
well during America’s Prohibition era of
1920 to 1933 alcohol was outlawed so
only outlaws supplied alcohol so
naturally prohibition led to the rise of
organized crime syndicates which took
advantage of the situation
bootlegging liquor for sale and
speakeasies and organizing protection
rackets for local businesses while
simultaneously paying off local police
to look the other way how about the law
law I am the law georgie-boy
many of these criminal tactics went on
to service tried and true revenue
streams for the mob in the midst of this
boom in the American black-market
organized crime was getting crackdown on
in Italy leaving many mafiosi to
relocate to the US helping to make
prohibition the era where the Mafia
really established itself stateside
number four the mafia have poisoned
Naples Italy’s relationship with the
Mafia is a complex one with many
different subsections of organized crime
integrating themselves into different
areas of the country the citizens of
Naples have long accepted the presence
of the Kimura within their lives an
organized crime syndicate with a history
dating back to the 16th century the
Kimora’s impact doesn’t stop at the
boundaries of some mythical underworld
however the syndicate ran the waste
management system in the Campania region
of which Naples is the capital the
result of this takeover was the illegal
mixture of dangerous chemicals and waste
into the normal weekly trash collections
wood
then burned and dumped causing an
exponential rise of illness and cancer
amongst those living in the region add
to this the fact that the Kimora’s waste
management techniques allegedly include
breaking child labor laws and bribing
local officials and you have one
situation which unfortunately might get
worse before it gets better but locals
fear that despite the crackdown the
Mafia will simply find a way to stay in
business
possibly by launching into a new sector
the lucrative cleanup business number
three Al Capone humiliated Geraldo
Rivera from beyond the grave
there was nothing in El Capone’s fault
but it wasn’t Geraldo’s fault Al Capone
was one of the most infamous gangsters
of the Prohibition era hey nice talking
to her you talk Jimmy Darmody Al Capone
come on Geraldo Rivera was one of the
most well-known personalities on
television these two seemingly unrelated
individuals met head-on however almost
40 years after one of them had passed
away the night in question was April
21st 1986 during a two-hour televised
Geraldo special titled the mystery of Al
Capone’s vaults Rivera had only recently
been fired by his employers over at ABC
and had been touting the special as a
big career defining deal even going so
far as to have on standby a medical
examiner should there be any bodies
buried and agents from the IRS in the
hopes that some of Capone’s fortune
would be left in the vault things didn’t
pan out for Geraldo however with the
contents of Capone’s vault consisting of
only dirt and some empty bottles you may
not be able to take it with you one
thing’s for sure Capone didn’t leave
anything behind for Geraldo seems at
least up to now that we’ve struck out
with the vault I’m disappointed about
that as I’m sure you are this is one
time in my life that pot of gold would
have been a lot more fun than chasing
the rainbow number two Frank Sinatra
associated with the Mafia come
we’ll roll down
Sinatra’s ties to the mob or such an
open secret that they became somewhat of
a long-running joke amongst fans and
friends of the singer to the point where
Sinatra and his Rat Pack would even
reference it on stage during their
performances what wasn’t a laughing
matter to Sinatra however was his
relationship with den presidential
candidate John F Kennedy during the 1960
election the singer apparently desperate
for inclusion into Kennedy’s inner
circle went so far as to petition
Chicago mob boss Sam Giancana for his
influence getting Kennedy into office
according to Sinatra’s daughter Tina
what Sinatra did not plan on however was
the behavior of Kennedy’s brother Robert
as Attorney General who cracked down on
organized crime with great zeal John
Connell was pretty pissed off about this
so to smooth over the situation Sinatra
and the Rat Pack played a string of
gratis performances at the mobsters club
in Chicago number one the Mafia produced
the most famous porn flick well there it
is you little bugger there it is boy
what your glitter is it’s deep down in
the bottom of your throat
the mental image most associate with the
porn industry is probably one of the
West Coast Californian variety of hot
Sun palm trees and private studios but
in the early 1970s the new york-based
mafia especially Anthony big Tony
Peraino held sway over much of the
industry we’re all good with Oscars most
notably mob money financed deep throat
starring the legendary Linda Lovelace a
massively popular crossover hit which is
credited with ushering in the porno chic
movement of the decade I’m really sorry
did I do something wrong no sweetie no
oh so immense was the financial success
of deep throat that one mafia associate
from the Colombo crime family reportedly
boasted quote we don’t count the money
we make we weigh it reportedly the film
earned 600 million dollars but if that
were true it would mean it outsold Star
Wars in the 70s
well more wealth than you can imagine I
don’t know I can imagine Court have been
some have considered the possibility
that deep throats numbers were inflated
either to build hype or as part of a
mafia money-laundering scheme with the
way we live
my alimony check your old man’s
allowance we do all right so what do you
think could classic porno flick of
actually outgrow Star Wars I find your
lack of faith disturbing and how many of
these facts surprised you for more tons
of cash top 10s and empty vault top
fives be sure to subscribe to
watchmojo.com you ran everything paid
off cops
we paid off lawyers we paid off judges
everybody had their hands out everything
was for the taking and now it’s all over
wanted to be a gangster it’s a world
where a code of silence or omerta is
essential otherwise you may end up
sleeping with the fishes what the hell
is this that’s just a cydia message it
means your local brush he sleeps with
the fishes
welcome to watchmojo.com down the five
most interesting and surprising facts
that we could find about the Mafia be
they the Sicilian Cosa Nostra the
Camorra of Naples or mafia activity in
the United States shall try and Center a
few clams myself now number five the
Mafia first rose to prominence in the
u.s. due to Prohibition we got a product
the fellas gotta have it even better is
that we got a product Ian allowed it
there’s a saying possibly coined by
Jello Biafra which goes if evolution is
outlawed then only outlaws will evolve
well during America’s Prohibition era of
1920 to 1933 alcohol was outlawed so
only outlaws supplied alcohol so
naturally prohibition led to the rise of
organized crime syndicates which took
advantage of the situation
bootlegging liquor for sale and
speakeasies and organizing protection
rackets for local businesses while
simultaneously paying off local police
to look the other way how about the law
law I am the law georgie-boy
many of these criminal tactics went on
to service tried and true revenue
streams for the mob in the midst of this
boom in the American black-market
organized crime was getting crackdown on
in Italy leaving many mafiosi to
relocate to the US helping to make
prohibition the era where the Mafia
really established itself stateside
number four the mafia have poisoned
Naples Italy’s relationship with the
Mafia is a complex one with many
different subsections of organized crime
integrating themselves into different
areas of the country the citizens of
Naples have long accepted the presence
of the Kimura within their lives an
organized crime syndicate with a history
dating back to the 16th century the
Kimora’s impact doesn’t stop at the
boundaries of some mythical underworld
however the syndicate ran the waste
management system in the Campania region
of which Naples is the capital the
result of this takeover was the illegal
mixture of dangerous chemicals and waste
into the normal weekly trash collections
wood
then burned and dumped causing an
exponential rise of illness and cancer
amongst those living in the region add
to this the fact that the Kimora’s waste
management techniques allegedly include
breaking child labor laws and bribing
local officials and you have one
situation which unfortunately might get
worse before it gets better but locals
fear that despite the crackdown the
Mafia will simply find a way to stay in
business
possibly by launching into a new sector
the lucrative cleanup business number
three Al Capone humiliated Geraldo
Rivera from beyond the grave
there was nothing in El Capone’s fault
but it wasn’t Geraldo’s fault Al Capone
was one of the most infamous gangsters
of the Prohibition era hey nice talking
to her you talk Jimmy Darmody Al Capone
come on Geraldo Rivera was one of the
most well-known personalities on
television these two seemingly unrelated
individuals met head-on however almost
40 years after one of them had passed
away the night in question was April
21st 1986 during a two-hour televised
Geraldo special titled the mystery of Al
Capone’s vaults Rivera had only recently
been fired by his employers over at ABC
and had been touting the special as a
big career defining deal even going so
far as to have on standby a medical
examiner should there be any bodies
buried and agents from the IRS in the
hopes that some of Capone’s fortune
would be left in the vault things didn’t
pan out for Geraldo however with the
contents of Capone’s vault consisting of
only dirt and some empty bottles you may
not be able to take it with you one
thing’s for sure Capone didn’t leave
anything behind for Geraldo seems at
least up to now that we’ve struck out
with the vault I’m disappointed about
that as I’m sure you are this is one
time in my life that pot of gold would
have been a lot more fun than chasing
the rainbow number two Frank Sinatra
associated with the Mafia come
we’ll roll down
Sinatra’s ties to the mob or such an
open secret that they became somewhat of
a long-running joke amongst fans and
friends of the singer to the point where
Sinatra and his Rat Pack would even
reference it on stage during their
performances what wasn’t a laughing
matter to Sinatra however was his
relationship with den presidential
candidate John F Kennedy during the 1960
election the singer apparently desperate
for inclusion into Kennedy’s inner
circle went so far as to petition
Chicago mob boss Sam Giancana for his
influence getting Kennedy into office
according to Sinatra’s daughter Tina
what Sinatra did not plan on however was
the behavior of Kennedy’s brother Robert
as Attorney General who cracked down on
organized crime with great zeal John
Connell was pretty pissed off about this
so to smooth over the situation Sinatra
and the Rat Pack played a string of
gratis performances at the mobsters club
in Chicago number one the Mafia produced
the most famous porn flick well there it
is you little bugger there it is boy
what your glitter is it’s deep down in
the bottom of your throat
the mental image most associate with the
porn industry is probably one of the
West Coast Californian variety of hot
Sun palm trees and private studios but
in the early 1970s the new york-based
mafia especially Anthony big Tony
Peraino held sway over much of the
industry we’re all good with Oscars most
notably mob money financed deep throat
starring the legendary Linda Lovelace a
massively popular crossover hit which is
credited with ushering in the porno chic
movement of the decade I’m really sorry
did I do something wrong no sweetie no
oh so immense was the financial success
of deep throat that one mafia associate
from the Colombo crime family reportedly
boasted quote we don’t count the money
we make we weigh it reportedly the film
earned 600 million dollars but if that
were true it would mean it outsold Star
Wars in the 70s
well more wealth than you can imagine I
don’t know I can imagine Court have been
some have considered the possibility
that deep throats numbers were inflated
either to build hype or as part of a
mafia money-laundering scheme with the
way we live
my alimony check your old man’s
allowance we do all right so what do you
think could classic porno flick of
actually outgrow Star Wars I find your
lack of faith disturbing and how many of
these facts surprised you for more tons
of cash top 10s and empty vault top
fives be sure to subscribe to
watchmojo.com you ran everything paid
off cops
we paid off lawyers we paid off judges
everybody had their hands out everything
was for the taking and now it’s all over
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