Fear City: New York vs The Mafia Trailer | Netflix Doc (7/22, From Producers of Don't fukk w/ Cats)

[NYC Warrior]

fukk Ghoul-iani and fukk all them spaghetti and meatball eating, slick back greasy head guinea ass wops.

 

[Uptown WaYo87]

Saw all 3 episodes yesterday, i thought it was super dope. It reminded me of cocaine cowboys but the 70s new york mafia version

 

[Dave24]

Well produced but I know these stories enough that I could retell them all off top at this point

@Whips-n-Chains what are the best books on the mafia that cover what this documentary covered??

 

[Whips-n-Chains]

@Whips-n-Chains what are the best books on the mafia that cover what this documentary covered??

“Five Families” By Selwyn Raab. Dope ass read. Pretty much covers all mafia activity in the US from the 20s - 2000s with a lot of emphasis on the 70s and 80s

“Inside the American Mob” should still be on Netflix. I think it’s 5 episodes mostly the same topic too

 

[OGBIGBOY187]

Just finished the sopranos so this a nice lil distant cousin companion piece.

 

[MikelArteta]

Not bad but a lot of old stuff you already know

thet need to do one about those old black 80 gangs

 

[pickles]

This is pretty good. I am glad it was only 3 parts. I didn't know NY was so shytty back in the day.

 

[Dave24]

“Five Families” By Selwyn Raab. Dope ass read. Pretty much covers all mafia activity in the US from the 20s - 2000s with a lot of emphasis on the 70s and 80s

“Inside the American Mob” should still be on Netflix. I think it’s 5 episodes mostly the same topic too

Thanks breh!

 

[Wargames]

This guy rudy guliani in episode 2

"When i was young i was a boxer i was a tough guy..could i have been in the mob?......yeah"

His pop was tough he was actually a nerd

 

[JordanWearinThe45]

Subs

 

[KalKal]

This is pretty good. I am glad it was only 3 parts. I didn't know NY was so shytty back in the day.

I always like reminders that the "good old days" were never really all that good. Sure, the music was better, but overall I would actually rather live now.

I have little patience for the people from places like Ozone Park who love to argue that the world was so much safer back then when Gotti was around .

 

[Soundbwoy]

A few years ago mobsters in Montreal got caught doing the same construction scam.

Testimony
At the Charbonneau inquiry, an "ex-construction boss said that for years, three per cent of the value of all contracts he received from the city of Montreal went to the mayor's party, and another one per cent, known as "la taxe à Surprenant," went to a city official.":66-106

In 2009 the president of the construction division at SNC-Lavalin(SNC), was told that his firm's proposal to build McGill University's new super-hospital was faulty. However, someone on the McGill University Health Centre(MUHC) had illegally given him a copy of the OHL consortium architectural drawings, which were favoured by the clinicians. Charles Chebl, who at the time was working under Ben Aissa and has since replaced him as head of construction for SNC, testified in May 2014 that Riadh Ben Aissa told him to incorporate the OHL design into a hasty revision of SNC's plan. Chebl apparently demurred, and then was called to a meeting by then-CEO Pierre Duhaime where he claims to have been instructed to plagiarise the OHL design. Ben Aissa and Duhaime allegedly arranged payments of $22.5-million to MUHC CEO Arthur Porter and his right-hand-man Yanai Elbaz in exchange for ensuring SNC won the $1.3-billion contract. The contract was awarded to SNC in July 2010 and by the end of 2011, Porter had resigned all of his positions of public trust, and in February 2013 the police issued a warrant for his arrest. Porter has since absconded justice for "fraud, conspiracy to commit government fraud, abuse of trust, secret commissions and laundering the proceeds of a crime" related to the construction of the super-hospital, but he is fighting extradition from a Panama jail cell.

In September 2012, Joseph Pistonetestified at the Charbonneau Commission as an expert witness.

Witnesses detailed a system of bid-rigging that saw a cartel of engineering and construction firms obtain public contracts from the city of Montreal in exchange for political donations. Collusion in the construction industry extended across the river to the city of Longueuil, testified Yves Cadotte, who was in 2014 senior vice-president and general manager of SNC's transport, infrastructure and buildings division. The trick was for the politicians to solicit envelopes and briefcases of cash that were not directly related to the contracts for which tenders were requested, in order by that artifice to be able to skirt anti-bribery laws. Cadotte said the other engineering companies that were part of Longueuil's system at the time were Genivar Inc., Dessau, Groupe SM and Cima+. In one instance the politicians requested $200,000, and Cadotte delivered $125,000 in cash to Liberal party fundraiser Bernard Trépanier, who stashed it in a briefcase. For the remaining $75,000, he said SNC agreed at the party's request to pay an invoice from a Montreal communications firm for services that were largely never rendered. Cadotte was asked whether he ever thought about denouncing the collusion to the Competition Bureau of Canada, which has a policy of clemency for whistleblowers. Cadotte answered "No."

Julie Boulet, the Quebec Minister of Transport during the Liberal government of Jean Charest, contradicted herself when she denied her previous day's testimony that she was well aware of the requirement that cabinet ministers needed to raise funds annually in the amount $100,000. That is, in order to obtain and maintain a cabinet-level job in Quebec one must be able to provide or shepherd $100,000 in campaign contributions

 

[KING WILL]

I thought it was ok, maybe cuz I expected something diff.

Spoiler: Hearing

cops talk about posing as cable men...meh

 

[Devil Plisken…CMS]

They really love glorifying this era.

How many more specials are really needed

Ditto

I done seen these cast of characters & heard these stories for decades. At this point you have to chalk it up as being for the younger generation

They love rehashing shyt but they don’t show that kind of love to the black gangstas of the world

 

[KalKal]

Ditto

I done seen these cast of characters & heard these stories for decades. At this point you have to chalk it up as being for the younger generation

They love rehashing shyt but they don’t show that kind of love to the black gangstas of the world

If you think about it, it is kind of unnerving how in stories like this and Cocaine Cowboys you have murderers interviewed after a decade in prison, and you get the feeling that the show producers are not really "judging" them. It's all very matter-of-fact, the interviews are just like the interviews of the FBI officials. Its like "just another colorful character".

You never get any kind of sense that the unseen interviewers are risking their lives to talk to some kind of thuggish animal.