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Mafia

S3 Ep9: Joe Valachi (Part 1)

Mafia

Audioboom Studios

True Crime, Society & Culture

4.43.2K Ratings

🗓️ 11 December 2019

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Joe Valachi had been in the Mafia for years, but hadn't risen much in the ranks. But when he was facing a life sentence, there was one group of people who thought he was high enough - for information. The FBI saw in Valachi a chance to learn the mob's structure; and Valachi saw a chance to get out of jail.

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Mafia's theme is "Spellbound Hell" by Damiano Baldoni. Music in this episode is “Life” and ”Misery" by Damiano Baldoni; “Thoughts About Future” by Parvus Decree; “Gagool,” “Night on the Docks,” “Mourning Song,” “Walking Along,” “I Knew a Guy,” and “Heart of the Beast” by Kevin MacLeod.

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0:00.0

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1:11.4

For years, the mafia was able to operate outside of the law and the FBI didn't care.

1:17.4

Now, over for a long time, had taken advantage of an American law

1:22.2

but the federal investigators, the law that was written on wiretapping and bugs

1:29.4

was simply this.

1:31.2

The federal law said intercept but not disclose.

1:37.4

So the idea simply was, whoever had been getting a lot of the taps and bugs

1:42.6

has not got a lot about the mafia.

1:44.6

But Joe Velacci was the first mobster to break Omerta, the mafia's strict code of silence.

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