S4 Ep12: Crossing Paths

Mafia

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True Crime, Society & Culture

4.4 • 3.2K Ratings

🗓️ 28 July 2021

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

To the casual observer, organized crime is viewed as a singular entity, spearheaded by a powerful mafioso or crime family. In reality, it’s a multi-faceted network built on generations of blind loyalty, spawning corruption and ruthless violence.

In this episode, we’ll follow the path from Charles “Lucky” Luciano and his merciless plot to end a brutal power struggle in New York to Joseph Valachi, whose testimony opened the vault to a world previously hidden in the shadows.

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Mafia's theme is "Spellbound Hell" by Damiano Baldoni. Music featured in this episode: “Smoke” by Rafael Archangel; “Fog” and “Gates” by Sergey Cheremisinov; “Difference,” “Imminence,” “Snowfall,” and “Universe in Hands” by Kai Engel; “Walking Along” and “Waltz (Tchaikovsky Op. 40)” by Kevin MacLeod.

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0:00.0	To the casual observer, organized crime is viewed as a singular entity, spearheaded by
0:09.0	a powerful mafioso or crime family.
0:13.2	In reality, it's a multi-faceted network built on generations of blind loyalty, spawning
0:19.7	corruption and ruthless violence.
0:23.2	Reno Genofi rose to the top by intimidation, but also by being allowed to rise to the top
0:28.6	by intimidation.
0:29.6	And the guy who allowed him to do that was like he'd no see out.
0:32.6	One of his mortal enemies was Robert F. Kennedy and others at the time identified
0:39.0	Locosa Nostra's enemy number one of the American people and Raymond Patriaca.
0:43.8	Remember the Kennedys are from New England?
0:45.5	Was at the top of that list?
0:46.5	The FBI was leaking stories in the Justice Department, which tried to turn them into an
0:50.9	instant sensation for Lachie into an instant sensation.
0:54.6	They put out a contract.
0:56.2	In this episode, we'll follow the path from Charles Lucky Luciano and his merciless
1:01.3	plot to end a brutal power struggle in New York to Joseph Lachie, whose testimony opened
1:07.5	the vault to a world previously hidden in the shadows.
1:12.4	The number one thing that Joe Lachie revealed to the law enforcement and to the people in
1:17.3	charge of this country was the structure of the mafia, the history of the mafia, the
1:22.2	vast knowledge of it, and he was the one who exposed it all.
1:25.7	This is Mafia!
1:27.3	In the mid-1920s, Giuseppe Joe the Boss Maseria controlled mafia operations in the United
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