The Italian Mafia

Those Conspiracy Guys

Gordon Rochford

True Crime, Comedy, History

4.4 • 4.5K Ratings

🗓️ 30 March 2017

⏱️ 295 minutes

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DEEP DIVE - On this episode we talk about one of the most renowned criminal organisations in the world, that went from a super secret cabal of career criminals to a star studded cavalcade of celebrity gangsters that were splashed across the pages of newspapers and whose stories lit up our cinema screens for the last 50 years, The Italian Mafia.Starting from a small and poverty stricken gaggle of Sicilian local town stewards with a penchant for violence and way with coercion; The Cosa Nostra became one of the most powerful and politically influenctial gangs in the world. Their immigration from Italy to the United States and their keen business sense saw them take advantage of such economic US disasters as prohibition and the oil crisis to make their millions. After a slew of rats, narcs and stoolies gave up the most sacred of information and broke the Omertà, the mafia code of silence, the common man got to peer deep into the inner workings of this previously sacred coven of ritual and military precision. The mob boss celebrities that came from this time in crime will be synonymous with brutality and ingenuity and their oppulent spending, gambling and business practices have been envied and even copied by some. We also talk about how the US government wrote new laws and put many ineffectual safeguards in place to try to stem the swell of organised crime in the 60s, after the info was released about how the Mafia do business. Wiretaps and other infiltrations were then common place and many arrests were made. This caused an atmosphere of suspicion among the mob community and infighting and power struggle assassinations were commonplace. We also talk about the five families of New York and how their influence spread across America in an indelible and somewhat admirable way, yknow, despite all the crime and murder and stuff!________________________This podcast is supported by the generous donations of the wonderful folks over at Patreon. If you want to support the show and get exclusive content, ad-free episodes, access to live chats and private social media like Instagram and Discord and a whole load of other stuff click here http://bit.ly/TCG-PatreonIf you want to follow TCG on social platforms including the Discord, watch video versions of the livestream podcast and documentaries; or even join in on live chats about current events; buy TCG merch; get notifications of and buy tickets to upcoming live stage shows or to just support the show on Patreon; all the links, info and instructions you can find by clicking this link http://www.linktr.ee/thoseconspiracyguys Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This time, on those conspiracy guys, we don the flat cap of intrigue and take the boat to
0:10.8	the new world in search of the truth behind one of the most elusive and secretive societies
0:16.2	in the world, the Italian Mafia.
0:23.6	From the middle of the 19th century, thousands of Italians immigrated to the United States
0:28.5	in search of a new life.
0:30.5	But in their company was a small but powerful contingent of criminals known as Matthew Soil,
0:36.5	who sought to exercise their control and social engineering skills on a brand new market.
0:44.0	The Black Hand is the name for the particular technique these mobsters used to create organized
0:48.5	crime gangs and extort money from locals.
0:51.7	Inviting between gangs and street wars over territory caused a leadership of this organization
0:56.0	to seek a more sustainable model of business.
1:00.4	The Commission was established in the 1930s and laid down the law for the self-titled
1:05.8	co-synastry establishing strict territorial borders and a military-like organization structure.
1:12.9	This coupled with the prohibition laws saw a very organized crime syndicate gifted with
1:17.5	one of the biggest opportunities of the century.
1:22.3	With so much money of progress, there were surely power struggles, even with the Commission
1:27.6	in operation leaders of the gangs or families as they were known, were assassinating each
1:32.4	other in a bid for power.
1:34.4	At the bottom level too, people were disgruntled and this made for easy pickings for law enforcement.
1:41.5	But in the 1960s, a revelation for the US government and the agency's task with managing
1:46.2	this criminal menacing, counter-life, lower-level mobsters decided to break the sacred code
1:50.9	of a murder, or the code of silence that protected the mafia and they told all about the inner
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