NYC Mafia's Mob Tax | American Godfathers: The Five Families (S1)

Explore how the NYC Mafia in the 1990s imposed a 'mob tax' on legitimate businesses, using extortion tactics to collect money and exert control in this scene from Season 1, Episode 3.

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American Godfathers: The Five Families, executive produced and narrated by Emmy Award®-winning actor Michael Imperioli is a three-part, six-hour documentary series exploring the inception, rise, and fall of New York City’s five Mafia families who over a fifty-plus-year period had a hand in every facet of organized crime in America from bootlegging and drug trafficking to extortion and gambling. Based upon Selwyn Raab’s New York Times best-seller “Five Families: The Rise, Decline and Resurgence of America’s Most Powerful Mafia Empires,” “American Godfathers: The Five Families” traces the extensive history of the Mafia beginning with its early ties to Sicily. The history and subsequent breakdown of the “omerta” code coupled with the ever-changing violent power struggles within each of the five families is vividly chronicled throughout each two-hour episode. Through investigative archival images, footage, audio recordings, and recreation as well as new, candid on-camera interviews with authors including Raab himself, historians, experts, law enforcement, witnesses, and former mafia affiliates, viewers will get an inside look at the inner workings of the most powerful criminal organization of the twentieth century.

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[stevemill]

Man I need a no show job, I thought working from home was the dream job

[henrylambru]

That's the
Government, that's Latisha, James, that's Alvin Bragg.

[angeldeath]

Government does the same thing, one big racket

[HawaiiSustainable]

As if any of this stopped or it is contained to New York City

[sagesage]

Greed ain't pretty and neither are the consequences

[MOJOKING]

Documentary was made 2023/2024 but ends like 2005, 2006. Should have gotten into huge 2011 mafia takedown bust#, Genovese/Gambino dominiance for past 15 yrs and rise of mafia podcasts

[Mr.inky]

I looked it up. If anyone else was wondering, Google said there is approximately ~32.75 million windows in NYC. Lol

[Guillermo_Carratero]

It wasn't extortion. It was a cartel and the constructive companies were very happy with the set-up, unless you weren't in the club of course.

[juanvaldez]

There were no rules for drugs. It was dine quietly.

[juanvaldez]

Today the mob is
Blackrock and Blackstone no Italians

[MrOtis]

Shellackhead never had the makings of a varsity quarterback

[JoseLopez-dvrk]

Former captain on social security great america 😅

[SamsungGalaxy-lsys]

We still h ave it, it's called income and property taxes.

[alastairmillar]

Just stumbled over your site and I have subscribed straight away, ,

[michaelholder]

Mobsters today arent like the 30s thru the 50s. Now its a bunch of punks.

[daajewwish]

Not anymore more so taxes an inflation.

[victorg]

The bonnano family was big because of there Montreal crew .

[juanvaldez]

Anyone here in the videos in the witness program?

[MG-wmkq]

This is what the Mexican cartels have failed to transition to but have huge potential if able to, imagine the cartels were getting a percentage off every slap on concrete and materials used to build the resorts in Mexico or residential areas …….