by PolackTony » Sat Oct 12, 2024 1:37 pm
outfit guy wrote: ↑Sat Oct 12, 2024 11:03 am
funkster wrote: ↑Sat Oct 12, 2024 9:17 am
I dont hate Nadu but i also have never watched one of his videos, i watched his response to this whole drama and it was an hour of him reading and responding to the live chat comments. Is that how all his videos are?
His shows can be over-extended responding to chats. But Nadu has more "broken" more stories and had more first-time guests than any other host. His due diligence is nowhere near OC's who makes the effort to read hundreds of pages of FBI transcripts. The only better research - in video form - is here
https://www.youtube.com/@TheLastSupper_yt
https://www.youtube.com/@TheLastSupper_yt
I’m sorry, but I watched 5 minutes of this guy’s video on Bugs Moran and it was riddled with sloppy errors.
For example, this guy said that both Capone and Frankie Yale “grew up” in the “5 Points District of New York” (both men were from Brooklyn, not Manhattan). He referred to Yale as the “Capo of the Brooklyn chapter of the Unione Siciliana”, which is one of many falsehoods surrounding this era that refuses to die as people just keep repeating it in error. Yale was, in fact, a capodecina in the Masseria Family. There was no such entity as the “Unione Siciliana” in Brooklyn; this was, in fact, a mutual aid society founded in Chicago in the 1890s by men from Palermo and had chapters/lodges in IL and a few nearby states like IN. The Unione Siciliana was infiltrated by mafiosi but was not the same thing as the mafia, it was basically like the Sons of Italy today. He describes Chicago boss Tony Lombardo as Chicago’s “leading Union representative”. Lombardo was not a formal official of the Unione Siciliana, which was called the Italo-American National Union by this time anyway; Lombardo was boss of the Chicago mafia and, like many Sicilians in Chicago, mafiosi and not, a member of the IANU; the actual IANU President at this time was a guy named Bernard Barassa. The guy goes on to say that Yale “replaced Lombardo” with Joe Aiello, who he describes as a “compliant figure from Milwaukee”. Aiello was *not* “from Milwaukee”. He was from Bagheria and had arrived in Chicago, where he already had decades-long familial ties, via upstate NY. He was not brought to Chicago by Yale and was not installed by Yale as a replacement for Lombardo in the “Unione Siciliana”. We know from the account of Nicola Gentile that Aiello was appointed underboss of the Chicago Family under Lombardo folllowing the death of former boss Michele Merlo in 1924.
Again, just the immediate errors that I noticed in listening to a few minutes of one episode. It’s clear that the guy is just uncritically repeating whatever he read in some other account of this era, and lots of what was written about this era of mafia history is little better than myth.
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I dont hate Nadu but i also have never watched one of his videos, i watched his response to this whole drama and it was an hour of him reading and responding to the live chat comments. Is that how all his videos are?
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His shows can be over-extended responding to chats. But Nadu has more "broken" more stories and had more first-time guests than any other host. His due diligence is nowhere near OC's who makes the effort to read hundreds of pages of FBI transcripts. The only better research - in video form - is here
https://www.youtube.com/@TheLastSupper_yt
https://www.youtube.com/@TheLastSupper_yt
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I’m sorry, but I watched 5 minutes of this guy’s video on Bugs Moran and it was riddled with sloppy errors.
For example, this guy said that both Capone and Frankie Yale “grew up” in the “5 Points District of New York” (both men were from Brooklyn, not Manhattan). He referred to Yale as the “Capo of the Brooklyn chapter of the Unione Siciliana”, which is one of many falsehoods surrounding this era that refuses to die as people just keep repeating it in error. Yale was, in fact, a capodecina in the Masseria Family. There was no such entity as the “Unione Siciliana” in Brooklyn; this was, in fact, a mutual aid society founded in Chicago in the 1890s by men from Palermo and had chapters/lodges in IL and a few nearby states like IN. The Unione Siciliana was infiltrated by mafiosi but was not the same thing as the mafia, it was basically like the Sons of Italy today. He describes Chicago boss Tony Lombardo as Chicago’s “leading Union representative”. Lombardo was not a formal official of the Unione Siciliana, which was called the Italo-American National Union by this time anyway; Lombardo was boss of the Chicago mafia and, like many Sicilians in Chicago, mafiosi and not, a member of the IANU; the actual IANU President at this time was a guy named Bernard Barassa. The guy goes on to say that Yale “replaced Lombardo” with Joe Aiello, who he describes as a “compliant figure from Milwaukee”. Aiello was *not* “from Milwaukee”. He was from Bagheria and had arrived in Chicago, where he already had decades-long familial ties, via upstate NY. He was not brought to Chicago by Yale and was not installed by Yale as a replacement for Lombardo in the “Unione Siciliana”. We know from the account of Nicola Gentile that Aiello was appointed underboss of the Chicago Family under Lombardo folllowing the death of former boss Michele Merlo in 1924.
Again, just the immediate errors that I noticed in listening to a few minutes of one episode. It’s clear that the guy is just uncritically repeating whatever he read in some other account of this era, and lots of what was written about this era of mafia history is little better than myth.