The Mafia w/ Trevor McDonald (documentary)

[Wiseguy]

Looks like they interview Michael Franzese, Mikey Scars, Ralph Natale, Ron Previte, John Alite, among others. Someone should post the full thing up if they can find it.

(Google "Mafia w/ Trevor McDonald on YouTube to see the trailer below)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uOgav_Ahy_M


The Mafia with Trevor McDonald review – there’s little glamour in being an ex-mobster

These former crime bosses had been through jail and betrayal. Now they were sad, friendless, fearful – and terrifically bored

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In The Mafia with Trevor McDonald (ITV), our impassive and scrupulously courteous reporter pitched his questions to some very frank retired mobsters: between them they’d done a lot of bad things, and they were happy to admit it. Occasionally, one even offered up something in the way of remorse.

“I don’t sleep,” said Michael “Mikey Scars” DiLeonardo in Miami. “My conscience bothers me.” It soon became clear that he feels more guilty about betraying his friends than all those crimes he committed. It turned out these guys are used to talking: each of them ratted out their bosses and associates in exchange for lenient sentences. As a government informant, mob-enforcer John Alite was sentenced to just 10 years for, among other things, two murders.

You could tell he missed the life – he once owned 10 homes, including the country “estate” he showed Trevor round. The rather spare decor is down to the tastes of the current owners. “At the time there was a sunken Jacuzzi tub here,” said Alite, pointing to a corner of the bedroom. He also showed Trevor where he kept all his guns, for those times when rival mobsters came to kill him. But what he really thinks about when he sees the house isn’t the shoot-outs in the driveway; it’s his granny coming out of the kitchen door to greet him: “Those memories, they’re embreaded [sic] in your mind.”

When Michael Franzese met his future wife, he forgot to mention that he was a capo in the Colombo crime family. “He told me he was a businessman,” she said, which was sort of true. He was posing as a producer of terrible films while hauling in millions of dollars a week in criminal proceeds. According to his Wikipedia page, it was his wife who convinced him to leave the Mafia. His wife, and a 14-count indictment for racketeering, extortion and counterfeiting. Hilariously, he is now a motivational speaker (even more hilariously, John Alite is now an anti-bullying campaigner).

If nothing else, these interviews (this was the first of two parts) served to de-glamorise mob life, in particular the post-jail, post-betrayal side of it. These guys were all sad, friendless, fearful and, I think, terrifically bored. I keep thinking about Mikey Scars driving round Little Italy hiding his face from people he recognized. Those are the things that stay embreaded in your mind.

http://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio ... ald-review



The Mafia with Trevor McDonald, ITV, review: 'surreal'

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Trevor McDonald must find criminals hard to resist. Having brought us back-to-back series about life in American jails in recent years, the veteran newsman was back in the US again for The Mafia with Trevor McDonald (ITV), communing with convicted killers, money launderers and racketeers, and politely enquiring about what it’s like to pop a couple of shots in the back of someone’s head.

There was more than a touch of the surreal to watching the hyper-courteous McDonald discussing the technical details of murder with a former Cosa Nostra enforcer in luminescent loungewear on the mean streets of New York. But there was little of the mystique of the Mafia in evidence. If the film had an insight to offer, it was that the constant depredations of US law enforcement, and especially in-house treachery, have left the Mafia far from the intensely loyal, family-focused organisation that has fuelled so many film and fiction fantasies. Almost all of McDonald’s interviewees were former Mafiosi who had sold their brothers in organised crime down the river by testifying to save their own skins.

Beyond that, I’m not sure we learned much that we couldn’t have got more entertainingly from The Sopranos. Most of these guys looked like they had walked straight off an HBO set 10 years ago, and hadn’t updated their wardrobe, or their attitudes, since. Charming, ageing, everyday hoodlums getting all sentimental about their good ol’ days of carefree Mafia mayhem-making. Their consciences seemed largely untroubled by the misery they had inflicted, with any regrets expressed were focused chiefly on themselves.

Glorying in the moniker “Mikey scars”, former high-ranking mobster Michael DiLeonardo had only recently emerged from witness protection. “It’s not if, Trevor, it’s when,” he said of the prospect of vengeance, with a self-consciously haunted look over his shoulder. Another, Michael Franzese, “one of the most successful mobsters of all time” had cut a deal with the FBI and renounced his former life. McDonald didn’t risk a horse-head in his hotel bed by asking how Franzese could still afford to live in such splendour.

Ultimately the most telling moment came in a brief encounter with a hooded, anonymous “low-level street enforcer”, the only contributor still active in the organisation. “Today it’s a different world. There’s no honour, no loyalty. You can’t trust nobody…” The days of The Godfather are well and truly over.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvan ... eview.html

[Wiseguy]

Here's a link

http://www.video.tt/watch_video.php?v=uulGAJMMr

[Five Felonies]

it was a decent watch imo, nothing groundbreaking but not some clusterfuck of misinformation either. here's a bunch of links for the first episode...

http://www.primewire.ag/tv-2760058-The- ... -episode-1

[camerono]

I think Mikey franzese held on to some of that gas tax money

[Rocco]

NEW LINK 46MIN

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZtSg7JHJr9E

I HAVE TRIED POSTING THE LINK FROM YOUTUBE LIKE 5 TIMES...IT WONT TAKE.?https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZtSg7JHJr9E

tHE ONLY WAY TO GET THE YOUTUBE LINK TO STAY IS TO LINK IT WITH A SENTENCE. ANWAYS CHECK OUT RALPH NATALE. HES GOT NO FUCKIN TEETH. LOOK LIKE THEY BOUGHT HIM A NICE SUIT FOR THE INTERVIEW.

PARTONEhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_NdayK7xbdQ

[Rocco]

Guy drives with Scars down mulberry street and Scars sees a luchese member whose father was killed by the Gambino's for screwing up a hit? Any idea who the guy is?

[Wiseguy]

Guy drives with Scars down mulberry street and Scars sees a luchese member whose father was killed by the Gambino's for screwing up a hit? Any idea who the guy is?

I was wondering that too.

Thanks for posting these Rocco.

[Rocco]

Guy drives with Scars down mulberry street and Scars sees a luchese member whose father was killed by the Gambino's for screwing up a hit? Any idea who the guy is?

I was wondering that too.

Thanks for posting these Rocco.

Yep there is a part 1 and 2. Scars says the father was on a hit with John Gotti and he screwed up the hit? So they killed him? Who could that be? How busted ad broke did Ralph Natale look? They put him in a suit and made it look like they were meeting him in South Philly which is bullshit. Take that suit off him he looks like a homeless guy. He probably lives in a rent a room for the week place.

[TommyGambino]

Guy drives with Scars down mulberry street and Scars sees a luchese member whose father was killed by the Gambino's for screwing up a hit? Any idea who the guy is?

James Galione.

[Rocco]

Guy drives with Scars down mulberry street and Scars sees a luchese member whose father was killed by the Gambino's for screwing up a hit? Any idea who the guy is?

James Galione.

If he has a twin brother maybe ? BOP says he is in till December

JAMES GALIONE
Register Number: 30205-048
Age: 50
Race: White
Sex: Male
Located at: Schuylkill FCI
Release Date: 12/24/2015

[TommyGambino]

Guy drives with Scars down mulberry street and Scars sees a luchese member whose father was killed by the Gambino's for screwing up a hit? Any idea who the guy is?

James Galione.

If he has a twin brother maybe ? BOP says he is in till December

JAMES GALIONE
Register Number: 30205-048
Age: 50
Race: White
Sex: Male
Located at: Schuylkill FCI
Release Date: 12/24/2015

They don't update BOP all that often. Galione has been in a half way house for a while apparently. Same situation with Marty Angelina, on BOP it says he's out this summer but he's in a halfway house.

[Five Felonies]

They don't update BOP all that often. Galione has been in a half way house for a while apparently. Same situation with Marty Angelina, on BOP it says he's out this summer but he's in a halfway house.

keep in mind that you are still considered in custody even if you are in a halfway house.

[Rocco]

Yeah but i doubt Froggy is hanging in little italy with Another luchese member while he is suppose to be in a half way house on restrictions . Also this documentary was shot a while ago..at least 3-6minths ago. And they are typically not released to a halfway house until 6months before their release date. Doesn't add up... Either Scars meant someone else , he is full of shit or mistaken. OR Froggy was released much much earlier then what is posted.

[Rocco]

Guy drives with Scars down mulberry street and Scars sees a luchese member whose father was killed by the Gambino's for screwing up a hit? Any idea who the guy is?

James Galione.

If he has a twin brother maybe ? BOP says he is in till December

JAMES GALIONE
Register Number: 30205-048
Age: 50
Race: White
Sex: Male
Located at: Schuylkill FCI
Release Date: 12/24/2015[/quote]

They don't update BOP all that often. Galione has been in a half way house for a while apparently. Same situation with Marty Angelina, on BOP it says he's out this summer but he's in a halfway house.[/quote][/quote]

If Marty's release date is this summer and he is already in a halfway house then he is on track with bop. Bop will typically not say released until they are out the federal halfway house. When do you think this was shot? 6months ago?

[TommyGambino]

Rocco, it says in the documentary that it was shot in July.