Vincent Gigante: The Crazy Crime Boss | The F.B.I. Files | Retold
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- Vincent "Chin" Gigante, the alleged Genovese crime boss, was brought to justice in spite of his eccentric behavior, such as roaming Greenwich Village in his pajamas and slippers.
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Just saw an interview with his youngest daughter on Soft White Underbelly. The schizophrenic was a masterful act, whenever he felt that the FBI got too close to him he got himself comitted for 3 weeks into the psychatric hospital. so he worked on his being "not fit for trial".
3 months not weeks, it was months.
I also watched Ms Rita, he committed himself multiple times throughout, the years! Very interesting 👌
that's exactly why im here! im like I have to hear about his story
Ive seen it last night lol
She was on Michael Franzese's show too. Good convo
ACADEMY AWARD WINNER for best actor in a reality show !
ABSOLUTELY COMICAL !!!!!!!! Hell yeah Academy Award !!!!!
@@billydoyle9984abeolutely agrée .but soo stupid too
People overlook just how absolutely ruthless and brutal of a boss he was too due to his rep for being kooky. He was no joke.
He wasn’t kooky that’s the whole point. He was faking it
But he still had that reputation, even though he was faking.
And how do u know 😂
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@@dionruffin3996and you know a lot do you smokes?
I know the guy was a gangster, he was a bad guy. But can we all appreciate how he managed to successfully troll the FBI for 30 years?
And gave a lot of money to South Bronx people through his Brother, a Priest
Well what exactly is a bad guy? I think way too many people try and take their opinion of something and try to change societies morals based on that opinion. I mean let's say a guy takes a bat and smashes another guy in his head 5 times in a row. You label him a bad guy. Well what if the guys was a serial rapist and killer who kept getting away with it. Let's say you kill me. You're a bad guy right? Well what if we had agreed beforehand to duel to the death? Truthfully I think the only way that one can clearly label something or someone as bad is if they or it is doing harm to something that is pure and innocent.
like the FBI isn't bad? come on! our Government is the biggest mafia and bad guys.
@@marilynogorman5468 his priest brother also molested boys. it's a fact.
Indeed. Ofc. Those who say diffrent are dead😂
Walked by his townhouse and the upper East side. Still has red doors. Crazy walking by knowing one the most powerful men in nyc stayed there.
Surreal I bet.
I love these old documentaries!!
He shoulda won an Oscar. Marlon Brando couldn't have played it better.
What about al pacino playing the chin now? Think about it
Wouldn't it be great...!!!
@@MACHOMANRANDYSAVAGE2211Al Pacino is too small. He doesn’t have the stature that Gigante had
@@S58985 sure pal.....discount al pacino because of his size.....ok
@@MACHOMANRANDYSAVAGE2211 who cares how good an actor he is if he doesn’t have the look to match. Your obviously not the sharpest knife in the drawer
This guy had the wrong job! He had to become actor! Acting like this aint easy . This is really the work of an pro.
What an abaolute G this guy was, walking down the street acting crazy yet running a crime family is just wild lol
Yeah being a killer is such a G/s
What’s so wild about that.. I walk up and down my street all day long. The whole block thinks I’m a mental case.
Eeerrrrrrrr
😂😂
This doctor is full of shyt.
What was more amazing that in 52 min. episode, I've seen over 10 ad videos.
Shut up 🤐
That’s odd I only seen 2 ads
Gotta get premium fam.
Thats odd I didn't see any
What’s amazing is adblocker is free
The best in the last 50 years, by a mile.
Not mad and totally duped the world outside of his life.
The Man was literally "Crazy like a Fox"! Shrewd, cunning, and ruthless.
What ever happened to him, how did he spend his days, surly he’s not alive anymore? I guess it’s possible for him to be alive.
@@ht2007 He's been dead for a number of years. His brother, who was a priest, died a few weeks ago.
@@ht2007 He passed away in Prison back in late 2005.
@@ht2007 Soft White Underbelly had an interview with his youngest daughter. He got 12 years in prison (only - she did not mention what for). But he did not maintain his act in prison, she mentioned 9/11 and another occasion where he was "clear" on the phone. Then authorities pressured him, either he would give them more or they would go after his family for obstruction of justice. - She said this settled it. He was old enough that it was unclear if he would leave after 12 years anyway and he protected his family.
Here's a fun fact. Every crazy psychopathic mobster to a man respected chin. Even the disrespectful Mafia members respected chin. That's the kind of weight he carried
Here’s a fun fact: that’s not a fact.
We can’t even allow someone to give out a fun fact without trolling 😂
@@mansakhanlv8487 who gave out a “fact” of any kind?
That is some Indian dude just repeating some shit he got from some other video
It's true. Nicky scarfo was a crazy psychopath and the head of the Philly mob. He openly insulted other mob leaders. Except chin. Even scarfo feared chin.
The interview with his daughter is pretty good.
see the channel Soft White Underbelly
To do this for so long you got to be crazy. But also genius
One's life, values, upbringing, etc. can shape the rational mind into something unrecognizable, but not 'crazy'. Many people's circumstances force them out of the zeitgeist. Crazy, the worst pejorative of them all.
No you don't! Checking yourself into the psych ward gave you special privileges like phones not registered in your name, "safe haven" from being wiretapped, an environment surrounded by mental patients helping you recognize "who was out of their element like cops and federal agents, etc....)
Most people on disability payments pull this off...
@@LSD123.
Data on this outrageous claim?
@@Helmuesi911 Look around.
In a world of Gottis be a Chin!
Amazing story thank you for sharing. Have a lot of respect for the families
Brother get guidance
@@harryporter7015 rule 1
Great documentary 💯 The Oddfather 🕊
I met the Chin and saw him lots of times when he visited his brother's church. Seemed like a nice guy to me and not crazy at all.
bullshitt
@@brazyd5 why would you say that, do you know me?
Saw him in person myself as a kid going to private school in The South Bronx. When we attended church at St. Athanasius we would see him wh n he would visit his brother. He was a big big deal!
@@PalBatey stop making stuff up sir you come across as very uneducated and irresponsible in doing so. You did not meet or know Vincent gigante so stop trying to tell people otherwise. Next time you will be reported to the moderators of this channel and banned from viewing any content on this channel. Thanks
That's 😎
I admire Anthony call as the best narrator in the world of English ❤❤❤❤
Wow what a great documentary !!!
This was covered in the Godfather of Harlem with Forrest Whittaker.....great show🔥 Vincent D'onofrio plays Gigante
LOVE THE WINDOWS OF CUBA CASTRO HAD A SENSE OF HUMOR
He had cold blooded killers afraid to say his name. The fact they had to point to their chin to refer to the man in conversation is pretty telling how much respect/ fear he had. Crazy his run stretches from shooting at Frank Costello to being testified against by Sammy the Bull.
I remember this episode when it came out in 1998 on the A&E channel
So this is what that Law & Order episode was based on! I always thought it could never be real!
@NicholeDaysleeper Some of us lived (that life) what you call, episode's..lol
I was hoping this would've been a newer documentary about The Chin, but I knew deep down that it was the same FBI episode that a 1000 other channel's have shown.
Watch the godfather of Harlem if you haven’t already, it’s really good.
I was watching the series Godfather of Harlem where they even depict Vincent Chin Gigante pretending to be insane to get out of getting locked up.
That’s why I’m here too, lol, after watching godfather of Harlem.
I used to see him in the robe on Greenwich ave in the village walking looking at the birds and staring at a tree 🌲
Lol 😂 so awesome I personally think he had a ton of talent amazing man..🇮🇹 🇺🇲
Fenomeno ronaldo 🐐
That's awesome brother!!
Very educative, on organised criminals
So what's the difference between racketeering and what the government does?
Illegal racketeering takes away from the governments legal racketeering.. anything that the government can’t control or profit from will always be deemed illegal
Racketeers prey on their own,
The government goes after everyone(except their own)
Why do you think you get so long for dealing droogs? The government (especially the Clinton crime cartel) hate competition.
DAMN GOOD Question ---- I just won Appeal against a Corrupt Judge here in PA that heard my Monetary case - yet he is investigated for a $300,000 theft, 2. In Mount Carmel PA Code Enforcement sends me Invoices for their Clean - up crew and fines to a building I have with fines every 2 weeks --- When I have pictures and texts from my own Clean up crew with a Dump Truck ---- which is Over-Kill., Then 3., Condemning 2 buildings without any Inspections, which is Procedural . 4 A Judge withheld a certified check for a Traffic ticket for 6 Months leaving my license suspended for 23 months until I got a P.I. and we uncovered it., So yes Gov't engages in ALOT of Corruption ------ Especially for a Dollar., and the FBI does'nt do anything. Have a Good night to all.
You get a GOLD STAR 4 ur comment! Everyone else is snoring!
I once heard it said, that if it was an act, then he must have been insane to keep it up for so many years. Maybe a crazy genius
”Genius”!! Dumb as a boot!
100% genius... stupid people cant act like that ;)
😂😅,, WATCHES HIS DOCUMENTARY EVERY COUPLE YRS... KEEPS 1 FOCUSED 🤔😏🤷🏾♂️👍👍,, LOVE GOOD FELLA WISE GUYS 🎉
Imagine the laughs this guy had to himself
If you're so afraid of going to prison,
¿Why be a criminal? That's what I've never understood about the Chin. Every other wiseguy knew that at some point, they would go to prison, and were at peace with that. Except Chin.
He was avoiding it
He wasn’t afraid to go to prison. He just was shrewd. No one says Carlo Gambino was afraid to go to prison because he was smart and did everything possible to avoid going.
Yes it’s part n parcel of the job but at the end of the day if you can avoid prison you do so as long as it doesn’t involve snitching
Not really because many of them started informing on each other to avoid it. He confessed when they said they were going to prosecute his family.
Apparently this is the only man John Gotti and his crew were afraid of.
When you think about it,
he had the perfect cover. All the blows to his head from his previous boxing career
made it a possibility that he could have mental issues. Also, his brother, the Priest who
apparently protected the lie. Italian Catholics see their priests as always trustworthy.
Would have been a solid defense nowadays but back then CTE wasn’t on ppls radar
My thing is this, although he boxed for many years and never had an issue with being in a ring, it amazes me that at the end he used it for a cover. The FBI should have looked better and harder at this issue. His brother, the priest, was a front for SEBCO, a construction company helping many homeless people getting housing with the shelter of the church.
@@robertmassatelli2638 I agree to an extent. Look at pro football players who seem normal until they age and then the
head trauma sometimes becomes problematic.
As far as Chins brother, I'm not passing judgement on him, in fact I praise his work with the homeless. However, you can't deny he was an enabler for Chin. The fact he was a priest made the situation more believable. Maybe he realized without LCN
he would lose alot of $$
needed for the homeless?
@@renep2220 no, I not saying anything bad about the homeless, simply saying that SEBCO was a "shelter or shell" company covering it. As far as boxing, no! It's not like football because Chin never fought for a long time, short while. During the short boxing career it was never said that he encountered much of a beating.
especially all the priests that were molesting children.
Sadly the years of acting caught up with him and it actually sent him insane in prison
Daughter said he called home a bunch during 9/11 acting normal so he told them his story and got charged to life
"finally admitted that he's been feinting insanity the entire time" *THUG LIFE Meme and music plays*
🤔🤔🤔He was a "GENIUS" with flaws...HOWEVER...HE NEVER RAN HIS MOUTH... NEVER SNITCHED!!!...TRUE TO THE CODE!!!...THAT'S RARE..."MUCH RESPECT"!!!!...💪💯
Genus! Pure genius.
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How so? Is it genius to sell your soul to the devil forever? Hell is forever, in case you didn't know.
When anyone looks up the old saying "crazy like a fox" Chins picture should be the first thing that pops up
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Sabado Gigante !!!
Genius.
"Was Gigante's strange behavior an act of madness or genius?" I think it's both. But not for long because he can't fool the FBI everytime.
he fooled them for 30 years
That would’ve been my cousin
@@GabriellaG123 the Chin, is your cousin?
Apparently he was relieved he didn’t have to keep the act up when sent to prison I mean 30 years pretending to be insane and have dementia nah sod that,can’t be worth it for any amount of money it probably didn’t do his health good but funny he had the feds on the runaround
Act of genius...he fooled them for a long time and if not for turncoats, who knows for how long he could have gotten away with it.
It’s like Michael franzese said, you have to be a little crazy to put on an act like that for that long
In my eyes, he was the smartest gangster to ever have lived.
Carlo Gambino might be the smartest, but The Chin is easily in the top 5 most intelligent gangsters.
What network did this air on? A&E??
Yes in late 90’s not sure
Vincent Gigante single-handedly revealed the duplicity and fraudulence inherent within the psychiatric industry.
Hello present day doctors arrested for falsifying prescriptions for oxy and other pain killers here, now 2023!
Mental illness exists but the nature of it makes it difficult to diagnose. Some practitioners absolutely knew he was faking but he was very good at it.
It's extremely difficult for a doctor to diagnose if you're lying in just a handful of meetings.
On the other hand, people with real mental problems can appear perfectly normal 95% of the time and only when that specific trigger or episode start, does the lunacy appear.
It’s true, he did reveal both duplicity and fraud within the Psych-Industry. It was his favorite pastime and his crusade helped him fill the endless hours of incarceration. He was involved in many lawsuits which sought monetary compensation for the duplicity and he decided that he would prosecute the fraud criminally and he managed to send much of the fraud behind bars so that he could murder that too. I am pointing to the area below my lower lip was one bad dude!
What the hell are you even trying to say?
People with an education obtained post 2000 are completely unintelligible.
I think he is extremely talented . He had to do what he had to do. 🇮🇹 🇺🇲
Being a killer is not talented tf
... When he had to do it.. 😂
All he had to do is to work with his hands or brain, and to live honest life. Why sell soul to the devil? For what? For a few pebbles with shiny metal on your fingers, for acfew pitiful years on earth, and then go to eternal hell?.... there is no in between. You will be either with God or with devil after you die.
Chin was an absolute masterminded. He fooled everyone...classic
Even if it was an act, he had to be nuts to act like that all the time to some degree.
He was perfectly sane and handled family bussiness the best way he could!The real Don!
@@goodfella5302 To act like you're insane in the manner he did, he had to have a screw loose.
@@FieldMarshalRommel23 fact
It’s a hat he wore well
Or So Comical that he was Nuts ----- There are people like that so funny they are nuts ---- I picked my nose deeply in front of a Judge once for a fine, ----- Judge asked if I'm picking a Winner, "Yes your Honor" -- "Good because you just won" "Thank you your honor" .
My parish priest says;"There's nothing gay about hell !"
Absolutely!!!!!!!!!
Yes we can
It was also said that nobody saw chin unless he sent for them and nobody could say his name and if they did it was death
its crazy that only 1 family from the beginning remained named the same, the Bonnano Family, Profaci became Columbo, Mongano to Gambino, I believe gagliano to Luchesse im surey spellings are way off an ofcourse Luciano to Genovese
Salvatore Maranzano started what would become the Bannanos. Lucky had maranzano and Joe Masseria killed because of the bad for business war they had going on
It’s just because the first mafia informer - Joe Walacci spoke only in 1964, when only the Colombo family didn’t had his modern name.
I spent a few years meeting this old man for coffee he seemed sweet and innocuous to me as we would simply talk about family what I was doing, general news he was always very sweet to me!!
What i find unbelievable is they never know when to stop!
The interview with his daughter Rita on soft white underbelly is amazing and gives a real insight into the man he was
Yes! That is what brought me here too!
Omg same lol! After watching her I looked him up and watched this! So interesting isn't it??
@@meganmyers2909 lol me too watched her then looked him up
@@shonacole2124 yes totally different perspective x
Vinnie the Chin fooled them with his crazy act😁😁😁😁😁😁😁
Explain to me why what is happening in Washington DC is not being investigated as racketeering and criminal activity. It seems to fall well under the RICO act. Perhaps the act was put together to remove those who were in business as competitors to poly - tic-cians.
Precisely. The FBI is openly corrupt now. Look at Hunter's laptop that their cyber crimes department "lost"
...a stroke of genius....no doubt....
Simply Hilarious 😂 😂🤣
Crazy isn't stupid, and being psychotic is actually handy on occasion.
Honestly when they are not psychotic most are very intelligent .
What occasion would that be?😊
JUAN TIME IN BAND CAMP 🎺
Bro trolled HARD
The fact he strolled up and down the streets of
New York for years without being mugged or worse, makes me think EVERYBODY 🤔
knew who and what the game was. One of those
strolling photos, he is by himself while wearing what looks like a big diamond pinkie Ring!
Some young wanna be
gangsters would have
rolled him if he wasn't
Gigante.
There was hardly any street crime if he was in Little Italy in NYC.
I mean- Greenwich Village is probably one of, if not the safest neighborhoods in NYC lol that’s where he grew up and operated out of. It’s not like he was wondering aimlessly by himself thru the West Bronx. Not to mention he had that entire neighborhood on lock. He didn’t need bodyguards half the time because there were social clubs everywhere and he was always being watched, whether it be from other Genovese made guys and associates, the FBI or just ppl he knew and were friendly with in the area.
You gotta have a death wish to try anything on the guy who essentially oversaw all 5 families in NYC. The Genovese were the most powerful family at that time and Gigante was the most powerful boss.
💯
He was also court ordered to stay within a 4 block radius of his mothers house where he stayed in Greenwhich village- outside of going to the doctor and court
The run across the street 😂
The real Keyser Söze❗❗❗😂
Fine documentary. When he checked into the psych ward all those times were the psychiatrists on the take or was he really that slick so as to fool them?
It's hard to fool a psychologist, in a therapy session, when it comes to specific mental illness disorders, but even a therapy session done in conjunction with a CT or MRI scan can't conclusively determine that a traumatic brain injury (TBI) hasn't been sustained, and a TBI could potentially cause a wide spectrum of unusual types of behavior. If it could be shown that he engaged in activity that would have put him at risk for suffering a TBI, such as a career in boxing, I believe it would be very difficult to conclusively determine whether it was an act or not.
It was an act watch the Godfather of Harlem if you haven’t already
Wow 😮
Caught Vincent the chin once staring at me, so I put him in a headlock
Laughs
Is that when you entered protective custody and moved your family to the south American jungles with lots of cash ???
And then Al Capone came up and broke up the fight, and bought every one a dark ale..
They had so much surveillance that we saw none of it….
America since 1913 when our countrys currency was centralized by the bank mafia. This country has been the land where corruption and greed can thrive, succeed at the same time breed. Our whole country is built around criminal longevity
Gambino was supposed to be the largest family. Which one is it?
On every documentary about a family, they always say that that family is the biggest. So according to documentaries they are all the largest.
The longest long con. Rita Gigante’s interview on Soft White Underbelly is riveting.
Chin was crazy.....crazy like a fox
the Chin had his ACT , together !
Genius
The footage from the “50s” is funny. His pajamas look old but the women are clearly in modern clothes
Nice guy the chin
Feds in suits, trailing a homeless looking guy...LMAO
That is Hilarious!!!! I would've hunted for lookalikes to dress the same and clean windshields on the Bowery, now that would've REALLY DROVE THEM NUTS, LOL
Wow. That must of been a great rouse.
Yeah crazy as fox
I wish the current politicians would have to go to these lengths to exist in society it’s not like there not as bad or worse than these men 💯
Was Al Capone a member of one of the 5 families? I know his base was Chicago and NOT NY or was he a separate entity all together?
Al Capone was boss of the outfit, chicagos cosa nostra 👍🏽
The Chicago mob was called the Outfit, and admitted some non-italians.
Many people don’t even know where LFP is. Is it safe? I can tell you it’s the best place to hunt! If you have the courage to enter the premise… you might find the best game in the entire county.
It got used in 1980 for the first time
Used physically? Or used to kill someone?
Don't you just like the colours of the table coverings? Obviously the mobsters had no problems with them ! After all it would be a welcome change from the colour red .
I love how the feds think they’re bigshots but organised crime is doing better than ever, they can keep telling them selves what ever you
Had him in my housing unit in the BOP
Now I see where biggie got it from
The boss off bosses.
No that would’ve been Don Carlo
the bus of all busses
You know where he is right now?..... take a wild guess. You want to be there too?
... .... I don't mean your body. I mean you yourself, your soul.
If not, leave the madness, and surrender your life to Jesus Christ. Otherwise you stand no chance.
@davemartino5997 No. That went to Salvatore Maranzano. It ended there. The media used that term, not Cosa Nostra
Chin was crazy as a fox .
The logic of the NY mafia leaders still committing crime right in front of everyone, if any, even in front of their investigators, would be based on library like support of published real found knowledge of mafia findings of their activities and planning. Something that got Hoover to leadership, knowing more about a situation then is needed to convict, through having a opinion that is presentable for others to look at!
Its like the real Godfather story that became a movie after to book's factual outlook was published based on NY Police records, not forgetting the mention of everyone in crime in NY was also considered a Godfather to their private neighborhood, quickly allowing for this real Godfather of concern naturally to having confusing promoting doubles, without having the need to build any (alibi - a Cicero, Illinois bar name in Al's old bar scene area, after the Cicero Police started Police strikes in 1977). But watch out this importance, he was said to employee from his home 1000 body guards called soldiers, where he assigns favors during important parties and the biggest one (body guard) hiding out in a skyscraper discouraging interference from the public by toss a baby into the basement furnace, according to the real story, or as the Washington DC concern of the mafia public innocents (Charm (book or TV show reference) witch grammar like talk reference) description made available of known mafias being caught with publicity, is they in formal wear would kill babies. So as popular as a Godfather is in terminology, something completely reserved for the Catholic Church's stay honest promotion practice, why could the side stories the real NY Police records not be considered needing be real for them to follow up on as further leads to finding this right person or at least not to consider it real based on community talk?
So the point is, this Godfather according to the book built on real Police records a bit at a time from years of collected activities when Al Capone was competing for his neighbor's wealth too, and the Godfather was know to intercept any of the Chicago based mafia hitmen sent to fight him as blackhanders right at the airport entry level into town, to also from Depression Era have predicted he would someday be having Presidents under his control, not just Senators or such.
So the point of confusion would be the following comment:
So how would this happen. To help, this FBI Video has the mafia boss getting his mafia members public contract job, to help them be seen as honest working people of the community. Then before a election happens, these would be the people that sign the runner's campaigning list for a Office endorsement that would need the person gaining the specific amount of endorsements by the community to allow this runner to run for the Office. So is this a local problem, or is it reaching out of NY State, which to be inviting the FBI to look into the needed insight to help for the Government keeping everyone, hopefully the bullies too, at lest long enough to stay honest till judged by God! (I mean if everyone's getting along, then the secrets are not crimes, just a privacy concern!) [Hope this helps!] {Remember Crime Stoppers efforts is publicity too, but offer rewards I think at times!}
Reminds me Junior Soprano 😭
I'm not saying that mafia people were good guys but Andrew Weissmann isn't any better. Weissmann is as crooked as they come.
People said paul was boss of all bosses when carlo died (not a real cosa nostra title) but really the man that is considered boss of all bosses in that life is a boss who's power is so great that it influences other families. So really Gigante was it, he was knocking off guys in other families who went against commission rulings.. did paul do that? nope..
Uncle junior??😳😳