The Great Philadelphia Mob War: FBI's Secret Operation | The FBI Files
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- Three armed assailants attack a man and flee the scene. Authorities are unable to identify the assailants, but are convinced it is the work of the mafia.
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Caponigro, not Scarfo, killed Bruno. Caponigro was just rewarded for his troubles with a few bullets to his own skull. Scarfo didn't immediately take over after the Bruno hit. Philip Testa was actually in n charge for about a year before he met his own untimely demise. Only then did Nicky Scarfo take the reigns.
Ur right. That's how it went. The "chicken man" took the reigns after Bruno. Scarfo killed Salvi Testa. That was fkd up...
I think it's fd up when a major show like this gets obvious info ...wrong! 🤔
Who was the guy found with money in his butt cheeks for being greedy?
Capinigro pulled the trigger but it was the Genovese family who were ultimately behind it
@@BostonsF1nest the played Tony Bananas 🍌 like a fiddle! 🫡
He gets this 👉🏾, and he made the sign of the gun! They’ve got to make a movie bout lill Nick.
This gots to be the worst information in a documentary ever! All the info given and said is false and twisted. The ppl involved I'm putting this together need to do their homework...ROOKIES!!!
Please esplain my nigga 😜
@@denisemezynski8014 shit where do I start mayne! For 1: the young turks weren't a part of or had anything to do with Nicki scarfo & his crew. Nicki scarfo & his nephew Phil leonetti hated the young turks (Joey merlno & his crew) & Joey merlino & Ralph weren't even inducted by the true mafia in New York either. They made theirselves boss & underboss. The true Philadelphia mob was scarfo & his crew but after they got indicted & taken off the streets the others that came after them were unknown to new York. Also, new York are the only ones who can declare who's boss/underboss & so fourth but there's alot more that the narrator had wrong. Read or listen to Phil leonetti book (mafia prince) he tells the true story of the Philly/ Atlantic city mob. The real shit...then compare the true stories fr the older wise guys; to this story being told...this documentary is fukn fugazzi!!! Who ever put it together deserves to be sleeping with fishes# ha
@@raylee1485 Then there is the obvious that Scarfo had nothing to do with the murder of Brono and didn't take over after his death. I turned this trash off after 3 minutes.
@@raylee1485 it’s a old fbi files video and it gets loads of stuff wrong tbh always has
@@raylee1485 Your right. The whole story about this poor guy who owed $1k & couldn't pay it seems like such bs.
Never forget. The former head of the FBI knew your coffice.
The assertion that Little Nickey was suspected of killing Angelo Bruno is totally inaccurate. He was never suspected by the mob or law enforcement. Funzi Tierri and the Chin set up Bruno and took out the killers (Capanegro). The Genoveses then placed Phil the "Chicken Man" Testa as boss who was later assassinated. Then Scarfa was given Philly by New York.
Yeah these types of documentaries always seem to oversimplify matters. They don't want to confuse viewers (most of which are idiots) by bringing up too many people. So they bunch up the timeline and add or subtract people from the story to make it easier to digest, even though it essentially means they're making things up.
Yep exactly
correct-a mundo.. . . exactly
Sounds accurate
@@alexf9381
I would like to hear about Angelo Bruno "The gentle Don", He ran south Philly in the 50's. I believe my great grand-father was in with that family until he was killed in '58 I believe.
These shows are old and the channel owner publishes older relicensed content. (The older shows are easier and cheaper to relicense for reuse - but he does have a good selection.) This show, "The FBI Files" originally aired from 1998-2006 on the Discovery channel. (This episode originally aired in 2005.) The show's host, Jim Kallstrom, unfortunately passed away in July 2021 from a rare blood cancer. The producers have him introduce himself as "the head of" the FBI's New York field office - although he was not - he was the Assistant Special Agent in Charge (ASAC). He served in the ASAC role for two years and retired from that position. In short, the chances of seeing self-produced content on this channel, based on your request, is very low - as I have only ever seen older relicensed videos here.
Really
Angelo bruno had the making of a varsity athlete
@@suzannes5888 i like how you wrote a novel and at the end wrote "in short". You could've summed that all up in one sentence
@@michaelmcgee2026 😆
Your videos have helped me stay up tonight since there's been tornadoes literally all around us overnight 🤘🏻
I hope you & your's made it through this crazy December tornadoes safely! 🤞😊✌
Wow!
No idea what you must be dealing with,we don't get anything like that here in the UK,but it must be bad as it's made the news over here. Hopefully you and your family are all safe!
Good luck bud …🙏
Tornadoes make you sleepy?
Omg when they say he was working with the fbi over 1000 dollar debt lol 😂😂😂😂😂
I watched this episode a couple weeks back on the FBI files channel.im subscribed to so many different crime channels now that it's getting difficult to keep track of what I've watched and what I haven't!😂🤣
Your memory will improve. After torture.
Give each one a Like, then you know the ones you have seen.
@@parahandy6251 right!
Hiw lucky is joey merlino They make awsome doc. About him
Love the way the FBI breaks every law in the book as they "do their jobs"!
Most successful police officers are more adept at using criminal psychology and tactics than the blokes they are fighting. Makes you wonder but maybe thats the way it has to be.
You must be a big fan of the low life degenerates they're trying to take off the streets.
@@seymourbutts4654 I'm a fan of the Constitution and not a fan of crooked law enforcement. If you have to break the laws you are supposedly enforcing than that makes you a criminal. The FBI is full of criminals and people that believe they are above the law. Case in point James Comey!!! Prove me wrong...
@@docbar4885 Both republicans and democrats despise Comey. So what's your point ? I can't tell if you truly believe in law and order or if you're just playing politics with the FBI like all the political hacks do.
@@seymourbutts4654 if you want to see low life degenerates, take a look at J Edgar Hoover.
A Lasalle University accounting student owes a thousand dollars
..LMAO!!,,,, and goes to the FBI? give me a break?... I'm pretty sure his parents could bail him out??😂,,, or maybe the mob could take his lunch pass for the month,,Lasalle had some really good pizza in their lunchroom during those days,,, I graduated LaSalle in '86... their pizza was the best😂👌
Isn't it illegal to bug a lawyers office that's his and his client privileges...any lawyer would have that wire kicked out of the case.
I'm kinda over mobs and gangs.
They just never get portrayed accurately
@@BostonsF1nest as criminals?
@@michaelmcgee2026 As gangsters
🤣
1). That first guy Andrew is a smart young man, for few snitches, he got his debt paid off for him, by the FBI nonetheless 👌
2). The private contractor's competence levels 🙄😅
3). Being 'curvey' does pay off when receiving bullets 😂
Ask the genovese abt the boss of the phily mob. Its the genovese who makes the decision after bruno got whacked
@fantomas me
Nicky scarfo was not behind Angelo bruno's death. Tony bananas whacked Bruno. Phil Testa Then became Boss and killed in the same Year. After that scarfo rosé to power
There's plenty to question in this version of the Stanfa / Merlino war, not least at 40:00 there's no mention of the horrible injuries suffered by Stanfas son in that highway attack... 😉
And no mention of the Raaan Previte ex-police rat and also no Ralphie Natale in this version of the tale!? 😁
Not a very good documentary, really. Hardly any real photos and no footage. Just actors and a voice-over
@@ivareskesner2019 I thought so too and another updated rehash.
I knew that Cenk Uygur was no good.
Dude Is annoying. Anna is hot though
Jesus Christ John visi was a tough man! Gets shot in the fucking head! 3 times! Then disarms the guy of his knife, threatens the other guy and walks out?? Unbelievable.
I’m having a Philly cheese stake tonight, that’s as gangster as I get now.
Why not make a movie.. would cost the same as all the dramatization of all presented here..
I don't like police at all but these philly mob guys were out of bloody control, something had to be done. It's all ego stuff.
I did not watch.
With all the inaccuracies stated in the comments, which I know to be true based on my own research.
And today Giovanni "John" Stanfa is 81 and remains locked 🔒
I find it highly illegal the fbi was being allowed but a lawyers office. Warrant or not that violates so much personal confidence laws
Boo Hoo
The point is that it would harm the ability of a defendant to speak freely with his lawyer from then on. It's a privilege violated, but a judge must've signed off on it.
Even if THAT defendant was highly suspected of involvement in serious,unscrupulous law breaking?
@@robertgiles9124 Yea it's boo hoo until it's your ass on the line.
I wouldn't give 2 dead flys to defend the gangsters against their charges brought by any means, by law enforcement . Those people are animals victimizing hard working people because they are sociopaths and kill humans like prey. Sicko's.
TEMPLE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL 🏥🌃
Retired.
Not true scarfo had nothing to do with brunos death even though he didn't like him, this show got there facts twisted.Stop changing mob history.
This whole piece is horse shit !
Yes, Bruno's death was planned by Antonio Caponigro!
What sort of low life turns grass over a grand
What’s the going rate then 😂😂😂👌👌👌🏴🏴❤️❤️❤️
@@russcooke5671 touché my friend
Right off the bat they got it wrong. Scarfo wasn’t the one to kill Bruno.
The Giustiniani family has overseen the Philly Greek Mob along with some Greek shipping merchants.
TH-cam search: DECREE the FIRST bit 2 of 2 - PRISON IS KIDNAPPIN
One might suggest letting the organised crime scum go on killing each other off, but there might be the factor of innocents in the crossfire, but, also, with the intervention of law enforcement you have it that such are the going standards other than the total law of the jungle.
They would never let that happen because they want the 💰 for themselves the government is the largest crime family alive
He survived 3 shots to the head wow that’s badass
Not only that, after being shot, disarms the shooter and threatens the made guy, while carrying 3 slugs .. not many people would stay composed
Not only did he take 3 shots to the dome...he kicked thier asses while shot an took a gun out the shooters hand...that's super bad ass 😂😆
@@VitoDonatucci.jr.215ton.y2 amen
"Organized" crime.... What a joke that is.
They should all go to clown college
Keep your friendsss clossse but your enemiesss clossser >)
Taking 3 shots to the head with a 22 can definitely kill you ....,,,but for people who are not familiar with guns and ammo ,,,the average 22 long rifle bullet is 40 grains ,,, whereas your average 9mm is 115 or 124 grain ......A 22LR being more suited to take down a squirrel or rabbit ...,,, but are more quiet then a larger cal. making it desirable sometimes for the mob
Or a suppressed 45.
.22 magnum would’ve punched through his skull. I shot a 9mm Macarov before and often thought that would’ve been an excellent gun for assassins. Quieter than a regular 9 but sure low recoil. Three of them and his head becomes a bowling ball, lol.
Clemenza wanted to keep it loud
I don't understand how it's legal to bug the lawyer's office, what am I missing?
Not true Scarfo had nothing to do with the bruno hit . Fun fact his driver was John stanfa . Read the book Marfia prince the Phil leanettie
Your right mess with nicky scarfo and it's this 🔫
Leonetti has been proven to be full of shit and his book is loosely based on what happened
22 cal long rifle...those are powerful. Dude had a hard head
I lived through this there were some amazingly public disputes back then.
Then it's this 👉 and it's this 💀
I can only imagine how it was. I myself don't believe that they did take all the mob down I think some of them are still out there
You "lived through this". It's not a world war, was you personally evolved?
This young guy ACTUALLY told on the mob because he COULDN'T pay $1,000 debt?? He is insane for doing that!
Back then a 1000 was like3000 but still wasn't worth it
for a grand he dropped the dime on them,
just wow
Fbi probably bribed him.
Either way, it’s a death sentence. You wear a wire, and your dead. You can’t pay off a $1000 debt, and you’re dead.
$120 dollars week mans a marshmallow
To all you cops who are patting yourself on the back. You should put as much effort into cleaning up Kensington area And West Philadelphia
bugging a lawyer’s office…….
Remember when the FBI used to fight crime?
😢
Since this the FBI became the Crime Family. Chris Wray the Front Boss.
God bless the FBI. Taking down scum.
I don't like when they use actors and re-enactments. The actor playing Joey Merlino looks nothing like him with that long hair. Use actual videos and photos, not actors..
It's funny watching this 🤣 😂 in the 90s I hired a neighbors son to do some work restoring the interior of my house,I paid him with a check he didn't do the work so I canceled the check,unbeknownst to me he had cashed the check at a local deli in north Philly.That deli was mob owned a couple days later I get a message the deli owner wanted to talk to me about why my check wasn't cleared I told him why the guy didn't do what he was paid for I apologized and they accepted my reason a couple days later the neighbors son approached me and said I got him into trouble with the mob we fought I put him into hospital and now the police want to talk to me.In the end I suffered no consequences but it was shaky for a while
Cool story bro 🙂👍
Why lie to people on the internet, bud?
@@anagramconfirmed1717 How do you know he is lying
"Cosa nostra" isn't really Italian organized crime but Sicilian. Every southern region has his own organization or criminal clans like Camorra in Naples a province. The most powerful with tentacles reaching out everywhere is the 'Nandrangheta fron the Calabria region. This, if course, in Italy. Maybe in Usa all italian crime organisations a referred to as Cosa Nostra. But it's not exact.
@fantomas I agre, I'm half sicilian and I know how cosa nostra has touched sicilian society deeply. They "invented" mafia. But "'ndrangheta", while convincing the world that thy didn't exist, gained a power that has reached out of calabria in ways that cosa nostra, a part the fame, didn't. The organized crime in America, for example, even though born from thw sicilian, is very different. Cosa Nostra in Italy is formed by only sicilian while the American mafia has people whose backgrounds come from the other southern Italian regions. Anyway, I'm going out of contest, I still think they are a cancer of society. People from thodr regions are mostly good hearted, friendly and hard working and a high level of schooling education
Who solves crime when Fred Flinstone is on set?
Your content is always perfect! From sounds👌🏼🥰
I love how in today's snitch Society organized crime bosses think that an oath is worth more than a White Castle turd
With the possible penalties and long terms in prison all of that "I'll never snitch" and "I'm a stand-up guy -- I'll never tell" stuff goes RIGHT out the window when a conspiracy is busted. The people involved come RUNNING to make plea bargains. And the one who brings in the most information gets the best deal. The Feds have an expression for it -- "He who talks first walks first." 🤣 Nationally on average on the Federal level, 99% of people who are indicted take plea bargains. Part of those of course is that you tell all you know on your buddies as a "cooperating witness", a.k.a. a snitch. Of the remaining 1% of the Einsteins who think they're going to beat their charges at trial, 99% of THEM are found guilty. And because you "put the government to its burden of proof" and wasted time on a trial even though you and everybody else knew you were guilty, when sentencing time comes the hammer comes down. Ask O.J. Simpson. On that Vegas armed robbery caper, he was offered a 2 to 5 year sentence plea deal, and he turned it down. OK, OJ. Nine years later he gets out of prison.
$1000, Really?? Wtf Lol
Scarfo did not become boss right after Bruno got killed.. Phil Testa did I think. But definitely not Scarfo
You're right! Philip Testa became the Boss for about a year until he was murdered by a nail bomb that exploded under his front porch when he opened the door to his home at 2117 Porter Street on March 15, 1981.
Narducci Sr. was killed in retaliation for Testa's death & Casella was yeeted from the Mafia & fled to Florida... no oneNot sure if they were the one's truly responsible for Testa's murder or just the stool pigeons blamed for it.
Scarfo didn't seize the reins of power until after all the Phil Testa stuff.
@@wyldflwr great fuckin Real Life shit
@@wyldflwr yeah, it was Casella and Narducci, Sr. who clipped Chicken Man. He had a lot of money on him. Somehow a lot of that money disappeared between the bomb and when he was pronounced at St. Agnes. Handfuls of money.
@@Manuelabor1978 Phil Leonetti as in Little Nicky's nephew?
@@wyldflwr one other thing about the Testa killing and the money -- the talk was basically hey, it's money, and he can't use it anymore. Nobody could use the charred bills. Hard to believe that was 40 years ago now.
wEARING A WIRE FOR A 1K DEBET IS CRAZY.
Why
Couldn't come up with $1000!? Is this 1940 or something? What a bum!
I couldn’t come up with it. Then again I wouldn’t gamble with the mafia with money I don’t have lol
@@Insectoid_ I'm poor but if it was $1000 or death, I could figure it out. Might have to shut off the lights, water and gas but I wouldn't die over $1000
@@honestabe4768 I could just call my rich mother I suppose. It’d probably just be easier to sell my new iPhone or something though. I don’t have a tv or gaming console or broadband. I do everything on my phone. I have an unlimited 5G contract. It’d be heartbreaking to downgrade though. A nice phone is really the only luxury I allow myself.
You have to admit,,, young turk Joey Merlino had brass balls,,,, 😎✌✝💕🇮🇹
Lord keep exposing these corrupt people and make them confess and snitch on everyone involved. I command all escape routes be blocked and all evidence be brought to light in JESUS JESUS NAME AMEN HALLELUJAH I LOVE YOU GOD
🤔🤨👀👽🌀🌐
@#rolfdejonge@
The host of this show is awful. Lol… how can he not improve… even a little bit? I think I’ve watched every episode in existence. I’ll give him this….He’s consistent 😂
This is wildly inaccurate
Can someone explain how the FBI agents got spooked by that sheriff inside the law office? I'm confused?
I dont feel that loansharking should be a crime. If you place a conscious bet with your own money and win house money covers your bet. If you consciously borrow house money knowing the juice then you lose well whatever price is after that is the price.
I start watching this as soon as you said that Scarfo had Angelo Bruno killed I stopped watching it after that you get your facts right before you make a video
Tell em bout it...
The accountant student should get 2 jobs to pay off his debt to the mob. Pretty silly of him to go to the mob in the first place.
Scarfo didn’t have Bruno killed….. John Wilkes Booth killed Bruno. Duh
Instead of comparing this to a credit card company, how about u compare them to the IRS. Don't pay them, n see what happens
Notice
This FBI documentary has everything wrong what the hell are they talking about
For those who don't know, no civilians were killed in the Philly Mob War. Nevertheless, the FBI was right to go after the criminal syndicate.
Good ! watching the morons wipe each other out is entertaining
No civilians? Salvie and Phil targeted the son of one of their targets. A completely innocent store worker. They banged on his store door and terrified him, refusing to leave, to the point where the young man took a gun and shot himself dead in the store backroom.
@@alexf9381 Thank you for pointing that out. I will correct it later.
The FBI is much more a criminal organization than any Mafia family. They're much more dangerous, dirty and corrupt. The government isn't the "good guys" by any means
Scarfo didnt have anything to do with Bruno's murder
Exactly 💯 💯
Mawb wahfare
I wonder what ever happened to the kid who wore the wire…. Did he get witsec or did he get a bullet while out on the street???
John Vici skull is made of diamond.
The Young Turks followed the high profile style of John Gotti
Mess with nicky scarfo and its this🔫
Hahaha...the Mafia Prince
i’d hate to be the guy that got called in by the mob to sweep for any bugs in the lawyers office…he gives it the all clear and misses the FBI bugs…when the mob found out later that it was indeed wired for sound…they would have been ‘very pissed off’ to put it mildly….is he still with us? no way they would have accepted an apology after that
This is actually very hard to believe??,,, I would think somehow the FBI knowing this intercepted him or sent their own guy because it's very very easy to pick up bugs,. My neighbor had what they call a "wand" and if there's any electronic devices at all it would easily pick them up he showed me..
@@patrickflaherty6586 not so easy to pick up bugs today. In order to do a bug sweep you must turn off all electrical appliances because they cause interference. But the biggest thing you are up against today is Bluetooth and WiFi...you can turn yours off...but you can't get the neighbours to turn theirs off and cell phone interference as well. All of these contraptions run on on radio signals.,just like bugs.,..you need full cooperation from your neighbours just to do a sweep in your own house.
Big pasta boys 😂
Haha guess there expert was a fellow criminal imagine that 🤣
This video gets lots of facts incorrect.
First I heard Scarfo killed Bruno
why in Italian mafia so many rats?
It might be because they don’t like prison food 😂🏴👌👌
Damn Im first
Johnny You and the other three guys are cute
Google wdf do you ruin videos with Alli these stupid nonsensical adds...WHY..???
6th. December 11. 2021
Philippine time. 7:18pm
Are you creating an alibi right here and now ?
@@rohypnotist6263 Ha Ha!! Awesome!
$1,000 you start working with the police because of a $1,000 🤣😂🤣😂🤣 u shouldn't be betting at all if u couldn't pay that back. What if information you gave them wasn't enough and they just put you right back in the community.
Yeah, I thought to myself what a little POS that guy was. I mean, what a freaking scumbag. It's a shame they don't lock people up for being stupid, because that's what that guy deserved.
$1000 was a lot more money back then than it is today. Inflation-wise it was about $4000 in todays money but buying power it was probably closer to $7000. Wages were also a lot lower back then. The minimum wage for instance was like $3/hr and he was a college student.
Normal people,I think I’ll go to bed …….Then there’s me ,hits you tube “ I’m Jim kalstrum, former head of the fbi’s New York office “
I don’t understand how the FBI can put a bug in the lawyers office!
Unorganised crime
Lol simply proves never trust a professional lol 😂 if it’s a bug 🐛 removal man 👨 ya fucked
Ahhhhh.. Philly.. those were the days .. Joey merlino lived in packer park
Really funny when they have these effete actors trying to play serious, hardcore criminals!
All of those members take showers with other guys just like Jocks in Grade School.
This is a re run that has been re released on this channel. Common this channel is better than using old material and pretending it's new.....
Scarfo was not behind the Bruno hit! Tony bananas, Johnny keys and the barracuda.
44:38 it was far too long into the edit to change that shot lmfao
3 minutes in and facts all wrong, lol, do your homework please.
Please skip the first 1.5 minutes. Time I will never get back
the young turk still capo di tuti LCN Philadelphia
J.Merlino
I don't think there is a way to explain just how wrong this videos is.
this is so inaccurate lol