Undercover DEA Agent Frank Panessa on Busting The Mafia "Pizza Connection" (Full Interview)
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 3 ธ.ค. 2022
- Frank Panessa sat down for his first-ever VladTV interview, and Vlad started off by introducing him as one of the two undercover DEA agents in the “Pizza Connection Trial” that took down mafia members using pizza parlors as fronts. During the conversation, Frank started off speaking about joining the DEA, and from there, he spoke about how he got involved in the “Pizza Connection” investigation. Frank explained how he went undercover and became partners with the Sicilian mafia members by supplying them with cigarettes for machines in their pizza shops. From there, Frank detailed getting into the drug trade with the Sicilians and working with Rudy Giuliani in the operation, which he said involved getting $1 million to look legit. During the conversation, Frank detailed the inside information on the Sicilian mafia’s heroin operation, including how they laundered money and other crimes they committed. Frank also spoke about how they took down the operation, and he then detailed the trial that included one of the co-defendants being killed by someone in the Gambino crime family. To hear more, including Frank speaking about other undercover missions that he was on, hit the full interview above.
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Yo Vlad is letting him COOK! He didn't say anything for almost 20 minutes! 🤣🤣🤣
said okay
Exactly. Vlad is actually a terrible interviewer. He's very lucky to have a lot of subscribers and good guests. Less is more.
That was an awesome interview he was very well spoken and vlad let him speak, just a great all around interview!
Doesn’t VLAD let all law enforcement speak freely ? VLAD is an informant
Wow Vlad this was nice, i was expecting 87 parts of this. 👏
Lmao
Lmao
OKface
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Great interview. This man has done so many cases, i could listen to him talk for another 2 or 3 hours.
finally an interview with someone that isn’t a career criminal, murderer, thief, or ex-con.
You mean finally it’s none of the honest people lol
@@kylerobison1425 Oh you think because a convicted criminal assumes unusual frankness about the crime they were convicted for and already served time, that they aren’t lying about other things that haven’t been detected by police? They only tell you what they want to tell you; confessing a crime that has already been accounted for doesn’t make them honest, you’re just gullible.
@K, U aren’t a KILLA ok racist
@K, U aren’t a KILLA How does being puerto rican not make you racist?
@K, U aren’t a KILLA😂😂😂
Fun fact...the tomato sauce made by the mob as a front company was so good it made the mob a fortune.
Really?? Whats your source? Do you remember the brand name?
@@joonaslehtonen7965 I saw it on a Pizza Connection documentary. I couldn't tell you the name. It was 15 years ago.
@@joonaslehtonen7965 all you had to do was go in any Italian neighborhood stores in NYC to know that. I mean Arthur Ave. in The Bronx for one...
@@Amidat i dont live in nyc.
When Vlad says “I have friends behind the scenes”, he’s talking about this guy 😂
His handler?
No one in their right mind would tell Vlad anything current
Good to see Vlad interviewing his dad!
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😂😂😂
I watch all these Mafia vids to keep my accent strong - This was a good watch !
We need more of these interviews
What a fabulous interview. So intriguing
Love this interview. A real professional Agent
Thank you!!
Great sit down
Excellent interview
Great to hear someone other than vlad talk lol
Yea it is but its not vlads fault alot of his guests just arent much of speakers, maybe they havent done alot of interviews but alot of them just “yup, mhmm” there way through the interview
O K
Best mob interview yet love frank panessa
Fantastic interview ❤
Great interview 🎉
I remember seeing him on the Inside The Mafia documentary back in the early 2000's.
Very interesting podcast djvlad.
Great interview.
This was a great interview!
Absolutely!
Wow Wht an intro ,
Even vlad is so quiet 🤫,
18:20 , 2nd question of this interview
Thanks vlad for this episode or interview 🙏
Vlad joins the interview 18 minutes later , looking for Tupac questions to get in there. Thanks for joining in vlad.
Another insightful interview.
The good guys never get the recognition they deserve. Great job Vlad
What an amazing brave man. I really appreciate all he has done.
It would be so cool to listen to more of his stories!!! I have to laugh every time Vlad does his awkward ok :) I understand why he does it and appreciate it because he is not stepping on his guest talking.
Love the mafia interviews
These YSL is small potatoes for this guy.
The pause and then vlad says “ok” to all his guests. Yea they knows it’s ok and they don’t need your affirmation. “Ok”
Vlad finally good interview and also you prepared well...thanks god to have finally sane man here 👏
Damn this dude lived it
The fact that the suits wanted him to stick the mafia is just pure stupidity. Just shows how desk workers should stick to desk work and not the streets
When’s Vlad gonna interview Joe Pistone? That would be a great video
When he takes those stupid sunglasses off.
Awesome!
They care so much about getting drugs off the street yet they let 1000's of kilos get through during their investigation.
They care about who gets paid for the kilos lol the government doesn’t want competition in their most profitable business 😂
This interview was not nearly long enough
Great interview but the switch up is real on how he caught amnesia on the yts smuggling dope towards the end when mentioning Mexicans n Chinese as if they are worst 😂😂😂
yeah buddy clearly racist 😂
yeah of course you know the race issues always are there.
So they were dealing in 1million in drugs a day over 30million a month but him with $80.000 gets them excited, bullshit alarms going off all over the place
First interview that didn't mention VLADS old mix tapes.
When Vlad says “ okay” you take shot 😂
2022 has me wondering if this is a green screen/iPad type thing
At 3:45 the Sicilians ain’t Italian, but ain’t Sicily in Italy…I’m tryna make it make since 😂😂😂
Dude was trying to talk about the fent issue and of course Vlad has to change the subject for drama
Frank is a fuggin legend
Grew up in NJ, 5 mins from sals in delran, they had the best pizza growing up.. u wouldnt even know unless u found out when they got arrested, or were in thee kno.
Legend
“We had them but it wasn’t for John Q Public.” Cut to a guy named Jonathan Quincy Public all sad: “Why doesn’t anyone let me do anything?” 😂
Good man
Honestly the issue w fentanyl imo is at the wholesale mid level. Most drug users don’t want fentanyl or don’t know they’re doing it. Yeah some love it but the main issue is most drug dealers aren’t gonna pass up a low volume high profit substance. I’ve never really seen drug dealers as bad guys bc they’re just supplying demands but this fentanyl shit is just too greedy. It’s wild in 2022 that people just want regular heroin
The Pizza Connection. Good memories from my youth.
The camera moving is kinda weird...
A MILLION DOLLARS A DAY!!! That's the real million a day crew NOT Frank Lucas... Lucas wasn't even doing $100K a day ( at least according to everything I've read) That's BIG MONEY!!
Now bust the new Mafia .. your former bosses
Lmfao 🤡
Keke was kidnapped yes but he was killed by a CIA guy who now lives in Florida go look it up
He’s even dressed as a federal agent in this interview lmfao
Vlad is that cousin that you don’t like. But at the same time you freaking love him n no one can touch him…
So he basically stop Italian people from eating 🍕 😂😂
Never knew TK wasn't in Sicily ... 😁
Need more made men on here VLAD
He’s a cop bud 🙈
@@franksindoneii5410 aware of that mate
Shout out to vlad for letting him rip right off the beginning. I'm sure he wanted to jump in and guide it but the guy was great.
Dam Vlad you was supposed to ask about the cocaine cowboys WTF????
Wow shit started off a little racist... He said we knew the Italians who were supplying the blacks in Harlem so WE focused on the blacks! Why not focused on the suppliers? The Bigger fish? Smh alot of people probably won't catch that.
I caught it. These guys are bought and paid for. Just like everybody else
Thought I was the only one
I mean if they were black and had no name for they're gang I could see him saying this
@@Deathracer25x not racism more like satanism. They are all bought and paid for. And white is not a color it’s an attitude. The blacks were and always used as the scapegoat. But the ones at the top hate black people and poor whites the same.
He states literally right at the beginning they didn’t know who the black players were they knew all the Italian players they were intelligence gathering most likely
Johnny Brasco lol
Sometimes you have to act/do the criminal life to catch one.
And just like that their goes the myth that the Italian mafia didn't deal in drugs. Such bs
The government as the boss of bosses🤣😂
Lot of respect for Frank Panessa!
I believe in life for a life. But giving someone life for only drugs will never sit right with me.
So no more drugs in the USA after this brave man's work? Yeaaah .
How's he gonna laugh when the guy dies with an hood on his head ??? Heartless man
That guy has good memory to be 81 years old
Looking at this video u can tell vlad is actually a good interviewer he just dont give af when its rappers😂😂
That stuff kill prince 🤴
That neck-tie have survived the undercover duties.
You worried about the wrong thing!!
Great work vlad
16 months?! Those poor Jurors. How we treat Jurors in the US is obscene. Everyone else that's involved on the gov side are making decent money to good money (Lawyers, judges, support staff, federal agents, etc). Contrastingly, the Jurors are forced into serving, begrudgingly offered paid parking and minimum wage, both of which in some locales they have to fight for. Its ridiculous. Thankfully, at least in this case, at the end they get to see Justice delivered. Many/most trials, Justice is an afterthought casually tossed away for expediency. This long on Juror duty will cost people their jobs, promotional opportunities, family problems, not to mention that most Jurors, unlike in this case, their identities are public knowledge....... :-(
Only one thing missing from Vlad’s mafia interviews playlist : Sit down with Donnie Brasco aka Joe Pistone. Either he hasnt done it or his entourage already engaged Mr Pistone but he declined them. Wasted!
"OKAY"
Charleston White is so jealous right now 😂😂 he dream of this level of informant
He said they went after the black men and let the big fish go for years.
He said they was in Italians before that tho
Why do you always bring up cases about rappers I mean these interviews are about something different
The Sicilians I know would have never done business with an outsider. You have to have family back in Sicily encase the deal goes south.
Everybody on TH-cam either is in the mafia or knows someone who is. Shut up bro. We don’t believe you
they got greedy in the US
hope the youth takes people like this man as an example, doctors and scientists instead of sport stars and musicians
'It was 83 you had the people from the Bruno mob' Bruno was killed in 1980, 'you had Sal Testa's son' Sal didn't have a son, he was Phil Testas son, got dates and names wrong 🙈 makes you wonder what else he is making up eh
Yes the Bruno mob, kinda like the names of the 5 families. Those namesakes are dead. He mixed up a father and son. Lighten up!!!
Pizza pizza
Wait.. vlad didn’t turn this into 69 and 2pac ?
Comarè most defintiely does NOT mean “girlfriend” 😂😂😂😂😂 wtf
Nobody wants to click a damn link in your bio.
This guy was looking to be in narcotics or customs...hmm..
Either looming for dope or letting the dope thru. 🤔
liker of dope.
Real crime. Not a bunch of rappers talking about schoolgirl industry beefs 😴
Best interview vlad
I love your interviews but can you maybe find another word other than OK
Absolutely No disrespect . But if your an undercover and NOT taste the product is different ..
A great effort of a brave man unfortunately the demand is there and it’s profitable so it will continue
Dude was finna drop da n bomb b4 he said blacks
Lol 😅
?? He's 900 yrs old so what is he supposed to say people of color? Lmao damn people are weak
Great choice Vlad!
He almost said N***a
My man’s nose runny fo shooooo