John Pennisi Details His Ceremony to Become Made Man for Lucchese Mafia (Part 5)

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In this clip, John Pennisi detailed the steps involved in the ceremony to be a made man for the Lucchese family. He explained that his ceremony took place at a home in Staten Island, where he was asked a series of questions, including if he would kill for the family, told a set of rules, and introduced to other higher ups in the room. John also spoke about making money for the family, which you can hear more about above.

[@raaaaasable]

"He sat on one ass cheek the whole way over!" Silvio Dante

[@BlaccSuave]

Too many Movies was His problem

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Watch it Chrissy

[@Danny-hj2qg]

(1:32) "The acting boss Mattie Madonna was there, the consigliere, Joe Di Napoli was there, and TK Kirkland was there." - John Pennisi

[@davidcavazos1887]

@Pason Jayne well respected and being a made guy are completely different. Literally nobody who isn't Italian can be in LCN. "They gotta be able to trace your blood back to the old country"

[@shaundavenport621]

I've watched this guy on his own podcast and he carries himself better than any other made man I've seen.Quiet,respectful but definitely not to be messed with!

[@shaundavenport621]

@Anthony Botti With a name like yours what does that make you???.Botty in the UK is a slang word for a persons ass!😂😂😂

[@Gestapo93]

@Anthony Botti Shoulda taken his medicine.

[@MrSPIDEY21]

Mike Fran?

[@shaundavenport621]

@Anthony Botti Haha by you kid?

[@Will-gg1zr]

Anthony Botti American isn’t a language pal

[@chang1009]

vlad over here startin his own crime family wit the amount of mob guys he's been interviewing lmao

[@RC-fh9wy]

99.5% snitches

[@roibaptiste3648]

@@RC-fh9wy lmao.

[@doughboy5858]

@@RC-fh9wy you look like a snitch

[@RC-fh9wy]

@@doughboy5858 I knew a fuck boy was going to say something about my r.e. broker pro pic. Touch doe 💰 you'll never mark.

[@doughboy5858]

@@RC-fh9wy everybody knows real estate brokers are gangster af 😂 now I KNOW you a snitch

[@josefagyeman135]

Thank you. You all took the oath and broke it

[@ClasherSports]

anyone who knows this world... the quiet soft spoken guys, are the ones you really have to worry about

[@christianblythe3924]

I’m sure you know the world

[@doughboy5858]

@Ant Flor how would you know? You grew up with this dude or what?

[@momsom321]

@Ant Flor mind 'yo' business. Little wannabe chicago gangster spotted. Yall a failure in life thinking life is about who is toughest in the streets. These guys aint beefing for nonsense these guys chase money and only whack others if they stand in their way of making money. Learn something from it punk

[@TavaraTheLaughingLion]

@@momsom321 I agree... with the kid above me, you need to mind your business.

[@momsom321]

@@TavaraTheLaughingLion another wankster spotted. 🤡

[@cbutts10]

Mafia Informants keep VLAD TV in business.

[@Someone-xy4bc]

How are they informants when the stuff they talk about ain't t even existing anymore

[@chozen9]

Don’t get it twisted Vlad knows his market. The hip hop culture is very intrigued by mob culture. While the shit with the NOI & snitching allegations die down this content will keep his audience tuned in. Smart

[@raheemjr7530]

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[@nicofromqueens5249]

U right all these rappers name themselves after mob guys

[@doughboy5858]

Lol not hip hop culture, American culture & criminal culture like the mob. Do you think The Godfather or Casino was made for the hip hop community? 😂 narcos in Latin America love mafia stories too, Al Capone is a huge figure in Latin America & most of them listen to corridos not hip hop

[@shaolinone9584]

Black guys, worship these people.

[@Leavethestreets]

No the fuck we don't..we just no how to get it from nothing.

[@BlueDinnie]

Negative.

[@shaolinone9584]

@@Leavethestreets yeah homie, im just dressing up like a chinese man petending im in the triads, but blak homies put mafia word in name of their gangs call emselves dons n all that trying be like Italian men. Smh u know it

[@TRIIGGAVELLI]

@@Leavethestreets Lol yes you guys do my guy. You're seriously going to pretend like hip hop doesn't have more rappers with "mob" names than the mafia itself? 😂 Culture vultures honestly.

[@willyafg]

Jim Jones aka Capo 🤣🤣🤣

[@acito_20]

I thought just explaining the process was breaking the law

[@vladtv]

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[@michaelcarlson1226]

Not hating but I'd be surprised if more than 100 people signed up outta his millions of subscribers. Its not that the product isn't good, it's actually top tier. The thing is when people support content creators thru patreon, music being sold instead of streamed, ect. Its not really paying money for the product like we used to buy movies and cds, it's because we like the product yes, but we want to support the creator because youtube is so personal with the content creator and you want them to keep going. Vlad makes it very clear he is filthy rich, that he will do whatever is most profitable, not what is best for the culture, so no one is inclined to want to support him, and we all enjoy the content but if it's free anyways and there's so much other content, wed rather give money to someone like a china mac, not neccesRily for his music but to support him

[@carmenl163]

It's unbelievable how accurate this is depicted in The Sopranos.

[@dougbfresh]

Why is it unbelievable? The Mafia is not some secret society anymore, much of it was well known long before The Sopranos either through just normal police work and then the routine reality of members getting out and talking about the family/process to the public.

[@carmenl163]

@@dougbfresh My experience is that a secret and sacred ceremony is not well known. For instance, the ceremony of Freemasons is (as far as I can tell) not very accurately depicted in movies or books. That's why I am surprised.

[@willross6554]

Let me tell you a couple of three things. -Phil Leotardo

[@josephsierzengaIV]

“There ain’t no scaps in my scrapbook “

[@dicksuckley8102]

I ate grilled cheese off the RADiator

[@christianburk2432]

Brilliant line. I had to rewind that part when I heard the first time. He has a bunch of lines like that through out the series.

[@j.d.8321]

@@christianburk2432 "apples and bowling balls tony."😂

[@Antonio18677]

Nobody is getting their finger pricked there is no sword or gun on the table nothing but a glorified crew..

[@redcomic619]

Weird hairline on this guy, he has the outline of Texas in the side of his head...

[@ASHnycja]

LMAOOOOOOOO

[@josefagyeman135]

That's messed up

[@toufik9459]

He look like michael from gta 5

[@screwedupclick6647]

All them Italian mob guys told on each other🤣🤣🤣🤦🏾‍♂️

[@RR-lv3tp]

Everyone has been "telling" for a long time now...

[@cmz5847]

the RICO fucked everything up

[@damarimoland1613]

@Prince Vegeta’s Burner Account nah nah nah

[@damarimoland1613]

@Vittorio indelicato 😴 and these so called mob guys are straight snitches as well Foh you fugazzi

[@frankmatthews2451]

Major 🐀🐀😂

[@mishbeep]

This guy is quiet and seems like a gentleman. And he is/was also a mad man in a genuine mob family. And here we have all of these rappers saying “I’m gangster” etc. They don’t even know the meaning of the word!

[@postmastersgt1670]

So is it gangster to turn snitch ratting out the people you did dirt with to save your own neck cause thats exactly what this guy did.

[@vote4pedro113]

@@postmastersgt1670 He used to be gangster… until he ratted out his people. The Sopranos ain’t gonna let that slide too well.

[@fredo7540]

The term gangster is open as it is

[@waynebarry2597]

I bet your one of those guys that think Italians dudes doesn’t go around acting like wannabe made men, portraying themselves as mobsters or associates. 😂

[@larkinvarful]

Is this guy telling trade secrets?

[@chrisrodriguez1084]

I like this guy's demeanor

[@husseinbato996]

You like a rats demeanor ?

[@RR-lv3tp]

Its a shame, that a once sacred initiation, is now talked about, over and over again freely like this. I know its been out for while now, but still..

[@BxCortez2050]

I thought the same..hey I guess. Its the PC world we in now ..lol

[@seashorefoods302]

Great interview

[@frostqueenmag91]

They should change the ceremonies to having balloons, cake and ice cream.

[@4LifeFate]

I thought this was fred savage.....I've been let down

[@TheWuCepticon1981]

LMFAO😭

[@johnnyboy7256]

They should do a Saturday night live skit about a mafia making ceremony.would be hilarious.

[@danieldangelo7937]

Call in Joey Diaz

[@christianburk2432]

I’ve thought about that too but not from SNL. I thought it would be funny if they were making a gay dude. Haha

[@Valmontst]

@@christianburk2432 😂😂😂😂

[@ganktuh]

He looks like Johnny Tightlips from The Simpsons

[@htxsn9543]

Tell em to go suck a lemon 🍋

[@derrick9702]

If he was, this interview would be 5 seconds

[@juicer404]

@@derrick9702 i aint saying nothing

[@donniebrasco7725]

SAW LUCCHESE IN THE TITLE AND THOUGHT OF MY BOOTS. IM A HUGE LUCCHESE FAN.

[@HamiltonRb]

Richie Aprile: Your fleeeexxxxing

[@adammanning1805]

I was told during the scene with Christopher becoming a Made guy on the Sopranos was accurate.

[@makhiabryantsknife8143]

You were told by who ? Your boyfriend ?

[@BlaccSuave]

😂😂😂

[@TheWuCepticon1981]

@@makhiabryantsknife8143 😭😭😭😭

[@postmastersgt1670]

They make any and everybody over there and the way they do it is all fucked up guys dont get their fingers pricked theres no sword and gun on the table....Phil Leotardo

[@makhiabryantsknife8143]

@@postmastersgt1670 either it has meaning or it doesn’t

[@nativewood]

We have two candidates for being up'd: Johnny Tight lips and Frankie the Squealer.

[@William-Gregory]

He's telling all the game

[@bobbybustos426]

It’s sad how many guys take that oath and are willing to give it their all but then still turn on their brothers smh.

[@urb089]

Watch The Godfather Part II, where Mike is talking to Tom 1-on-1. Mike tells Tom that his father taught him Try to think as the people around you think. Everyone around is is a business man. Now on that basis anything is possible. I say all that to say this: If your so-called “friends” and “brothers” would sell out years of friendship to save their ass or for a good business deal, including yourself, then neither you nor they are friends. There are no real friendships or brotherhoods in the Cosa Nostra. Everything can be ended with one careless word or move. That’s what The Godfather Part II should have taught you with Fredo betraying Mike and not realizing it until it was far too late.

[@nekitamol1k242]

Dude stop glorifying the mafia, they're a bunch of sadistic criminals.

[@hov_bx]

cowards smh

[@casey1571]

Vlad tell us about the Fed ceremony .

[@Power50505]

This is what happens when Fred finally becomes Savage.

[@larryoconnell1511]

Underrated

[@MacLKO]

He probably saw the black crow like chrissy in the sopranos

[@MarcosAUlloa]

CB lad I’m trying inscribe to watch full I can’t see where. I saw the link but no place to ign up

[@Koopak]

Vlad tryna get sworn into the feds

[@trae4487]

Facts niggas fed

[@bartactivities]

😂😂😂😂

[@chrisrusso835]

And why are we dropping names and information like this? I'm missing something...

[@anthonylewis6265]

Yeah like wtf y is he saying this

[@Adam-Woods]

Well he’s openly admitted to co-operating with law enforcement...why not? Glad probably cut the check.

[@kcroyal5249]

@@anthonylewis6265 he is a rat

[@Dutch3k5]

Imagine founding our you’re being a made man right seeing that Joe Pesci death scene in goodfellas

[@realslowtunes]

You have to go. No matter what

[@user-zf8ge7qj6m]

You see too many movies.

[@user-zf8ge7qj6m]

​@@realslowtunesNo you don't. You can turn down becoming a made man. Once you say yes that's when you have to go through with it.

[@jasonk4323]

Ohhhhh yes Gentleman John 👍🏼

[@KC-gf8is]

He broke tha code

[@genebrady4372]

They’ll never admit it, but this said ceremony he was apart of is synonymous to ceremonial initiation of knights Templar, skull & bones, Shriner Jews, and so on and so on all the other secret society brotherhood groups

[@farzana6676]

Cosa Nostra induction ceremony is several hundreds of years old.

[@mikehoncho5764]

@@farzana6676 templars are way older 700 800 years back even more then that

[@shhhhhh7705]

He really look like Michael from gta 😭

[@chicagojason773]

I was the one that came up with this ritual for them. T.K. Kirkland

[@julianowilliams3263]

Thought that was Patrick from valuetainment for a sec haha

[@88rollins]

More of these Vlad!

[@blackdynamite5016]

That last name is wild😁

[@df5687]

Don't do my boy Lil' John penis-y like dat.

[@therealnoriega1433]

Viva l'italia

[@joefedi3708]

These guys aren’t saying anything the feds don’t already know...not a big deal outside there people

[@esco200106705]

This guy is not a friend of ours --TK Kirkland

[@RalphBarbagallo]

The "Sports Business"

[@drearaujoa6]

Now yous can’t leave-Sonny

[@ashrafasmal6290]

Dude look like the cake boss guy 🤣

[@Leavethestreets]

Vlad gonna be the next Zack TV. Anything for clout...somethings are not to be spoken of and these is one of them.

[@3BBer]

Lol chill bro you’re a civilian like the rest of us

[@anthonylewis6265]

No he’s right this isn’t cool at all

[@YUNGDEEZE315]

At this mans ceremony....... “There’s no sword and gun on da table. Guys don’t get their finger pricked. Yous do it all fucked up over there. There are no scraps in my scrapbook !!!” -Philly (Not billy) Leotardo

[@FrankiePIFFtv]

DAMN THIS IS SUPER VIOLATING THE OATH 😂😂😂😂😂 🐀🐀🐀🐀🐀🐀🐀🐀🐀

[@TankTopEnt]

Vlad needs to do the Russian Mafia, let me see you pull that off

[@djuromilovic8251]

That would be awesome

[@TonyDucks89]

If the mafia tries to extort you today just say no. I mean what are they going to do? Lol

[@chuckkiephan6880]

He looks like a quite nice guy, who i believe is censer about his criminal history

[@brothaquis1627]

Ask more incriminating questions

[@scroticle]

I wish my name was Penisi too. Haha.

[@PlutoTheGod]

Dudes kinda scary looking/sounding he literally looks like he’s going to start sobbing at any second. No emotion but sadness in his face wtf is that

[@bigvinstyle]

"Lar enforcement" 😂

[@davidkirkpatrick712]

Johnny Russo was there

[@zenica12]

"Dont say nothing Sal"

[@luisvilla799]

If I knew I woulds tells ya -- Franky the squealer The simpsons

[@EvilSecondTwin]

Where the *TK KIRKLAND* comments at?

[@geralthoster6286]

According to the subtitles, this guy was actually a maid man.

[@Amy-uo2li]

His name was Patty Cakes

[@kenfung664]

Time to change the ceremony it ain't exactly yours anymore

[@homerhollowayjr.299]

Blood covenant. Love it up

[@Lee-lilo-Noto]

You became amica nostra

[@dfunkfatsack4512]

Did patty have a twin brother by chance

[@hotsauce7365]

I was there holding the sword!!! -Gianni Russo

[@djmir84]

I thought it was the cop from the dead files before i started watching it

[@scroticle]

Who gets the same ads? Two Oceans wine? For people with no taste.

[@Icyfire420]

I clicked accidentally on this video found myself early

[@ikool4ud]

His hairline is a distraction

[@htxsn9543]

Wolverine

[@yungchapo9971]

@@htxsn9543 Logan

[@Buugzy]

This is Benny now

[@tedgramz1905]

Him saying this makes me feel uncomfortable

[@reidmcguire9425]

Real G’s move in silence like lasagna

[@makhiabryantsknife8143]

All I know is Pennisi never had the makings of a varsity athlete.

[@PrinceOfTheCity1]

Actually he did.. this other guy hootie doesn’t But yeah funny reference

[@BlaccSuave]

Small Hands was His problem

[@NewTheoryMagazine]

C’mon uncle ju

[@makhiabryantsknife8143]

@@NewTheoryMagazine You don’t like how I talk ? Get out of my house

[@88ST3V307]

Didn't he say one of the main guy's last name was McDonald? I thought the 'higher ups' were all supposed to be full blooded Italian?

[@samuelcolon7380]

Madonna

[@jbvap]

Not McDonald, madonna is what he said. All made men are SUPPOSED to be 100% Italian, not just “higher ups”.

[@88ST3V307]

@@jbvap thanks for clearing that up, as did someone else just before you. I thought so, that's why the guy out of Goodfellas couldn't be a 'made man'.

[@louiskenny9224]

You don't have to be 100% Italian.. Your father has to be.

[@billymarino4452]

@@louiskenny9224 They prefer full blooded Italians but they'll accept a half Italian if the associate is a good candidate otherwise. They had to do this because over the generations, many Italian Americans intermarried with other ethnic groups. I've read somewhere that by the 1960's, up to fifty percent of Italian Americans had non Italian spouses. That's going to limit your recruitment pool big time from an ethnic standpoint. Sometimes a candidate with an Italian mother can also be made as long as they have an Italian surname.

[@papito7757]

Then u fast forward to the interrogation room and the snitchin starts🤦🏽‍♂️

[@Adam-qv2bd]

I'm writing a movie about a non italian guy who's lifes dream is to be a made member of the Sicillian mafia. So he goes as far as to pay off people in Sicily to say he's related.

[@thismothafuckasaid7304]

Sorry, but it's been done already...There's few stories about people bribing Sicilians to claim they're relatives, in order to become mafioso. It's part of reason why members no longer need to be 100% Sicilian or Italian, since 80s.

[@Adam-qv2bd]

I do have another movie I'm working on, a horror movie in the style of (Pieces 1982). Nobody has ever used a chainsaw with a bow bar before in a horror movie. So ya, I'd love to see that! It would be super intense and different.

[@BxCortez2050]

Dude !!! Lmao

[@therealnoriega1433]

There's only 2 kinda of people in this world... Those who are italian and those who wanna b italian 🇮🇹

[@juliancapucetti8190]

Lets see a preview

[@joejoerobinson8724]

Good move on Vlad to put mafia guys talking about crimes on. That way people can’t always say he only asks black guys about crime. Either that or since Jamar and Godfrey stop messing with him he’s losing black people to interview.

[@Joeythejew]

Its funny how every major gang in this country has followed or taken rules from this

[@brunoberardi4815]

I know most guys in the life today, even if bith parents are Italian, they're still 2nd 3rd generation , even more , the importance of still using the terminology, Omerta, Amico Nostri, CAPO REGIME or Capo Decine, etc, is to impart that "This Thing of Ours" although is Ours i.e American Mafia ( which is a misnomer as Mafia is Italian, Sicilian to be exact) That's why they use LCN and it's called Cosa Nostra to signify it's separation and individuality from the old country. What's funny is LCN rules are Different than Mafia rules, what they kept and I believe the only thing they kept was the initiation and Omerta. The families and commission and the power structure of the family as it was set up and is till today is unique to LCN. I will pre fleet touch on America it is translated to mean silence secrecy however it comes to D note the life it has come to in compas not just keeping your mouth shut but how to conduct yourself as a man of honor . L'Omerta Non ha prezzo! So when guys right or turn right away they said they broke the oath of America well the families have been breaking that oath for a long time now, especially after the eighties when the greed set in it completely became something else, then after RICO was successful it was the nail in the coffin.

[@toddc2202]

Okay

[@khalifadre12]

Look like Michael from gta.

[@arashabdullahdawudcharlton5548]

This guy ....singing like a canary

[@tomburkart959]

Why doesn't Vlad get normal guests

[@johnyapplesauce8034]

i wonder how much shit this guy got as a kid with a last name like that 😂

[@triplexakaarchiebunker2.093]

This guy watched a mafia movie and made it his reality 🤦🏼‍♂️🤦🏼‍♂️. This is what drugs do to you!!!

[@26ACEBOOGIE]

Didn’t alite kill guzzo?

[@zahidchaudhry9694]

His innocent manners make him very deceptive.

[@glockuserdeex3653]

Damm

[@njdon89]

Vlad doing Rico shit like he signed a 360 w the feds 😂😂😂😂

[@mishbeep]

Imagine “little Dwayne” or whatever his name is standing next to someone like Tommy Desimone. Not a chance in hell those guys are gangsters.

[@kookmissile69]

Remember any mob member that is publicly talking about the mob flipped on all his “friends” and “family” smh what a loser

[@anthonylewis6265]

Wtf why would he do this?

[@pierrefab7202]

Do a whole brotherhood ceremony just to turn around and snitch on eachother........Yea great ceremony