Sal Polisi On Being In Prison With Many Purple Gang Members | Gangsters Turned Into Mobsters |

Today we continue our new series named Mafia Row. Sal went to Lewisburg prison in 1974. He met mobsters from all kinds of different crime families. In today’s video we discuss Sal going to prison and meeting many members of the purple gang! The purple gang was a gang of mafia associates that would go on to join different families in the mafia and became made men, capos, and even bosses. While in Lewisburg Prison Sal got to meet Arnold Squitieri, Oreste “Ernie Boy” Abbamonte, John “Johnny Echoes” Campopiano, Louis “Fat Gigi” Inglese, and Joseph “Joe The Crow” Delvecchio! All these guys were big drug dealers just like Sal. These guys would go on to become bosses and made men in different families. Please subscribe to our Patreon Channel for more exclusive stories. Also please subscribe to our KZbin to watch all our new videos. Links below 👇 This is episode 24!
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[@jaquelinemoore2998]

Thanks!

[@investinyourselfpodcast]

Thank you!!! Your always so kind 😁

[@Geno1983]

Been waiting for this one 👍

[@investinyourselfpodcast]

Hope you enjoyed it! 😁

[@tonycamaj7243]

RIP Johnny Echos. A real standup dude.

[@investinyourselfpodcast]

Thanks for watching 😁

[@bobbybright9334]

Hahaha tongue tied with all those nicknames with their last name😂😂😂

[@investinyourselfpodcast]

Dude yes! It can be confusing 😂

[@bobbybright9334]

Hahaha you nailed it bro. I was routing for ya lol. Adrian a bad ass! Lol. Too funny. Good show once again Adrian. Thankyou

[@bobbybright9334]

@@investinyourselfpodcast i have to watch it again you rapping hahaha jks.

[@dannyregal]

It's easy and comes naturally if your the kind who gives out nicknames Some people also as you know also use all sorts of in official slang And if you think it's confusing with nicknames then remember that one person can have five nicknames depending from who when and why But yes Sal keeps it real but he owns this genre

[@zimbohowardbeach4775]

Sal is a bum. No balls couldn’t do time. Then don’t be a tough guy

[@jimmylight4866]

Exactly. Sal is a crybaby candyass.

[@Horseracingtip]

Local cops got an average working ckass salary back then. Today, so many of them make over 100k a year.

[@pistolpete528]

I was away with Johnny echoes in the early 2000's at fci devens. He was there on a parole violation. Good guy

[@JackFrost-wu2bq]

Cards...chess...Football...Don't play Games with Guy's who don't play games🤫😎

[@investinyourselfpodcast]

True !

[@petebyron1957]

The agent (Jack Falcone) that gave the TV, was Greg DePalma,s driver.

[@Mcchrs]

Yeah he is now on y.t.... surprised these guys haven't done anything to stop the evils going on today @ very high levels compromised politicians in many cases DAs destroying from within! One thing about Connected or made men they loved their country many were in tue armed forces aswell, like Dominick monteglio/Samny the snake Gravano others...

[@investinyourselfpodcast]

Thanks for watching 😁

[@georgefreeman6957]

i grew up there in the 60's and 70's my grandmother lived in Wagner projects in 90 Palodino ave a few blocks from Tony Salernos clubhouse The Palma boys social club 115 st 1st ave , i grew up in Jefferson projects 112 st 2nd ave

[@borisbogicevic]

It's funny how sal always says that he didn't kill anyone. But I wonder, how many people he killed with his heroin and how many families he destroyed

[@elipalm1410]

At least they got real dope. Today they really killing people

[@investinyourselfpodcast]

Thanks for watching

[@MatthewBuchanan-l1r]

If Sal didn't sale a dope fiend heroin they would have bought it from someone else. The government is responsible for the overdoses, as is the junkie! Now, phetanol is a whole different story! It is leathal. Heroin is terrible I know this personally I lost my 43 year old mom at the age of 18 due to heroin. I don't blame the drug dealers she sought out. People need to start taking r responsibility for their actions nobody forced a needle in a junkies arm, we have choices in life and free will and and some people choose to take the devil's poison knowing the consequences especially Heroin.

[@elvinkrigsman6956]

Everyone has a choice what they put in their body. I’m an ex dope fiend/ convict

[@modofatak]

A similar choice one has in whether or not to be a heroin dealer

[@Mcchrs]

WHO ? SAL WHOM DID THEY PAY OFF ? WHICH POLICE/ JUDGES/ POLITICANS ? WHO ELSE NAMES GUYS ? IN CHICAGO WAS OPERATION GREYLORD ...

[@jimmyvalentine798]

Well in Chicago, Operation Grey Lord had a great prosecutor but although it did expose and remove a few crooked judges it really had minimal effect because the Outfit still had the mechanism in place to simply replace those judges to their liking. It wasn't until Operation Gambat that this type of political control and corruption was seriously affected. To the detriment of the Outfit.

[@sportscardyankee2151]

🔥🔥🔥👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

[@investinyourselfpodcast]

Thanks for watching bro 😎

[@joseph9210]

I love ny sals fave bag

[@investinyourselfpodcast]

Thanks for watching 😁

[@elvinkrigsman6956]

Bernstein brothers ran the Detroit purples with other Russian Jews. Not sure if they had Italians working in their crew

[@investinyourselfpodcast]

Could be a possibility. Thank you for watching 😁

[@Moneymalzy]

Great job adrian. Your interviewing skills are getting better. Mostly your timing. Love it. These 70s stories with mobsters and herion make my blood boil. Especially in harlem and black neighborhoods. They owned the cops and would tell on any black dealers. They also charged higher prices to the black drug dealers. I just wish they told the story accurately. I wasnt around but the records show what was going on

[@investinyourselfpodcast]

Thanks you for the compliment! 😁 also I’m glad you are enjoying Sal’s first hand insight about his past life. Trust me we will go more intro depth of his life when he was a dealer.

[@jjdillon1207]

Are you whining that black drug dealers Got Charged more? Ridiculous PC crap

[@Moneymalzy]

@@jjdillon1207 go back to your hole gestapo

[@yankees29]

The Italians were top dogs. What would you expect?

[@rusellh3196]

Echos and Ernie Boy were brother in laws, Funzie Sisca and Ernie Boy were brother in laws

[@investinyourselfpodcast]

Interesting! I didn’t know that. Thank you for watching 😁

[@rusellh3196]

Squiteri was one of Johns closes friends

[@Herkulez1981]

Wait ”my real mother was part of that Detroit family that came from italy ” This makes no sense , they where an all jewish gang of males not Italian and def no women

[@Travis-pv8vj]

😂🤡

[@DannyPucillo]

This guy is the laughing stock of the internet.. He heard some stories and regurgitated them as his own. He’s a junkie 🤡

[@Herkulez1981]

@@Travis-pv8vj strange right

[@mochans]

This is why I canceled Patreon.

[@jimmyvalentine798]

But was he speaking in regard to the original Detroit Purples or the New York East Harlem Purples there is a distinct difference there. Two different eras two different Cities.

[@adjusted-bunny]

I wasn't in the purple gang but in the pink gang. It's like the purple gang but just more gay.

[@investinyourselfpodcast]

Thanks for watching bubba!

[@rusellh3196]

They chose the name Purple Gang, before that they were known as the "Wolf Pack"

[@investinyourselfpodcast]

Interesting didn’t know that. Thanks for watching 😁

[@rusellh3196]

Squiteri and Funzie Sisca were partners and best friends.

[@bobbybright9334]

Johnny the chuch chuchilla lol

[@investinyourselfpodcast]

Lol!!!

[@yankees29]

Ernie Boy was a heavyweight

[@delltellapharoah2378]

THIS IS STRANGE..... The purple game were Jewish immigrants....they ruled Detroit. Capone hired a few for the Valentine's massacre.

[@davidaltieri-k6t]

ALL FROM EAST HARLEM ON 116TH AND PLEASANT AVE! ALL JUNK DEALERS.

[@investinyourselfpodcast]

There was a lot of purple gang members in prison with Sal for that 😮

[@butchjones1486]

I only knew of the Jewish Mobsters out of prohibition Detroit and later.

[@jaquelinemoore2998]

Good morning.

[@investinyourselfpodcast]

Morning! Hope you have a wonderful day 😁

[@davidaltieri-k6t]

WHAT ABOUT TOMMY MOE LENTINI? YOU EVER MEET HIM? HE WENT AWAY WITH THAT CREW...

[@investinyourselfpodcast]

I’ll have to ask him that one ☝️

[@kensteel4469]

The purple gang I thought was made up of mostly Jewish gangsters

[@yankees29]

Different people. East Harlem Purple Gang. Real deal traffickers and killers.

[@Givehopetofight]

Plus u have amateur knowledge about cosa nostra. No personality boring

[@investinyourselfpodcast]

Thanks for watching BUBBA 😁

[@frankiec6487]

Wt heck are you guys talking about. I am so confused about who robbed who and who’s getting what. Merchandise does this Make any sense to anybody

[@frankiec6487]

Adrian. No offense , but have you ever READ ANYTHING SAL READ??? He mentions it a lot. Ans even in this vid. He mentions something that in the book. But it’s obvious that you didn’t read it So what gives??? Just trying to give you a heads up just do the homework so when somebody ask you something that you’re interviewing at least you know some sort of what you’re talking about. I’m trying to tell you I’m trying to help you out. Brothher.