Vito Genovese & the Genovese Crime Family Documentary

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Incredibly well written and presented. Not a word is wasted, and the information is solid and informative. Thank you!

[@rosep3933]

Agree.

[@xenaires]

I agree about this content as well. The narrator was on point with accents.

[@shutup2751]

Genovese was addicted to power and that cost him, arranging a huge conference to proclaim himself boss of bosses was bizarre

[@philodonoghue3062]

The Black Knights of the Round Table

[@indysingh4552]

You would know, you were there..... Stick to your Goodfellas DVD keep your bullshit opinions to yourself.

[@eye_bleed_2]

Good point. It’s like he needed attention badly but wound up shooting himself in the foot.

[@user-up5zg6ki8k]

Same thing Maranzano did

[@waltersobchak4079]

It wasn't called to proclaim him boss of bosses, just head of the commission.

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[@Romaboo680]

"Babe please you're not Italian because you've watched 100hrs of mobster movies!" "Can you belive this broad?"

[@nena8692]

My first laugh of this long day, thanks!

[@Romaboo680]

​@nena8692 No problem. Hope your day improves.

[@PANIC_MODE]

Fugetta boud'it.

[@MrIlleism]

ROFL

[@harrynelson9203]

Gotta have meatballs/spaghetti 🍝 and glass of red wine 🍷 while watching them, it helps alot 🤣🤌🏻

[@nena8692]

As always, such a great video! Thanks!

[@arcofspira]

Thanks to People Profiles for another hour of enlightenment

[@rathertiredofthemess2841]

Enlightenment? That what? Europe did not send their brightest nor their best, they sent murderers and thieves? Yeah maybe.

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And Netanyahu

[@PANIC_MODE]

​@@philodonoghue3062 Why give that pr*ck any coverage?

[@gabbydecker685]

Genovese my maiden name. My grandfather knew him. Lived the same town in italy. Then Queens i guess.

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Great channel. Glad I found it...

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[@bobcosmic]

Carlo Gambino got rid of Vito Genovese, when you know you know.

[@JangianTV]

Social club? He's gotta GO!

[@bobcosmic]

@@JangianTV Damn right !

[@Kruppt808]

He left Big Paulie in control afterwards. Bad move.

[@ConsigliereOne]

& the rest..

[@BostonsF1nest]

Carlo got rid of multiple bosses. Genovese, Anastasia, and Joe Colombo

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[@Kruppt808]

He's not as mean as he looks. He's much much much meaner......

[@rathertiredofthemess2841]

So Europe did not send their brightest not their best? Just murderers and thieves? Yeah.

[@vikings8132001]

Great video

[@MichaelCobbs]

Excellent video.

[@nickgibson1191]

Everybody's got a cousin in fuckin queens.. 😂

[@darkstar92772]

This was a pretty solid presentation.

[@alyxcoe2608]

There's a restaurant near me (Hudson Valley NY) owned by a Genovese family member. (The food is ridiculously expensive and not that great. ) Very popular place. I saw the dude once behind the bar wearing grubby sweats. I knew immediately who that guy is. He was federally indicted around 15 years ago. Must have cut a deal.

[@grouchyoleguy]

Continued Mispronunciation of Valechi bout drove me nuts 😂

[@rdhudon7469]

My grandmothers brothers were Canadian Irish and were booze runners during prohibition

[@enricoarietti447]

Your pronunciation of Carmine is hilarious

[@mrrivero212]

I think it's about time there's a movie about Genovese. It's overdue. Nicholas Pileggi & Scorsese should spearhead this operation.

[@PatrickPannunzio]

Veto Genoese was a complex man who felt he was skipped over many times for promotion to being cappo de tutti cappi ( so he made himself into that figure head) Lucky never trusted Veto and I’m sure he arranged his downfall. Your documentary is spot on. It also is the story of the movie the “TheGodfather” exactly. I’m not a fan of the “ Cosa Nostra” the Mafia or anything else it may be called but these men found themselves int bleak situations and it seems it was the only way out for them. The most interesting part of this story is that prohibition was the most common reason forward for these organizations to flourish.

[@phillipcrawshaw3678]

A profile of jaques mesrine would be good, a true gangster. His story is fascinating.

[@lovely1762]

Wow, I didnt know this happened especially about the prohibition era , i didnt think it would target irish, German and Italian immigrants but, America created their problem.

[@TaranVirk.]

MAKE MORE MAFIA ONES I LOVE THIS SHIT

[@ugaais]

Amazing documentary so much history that was not often connected to LCN and the Mafia

[@goldcic]

Largest of thr 5 fams. Inherited Lucky's clan, including the NJ Bios from Newark. too. A major home run TV epic!

[@jc5388]

Italian immigration to Brazil was huge too. Tops US and Argentina.

[@eoghancallaghy2634]

I did not realize how many Italians went to S. America until I watched the World Cup. Messi, Di Maria, Otamendi, Molina, Acuna. Even old Maradona. All Italian names.

[@oldmansportsog2514]

​@@eoghancallaghy2634mostly Argentina

[@jshipp5469]

That immigration statement is the same 100+ years later

[@traceyjojo8819]

My great grandma & my grandpa, who was 5 at the time, immigrated here legally from Italy❤❤

[@viktornilsson1777]

Thomas Dewey was the toughest man of them all.

[@Mafiono]

Yes! He went after the likes of Dutch Schultz and Luciano when they were at the height of their power. You can’t get any tougher than that!

[@SuperGreatSphinx]

Thomas Edmund Dewey March 24, 1902 - March 16, 1971

[@indysingh4552]

You would know, you were there of course.....

[@Kruppt808]

Read the biography on Tom Dewey. He's responsible for so many positive changes in NY and the country. But what many remember him for is losing to Truman. Unfortunate because he was one of the best, brightest and most honest public servants of his or any generation.

[@johanmeischke9189]

Yeah in many ways that's more to do with topography and climate. NZ is hilly , windy and wet. Amsterdam etal are flat with more settled weather

[@JoeHernandez1210]

Genovese was More brute than Brain... That's for sure.

[@siphos.mhlungumhlungu1005]

It is clear that Genovese was an ambitious person who wanted to achieve his goals nomatter what the circumstances were. If it meant killing a person to achieve his goals he had no problems with that.

[@NathanCline12-21]

The 19th ammendment was a mistake also

[@1800BOLU]

VITO WAS THE TRUTH!💯

[@tecumsehcristero]

Capone and Giancana are respected to this day in Chicago

[@GaryHynes-im5di]

What do Italians know about liquor..how they got involved in bootlegging is beyond me.. olive oil and pizza and pasta maybe

[@johnstravato7219]

To a large extent they were public figures

[@esmeralda_villalobos]

Vito messed up big time with Valachi. Not to the level of the Gotti-Sammy disaster, but he did a lot of damage to mob in that time-span.

[@mraims2plez]

In the movie, "Mobsters," they threw Marranzano out of the window. That wasn't true?

[@ThriftMachine]

30k 1920 dollars is 468k in 2024 A house is 1920 was 6k for example

[@paulmccusker4305]

Amazing story ❤

[@davhuf3496]

Did Genovese need a reason to kill anyone?

[@esmeralda_villalobos]

Don Carlo was behind Alberts demise, not Vito.

[@floorboss]

_Gambimo_ puppeted "Don Vito", who was never A major A-List, upper echelon power player. He was Lucky's right hand man & driver (beloved by the street level knock around guys). Proppeled into the spotlight, due to the _Adonis_ arrest (the then Luciano family Street boss, who was above Costello). The Psyop that was _"Joe Valachi."_ I.e. An RFK creation (RFK was then Attorney General) played A major part as well. A federally stamped scheme to expose the Mafia. > Thus w/ out _"Broadway Joe" Adonis"_ (Chairman of the National comission) being deported in 1956. Due too terms of his plea deal. The 1957 Power vaccume which _Gambino_ used brillianty- via puppeting _Genovese_ to take out the final pieces of _Luciano's_ faithful stronghold- would of never happened! Facts you only find when you really dig (or know an old investigator or two).

[@jdpiper26]

The mob ran like a well oiled machine for a long time after Vito Genevese was killed. It was John Gotti, who was the beginning of the end. IMO of course I am only 40 so I was not there lol

[@LuckyEyeglasses-xg2rj]

If not for Vitro calling for a meeting of the leadership of all the families in upstate N.Y. Hoover was forced to admit publicly that the Mafia existed which forced him to begin investigating them which played a huge role in the downfall.

[@LuckyEyeglasses-xg2rj]

W

[@theodorestickney5714]

Veto Genovese died of a heart attack in prison he wasn't killed.

[@AisTawee-xo6um]

Wander if Chin missed on purpose

[@ethanunknown_]

I know that guy

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Hello there, can you please do one on Nicolae Ceausescu. Cheers.

[@andrestammy4093]

Leave Ceaușescu Alone !!! Fucker !

[@jessejames3632]

Ohhhhhhh

[@bigdogcash]

I see Genovese, I click 😁

[@ericvanljackwax1982]

vito the heatbag lololol

[@JK-rv2zt]

Its just a bio till u see a documentary on ur mothers great uncles and aunts are the documentary

[@andrestammy4093]

Gotti was the destroyer.

[@darkstar92772]

I respectfully disagree. RICO laws were the destroyer. To be fair though, it didn’t help that he was so public. But I feel like once they feared the government more than they feared each other, guys started flipping.

[@christopherkelly577]

We all know the name. Boss of bosses 👍

[@ABC93224]

Remember, kids. Drugs always win the drug war.

[@SuperGreatSphinx]

Thou Shalt Not Kill

[@NineInchTyrone]

Thou shalt not MURDER

[@henryrobson8427]

Can you do the life of Field Marshal Sir Harold Alexander of Tunis Or The life Of Field Marshal Henry Mainland Wilson

[@bradgrier4228]

I've been out

[@thomaswillingham4084]

Xenophobia rules

[@brendanveit84]

FERDINAND FOCH PLEASE!

[@SyIe12]

👍⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

[@sushanart]

😇🩷🙏🙌

[@dennisfranklin1769]

95 IQ? No wonder it went to shit? You have to play chess not checkers if you want to win that game? Lucky should have ended him and give it to Lansky when he went down, if he did the Mafia would have owned the government since the 60s instead of corporations. That hit would have changed history? Not saying anything would be better no way it could be worse😂

[@waltersobchak4079]

Given what to lansky? The family?

[@ryan12177]

The fact that this bio is mostly utilizing information from a fictional books "The Last Testament of Lucky Luciano" makes this a pretty bad video. The channel should hire skilled researchers

[@TeamSyndicateOfficials]

W

[@1800BOLU]

VITO WAS THE TRUTH!💯