Vincent “Fat Vinnie” Teresa Testifies - Stolen Securities (1971)

[@louiscsanko3673]

Fat Vinnie may have been in the wrong line of work. He would have made a great comedian.

[@stevenaleshire7941]

Perhaps, my bet would be investment banker.. Insured, theft with a pension backed by government . Think. Goldman, Chase....

[@20fknyrs39]

He made a couple of jokes...your braindead 😂

[@louiscsanko3673]

@@stevenaleshire7941 Yes.100%

[@harleydavidson6851]

Better yet?? A POLITITION! THEIR theee BIGGEST & BEST THIEVES!

[@louiscsanko3673]

@@harleydavidson6851 But Politicians are not Funny!!! Fat Vinnie is way too Funny to be a Politician!!!

[@angeldesigns1385]

The two different accents from these men having this conversation is pure golden age nostalgia!

[@citypopFM]

This dude was a natural comedian which is a brilliant attribute to have when you're being investigated, indicted, or forced to testify.

[@southie3177]

Or asked to lie 🤷‍♂️

[@SalAcceturra]

This is just the demeanor of every middle-aged Italian man in my experience

[@Kiceburg]

Nope wrong , straight mobster 😮

[@johnwright291]

Fat vinney was my neighbor when him and his family were in the witness protection program, in browns point Washington, a tony suburb of Tacoma. His family was busted and outed for smuggling exotic birds and other animal's. No one in the neighborhood knew.

[@scottisitoro3953]

I knew, I was there

[@n8vmob613]

thats wild, Meyer Lanskey had immediate family in Tacoma and Henry Hill was in Lake Stevens.

[@johnwright291]

@@n8vmob613 right. I was fascinated when I learned of Lanskys connection with tacoma because this is about the last place in the world you would associate with east coast mobsters. His grandson who is 1 year younger than me grew up here and I know people who know him. I found out by reading robert Lacey's book little man, a biography of Meyer.

[@louiscsanko3673]

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[@tomcat1020]

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[@playGOC]

That line was amazing. Can see why the boss liked him.

[@natemyers4946]

*He gives me "the negotiator keeps on playing until Mike comes back safe and sound" vibes....*

[@Hollywood-up6gq]

😃

[@woof_artist3598]

nice work finding this....very excellent

[@tomcat1020]

This is the fellow that wrote the Book My Life in the Mafia

[@ThisHandleWasTheOnly1Available]

Yes, good book too

[@damnnina1419]

Needs to be made into a film

[@cloud9aviation84]

It's a really great book 👍

[@TimothyFoley-j2p]

He writes how he became friendly with Carmine Galante in Federal Prison. Galante told him he was gonna be the boss of the Bonnano family when he got out and he wanted Teresa to join him. This was a few years before Galante got out. And before Teresa turned. And Galante did become boss when he got out. Then got whacked.

[@patrickflaherty6586]

" no you can't trust them , there a Shady bunch of characters"... 1:27..it's always good to keep a great sense of humor when you're testifying!😂😂😂😂😂

[@kamilebrahimoff3589]

I like that line, too. 😂😂😂😂😂

[@atomicflash1753]

When we still used film to record history look how real this looks looks like a movie, today they do video tape or digital garbage

[@bigmoneygrip6561]

Everything was better back in the day. If history repeats itself, i wish it would hurry up.

[@guestsservices8945]

Absolutely amazing footage thank you mobfax

[@djquinn11]

This is great, what a persona this guy had.

[@CarlettoPuglia]

He really cracked up those congressmen !!

[@kathleenwackrow9824]

this is my husbands Uncle the stories my husband can tell you.Vinny was a great guy, a family man, smoked like a train always had two burning in the ashtray...the people my husband calls his Uncles friend or Uncle some were like family to the kids.I talk to his daughter everyday.

[@dalleguy]

Give us a story. Please.

[@jasoncduncan6075]

This channel is superb 👏

[@greyjedi6430]

Really enjoyed that 👊

[@josephrobinson5452]

What the mob bosses didn't seem to understand is that once they started doing their underlinks dirty, stealing from them and trying to have them killed, it's going make them turn against them for revenge. Big Paul stole that $40,000.oo from Sammy the Bull and Sammy the Bull got revenge for that and I can understand why. Those guys were so greedy to the point their underlincks hated them.

[@jojjes3494]

30 procent of what Sammy says is lies so take it with a grain of salt . Sammy killed paul because of greed just like he killed his friend s amd buisnesspartners (who Yoko over loui militos very successfull companus and dbs? Sammy

[@bigmoneygrip6561]

Money and Greed. Always ruins a good thing.

[@frankfacts6207]

Lincks?

[@citypopFM]

That's Sammy's version of it and Sammy is well-known to exaggerate stories to the point he's always being in the right and somehow noble for murdering a bunch of people and immediately taking their businesses out of greed. He "sold" his club to Failla under the table with cash and gold bullion for a total of a million dollars and immediately murdered him, without permission, and made up this tale about Failla redecorating the building justified to do it which never made any sense. Failla was a Gambino capo and when summoned by Big Paul, Sammy proceeded to talk his way out of it even though he literally made a deal, took the money, and murdered the guy. I don't want to hear stories about Sammy calling others greedy. The list with that guy goes on even though he's a great storyteller and it's worth having him on KZbin.

[@rowmagnvs]

@@frankfacts6207 sausage links

[@Frodojack]

Great find.

[@davidpetruzzi1113]

Well paid lol …senator was like , pretty good lol…taking notes for the government’s future rackets! Thanks Vinny lol

[@micahmoody9615]

It is kind of ironic. Most of the “racketeering rackets” where implemented through our own government once they got the wise guys out of the way.

[@nagone11]

This is the great authentic stuff that you just don't really see today, "Fat Vinnie" funny af, but the mob had edicts against taking securities, bonds and things as such.

[@antoinesilva1527]

“Supposedly”. Similar to narcotics, as long as you make a crap ton of money for the boss, they don’t care….until you get arrested, of course.

[@nagone11]

@@antoinesilva1527 Yeah..and then you might have gotten deleted..

[@2024-s2n]

FBI gave him a pie

[@CØFFĮN_ÐĘLĮVĘRY]

Around 14:15 when he lights his cig it looks like he blows up. Idk why I noticed that

[@ThisHandleWasTheOnly1Available]

He did time with Carmine Galante

[@JSacc]

C Galante; Killer of Journalists, Heroin King

[@ignacior.8895]

Yes I forgot about that. Galante had the pet cat's while incarcerated.

[@artieborko4988]

Must’ve been some time bunked up with that crazy old geezer. Always “wack this one” and “wack that one”- never enough body count for Carmine. Anyway, he tasted his own medicine

[@lasagna7919]

@@artieborko4988 get some ambition in life

[@artieborko4988]

@@lasagna7919 ohh- the language on you- you blow your father with that mouth?

[@Ilcchms31]

Mobfax if I ever hit the lottery I'm giving you 30 million for your efforts and footage ❤

[@dr.vinnyboombatz22]

Guess who else was shady and couldn't be trusted Vinnie?

[@louiscsanko3673]

You are breaking my Heart!! If I can't trust Big Vinnie, then I am Heartbroken!!😭😭😓😓😢

[@dr.vinnyboombatz22]

@@louiscsanko3673 Big Vinny was a Big Liability

[@louiscsanko3673]

@@dr.vinnyboombatz22 Fat Vinnie could have shaken down all the comedy clubs that he did stand up in!!

[@WeThePeepHole333]

@@dr.vinnyboombatz22 he had to go! It was some real greaseball 💩

[@zipchtkdn7804]

Just when you think there ain't a whole lot of footage back in the day there is thousands of hours of footage from way back then and it's good that mobfax just tapping into thank you

[@Gump-tion]

Lots and lots of unseen footage remains out there in the FBI vaults.

[@nuffsaid783]

Strange how the senators cracked up when Vinnie said his fellow mobsters were "a shady bunch of characters" !!

[@larrywheels762]

Like a Sopranos character, but this is real. Amazing how little was done against the mob back then. Everybody on the take.

[@paulpatterson-o1e]

New York City to Boston was wild back then. Even mentioned Somerville,Ma. Even had ties Papa Doc.

[@roccoconte2960]

Did the government actually believe what this guy said?

[@BostonSmitty]

Vinny is the biggest liar known in Boston but he is a funny guy.

[@southie3177]

Exactly. Well he did have some competition. Barboza lies put 4 innocent men in prison to die ( with the assistance and full knowledge of the FBI ). The guys said exactly what the feds wanted them to 🤷‍♂️. The FBI is still calling him “ the once number 3 man in the NE mob on there websites😂

[@delahayenator]

Does he name Todo Aurello around 5:22? Not sure about the first name. Aurello quite sure

[@josephrobinson5452]

Yeah he did.

[@SeeTheManipulation]

*I read his book and I feel he embellished his story a bit. Then again what author doesn't. He never was made yet he had all this inside knowledge. It was entertaining though.*

[@ignacior.8895]

The truth is stranger then fiction sometimes and when you're the protagonist of your own story one tends to want to be the hero of their stories.

[@SeeTheManipulation]

@@ignacior.8895 True indeed.

[@markaguilar4566]

Or maybe there were other ways to get information other than being “made”.

[@BostonsF1nest]

That’s because the early cooperators like him and Valachi were fed information by the feds to use on the stand. Whether it be from illegal wiretaps or other cooperators. The general belief is that Greg Scarpa was the one feeding Valachi most of the information he used in his testimony. Which is why he knew so much about other families despite being in the Genovese. The FBI at that time weren’t certain the trend of guys flipping was going to continue so they wanted to spread as much info as they could from the small amount of guys they had. You ever think it’s weird how Valachi outlined the hierarchy of practically every family in America? Lol

[@btlarkin]

You saying that Joe Valachi wasn't a shooter in the Castelmarese war, and wasn't in the room when the 5 families were formed, and wasn't a bodyguard for Sal Maranzano? Scarpa was there for all that stuff, right? @@BostonsF1nest

[@robintaylor485]

Has a pretty good tan going I don’t see him being such an outdoor guy although maybe so

[@WeThePeepHole333]

Well he vacationed in Thee Areas In, On, & At & around Florida! Allegedly

[@SonnyMeadows]

Italian/Sicilian

[@lookyloo1000]

​@@SonnyMeadows bingo !

[@diegoflores9237]

He's Sicilian. Naturally browner complexion

[@MattHelmSA]

Siciliano

[@roywilson4514]

Brilliant!

[@javiergonzalez9077]

@ 1:35 Thing is, these Politicians are just as shady. Thats probably why they laugh so hardily.

[@titoqwentezproductionz3406]

bingo

[@cruciferousvegetable]

Fat Vinny, for the record please state both your Sunday gravy and standard marinara recipes.

[@Hilder78]

1:20

[@Robhalifax]

He's 41 here. Yes 41.

[@SixOhFive]

Jesus Christ

[@Tombochio]

43*

[@rodneysammons5544]

0:54 Final Judgement my eye. 3:44 We can bet that is a free pack of cigarettes he has.

[@rowmagnvs]

Is that type of accent still around?

[@Semtex_1992]

Obviously

[@zakur0hako]

damn he is 41 years old here.

[@412StepUp]

People seemed to look older back then.

[@zakur0hako]

@@412StepUp I know but this one is exceptional even for those times

[@ChrisWilson-te3tp]

Back in a world when times were simple, respect meant something & men dressed like men & when system's were much more laid back but now it's all become too serious & everything has diminished & fallen apart sad but times change, great to see these old mob archives very interesting, I agree Vinnie would have made a great comedian 😁 R.I.P big fella ❤

[@haezeushawkins436]

What’s crazy is times will change from today into something way more foreign with these forever technology advances so we just gotta accept it unfortunately

[@ChrisWilson-te3tp]

@@haezeushawkins436Yes we do brother, hopefully we will have a peaceful future, but unfortunately the way politicians behave puts that very thing in serious doubt & we can only hope things get better for everybody's sake.

[@DavidThomas-fb8bq]

At least he answered them. Some just take the 5th.

[@numba1stunna885]

I wonder how he got his nickname 🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔

[@diegoflores9237]

I wonder if a lot of these guys when they were young were pressured into joining ?

[@justinhopper5941]

Before and wayyy before

[@paulpatterson-o1e]

Can’t believe this was a Real thing and Real problem in America. Different times.

[@greyjedi6430]

Shady bunch of characters 🤣🤣🤣

[@michaellorusso4912]

Vincent “Fat Vinnie” Teresa was there, it’s a joke…

[@JSacc]

Say hi to his wife for me

[@p.f.droney8973]

In 1971 he was Fat Vinny. In 2024 his name would be "Big Boned Vinny"

[@eamonwright7488]

Seems like an interesting character. Very Runyonesque.

[@kamilebrahimoff3589]

Vinnie Teresa was a great witness.

[@cedricliggins7528]

Nobody called Fat Vinny Fat Vinny to his face. Nobody

[@dolltall]

Beaut-i-ful

[@jeffcoomer8680]

So many ways to make a dirty dollar in 69.

[@Jad3212010]

What was your role in the mob sir ? ve ve verbal vomit

[@LJay2896]

Vito Spatafore lol

[@Sk6088]

Goodship lollipop man right?

[@Sk6088]

@Miki Miyazaki the man was a fucking disgrace

[@bigmoneygrip6561]

@Miki Miyazaki well, he sure as hell aint sneaking up on anybody

[@LJay2896]

He was greasin the union

[@alainportant6412]

The Messed Up Scene where Vito was Gino

[@tomjones5650]

Baccala+Spatafore= This Guy.

[@YinzerClips]

You're mad I'm back, big mad, he's mad, she's mad, big sad, Ha-Ha, don't care, stay mad, Ah-Ha, Ah-ha ah-ha

[@shawnwashington8784]

I guess he said I'm going to tell

[@paudsmcmack3117]

Str8 outta Central casting

[@blablableh724]

:D funny guy

[@djquinn11]

How is he funny? Is he here to amuse you?

[@curlyteeth3097]

Character

[@altt-check1-2]

Is this guy clemenza in the makings ?

[@worldli5093]

all Italian mobsters talk funny. best comedians.

[@giovanipugliese9780]

Bet you could cover a football field with the pasta and meatballs this guy's had.

[@makeup_emilyannw9159]

He was a great cook and a wonderful man...