The Pizza Connection went to trial in 1985. There were several RICO cases before then. There were a few RICO trials in the 1970's including cases against the Cowboy Mafia, the Oakland chapter of the Hell's Angels, a Louisiana construction company that was involved in bribery and kickbacks.
The first "Donnie Brasco" case was a RICO case in 1982. During that trial the judge made Donnie Brasco, reveal his real identify as FBI agent Joe Pistone which ended his uncover career. Years later he testified in the Pizza Connection in 1986.
I was there. I saw it daily. Not saying the Feds weren’t involved or Netflix is wrong.
I'm not following you.
Yes, the Feds were involved. Rudy was a Fed.
But I lived it.
How would living in NYC give you an inside view of what the FBI was doing? I lived in NYC too and I learned a lot of new stuff. I think anyone who lived through it would enjoy the documentary.
Maybe I didn't make my point clear enough. Before the courtroom successes in the mid 1980s there was years of work behind the scenes we were privy too. For example, key evidence used in the Mafia Commission trial was captured in 1981 or 82 before Rudy was in NYC. It basically started in the later 1970's with the FBI changing their approach the mob after J. Edgar Hoover died. They were going to invest the time and money to build big complex cases. To do this they had to stop going after the small fish, they had to learn how to use the RICO laws.
btw, another great NYC documentary is The Seven Five about the Michael Down police corruption scandal.
The PIZZA CONNECTION trials
First big RICO case in History.
Rudy and the Donald. Working together again.
The Pizza Connection went to trial in 1985. There were several RICO cases before then. There were a few RICO trials in the 1970's including cases against the Cowboy Mafia, the Oakland chapter of the Hell's Angels, a Louisiana construction company that was involved in bribery and kickbacks.
The first RICO case in NY against the mob was against the head of the Longshoreman's union. This was 1979.
The next year the head of the Genovese family was convicted on a RICO case.
The first "Donnie Brasco" case was a RICO case in 1982. During that trial the judge made Donnie Brasco, reveal his real identify as FBI agent Joe Pistone which ended his uncover career. Years later he testified in the Pizza Connection in 1986.
Calm down Rudy, I don't think you are the one that exposed building seven..
Lotta good it did. You just let a different cabal take over.
I was there. I saw it daily. Not saying the Feds weren’t involved or Netflix is wrong. But I lived it.
I'm not following you.
Yes, the Feds were involved. Rudy was a Fed.
How would living in NYC give you an inside view of what the FBI was doing? I lived in NYC too and I learned a lot of new stuff. I think anyone who lived through it would enjoy the documentary.
Maybe I didn't make my point clear enough. Before the courtroom successes in the mid 1980s there was years of work behind the scenes we were privy too. For example, key evidence used in the Mafia Commission trial was captured in 1981 or 82 before Rudy was in NYC. It basically started in the later 1970's with the FBI changing their approach the mob after J. Edgar Hoover died. They were going to invest the time and money to build big complex cases. To do this they had to stop going after the small fish, they had to learn how to use the RICO laws.
btw, another great NYC documentary is The Seven Five about the Michael Down police corruption scandal.