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Giuliani, the Mob's Fall, and NYC Sold to Elites
from Bring Back The Mob · #62
Audio-only archive episode — no video to seek.
5 minTim theorizes that cleaning up the mob was a precursor to selling New York City to global billionaires and elites, discussing how power consolidates without benefiting the public.
- 40:36Jerry Capisi runs Gangland News, the definitive mafia blog that broke stories about mobsters turning rat during Mob Wives.
- 40:54Tim speculates the mob's power has shifted toward Russian organized crime and other groups while traditional Italian mob families have lost ground.
- 41:23Organized crime is no longer the exclusive province of any single group—street gangs, prison gangs, and cartels now compete for turf.
- 41:54Tim's father knew an FBI agent who worked major mob cases and tailed John Gotti; they'd meet Thursdays at a men's club on Staten Island with a Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer.
- 42:35Staten Island is the only place in the area that still feels like it has an active mob presence; Little Italy and Long Island have lost that atmosphere entirely.
- 43:19Giuliani got credit for breaking the mob's power, though Tim notes those who stayed in the life are now in prison—it's harder to get away with anything.
- 43:41Breaking the mob and cleaning up the city with Giuliani may have been setup to sell New York off to global elites and petrodictators for money laundering.
- 44:25At that level of power, nobody does things to benefit the greater good—they solidify their own power base first, never risking it for the common good.
Rudolph GiulianiJohn GottiJohn F. KennedyGangland NewsJerry CapisiMob WivesRuss Baker