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Jul 22, 2020 · Fear City: New York vs The Mafia, a documentary series coming to Netflix on July 22, closely tracks the FBI’s takedown of the Mafia beginning in the 1970s—when the five main families of the...
- Mahita Gajanan
Jul 22, 2020 · Fear City: New York vs The Mafia, a documentary series coming to Netflix on July 22, closely tracks the FBI’s takedown of the Mafia beginning in the 1970s—when the five main families of...
- Mahita Gajanan
- What Did The Mafia do?
- What Is The Commission?
- What Is Fear City: New York vs The Mafia About?
- Who Was Lucky Luciano?
- What Happened in The Mafia Commission Trial?
- What Is Rico?
Throughout the 1970s and 1980s, the Mafia built control through intimidation and threats that allowed organised crime to thrive across several industries and facets of life, including control over labour unions and a large stake in construction and real estate, at a time when federal agents did not have a solid approach to investigating them. “Bank...
Fear City shows how the FBI managed to gain information on the Mafia by bugging the homes of high-ranking members. In one reconstructed scene, an agent is on a mission to bug the house of Paul Castellano, the former head of the Gambino crime family. After law enforcement tampered with the TV reception in Castellano’s house, the agent pretended to b...
The new Netflix series follows the Five Families of New York, who came to power in the 1930s, but ruled “Fear City” in the 1970s and 1980s. They initially claimed power in the 1920s Prohibition period, it wasn’t until the 1930s they were brought together in The Commission by Charles Luciano. The “board of directors” was brought in to oversee all Ma...
Charles "Lucky" Luciano is an American mobster who split New York City into five crime families, heading the Genovese crime family himself, and initiated The Commission. Luciano moved to Havana and was later deported to Italy, living out his final years in Naples.
The heads and high-ranking members of each mob group were indicted in the 1985 Mafia Commission Trial, under charges of extortion, labour racketeering and murder. The criminal trial essentially brought an end to The Commission’s golden era, although the Mafia still operates in the United States. Former New York mayor Rudy Giuliani - who features in...
While the Mafia was at the peak of their control of New York and were revelling in their power, the agents in Fear City say Law enforcement struggled to get into their circles. As the documentary shows it took a lot of planning and very strategic placement of bugs to surveil high-ranking members of the Mafia and effectively gather any evidence agai...
- Grace Henry
Jul 23, 2020 · Fear City is the story of how the city and federal authorities fought to wring the mob from the very fabric of the Five Boroughs by any means necessary. What’s it about? “The golden era of...
The documentary - from the makers of Don't F*** With Cats - centres itself on the FBI mission to shut down The Five Families of New York City in the 1970s and 1980s. Then, mobsters ruled...
Aug 10, 2020 · The Netflix documentary series Fear City: New York vs. the Mafia tells the story of the investigation and prosecution of what came to be known as the Commission case, the bold effort by the Justice Department and the FBI to take down the five organized crime bosses in New York in the 1980s. It was called the Commission case because the five ...
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Jul 22, 2020 · On February 25, 1985, nine New York Mafia leaders were indicted for narcotics trafficking, loansharking, gambling, labour racketeering and extortion against construction companies.
