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(narrator) Previously...
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on "The Making of the Mob: New York"...
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For nearly a decade,
Charles "Lucky" Luciano
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has run his criminal empire
from a maximum-security prison.
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But the outbreak of World War II...
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(President Roosevelt) A date
which will live in infamy.
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has given him the opportunity to get out.
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You'll never guess who I got a call from.
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- Who?
- The FBI.
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(narrator) From behind
bars, Luciano strikes deals
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with the FBI and the U.S. Navy...
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Well, listen, sir, just
because we're businessmen,
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doesn't mean we're not patriots.
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We'll lock down the docks.
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Using the Mafia's control of the waterfront
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to gain leverage with the government.
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Come on, let's go, we can move faster.
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(narrator) But Luciano's former
acting boss, Vito Genovese,
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- becomes a major problem...
- (door banging)
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Freeze! Freeze! Don't move,
don't move, don't move!
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When he's arrested in Italy
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and sent back to New York on a murder rap.
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He's gonna testify. How
could you be so stupid?
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(narrator) With a witness
lined up to testify,
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Luciano orders a hit...
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Time for your daily dose.
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(coughing) that saves Genovese,
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but does nothing to
earn Luciano his freedom.
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- (Luciano) When will we know?
- That's up to Dewey.
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(narrator) Finally, Thomas
Dewey lets Luciano out of prison,
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but at a steep price.
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They're deporting you... to Italy.
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(Luciano) You came all
this way to see me go.
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(narrator) Now, Luciano
will have to figure out
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how to keep control of
the American Mafia...
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Come visit me sometime, huh?
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From 4,000 miles away.
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♪♪
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(man) ♪ This ain't no time ♪
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♪ To feel sorry for myself ♪
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♪ I can't help it ♪
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♪ 'Cause there's nobody else ♪
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♪ And I walk these streets ♪
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♪ With your name on my tongue ♪
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♪ But I dare not speak ♪
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♪ Only there it belongs ♪
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♪ There's got to be a better way ♪
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♪ Better way ♪♪
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(church bell tolling)
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♪♪
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(door squeaking)
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(narrator) After 10 years in prison,
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Lucky Luciano is finally a free man.
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But he's been exiled to Italy
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and told he can never return to America.
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In the 40 years
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since Luciano arrived in the United States,
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the no-name Sicilian immigrant
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has become a legend.
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Creating a criminal empire
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alongside the friends he's had for decades.
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(Joe Mantegna) Lucky Luciano
is a Sicilian immigrant
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and actually fits that
perfect mold of a guy
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who comes to this country.
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It's almost like achieving
the American dream, but...
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the dark side as opposed to the light side.
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(narrator) Now, Luciano's
been forced to leave the future
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of the American Mafia
in the hands of his crew.
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(seagull calling)
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Nothing's changed, gentlemen.
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Lucky's still calling the shots.
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You're being modest, Frank.
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Of course, he is.
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He's a modest guy.
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(narrator) With Luciano 4,000 miles away,
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Frank Costello is the acting
boss of Luciano's family
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and must keep the peace between
the five New York crime families
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run by gangsters
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like Joe Bonanno and Joe Profaci.
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You have our confidence.
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(narrator) The man Costello
replaced, Vito Genovese,
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has been released from prison
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only to find himself demoted
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within the organization.
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What's on your mind, Vito?
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How do we make things right
between me and Charlie?
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I think you're talking to the wrong guy.
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He's got me running the
street gang like some punk.
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That's not right.
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It's out of my hands.
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I thought you was in charge here?
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Do you want me to go over Charlie's head?
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He's making me look like a fool.
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(Selwyn Raab) Vito
Genovese was very envious.
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He felt that he had been short-changed,
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weren't getting all the
benefits and all the wealth.
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And it was no question
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that he was an archrival of Costello.
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(narrator) While Costello
deals with Genovese,
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Meyer Lansky is overseeing
an aggressive plan
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to expand the Luciano empire
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outside the United States.
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It's nice being close to the sea.
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We have the same thing in New York,
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- but it's nothing like this.
- You have Coney Island.
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We have Coney Island. (chuckling)
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(narrator) Meyer Lansky
has spent years paying off
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powerful Cuban politician
Fulgencio Batista.
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Toast.
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To a beautiful future in a beautiful place.
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(Meyer Lansky II) My
grandfather loved Cuba.
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He loved the Cuban people.
He loved the weather.
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Hopefully we'll be spending
a lot of time down here.
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(Lansky II) Batista
knew that my grandfather
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was known for being honest.
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He brought him over
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and he started cleaning up the games.
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(man) There we go. Big winner.
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(narrator) With Batista on the payroll,
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Lansky moves forward transforming
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Havana's seedy hotels
into five-star casinos...
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that had the potential to
make millions of dollars a day.
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(Rich Cohen) Meyer Lansky wanted
to be a legitimate businessman.
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And he just knew how to run a casino.
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I mean, the numbers, the odds,
how the house always wins.
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What games they should play,
how to take care of people.
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And his idea
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was really to do that ultimately in Cuba.
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(narrator) While Lansky's
laying the foundation in Cuba,
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Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel
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has set up a stronghold for
the family in California.
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Take good care of her, that's
what you could do for me, right?
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Thank you, here we go.
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Hey, how we doing over here, huh?
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(narrator) Luciano's trusted hit man
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has been in Los Angeles
since the late '30s.
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He's infiltrated the movie industry,
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using mob-run unions to gain
leverage with the studios.
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But after his years of loyalty,
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Siegel still has nothing to call his own.
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Lucky Luciano, Vito Genovese,
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Frank Costello, Meyer Lansky.
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Each of Siegel's childhood
crew has either been the boss
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or has had the freedom
to run his own operation.
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Siegel wants to be remembered
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as more than just a trigger man.
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He wants a lasting legacy.
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Siegel sees his opportunity 300 miles east
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in a stretch of barren Nevada desert
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known as Las Vegas.
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(Oscar Goodman) Las
Vegas was a patch of sand.
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There weren't any buildings
taller than two stories high.
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It didn't have any kind of a reputation.
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It was hard to get to.
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(narrator) It may be a barren desert now,
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but Siegel sees what no one else can,
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a gambling mecca.
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Nevada is one of the
few states in the country
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that has legalized gambling.
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(Siegel) I've been
having this vision, right?
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And I look off into the dark
desert and see these lights.
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They're so bright that
they'll blind you, right?
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And I see people and hotels
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and casinos and money.
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Lots of money.
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(narrator) Siegel's vision
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is a European-style mega hotel and casino
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that will attract the Hollywood
crowd and the high rollers.
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And also bring in tourists
willing to cough up
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thousands of dollars a night.
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Siegel names his hotel after his nickname
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for his long-legged girlfriend,
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Virginia Hill, the Flamingo.
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(Goodman) Bugsy Siegel saw that the future
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of entertainment and gambling
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and all that Las Vegas stands for,
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as far as being an exciting
tourist destination,
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would be possible here in this desert.
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(narrator) But in order to
make his dream a reality,
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Siegel needs one thing...
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money.
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(Siegel) It's a little
town called Las Vegas.
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(Luciano) How much, Benny?
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A million dollars. A million dollars?
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You want us to pump a million
dollars into the desert
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when we already got casinos making money?
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Yeah, 'cause there's one major difference.
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Gambling in Vegas is legal.
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-100%.
- Legal, huh?
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I'm telling you, you got
people from L.A. coming over.
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You got people from up North.
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Get the bigwig movie stars out there,
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get some appearances going, some press.
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I'm talking fancy casino.
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You know, nice restaurants,
good hotel rooms.
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It's a good investment, right?
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You put that money in,
we get this thing going,
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we'll triple that profit in a week.
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And, listen, I've stood by you a long time.
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I think this is a good idea.
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Well, you better be right, Benny.
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(narrator) Luciano pledges to help
fund his friend's Las Vegas dream.
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But he knows he'll need
an even bigger venture
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if he's going to maintain
his place in the Mafia.
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In the case of organized crime
figures, you have to be successful.
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You have to make money.
You have to be imaginative.
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And if you're not making money,
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you're gonna lose stature in the family.
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(narrator) During the war,
Vito Genovese made millions
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exporting Italy's legally
manufactured heroin
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to the United States.
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Now, Luciano seizes
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what's left of Genovese's
smuggling operation...
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and makes it his own.
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(Sal Polisi) The drug business was huge.
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The amount of money that you could make
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in one day with drugs,
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it would take you years to make gambling.
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(narrator) With heroin
now illegal in Italy,
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Luciano invests hundreds
of thousands of dollars
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converting Sicilian candy factories
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into underground heroin labs.
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(speaking Italian)
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(responding in Italian)
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(narrator) Luciano knows
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with his vast criminal
network in the United States,
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he already has a market
of millions of customers.
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All he needs now is a
way to smuggle the drugs
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into America undetected.
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♪♪
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Hey, wake up, your portrait's in
"The New York Times". (chuckling)
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Uh... thank you.
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Charlie. Oh.
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So good to see you.
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Even if it is a pain
in the ass to get here.
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It's good to see you, too.
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(exhaling) But don't unpack yet.
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And wire your wife.
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Let her know we'll be
gone for a few more weeks.
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What? What's going on?
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I want to go to Cuba.
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See this operation you've built for us.
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(narrator) Luciano realizes
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that Cuba is the missing
piece to what could be
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a billion dollar drug operation in America.
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Now all he needs to do
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is sell the idea to the rest of the Mafia.
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(seagull calling)
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(narrator) After seven months in exile,
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Lucky Luciano leaves Italy in secret...
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and heads to a country
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that's become a safe haven for the mob...
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and is only 90 miles away from America...
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Cuba.
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Meyer Lansky's association
with the Cuban government
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allows mobsters to operate
without interference,
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making it the perfect place
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for Luciano to make his comeback.
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Luciano calls for a gathering
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that will bring the Five
Families to the island country
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to reaffirm his status
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and announce a plan to
expand the Mafia's power.
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It will become known as the Havana Summit.
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- (ship horn blows)
- (jazz band playing)
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(Luciano) You ladies enjoying yourselves?
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(narrator) For his long-awaited return,
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Luciano decides to go big
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and brings a well-known
performer in from New York City
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named Frank Sinatra.
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♪♪
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(Michael Green) Why shouldn't
a group of wealthy entrepreneurs
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who are gathered for an
event hire an entertainer?
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It happens all the time.
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In this case, it happened
to be a bunch of gangsters
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bringing in the guy we came to know
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as the "Chairman of the Board".
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Sinatra did indeed have
friends in the Mafia.
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But if you're a singer,
who are you dealing with?
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I mean, who owns the nightclubs?
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Mafia leaders.
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(Richard Hammer) They had this
big party. You look very nice.
283
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Everybody came and they brought money
284
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and they brought gifts to Luciano.
285
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(indistinct chatter)
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Everybody was happy, and
they thought that Luciano
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would be on the next boat
back to the United States.
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(narrator) With America's
top gangsters assembled,
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Luciano gets down to business.
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(Luciano) I called this
meeting to personally tell you
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about our intentions for the future.
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(narrator) His first proposal
is to get the families
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to invest in Bugsy
Siegel's Las Vegas casino
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in an attempt to do what
Lansky has done for Cuba
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on American soil.
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Part two of Luciano's plan
297
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is an even more ambitious
and lucrative proposal.
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(Luciano) We're gonna be bringing
a lot more heroin into the country.
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From Italy to Cuba to Florida...
300
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and then from New York to Los Angeles.
301
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You guys are gonna have
to get your transportation,
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your storage and your
distribution in order.
303
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Because if we do this thing right,
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we'll make 10 times more
than we did last year
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and then 10 times more the year after that.
306
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And everybody will get their cut.
307
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How about the guy who
set the whole thing up?
308
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What do you mean, Vito?
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- You know what I'm talking about.
- No, I don't.
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Where's my cut?
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Why don't we talk about that after?
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(narrator) While the assembled families
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agree to Luciano's proposals,
314
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Genovese feels he's being
cut out of the heroin racket
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he set up in Italy.
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♪♪
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Luciano's factories in Italy
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begin producing tens of
thousands of pounds of heroin,
319
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which is then smuggled across the Atlantic
320
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through the Caribbean and
into the United States.
321
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Luciano was key in setting up,
322
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uh, the importation of heroin.
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He had set up
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the first pipeline
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for the heroin to come
into the United States.
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(narrator) From his headquarters in Havana,
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Lucky Luciano is now in control
328
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of a global narcotics empire.
329
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But there's still even
more money to be made.
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2,000 miles from Cuba
331
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in the middle of the Nevada desert,
332
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Bugsy Siegel had just broken ground
333
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on a luxury hotel and casino.
334
00:18:25,509 --> 00:18:28,009
When you talk about
visionaries of Las Vegas,
335
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you gotta put at the very top
336
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a fella like Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel.
337
00:18:31,612 --> 00:18:34,645
(narrator) The Five Families
have invested millions of dollars
338
00:18:34,647 --> 00:18:37,747
in Siegel's vision to turn Las Vegas
339
00:18:37,749 --> 00:18:40,715
into the gambling capital of the country.
340
00:18:40,717 --> 00:18:43,216
Bugsy, we gotta talk numbers.
341
00:18:43,218 --> 00:18:44,750
So in order to be ready for opening,
342
00:18:44,752 --> 00:18:47,418
we need 300,000 for building material,
343
00:18:47,420 --> 00:18:49,252
500,000 for plumbing
344
00:18:49,254 --> 00:18:51,287
and 700,000 for labor?
345
00:18:51,289 --> 00:18:54,454
Yeah. How is this possible?
346
00:18:54,456 --> 00:18:58,123
(narrator) But the massive project
is already encountering problems.
347
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(Green) Siegel wasn't
necessarily the best businessman.
348
00:19:01,327 --> 00:19:04,093
The Flamingo's costs
349
00:19:04,095 --> 00:19:07,161
were spectacularly overrun.
350
00:19:07,163 --> 00:19:09,630
That's a million and a half
more I need to come up with.
351
00:19:09,632 --> 00:19:11,597
We're in the desert. I
got trucks coming, I got...
352
00:19:11,599 --> 00:19:14,398
Listen, hey, keep the guys working.
353
00:19:14,400 --> 00:19:16,232
I'll get the money.
354
00:19:16,234 --> 00:19:18,334
Just build the damn hotel.
355
00:19:18,336 --> 00:19:22,235
(narrator) Siegel's operation
has gone wildly over budget,
356
00:19:22,237 --> 00:19:26,238
forcing him to borrow more
money from the Five Families.
357
00:19:26,240 --> 00:19:28,138
Now more than ever,
358
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he needs the Flamingo to succeed.
359
00:19:37,145 --> 00:19:39,211
♪♪
360
00:19:42,647 --> 00:19:46,281
(narrator) Lucky Luciano is running
his criminal empire from Cuba.
361
00:19:46,283 --> 00:19:48,315
And he's using the island nation
362
00:19:48,317 --> 00:19:51,283
to smuggle heroin into the United States.
363
00:19:51,285 --> 00:19:54,118
My pleasure, my pleasure, enjoy yourselves.
364
00:19:54,120 --> 00:19:56,152
(chatter)
365
00:19:56,154 --> 00:19:58,487
There was so much money in the drug trade
366
00:19:58,489 --> 00:20:02,589
that every family sooner
or later got into it.
367
00:20:02,591 --> 00:20:05,390
No one could stay away from it.
368
00:20:10,561 --> 00:20:12,294
(narrator) While the
mob is making a fortune
369
00:20:12,296 --> 00:20:14,628
on Luciano's drug ring...
370
00:20:16,364 --> 00:20:18,630
Vito Genovese believes
371
00:20:18,632 --> 00:20:20,797
he's the one who deserves the respect
372
00:20:20,799 --> 00:20:23,532
and a larger cut of the profit.
373
00:20:25,635 --> 00:20:28,602
(Hammer) Luciano, he just
did not like Genovese.
374
00:20:28,604 --> 00:20:30,269
He hated him.
375
00:20:30,271 --> 00:20:32,436
Genovese was a powerful man,
376
00:20:32,438 --> 00:20:34,805
uh, but, uh, they didn't get along.
377
00:20:34,807 --> 00:20:36,372
They never got along.
378
00:20:48,847 --> 00:20:51,080
(softly) I like your...
379
00:20:51,082 --> 00:20:53,348
Did you forget about our meeting, Charlie?
380
00:21:00,352 --> 00:21:02,686
No, I didn't forget about our meeting.
381
00:21:05,588 --> 00:21:08,288
You're holding me down, Charlie.
382
00:21:08,290 --> 00:21:10,355
And I want to know why.
383
00:21:10,357 --> 00:21:14,157
- You want to know the truth?
- Yeah.
384
00:21:14,159 --> 00:21:15,690
'Cause you're stupid.
385
00:21:17,225 --> 00:21:19,825
I done all right for myself.
386
00:21:19,827 --> 00:21:22,226
Yeah.
387
00:21:22,228 --> 00:21:24,493
Because me and Meyer and
Frank have looked out for you
388
00:21:24,495 --> 00:21:27,528
all your life, that's why.
389
00:21:27,530 --> 00:21:30,329
I earned my place in this thing.
390
00:21:30,331 --> 00:21:32,464
And I deserve some respect.
391
00:21:32,466 --> 00:21:34,698
You deserve what I tell you you deserve.
392
00:21:36,300 --> 00:21:38,366
And you've earned nothing.
393
00:21:41,168 --> 00:21:43,301
Well, since we're telling the truth...
394
00:21:45,304 --> 00:21:47,704
how's it feel to know you're
never going back to New York?
395
00:21:49,572 --> 00:21:51,606
Must hurt.
396
00:21:53,407 --> 00:21:56,140
It's gonna hurt even more when
the feds catch up with you.
397
00:21:58,876 --> 00:22:01,276
How would the feds know where I am, Vito?
398
00:22:02,678 --> 00:22:04,811
Who's to say they don't already know?
399
00:22:09,482 --> 00:22:11,448
- Huh? What have you got?
- (grunting)
400
00:22:13,216 --> 00:22:15,183
- Come on.
- (grunting continues)
401
00:22:19,385 --> 00:22:22,319
(coughing)
402
00:22:22,321 --> 00:22:24,554
(narrator) For decades,
Luciano and Genovese
403
00:22:24,556 --> 00:22:26,655
have been loyal business partners.
404
00:22:26,657 --> 00:22:29,490
But Luciano realizes that from now on,
405
00:22:29,492 --> 00:22:32,758
Genovese can't be trusted.
406
00:22:36,328 --> 00:22:38,761
Meanwhile, 2,000 miles away
407
00:22:38,763 --> 00:22:40,828
in a Nevada desert,
408
00:22:40,830 --> 00:22:43,530
Bugsy Siegel's luxury hotel and casino
409
00:22:43,532 --> 00:22:45,797
is finally complete.
410
00:22:47,398 --> 00:22:49,332
To build the Flamingo,
411
00:22:49,334 --> 00:22:52,367
Siegel's borrowed the
modern-day equivalent
412
00:22:52,369 --> 00:22:55,201
of $60 million from the mob.
413
00:22:57,469 --> 00:23:00,403
(Cohen) Bugsy saw his chance in Las Vegas
414
00:23:00,405 --> 00:23:03,505
because he'd invested
everything in this sort of dream
415
00:23:03,507 --> 00:23:06,607
of building a legitimate gambling empire
416
00:23:06,609 --> 00:23:09,909
just like Steve Wynn or anybody else.
417
00:23:09,911 --> 00:23:13,912
(narrator) Bugsy Siegel knows the
Flamingo has to be a huge success.
418
00:23:20,449 --> 00:23:24,451
But on opening night, a
huge storm hits Las Vegas.
419
00:23:24,453 --> 00:23:27,519
And with many of the
hotel rooms unfinished,
420
00:23:27,521 --> 00:23:31,321
Bugsy Siegel's big opening is a bust.
421
00:23:37,559 --> 00:23:40,192
Bugsy Siegel, he had this great vision
422
00:23:40,194 --> 00:23:43,727
of having this luxury resort
in the middle of the desert
423
00:23:43,729 --> 00:23:47,629
that would attract people,
that would become something big.
424
00:23:47,631 --> 00:23:50,364
But the night the Flamingo opened,
425
00:23:50,366 --> 00:23:52,765
December 26th, 1946,
426
00:23:52,767 --> 00:23:54,766
the hotel wasn't ready.
427
00:23:54,768 --> 00:23:57,701
And the costs
428
00:23:57,703 --> 00:24:01,336
were spectacularly overrun.
429
00:24:03,304 --> 00:24:05,805
Virginia, get me a drink.
430
00:24:05,807 --> 00:24:07,872
Sure.
431
00:24:17,379 --> 00:24:19,912
Chin up, huh? We'll be all right.
432
00:24:19,914 --> 00:24:22,480
It's this weather slowing everyone down.
433
00:24:22,482 --> 00:24:24,546
Yeah. It'll be all right, baby.
434
00:24:27,949 --> 00:24:30,450
Here's to you, doll.
435
00:24:31,717 --> 00:24:33,717
(narrator) In the first week it's open,
436
00:24:33,719 --> 00:24:36,619
the Flamingo loses the
modern-day equivalent
437
00:24:36,621 --> 00:24:39,721
of $3.6 million
438
00:24:39,723 --> 00:24:42,888
and Siegel is forced to shut down.
439
00:24:42,890 --> 00:24:45,590
His Las Vegas dream
440
00:24:45,592 --> 00:24:47,657
has turned into a nightmare.
441
00:24:53,862 --> 00:24:55,962
♪♪
442
00:24:58,397 --> 00:25:00,231
(narrator) In 1947,
443
00:25:00,233 --> 00:25:02,298
just two weeks after its opening night,
444
00:25:02,300 --> 00:25:05,199
Bugsy Siegel's Las Vegas hotel
445
00:25:05,201 --> 00:25:07,567
has been forced to close.
446
00:25:07,569 --> 00:25:09,902
And his boss and business partner,
447
00:25:09,904 --> 00:25:12,904
Lucky Luciano, wants answers.
448
00:25:21,276 --> 00:25:23,809
(Luciano) Meyer, this isn't good.
449
00:25:23,811 --> 00:25:25,743
There's a lot of money unaccounted for.
450
00:25:25,745 --> 00:25:28,479
I really think this thing can make money.
451
00:25:28,481 --> 00:25:30,379
He just needs a little more time.
452
00:25:33,315 --> 00:25:35,248
Meyer, I love you like a brother.
453
00:25:35,250 --> 00:25:37,583
And I love Ben like a brother.
454
00:25:37,585 --> 00:25:39,817
But time is running out on him.
455
00:25:39,819 --> 00:25:42,652
You know it, he knows it.
456
00:25:42,654 --> 00:25:46,254
(narrator) Meyer Lansky manages
to buy more time for Bugsy Siegel
457
00:25:46,256 --> 00:25:48,888
to make the Flamingo a success.
458
00:25:50,756 --> 00:25:53,757
And Siegel knows that this time,
459
00:25:53,759 --> 00:25:56,226
he has to pull it off.
460
00:25:56,228 --> 00:25:59,627
He finally completes the
construction of the guest rooms.
461
00:25:59,629 --> 00:26:03,429
He pays publicists to hype the event...
462
00:26:03,431 --> 00:26:05,763
(excited chatter)
463
00:26:05,765 --> 00:26:07,765
and calls in favors
464
00:26:07,767 --> 00:26:10,299
from all of his celebrity friends.
465
00:26:10,301 --> 00:26:12,300
(excited chatter continues)
466
00:26:12,302 --> 00:26:14,335
(Cohen) Bugsy was kind of
like the Italian gangster
467
00:26:14,337 --> 00:26:15,935
of Jewish gangsters.
468
00:26:15,937 --> 00:26:18,937
He was flash, he was out in
public, he was dating starlets.
469
00:26:18,939 --> 00:26:22,705
And sort of like his full-time
gig was being Bugsy Siegel.
470
00:26:25,542 --> 00:26:27,875
♪♪
471
00:26:27,877 --> 00:26:29,942
(chatter)
472
00:26:34,079 --> 00:26:36,345
(narrator) On a clear Las Vegas night,
473
00:26:36,347 --> 00:26:38,880
three months after closing its doors,
474
00:26:38,882 --> 00:26:42,514
The Flamingo was ready for
its second grand opening.
475
00:26:47,918 --> 00:26:49,884
And gamblers from all over the country
476
00:26:49,886 --> 00:26:52,051
show up to spend their money.
477
00:26:52,053 --> 00:26:55,019
(indistinct chatter)
478
00:26:56,654 --> 00:26:58,553
Bugsy Siegel's Flamingo Hotel
479
00:26:58,555 --> 00:27:00,121
was really the first of its kind.
480
00:27:00,123 --> 00:27:02,555
It had its great restaurants,
481
00:27:02,557 --> 00:27:03,988
it had its terrific bars,
482
00:27:03,990 --> 00:27:06,990
swimming pools, gorgeous women.
483
00:27:06,992 --> 00:27:09,559
I mean, it was a precursor
484
00:27:09,561 --> 00:27:11,560
of what Las Vegas is today.
485
00:27:11,562 --> 00:27:14,094
Welcome to the Flamingo. Enjoy yourself.
486
00:27:14,096 --> 00:27:16,728
- How are you tonight? Good, how are you?
- You look beautiful.
487
00:27:16,730 --> 00:27:19,129
- Oh, thank you.
- (slot machine clinking)
488
00:27:19,131 --> 00:27:22,430
(narrator) After more than a year
of delays and budget overages...
489
00:27:25,566 --> 00:27:29,434
Bugsy Siegel's big gamble
on a forgotten desert town
490
00:27:29,436 --> 00:27:32,135
finally pays off.
491
00:27:41,641 --> 00:27:45,109
While Bugsy Siegel is riding high,
492
00:27:45,111 --> 00:27:47,510
Vito Genovese is convinced
493
00:27:47,512 --> 00:27:50,078
it's time he gets a
bigger cut of the profits
494
00:27:50,080 --> 00:27:52,080
for laying the groundwork
495
00:27:52,082 --> 00:27:55,148
for Luciano's Italian heroin racket.
496
00:27:56,649 --> 00:27:58,749
I just can't get it out of my head.
497
00:27:58,751 --> 00:28:00,851
Try. I'm trying.
498
00:28:00,853 --> 00:28:03,552
Well, then try harder.
499
00:28:11,090 --> 00:28:14,658
They had nothing before me... nothing!
500
00:28:14,660 --> 00:28:17,593
Now what are they clearing?
501
00:28:17,595 --> 00:28:19,994
A couple million dollars.
502
00:28:19,996 --> 00:28:23,429
Every week. Each and every week.
503
00:28:24,464 --> 00:28:26,530
That's my money.
504
00:28:32,734 --> 00:28:35,501
You should take it back.
505
00:28:35,503 --> 00:28:38,936
Baby, it's not that complicated.
506
00:28:48,543 --> 00:28:50,843
(narrator) As Vito Genovese looks for a way
507
00:28:50,845 --> 00:28:53,845
to be the boss once again,
508
00:28:53,847 --> 00:28:55,980
the U.S. government
509
00:28:55,982 --> 00:28:58,948
eliminates one of his greatest obstacles.
510
00:28:58,950 --> 00:29:01,849
The Federal Bureau of Narcotics
511
00:29:01,851 --> 00:29:04,951
has had Lucky Luciano
under surveillance in Cuba.
512
00:29:04,953 --> 00:29:08,119
And soon learns of his drug ring
513
00:29:08,121 --> 00:29:10,687
importing heroin into the United States
514
00:29:10,689 --> 00:29:12,854
on a massive scale.
515
00:29:19,825 --> 00:29:23,126
The United States decided that
they didn't want Luciano here.
516
00:29:23,128 --> 00:29:25,927
And they put pressure on
the Cuban government...
517
00:29:28,029 --> 00:29:30,562
and made the Cuban government
518
00:29:30,564 --> 00:29:32,430
send him back to Italy,
519
00:29:32,432 --> 00:29:36,065
which was the last thing he
wanted to do at that point.
520
00:29:39,201 --> 00:29:41,134
(narrator) In March of 1947,
521
00:29:41,136 --> 00:29:43,802
Luciano is forced to board a ship
522
00:29:43,804 --> 00:29:45,869
bound for Italy.
523
00:29:47,705 --> 00:29:49,771
♪♪
524
00:29:51,639 --> 00:29:53,840
Destroying his dreams
525
00:29:53,842 --> 00:29:56,775
of returning to America.
526
00:30:04,713 --> 00:30:07,980
(narrator) After being
deported to Italy again,
527
00:30:07,982 --> 00:30:10,548
Lucky Luciano's control of his empire
528
00:30:10,550 --> 00:30:13,049
has continued to crumble.
529
00:30:13,051 --> 00:30:15,217
And he's made a dangerous new enemy
530
00:30:15,219 --> 00:30:17,551
out of Vito Genovese.
531
00:30:19,653 --> 00:30:23,821
While Bugsy Siegel's casino
is finally turning a profit,
532
00:30:23,823 --> 00:30:26,155
none of the mob bosses who invested
533
00:30:26,157 --> 00:30:29,824
are getting their cut.
534
00:30:29,826 --> 00:30:32,659
Well, how fast do we get to
making that up? I don't know.
535
00:30:32,661 --> 00:30:34,860
This is an investment, there's
a certain way it should be run.
536
00:30:34,862 --> 00:30:36,995
It should be here. $6 million.
537
00:30:36,997 --> 00:30:38,562
He's gotten very soft, Bugsy.
538
00:30:38,564 --> 00:30:40,696
Listen, I trust Bugsy, I grew up with him.
539
00:30:40,698 --> 00:30:43,764
Yeah, but he has a soft spot,
you know, and he can't see.
540
00:30:43,766 --> 00:30:45,732
He likes the broads too much.
That's what I'm talking about.
541
00:30:45,734 --> 00:30:47,466
Exactly. He's become Mr. Hollywood.
542
00:30:47,468 --> 00:30:49,000
But all this exposure's not needed.
543
00:30:49,002 --> 00:30:50,734
(narrator) In New York,
544
00:30:50,736 --> 00:30:52,736
the other families are
beginning to lose patience
545
00:30:52,738 --> 00:30:54,903
with Bugsy Siegel.
546
00:30:54,905 --> 00:30:57,237
There were stories that
Virginia Hill stole money.
547
00:30:57,239 --> 00:31:00,005
There were stories that
Bugsy Siegel stole money.
548
00:31:00,007 --> 00:31:03,173
And the investors are
not happy with all that.
549
00:31:03,175 --> 00:31:06,575
And, eventually, mobsters get together
550
00:31:06,577 --> 00:31:10,077
and are debating what are
we going to do about this?
551
00:31:13,080 --> 00:31:14,779
(car horn honking)
552
00:31:15,847 --> 00:31:17,913
(clock ticking slowly)
553
00:31:26,786 --> 00:31:28,753
(door opens)
554
00:31:28,755 --> 00:31:31,488
What happened?
555
00:31:34,757 --> 00:31:36,857
Virginia Hill is what happened.
556
00:31:36,859 --> 00:31:39,191
One of our guys at the
airport just spotted Miss Hill
557
00:31:39,193 --> 00:31:41,593
on a flight to Switzerland
with a ton of luggage.
558
00:31:45,829 --> 00:31:48,029
The Flamingo is packed every night.
559
00:31:48,031 --> 00:31:50,164
They're turning people away at the door.
560
00:31:52,232 --> 00:31:55,266
Where the hell is the money?
561
00:31:56,768 --> 00:31:58,234
I'll tell you where it is.
562
00:31:58,236 --> 00:32:01,669
It's on a damn plane to
Switzerland with Virginia Hill.
563
00:32:07,206 --> 00:32:10,207
It's gotta be done, Meyer.
564
00:32:10,209 --> 00:32:14,109
(sighs) Lucky and I don't
like it any more than you do.
565
00:32:19,913 --> 00:32:21,246
Frank...
566
00:32:21,248 --> 00:32:23,580
Let me talk to him.
567
00:32:51,566 --> 00:32:53,632
♪♪
568
00:33:02,237 --> 00:33:07,239
♪ Jesus, I am coming home today ♪
569
00:33:07,241 --> 00:33:09,907
♪ For I have found ♪
570
00:33:09,909 --> 00:33:13,276
♪ There's joy in Thee alone ♪
571
00:33:13,278 --> 00:33:16,011
♪ From the path of sin ♪
572
00:33:16,013 --> 00:33:18,846
♪ I turn away ♪
573
00:33:18,848 --> 00:33:23,848
♪ Now I am coming home ♪
574
00:33:23,850 --> 00:33:29,984
♪ Jesus, I am coming home today ♪
575
00:33:29,986 --> 00:33:35,920
♪ Never, never more from Thee
to stray ♪ (phone ringing)
576
00:33:35,922 --> 00:33:40,922
♪ Lord I now accept
Thy precious promise ♪
577
00:33:40,924 --> 00:33:43,057
(gunshots)
578
00:33:47,126 --> 00:33:49,594
(gunshots continue, glass shattering)
579
00:33:58,967 --> 00:34:03,001
(phone ringing)
580
00:34:11,274 --> 00:34:13,340
(ringing continues)
581
00:34:29,652 --> 00:34:31,752
(Bugsy) To the Lower East Side Gang.
582
00:34:33,019 --> 00:34:34,719
Salud.
583
00:34:39,222 --> 00:34:42,690
You came all this way to see me go?
584
00:34:42,692 --> 00:34:44,858
Had to say good-bye.
585
00:34:50,829 --> 00:34:52,862
(Polisi) In the life,
586
00:34:52,864 --> 00:34:54,963
you justify your actions
587
00:34:54,965 --> 00:34:57,864
and you figure a way out
to make yourself believe
588
00:34:57,866 --> 00:35:00,899
that it's okay to do illegal things,
589
00:35:00,901 --> 00:35:03,700
immoral things, commit acts of violence.
590
00:35:06,803 --> 00:35:08,769
You can't have any regrets.
591
00:35:11,738 --> 00:35:15,039
(narrator) On June 20th, 1947,
592
00:35:15,041 --> 00:35:19,340
Bugsy Siegel is shot nine
times in Beverly Hills.
593
00:35:19,342 --> 00:35:21,675
Siegel becomes
594
00:35:21,677 --> 00:35:23,809
the first of Luciano's original crew
595
00:35:23,811 --> 00:35:25,875
to be killed.
596
00:35:28,777 --> 00:35:30,644
The death of Bugsy Siegel still...
597
00:35:30,646 --> 00:35:31,977
It's like the death of John F. Kennedy.
598
00:35:31,979 --> 00:35:33,345
It's a big mystery.
599
00:35:33,347 --> 00:35:35,979
He lost a lot of the mob's money.
600
00:35:35,981 --> 00:35:39,014
And he had done something
that people got killed for
601
00:35:39,016 --> 00:35:40,748
doing with the mob.
602
00:35:40,750 --> 00:35:42,983
And the people most often killed by the mob
603
00:35:42,985 --> 00:35:45,984
are other mobsters, so it
seems to fit that pattern.
604
00:35:48,353 --> 00:35:50,720
(Green) Exactly what was decided
605
00:35:50,722 --> 00:35:52,854
is not entirely known.
606
00:35:52,856 --> 00:35:55,089
As for who did it, there have been stories
607
00:35:55,091 --> 00:35:57,256
that it was this hit man or that hit man.
608
00:35:57,258 --> 00:35:59,090
That it was because of the skimming,
609
00:35:59,092 --> 00:36:01,491
that it was due to the
Flamingo not making profits.
610
00:36:01,493 --> 00:36:04,759
There's even a theory that
because he and Virginia Hill
611
00:36:04,761 --> 00:36:07,294
had a very difficult relationship,
612
00:36:07,296 --> 00:36:09,495
that her brother was avenging that,
613
00:36:09,497 --> 00:36:11,863
and it had nothing to do with the mob.
614
00:36:11,865 --> 00:36:13,431
What happened?
615
00:36:13,433 --> 00:36:15,432
Well, according to the Beverly
Hills Police Department,
616
00:36:15,434 --> 00:36:17,733
it is still an open case.
617
00:36:19,102 --> 00:36:21,869
(narrator) 20 minutes after his murder,
618
00:36:21,871 --> 00:36:24,270
Meyer Lansky's men
619
00:36:24,272 --> 00:36:27,171
take control of the Flamingo.
620
00:36:32,308 --> 00:36:34,342
♪♪
621
00:36:35,476 --> 00:36:38,376
(narrator) In 1947, Bugsy Siegel,
622
00:36:38,378 --> 00:36:41,112
one of Lucky Luciano's oldest friends
623
00:36:41,114 --> 00:36:44,513
and business partners, has been murdered.
624
00:36:46,449 --> 00:36:49,049
And while the mob has
moved quickly to take over
625
00:36:49,051 --> 00:36:50,849
Siegel's hotel in Las Vegas
626
00:36:50,851 --> 00:36:53,418
and Luciano's authority
has been restored...
627
00:36:55,253 --> 00:36:57,953
another member of Luciano's operation
628
00:36:57,955 --> 00:37:01,521
begins organizing his
own fight for control.
629
00:37:05,024 --> 00:37:08,191
Frustrated by his lack of
power within the Mafia...
630
00:37:09,792 --> 00:37:13,527
Vito Genovese wants to be boss again
631
00:37:13,529 --> 00:37:17,763
and begins to look outside
the Luciano family for help.
632
00:37:20,866 --> 00:37:23,066
He reaches out to a mid-level gangster
633
00:37:23,068 --> 00:37:25,133
in one of the other New York families.
634
00:37:25,135 --> 00:37:27,901
A 46-year-old
Sicilian underboss
635
00:37:27,903 --> 00:37:30,302
in the Mangano family
636
00:37:30,304 --> 00:37:32,837
named Carlo Gambino.
637
00:37:34,772 --> 00:37:36,772
Why don't you tell me what's on your mind?
638
00:37:36,774 --> 00:37:39,540
(sighs)
639
00:37:42,776 --> 00:37:45,777
I don't know how much more of
this crap I can take, Carlo.
640
00:37:45,779 --> 00:37:47,812
Oh, you know Lucky.
641
00:37:47,814 --> 00:37:50,547
The man holds a grudge.
642
00:37:52,048 --> 00:37:54,416
You think I plan on taking
orders from the Manganos
643
00:37:54,418 --> 00:37:57,050
and Anastasia the rest of my life?
644
00:37:57,052 --> 00:38:00,352
- So what are you waiting for?
- The right opportunity.
645
00:38:00,354 --> 00:38:02,419
As should you.
646
00:38:04,220 --> 00:38:06,387
Just stay in the game.
647
00:38:16,326 --> 00:38:19,126
(narrator) Genovese
sees an ally in Gambino.
648
00:38:22,129 --> 00:38:24,330
A like-minded mobster with ambitions
649
00:38:24,332 --> 00:38:26,864
of climbing the ranks
of the New York Mafia.
650
00:38:28,498 --> 00:38:31,233
Carlo Gambino was old school,
651
00:38:31,235 --> 00:38:33,867
quiet, reticent,
652
00:38:33,869 --> 00:38:37,435
secretive, very secretive.
653
00:38:43,506 --> 00:38:45,406
(narrator) While Genovese and Gambino
654
00:38:45,408 --> 00:38:48,441
wait for their chance to make a move,
655
00:38:48,443 --> 00:38:52,377
a new challenge rises for
the New York underworld.
656
00:38:52,379 --> 00:38:55,178
In May of 1950,
657
00:38:55,180 --> 00:38:59,180
an ambitious U.S. senator
named Estes Kefauver
658
00:38:59,182 --> 00:39:03,082
forms a committee to investigate the Mafia,
659
00:39:03,084 --> 00:39:05,249
including New York's
most notorious mobsters.
660
00:39:06,884 --> 00:39:09,885
It's the largest effort
to expose organized crime
661
00:39:09,887 --> 00:39:11,518
in U.S. history
662
00:39:11,520 --> 00:39:15,187
in what will come to be known
as the Kefauver Hearings.
663
00:39:15,189 --> 00:39:17,288
A Senate investigating committee
664
00:39:17,290 --> 00:39:20,356
held a series of hearings
to get at organized crime.
665
00:39:20,358 --> 00:39:23,025
In addition, they made
the very smart decision
666
00:39:23,027 --> 00:39:25,359
to televise some of the hearings.
667
00:39:25,361 --> 00:39:28,094
(narrator) In front of a
television audience of 30 million,
668
00:39:28,096 --> 00:39:30,361
the Mafia takes the stand.
669
00:39:30,363 --> 00:39:33,129
I decline to answer on the grounds
670
00:39:33,131 --> 00:39:34,897
that it may incriminate me.
671
00:39:34,899 --> 00:39:37,131
I refuse to answer
672
00:39:37,133 --> 00:39:40,533
on the grounds that it
may tend to incriminate me.
673
00:39:40,535 --> 00:39:42,467
(Goodman) The witnesses are very cool.
674
00:39:42,469 --> 00:39:45,368
They just take the Fifth,
which the Constitution provides,
675
00:39:45,370 --> 00:39:48,169
and say they're not going
to tend to incriminate them.
676
00:39:53,006 --> 00:39:54,939
(narrator) As the hearings drag on,
677
00:39:54,941 --> 00:39:56,973
acting boss Frank Costello
678
00:39:56,975 --> 00:39:59,875
begins to see his name
mentioned in the press,
679
00:39:59,877 --> 00:40:03,109
often linked to horrific
murders and crimes.
680
00:40:05,445 --> 00:40:08,112
When he's finally called to testify,
681
00:40:08,114 --> 00:40:11,446
Costello decides to take
a different approach.
682
00:40:14,982 --> 00:40:18,049
- Frank, you have to listen to me.
- I'm listening.
683
00:40:18,051 --> 00:40:21,051
- You gotta take the Fifth.
- That's what makes you look guilty.
684
00:40:21,053 --> 00:40:23,452
Moses, will you talk to him?
685
00:40:23,454 --> 00:40:26,387
Frank, the more you talk,
686
00:40:26,389 --> 00:40:28,454
the more trouble you're gonna get into.
687
00:40:28,456 --> 00:40:31,389
I can talk to these men.
688
00:40:31,391 --> 00:40:33,990
(Talese) Frank Costello was rather unique.
689
00:40:33,992 --> 00:40:37,225
He had hope, aspiration and drive
690
00:40:37,227 --> 00:40:39,594
to be perceived
691
00:40:39,596 --> 00:40:41,962
as a somewhat legitimate person.
692
00:40:41,964 --> 00:40:44,496
And he thought he was part
of American capitalism.
693
00:40:46,297 --> 00:40:49,497
What have you ever done for
your country as a U.S. citizen?
694
00:40:52,633 --> 00:40:54,400
(clearing throat) Paid my tax.
695
00:40:54,402 --> 00:40:58,001
(crowd murmuring)
696
00:40:58,003 --> 00:41:00,570
(Raab) Frank Costello
went before TV cameras
697
00:41:00,572 --> 00:41:02,237
when there was an investigation
698
00:41:02,239 --> 00:41:04,571
into organized crime in America.
699
00:41:04,573 --> 00:41:06,272
He thought he could outwit
700
00:41:06,274 --> 00:41:09,407
some lowly prosecutor or lawyer.
701
00:41:09,409 --> 00:41:12,876
Do you want to qualify your answer?
702
00:41:12,878 --> 00:41:14,977
Yes, I'd like to qualify it.
703
00:41:14,979 --> 00:41:17,178
How so?
704
00:41:17,180 --> 00:41:19,313
I want what I said,
705
00:41:19,315 --> 00:41:21,113
specifically what I said,
706
00:41:21,115 --> 00:41:23,514
on the official record.
707
00:41:23,516 --> 00:41:25,581
(Green) Costello made a mistake
708
00:41:25,583 --> 00:41:28,083
in thinking that he could handle
709
00:41:28,085 --> 00:41:30,184
a Senate investigating committee
710
00:41:30,186 --> 00:41:32,919
the way he handled local politicians.
711
00:41:32,921 --> 00:41:35,253
They're different breeds of cat.
712
00:41:35,255 --> 00:41:37,622
(Senator) It contradicts
713
00:41:37,624 --> 00:41:41,023
your earlier testimony.
714
00:41:41,025 --> 00:41:43,592
(Costello) No, it doesn't.
715
00:41:43,594 --> 00:41:45,659
(Senator) Would you like
me to refresh your memory?
716
00:41:45,661 --> 00:41:48,360
(Costello) Ahem, you don't
need to refresh my memory.
717
00:41:48,362 --> 00:41:50,160
My memory's fine.
718
00:41:50,162 --> 00:41:51,961
(Senator) I'd be happy to read back
719
00:41:51,963 --> 00:41:54,028
your earlier testimony.
720
00:41:54,030 --> 00:41:56,429
(Costello) I can refresh
my own memory, thank you.
721
00:41:56,431 --> 00:41:59,597
Guy lost his mind.
722
00:41:59,599 --> 00:42:01,632
(narrator) With the hearings revealing
723
00:42:01,634 --> 00:42:04,600
a weakness in Costello's leadership,
724
00:42:04,602 --> 00:42:07,435
Vito Genovese knows his opportunity
725
00:42:07,437 --> 00:42:10,670
has finally come.
726
00:42:10,672 --> 00:42:13,471
And with Carlo Gambino on his side,
727
00:42:13,473 --> 00:42:16,973
Genovese is ready to strike back
728
00:42:16,975 --> 00:42:18,974
at Lucky Luciano
729
00:42:18,976 --> 00:42:22,042
by taking down Frank Costello.
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