Mafia Underboss Phil Leonetti Reveals The Dark Side of Philadelphia Crime Family 

Super excited!!!

I am. I've seen a few interviews of his in the past and It'll be interesting to hear from him again.

Very much so, teach me

Way to go Patrick!

How long is the interview?

I always look forward to hearing Phil Leonetti in interviews. He's completely honest and speaks from the heart about his life. Just like the Sammy the bull interview. These Mafiosi guys in 2020 are telling what it was really like back then. Incredible times we are living in.

Hes not crazy anymore, because he wised up before it was to late.

They all knew the stakes.No civilians!

Your taking that out of context. He was referring to his uncle getting upset with him.

Evil moron. Eternity in hell.....

Underrated comment 😂😂😂

got it.

@CelticBommer he defo a bad listener and weak to no follow up question that are deeper.

Or no?

LMFAOOOOOOOOO😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 Patrick: now tell us what was that cheeseburger like?

Há hhahahha you just made me die laughing

hahahahaha

Lmao!

🤣😭

Mmmm

It's kind of a mystery why Leonetti hasn't cashed in on his notoriety like so many other mobsters. Maybe he just wants to cut all ties with his past. I think Mafia Prince would make a great movie. Family, betrayal, violence, regret. A young fatherless kid idolizes his uncle then must sacrifice the uncle to find himself.

@RStevenPage it's crazy because even Sammy talks good about Phil and said he was always respectful. If Phil would go on Sammy's podcast and then create a channel himself he would be banking!$ 💰

@@ShaunKang69 Man, I would love to hear him go at it with Joey Merlino. In his book, Leonetti called Merlino a punk kid. He suspected Merlino was skimming a few hundred off the envelopes passed to Scarfo.

Joey merlino would have an amazing film ! That would be huge in box office forsure ! But to find the right actor for Joey would be kind of difficult, not sure who can play him!

@@TheBaBaTV But I don't see a character arc there. We don't have an ending or redemption. I suppose you can make a movie out of anything though.

Mathew Mcdonald one of the great mob books

Interesting fellas but evil criminal scumbags to the core. Hell awaits.

Mathew Mcdonald the audio is even better.

Excellent Book!

There's also the audio book thats on here I listened to it which brought me here

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Idk y this killed me LMFAO

lol

@@Pierre_28 & & BBC derved f-|/

Interesting

Good kid? The guy was a stone cold killer who wouldn't hesitate to kill women and children if they were on his way during a hit. Don't let his sweet looking face fool you, go and read the stories about him to see how good kid he was.

@@Neodreth Tru but according to mob rules he did wat he was supposed to. Followed the orders he was supposed 2

I think he killed because he feared salvie

@@Neodreth Really? I didn't get that vibe from him watching the few documentaries concerning Scarfo and the Philly Mob. Yes, he was a stone-cold killer and a true Mafioso according to Nick 'The Crow' Caramandi, but he didn't appear to be someone who would kill innocent bystanders. I could be very wrong, of course, but Scarfo seemed more likely to do that sort of thing than Salvie Testa.

@Quiche Lorraine i mean he was like a son to him his father got killed also he could take care of him

“Captain Noah “ lol

As soon as travolta opened his mouth i had to stop watching lol. That acting was so bad.

Hope they do a remake of The Gotti movie 🎥. I couldn’t get past the 1st 10mins unfortunately.

@@matthewcollins5344 Watch the one made by HBO in 1996 with Armand Assante.. Trust me it's a great movie about Gotti, unlike the new one which is trash

Nick Scarfo HBOs Gotti is the best , Asante captures Gotti 100%

no it wouldn't, and everything doesn't have to be a movie.

LOOOL!

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@Sal DiMarchese Phil himself clearly wasn't that crazy though; he did what he had to -- in adaptation to the excruciating demands posed by his environment.

Irony of it, jeezuz

@@Luke-rx9gn What? One who adapts to his environment?

If you stare in to abyss long enough it stares back ...

it takes a certain amount of mob street wise knowledge to survive society nowadays, those which haven't come to realize this lead very sheltered lives no offense.

I think he is starting his own mafia. the iranian mafia taking control of the life insurance business

😂😅😅you stupid😂😂😅🤣🤣

Thinks he’s donnie brasco

@Gary hair Armand Assante played Gotti in 96 when Gotti was alive,so i don't think it would've been a problem

Micheal Bacall would be a good nicki I think micheal imperioli would be a good skinny Joey

@@waynejohnson9017 A younger Imperioli maybe. In his skinny guinea days

J R I forget he’s a old man now

@@waynejohnson9017 I wouldn't say old man, but he's grey haired. He could probably play a modern day Skinny Joe.

But basically the same mindsets imo.

But Phil did 20 fuckin’ years

Rippel0000 ate a sandwich off the fuckin radiator

Let me tell you a couple three things

Phil Leotardo compromised a lot in prison. He wanted to fack a woman, he jacked out of tissue.

Your clearly a pussy not built for it

Chilli Dog lol.

Crime pays if your smart .. Most people fail because they get too big too cocky too trusting.... It's not a game for the average person

Put 100 k in front of a person... They will be ready for anything.. Everybody has a price

@@chillidog2370 Listen to escobar lol cringe!

Yeah. These guys are born actors and moneymakers.

Phil "My Uncle is the biggest psychopath that he wants to murder me who was more a son & wanted to kill my mom his very sister" Leonetti.

1:13:19

Jt the God 😂😂😂

Kill or be killed. Once Phil took the oath, he had to follow orders or die himself. Period.

Shows the psychology of the people who do the lay offs...psychopaths, because most start to enjoy it and make jokes about the people they let go..

Because he actually is laying them off, then to rest

cgab12 Yea and then get paranoid when a talented person comes along, because they feel like the have the same mentality as them. How Testa got killed/ fired lol

rickj535 😂

Good call. That’s a good analogy !🤣

Health wise, Dominick is very sick. He was a long time patient at the Veterans Hospital in Brooklyn, NY

Demeo crew was the most interesting of all

@Sling Blade exactly

Patrick is a moron, yes or no? Got it!

Eric Arthur-Blair yes he is. I looked him up and apparently he's still alive, he's about 73 years old now.

Haha i read this before i saw it and was waiting the whole time. Had me dying when it finally happened haha

@@justinjackson7688 this interview, aside from being very dark and emotional at times was also really fuckin funny... like when he says him and his uncle we’re gonna kill a guy at the casino just to break balls 😂🤣

@@BostonsF1nest i love at the end he's talking about how its hard today for crime because of cameras and phones and he says "today its hard to even kill a guy" haha

That’s messed up because he married the guys girlfriend after he killed him.

@@gagansandhu2185 they didn’t get married until almost 20 years after Vince was killed… and Phil and Maria grew up together in the neighborhood. She lived across the street from him in Duck Town. Vince and Maria were really only together for less than a year before he was murdered. It’s not as crazy as ppl make it out to be.

All snitches...great guys...

What about the ex hitman John

@@alexcorrea4828 doesn’t mean it’s not entertaining to listen to. Did he say they were great guys you dope

Frank Cullotta was my favourite. His video about larry neumann and the other one about sam destafano are hilarious. He's done a few long interviews on other channels that are great also.

All rats.

Lol

I got into an argument with these young fucks about this. They were claiming they'd never go gov't witness. My claim is yes they would & they're stupid to say anything otherwise. You should've seen the stupid arguments they brought. Hilarious.

@@ClickClack_Bam some people wouldn’t though. Most would, like 90-95% would but the rest would take it. Sonny Franzese did like 50 years.

@@user-od2ov1zv3j That happened when now? That was back when things were still somewhat honorable but shaky etc. Now? There's no honor in organized crime whatsoever. Street crime? 100% take the deal. Ain't nobody doing time 'for the cause' anymore.

Unless there name is Sonny Franzese

Photographic memory.." especially, when snitching

@@scottchicago95 😂😂😂

You dont forget killing people. Lol

It’s because they live a very dangerous life and are always on edge so it’s important to remember every detail… it’s like if you had a big exam every week, so when you study, your brain has to retain every detail because of the big test at the end of the week… Most people live uninteresting lives, they can’t tell you what they did last week, it’s not important… but if they were in a fight, they might remember every detail leading up to and after the fight!

I'm surprised these old guys can remember dates as well. They have to have a higher than normal iq. Not genius level but higher than normal.

Listened to the audio book on the Gambino crime family channel and the algorithm recommended this. This is an instant press play

keep it secret or its this👉

It absolutely is..regardless of how you feel about Leonetti it’s such a 1st hand account of Philly history up til the end of the Scarfo era. I’ve literally listened to it so many times I have most of it memorized 🇺🇸

@@chrisstone3390 "and he made the sign of the gun"

They were trying to get Lansky till the day he died....Hard time believing he met Meyer Lansky in his 20’s “with his whole crew”...Lansky wouldn’t take that kind of chance...Maybe he met Scarfo by himself (probably second hand stories ) but the whole Lansky story doesn’t add up....but it would do great in a book!!!

Michael’s a fraud, proven by his own father Sonny (John).. Watch Greg Vitas videos with Sonny.

I agree with you Matthew Brasky

@@fjuuuuuz Michael is absolutely not a fraud...

@@michaeld2384 Sure is. The contract was made on him for a reason

@FactsOverFeelings Matter Dummy check michaels own father? yeah you really stupid lmfao

Ashley Pope hands too small

Ashley Pope is that a line from the Sopranos?😂 uncle junior to tony.

"He's a faaaaaggg!"

@jerry cruz "I guess you can call that a dick?" Hehehehe

“Veal parmesan sandwich.......fuck you”

Testa was very loyal to scarfo, who phil had considered to be just like a blood brother. And i do believe, that when Nicky had mudered testa, it instantly changed phils opinions regarding his homicidal uncle from that point on.

@@x-1584 👍

Salvie testa was a legend

@@legacy7450 true i smoked a joint with him cool dude was

Andriukas Juju what year ?

I don't know about the way more money part lol but there's much more of a future in being legitimate

If you've never made 10 million a week like franzese did, I can't believe you know what you are talking about sir.

Absolutely Long-Term Streets Are a Dead-End(💯)might make Bit of Money 💵/Have a Run Unaffected for awhile by Law Enforcement But when it comes down oh boy it will,Longevity is the Goal 🥅 ,Any Street Gang/OC Family is in for most Profit short term they want fast 💨 return on there Investment all Experience is Pain/Heartache,Death/Life Imprisonment No way to live or have your family Live not bout being Masculate or being tough enough to live that Lifestyle,it’s bout being Witty-Clever enough to distinguish what is good & what is bad for you,Running Own Business/Having Own Business Empire to run that is yours(No one Else),(Don’t have to pay someone tribute money 💰), Or get there Permission to Operate Life is about free-Will Being Own Person not Answering to somebody who will use you like Towel and throw you to the side when all is said & done ✅ just cause “Some Guy” hangs on the corner gives ya a $20 & Compliments ya doesn’t mean there your friend Use your 🧠 Brain Everyone has a Purpose find it & Succeed At it.

If you think you'll make it to be the one who luckily gets to make millions then think again. In today's world in America it's ever-increasingly hard to do this in the States. Other countries? Of fuck yes you still can but not here in America. You'll get pinched before you get to any decent money levels with organized crime. Go to the yt channel "The Mob Reporter" & you'll see the Europe gangsters busted with millions. In America it's too technologically advanced to get very far.

@@ClickClack_Bam you probably never did a crime in your life.

This guy is also a rat and a stone cold killer. Good he doesn't glorify the life, but he did evil shit and only "got out" because he was about to be gone for life.

I agree he didn't try to make it sound anything it wasn't, actually made it sound pretty bland and shitty.

@@NRV0 Stone cold killer for sure! He's also a survivor, think of all the people he came up with that are gone an this guy survived!

@@enigmatic9589 Exactly. I mean the guy was known as "Crazy Phil" by his "Colleagues". Not only that, he was the underboss to his uncle. Nepotism aside, but you definitely committed more than a few murders to get that high. Leonetti is what he is and that's a murdering rat. Its fact lol.

Who does????

Scarfo was a lunatic. Angelo Gentle Don Bruno was the complete opposite of Scarfo.

Scarfo was just fuckin crazier and more paranoid from what I’ve gathered

When scarfo told them to kill....they killed or would be killed

@Michael Ronga that's just not true ... Scarfo was a lunatic, but he definitely wasn't stupid. He was smart to know how to cater to the right people, specifically the New York bosses.

He’s an egomaniac just like everybody from the Scarfo family That was his uncle ->all show Theyll say anything

No honesty , just making himself look like a victim . HE CHOSE that life and he's trying to blame Scarfo .

whaley coyote When the adults you admire make you think killing is natural when you are 9 yrs old, you are a victim. At some point he should have broke ties with his uncle but we know what happens next.

@@HamiltonRb dude , don't believe everything you hear , if so Scarfos children would be in the same situation . And if you believe especially in that " he took me in the truck to dispose of a body at 7-8 y.o." story , then you are just gullible , which tells that you are likely a nice person . DON'T BELIEVE CRIMINALS ! Manipulation and good lying are essential skills they have to obtain in order to survive

whaley coyote Well I know these guys as much as you do, which is not at all, so you can only listen to an interview, judge for yourself, but the fact that one of Nicky’s kids are doing 30 yrs and the other killed himself, tells me how sick this guy was to bring his family into his life

@@412StepUp yeah every blind ppl doesnt realize it u right🤟

Dreaming Life 😂

😂😂😂😂

@@alicedee5540 Sounds like fun, unfortunately I was living in the easy life of Brooklyn, NY during those times.

well put.....My exact point said in a different way definitely a SMOOTH killer..YEAH THAT FAMILY MENT BUSINESS

Did I hate the fact I did not think of leaving this comment before you? Yes, I did

Do I hate being on lockdown because of Coronavirus? Yes, I do. Did finding this interview unexpectedly on Saturday night cheer me up? Yes, it did.

@yormuthor 16 IM FROM BRAZIL... Prison here is fucked. Like really fucked. Dont go to prison here

@@antoniopossan7359 yeah Alite said it was insane

@yormuthor 16 I went to an AIC concert many years ago and Layne was so sick he sat on a chair and stared at the floor while singing 2 songs. Then the band was done. Granted many other bands played and they were the last act but we expected at least 4 songs or whatever.

Ffs some crazy guys for sure, missed him saying that one.

Mob guys do tend to have very interesting characters lol.

I’m

Besides killing everybody why did we do wrong ? Ahah crazy Phil indeed

Oh Philip you rascal

@simon says you right, I knew I spelled it wrong

SKINNY Told all NYC. To stand down. This our city.. gotta respect tf out of em for that

Steve Smith he just mad he is a rat and not respected anymore because he couldn’t stand the kitchen meanwhile you got skinny Joey doing backflips in his cell while still being a loyal and stand up guy. I have nothing but respect for skinny Joey with all the shit the fbi has put him thru

@Dorian Graye YEAH ME AN UR DAUGHTER WENT 2G......

@Johnny Fosco Mob Tours Because he looked Mexican he said.. lol.

Albert is dead.

@@mattw210 What happened to him? And when did he die?

ivydude13 that would be epic

Yes he should get him, excellent

Neither of them were made, why do you think they would have good stories? They would feed you bullshit

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I agree I’d like to see that but... Who’s he gonna have on that’s worth having on and who isn’t already dead or in prison?

@Sucha Soorma I know smh. At least u showed me some love lol

Blake Salmons Imagine if he did an interview with Miguel Angel Felix Gallardo from prison? That would be epic

We need dominic montiglio to Talk about nino gaggi demeo and his Crew

yea my pick would be Miguel Ángel Félix Gallardo..of anyone...but he wont talk..the political power structure in mexico of dozens of old money families would go after his family. you think its coincidence el chapo got nabbed right after the interview and sent up north? he became to riskee' for the elites that allowed him to operate...the diposed of him.. he will mantain silence too..imo

Don't think that'll ever happened any time soon. Just the same as Sammy and Phil, give it about 10 years maybe then it's possible that he'll do a RU-vid interview (If he's even alive by then.)

Fuck this would be a good one!!

I think he is in Mafia Heaven!

I think he might be smart, in like wicked smart kinda way. But maybe not, I dunno.

@@412StepUp Street smart no doubt.. But he wasn't the guy putting together complex schemes.. Mikey Franseze is a smart guy.. This guy... Not so much..

@@garyterrimclachlan5222 yeah thats true, because of his street intelligence and head for business, mike earn 30mill approximately a month only on gasoline business not to mention his gambling, shylocking, etc. Most guy in colombo family actually kinda slate him to became the future boss

Gary & Terri Mclachlan he is a pos... ratted on his own blood who is more like his dad.. after trial after sentenceing. Because he can’t do the tine

Domestic terrorists. HVTs

But I understand that he was a hella good "BASKET BALL ATHLETE" while at philly high school tho.

Uncle junior

🤭🤭🤭🤭 🤪

@andre jones Then BADA BOOM BOOM maybe!. Uc if it wasn't for phils murderous psycho uncle, then maybe phil could had became a proud NBA athlete, while srill in his prime.

Hell no!

That's how you know the interviewer knows jack shit about the subject. It's all Gotti, Castellano, and Hoffa questions.

Mr Furio I know right?

@@colonelreb1014 yeah he definitely grabs the low hanging fruit ... The Gotti questions especially seem amateur, but still, i think overall Patrick does a decent job with these. I'd have liked to see a bit more growth on his part though, his questions should've evolved, but they're all similar across every mobster he interviews.

StupidaFackinGame

Bugsy Siegel We here for de mah-ney

Who’s who of todays cosa nostra? You think a journalist is gonna start naming current mob guys for youtube and not face consequences lol come on Buddy be smarter than that.

@@santinorocco497 You obviously don't know who Jerry Capeci is. He does what you claim will be consequences over for a living every month with his ganglandnews website. BTW-This is the United States of America. We're not living in Sicily. Journalists are never targeted. You're watching too many Mafia movies. Real guys that ratted are walking around openly and have podcasts. Let me know when any of them face any consequences, since you know so much.

I’d be here for that interview. Jerry knows his shit regarding the life!

The Gotti’s (Gotti Sr) was the worst thing to ever happen to the mafia. Degenerate gambler who was the downfall.

@White boy Wild No he doesn't. Jerry has been around way longer than Junior and doing his thing since before Junior was made. Jerry goes back to the mid '70s when he crashed Carlo Gambino's funeral. Capeci probably wouldn't even agree to ever sit down with Valuetainment.

He was the highest ranking mafia defector at the time.

Phil didn't actually kill the judge. Nick "the blade" killed the judge for taking Scarfo's $ for a lenient sentence for the blade. Scarfo dealt with the judge for yrs knowing he was biding time until the blade came home so he could personally kill him for betraying them which he did & Scarfo was the supposed driver.

These interviews aren't endorsements of the lifestyles. They're just interesting stories. Patrick is actually contributing to posterity,

You kidding??!!..Judge was crooked and wanted a witness murdered. So, he's not much different than this "guy who's just chillin doing interview"

he didn't kill a judge that was nicky scarfo and his right hand man nick the blade detrullio.

Lol takes one to know one I guess.

🤣!!

😂😂Thay books great..That audio was crazy good**

Cowboy style

@@NKSVD831 Right in broad daylight!

@Hugo Oliveira if you see him is 👉🔥

I'm sure it'll happen eventually, maybe via Patrick or Vlad

Vlad wouldn’t know how to make an interesting interview with the rat martinez, Patrick would do an amazing job because he wouldn’t allow himself to be influenced by prior information.

@@ogbbq2261 Yeah I'd much prefer a Patrick interview

@@ogbbq2261 after this interview he would probably ask him about other film reviews , wtf was that all about ? No questions about the philly war the hunchback , john stanfa , do some background info on the person you are interviewing

Yeah Alpo interview be sick

lol, me too, really addictive stuff. There are some good books out there about the Scarfo era, especially with George Anastasia.

@@jamesdykes2968 The Al D'arco book was really good too. Though Peter Lance claims he was pretty much a liar, in his book "Deal with The Devil" about Greg Scarpa, which an insane book. One of the biggest FBI scandles I've ever read about. Fuck Lindley Devecchio. They even put him in that 'Fear City' show.

Same

@@Lordazlum I read he actually got indicated for helping Greg murder people.

@@natemyers4946 I don't think he's been indicted. He was just in that show recently. If he had been in the last he got off on it.

Guy is the worst interviewer ever. Nothing personal he gets great subjects. He just asks awful questions...doesnt listen to subject and doesnt ask open ended questions at all. .

Yeah & it's called being a sociopath. He can compartmentalize & rationalize murder like it's buying a carton of milk.

Yeah, that was an excruciatingly bad way to deliver that question. F-ing 3-minute detour for absolutely no reason. lol 🤦‍♂

Me too. I couldn't believe it! But it just wasn't what I really really wanted from him. Most of what he talked about. He wrote about. Or written about him. So it was like a rehash. Plus Pat kept talking. I wanted Phil to rant

When Bruno got killed that was the e d of the Philly mob

@@MoejiiOsmanTV Agree. He ran it like a business and there wasn't constant bloodshed. It seems like the mobsters of the late 70s thru 80s were a new breed. Too much bloodshed including the New York mob. It just got out of control.

What prison are you in Derek Gabrys

I'm not in prison. Just someone who is fascinated with mafia and organized crime books, movies, tv, vids, etc.

He never testified against his uncle

Philly as a city always had its own thing. They don’t dickeat

Nino gaggies nephew

Didn't he testify??

Yea was a nephew and he did rat

💯💯

That rat is dead

MrAitraining just finished it 👍

Thanks for the recommendation.

Boom! A really great read!

The audio book on RU-vid 6 parts. It's also pretty good. I enjoyed the voice actor.

Oh nice man thanks, will add it to my must read list!

Watched this 3 or 4 times and never realised that thanks for pointing it out

His voice catches and you can hear his grief in his voice as well.

True Cosa Nostra

Time stamp?

Phil "besides killing everybody what really did we do that was so bad" 😂🤣💀

Those guys were treacherous from what I’ve read/watched. The Frank Mathews doc touches on them a little. Good for u making that pivot from that life

You should write a book. Sure it would be a great read.

Facts bro, my ol heads down North still be talking about JBM in the 80s. They still feelin that shit

Shower posse too

Were they runny murderers? No, they were viscous killers.

Oh yeah, he's a real sweetheart

Only reason he got out that life is because he got caught and he didn't want to go to prison for life. So he snitched but before he got caught by the feds , he was a murderer and at one second in charge little Nicky underboss

Turned his life around, are you kidding!

​@glennmartin6688 wrong he was already convicted before he turned. I think he got a 45 year sentence then he snitched

Hes got a brain. He wanted the mob life. Thats why he got in. Power money women

@Ben Davison UP THE RA!!

@Butter Brickle Loads of things happened like that. When you look into it, there's so many layers and so many different stories to it. When I was a kid IRA attacks was always on the news, but I never paid much attention. I can remember they blew up Warrington not far from me, killing 2 kids. They had placed a bomb in a bin so I remember all litter bins around were sealed shut for a while after that.

Michael Stone would be a good interview, but he's in prison.

@@wesleymcglone6937 fuck that sectarian piece of shit

@@paulgalligan1916 Might not agree with his politics and the things he's done, but he'd be a good interview. Be the same with any of the players in the troubles, some people will despise them but they'll have some fascinating stories to tell. As interesting and probably more interesting as any Mob fellas.

He also asked him 3 different times if he pulled the trigger on his first hit on that guy demarco

So you pulled the trigger?? PBD is great too but he was slacking in this interview

Cause Joey is a stand up man that never told, Joey is the true product of those stand up old timers like his father Chuckie & Nicky Scarfo‼️regardless of there deeds on the streets when it came time to bite the bullet they did just that, stood up in court took the time on the chin like a man & never opened there mouth both died in prison, regardless how u feel right or wrong or what opinion u have of them personally you can’t do nothing but respect how they handled the pressure when they’re time came & that’s the truth, these guys all say the same shit when they cooperate & snitch, “I was double crossed”, “they were gonna kill me”, “they were gonna snitch on me first so I saved myself”, “I realized I didn’t want to live that life anymore I’m a changed man god was speaking to me” etc etc ‼️ but truth is they all changed when those cuffs hit there wrists or when they were facing that time then all of a sudden they became god fearing men, bunch of bullshit from narcissistic men , they simply cowared when the pressure came & seen a easy way out through cooperating with the feds, they weren’t man enough to face the consequences of there actions‼️ Joey will always be a stand up man & can walk anywhere in Philly with his head up instead of these guys who have to live in fear in hiding in the middle of nowhere with fake names & altered appearance they can’t even live there life how god intended them to look damn shame if u ask me.. talks bad about joey cause he can’t stand that joey made it out & kept his honor intact & can walk freely in the neighborhood he grew up in & gets love from every child, man, women & elders in the city & luckily by the grace of god he’s here today being one of the very few who can reap those benefits of standing tall through it all regardless what this hidden coward leonetti says he will never be 10% the man Joey is most people never heard of Phil leonetti for a reason & he will be forgotten but everyone in Philly knows & loves Joey & he will be always remembered as well as his father & Nicky‼️👌🏼 Joey is the last of a dying breed he is doing very well & now making millions the legal way enjoying every moment of it 🫡👌🏼

@@Ian-oq4fp which cousin ? What are u talking about ? If ur talking bout Nicky scarfo Jr then u don’t know what ur talking about

Wether he says it or not I think Phil still got envy that Joey still has skin in the game

@@bigdollazI know Joey personally. We talk every few months. Everything you said is facts

​@@bigdollaztoo long and boring.

True

He would've made a good military guy

In his book, when he tells the story of his new life, you get the picture of a very intelligent and competent business man. Plus his extreme heartfelt loyalty to his family: his grandmother, mother, son, his wife Maria. Astounding.

Crime has a tendency to attract the best and brightest of all social groups, especially the poor. Sometimes you get a Leonetti or a Bull though.

@@janetsaeger8439 He’s a very loyal person who’s dedicated to his family, I’ll give him that. Nicky definitely took advantage of that.

Shawn makes a fool of himself.

Lol love it Nicky the Crow cramande

@@herroherrarlee6769 haha yes! Love when they do the yearly mob shows on TV!

...and he made his hands in the shape of a gun...

i have to agree with you . out of all the mob books ive read mafia prince is the best

I read it awhile ago and agree. There's also an audiobook of it on RU-vid if you want something to listen to while working or doing other things (washing dishes, etc.).

I grew up in South Philly.70's and 80's.PENROSE Avenue.I went to Vare Jr.High School and Southern.Hung at the Lakes.Walking by G.C.MURPHY'S on 20th and Oregon by Mosconi's pool hall.Then walking through the park past The Chicken Man's blowed up porch.Bodies was being found EVERYWHERE back then.I remember a Leonetti funeral parlor down from Bambi Cleaners and Methodist Hospital on Broad street.Oh'yeah.I remember those days---

I went to Bregy Elementary at 17 and Bigler with John Veasy.He always stayed in trouble.ALWAYS a tough kid-

i just finished listening to the audio and ordered the book, i absolutely loved every bit of it and didnt want it to end . im not even asked about the movie because it isnt gonna beat the book.

Two very different families my friend. Nicky was a straight up Psycho and he ran his family as such.

Two different families, different philosophies. Nicky was a maniac with little man syndrome. His reign didnt last that long for a reason. Franzese wasn't really in the muscle end of the family. Im sure he saw and did some stuff he is not proud of but he was like one of the biggest earners in mafia history. He was bringing in so much money that nobody was gonna put him at risk by making him do hits which wasn't his forte anyway.

You've got to remember Phil leonetti has immunity when it comes to murders and michael Franzese doesnt.

@The Anthropologist _Forensic you gotta listen to "The Butcher: anatomy of a mafia psychopath" Amazing audio book

It´s all about money, besides killing everybody 😜

Apparently there’s a new series in the works called First Family, about the early years of the mob from the 1890s until the formation of the Commission in 1931. It’s being written and produced I believe by Terrence Winter who was one of the main writers of The Sopranos

Will Mosse That has some great potential. I hope the writing really brings out the decisions being made to gain power rather than just violence and action.

Josh Daily - From the title I am hoping it is based on the the book The First Family by Mike Dash (link below), which is fucking awesome. It goes into detail about the formation of the first New York mafia family in the 1890s by Giuseppe “The Clutch-hand” Morello, which would ultimately become known as the Genovese Family (having been run by the likes of Joe Masseria, Lucky Luciano and Frank Costello in the mean time). It is all about the power plays within the Italian criminal underworld, though it largely takes place before organised crime groups gained real political traction in wider society during and after prohibition. Also, the audiobook has been on RU-vid for free for at least the last two or three years, but it has now been pulled, which may indicate recent interest in the intellectual property, and hence could support the idea the show will be based on this book. www.amazon.com/First-Family-Extortion-Revenge-American/dp/0345523571

Will Mosse I’m about to check it out man love this type of stuff. It’s just so interesting how things played out back then, there was no technology no one going viral to gain power, it was all about how you played things and who you knew, word of mouth was paramount. Things didn’t come easy you had to actually put in the work to move up. I don’t really know much about anyone from that time aside from Masseria and his rise and the war and how the war ended with his death and the formation of the commission came about after that and was started by Lucky. Definitely going to check it out tho cool to see how it all started.

Josh Daily - Yeah, me too man. I’m a total addict, even though I live in a completely different country (the UK), am in no way Italian, or anything. But I find it fascinating. All that stuff about the Castellemarase War, Masseria, Maranzano, Luciano etc. is cool as fuck. This stuff from a generation earlier is less well known, but is super interesting too. I hope they do make a show based on this. Then it will be more known about.

Sammy the bull was the best interview

Yeah I agree, he doesn't glamorize the life and he didn't dance around his deeds like Michael Francese who when asked about killing someone, always danced around the question. He was straightforward, honest.

@@kman-mi7su michael didn't make a deal...if he say's something about a murder he can still get arrested.

Dan Brady gotta change your whole name and everything. Gotta have nothing to lose signing up for the lifestyle

Her life was ruined by the mob because they killed someone when she was 3? So if he died in a car accident you would say her entire life was ruined by the automotive industry?

Pretty sure that first part of your paragraph got shown in the movies and newspapers all the time. I mean look at the newspaper articles that they show on this video! Stop lying with your story

@@johnv6806 A criminal enterprise that is the scum of the earth stealing and killing like animals, compared to a car accident? Really!

@@Udai_taxim Look up Johnny "Flowers" Fiorino you dim whit!!!

they're fascinating! read leonetti's "mafia prince" if you haven't already.

The Farm league 🤣

@Lord Of The World Chicago had a seat on the commission too.

Because they are crazy

@@jude6601 Scarfo was like a decadent Roman emperor, he had his most loyal and best earning soldier whacked because he was jealous of his popularity. Probably the craziest dude to ever become the boss of a family in the history of the American mafia.

Enrique Chavez fuck him he’s a rat.

@@vishansilva8546 Sit down. You're not a gangster, RU-vid punk.

@@vishansilva8546 Scarfo was a crazy nut. He killed Salvie Testa. He deserved to get taken down.

Great audiobook

The audiobook is fantastic.

Patrick is an artist,one of the best

except for Ralph Natalie interview

I'm listening to a different interview. Patrick keeps talking over phil and his questions are not succinct at all.

​@@jenrutherford6690 My thoughts exactly.

Agreed with the two comments above. Its best to listen to stories uninterrupted but parts of this interview felt like a rapid fire quiz show. Its also annoying to listen to the interviewer frequently supplying words, finishing sentences and filling gaps in the stories.

He did. I was there. I saw it.

It would be great to get Tom Oneil on after hearing him on Rogan

Probably cause if they were drunks and junkies they wouldn't be alive so maybe that's why? Lol. Just speculation on my part. Lol.

First and last name at that..lol

V P Research, they are lying about lots of stuff

Goodfella I don’t think so. This is what they did all day. They’re not like civilians that have different facets of life and too many things to remember. They had just one thing to do and think about all day. Doing mob things and killing people. Also when you kill people it’s not easy to get over the memory.

I guess it’s part of the job

Yep i think that destroyed the Scarfo family.

And did you notice that he is the one who scrolled the picture over on the computer? He did it almost immediately too.

He even named his son in memory of salvie testa you can actually feel his pain from his language and how he changed the pic from the tablet he can't even look to his photos phill must blame his self for letting that happen what a sick fck nicky was

Yeah i agree man would be awesome. Someone thats lived the life but didnt rat out everyone 😂 only genuine guy left

Ew no dude. Why have him join the mainstream? I'd rather he buy bitchute and move there

@@MikeCaz Still love it

Not to mention one of the few places In the world with their own graffiti styles still in tact. Philly hands are still philly hands despite the internet. If you care about that.

Don't forget Herr's potato chips 👍🏼

@@chriszimmerman9737 the internet ruined it for real Graff heads.

true

"This guy Phil Leonetti" bruuuh Crazy Phil was an underboss and one-time street boss Hahaha Montiglio wasn't even made bruh. He was just a lowly drug addict errand boy for his uncle Nino Gaggi

yes my son you called

Wus Poppin I think he meant that he was Gaggi's liason to Demeo and Demeo dealt with the Westies. Since he had to see Demeo once a week at least he probably saw stuff that even made guys didn't. There were a few apex mobsters in that era: Tommy Pitera, Tony Mirra, Demeo, Greg Scarpa, Westies, the Purple Gang from East Harlem (who were known for leaving a brutal mess), and certain Zip crews like Galante's (baddest man ever). Don't let the internet fool you either, the Bonannos had some scary guys at the time. Demeo was the Henry Ford of murder, always the same place, the same method, same people, and same disposal method (granted the last is not uncommon).

Who cares about Demeo. The man was a piece of turd floating in a toilet.