The Mob and Michael DeGroote - the fifth estate 

The Fifth Estate is rapidly becoming my favorite news outlet.

The Fifth Estate is always so well put together. I love hearing about criminals and crime from other nations. From 🇺🇸, to 🇨🇦

I never gamble. In good and bad times I NEVER gamble.

"A joint operation between the mafia and the Hell's Angels" sounds like a MacFarlane cartoon. Wish I could've been a fly on the wall for *that* convo.

Oh! This documentary was excellent! 1.) The story, itself, will send me down a 24 hr rabbit hole of internet research and associated doc binging regarding DeGroote~Dominican Republic~cockfighting~luxury yacht living, and so on... 2.) The production, direction, writing, presenting/narration, music, filming locations, etc. were some of the best I’ve ever viewed, in terms of magazine documentary television programs like, “The Fifth Estate”. 😊so, theeeenks.

I remember working on Willy DeGroote's(Mike's Brother) tobacco farm in Langton....Ontario from 1977 to 1980....Very nice family with good ethics.... One of those summers...his son got a brand new Ford pickup truck for his 16th birthdayFrom his uncle Mike .....Black paint job with red flames accents on each door....and super wide tires.....We...the whole working force..thought it was so cool.. At one point in time earlier .....His father had had a serious accident ...in which we heard that he was walking in front of his brother's (Mike) airplane ..when the engine backfired and the propeller almost took the top of his head off. He did survive the accident ...but was never the same.Although he helped a lot on the farm.... his wife ended up taking care of the farm.......I thought I would share ....since this is the first time I see a documentary that relates to people I knew and shared events with in my own life. PS I believe 1977 was the year Mike sold the Tiger Cats...but I am not positive.

You'd think a guy like DeGroote would know that someone is always listening...

those brothers look shady as hell

“I’m going to send you $150,000.00 for nothing” where do I meet these such people?? Lol

Italian guys are like out of the movies. If one is not shifting his eyes the other is. ❤️

Thanks for teaching me that it is horrible to be a rich man. Rich always find himself surrounded with thugs and murderers. Life of simplicity that is where peace and happiness can be found. I do not want to have too much money, just the amount of money which could be good enough for daily food, clothing and a little comfortable roof on top of my head. After watching this video I am so scared to become rich. My life is much more important to me than the extra money. That is for sure! I never ever change my mind. Thanks for the good lesson of learning the deadly problems of the rich.

Sick of gangsters and corruption. Nothing has changed for centuries. Too bad.

DeGroote: 'Oops...' There are no innocent parties in this matter.

These donations are just peanuts for him, but a nice way to white-wash his name. Maybe I'm wrong, but I doubt he would donate any money anonymously. It's a deal for him, he buys good reputation

Wow! A great Canadian story from home! Thank you for sharing your story!

Love the Fifth Estate.This show is awesome

I don’t trust those brothers! I also thing that you don’t become a billionaire by not screwing people over!! “What goes around, comes around”

This video was very well done! Congratulations.

I can't believe a guy like Michael DeGroote didn't see these guys were crooks from get-go, I'm sure he did. I think his plan was to squeeze these guys out by installing his buddy as CEO and gobbling up the company after these two idiots screwed up. Sadly for DeGroote he was too late. I have no sympathy for any of these guys, DeGroote included. He's a crook too, just a better educated one. Every person involved in this documentary is a criminal, except for the narrator. Mafiosos, drug dealers,fraudsters, Bosnian hitmen. Absurd. You can't write this stuff...one one would believe you.

Part of me just wonders why the system even bothers letting mobsters out, like you know they're just going to commit more crimes right? If a person is an active threat to society they shouldn't be let out.

Two brothers are straight out of a cartoon!! 😂

This show is awesome..I had no idea about Canada & things happening over there, like I'm sure a LOT of us in the states "U.S." don't , very informative .

Interesting. I never heard of this story for some reason.

Behind every great fortune, there is a crime. - Honoré de Balzac

Empire of crooks. Just the word casino sickens me.

most mafia name ever "Vito Rizzuto"

In my opinion, they are all crooks.

Dubious people doing business with each other, hmmm the outcome could be dubious. LOL

Casino venture? Interesting. There’s a Canadian CEO in property who’s been working on setting up his own casino resort in Belize which *lol* doesn’t have an extradition treaty with Canada. His property company just did a huge expansion a couple of years back, buying out lots of property owners across Canada. Things that make you go hmmmmmm.

Those poor Roosters 🐓... people are the worst

Good times, bad times, everybody gambles? Who is this guy? La Cosa Nostra, it's their way, and they like it *their* way.

That old guy sounds like the Cookie Monster

After three sentences you can tell the brothers are wiseguys.

The dark tanned Carboni guy looks like a combination of two people: Morris Day from the band 'The Time' and Al Pacino. The other brother looks like Sylvester Stallone and Steven Segal.🙂

How much cash did you got for this documentary to clean Mr. deGrootes Name or better for the try to clean up his name???

He was funding the business and he is not entitled to ask what they are doing ? Oh boy !

"Supposably"....wow

Best imitation of Pacino in a Scorsese mafia flick Ive ever heard.

Did I miss somethin bc I am confused on how they have voice recordings.

Criminals like to launder money through casino's??!!!! I'm shocked.

every body in this story is bent...

If they wrote this as a movies, I would have doubted that this was real. The bombshells that came out of this one interview alone, is more than a blockbuster.

35:53 Pajak looks right into the hidden camera lol.

that was an really eerie number

They told you he moved there to avoid taxes , its called money laundering

On those tapes, DeGroote sounds like the Kingpin from the Daredevil.

Im really starting to think these guys got setup!

Those 2 brothers seem slimey. I can almost hear them hissing.

Drinking game: take a shot every time the presenter names Vitto Risutto 🥂🍷

Love the Fifth Estate.

I thought Terence McKenna was the hallucinogen guy!

DeGroote has been an old friend with Andrew Pajak, and Pajak has a long history of crime and fraud. Thus we can conclude that DeGroote's business history is shady af.

Omg I’ve stayed at Casa de Campo multiple times 10 years ago. Maybe they were there

I’m prettying sure DeGroote also did the voice of Yoda

The coq fight summarizes gambling perfectly.

No one seems innocent here but the Carbonis have guts I have to admit...It's sad about DeGroote..he has done some wonderful things for education and universities. I think he was in over his head and Visser and Rizzuto are definitely not to be played with...Mob guys never are. Luv the Fifth Estate...great show...

brothers are scam artist

That one brother keeps drinking water, signs of nervousness and easy way to regain focus 🤷🏽‍♂️

Fantastic

A real mafia man will not be bragging about who they are.

GREED , it is always in there somewhere !! If you put 5 crooks in a business, this will be the result. YOU MADE YOUR BED... SUCK IT UP

What's the name of the song at one minute and 14 seconds?

They all might have lots of money, buy they are all low lifes to me

Laidlaw. Didn't they also run school buses?

27:26 "Are you a made man?" LOL!! I was looking around for Ralphie and Christofaah.

Prima facie means based on the first impression. It's left for the trial judge to decide if there was fraud or not. 36:30

Money laundering in casinos! Everybody knows this.

Yes we

What a sickening bloody saga

(7:15) - Now I know English is not Antonio's first language, but please, "supposubly" ??? (Not to mention the lisp) Oops, I mentioned it. Sorry Frankie.

Just when I thought that Casa de Campo was a safe heaven for living in peace and tranquility, but turns out that it is a haven for mafiosos, drug cartels, depraved individuals who want to scape the reach of law behind a facade of wealth and luxury.

That Yacht ain't got nothing on heaven. Remember that.

Money doesn't talk; it swears

26:03-Yes;Italians the world over know the name of Vito Rizzuto.😃😃😃

I agree , keep doing good , don't go with bad peoples

EVERY one in this clip is shady and guilty as hell - in spite of "donating money to education and medicine"! To agree to having buildings named after You, is nothing but officially bragging about Your so called "generosity"... To donate anonymously is what a true humanitarian does! 💙💛🌹💜🍎🇺🇸

What do you found Carbone in the meat truck he was frozen so Stef they had a thought about three days before the autopsy

Mike always knew who was dealing with.

degroote is also a mafia

Gotta question this billionaires common sense for doing business with all these shady characters. I wouldn't trust the carbones to open a bodega meanwhile this guy is showering them with money and for what because hes bored

Even if the guns were bought with good intentions, why not just legally buy them? Serial number filed down, another unregistered? Sounds shady to me.

the language is fine why do they warn us about the language!??

Ladlaw owned the school bus co that brought us to school in belchertown ma same exact name and emblem

this is just businessmen ripping each other off

These two brothers are as corrupt as Mafia as it get`s.

Do not display the bloodsports of people , I use the term loosely, that are animals themselves and behave accordingly. It's the stuff of nightmares, PTSD, and, literally makes civilized society violently ill. No excuse. None.

Your life is always in danger. You live on a time table. Just a matter of time... before whoops

00:47. .....LIKE A BOSS!!

Poor guy, sounds like he was awfully unlucky. Who would know that going into the casino business with people that were convicted of weapons violations and money laundering would turn out this way. Very unfortunate, I think they should give him his money back.

They have a building with his name on it a Macmaster

Tom Jones and Sly Stallone LOL

to many good fellas here

I think that guy from Canada Michael he was also investing in Australia

LMAO "SWINE BAGS" MINUTE 17

I like the rich old Canadian he seemed like a straight-up dude them two brothers are shiting you can tell it

Dates are grown on palm trees. I didn't know that.

These brothers are something special. Anyone else notice they finish each others sentences.

Interesting

Well I think it's safe to say none of these guys are in a pinochle or bridge club. It seems like Degroot knew he might be, or at least he was smart enough to know there is always the thought of being recorded. That at any time any one of them might get angry and bluster about smashing heads is no surprise.

My mother once dated a Degroot. They where well known in our town. Not sure if this dude is any relation to them.. Southern Ontario Canada..