Jackson Jambalaya

So says this absolute rando on YouTube, right?

If it is on YouTube, it has to be the truth.

Very true. That's the law.

Quite repetitious. I agree with the presenter, Mafia is a part of American history and culture and we should acknowledge that. But he fails to add that we have to acknowledge, too, that there is nothing admirable about these parasites, nothing worthy of their portrayals as modern-day Robin Hoods or products of oppression. They are simply ticks on the American body aided by their many greedy hosts.

This guy is the real deal.

His father John 'Sonny' Franzese was also the real deal, made a capo by Joe Colombo in 1963.

Sonny caught his last federal conviction (for extorsion of strip clubs) in 2011 at the age of 94. For this he was locked up at FMC Devens where he was released at age 100 in 2018. Died at age 103.

Michael got the sweetest deal of anybody ever to flip, too. The U.S. attorney handling his case was halfway out the door to private practice & agreed that he would only have to cooperate/testify for a 1-year period.

When Sammy the Bull flipped, he asked for the Michael Franzese deal & was told no dice.

Rukia, pay your taxes, you scofflaw!

Sonny's son John Franzese got kind of a special deal too.

John agreed to a deal and part of that was he wore a wire around Sonny and then testified against him. That was part of the evidence that the feds used to convict Sonny at 94 years old.

After Sonny was released at 100 years old he was interviewed on camera by Newsday.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aak10j8h4dI

I’ve been down this rabbit hole before and it’s interesting. Woody Harrelson’s father was connected with these folks.

One of my favorite Marcello quotes (according to a few NOLA friends) :

" I know nothing about the mafia stuff. I'm just an old man from Metairie that sells tomatos.

there is no and never has been any mob in mississippi. we have corrupt politicians and government employees instead.

"there is no and never has been any mob in mississippi. we have corrupt politicians and government employees instead."
They don't want any competition

I long for the days when the mob ran things.

At 2:19pm
Your term: "extorsion (sic) of strip clubs" is a wonderful phrase envisioning the torquing, twerking, twisting and gyrating in those places.

My bad…I grew up thinking that Mike Gillich and Kirksey McCord of the Dixie Mafia ruled the South. I suppose they were friends with the real Mob and Marcello.

There's no doubt he controlled the massive gambling operations
on the Mississippi Gulf Coast.

But I seriously doubt he knew any of the rednecks in their self proclaimed
"Dixie Mafia" club .

Moonshine , prostitutes and other crap coming over the Tennessee State Line

My understanding is the Mafi no longer controls the hotels in LV But they do control the Unions (everything is union) and can shut down every hotel and Casino if they don’t get their cut.

I'm with 8:12 - New Orleans was a lot nicer and safer when the mob was in charge than it is now. Be careful what you wish for.

It was an accidental typo. Spellchecking is now infected with AI and introduces more errors than it fixes, so it's sometimes turned off.

One of my favorite Sonny Franzese quotes when the feds asked him if he knew Frank Sinatra: "You asked the question the wrong way. You should have asked, ‘Did Frank Sinatra know Sonny Franzese?’”

My wife, as a teenager, made Marsello’s drinks for him while he discussed things with her father and his goons scanned the property.

Where you from? Tupelo? Coldwater? People on the coast know all the stories of the New Orleans mob roosting in Gulfport and Ocean Springs.

11:55 & 12:20, Michael Franzese is as good a source on mafia matters as you can get. He and his father were both high profile members of the Colombo family, his father an underboss and Michael a capo. If your first instinct is to shit on everything with a negative post, do yourself a favor and spend a few minutes on Google so the rest of us don’t have to weed through your inane comments.

Jackson is full of still serving elected wanna be mobsters. They will be convicted. Parasites comment is the best.

Franzese was a rarity in LCN: He had a college degree. Used those smarts to come up with the gas-tax scheme that led to his downfall. He’s adamant that he never killed anybody.

He also became a born-again Christian some years back.

Sammy The Bull did the same thing recently.

11:55 - don’t know much about the Mafia, do you?

The LCN is so vastly overrated and hyped that it is beyond description. Puhleeze. They are low IQ bullies, weak criminals, and BS artists. I put more than one capo in prison . They turn on each other with the drop of a hat. And most lead pathetic and incredibly boring lives. Good grief. The BS never stops. No they did not control governors. The Dixie Magia BS probably piles up the deepest as geezers grasp for relevance.

Interesting..The host has more good videos. Connects a lot of dots... I know of a now deceased lady who shared her first husband was part of Vegas mafia in the late 40's & 60's.. He was deep in Casino fraud and was found dead in a casino pool one morning. There was 2 girls and the widow left behind.

Sad to see Marcello’s on St Charles close. Was a great Italian place in the CBD. I know nothing of the syndicate connections. ;-)

His restaurant was Mosca's.

And Mosca’s is a great place to eat.

9:03 —

“The LCN” is redundant and makes no sense. Unless you think they called it “The this thing of ours.”

Amen

Yup. that was one point of the Sopranos. After a while, you realize these guys are scumbags who backstab each other, steal from even their own family, cause others to commit suicide, and kill on a whim .

If you read Mafia Kingfish, you will learn how Marcello and his patron, Costello, paid off Huey P. Long and the whole Long organization to allow them to bring slot machines into the state . The video doesn't mention that.

Marcello’s restaurant reopened in Covington.

Bay St. Louis 1972 the butcher at a local grocery had printed betting sheets on the counter. Sheets were for pro, ollege and probably high school whatever sport was in season. SOP on the coast. Didn't bet so can't say he was taking the money.