L'histoire Complete de la Mafia - Tony Arcado
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00:01 - Tony Accardo looked like a good guy.
00:03 He was probably as cruel as the others.
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00:08 - He was a very violent man.
00:10 He was not nicknamed the "Beater"
00:11 because he would bake the cakes.
00:12 - Anybody who would come down from the Chicago Mafia
00:17 would have to ask him first.
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00:20 - And as the leader of the outfit once said,
00:24 "Tony had more brain trouble
00:25 "waking up in the morning than Al Capone had in a lifetime."
00:28 - Tony Accardo made it for a successful movement
00:33 for organized crime and TV.
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01:57 - She was, allegedly, a murder, a grisly way.
02:14 She tried to be a murderer.
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03:59 - Ricardo became a runner for a number of these operations.
04:14 He was distributing alcohol around the city of Columbus
04:17 and he would go into his young manhood.
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04:40 - He learned how to clock the horse's horse.
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05:40 - They were considered owners
05:50 and all the heavy weaponry that the gang capone used
05:54 were the circus gang's task to distribute these weapons.
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06:11 - He followed the steps of his friend,
06:24 Jack McGurn, into the organization.
06:27 Like everyone else, he had to prove himself
06:29 and work his way up.
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29:27 - He was the big boss, no question about that.
29:42 I think it's accurate to say
29:44 Tony Accardo was the most powerful,
29:46 organized, and crazy figure in America.
29:48 Now people say, "What about the New York family?"
29:51 Well, they had five different families in New York.
29:53 But in the case of Accardo, the outfit is monolithic.
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30:01 - It's my hope and prayer.
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30:29 - He headed this commission,
30:40 which had trailed the United States
30:42 and hundreds of witnesses.
30:45 So when the Kieffhoffer Committee came to Chicago,
30:49 they said there was this strangest phenomenon.
30:53 All the well-known criminic gangsters
30:55 had been in the area.
30:57 So they were caught up.
30:58 They left town.
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31:13 - What they came away with,
31:23 the everybody in all these major cities in the United States,
31:27 was to be finding that there were
31:29 two major organized crime groups.
31:32 One was in New York.
31:34 And the other one was in Chicago,
31:36 under the command of Accardo.
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31:43 - Accardo worked to realize that
31:49 his high profile, that's something antagonizing.
31:52 So he acted like a gentleman.
31:55 And people would see him at home
31:56 and say, "Well, look at that."
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34:28 - The Stardust was a very modest competitor
34:40 in the space of Las Vegas gambling.
34:42 It was a casino that was aimed at the most kind of gambler
34:47 who would play the four slots
34:49 and who would spend the slots
34:51 and who would walk away completely cleaned out.
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38:34 - There were no surprises.
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39:05 - In 1963, Tony Accardo built this house
39:22 to get his people into the fight
39:25 for the rights of the members of the organization.
39:28 They thought his lifestyle was too ostentatious.
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41:43 - Informants told the FBI that they had never seen
42:07 a man so mad, so inhuman,
42:09 that he was supposed to be brought into his house.
42:13 Within a couple of months,
42:15 some people are found with their throats cut.
42:19 And I'm sorry to have to descend on this,
42:22 that this kind of thing was never going to happen.
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42:36 - Mr. Accardo, will you please come forward?
42:45 - For the very first time,
42:46 Tony accepts to respond to the Senate,
42:48 without saying too much.
42:50 - Your nickname for years is Joe Butters, is that correct?
42:54 - Yes, sir.
42:55 - B-A-T-T-E-R-S, Butters?
42:57 - Yes, sir.
42:58 - How did you come up with that nickname?
43:00 - I don't remember.
43:02 - How long have you had that nickname?
43:04 - Oh, for years.
43:06 - Accardo will finally turn out to be a very uncooperative witness
43:09 and will be charged with a heinous crime.
43:11 However, the hearings will not bring forward
43:13 any criminal charges against Accardo.
43:16 - Well, Anthony Accardo had a nice little life.
43:20 He never served one day in prison.
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