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that s all, right now is a good reason to do, it my friend. have a good weekend, we will see you next week. you too. and thanks to you at home for joining us this evening as well. his name was vinnie the chin. not because of his strong job. rather, the name vinnie the chain was the plan the italian name vin chan so. his government name was vincent jean gati. and depending on who you asked, he was either the leader of a notorious new york crime family, or a doctoring fool who did not know his right hand from his left. it is dusk in new york city and the man coming out of the city is walking down the street in bedroom slippers, wearing his bananas beneath a bedroom. this man is vincent and the fbi says he is the mafia boss of the richest and the country. his doctor say the man in pajamas as mentally ill, not a godfather but a man with the mind of a child, afraid of the dark. a fox. and he has played this game for many years. the last time that gigante was ....
that s all, right now is a good reason to do, it my friend. have a good weekend, we will see you next week. you too. and thanks to you at home for joining us this evening as well. his name was vinnie the chin. not because of his strong job. rather, the name vinnie the chain was the plan the italian name vin chan so. his government name was vincent jean gati. and depending on who you asked, he was either the leader of a notorious new york crime family, or a doctoring fool who did not know his right hand from his left. it is dusk in new york city and the man coming out of the city is walking down the street in bedroom slippers, wearing his bananas beneath a bedroom. this man is vincent and the fbi says he is the mafia boss of the richest and the country. his doctor say the man in pajamas as mentally ill, not a godfather but a man with the mind of a child, afraid of the ....
They got sammy the bull out of witness protection. right? he had testified against john gotti. he was in the witness protection program. living in obscurity in arizona for years after his blockbuster testimony put john gotti away. one of the highest ranking mob guys to ever flip on the stand, right? but the prosecutor who had overse sammy e bu s case, who product him, who had overseen him flipping to testify against john gotti, who helped do the deal to send him off to live this new anonymous life for the rest of his days in arizona, that individual prosecutor personally flew out to arizona to do the impossible. to persuade sammy the bull to do it again. to come back out of hiding, come out of the witness protection program and testify once again against another crime boss. this time against vinnie the chin. the head of yet another new york crime family. flew out to arizona. persuaded him. the guy did it. and that s part of how they finally put vinnie the chin ....
Just one crime family. there are rival families in the italian mafia in new york city. although john gotti was the undisputed head of the gambino crime family, at the time he was running that, he had a considerable rival who was the head of the genovese crime family. gotti was running the gambino side, the guy running the genovese side of things was vinnie the chin. vincent gigante. he was a good looking guy in his youth. they didn t ca him the chin because he had some outsized deformed weird looking chin. was from the italian pronunciation of vincent. usually a guy s looks are not that important when talking about his alleged criminal status. in vinnie the chin s status in his later years, the way he looked became very important to his efforts to stay out of business. it is dusk in new york city. and the man coming out of the shadows on the left is walking ....
Difficult to outwit us from now on. it was not until almost a decade after that they got the conviction against vinnie the chin. and the way they got it is just incredible, right? they tried everything under the sun. doggedly pursued him year after year. the fbi and the feds are making all these confident public pronouncements they re just about to get him for years and years. and years and years go by and they re not able to get him. what happened in the end is this. eastern district of new york, federal prosecutors office in brooklyn. finally 1997, so almost a decade after that nbc report, 1997, prosecutors in that brooklyn office finally came up with this audacious gambit to try to get vinnie the chin. and it took them out of brooklyn, out of new york, off the east coast altogether. they flew a prosecutor, a specific prosecutor. they flew him from new york to arizona. they flew him to arizona and ....