02x02 - The Mob: The Mafia Meth King

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MAN: Shake this square world

and blast off for Kicksville.

NIXON: America's public enemy

number one is drug abuse.

NANCY: Just say no.

MAN 2: The Mafia is

a major player in the

international drug underworld.

MAN 3: At the end of the day,

it's all about the dollar.

It's all about the dollar.

REAGAN: American people want

the mob and its associates

brought to justice and

their power broken.

HARRIS: There's now an

understanding that the

w*r on Drugs was

an abject failure.

MAN 4: You have to

stop and ask yourself,

"How did we get here?"

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JIMMY D: When I was in college,

we never lost a game.

The other teams would be

exhausted by halftime and

we came out like it was

the beginning of the game.

We just annihilated

other people.

We could have beat anyone.

This feeling of being'

on top of the world.

The football team went

undefeated 'cause I had 'em

all methed up.

My name was on the lips

of every student there.

Everyone on the college

campus was wired up.

Everybody got straight As.

These other kids

were ridin' the bus,

I had a brand-new Cadillac.

JIMMY D: Long John became

the methamphetamine king pin

in Philadelphia.

And he would step

over your dead body if

he was done with you.

His name was Long John

because he had long

pockets and short arms.

He'd rather eat his

young than part with a buck.

MARTORANO: My name

is George Martorano.

I'm the son of

Long John Martorano.

My father's reputation was

made in the meth business.

He made a lotta money.

Millions and millions

and millions.

(laughs)

You don't become "Long John"

by sellin' ice cream.

MARTORANO: It all started

from our vending company

right in the neighborhood.

So he supplies, you know,

pinball machines, juke boxes,

cigarette machines

to restaurants

and other businesses.

He was a money maker,

it was just unbelievable.

It wasn't a week go by that

he didn't come up with another

idea how to make money.

GEORGE: Philadelphia's

a blue-collar town.

Meth was a drug that made you

feel you could work really hard,

you could go for hours.

If I pop some meth,

16 hours in a flash won't

even affect me.

Meth was the preferred

drug of choice for a lotta

different segments

of the community.

Boom, it exploded.

JIMMY D: Long John offered to

supply me with bags of a gram,

of a half a gram, of

small quantities you sell

person-to-person.

Meth was such an

addictive drug,

you got a line waiting around

the corner to buy this.

JIMMY D: Long John was sneakin'

his drug dealing on the side,

on the down low,

that's why he recruited kids

like me so it couldn't get

back to the other Mob guys.

Long John would pay maybe 7,

8 grand for the pound, cut it,

put it out on the street,

gross 30.

He'd walk away with

$23,000, in three days.

GEORGE: Long John settles

in Cherry Hill, New Jersey,

which is a very upscale

suburban community.

And he became a

very wealthy man.

He had summer homes.

He would go for long

vacations with the family.

JIMMY D: He was flashy, jewelry.

Flashy cars.

Money.

Everything in Long John's

life was money.

LOU: But then there's

something that money can't buy.

JIMMY D: He played himself

up as the Godfather, the Don,

the Boss of Bosses.

But in fact,

he wasn't a made guy.

LOU: By becoming

a member of the Mob,

it is status.

It adds a special

gravitas to your name.

JIMMY D: That's definitely

Long John's goal in life.

That's why he had to

impress Angelo Bruno.

GEORGE: Angelo Bruno, who

emerged as the boss in 1959,

was a businessman.

Angelo Bruno was

an entrepreneur.

Angelo Bruno understood

the idea was to make money

not headlines.

Long John was an earner.

That's why Bruno liked him.

He and Bruno kinda

spoke the same language.

It's about money.

(pop)

MARTORANO: I remember one

time we were havin' lunch.

It was me,

my father and the Boss,

Angelo Bruno, at the table.

A big money guy on the streets

came out with a wisecrack.

Your Boss got very upset.

My father picked up

the sugar container and

(thud and breaking glass)

That guy will never

say a wisecrack again.

I think it cost him

thousands of dollars to get

his teeth done.

Attempted killings, beatings.

My father would get

up and do it himself.

And everyone knew that's

what kinda man he was.

GEORGE: Angelo Bruno was one

of the old school Mafia guys

who said drugs are

forbidden and he saw drugs

as a dirty business.

Heavy law enforcement

attention and if you deal drugs,

you're violating the

principles of our organization.

MARTORANO: In the Mob

you cannot sell drugs.

If you got caught with drugs,

you're gonna get

the death penalty.

(sirens)

(overlapping radio chatter)

REPORTER: There is a major

story tonight in Philadelphia.

Here's what's happening.

WOMAN: It's absolutely

shocking here.

This is a

gangland-style k*lling,

certainly not something

we expected to see in

Philadelphia tonight.

GEORGE: There's Angelo Bruno,

the Boss, his mouth agape,

his head back on

the seat of the car.

A hole in the back of

Angelo Bruno's head.

And that's the end of

Angelo Bruno's era,

right there on the

streets in South Philly.

MAN: I know he was a good man.

That's all I can tell ya.

WOMAN: Nice man to

everybody that I know of.

MAN 2: The big thing I guess

was that he would never be

involved in drugs around this

neighborhood and now people

are wondering, you know,

what's gonna happen,

is there gonna be a lot of

drug traffic around here now?

REPORTER: There was a

funeral in Philadelphia today

for Angelo Bruno.

It was well attended

by his family,

friends and fellow

Mob members.

(overlapping chatter)

It is even possible that

the man who paid to have him

k*lled was there too.

LOU: The reason that Bruno

was k*lled involved drugs.

You had these associates and

drugs would be another revenue

source that they were

being deprived of.

JIMMY D: There never

was any proof of it,

but it's almost like

Long John had something

to do with Bruno's m*rder.

MARTORANO: My father had

nothin' to do with it.

He was very heart broke,

very sad, very sad.

INTERVIEWER: (over PA) Well,

how would you characterize your

relationship or

acquaintance with Mr. Bruno?

LONG JOHN: (over PA) He was a

very dear friend of mine, sir.

LOU: Nicky Scarfo

was a psychopath.

What came first was

violence as a tool to

enforce discipline

to maximize profits.

His DNA was the b*llet

and he loved it.

LOU: What was Long John's

first thing that he wanted to

know with respect to Scarfo?

He wanted to know

what's your position

with respect to drugs,

because this was his business.

JIMMY D: Scarfo was

anti-drugs out in the open,

but he certainly opened

it up for Long John.

Nicky Scarfo wasn't gonna

pay us up on all that money

Long John offered.

Scarfo turned a blind eye,

got his cut of Long John's

business and allowed

him really to explode

in the drug business.

JIMMY D: Long John stopped

dealing finished product,

he just wanted the chemicals.

That's where the money was,

it was fast turnover.

You didn't have to

turn it into powder,

you just buy it and sell it.

The chemicals

you need are P2P,

Phenyl-2-Propanone.

A pint of P2P will make one

pound of pure methamphetamine.

The biggest problem

is getting P2P.

RONALD: I felt that as a

marketing major in college,

find a need and fill it.

I've been told I

was the largest P2P seller

in the United States.

We had a large

cocaine division,

but I liked the P2P business

better because I was able to

control it from the source.

We were getting the large

quantities from Germany.

We had it shipped

into the Bahamas.

I purchased a yacht, we would

load it up and come back to

Fort Lauderdale.

We'd pick up the shipment and

bring it back to Philadelphia.

I liked the business,

and I had no competition.

RONALD: Word had gotten

out to Long John that we

were a source.

We would meet at a car wash.

Long John said,

"Look, I'd like you to sell

P2P to a couple of my people

and we'll take care of

any problems you have."

I sold 200 gallons

to Long John's people.

RONALD: We could put 28

gallons in the trunk of a car

and deliver the car to them.

JIMMY D: Long John started

selling me Raiton P2P which

was far and away better

than anything on the street.

At this point I'm no

longer dealing in a product,

I was full-time meth cooker

for the Pagan Motorcycle g*ng.

Manufacturing meth was

like havin' a good union job.

Philadelphia in my era was

the meth capital of the world.

The Pagans distributed

it all over the country.

LOU: Long John was an agent

of destruction with respect to

the drugs that he

was dealing in.

MAN: Leave me alone!

Guys, leave me!

REPORTER: This man exhibits

a very common reaction.

Anxious, agitated, disturbed

and acutely frightened.

MAN: Oh I never hurt nobody!

WOMAN: The risk involved

is death with speed.

Inevitably the

result will be death.

JIMMY D: He had a lotta money,

but Long John still

wanted to be a made man.

He had to impress Scarfo,

so Scarfo ordered a hit.

It's your job, k*ll him.

I don't give a

(bleep) how you do it.

k*ll him.

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GEORGE: The Italian American

Mob in Philadelphia

was Philadelphia-based,

but it had tentacles

into southern New Jersey,

as far east as the

Atlantic City Resort.

LOU: In the late '70s

where legalized gambling

came to Atlantic City,

this was like a treasure

trove for the Mob.

JIMMY D: Atlantic City

went from a ghetto to a very

powerful union city.

The Bartender's Union,

the Waitress Union,

the Linen Union.

The Philadelphia Mob with

Scarfo wanted to own those

unions 'cause then you could

go to the casino Presidents,

tell 'em, "We're gonna have a

strike unless you kick up to

us "X" amount

of dollars annually."

It was big money.

JIMMY D: John McCullough

was a union leader.

McCullough took control of

the unions in Atlantic City and

he wouldn't go along

with any of the Mob's plans

of working with them.

MARTORANO: John McCullough

made the mistake getting his

eyes on Atlantic City.

All's I know he was told to

keep out of Atlantic City.

He shoulda listened.

LOU: Scarfo goes to Long John,

wants to set up McCullough,

you do the m*rder.

Long John's going to willingly

accept that because this is

how he's going to prove

himself with respect to

becoming a Mob member.

JUNIOR: People don't realize,

it takes a lotta ba*ls

to walk up and put a g*n

up to someone's head.

(g*nsh*t)

JUNIOR: I met

Long John, he said,

"You got ba*ls

like an elephant.

Basically, we gotta

piece of work to do.

I want you

to do it, do a m*rder."

With a guy that's

right next to the Boss,

it's an honor to be asked.

I said,

"All right, no problem."

JUNIOR: Got a box of

flowers so I could lay the

piece and the

sil*ncer in there,

try and be like

a dumb delivery guy.

We arranged to meet

about 5:00 that night.

Long John, I think he had

his gold Lincoln that day.

I got in the back,

nodded at each other.

We proceeded over the

Benjamin Franklin Bridge,

headin' towards

Northeast Philadelphia.

Long John pointed

out the house.

He turned around and

sat a couple of houses down

in his car.

I got out with the flowers.

I went up,

knocked on the door.

(knock)

As soon as John

answered the door,

he looked at me just like

you're lookin' at me and

I just put the sil*ncer

up to his forehead.

(silened g*nshots)

It was over and that was that.

JUNIOR: Long John said,

"Man, I love you, I love you."

He handed me $5,000

in cash and said,

"Listen, buy

yourself some suits."

REPORTER: 60-year-old

McCullough was gunned down

nine days before

Christmas in his

Northeast Philadelphia home.

LOU: Delivery man kills

him in front of his wife.

People were just

absolutely stunned by that.

You wonder what is the

darkness of the individual

who's a member of the Mob.

GEORGE: Long John got made

and became an initiated member

because of that hit.

He was worthy of being

part of the organization.

JIMMY D: He became Scarfo's

number one man on the street.

JIMMY D: Long John

definitely wanted to control

the whole business

of meth in every aspect.

Someone won't

cooperate, k*ll 'em.

We'll just take over

his whole operation.

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OFFICER:

We ready to rock 'n roll?

OFFICER 2: Yeah.

OFFICER:

Have we got the equipment?

OFFICER 2: Yeah.

COOKE: This is a

pretty dangerous operation.

So we are gonna be very

careful about any of these

people that arm

themselves in a panic.

(camera shutter)

(knock)

OFFICER 3: Hit it, hit it!

OFFICER 4: On the floor!

On the floor!

On the ground!

OFFICER 5: Hands out,

hands where I can see 'em!

Now! Hands behind your head.

COOKE: This is the

dope that was found.

It was in a thermos container.

A little over 40 ounces.

MAN: There's probably at least,

probably 10,000

to 20,000 in there.

COOKE: Here we have

Jesús Malverde,

patron saint of

drug traffickers.

Our head honcho here is

wearing some jewelry around

his neck with Jesús Malverde's

picture on it.

So he's the real deal.

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LOU: Long John's ultimate

goal was to be the sole

source of P2P in Philadelphia.

Whenever you have a monopoly

over anything that's in demand,

you're gonna be able

to control its price,

you're gonna become

even more powerful.

RONALD: Steve Bouras was the

head of the Greek Mafia in

Philadelphia and he was

one of my larger customers.

He was Long John's

main competition.

JIMMY D: Steve Bouras

was a P2P supplier

all over the city.

He had his own g*ng,

they were very successful.

It was

multi-million-dollar money

and Long John

wanted their action.

LOU: Long John gets

close to Stevie Bouras.

Says, "Let's go to dinner."

Your guard is down because

you're going to dinner

in a public place.

JIMMY D: Long John brought his

wife and Bouras brought a date.

(pop)

It's a social event.

During the dinner, two

masked men came in.

The sh**ter himself

motioned the g*n to Long John

to sit back.

It was obvious they

were working together.

(g*nshots)

The sh**ter m*rder*d

Bouras and his date,

an innocent woman who

just thought she was going

out to have dinner.

REPORTER: Reportedly

present at the table

when the sh**ting broke out,

Long John Martorano,

a business associate of the

late crime boss Angelo Bruno.

JIMMY D: No-one in their

right mind would go to

dinner with Long John.

You talk about

the last supper.

LOU: Long John's

thinking is so twisted.

Who ends up committing a

m*rder with family members in

attendance and then with

the danger that you have a

civilian who ends up dead.

JIMMY D: The street

business on it is,

the sh**ter was Long John's

own son, Georgie Martorano,

which is a little hard to

understand that he not only

m*rder*d the

girlfriend or the date,

an innocent bystander,

by he did it in front

of his own mother.

MARTORANO: They tried to

say I was involved in it,

but I wasn't.

My father he was capable

of orchestrating anything

if he wanted to.

MARTORANO: Me and my father,

we knew the family of

the woman that got k*lled.

We actually went to her house

and consoled the family and

make sure they

had any kinda funds they

needed for the funeral,

had coffee with them.

And that was it.

The next day it

was onto business.

My father probably

got all his customers.

They can't buy

from a dead guy,

they're gonna buy

from a living guy.

You know, it's the

name of the game.

♫ ♫

RONALD: We met sitting

on the park bench.

We talked about P2P and

that I was selling too much

to other people.

Long John wanted to

be my only customer.

He said he wants to buy

52 gallons of P2P from me.

I said okay, and we made

arrangements to meet again.

RONALD: (over speaker)

First of all,

this is what it'll cost.

RONALD: I was wearing a wire.

There were several

FBI agents watching us.

I was thrilled to be

participating.

I wanted out of the business.

♫ ♫

RONALD: I got arrested on a

cocaine distribution charge.

The punishment could

be five years in prison.

I thought I could make a deal.

I met two agents from the FBI,

I gave 'em a list of my

customers and they were very

interested in Long John.

LOU: Raiton had the criminal

credentials to be able to meet

with Long John Martorano.

He was a prize as far as

the FBI was concerned.

RONALD: They got

back to me and said,

"Look, if you wear a wire,

we'll make a deal with you."

I would be free,

and I'd be out of the business.

LOU: So they set the meet

up for Rittenhouse Square.

The city has all these

different beautiful squares,

Rittenhouse Square

is one of them.

MARTORANO: The FBI needed

where they can get him on film

and what better place

than an open park?

RONALD: I sat down

on the bench where

Long John was sitting.

LOU: Now, this is something

out of the movies, all right.

There's $100,000 he has

in a shoebox in 1981.

That would be the equivalent

of more than a quarter of a

million dollars

in a shoebox.

RONALD: I gave him the keys

to the van with 52 gallons

of P2P in it.

Told him where the van

was parked, and I left.

I walked out with

the shoebox of money.

(camera shutter)

LOU: The FBI's takin'

pictures of this whole thing.

Long John's arrested.

His P2P empire

came crashing down.

MARTORANO: He told

me that very night.

"I'm bein' indicted."

He was very upset with himself,

very upset 'cause he

felt he made a mistake,

and he wasn't a man to

make a lotta mistakes.

GEORGE: From

Long John's perspective,

you wanna remain in good

standing with the organization

because they gotta have

your back when you're in jail.

They gotta watch out for

your family when you're away,

so he's gonna stay active even

though he's under indictment.

MARTORANO: I gotta

give it to my father.

No matter what

happened he had no fear,

he had no fear of anything.

And sometimes that

works against you.

He was out on bail,

but while he was out

on bail Nicky Scarfo

and my father wanted

a tax from the Pagan.

The Pagans would have to pay

tens of thousands of dollars

if they wanted

to exist in the speed

business in Philadelphia.

JIMMY D: When he attempted

to pass a street tax onto the

Pagans that was not tolerable.

I figured that a dynamite

vest on his son Georgie

would get my point across.

A Pagan grabbed up Georgie

with three other Pagans,

put the vest on him, said,

"Georgie this is what

we're gonna do to you til

your father comes around."

MARTORANO: They kidnapped me

and they throw me in this van.

I don't know why

I'm being kidnapped.

All I know is I'm lookin'

at this kid and he has

a k*ll switch in his hand.

And he says,

"Anybody comes nears us,

we're all gonna get blown up."

JIMMY D: Georgie called

up Long John and told him

that we had a dynamite

vest on him and if things

didn't go our way,

we were gonna use it.

(sirens)

JIMMY D: Long John lost his

mind when he thought he could

shake down the

Pagan Motorcycle Club.

The dynamite vest

on his son Georgie,

I guarantee you I got

Long John's fullest attention.

MARTORANO: You're not

dealin' with mental giants,

a lotta these bikers they're

all high as kites, you know,

they're all methed out

and it was pretty bad.

JIMMY D: Within an hour,

Long John had $10,000

delivered to me to

show that he was serious

about stopping this.

About getting that

vest off his son.

MARTORANO:

Listen, sometimes you win,

sometimes you lose.

Thank God I'm here to

live to tell about it.

REPORTER: Reputed mobster,

Raymond "Long John" Martorano,

accused of being a key figure

in a half a billion dollar

drug ring, is facing Federal

charges of conspiracy and

possession of the drug P2P,

which is an ingredient

used in methamphetamine.

RONALD: I had no problem

testifying against him.

I just knew which

side I was on,

so I did whatever I had to.

LOU: All the things that

Raiton represented with

respect to his criminal past,

that he was a huge

distributor of P2P.

His credibility was

attacked and rightfully so.

RONALD: (over speaker) First

of all, this is what it costs.

LOU: Then on the other hand,

you had the power of the

recorded conversations.

RONALD: (over speaker)

I'll have it for

you in four weeks.

LOU: We built the case

around the surveillance of

the FBI agents.

We built the case around

the seizure of the P2P.

We exposed

Long John for what he is,

a drug dealer.

JIMMY D: At the time

they had parole,

so he was looking at

maybe six or seven years.

He could do that much

time standin' on his head.

MARTORANO: I mean, he didn't

lose no sleep over it.

He did good time

just like that.

Had all the food he wanted.

Everything was

okay, no trouble.

He didn't know

what was coming.

REPORTER: The District

Attorney's Office in

Philadelphia is processing

the warrants right now for

reputed mobster

Raymond "Long John" Martorano

accused of murdering

Philadelphia Roofers Union

President John McCullough.

JUNIOR: I testified in

court in 1983 against

Long John Martorano.

It's packed with press,

wall-to-wall,

people fighting to get seats.

It was pretty big news.

MARTORANO: My dad did not

think he was invincible,

he just knew that

you took the shots,

you did what you did,

and you went to jail and

he wound up with life.

GEORGE: Long John made

phenomenal amounts of money

in the meth business.

But he got too full of himself

and that was his demise.

LOU: When you're dealing in

drugs to the amount that he

was dealing in and the

destruction that that imposes

on the community,

I believe Long John's

legacy is an example of the

destructive powers of the Mob.

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