Drug Cartel Facts 2
- After watching The Godfather, members of the Patriarca Crime Family started “philosophizing” and improved their grammar.
- Almost 40,000 people have died in Mexico’s cartel wars since 2006. That is about 5.4 times more than all the combined US casualties from the two current wars, and 13.5 times the deaths during 9/11.
- Mexico’s drugs cartels operate an encrypted radio station across all 31 states out of the reach of the government. They have even gone green, with solar panels powering the radio towers.
- A Cuban-American FBI agent spent 3 years undercover in the Gambino crime family, convincing everyone he was Italian. He nearly became a made member of the family before the investigation was stopped.
- The Genovese crime family is considered as the “Ivy League” and “Rolls Royce” of The Sicilian Mafia, having only 5 members turn state evidence.
- American gangster Al “Scarface” Capone got his infamous scars when he told a woman “You got a nice ass” in front of her brother while working at a bar.
- Jazz pianist Fats Waller was kidnapped to be the surprise guest at Al Capone’s birthday party at gunpoint. He left 3 days later intoxicated with thousands of dollars in tips.
- Al Capone’s armored limousine, after being seized by the feds, was later used to protect President Franklin D. Roosevelt after the attack on Pearl Harbor.
- In 1986, 30 million people witnessed the opening of a secret safe of Al Capone, only to find dirt and empty moonshine bottles.
- Al Capone’s brother was a distinguished prohibition agent and acted as bodyguard to a US president.
