Undercover DEA Agent Frank Panessa on Busting The Mafia "Pizza Connection" (Full Interview)

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  • @jonmullen9327
    @jonmullen9327 Год назад +30

    That was an awesome interview he was very well spoken and vlad let him speak, just a great all around interview!

  • @adamrideout6715
    @adamrideout6715 Год назад +41

    Yo Vlad is letting him COOK! He didn't say anything for almost 20 minutes! 🤣🤣🤣

    • @neilvetter662
      @neilvetter662 Год назад +1

      said okay

    • @ccali327
      @ccali327 Год назад +3

      Exactly. Vlad is actually a terrible interviewer. He's very lucky to have a lot of subscribers and good guests. Less is more.

  • @alainvosselman9960
    @alainvosselman9960 Год назад +3

    Great interview. This man has done so many cases, i could listen to him talk for another 2 or 3 hours.

  • @magiz0
    @magiz0 Год назад +54

    Wow Vlad this was nice, i was expecting 87 parts of this. 👏

  • @kingzonme
    @kingzonme Год назад +3

    We need more of these interviews

  • @ArtOfMoney1
    @ArtOfMoney1 Год назад +15

    When Vlad says “I have friends behind the scenes”, he’s talking about this guy 😂

    • @jamiewilson5679
      @jamiewilson5679 Год назад +1

      His handler?

    • @Milne85
      @Milne85 Год назад

      No one in their right mind would tell Vlad anything current

  • @JPWrightVoiceActor
    @JPWrightVoiceActor Год назад +3

    I watch all these Mafia vids to keep my accent strong - This was a good watch !

  • @RockinRez
    @RockinRez Год назад +31

    Good to see Vlad interviewing his dad!

  • @terryt2728
    @terryt2728 Год назад +25

    Fun fact...the tomato sauce made by the mob as a front company was so good it made the mob a fortune.

    • @joonaslehtonen7965
      @joonaslehtonen7965 Год назад

      Really?? Whats your source? Do you remember the brand name?

    • @terryt2728
      @terryt2728 Год назад

      @@joonaslehtonen7965 I saw it on a Pizza Connection documentary. I couldn't tell you the name. It was 15 years ago.

    • @Amidat
      @Amidat Год назад

      @@joonaslehtonen7965 all you had to do was go in any Italian neighborhood stores in NYC to know that. I mean Arthur Ave. in The Bronx for one...

    • @joonaslehtonen7965
      @joonaslehtonen7965 Год назад

      @@Amidat i dont live in nyc.

  • @charlescampanella5384
    @charlescampanella5384 9 месяцев назад

    What a fabulous interview. So intriguing

  • @jrockwv8658
    @jrockwv8658 Год назад +2

    Best mob interview yet love frank panessa

  • @jamiehovis7722
    @jamiehovis7722 Год назад +49

    finally an interview with someone that isn’t a career criminal, murderer, thief, or ex-con.

    • @kylerobison1425
      @kylerobison1425 Год назад +10

      You mean finally it’s none of the honest people lol

    • @jamiehovis7722
      @jamiehovis7722 Год назад +3

      @@kylerobison1425 Oh you think because a convicted criminal assumes unusual frankness about the crime they were convicted for and already served time, that they aren’t lying about other things that haven’t been detected by police? They only tell you what they want to tell you; confessing a crime that has already been accounted for doesn’t make them honest, you’re just gullible.

    • @jamiehovis7722
      @jamiehovis7722 Год назад

      @K, U aren’t a KILLA ok racist

    • @jamiehovis7722
      @jamiehovis7722 Год назад +5

      @K, U aren’t a KILLA How does being puerto rican not make you racist?

    • @chetterbezly3905
      @chetterbezly3905 Год назад +1

      @K, U aren’t a KILLA😂😂😂

  • @sheldonroyes1451
    @sheldonroyes1451 Год назад +2

    Love this interview. A real professional Agent

  • @topusyed280
    @topusyed280 Год назад +8

    Wow Wht an intro ,
    Even vlad is so quiet 🤫,
    18:20 , 2nd question of this interview
    Thanks vlad for this episode or interview 🙏

  • @numberonestunner8103
    @numberonestunner8103 Год назад +15

    This was a great interview!

  • @JStratton87
    @JStratton87 Год назад +2

    I remember seeing him on the Inside The Mafia documentary back in the early 2000's.

  • @jred1301
    @jred1301 Год назад +19

    Great to hear someone other than vlad talk lol

    • @CoryCDS
      @CoryCDS Год назад +2

      Yea it is but its not vlads fault alot of his guests just arent much of speakers, maybe they havent done alot of interviews but alot of them just “yup, mhmm” there way through the interview

    • @neilvetter662
      @neilvetter662 Год назад

      O K

  • @fabiobonetta5454
    @fabiobonetta5454 Год назад +1

    The good guys never get the recognition they deserve. Great job Vlad

  • @paulkelly5788
    @paulkelly5788 Год назад

    Great interview.

  • @Gobrayamofficial
    @Gobrayamofficial Год назад +2

    Great sit down

  • @alicecub1
    @alicecub1 Год назад

    Fantastic interview ❤

  • @saltpassionfishing5243
    @saltpassionfishing5243 Год назад +1

    Excellent interview

  • @joshuawatson9486
    @joshuawatson9486 Год назад +1

    Very interesting podcast djvlad.

  • @zejaguar
    @zejaguar Год назад +4

    Another insightful interview.

  • @RalphCif
    @RalphCif 2 месяца назад

    This guy is a true G to have no problem cozying up to Sicilians and Colombians on a daily basis

  • @leerios2004
    @leerios2004 Год назад +7

    Damn this dude lived it

  • @silentlove2204
    @silentlove2204 Год назад +5

    Vlad joins the interview 18 minutes later , looking for Tupac questions to get in there. Thanks for joining in vlad.

  • @Utubin88
    @Utubin88 Год назад

    Love the mafia interviews

  • @kenthanos
    @kenthanos Год назад +9

    These YSL is small potatoes for this guy.

  • @alinafemphwina
    @alinafemphwina Год назад

    Thank you!!

  • @gasperstarina9837
    @gasperstarina9837 Год назад

    Vlad finally good interview and also you prepared well...thanks god to have finally sane man here 👏

  • @jamesmontoya5489
    @jamesmontoya5489 Год назад +4

    When’s Vlad gonna interview Joe Pistone? That would be a great video

  • @Milne85
    @Milne85 Год назад +2

    The pause and then vlad says “ok” to all his guests. Yea they knows it’s ok and they don’t need your affirmation. “Ok”

  • @urielgrey
    @urielgrey Год назад +1

    What an amazing brave man. I really appreciate all he has done.
    It would be so cool to listen to more of his stories!!! I have to laugh every time Vlad does his awkward ok :) I understand why he does it and appreciate it because he is not stepping on his guest talking.

  • @narutotip
    @narutotip Год назад +5

    Great interview but the switch up is real on how he caught amnesia on the yts smuggling dope towards the end when mentioning Mexicans n Chinese as if they are worst 😂😂😂

    • @OwnLaneTre
      @OwnLaneTre Год назад

      yeah buddy clearly racist 😂

    • @Amidat
      @Amidat Год назад

      yeah of course you know the race issues always are there.

  • @vbrook04
    @vbrook04 Год назад +2

    First interview that didn't mention VLADS old mix tapes.

  • @josephmalecki
    @josephmalecki Год назад +1

    Grew up in NJ, 5 mins from sals in delran, they had the best pizza growing up.. u wouldnt even know unless u found out when they got arrested, or were in thee kno.

  • @deansnipah1392
    @deansnipah1392 4 месяца назад +1

    The fact that the suits wanted him to stick the mafia is just pure stupidity. Just shows how desk workers should stick to desk work and not the streets

  • @blakehorton8110
    @blakehorton8110 Год назад +12

    This interview was not nearly long enough

  • @MB-vk8cv
    @MB-vk8cv Год назад +3

    They care so much about getting drugs off the street yet they let 1000's of kilos get through during their investigation.

    • @SuperHawkVTR
      @SuperHawkVTR Год назад +1

      They care about who gets paid for the kilos lol the government doesn’t want competition in their most profitable business 😂

  • @robertpvalentin
    @robertpvalentin Год назад +2

    Awesome!

  • @paulmccabe8542
    @paulmccabe8542 Год назад +1

    Frank is a fuggin legend

  • @pab1381
    @pab1381 Год назад

    “We had them but it wasn’t for John Q Public.” Cut to a guy named Jonathan Quincy Public all sad: “Why doesn’t anyone let me do anything?” 😂

  • @glenndoleberry8418
    @glenndoleberry8418 7 месяцев назад

    When Vlad says “ okay” you take shot 😂

  • @Murphy_lee
    @Murphy_lee Год назад +2

    Dude was trying to talk about the fent issue and of course Vlad has to change the subject for drama

  • @snypamuzikk6017
    @snypamuzikk6017 5 месяцев назад

    At 3:45 the Sicilians ain’t Italian, but ain’t Sicily in Italy…I’m tryna make it make since 😂😂😂

  • @mikeandharry88
    @mikeandharry88 Год назад +10

    Need more made men on here VLAD

  • @Gotiges489
    @Gotiges489 Год назад +2

    Legend

  • @NoseyFloridaGirl
    @NoseyFloridaGirl Год назад +6

    Now bust the new Mafia .. your former bosses

  • @weswes4187
    @weswes4187 Год назад +6

    Shout out to vlad for letting him rip right off the beginning. I'm sure he wanted to jump in and guide it but the guy was great.

  • @paulmccabe8542
    @paulmccabe8542 Год назад +1

    Vlad is that cousin that you don’t like. But at the same time you freaking love him n no one can touch him…

  • @DucksCT
    @DucksCT Год назад +1

    A MILLION DOLLARS A DAY!!! That's the real million a day crew NOT Frank Lucas... Lucas wasn't even doing $100K a day ( at least according to everything I've read) That's BIG MONEY!!

  • @emilioemele
    @emilioemele Год назад +1

    Comarè most defintiely does NOT mean “girlfriend” 😂😂😂😂😂 wtf

  • @ICE-zf1cj
    @ICE-zf1cj Год назад +1

    So he basically stop Italian people from eating 🍕 😂😂

  • @MrSmokedies
    @MrSmokedies Год назад +2

    The Pizza Connection. Good memories from my youth.

  • @gnarrcan108
    @gnarrcan108 Год назад +1

    Honestly the issue w fentanyl imo is at the wholesale mid level. Most drug users don’t want fentanyl or don’t know they’re doing it. Yeah some love it but the main issue is most drug dealers aren’t gonna pass up a low volume high profit substance. I’ve never really seen drug dealers as bad guys bc they’re just supplying demands but this fentanyl shit is just too greedy. It’s wild in 2022 that people just want regular heroin

  • @aspades
    @aspades Год назад +5

    Lot of respect for Frank Panessa!

  • @cdt6857
    @cdt6857 Год назад +1

    2022 has me wondering if this is a green screen/iPad type thing

  • @freemindthinkerezrapound5071
    @freemindthinkerezrapound5071 Год назад +1

    So they were dealing in 1million in drugs a day over 30million a month but him with $80.000 gets them excited, bullshit alarms going off all over the place

  • @Oscar-fi1ev
    @Oscar-fi1ev Год назад

    He’s even dressed as a federal agent in this interview lmfao

  • @kennethbarrett3356
    @kennethbarrett3356 Год назад +1

    Dam Vlad you was supposed to ask about the cocaine cowboys WTF????

  • @113charlie7
    @113charlie7 Год назад +2

    Keke was kidnapped yes but he was killed by a CIA guy who now lives in Florida go look it up

  • @christopherhernandez3909
    @christopherhernandez3909 Год назад

    Great work vlad

  • @postmastersgt1670
    @postmastersgt1670 Год назад +1

    And just like that their goes the myth that the Italian mafia didn't deal in drugs. Such bs

  • @stevendegoodmojosmet4034
    @stevendegoodmojosmet4034 Год назад

    So no more drugs in the USA after this brave man's work? Yeaaah .

  • @rubamann
    @rubamann Год назад +4

    That neck-tie have survived the undercover duties.

    • @CaliKidd1001
      @CaliKidd1001 Год назад

      You worried about the wrong thing!!

  • @TheRealFluke88
    @TheRealFluke88 Год назад +4

    Wow shit started off a little racist... He said we knew the Italians who were supplying the blacks in Harlem so WE focused on the blacks! Why not focused on the suppliers? The Bigger fish? Smh alot of people probably won't catch that.

    • @oppsrunning
      @oppsrunning Год назад

      I caught it. These guys are bought and paid for. Just like everybody else

    • @kamaritaylor7677
      @kamaritaylor7677 Год назад

      Thought I was the only one

    • @blakehorton8110
      @blakehorton8110 Год назад

      I mean if they were black and had no name for they're gang I could see him saying this

    • @oppsrunning
      @oppsrunning Год назад

      @@Deathracer25x not racism more like satanism. They are all bought and paid for. And white is not a color it’s an attitude. The blacks were and always used as the scapegoat. But the ones at the top hate black people and poor whites the same.

    • @kylerobison1425
      @kylerobison1425 Год назад +2

      He states literally right at the beginning they didn’t know who the black players were they knew all the Italian players they were intelligence gathering most likely

  • @FRED-sr4me
    @FRED-sr4me 5 дней назад

    You should have left the Mafia piece connection alone because that was the best heroin I ever had in the the early eighties.

  • @dabull4456
    @dabull4456 Год назад

    Good man

  • @cloutchaser9186
    @cloutchaser9186 Год назад

    Looking at this video u can tell vlad is actually a good interviewer he just dont give af when its rappers😂😂

  • @mr.p7616
    @mr.p7616 Год назад +1

    The Sicilians I know would have never done business with an outsider. You have to have family back in Sicily encase the deal goes south.

    • @tektoy8
      @tektoy8 Год назад

      Everybody on RUclips either is in the mafia or knows someone who is. Shut up bro. We don’t believe you

    • @Amidat
      @Amidat Год назад +1

      they got greedy in the US

  • @blakehorton8110
    @blakehorton8110 Год назад +1

    How's he gonna laugh when the guy dies with an hood on his head ??? Heartless man

  • @ozmunky
    @ozmunky Год назад

    Never knew TK wasn't in Sicily ... 😁

  • @achillesdinamita3388
    @achillesdinamita3388 Год назад +1

    Sometimes you have to act/do the criminal life to catch one.

  • @roccitynewyork490
    @roccitynewyork490 Год назад +2

    He said they went after the black men and let the big fish go for years.

    • @torhenderson864
      @torhenderson864 Год назад

      He said they was in Italians before that tho

  • @Coolguy8623
    @Coolguy8623 Год назад

    The camera moving is kinda weird...

  • @Heymanesaymane
    @Heymanesaymane 8 месяцев назад

    I believe in life for a life. But giving someone life for only drugs will never sit right with me.

  • @hishamhashim1660
    @hishamhashim1660 Год назад

    Only one thing missing from Vlad’s mafia interviews playlist : Sit down with Donnie Brasco aka Joe Pistone. Either he hasnt done it or his entourage already engaged Mr Pistone but he declined them. Wasted!

  • @warrendrinkall9939
    @warrendrinkall9939 Год назад +4

    'It was 83 you had the people from the Bruno mob' Bruno was killed in 1980, 'you had Sal Testa's son' Sal didn't have a son, he was Phil Testas son, got dates and names wrong 🙈 makes you wonder what else he is making up eh

    • @mochans
      @mochans Год назад

      Yes the Bruno mob, kinda like the names of the 5 families. Those namesakes are dead. He mixed up a father and son. Lighten up!!!

  • @KoDaKing700
    @KoDaKing700 Год назад +2

    Dude was finna drop da n bomb b4 he said blacks

  • @Sch2017
    @Sch2017 Год назад

    Best interview vlad

  • @qwaheemmarshall5600
    @qwaheemmarshall5600 Год назад

    Charleston White is so jealous right now 😂😂 he dream of this level of informant

  • @martincorona1964
    @martincorona1964 Год назад

    The government as the boss of bosses🤣😂

  • @zeeman3891
    @zeeman3891 10 месяцев назад

    That guy has good memory to be 81 years old

  • @shannonmcstormy5021
    @shannonmcstormy5021 Год назад

    16 months?! Those poor Jurors. How we treat Jurors in the US is obscene. Everyone else that's involved on the gov side are making decent money to good money (Lawyers, judges, support staff, federal agents, etc). Contrastingly, the Jurors are forced into serving, begrudgingly offered paid parking and minimum wage, both of which in some locales they have to fight for. Its ridiculous. Thankfully, at least in this case, at the end they get to see Justice delivered. Many/most trials, Justice is an afterthought casually tossed away for expediency. This long on Juror duty will cost people their jobs, promotional opportunities, family problems, not to mention that most Jurors, unlike in this case, their identities are public knowledge....... :-(

  • @dabull4456
    @dabull4456 Год назад +1

    That stuff kill prince 🤴

  • @BigBawlsCowTown
    @BigBawlsCowTown Год назад +2

    This guy was looking to be in narcotics or customs...hmm..
    Either looming for dope or letting the dope thru. 🤔

  • @andsowot
    @andsowot Год назад

    Real crime. Not a bunch of rappers talking about schoolgirl industry beefs 😴

  • @rockymitchell4374
    @rockymitchell4374 Год назад

    Why do you always bring up cases about rappers I mean these interviews are about something different

  • @lennarthagen3638
    @lennarthagen3638 7 месяцев назад

    "OKAY"

  • @yung_dice203
    @yung_dice203 Год назад

    Absolutely No disrespect . But if your an undercover and NOT taste the product is different ..

  • @bestside4346
    @bestside4346 Год назад +1

    hope the youth takes people like this man as an example, doctors and scientists instead of sport stars and musicians

  • @princesamuels5981
    @princesamuels5981 Год назад

    Johnny Brasco lol

  • @vadimveevoit1699
    @vadimveevoit1699 Год назад +2

    In order to legitimize his deep cover this agent put that white powder deep into his lungs no doubt about it. He had a great fucking time all around. Great story. Loved this dude.

  • @puppetmaster706
    @puppetmaster706 Год назад +1

    Great choice Vlad!

  • @orangemanbad
    @orangemanbad Год назад

    Wait.. vlad didn’t turn this into 69 and 2pac ?

  • @ronaldsears4979
    @ronaldsears4979 Год назад +2

    I will always believe in you and apologize before you passed away for everything he did to me he said I destroyed your life he used me as a child to pay his bills I have no idea until after he asked for forgiveness now my brother is doing this same thing but also to my kids as well I don't know who to turn to but you I trust you truthfully

  • @InternacionalBoxing
    @InternacionalBoxing Год назад +1

    "Da Bl a ck s" 😂

  • @hardheadfat59
    @hardheadfat59 Год назад +10

    I don’t like how he saids “ BLACKS “ lmao just say niggas

    • @danschumacher5427
      @danschumacher5427 Год назад +5

      How he supposed to say it

    • @CA8G5551
      @CA8G5551 Год назад +3

      you wanted him to say the niggas😂😂 and den you would of call him a racist😂

    • @hardheadfat59
      @hardheadfat59 Год назад

      @@CA8G5551 I don’t have to hear him to know he don’t like black ppl 🤣🤣 shit I don’t like white ppl 🤷🏾‍♂️ so I can tell

    • @wsmokr
      @wsmokr Год назад

      @@hardheadfat59 So a racist accusing someone else for being racist,2 peas in the same pod.

    • @CA8G5551
      @CA8G5551 Год назад

      @@hardheadfat59 .. 😂 come on man you don’t know that for a fact.. the man might have black grand kids.....you want him to be a racist 😂... but it was kinda funny the way he said .....the BLACks

  • @grimslim1439
    @grimslim1439 Год назад +2

    Pizza pizza