war the colombo family only has like one hundred thirty made guys or did and yet compared to like six hundred for the gambino family godey's family and yet they had the most violence over the years of any family they had that was called the profile wars in the early sixty's the gallo wars in the seventies were joey gallo was famously killed in burroughs clam house in little italy and then this third war from the one nine hundred ninety one to ninety three in which fourteen people were killed in brooklyn new york including two innocent bystanders my book proves not only did gregory scarpa sr instigate and propagate the war with his enemy victory in a just plain defense the whole time but linda vecchio his contacting their control agent leaked information to him during the course of the war that allowed him to continue killing people so you know it was really was what amounted to a cointelpro today or up until the early one thousand nine hundred twenty years after the church quite committees basically a paid assassin and i mean taking out the people that they you know they're giving him

war the colombo family only has like one hundred thirty made geyser did and yet compared to like six hundred for the gambino family godey's family and yet they had the most violence over the years of any family they had that was called the profile wars in the early sixty's the gallo wars in the seventies were joey gallo was famously killed in burroughs clam house in little italy and then this third war from one thousand nine hundred one to ninety three in which fourteen people were killed in brooklyn new york including two innocent bystanders my book proves not only did gregory scarpa sr instigate and propagate the war with his enemy victory in a just plain defense the whole time but linda vecchio his contacting their control agent leaked information to him during the course of the war that allowed him to continue killing people so you know it was it was really was what amounted to a cointelpro today or up until the early one thousand nine hundred twenty years after the church quite committees basically a paid assassin and i mean taking out the people that they are you know they're g

i got close with joe colombo an life started to change at that point.k: you go from being a med student to working your way up the rungs of the ladder in the colombo mob family? >> quite a transition, huh? rick: i'll say. what is that like as you're moving? how do you move up in that world? >> look if you're an earner r you have shot moving to the top. basically i was fortunate. i had a head for business and i knew how to use that life to benefit me in business. with the money comes the power and i started to move up. rick: were you ever worried you yourself would be a target? >> well, i was always a target. i mean i had, you know, two federal racketeering indictments. i had an indictment in florida. i was indicted six or seven times. rick: i don't mean a target of law enforcement. i mean a target of other folks in your world? >> you're always worrying about that. with success it is kind after double-edged sword. you have to always worry on the streets. you got it from both side. it is part of the life. you deal with it and it is normal actually. rick:

. >> a 205-colombo and -- 205- kilometer leg, he triumphed in a sprint finish. >> the german rider finished just behind him, and an italian writer came in third. >> stay tuned to dw. we have more news coming your way. >> welcome back. the late pope john paul ii is to be declared a saint by the vatican. pope francis signed the decree friday morning. >> this one is special because it is the first in history that was cowritten. >> the beatification process often takes decades, even centuries, but the late pontiff 's overwhelming popularity among the faithful surely played a role in his canonization just eight years after his death. the announcement was historic nonetheless. vatican spokesman announced that pope francis recognized a second narrative attributed to john paul ii. that clears him for sainthood. and the late pope john xx three was also canonized. though his papacy was short- lived, he is recognized as the pontiff who brought the church into the modern age through the second vatican council of 1963, which instituted wide-ranging reforms. it was widely expected that pope francis would

. >> a 205-colombo and -- 205- kilometer leg, he triumphed in a sprint finish. >> the german rider finished just behind him, and an italian writer came in third. >> stay tuned to dw. we have more news coming your way. >> welcome back. the late pope john paul ii is to be declared a saint by the vatican. pope francis signed the decree friday morning. >> this one is special because it is the first in history that was cowritten. >> the beatification process often takes decades, even centuries, but the late pontiff 's overwhelming popularity among the faithful surely played a role in his canonization just eight years after his death. the announcement was historic nonetheless. vatican spokesman announced that pope francis recognized a second narrative attributed to john paul ii. that clears him for sainthood. and the late pope john xx three was also canonized. though his papacy was short- lived, he is recognized as the pontiff who brought the church into the modern age through the second vatican council of 1963, which instituted wide-ranging reforms. it was widely expected that pope francis would

he waged the third colombo war from 1991 to '92 before he was arrested. that are killed 14 people, including two sent in bystanders. he took six lives personally himself. he was on house arrest. he's diagnose of a.i.d.s. he's got a t-cell count of two. he's in his house and his son joey says some local drug dealers just dissed me. he grabs two guns. he kills a guy. one of them shoots a guy in his car. he gets his eye shot out, and he drives to the curb, walks home, drinks a scotch, and is driven to the hospital. >> what a guy. >> wow. what a story. peter, to talk about whitey bulger for a second, because i was in high school the day the news came across the radio. we were coming home, he was on the lam. it wasn't until 16 1/2 years later, like june 2011, that was he was actually caught. the talk all those years as the details of his relationship with the fbi came out was that the fbi really maybe wasn't trying that hard to catch him. maybe they were happier just to kind of let him go. do you think there's anything to that? >> well, look, there's a huge di

the worst you're going to say the only white house of the day the radio guy in colombo minestrone click. on what it was quote we're about to go good you've never seen anything like this i'm telling. playing well with. science technology innovation all the latest developments from around russia we've gone to the future or covered. i would rather as questions for people in positions of power instead of speak on their behalf and that's why you can find my fellow larry king now right here on r.t. question more. recently . as. welcome back to cross talk we're all things considered i'm peter lavelle to mind you were discussing the future of democracy in the middle east. ok stephen i go back to you in a way in washington i mean how would other islamic groups now see democracy in the region because they'll say you know these guys they don't play by the rules why should we be part of this process you know it's that this is a defining moment in that respect go ahead. but first of all just to respond to carrots earlier comment i do agree with them absent a change in u.s. law this was a coup d'etat

violence and talk peace a little worse journalist a long white house to give it to the radio guy in colombo minestrone they want you to watch what we're about to give you've never seen anything like this on khaled. download the official application to your cell phone choose your language stream quality and enjoy your favorite. if you're away from your television of just doesn't do so now with your mobile device so you can watch on t.v. anytime anywhere. is it possible to navigate the economy with all the details of his diction misinformation and media hype will keep you up to date by decoding the mainstream headlines stating it's in your ranks. good afternoon and welcome to prime interest i'm harry and boring in the above english here's the headlines that we're tracking today. and solvent that would be detroit which gave us the supreme in the vehicle that fueled our happy motoring paradise for decades unfortunately after years of decline the motor city finally filed for bankruptcy protection yesterday a move that was not entirely unexpected that's right eight hundred billion dollars in liab

peaceful world a little worse for those things only the white house to give it to the radio guy in colombo minutes from a cricket club i want you to watch what we're about to give you've never seen anything like this i'm told. is it possible to navigate economy with all the details of his text and misinformation and media hype will keep you up to date by decoding the mainstream headline stating if in your mind. little download the official application to your cell phone choose your language stream quality and enjoy your favorite. if you're away from your celebration of just doesn't do so now with your mobile device so you can watch on t.v. any time anyway. good afternoon welcome to prime interest i'm bob english here in washington d.c. here's a story we're telling today the world is turning or is it looks like we have the slightest inkling of a crack down on wall street but is it too little too late the press have quarter not told though it may be continues against john corazon and ex goldman i gary gensler is being painted as a tough new sheriff even though he abdicated oversight of the e

as a former mafia associate within the colombo and gampina family sal polisi joins us.ined the mob when you were in the 20s. what did you do in the mafia? >> i was assigned to the colombo crime family but i became involved with john gotti so i straddled between the two families, like a freedom i had. i had a lot of autonomy. >> the mob sounds so seed and so dangerous and so violent. what's the allure of being in the mob? >> for me it was the excitement. i didn't do drugs or drink alcohol. it was to rob banks, i was a bank robber in the '70s, a hijacker. i moved from one level of crime to another. >> i know that you crossed paths with whitey bulger's gang several times when you were in the mob. do you think he ole be convicted of killing 19 people? >> absolute will. right now he's doing damage control. it's a blow to his ego, and i really feel that he's probably going to testify and probably redeem himself in a strange way, but when you kill children and do the things that he did, i mean, i said to other tv personalities, this guy wouldn't have lasted five minutes in new

. >> a lot of us are obviously not playing at colombo.ig playing video games can pay, at least for this one university of oregon student. just senustin chavarria want to let a $50,000 in mlb 2k-13's profit game challenge. he says that he practiced the video gang for six hours a day even while going to school. >> coming up on the kron 4 morning news is 6:00 a.m.. and 8 year-old girl is dead, and three others are injured filed in a late- night shooting in oakland. the fighter is speaking just hours after his daughter passed away. >> following some breaking news out of dallas, live pictures are coming in of a train derailment. >> we're also keeping an eye on the bay area weather as we are going to see a spike in temperatures. in temperatures. (ann(aouncernc) bornboith itnat . ts. tsey weye boe to tay.ay to eat.at then renest. t. to fuel uethe mee bolibocyclcyt, purina one cnereatedat new hewd with pur pina ona and ane rie t ttiviti, we, e tue ing feeding ing to a t arue nae re reexpeexenceen join uins at paturinaoin.coc combine to make e the

the italian american civil rights league was headed by joseph colombo, head of the colombo crime family. -- >> this hearing continues live online at c-span.org as the u.s. house is about to gavel in. members will continue debating the energy and water projects spending bill for 2013. blessing upon we ask your blessing upon this assembly and upon those who are given. we pray that your reconciliation and peace, goodwill and understanding will prevail on the hearts and in the lives of us all. encourage the members of this house, o god, to use their abilities and talents in ways that bring righteousness to this nation and to all people. ever remind them of the needs of the poor, the homeless or forgotten, and those who live without freedom or liberty. may your spirit live with them and with each of us and may your grace surround us and those we love, that in all things we may be the people you would have us be in service to this great nation. may all that is done within the people's house this day be for your greater honor and glory. amen. the speaker: the chair has examined the journal of

. >>> plus, former mobster and colombo crime family captain joining us talking about what made him walk his life in the mafia. >>> and the impact of iodized salt on our mind. it's all "happening now." ♪ ♪ rick: and "happening now" we're getting a new look at newly-released photos showing former nfl star aaron hernandez holding a gun. thanks for joining us, i'm rick folbaum. jenna: i'm jenna lee, and those pictures are taken from a surveillance camera that was apparently inside the home of aaron hernandez. police say they were recorded hours before and minutes after his friend, odin lloyd, was shot to death. the pictures are part of more than a hundred

he finished, said thank you very much, got up and left and like in the last couple moments of the colombosay said, well, there's this other thing. what is it? well, we've never worked on it. what is it? we need immigration reform. around that table, everybody said that's a bigger issue than the one given an hour talk here that i brought up, and they talked in terms of hundreds of thousands of people that today needed in their various industries. and yet none of them felt comfortable or confident, it was somebody else's issue. moving on this time through, more than 2007 because it just didn't yet organized in -- get organized in that way, the business community, every his group is -- every business group is for, you know, legalization of the 10 or 11 million who are here, dramatic increases in future flows whether it's low-selled and high-skilled. i always get a kick out of it. this generation, we'll see what happens. future generations can switch in a generation or two. because you're bringing in the talent and opportunity. so the business community, southern baptist convention has strong

the italian-american civil rights league was headed by joseph columbo was the head of the colombo crime family. but you couldn't use the word mafia. because it was insulting to italian americans to use the word mafia. and i said that i was going to continue to use the word mafia because it should only be insulting to italian americans who were members of the mafia. or italian americans who sympathize with the mafia. but for italian americans who go to the mafia as a group of murdering imbeciles, which is what they were, then they should be liberating. they should point to society that yes, there's a group called the mafia that most italian americans don't want them come to like and i would like to see them gone. it would be very, very healthy if that's the dialogue we have with the muslim community that most muslim should be as opposed, and opr and i believe most of them are, the question is getting everyone to speak out and getting on the same page about this. nobody should be defensive about describing something as islamic terrorism that you're insulting legitimate, decent members of

put in at the behest of the anti-american civil rights supporters league who was the head of the colombocrime bill the. it was insulting to i ty americans. and i said i would continue to use the word mafia because it should only be insulting to those who are members of the mafia or those who sympathize with the mafia but for those who go as a group of murdering imbeciles which is what they were coming then they should be liberated and point out that this group called the mafia that most italian americans don't like them and want to see them going to be healthy if that is the dialogue we had that most muslims should be opposed and co-star but to speak out and get on the same page but nobody should be defensive about describing something as islamic terrorism that you are insulting decent members of their religion produce a islamic extremist terrorism you are insulting exactly he want to insult the islamic extremists in those sympathizer's anyone else who was nervous about that should get over it. >> i appreciate your answer. i wish we had more time. maybe we would follow up individually wi

and the last couple moments of the colombo tv shows, the guy from the chamber said there's this other thing. what is it? we have never worked on it. what is it? we don't -- what is it? we are running out of workers we need immigration reform. around that table the truckers, retail people, small business guys, manufacturers, everybody said that's a bigger issue than the one given i talked to that i brought up. and they talked in terms of hundreds of thousands of people that they needed. and yet none of them felt comfortable or confident, they thought it was somebody else's issue. through, this time more than 2007, because it just didn't get organized in that way, the business -- every business group is for legalization of the 10 million or 11 million who are here, dramatic increases in future flows whether it's low-skilled, high-skilled. i always get a kick out of low-skilled, high-skilled this generation. we'll see what happens in future generations. it can switch in a generation or two because you are bringing in talent and opportunity. the business communities, southern baptist conv