Former New York Mafia made member John Pennisi speaks to Insider about all the ways the mob make their money.
John Pennisi was born and raised in an Italian New York neighborhood where the mob had huge influence. He became a made member of the Lucchese crime family in 2013. Pennisi says he decided to leave the mob in 2018 after members of his crew falsely accused him of cooperating with law enforcement. Since leaving the mob, Pennisi has been writing blogs on sitdownnews.com and producing a podcast covering topics of organized crime on https://www.youtube.com/c/Sitdownnews.
00:00 - Intro
00:09 - Range Rover Scam
00:53 - Legitimate Businesses
01:39 - Food Industry
02:46 - Hollywood
03:02 - Sanitation Industry
03:30 - Money Laundering
04:03 - Insider Trading
04:22 - Counterfeiting
04:49 - Cryptocurrency
05:16 - Loan sharking
05:39 - Gambling
06:27 - Online Gambling
06:55 - Gun Trafficking
07:25 - Drug Dealing
07:40 - Prostitution
07:55 - Sex Calls Hotlines
08:11 - Extortion
08:59 - Construction Industry
09:38 - Fiber Optics
10:10 - Outro

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