All language subtitles for Narco Wars 2x06 - The Cocaine Godfather (English)

Shake this square world
and blast off for Kicksville.

America's public enemy
number one is drug abuse.

Just say "No".

The mafia is a major player in
the international drug underworld.

At the end of the day,
it's all about the dollar.

It's all about the dollar.

American people want the mob,

and its associates brought to justice,

and their power broken.

There's now an understanding that
the war on drugs was an abject failure.

You have to stop and ask
yourself "How did we get here?"

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You have to be pretty
top-notch in your profession,

just to survive it all.

You get heavy turbulence.

You gotta slow the aircraft down because
you could have structural failure.

Like, losing a wing
wouldn't be much fun.

A north atlantic storm in November,

it's a pretty impressive event,
to put it mildly.

My name is John Raymond Boulanger.

I'm what you would
call a mercenary pilot.

I fly for hire, to
he who pays the most.

I had 4,343 kilos of cocaine,

and I was flying from Colombia,

directly to Canada.

Normally the flight would be
about nine hours, give or take.

But I ran into the storm, for about 45
minutes or an hour, before I broke out.

And, low and behold,
there were the F-18s.

Then they were off to my rear.

And the other guy came up close
beside us, and flying around me,

making signals to go down.

And I just waved to him.

They can't shoot at you.

But they were running out of gas.

We were just timing it and say,
okay, how long is it gonna be before

they're gonna run out?

It was interesting.
He gave us a nice little show.

I went down to treetop level.

I flew the rest of
the way treetop level.

Below radar, so nobody knew
where the airplane was.

The authorities put out an
alert, to all the airports.

There's a big white convair,

somewhere in canada,

if anybody saw it to report it.

I should have arrived
around 6:00 in the morning,

but I arrived at
quarter to nine, instead.

I was standing
out on the runway,

waiting for the crew hired
to go and do the pick-up.

I looked all over the place,

couldn't figure out where
the hell these guys were.

Turns out they had been
there since 3 in the morning.

At around 7:30,
they decided I wasn't coming,

and they left!

So, anyway, I started walking.

And a truck went by.

I hitch-hiked.

And he gave me a lift all
the way down to the lumber camp,

and that's where I was when
the RCMP arrived by helicopter,

'cause the police had
blocked off all the roads.

So they asked,
"What's in the airplane?"

I said, "Cocaine."

And he says, "How much?"

I says, "A lot!"

It's being touted as the biggest
drug bust in Canadian history,

and probably the most dramatic.

The seizure of 4,300 kilos of cocaine
really reverberated through DEA.

That's a staggering amount of cocaine,

coupled with the fact
that it was flown directly

from the north coast of
Colombia into Canada.

I would have
made around 45 million.

It's a pretty good payday.

For one day's work,
that's not bad.

I was arrested.

Pled guilty and got 23 years.

And that was it
and became famous.

But I take things
with a grain of salt.

It was and I believe it still is,

the biggest bust ever in Canada.

We were just wondering,
who could be behind this?

Everybody knows who it is,

but I don't technically
wanna say their names,

but they know.

Don't get me wrong,
these people are killers.

But he was always a
gentleman, very charismatic.

Everywhere he went,
he showed respect.

Best lawyer in the country, over here.

Nick Rizzuto was very ambitious.

He came from a major
crime family in Sicily.

Nick talked it up
that he belonged to

the kind of, the
aristocracy of the mafia.

But when he came to Canada,

he realized there was
a well-established criminal

organization in power.

Anybody that lived
in Canada would tell you,

I wanna go to
Montr�al and enjoy myself,

because of all the nightclubs.

The downtown core
of a two-kilometer radius,

we had 480 licensed
alcohol establishments.

And, for the great part, they were
controlled by the Cotroni family.

The gambling, the loan sharking,

protection, if you
had a business you had to

buy their cheese, you
had to buy their ice-cream.

They controlled everything.

Vic Cotroni came from Calabria.

Nick Rizzuto came from Sicily.

And there was bad blood
between them, since the beginning.

They never like one another.

Nick Rizzuto found
himself among powerful men,

and he tried to find
an area of operation.

Rizzuto's organization had three main

profile-driven schemes:

Drugs, particularly heroin,

money laundering, and
public construction contracts.

Nick Rizzuto senior's intentions were
to create profits that would endure,

not only his lifetime,

but the lifetime of his grandchildren.

There was gonna be violence.

There was gonna be a turf war.

He knew that was coming.

Nick Rizzuto, with his family,

left the Canada
and moved to Venezuela,

because he fear for his life.

He had to run.

Rizzuto had a lot
of connections in Venezuela.

He had family there.

And he used that family to
really strive and gain power.

Venezuela, at that time,

was a place where the
mafia was well-established,

and they were able to
infiltrate institution,

banks, to corrupt the politicians,

because they willing
to accept their money.

It was the perfect place to
establish a criminal enterprise.

Because they were
very close to Colombia,

and very close to
drug traffickers there.

Cocaine was emerging as a popular
drug of choice in North America.

Cocaine pretty well displaced the
heroin market, the beginning of the 80s.

Heroin was for addicts, junkies,

whereas cocaine was part
of having a glass of wine,

everybody would consume.

There was cocaine all over the place.

Once it started getting popularized,

with the disco culture
and all that sort of stuff,

then it went skyrocket.

Nick Rizzuto saw the opportunity
to create millions of dollars

from cocaine.

The Cali Cartel got their
start in the early 1970s,

by sending smaller quantities
of cocaine into the United States.

And they were slowly able to evolve
into bringing in larger quantities.

They were able to really present
themselves as businessmen.

So they wore suits.

They socialized with the
upper society, the elites.

Drugs would leave Colombia, go
into Venezuela, depart Venezuela,

and go into Canada.

Cocaine was coming in camouflaged,
in anything that you could think of:

Seafood, fish, shrimp, coffee.

Agents find more than seven tons
of cocaine, hidden in broccoli boxes.

These kind of shipments and these
methods were extremely effective for

bringing drugs into the United States.

Nick Rizzuto groomed
his son, Vito, very well.

And, today, we don't see mobsters
of that caliber, of that personality.

He was a tall man, with a deep voice,

and he spoke four languages fluently.

For Vito Rizzuto, the son of Nick,

was the baptism of fire.

My name is Joseph Pistone,
special agent in the FBI.

I was undercover for six years,
in the Bonanno crime family,

and my undercover name
was Donnie Brasco.

During this operation, I found out
that the mafia crew, up in Montr�al,

were considered a faction
of the Bonanno mafia family.

They had their own boss,
and everything, but they were

loyal to the Bonanno
family in New York City.

There was a lot of friction
within the Bonanno family.

There were three capos that were
not loyal to the boss, who was in jail.

They wanted to take over the family.

So they called a sit-down, which
is a meeting, and the plan was,

when the three opposition capos got
to the meeting, they would kill them.

One of the guys they brought in for
the hit was Vito Rizzuto, from Montr�al.

When the three capos walked
in, the guys were hiding in a closet,

and these guys jumped out,
and Vito Rizzuto yelled,

"This is a stick-up."

Hitting three capos,

at one time, is a
big deal within the mafia.

To Vito Rizzuto, it
was a feather in his cap,

to solidify his place in the family.

Two shotgun blasts, at close range.

Paolo Violi dead, in
his own Montr�al coffee bar.

Violi's death was part of a
gang war, that has not yet ended.

The hotel killers wore masks
and used submachine guns.

Police say they knew
exactly who they were after.

They shot three men in the
bar and a fourth outside.

Okay good, we are good to go.

We're rolling on this end.

The self-confessed hitman told
the court he saw Montr�al mobster,

Frank Cotroni as a father figure.

When asked why he killed for
Cotroni, Simard answered,

"I wanted to be part of the family.

I wanted to treat him with respect."

Real Simard brought
down the Cotroni family.

He brought down the Cotroni family.

Vito was to be the godfather,
le parrain, of Montr�al.

The legitimate economy was
booming, and so was organized crime.

The Rizzutos came
along with the cocaine.

That was the new product.
That was the new thing.

The Rizzuto crime family did
not have the will to distribute,

because they wanted
to remain anonymous,

and to avoid detection

from the different
law enforcement agencies in Canada.

They had to develop a relationship
with those that had the capacity,

and the manpower, to
distribute on the street.

Thereby you see a
relationship developing

between the Rizzuto
crime family and the outlaw

motorcycle gangs.

Thousands of kilos
were coming into Canada,

that were being
distributed by the Rizzutos,

was going to the Hells Angels,

the West End Gang,
other street gangs.

He succeed by creating the
strategic alliances between the mafia,

the Colombian cartels, the
street gangs, the Hells Angels.

He was a visionary.

He had the talent of
getting people together.

Drugs and money, they go hand in hand.

Cocaine and marijuana sales
generate so much money that

smugglers literally have
no place to put it all.

In order to combat organized
crime and money laundering,

you gotta follow the money,

not the individual,
not the product...

follow the money.

At one point, Colombians want
to be paid in American dollars.

And so, Vito Rizzuto
had this major issue,

to convert Canadian dollars

in American dollars.

The RCMP and Montr�al police opened up
an exchange bureau, a money exchange.

Like, in every major city in the
world, you would change your currency.

It wasn't phony,
it was a real exchange bureau,

with real employees,
right smack downtown Montr�al.

And the service was excellent, and
they were acting like Western Union,

that everybody knows today.

But it's a sting operation.

Wise guys would bring in their money
to exchange from Canadian to American,

and then wire it to Venezuela, Peru, or
Colombia, for the purchase of narcotics.

It was fantastic.

All the serial numbers
were noted, of every bill.

It was a brilliant undercover operation.

Brilliant.

More than 40 suspects
were rounded up yesterday,

during a massive sweep by the RCMP.

Security at the Montr�al
courthouse was particularly tight,

as the accused were arraigned
on more than 500 charges.

Sabatino Nicolucci
was an important conduit for

the Rizzuto crime family

with the Cali Cartel.

He had contact with the Cali Cartel,

and was able to coordinate
a lot of drug shipments,

from Colombia into
Canada, for the Rizzutos.

And Sabatino Nicolucci
laundered in excess of $30 million,

through this undercover
currency exchange house.

He was wanted on over
400 counts of drug trafficking,

and money laundering.

Nicolucci had done loads
on behalf of Vito Rizzuto

in Montr�al.

We deployed to Cali, and set up
surveillance on the apartment complex

that we had identified through
the telephone tone analysis.

We made a phone call into the
residence, 'cause we had the number.

And, a few minutes later,
we did a raid on the apartment.

And Sabatino Nicolucci was arrested.

This was definitely
a significant arrest,

because of the overall
player that he was.

The RCMP says the operation had
dealt a major blow to organized crime.

Rizzuto's name appears
on this court document,

of people allegedly involved
in the money laundering.

He's been called "Canada's Teflon Don."

In the 80s, the man the RCMP calls
the godfather of the Montr�al mafia,

dodged the bullet on
drug trafficking charges.

Best lawyer in the country, over here.

Vito Rizzuto was never
directly involved with it.

He was never charged.

His associates were.

He never directly put his
hands in the cookie jar.

He always had somebody
else do it for him.

He had a art of delegating.

He should have given
management courses, in university.

The Rizzutos make a lot of money,

and they reinvest it back into gaming,

internet gambling,
finance companies, construction.

So, basically,
they became parallel banks.

And, slowly,
they're getting away from it,

because with cocaine
you do a lot of time.

The moneymaker was the drugs.

But Vito wanted his kids to
go straight, go legitimate.

Vito Rizzuto's most
important legacy he wanted to

leave behind was the fact
that his children had not

adopted the lifestyle
that he had for himself.

If you give law
enforcement enough time,

they will be able to take
down any criminal organization.

Killings, that took
place more than 20 years ago.

The victims, three members of
the notorious Bonanno crime family.

They were shot dead in a New
York City social club, in 1981,

during a bloody internal war.

Cases like that never go away.

And eventually somebody's
gonna get arrested,

somebody's gonna talk.

It took over 20
years to solve the case,

but at the time of the
hits of the three capos,

Joey Massino was one of the
main players in the killing.

And then, from this hit,

Joey Massino becomes a
boss of the Bonanno family,

and then Vito becomes
boss up in Montr�al.

He didn't wanna die
in an electric chair.

When Joey turns, he actually
testifies against Vito.

His information is that Vito was in on
the hit, and he was one of the shooters.

So, it gave the
government enough ammunition,

and enough evidence to indict Vito.

It was the 20th of
January, it was a cold day.

We went at his house with Nick Milano,

at six in the morning.

It was all coordinated
with the United States, also.

Pietro and I arrived at the door.

We were welcomed by his wife.

Upon entering, Mr. Rizzuto
was at the top of the stairway.

Actually, the first thing he says,

he asks his wife to make me a coffee.

I knew Vito.

And he says, "Pietro,
what are you here for?"

I said, "I have a warrant to execute."

We stepped into the parlor,

and I informed him
that I was arresting him,

with regards to the triple
murders conducted in New York.

He didn't really take it seriously,
in the sense that he says,

"My lawyer is working on that."

He was wearing his jeans and,
I guess, when I'm nervous

I tend to joke around
more than anything else,

so I asked him,

"Mr. Rizzuto, it's a big arrest
for me, could you put a suit on?"

You know, and he did.

Today, Vito Rizzuto's
luck finally ran out,

in a Brooklyn courtroom.

Rizzuto was sentenced to ten
years, for his role in a brutal,

triple murder,
in New York, 26 years ago.

Nick and Vito were
in power for at least 25 years.

One of the longest reign
in the history of the mafia,

in North America.

Vito Rizzuto was able to
build a criminal enterprise

worth billions of dollars.

When he was in a prison
in the United States,

that was the most difficult
ten years of his life,

because old enemies and new
enemies get together and start to kill

the people very close to Rizzuto.

Nick Rizzuto senior, the
86-year-old head of Canada's most

famous mafia family,

has been shot and
killed in his own home.

His shooting, in his home last week,

comes less than a year after grandson,

Nick junior, was gunned down in public.

He lost his father while he
was in jail, and then his son.

That devastated him.

His closest allies
actually turned on him.

And he never thought that he had so
many people that would back-stab him.

I saw him when he came out of jail,
and he was totally a different person.

Totally a different person.

Vito Rizzuto's
claim to fame, if you will,

his strength,
had always been negotiation.

Vito Rizzuto pioneered the
way criminal organization should

work and operate.

The idea of building the strategic
alliance to conquer new markets.

Today, the 'Ndrangheta is
the most globalized mafia.

They operate in
almost five continents,

and they use the same
system of Vito Rizzuto.

You can control it,

but we'll never
eliminate organized crime...

Never.

~subtitles ripped and corrected by~
Rapunzel@addic7ed.com