Undercover DEA Agent Frank Panessa on Busting The Mafia "Pizza Connection" (Full Interview)
Frank Panessa sat down for his first-ever VladTV interview, and Vlad started off by introducing him as one of the two undercover DEA agents in the “Pizza Connection Trial” that took down mafia members using pizza parlors as fronts. During the conversation, Frank started off speaking about joining the DEA, and from there, he spoke about how he got involved in the “Pizza Connection” investigation. Frank explained how he went undercover and became partners with the Sicilian mafia members by supplying them with cigarettes for machines in their pizza shops. From there, Frank detailed getting into the drug trade with the Sicilians and working with Rudy Giuliani in the operation, which he said involved getting $1 million to look legit. During the conversation, Frank detailed the inside information on the Sicilian mafia’s heroin operation, including how they laundered money and other crimes they committed. Frank also spoke about how they took down the operation, and he then detailed the trial that included one of the co-defendants being killed by someone in the Gambino crime family. To hear more, including Frank speaking about other undercover missions that he was on, hit the full interview above.
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Yo Vlad is letting him COOK! He didn't say anything for almost 20 minutes! 🤣🤣🤣
@neilvetter662
Жыл бұрын
said okay
@ccali327
Жыл бұрын
Exactly. Vlad is actually a terrible interviewer. He's very lucky to have a lot of subscribers and good guests. Less is more.
That was an awesome interview he was very well spoken and vlad let him speak, just a great all around interview!
@universaltalentbookings1389
Жыл бұрын
Doesn’t VLAD let all law enforcement speak freely ? VLAD is an informant
When Vlad says “I have friends behind the scenes”, he’s talking about this guy 😂
@jamiewilson5679
Жыл бұрын
His handler?
@Milne85
Жыл бұрын
No one in their right mind would tell Vlad anything current
Wow Vlad this was nice, i was expecting 87 parts of this. 👏
@nowwhat1434
Жыл бұрын
Lmao
@jacobbaruch01
Жыл бұрын
Lmao
@neilvetter662
Жыл бұрын
OKface
@bellabear653
Жыл бұрын
💀
Good to see Vlad interviewing his dad!
@edwintroy6957
Жыл бұрын
🤣
@Heymanesaymane
6 ай бұрын
😂😂😂
Fun fact...the tomato sauce made by the mob as a front company was so good it made the mob a fortune.
@joonaslehtonen7965
Жыл бұрын
Really?? Whats your source? Do you remember the brand name?
@terryt2728
Жыл бұрын
@@joonaslehtonen7965 I saw it on a Pizza Connection documentary. I couldn't tell you the name. It was 15 years ago.
@Amidat
Жыл бұрын
@@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
Жыл бұрын
@@Amidat i dont live in nyc.
finally an interview with someone that isn’t a career criminal, murderer, thief, or ex-con.
@kylerobison1425
Жыл бұрын
You mean finally it’s none of the honest people lol
@jamiehovis7722
Жыл бұрын
@@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
Жыл бұрын
@K, U aren’t a KILLA ok racist
@jamiehovis7722
Жыл бұрын
@K, U aren’t a KILLA How does being puerto rican not make you racist?
@chetterbezly3905
Жыл бұрын
@K, U aren’t a KILLA😂😂😂
Great interview. This man has done so many cases, i could listen to him talk for another 2 or 3 hours.
Great to hear someone other than vlad talk lol
@CoryCDS
Жыл бұрын
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
Жыл бұрын
O K
I watch all these Mafia vids to keep my accent strong - This was a good watch !
This was a great interview!
@nobleman_81
Жыл бұрын
Absolutely!
We need more of these interviews
Wow Wht an intro , Even vlad is so quiet 🤫, 18:20 , 2nd question of this interview Thanks vlad for this episode or interview 🙏
Vlad joins the interview 18 minutes later , looking for Tupac questions to get in there. Thanks for joining in vlad.
Best mob interview yet love frank panessa
When’s Vlad gonna interview Joe Pistone? That would be a great video
@Milne85
Жыл бұрын
When he takes those stupid sunglasses off.
I remember seeing him on the Inside The Mafia documentary back in the early 2000's.
These YSL is small potatoes for this guy.
Love this interview. A real professional Agent
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.
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”
Damn this dude lived it
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
Жыл бұрын
yeah buddy clearly racist 😂
@Amidat
Жыл бұрын
yeah of course you know the race issues always are there.
The good guys never get the recognition they deserve. Great job Vlad
First interview that didn't mention VLADS old mix tapes.
This interview was not nearly long enough
What a fabulous interview. So intriguing
Great sit down
Another insightful interview.
At 3:45 the Sicilians ain’t Italian, but ain’t Sicily in Italy…I’m tryna make it make since 😂😂😂
Very interesting podcast djvlad.
Excellent interview
Dude was trying to talk about the fent issue and of course Vlad has to change the subject for drama
Need more made men on here VLAD
@franksindoneii5410
Жыл бұрын
He’s a cop bud 🙈
@mikeandharry88
Жыл бұрын
@@franksindoneii5410 aware of that mate
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
When Vlad says “ okay” you take shot 😂
They care so much about getting drugs off the street yet they let 1000's of kilos get through during their investigation.
@SuperHawkVTR
Жыл бұрын
They care about who gets paid for the kilos lol the government doesn’t want competition in their most profitable business 😂
Great interview.
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.
Fantastic interview ❤
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
Frank is a fuggin legend
Great interview 🎉
Now bust the new Mafia .. your former bosses
@franksindoneii5410
Жыл бұрын
Lmfao 🤡
Thank you!!
Awesome!
Vlad finally good interview and also you prepared well...thanks god to have finally sane man here 👏
“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?” 😂
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!!
Love the mafia interviews
Comarè most defintiely does NOT mean “girlfriend” 😂😂😂😂😂 wtf
2022 has me wondering if this is a green screen/iPad type thing
Vlad is that cousin that you don’t like. But at the same time you freaking love him n no one can touch him…
Lot of respect for Frank Panessa!
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
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.
Legend
Dam Vlad you was supposed to ask about the cocaine cowboys WTF????
So he basically stop Italian people from eating 🍕 😂😂
The camera moving is kinda weird...
That neck-tie have survived the undercover duties.
@CaliKidd1001
Жыл бұрын
You worried about the wrong thing!!
The Pizza Connection. Good memories from my youth.
And just like that their goes the myth that the Italian mafia didn't deal in drugs. Such bs
That guy has good memory to be 81 years old
Sometimes you have to act/do the criminal life to catch one.
I believe in life for a life. But giving someone life for only drugs will never sit right with me.
Dude was finna drop da n bomb b4 he said blacks
@YouCanChangeYourWorldToday
Жыл бұрын
Lol 😅
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
Жыл бұрын
I caught it. These guys are bought and paid for. Just like everybody else
@kamaritaylor7677
Жыл бұрын
Thought I was the only one
@blakehorton8110
Жыл бұрын
I mean if they were black and had no name for they're gang I could see him saying this
@oppsrunning
Жыл бұрын
@@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
Жыл бұрын
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
Keke was kidnapped yes but he was killed by a CIA guy who now lives in Florida go look it up
Good man
He’s even dressed as a federal agent in this interview lmfao
So no more drugs in the USA after this brave man's work? Yeaaah .
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
Жыл бұрын
Everybody on KZread either is in the mafia or knows someone who is. Shut up bro. We don’t believe you
@Amidat
Жыл бұрын
they got greedy in the US
Why do you always bring up cases about rappers I mean these interviews are about something different
Never knew TK wasn't in Sicily ... 😁
He said they went after the black men and let the big fish go for years.
@torhenderson864
Жыл бұрын
He said they was in Italians before that tho
That stuff kill prince 🤴
Looking at this video u can tell vlad is actually a good interviewer he just dont give af when its rappers😂😂
How's he gonna laugh when the guy dies with an hood on his head ??? Heartless man
The government as the boss of bosses🤣😂
This guy was looking to be in narcotics or customs...hmm.. Either looming for dope or letting the dope thru. 🤔
@neilvetter662
Жыл бұрын
liker of dope.
Charleston White is so jealous right now 😂😂 he dream of this level of informant
"OKAY"
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!
Great work vlad
'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
Жыл бұрын
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!!!
Johnny Brasco lol
Wait.. vlad didn’t turn this into 69 and 2pac ?
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....... :-(
I love your interviews but can you maybe find another word other than OK
Real crime. Not a bunch of rappers talking about schoolgirl industry beefs 😴
Absolutely No disrespect . But if your an undercover and NOT taste the product is different ..
Pizza pizza
hope the youth takes people like this man as an example, doctors and scientists instead of sport stars and musicians
“the blacks, the blacks, the blacks.” 🤨😤
@stevecovaleski6315
Жыл бұрын
How else is he supposed to describe the black gangs?
@casucasueq4479
Жыл бұрын
The Sicilians, the Sicilians, the Sicilians. Whooptiedoo, child.
@Gianni225
Жыл бұрын
y’all so sensitive
@santocataldi3355
Жыл бұрын
@@stevecovaleski6315exactly just like when he says. The sicillians it doesnt bother me !!
Great choice Vlad!
"Da Bl a ck s" 😂
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
@jthejeweler85
Жыл бұрын
What?
@zizzyzizzy7043
Жыл бұрын
@@jthejeweler85 😂😂😂
He almost said N***a
I don’t like how he saids “ BLACKS “ lmao just say niggas
@danschumacher5427
Жыл бұрын
How he supposed to say it
@CA8G5551
Жыл бұрын
you wanted him to say the niggas😂😂 and den you would of call him a racist😂
@hardheadfat59
Жыл бұрын
@@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
Жыл бұрын
@@hardheadfat59 So a racist accusing someone else for being racist,2 peas in the same pod.
@CA8G5551
Жыл бұрын
@@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