Narco Wars (2020) s02e02 Episode Script

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MAN: Shake this square world
and blast off for Kicksville.
NIXON: America's public enemy
number one is drug abuse.
NANCY: Just say no.
MAN 2: The Mafia is
a major player in the
international drug underworld.
MAN 3: At the end of the day,
it's all about the dollar.
It's all about the dollar.
REAGAN: American people want
the mob and its associates
brought to justice and
their power broken.
HARRIS: There's now an
understanding that the
War on Drugs was
an abject failure.
MAN 4: You have to
stop and ask yourself,
"How did we get here?"
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JIMMY D: When I was in college,
we never lost a game.
The other teams would be
exhausted by halftime and
we came out like it was
the beginning of the game.
We just annihilated
other people.
We could have beat anyone.
This feeling of being'
on top of the world.
The football team went
undefeated 'cause I had 'em
all methed up.
My name was on the lips
of every student there.
Everyone on the college
campus was wired up.
Everybody got straight As.
These other kids
were ridin' the bus,
I had a brand‐new Cadillac.
JIMMY D: Long John became
the methamphetamine king pin
in Philadelphia.
And he would step
over your dead body if
he was done with you.
His name was Long John
because he had long
pockets and short arms.
He'd rather eat his
young than part with a buck.
MARTORANO: My name
is George Martorano.
I'm the son of
Long John Martorano.
My father's reputation was
made in the meth business.
He made a lotta money.
Millions and millions
and millions.
(laughs)
You don't become "Long John"
by sellin' ice cream.
MARTORANO: It all started
from our vending company
right in the neighborhood.
So he supplies, you know,
pinball machines, juke boxes,
cigarette machines
to restaurants
and other businesses.
He was a money maker,
it was just unbelievable.
It wasn't a week go by that
he didn't come up with another
idea how to make money.
GEORGE: Philadelphia's
a blue‐collar town.
Meth was a drug that made you
feel you could work really hard,
you could go for hours.
If I pop some meth,
16 hours in a flash won't
even affect me.
Meth was the preferred
drug of choice for a lotta
different segments
of the community.
Boom, it exploded.
JIMMY D: Long John offered to
supply me with bags of a gram,
of a half a gram, of
small quantities you sell
person‐to‐person.
Meth was such an
addictive drug,
you got a line waiting around
the corner to buy this.
JIMMY D: Long John was sneakin'
his drug dealing on the side,
on the down low,
that's why he recruited kids
like me so it couldn't get
back to the other Mob guys.
Long John would pay maybe 7,
8 grand for the pound, cut it,
put it out on the street,
gross 30.
He'd walk away with
$23,000, in three days.
GEORGE: Long John settles
in Cherry Hill, New Jersey,
which is a very upscale
suburban community.
And he became a
very wealthy man.
He had summer homes.
He would go for long
vacations with the family.
JIMMY D: He was flashy, jewelry.
Flashy cars.
Money.
Everything in Long John's
life was money.
LOU: But then there's
something that money can't buy.
JIMMY D: He played himself
up as the Godfather, the Don,
the Boss of Bosses.
But in fact,
he wasn't a made guy.
LOU: By becoming
a member of the Mob,
it is status.
It adds a special
gravitas to your name.
JIMMY D: That's definitely
Long John's goal in life.
That's why he had to
impress Angelo Bruno.
GEORGE: Angelo Bruno, who
emerged as the boss in 1959,
was a businessman.
Angelo Bruno was
an entrepreneur.
Angelo Bruno understood
the idea was to make money
not headlines.
Long John was an earner.
That's why Bruno liked him.
He and Bruno kinda
spoke the same language.
It's about money.
(pop)
MARTORANO: I remember one
time we were havin' lunch.
It was me,
my father and the Boss,
Angelo Bruno, at the table.
A big money guy on the streets
came out with a wisecrack.
Your Boss got very upset.
My father picked up
the sugar container and
(thud and breaking glass)
That guy will never
say a wisecrack again.
I think it cost him
thousands of dollars to get
his teeth done.
Attempted killings, beatings.
My father would get
up and do it himself.
And everyone knew that's
what kinda man he was.
GEORGE: Angelo Bruno was one
of the old school Mafia guys
who said drugs are
forbidden and he saw drugs
as a dirty business.
Heavy law enforcement
attention and if you deal drugs,
you're violating the
principles of our organization.
MARTORANO: In the Mob
you cannot sell drugs.
If you got caught with drugs,
you're gonna get
the death penalty.
(sirens)
(overlapping radio chatter)
REPORTER: There is a major
story tonight in Philadelphia.
Here's what's happening.
WOMAN: It's absolutely
shocking here.
This is a
gangland‐style killing,
certainly not something
we expected to see in
Philadelphia tonight.
GEORGE: There's Angelo Bruno,
the Boss, his mouth agape,
his head back on
the seat of the car.
A hole in the back of
Angelo Bruno's head.
And that's the end of
Angelo Bruno's era,
right there on the
streets in South Philly.
MAN: I know he was a good man.
That's all I can tell ya.
WOMAN: Nice man to
everybody that I know of.
MAN 2: The big thing I guess
was that he would never be
involved in drugs around this
neighborhood and now people
are wondering, you know,
what's gonna happen,
is there gonna be a lot of
drug traffic around here now?
REPORTER: There was a
funeral in Philadelphia today
for Angelo Bruno.
It was well attended
by his family,
friends and fellow
Mob members.
(overlapping chatter)
It is even possible that
the man who paid to have him
killed was there too.
LOU: The reason that Bruno
was killed involved drugs.
You had these associates and
drugs would be another revenue
source that they were
being deprived of.
JIMMY D: There never
was any proof of it,
but it's almost like
Long John had something
to do with Bruno's murder.
MARTORANO: My father had
nothin' to do with it.
He was very heart broke,
very sad, very sad.
INTERVIEWER: (over PA) Well,
how would you characterize your
relationship or
acquaintance with Mr. Bruno?
LONG JOHN: (over PA) He was a
very dear friend of mine, sir.
LOU: Nicky Scarfo
was a psychopath.
What came first was
violence as a tool to
enforce discipline
to maximize profits.
His DNA was the bullet
and he loved it.
LOU: What was Long John's
first thing that he wanted to
know with respect to Scarfo?
He wanted to know
what's your position
with respect to drugs,
because this was his business.
JIMMY D: Scarfo was
anti‐drugs out in the open,
but he certainly opened
it up for Long John.
Nicky Scarfo wasn't gonna
pay us up on all that money
Long John offered.
Scarfo turned a blind eye,
got his cut of Long John's
business and allowed
him really to explode
in the drug business.
JIMMY D: Long John stopped
dealing finished product,
he just wanted the chemicals.
That's where the money was,
it was fast turnover.
You didn't have to
turn it into powder,
you just buy it and sell it.
The chemicals
you need are P2P,
Phenyl‐2‐Propanone.
A pint of P2P will make one
pound of pure methamphetamine.
The biggest problem
is getting P2P.
RONALD: I felt that as a
marketing major in college,
find a need and fill it.
I've been told I
was the largest P2P seller
in the United States.
We had a large
cocaine division,
but I liked the P2P business
better because I was able to
control it from the source.
We were getting the large
quantities from Germany.
We had it shipped
into the Bahamas.
I purchased a yacht, we would
load it up and come back to
Fort Lauderdale.
We'd pick up the shipment and
bring it back to Philadelphia.
I liked the business,
and I had no competition.
RONALD: Word had gotten
out to Long John that we
were a source.
We would meet at a car wash.
Long John said,
"Look, I'd like you to sell
P2P to a couple of my people
and we'll take care of
any problems you have."
I sold 200 gallons
to Long John's people.
RONALD: We could put 28
gallons in the trunk of a car
and deliver the car to them.
JIMMY D: Long John started
selling me Raiton P2P which
was far and away better
than anything on the street.
At this point I'm no
longer dealing in a product,
I was full‐time meth cooker
for the Pagan Motorcycle Gang.
Manufacturing meth was
like havin' a good union job.
Philadelphia in my era was
the meth capital of the world.
The Pagans distributed
it all over the country.
LOU: Long John was an agent
of destruction with respect to
the drugs that he
was dealing in.
MAN: Leave me alone!
Guys, leave me!
REPORTER: This man exhibits
a very common reaction.
Anxious, agitated, disturbed
and acutely frightened.
MAN: Oh I never hurt nobody!
WOMAN: The risk involved
is death with speed.
Inevitably the
result will be death.
JIMMY D: He had a lotta money,
but Long John still
wanted to be a made man.
He had to impress Scarfo,
so Scarfo ordered a hit.
It's your job, kill him.
I don't give a
(bleep) how you do it.
Kill him.
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GEORGE: The Italian American
Mob in Philadelphia
was Philadelphia‐based,
but it had tentacles
into southern New Jersey,
as far east as the
Atlantic City Resort.
LOU: In the late '70s
where legalized gambling
came to Atlantic City,
this was like a treasure
trove for the Mob.
JIMMY D: Atlantic City
went from a ghetto to a very
powerful union city.
The Bartender's Union,
the Waitress Union,
the Linen Union.
The Philadelphia Mob with
Scarfo wanted to own those
unions 'cause then you could
go to the casino Presidents,
tell 'em, "We're gonna have a
strike unless you kick up to
us "X" amount
of dollars annually."
It was big money.
JIMMY D: John McCullough
was a union leader.
McCullough took control of
the unions in Atlantic City and
he wouldn't go along
with any of the Mob's plans
of working with them.
MARTORANO: John McCullough
made the mistake getting his
eyes on Atlantic City.
All's I know he was told to
keep out of Atlantic City.
He shoulda listened.
LOU: Scarfo goes to Long John,
wants to set up McCullough,
you do the murder.
Long John's going to willingly
accept that because this is
how he's going to prove
himself with respect to
becoming a Mob member.
JUNIOR: People don't realize,
it takes a lotta balls
to walk up and put a gun
up to someone's head.
(gunshot)
JUNIOR: I met
Long John, he said,
"You got balls
like an elephant.
Basically, we gotta
piece of work to do.
I want you
to do it, do a murder."
With a guy that's
right next to the Boss,
it's an honor to be asked.
I said,
"All right, no problem."
JUNIOR: Got a box of
flowers so I could lay the
piece and the
silencer in there,
try and be like
a dumb delivery guy.
We arranged to meet
about 5:00 that night.
Long John, I think he had
his gold Lincoln that day.
I got in the back,
nodded at each other.
We proceeded over the
Benjamin Franklin Bridge,
headin' towards
Northeast Philadelphia.
Long John pointed
out the house.
He turned around and
sat a couple of houses down
in his car.
I got out with the flowers.
I went up,
knocked on the door.
(knock)
As soon as John
answered the door,
he looked at me just like
you're lookin' at me and
I just put the silencer
up to his forehead.
(silened gunshots)
It was over and that was that.
JUNIOR: Long John said,
"Man, I love you, I love you."
He handed me $5,000
in cash and said,
"Listen, buy
yourself some suits."
REPORTER: 60‐year‐old
McCullough was gunned down
nine days before
Christmas in his
Northeast Philadelphia home.
LOU: Delivery man kills
him in front of his wife.
People were just
absolutely stunned by that.
You wonder what is the
darkness of the individual
who's a member of the Mob.
GEORGE: Long John got made
and became an initiated member
because of that hit.
He was worthy of being
part of the organization.
JIMMY D: He became Scarfo's
number one man on the street.
JIMMY D: Long John
definitely wanted to control
the whole business
of meth in every aspect.
Someone won't
cooperate, kill 'em.
We'll just take over
his whole operation.
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OFFICER:
We ready to rock 'n roll?
OFFICER 2: Yeah.
OFFICER:
Have we got the equipment?
OFFICER 2: Yeah.
COOKE: This is a
pretty dangerous operation.
So we are gonna be very
careful about any of these
people that arm
themselves in a panic.
(camera shutter)
(knock)
OFFICER 3: Hit it, hit it!
OFFICER 4: On the floor!
On the floor!
On the ground!
OFFICER 5: Hands out,
hands where I can see 'em!
Now! Hands behind your head.
COOKE: This is the
dope that was found.
It was in a thermos container.
A little over 40 ounces.
MAN: There's probably at least,
probably 10,000
to 20,000 in there.
COOKE: Here we have
Jesús Malverde,
patron saint of
drug traffickers.
Our head honcho here is
wearing some jewelry around
his neck with Jesús Malverde's
picture on it.
So he's the real deal.
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LOU: Long John's ultimate
goal was to be the sole
source of P2P in Philadelphia.
Whenever you have a monopoly
over anything that's in demand,
you're gonna be able
to control its price,
you're gonna become
even more powerful.
RONALD: Steve Bouras was the
head of the Greek Mafia in
Philadelphia and he was
one of my larger customers.
He was Long John's
main competition.
JIMMY D: Steve Bouras
was a P2P supplier
all over the city.
He had his own gang,
they were very successful.
It was
multi‐million‐dollar money
and Long John
wanted their action.
LOU: Long John gets
close to Stevie Bouras.
Says, "Let's go to dinner."
Your guard is down because
you're going to dinner
in a public place.
JIMMY D: Long John brought his
wife and Bouras brought a date.
(pop)
It's a social event.
During the dinner, two
masked men came in.
The shooter himself
motioned the gun to Long John
to sit back.
It was obvious they
were working together.
(gunshots)
The shooter murdered
Bouras and his date,
an innocent woman who
just thought she was going
out to have dinner.
REPORTER: Reportedly
present at the table
when the shooting broke out,
Long John Martorano,
a business associate of the
late crime boss Angelo Bruno.
JIMMY D: No‐one in their
right mind would go to
dinner with Long John.
You talk about
the last supper.
LOU: Long John's
thinking is so twisted.
Who ends up committing a
murder with family members in
attendance and then with
the danger that you have a
civilian who ends up dead.
JIMMY D: The street
business on it is,
the shooter was Long John's
own son, Georgie Martorano,
which is a little hard to
understand that he not only
murdered the
girlfriend or the date,
an innocent bystander,
by he did it in front
of his own mother.
MARTORANO: They tried to
say I was involved in it,
but I wasn't.
My father he was capable
of orchestrating anything
if he wanted to.
MARTORANO: Me and my father,
we knew the family of
the woman that got killed.
We actually went to her house
and consoled the family and
make sure they
had any kinda funds they
needed for the funeral,
had coffee with them.
And that was it.
The next day it
was onto business.
My father probably
got all his customers.
They can't buy
from a dead guy,
they're gonna buy
from a living guy.
You know, it's the
name of the game.
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RONALD: We met sitting
on the park bench.
We talked about P2P and
that I was selling too much
to other people.
Long John wanted to
be my only customer.
He said he wants to buy
52 gallons of P2P from me.
I said okay, and we made
arrangements to meet again.
RONALD: (over speaker)
First of all,
this is what it'll cost.
RONALD: I was wearing a wire.
There were several
FBI agents watching us.
I was thrilled to be
participating.
I wanted out of the business.
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RONALD: I got arrested on a
cocaine distribution charge.
The punishment could
be five years in prison.
I thought I could make a deal.
I met two agents from the FBI,
I gave 'em a list of my
customers and they were very
interested in Long John.
LOU: Raiton had the criminal
credentials to be able to meet
with Long John Martorano.
He was a prize as far as
the FBI was concerned.
RONALD: They got
back to me and said,
"Look, if you wear a wire,
we'll make a deal with you."
I would be free,
and I'd be out of the business.
LOU: So they set the meet
up for Rittenhouse Square.
The city has all these
different beautiful squares,
Rittenhouse Square
is one of them.
MARTORANO: The FBI needed
where they can get him on film
and what better place
than an open park?
RONALD: I sat down
on the bench where
Long John was sitting.
LOU: Now, this is something
out of the movies, all right.
There's $100,000 he has
in a shoebox in 1981.
That would be the equivalent
of more than a quarter of a
million dollars
in a shoebox.
RONALD: I gave him the keys
to the van with 52 gallons
of P2P in it.
Told him where the van
was parked, and I left.
I walked out with
the shoebox of money.
(camera shutter)
LOU: The FBI's takin'
pictures of this whole thing.
Long John's arrested.
His P2P empire
came crashing down.
MARTORANO: He told
me that very night.
"I'm bein' indicted."
He was very upset with himself,
very upset 'cause he
felt he made a mistake,
and he wasn't a man to
make a lotta mistakes.
GEORGE: From
Long John's perspective,
you wanna remain in good
standing with the organization
because they gotta have
your back when you're in jail.
They gotta watch out for
your family when you're away,
so he's gonna stay active even
though he's under indictment.
MARTORANO: I gotta
give it to my father.
No matter what
happened he had no fear,
he had no fear of anything.
And sometimes that
works against you.
He was out on bail,
but while he was out
on bail Nicky Scarfo
and my father wanted
a tax from the Pagan.
The Pagans would have to pay
tens of thousands of dollars
if they wanted
to exist in the speed
business in Philadelphia.
JIMMY D: When he attempted
to pass a street tax onto the
Pagans that was not tolerable.
I figured that a dynamite
vest on his son Georgie
would get my point across.
A Pagan grabbed up Georgie
with three other Pagans,
put the vest on him, said,
"Georgie this is what
we're gonna do to you til
your father comes around."
MARTORANO: They kidnapped me
and they throw me in this van.
I don't know why
I'm being kidnapped.
All I know is I'm lookin'
at this kid and he has
a kill switch in his hand.
And he says,
"Anybody comes nears us,
we're all gonna get blown up."
JIMMY D: Georgie called
up Long John and told him
that we had a dynamite
vest on him and if things
didn't go our way,
we were gonna use it.
(sirens)
JIMMY D: Long John lost his
mind when he thought he could
shake down the
Pagan Motorcycle Club.
The dynamite vest
on his son Georgie,
I guarantee you I got
Long John's fullest attention.
MARTORANO: You're not
dealin' with mental giants,
a lotta these bikers they're
all high as kites, you know,
they're all methed out
and it was pretty bad.
JIMMY D: Within an hour,
Long John had $10,000
delivered to me to
show that he was serious
about stopping this.
About getting that
vest off his son.
MARTORANO:
Listen, sometimes you win,
sometimes you lose.
Thank God I'm here to
live to tell about it.
REPORTER: Reputed mobster,
Raymond "Long John" Martorano,
accused of being a key figure
in a half a billion dollar
drug ring, is facing Federal
charges of conspiracy and
possession of the drug P2P,
which is an ingredient
used in methamphetamine.
RONALD: I had no problem
testifying against him.
I just knew which
side I was on,
so I did whatever I had to.
LOU: All the things that
Raiton represented with
respect to his criminal past,
that he was a huge
distributor of P2P.
His credibility was
attacked and rightfully so.
RONALD: (over speaker) First
of all, this is what it costs.
LOU: Then on the other hand,
you had the power of the
recorded conversations.
RONALD: (over speaker)
I'll have it for
you in four weeks.
LOU: We built the case
around the surveillance of
the FBI agents.
We built the case around
the seizure of the P2P.
We exposed
Long John for what he is,
a drug dealer.
JIMMY D: At the time
they had parole,
so he was looking at
maybe six or seven years.
He could do that much
time standin' on his head.
MARTORANO: I mean, he didn't
lose no sleep over it.
He did good time
just like that.
Had all the food he wanted.
Everything was
okay, no trouble.
He didn't know
what was coming.
REPORTER: The District
Attorney's Office in
Philadelphia is processing
the warrants right now for
reputed mobster
Raymond "Long John" Martorano
accused of murdering
Philadelphia Roofers Union
President John McCullough.
JUNIOR: I testified in
court in 1983 against
Long John Martorano.
It's packed with press,
wall‐to‐wall,
people fighting to get seats.
It was pretty big news.
MARTORANO: My dad did not
think he was invincible,
he just knew that
you took the shots,
you did what you did,
and you went to jail and
he wound up with life.
GEORGE: Long John made
phenomenal amounts of money
in the meth business.
But he got too full of himself
and that was his demise.
LOU: When you're dealing in
drugs to the amount that he
was dealing in and the
destruction that that imposes
on the community,
I believe Long John's
legacy is an example of the
destructive powers of the Mob.
(sirens)
Captioned by
Cotter Media Group.
(sirens)