The Dallas Crime Family: the Italian Mafia in the Lone Star State

RIP OLE’ Vinnie Bologna.. he was great

To be fair I think you don’t hear these stories because the mob always made the news on the east coast the west coast on the other hand wasn’t as big in the media as their east coast counter parts

Good story - but this is all made up. No such thing as the Mafia

Interesting theory. Unfortunately, detailed review of such claims are easily disputable given careful review of verifiable evidence

mafia isn't what we think it is. Just another a front for intelligence (CIA, FBI, etc...)

Glorify them in the media to corrupt the youth. Yay

No doubt they helped the CIA kill Kennedy

My grandparents used to talk about the mafia that ran all the way up to Ardmore, OK.

living in dallas figure i’ll watch this

Brothers Pizza at Red Bird mall in Duncanville was one of my favorite places to eat during the 80s. I've been told by different people that it was a mob front. Anyone got info on that?

Dallas was a satellite for Marcello in the hey day, still they made a ton of money.

Campisi’s restaurant is still one of the best Italian eateries off Mockingbird

CONROE MENTIONED!!!!!

Ai narration?

To my understanding the Dallas Mob never had 1:39 any influence over what was going on in Houston/Galveston. That was firmly in control of the Maceos

Crazy I’m cool with campisi grandson didn’t know it til couple days ago 😂shout out dibbi 🔥

Really would love more content like this, a history of mob families in different cities

I'd much rather have the Italians here in the underworld. They are patriotic and Love America.
Unlike our government cutting deals with the cartel who hate us all.

Really really well done.

Music is a beating to listen to

My boss told me a story about loan sharks pulling up to a rodeo in the 70’s in ties and suits with “the pointy collars” and a town car and got whooped by a bunch of cowboys lol

Thanks for posting

I had always heard mob money was tied to bankrolling Six Flags in Arlington. Guess this is just urban legend.

"I'm only sourcing heroin for a dope-addicted racehorse" has to be the craziest excuse of all time

Poppy Bush was over CIA and owned Standard oil. Biggest drug trafficker ever.

i was hoping youd do more videos on obscure mob families. Great vid.

This is by far the best voice of the ones you used in your other videos. If you reuploaded the last video with this voice, i bet it would do well.

Dallas has a fascinating history and the 1920s was one of the most interesting eras not just for Dallas but for Texas itself. Thank you for this great documentary

As a resident of Dallas, TX(born and raised) I believe that Campisi''s has the best pizza in Dallas EVER! I could care less if they are mafia related.❣

What about Charlie Dragna ? Dallas 60’s and 70’s

You know too much my guy

Dont forget about poppie Bush back in the 50s and 60s Zapata oil companies, Brown and Root,Kellogg all tied with Mobs just ask lil George from west texas to Dallas

Do one on the infamous Anthony Butler and name his parents. Freemason, Politician, Military and I the Louisiana Butler's paid for his education at Yale.

Glad you have human narration. Great video.

I have family connections to Dallas' criminal underbelly. It's great to go through this history.

TODAY JOHN DUCA RUNS THE FED BANK IN DALLAS-
THE DUCA’S MAINTAIN CONTROL OF DALLAS HIGH CRIME… THE CIVELLOS ARE ALSO INVOLVED STATEWIDE!!!!
THATS FACTS!!!

A dope addicted race horse? I have heard it all now.

Great documentary! You'd think the Italian food would be better here

Okay, a story about the Dallas mob, or my very brief brush with it. In 1990 or 1991, I was having lunch with my then girlfriend and her mom at Campisis's on Mockingbird lane, which was the only location then. They now have an absurd number of locations. Anyway, at one point, girlfriend's mom says something quietly about Campisi being a mob family. Being nineteen or twenty and still more than a bit naive, I responded at full volume "They are Mafia!!??" She tells me to keep it quiet, and proceeds to tell me how she knows. Girlfriend's dad was then (1990/91) the CEO of Ben E. Keith and had been with the company for several decades. In the early 1960s, he had been tasked with the assignment of taking Denton couny from being a 'dry' county, to a county where alcohol could be bought and sold at all the typical places alcogol is sold, but especially important was the large volume wholesale. Ben E Keith was doing for their own purposes, but certain connected Italian families, Campisi being one of them, had their interest in seeing this happen as well. Everybody profits. Very interestingly, the person my girlfriend's dad was working with, that represented the Italian families, and was their to help convinve certain parties this needed to happen, was none other than Jack Ruby. I kid you not. Girlfriend's mom went on to name several of the last names you mention throughout this video. She knew these names, and she knew some of the history around them. Pretty heavy stuff. Prior to that day, I had no clue that the Mafia was so heavy in my hometown.

Around 26:40 you show an image that reads "Dallas Circa 1968". This can not be correct, as it shows Reunion Tower, and Reunion Twoer construction began in the mid 1970s and was complete in 1978. I was a kid then, but recall all the hype when construction began, and then when it was completed. I was in grade school when we went to visit Reunion Tower when it first opened. In circa 1968, Reunion Tower wasn't even being discussed, I'd wager. So as to not simply commnet with complaints, I'll give you a relevant story. I'll do this in a separate comment.

Mafia is Huge Now in Dallas ... if you move here you gotta pay tribute.

AYE CAN YOU BELIEVE DIS FRIGGIN HOMBRE? I WAS RIDIN HYUR, COCK SUGGAH!

I think the biggest reason the mob wasn't as strong, or at least as large as you see in the Northeast, was the lack of unions. If you can control a union, you basically control their industry. You need concrete, you need teamsters to deliver it, you need to kick some money to the local mobster who controls the teamsters. Texas, being largely Right-to-work, don't have huge unions controlling their industries, and as such, you don't have the mafia infiltrating the unions and using them for extortion. That largely limits you to controlling vices.

I'm only buying the dope for my heroin addicted racehorse 🤦🏽‍♀️ 😂😂😂😂

Anyone who truly knows the DFW knows that the most powerful, corrupt family in the State is
The Sam Bass family

My grandmother was married seven times and one of those times was to a Campisi in Dallas. My mom always told me that my grandmother was married to a mafia man of Dallas. I guess the stories she told me were true. 🤷‍♀️