Mafia Cops | Murder For Hire
6/9/202636 min
After surviving an assassination attempt, mobster Anthony Casso turns to his police contacts for help identifying his attacker.
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First 90 secondsLindsey Graham· Host0:00
American Scandal uses dramatizations that are based on true events. Some elements, including dialogue, might be invented, but everything is based on historical research. [suspenseful music] It's a sweltering summer's day in 1986 outside the 19th Hole Bar in Brooklyn. Anthony "Gaspipe" Casso stands on the sidewalk in the shadow of the bar, deep in conversation with three associates from the Lucchese crime family. Short, but powerfully built, 44-year-old Casso is a made man and one of the Lucchese's top enforcers. He and the other men have serious business to discuss. The boss of the family has been arrested by the police, and it looks like he might be going away for a long time. But their conversation falls silent when the owner of a nearby Chinese restaurant rushes up. He's agitated and tells the mobsters that a few drunk guys have brought a Doberman into his place, and the dog is terrorizing his customers. The mobsters send one of their men from the bar to take care of it, and a few minutes later, he emerges from the restaurant with the two troublemakers and their dog. [dog barks] But the Doberman is still barking and snarling, jumping up at the Lucchese man. Casso recognizes the kid holding the leash. He's a tall, redheaded guy named Jimmy Hydell. He's worked for Casso before on a