Five Mafia families ruled New York with a bloody fist in the 1970s and '80s, until a group of federal agents tried the unthinkable: taking them down.
Genre: Documentary, Crime
Cast:John Alite , Michael Franzese , Jim Kossler , John Joyce , Lin DeVecchio , Joe Cantamessa , Rudy Giuliani , John Savarese , Michael Chertoff , Joseph F. O'Brien , Gil Childers , Curtis Sliwa , G. Robert Blakey , Ronald Goldstock , Bruce Mouw , Frank O'Hara , Marilyn Lucht , Charlotte Lang
As New York runs amok, the mob operates with impunity, until a little-known law and some innovative surveillance tactics give federal agents a leg up.
As the FBI takes daring steps to wiretap the heads of the five families, the new US Attorney for the Southern District of New York joins the fight.
In order to prove a conspiracy among the mafia bosses, the FBI tries to tie "The Commission" to a high-profile gangland murder.