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Anybody who has a nickname Joe Batters

Anybody who hasa nickname Joe Batters has got to bea dangerous person. But if you would...

Mafia Spies • S01E03 • 2024

Anybody who has
a nickname Joe Batters has got to be
a dangerous person. [birds chirping] But if you would have
met Accardo when he was
an older gentleman, and not known who he was, you would not immediately
have suspected him of secretly being a mob boss. [pleasant music] He lived in the suburbs and didn't call attention
to himself. He was all about staying
out of the limelight. And that's
something he learned working for the first
celebrity gangster. The lesson Accardo
drew from Capone is celebrity gangsters
don't end well... That the first thing you
need to do in this business is not get any heat on you

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Anybody who has a nickname Joe Batters

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has got to be a dangerous person.

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[birds chirping]

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But if you would have met Accardo

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when he was an older gentleman,

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and not known who he was,

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you would not immediately have suspected him

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of secretly being a mob boss.

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[pleasant music]

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He lived in the suburbs

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and didn't call attention to himself.

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He was all about staying out of the limelight.

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And that's something he learned

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working for the first celebrity gangster.

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The lesson Accardo drew from Capone

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is celebrity gangsters don't end well...

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That the first thing you need to do in this business

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is not get any heat on you.

Duration

54 seconds

Views

84

Timestamp in Movie

00:18:50

Uploaded

Apr 08, 2025

Season

1

Episode

3

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Movie Summary

Reveals the startling tale of the CIA's, the mob's, and Sinatra's Rat Pack's connections from Vegas to Miami to Havana, exploring America's most amazing espionage operations ever.