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Explore five powerful New York Mafia families, who ran organized crime in America. | dHNfU3NMMlRqSjdJcTg

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00:00Bonesharking, prostitution, gambling, hijacking.
00:04They took over the docks.
00:05They got away with everything.
00:08They came here to a life that was not really much better.
00:11They decided we're gonna do it our way.
00:13This was a secret society.
00:15I respectfully decline to answer.
00:19They were so powerful, when their godfather was made,
00:22they made sure the word mafia would never be used in it.
00:26A lot of the guys were becoming too high profile.
00:29Organized crime became a ground zero for law enforcement.
00:33More informants are coming forth to put the mob away.
00:37We did not want to spend the rest of our lives in jail.
00:41This is the story of the rise and fall
00:43of the most infamous mafia families of all time.
00:47Every family of every member of this life
00:51is destroyed.
00:52American Godfathers, The Five Families.
00:55A three-night event premieres Sunday, August 11th at 8.
00:58Only on The History Channel.

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