A&E Biography - Mobsters Series 3 (2011) Part 6 Albert Anastasia
Keep your friends close…and your enemies closer. They are the men whose life stories read like the script of a Hollywood gangster movie made men, Mafiosi… mobsters. It is a profession where promotion can be achieved at the pull of a trigger and where the spoils of success can be unimaginable wealth. It is also a way of life where your closest allies may prove to be your most dangerous foes and where the penalties for failure can mean life in prison - or even worse. Mobsters features the true stories behind the mob legends that have ruthlessly clawed and fought their way to their own precarious versions of the American Dream. Investigating their violent lives, their struggles to grab and hold on to power, wealth and prestige, as well as ultimately, their violent deaths, as justice prevails. Season 3 examines the lives of six notorious gangsters - Danny Greene, “Big Joey” Massino, Tommy “Karate” Pitera, Anthony “Gaspipe” Casso, and Albert Anastasia - as well as the “Mafia cops” Louis Eppolito and Stephen Caracappa. These men all created a reputation for themselves among their peers, reaching legendary status in the criminal underworld. This series gives an insight to life as a gangster that goes behind the “glamorous” perceptions as sometimes portrayed in modern movies and paints a real picture of life in the mob in all its gritty, harsh reality.
Part 6 Albert Anastasia
Albert Anastasia, dubbed the Lord High Executioner of the Underworld, is the subject of this installment of the series. As leader of Murder, Inc., Albert Anastasia was one of the most vicious and feared mob bosses of the twentieth century. Italian-born Albert Anastasia jumped ship in Brooklyn in 1919, when he was 15 years old. Hardened by life's injustices, Anastasia killed a fellow longshoreman and was recruited by the mob while on death row.
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