A&E Biography - Mobsters Series 3 (2011) Part 3 Tommy "Karate" Pitera

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 3 Tommy “Karate” Pitera

In the 1980's, Tommy Pitera became one of the most violent made men of all time, but betrayal by one of his closest friends would bring the mob killer to justice. He was considered a different kind of tough guy because unlike other mob hitmen and henchmen, he used karate on his victims and enemies. This earned him the nickname Tommy “Karate” Pitera.

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