Fear City: Netflix Doc Highlights When Mafia Commission Ran New York
Unless you've been lost on a deserted island the past week, you probably know that Netflix dropped a trailer for Fear City , the streaming platform's three-part docu-series on the New York Mafia that will premiere in a couple of days on July 22 ( SEE TRAILER BELOW ). Paul Castellano, Carmine (Junior) Persico, Phil (Rusty) Rastelli, Anthony (Tony Ducks) Corallo, Anthony (Fat Tony) Salerno. Fear City (a riff on New York's "Fun City" nickname—though Fun City itself was meant to be sarcastic ) focuses on the Mafia Commission Case (aka, United States v. Anthony Salerno, et al, a 22-count Manhattan-based indictment that was handed down in February 1985), which was the Feds attempt to destroy the New York Mafia by taking out its "brain trust," in one fell swoop. (They were successful to an extent.) Fear City is produced by RAW, the company behind Don’t F**K With Cats (an excellent documentary on Netlix right now: watch it immediately), and Brillste...