For decades, the American Mafia thrived in secrecy—its structure hidden behind silence, fear, and a strict code of loyalty. That began to change in the early 1960s when one man decided to talk. Joe Valachi, a low-ranking soldier in the Genovese crime family, became the first major insider to publicly reveal the inner workings of La Cosa Nostra to the U.S. government.

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