If you are of an age then the name Valachi has meaning

[flotsam]

Joe Valachi was an actual bad man but nowhere near as bad or powerful as those he worked for.

Wiki says:Joseph Michael Valachi (September 22, 1904 – April 3, 1971) was an American gangster in the Genovese crime family who is notable as the first member of the Italian-American Mafia to acknowledge its existence publicly. He is credited with popularization of the term cosa nostra.[1]

In 1963, Valachi testified before a U.S. Senate committee, known as the Valachi hearings, and disclosed previously unknown information about the Italian-American Mafia including its structure, operations, rituals and membership. His testimony was the first major violation of omertà, the mafia's code of silence, and the first concrete evidence that the Italian-American Mafia existed to federal authorities and the general public.

When Valachi decided to co-operate with the U.S. Justice Department, Attorney William G. Hundley became his protector and later stated, "We'd put dark glasses and wigs on him and take him to the Roma restaurant. He was a hell of a guy.... My days with Valachi convinced me that the Cosa Nostra was the most overrated thing since the Communist Party."[11] Although Valachi's disclosures never led directly to the prosecution of any Mafia leaders, he provided many details of history of the Mafia, operations and rituals; aided in the solution of several unsolved murders; and named many members and the major crime families.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Valachi

The thing I'm saying is that maybe the most important thing Lev Parnas, Giuliani's singing boss gives is not any direct evidence of one crime, but rather the international organization of oligarchs pretending to be populists or nationalists...

[Joinfortmill]

1. Could be you're right

We'll soon find out.

[crickets]

2. It's going to be interesting. I do hope he is being guarded well.

I want Parnas to live long enough to testify. If you want to talk about Mob custom and all, canaries sometimes tend to drop dead, and that would not go over well. We'll see.