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Shoplifting seems like a crime done by kleptomaniacs, dysfunctional movie stars or teenagers. Well, there is a huge contingent of professional shoplifters working stores somewhere in the world,as you read this blog. In criminal lingo, a shoplifter is known as a “Booster.” Mostly, they are drug addicts trying to feed their habit. Most work in […]
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In this podcast, learn how a mob hit gone wrong can be ignored by a Federal judge because of a disagreement with the Strike Force. The U.S. Strike Force was formed to cut though jurisdictional boundaries and eliminate inter agency rivalries. In major American cities with La Cosa Nostra families, the Department of Justice created
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This podcast is the first of a two-part series about Kansas City Mob associate James S. “Jimmy” Duardi. Jimmy Duardi was a mobster from the old school. His personality had a range from being a most pleasant fellow to a cold deadly killer. He was the nephew of Gaetanno LaCoco who was a old time
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In the third and final episode I tell about the Mob influence over the Teamster’s local in Cleveland, Ohio and Milwaukee, Wisconsin, In Cleveland a man named Jackie Presser would double deal his way to the top job as president of the Teamsters. His father, Bill Presser, was a guy with connections to both Jimmy
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In the second episode, you will learn about a WW II veteran named Allen Dorfman who returned from combat. Like Roy Williams, Dorfman was a hero and had been awarded the Silver Star. Dorfman’s step-father Paul “Red” Dorfman was a long time Teamster’s official with ties to the Chicago Outfit. In 1949, Red Dorfman was one of only
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This is the first episode of a three part episode discussing how the Midwest Mob families obtained influence over the Central States Teamsters Pension Fund. I am a member of the Board for the Kansas City Police Pension Fund. We have 800 Million dollars invested. If 5 Board members were to agree to make a
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These three episodes became very topical just as I recorded them. In a free society, we have to protect the worst of us under the law. Democracy is not neat and clean and sometimes not pretty. Do you want the rule of the mob or the rule of law?
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The conundrum in a free society, where does free speech pass from protected to censored? In the recent killings by white power advocate, Dylann Roof, folks are stirred to anger by the image of Roof with a Confederate battle flag. I believe that the majority of popular opinion right now is for banning of this
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Starting with Episode 8, I am inserting a photo we took of the Klan members we targeted and arrested in this Intelligence Unit investigation. Episode 8 was Dennis Mahon, the Imperial Dragon of all the White Knights of the KKK. This Episode is Daniel Mahon, the Keagle of the Oklahoma White Knights. In Episode #9,
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We have new opening and closing segments with local music from Odd-O-Matic, a new independent group with an electro-punk beat with hip-hop undertones. Search for them on Facebook and like their page. To purchase their music go to Itunes. Episode 7 – The Bowery finds me investigating a River Quay area bar. Can you believe, I
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