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Polly Adler: The Madam to the Mob

• November 8, 2021
• Tagged as: arnold rothstein, Dutch schultz, frank costello, lucky luciano, prostitution

Madam Polly Adler Non-fiction author Debby Applegate discusses the famous New York madam Polly Adler. We learn how Ms. Adler came to America as a Russian Immigrant Jew and how she rose to prominence and…

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Vito Genovese with Anthony DeStefano

• August 23, 2021
• Tagged as: benito mussolini, frank costello, joe valachi, lucky luciano

Vito Genovese – The Deadly Don Gary interviews Pulitizer Prize-winning Anthony DeStefano on his most recent true crime history, The Deadly Don. Mr. DeStefano writes about the rise and fall of Vito Genovese. This is…

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Diamond Jim Moran

• November 16, 2020
• Tagged as: frank costello, huey p. long, la louisiane, new orleons history

Diamond Jim Moran and New Orleans Bobby Brocato Jr, nephew of the famous Diamond Jim Moran, aka James Brocato, has published a New Orleans history/Mafia history/New Orleans cuisine cookbook/family history book titled Food for Kings:…

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Jerry Catena

• October 19, 2020
• Tagged as: frank costello, Gerardo Catena, longy Zwillman, lucky luciano, mike miraglia, tommy eboli, Tony bender strollo

Jerry Catena the early years Gerardo Jerry Catena was born in 1902 in South Orange, NJ. He made early connections to Jewish gangster “Longy” Zwillman working as a bodyguard and chauffeur. Later, he worked for…

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Gay Bars and the Mafia

• October 12, 2020
• Tagged as: frank costello, joe columbo, Joe DiVarco, vito benovese

Genovese Capo Matty the Horse Ianiello and Gay Bars Author Phillip Crawford Jr. has released a dramatic and shocking account, The Mafia and the Gays, showing how the New York Mafia and the Chicago Outfit used…

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Saratoga Springs, Arnold Rothstein and the Mob

• September 14, 2020
• Tagged as: frank costello, Joe Adonis, lucky luciano, meyer lansky, saratoga springs

Arnold Rothstein develops Carpet Joints Greg Veitch, retired Chief of Police has written two excellent mob history books a bit a little known but an important period of organized crime history. Starting at the turn…

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Anthony “Tony” Strollo

• May 18, 2020
• Tagged as: frank costello, joe valachi, lucky luciano, Profaci, vito genovese

Anthony “Tony” Stollo: the early days First of all, I must tell you that I am stopping the extra episode every week until we get another “Shutdown.” Things are opening up here in KC and…

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Frank Costello with Casey McBride

• February 10, 2020
• Tagged as: forest whitaker, frank costello, mafia, vito genovese

Host Gary Jenkins interviews fellow mob historian and expert on the life of Frank Costello, the Prime Minister of the Underworld. Casey is also a musician and he had created several original music compositions to…

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Apalachin Meeting Part 1

• November 11, 2019
• Tagged as: albert anastasia, carlo gambino, frank costello, joe filardo, joe valachi, lucky luciano, nick civella, tommy lucchese, vito benovese

Don’t forget to buy me a cup of coffee on your venmo app at ganglandwire. This is the first of a two-part series on the now-famous Apalachin meeting and I got my good friend retired…