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Robert Borelli: From the Mafia to the Ministry

• November 23, 2022
• Tagged as: andy ruggiano, fat andy, fat andy ruggiano, gambino family, john gotti

Intelligence Detective Gary Jenkins interviews former Gambino associate Robert Borelli about his life as an understudy to Anthony “Fat Andy” Ruggiano in the Gambino family. Gary learned that a young Robert Borelli witnessed a mob…

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The Four Mistakes that created the Teflon Don

• October 31, 2022
• Tagged as: ainello delacroce, diane giacalone, gambino, john carneglia, john gleeson, john gotti, niel dellacroce, teflon don, wilfred johnson, willie boy johnson

Retired Intelligence Detective Gary Jenkins examines John Gotti’s first RICO trial to determine why the jury failed to convict him. We learn about the four mistakes made by the prosecution team of Diane Giacalone and…

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The Mafia Cops – Louis Eppolito and Stephen Caracappa

• August 15, 2022
• Tagged as: Anthony Casso, five families, gambino, gaspipe casso, gotti, john gotti, Louis Eppolito, mob war, new york city police

Retired Intelligence Detective Gary Jenkins interviews true crime author Jeffrey Sussman about the “Mob Cops” Louis Eppolito and Stephen Caracappa, one of the many stories in his new book Big ASppler Gangsters (Boxing and the…

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The Plot to Kill Sammy the Bull

• June 27, 2022
• Tagged as: eddie garafola, frank fappiano, gambino, huck carbonaro, john gotti, paciello, peter gotti, salvatore mangiaviallano

Retired Kansas City Police Intelligence Detective Gary Jenkins examines the Gotti plot to kill Sammy the Bull Gravano. After Gravano served his time from his plea arrangement, 5 years for a lifetime of murder, assault,…

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Lou Romano on Gene Borrello and John Alite

• May 9, 2022
• Tagged as: gotti, gotti Jr., john gotti, john gotti jr., mafia, vic asaro

Lou Romano is a guy that grew up in a New York Mafia neighborhood where young men either became cops, firemen, or joined the mob. As an adult and as a true-crime author, he became…

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Gotti in USP Marion

• November 22, 2021
• Tagged as: AB, aryan brotherhood, gotti, john gotti, marion prison, walter johnson

John Gotti Arrives In this reboot of an old podcast, I talk with my friend David Layman who was a guard at the federal prison at Marion. He describes the day Gotti arrived at the…

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Michael DiLeonardo Bonus

• September 5, 2021
• Tagged as: gambino, gotti, john gotti, john gotti jr., mafia

In this short episode, Michael DiLeonardo tells how he was inducted into the Gambino crime family by Sammy the Bull Gravano. He was inducted with John Gotti Jr. and John Gotti asked Gravano to conduct…

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Michael DiLeonardo part 2

• April 26, 2021
• Tagged as: gravano, john gotti, junior gotti, salvatore gravano, sammy the bull, sammy the bull gravano

Michael Mikey Scars DiLeonardo This is a re-release of an interview I did last year but it must be listened to again or maybe for the first time. I was able to make contact with…

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Anthony Celano NYPD

• March 22, 2021
• Tagged as: five families, john gotti, NYPD, police intelligence, the commission

Anthony Celano Retired Intelligence Detective Gary interviews a crime-mystery writer  Anthony Celano. He is a retired New York City Police Department Intelligence Detective. Gary and Tony had very similar careers and this episode is like…

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Would you like to be a cellmate of Lefty Ruggerio?

• July 20, 2020
• Tagged as: donnie brosko, doug fencl, gotti, joe pistone, john gotti, lefty ruggerio, sonny black, sonny black napolitano

Lefty “Two Guns” Ruggerio Lefty Ruggerio was a lifetime career made man in the Bonanno Crime Family of New York City. He was a key figure in the undercover assignment of FBI agent Joe Pistone…