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Jack Tocco’s Promotion Photo

• August 8, 2022
• Tagged as: anthony corrado, billy jack, detroit combination, FBI, mafia, surveillance, vito giacalone

Retired Kansas City Police Intelligence Unit Detective Gary Jenkins interviews retired FBI agent Greg Stejskal about the day he and his surveillance team followed a Detroit Mafia boss and took photos of Jack Tocco, Vito…

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Porn and the Mafia

• May 16, 2022
• Tagged as: colombo, deep throat, linda lovelace, mafia, pamela anderson, Profaci, tommy lee

Gary and Cam Robinson discuss organized crime’s infiltration of the pornographic film business. Specifically, Colombo Family member Tony Peraino. He was this crime family’s biggest earners because Tony Peraino developed pornography into one of organized…

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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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Bombs, Bullets, & Bribes: Cleveland’s Shonder Birns

• April 25, 2022
• Tagged as: don king, gamgling, john scalish, mafia, policy racket, porrello

Venmo me @ganglandwire  Click here to “buy me a cup of coffee” Rick Porrello discusses Cleveland’s infamous Jewish mobster, Shonder Birns. Besides Bombs, Bullets, & Bribes: The True Story of Shonder Birns, Rick Porrello wrote…

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The Murder of John Lazia

• January 17, 2022
• Tagged as: depression, mafia, mob, murder, pendergast, political boss

John “Brother John” Lazia (spelled Lazio on the tombstone) was born in New York in 1895. He dropped out of high school in the eighth grade. By 1915, Lazia had moved to Kansas City. Lazia’s…

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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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Richard Cain – Outfit Cop

• May 14, 2020
• Tagged as: audio intercept, Chicago mafia, chicago outfit, la cosa nostra, mafia, murder, organized crime, Sam Giancana, Tony Accardo, wiretap

How did Richard Cain become a Chicago cop Gary interviews Chicago Outfit historian and Administrator of the Chicago Outfit – Old and Current News and Articles Mike Byrne. Richard Cain was born to an Irish-American…

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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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The execution of Louis Lepke Buchalter

• June 24, 2019
• Tagged as: albert anastasia, Emanuel "Mendy" Weiss, Louis Capone, mafia, murder inc., new york mafia, thomas dewey

Louis “Lepke” Buchalter was a 1930s New York City racketeer. Authorities believed Albert Anastasia appointed him to run his Murder, Inc., enforcement squad. Crime buster Thomas Dewey will set his sights in Lepke as an…

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Anthony “Gaspipe” Casso part 1

• April 8, 2019
• Tagged as: amuso, carlos gambino, demeo, diccio, funari, gambino, gaspipe, john gotti, la cosa nostra, lucchese, mafia

Gaspipe Casso – the early years Anthony “Gaspipe” Casso was born May 21, 1940. Before his career ended with the U. S. Marshal’s office and Witness Security, mob bosses would promote him to the formal…