Podcast appearances and mentions of Albert Anastasia

Benvenuti a Storia della Mafia Americana. Oggi esploriamo il volto più temuto e rispettato di Cosa Nostra: Aniello "Mr. Neil" Dellacroce.Non era un semplice boss, ma l'architetto del silenzio e il braccio armato della Commissione. Cresciuto nell'ombra di Albert Anastasia, Dellacroce rappresentava la vecchia scuola: leale, spietato e custode del codice d'onore.Soprannominato "L'Angelo Oscuro" per la sua inquietante abitudine di fissare le vittime negli occhi mentre la luce si spegneva, era il ponte vivente tra la mafia americana e quella siciliana. Maestro della mediazione, si muoveva come un fantasma, arrivando persino a travestirsi da prete per eludere la legge e compiere esecuzioni implacabili.Mentore di John Gotti e pilastro dei Gambino, il suo destino fu segnato dall'ascesa negata a capo famiglia. Entriamo nel mito del gangster che tenne in piedi l'impero.Diventa un supporter di questo podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/storia-della-mafia-americana--4689841/support.

In this episode of Gangland Wire, retired Kansas City Police Intelligence Unit detective Gary Jenkins takes a deep dive with his guest Matt into the assassination of Carmine Galante—one of the most infamous mob hits in American history. Matt co-authored a book titled Made In Long Island Matt begins by analyzing the controversial footage captured at the Ravenite Social Club shortly after the murder. While federal investigators interpreted the scene as a celebration by those responsible, Matt challenges that narrative. He breaks down the body language and behavior of key figures, including Bruno Indelicato, suggesting the footage actually reflects anger and exclusion—not guilt. The episode introduces guest Matt, co-author of Made on Long Island, who provides an insider's perspective on the inner workings of organized crime. Matt prefers to not give his last name. Together, they explore how the Galante hit fit into a broader power struggle within the Bonanno crime family and beyond. Matt cowrote this book with Bartley Scarbrough. Matt tells a little-known story about Mob dealings with Fireworks around the 4th of July. One story is about a closed store and how they made up for the closed store and gave a fireworks show on the 5th and most of the kids never knew. The conversation expands to include major mob figures such as John Gotti and Sonny Red Indelicato, examining the shifting alliances and rivalries that shaped the events leading up to the assassination. Matt shares firsthand stories of mob life, detailing how communication relied on coded language and payphones—tools that kept operations hidden in plain sight. Gary and Matt dissect the planning behind the hit, revealing a calculated operation involving surveillance, weapon disposal, and carefully constructed alibis. They also address the aftermath, focusing on law enforcement's inability to definitively link the crime to certain suspects—raising questions about whether individuals like Indelicato were wrongly accused.   A central theme emerges: the gap between official narratives and the complex realities of organized crime. Matt argues that investigative misinterpretations—particularly by federal authorities—led to flawed conclusions and, potentially, unjust prosecutions. This episode challenges long-held assumptions about the Galante murder, offering listeners a more nuanced view of Mafia politics, loyalty, and betrayal. It's a detailed reexamination of a landmark mob hit—and a reminder that the truth is often far more complicated than the headlines. Hit me up on Venmo for a cup of coffee or a shot and a beer @ganglandwire Click here to “buy me a cup of coffee” Subscribe to the website for weekly notifications about updates and other Mob information. To go to the store or make a donation or rent Ballot Theft: Burglary, Murder, Coverup, click here To rent ‘Brothers against Brothers’ or ‘Gangland Wire,’ the documentaries click here.  To purchase one of my books, click here. Transcript [0:00] Yeah, if you could just hold the frame right there, I think it’s very important [0:03] to set the stage of what we have here. This is a meeting of Bonanno crime family members, very high up ones, in front of Neil Delacroche’s Gambino headquarters on Mulberry Street, known as the Ravenite. Now, the feds used this tape to say that Bruno Indelicato was part of a conspiracy to murder Galante and that this tape shows the celebration. It does not. This tape is an absolute beef being put in primarily by Sonny Red and Delicato because he was supposed to do the hit jointly with the Gambino family led by John Gotti. He’s furious because at this point in time, he thinks he’s left out of the head. And just before you roll it, this video basically proves to every law enforcement person and every Cosa Nostra member that the people in this video did not do the murder. You don’t go out in Cosa Nostra, commit one of the biggest hits ever, a triple homicide, and then show your face an hour later. It does not work that way. So if you roll the tape, we can see some of the body language on these guys as well. [1:08] The guy in the white is Stefano Canone. He is the family’s consigliere, [1:13] which is technically third in charge, an advisory role. He is already at the Ravenite when everyone else arrives. A key figure in this is Sonny Red in Delicato Wearing a black jacket you’ll see His son is in the white shirt there The younger fellow that’s Bruno in Delicato The only guy that was convicted of this crime Now look at what’s going on here This is not a celebration They’re in the face of him And they’re furious And stop right there if you could, The gentleman in the black jacket right there. [1:44] Sonny, Red, and Delicato, he takes a couple steps back from his consigliere, which is technically his boss, and he turns around in fury, and he’s angry because, again, his team, led by him, was left off the head. Notice also, if you want to keep rolling the tape, he goes to his glasses. This is an absolute sign of anger, as per our body language experts, who, by the way, don’t even know who these people are. The only thing they know is this is a dispute, not a celebration. You notice that when he puts his hand up by his glasses? Now he thinks a little bit better of it because that’s his boss he’s talking to. And that’s a very good sign here. Again, another angle of this is in the Pizza Connection case in 1985. [2:27] Not only in the indictment, but also in FBI testimony, when asked who killed Carmen Galante, they did not say it was Bruno and Delicato and two other masked assailants. They said it was three unknown masked assailants that killed him. That’s what their testimony was. Everybody on the Cosa Nostra side and on the law enforcement side knows what this is. No mob guy commits a triple murder and then goes out to run to a place that we used to refer to as the FBI screen test, which was the Ravenite in Lower Manhattan and Mulberry Street. Everybody knows it, and it’s about time the story gets told, [3:05] and you’re going to see a lot more of this. Hey, all you wiretappers. Good to be back here in studio of Gangland Wire. This is Gary Jenkins, retired Kansas City Police Intelligence Unit Sergeant, and I have a guy here who has a different story and what he would say the real story behind the murder of Carmine Galante. Now, guys, there’s three monumental hits in organized crime history, I would say. The Galante hit… [3:33] Big because of the cigar in his mouth and that picture that was captured, but he was also an important hit in Mob. Now we also had the Anastasia. Anastasia was important and it was also got important, more important because of the photographs. Paul Castellano was important, I think more because of John Gotti than anything, but Carmine Galante and Matt here knows a lot about that hit and a lot about an alternative story to what really happened as it was reported it in the media. So welcome, Matt. Thank you so much for having me on, Gary. I really love your program. I’m happy to be here. All right, Matt, you got a book made on Long Island. Let’s just show everybody the copy of that. There you go, guys. There’s a copy of the book. It’s available on Amazon right now, right, Matt? [4:25] It certainly is. Thank you for putting it up. And one little sentence I’ll draw attention to at the bottom is, no AI was used in this. I know a lot of books are coming out now and people using AI, which I personally think is garbage. This is all handwritten and 440 pages of story after story. Yeah, there’s a lot to it. I guess you were writing under the name of Bartley Scarborough. Yeah, Bart is a good guy. He’s a friend of mine who actually started organizing this with me literally about 15, 20 years ago. Just to give everybody the timetable, we could not release this stuff till now because everybody with criminal culpability is now deceased or one guy is doing life in jail without the possibility of parole for another crime. That’s why we waited so long. Bart organized this stuff. He had me go over the thoughts. And he actually, I don’t know how much he’s going to want to talk about it, but he actually was there when we spoke to some of our friends who gave us extreme detail about this. But in terms of the actual writing, I actually penned it all myself with Bart’s assistant. All right, great. And as you know by now, it’s no easy task to write, especially 400-some pages. That’s a lot of words. That’s a lot of work, guys. Trust me, that is a lot of work. [5:41] You’ve got to keep going over it. Good writing is hard because it takes about three rewritings to actually get it out. Did you find that? [5:51] I did. It’s definitely extremely hard to do with volumes like this going over the past so many years. And plus getting the information from our friends, it was extremely hard to do. It was very time consuming. And I need to stress for the audience, I was not present when any of these major crimes like the homicides went down. I was present for the other things in the book, horse racing, which I’m sure we’re going to talk about later, major fireworks sales. But I need the audience to know that I was not present when the homicides went down, even though I was a juvenile at the time, and that from the proceeds of the fireworks sale and the horse racing, I did not pocket the proceeds like other people did. I know there’s lawyers out there, and I’m paying some $1,000 an hour. I apologize to people, but the lawyers told me 100 times I need to make those facts clear. Okay. All right. You did not do any of this, but you were right next to people who did do this. So we’re talking about firsthand information, correct? That is correct. Now, again, I was there for some of the stuff. I was there for some of the entity in the book. I was definitely there for the major league fireworks deals and participated in those. The horse racing that we’ll get to later, I was there for that. But in terms of the hard stuff, the stuff with no statute of limitations, homicides, I was not there. [7:12] So tell me about these group of guys that you grew up with, that you started doing some of these things. We have some kind of interesting personalities in there. Tell us about those guys. Oh my gosh. We had a real collection of characters is the only way to put it. Now, growing up when we were very young, let’s call it 11, 12, 13, we all really had two goals in mind. We wanted to make money and we wanted to play sports at that age. And that’s what we did. We made money on anything, paper routes, shoveling snow, raking leaves. And what happened was being so competitive, we got into a feud with another group in the same town. Now, there’s no way around it. We were idiots at this age. Some of our guys were carrying guns. Two of the guys in particular, their parents, what we call, were on the job, which means they were cops. So they had access to guns. Another guy was able to get us guns. So the bottom line is you’ve got 13-year-old kids who… That have no fuse carrying guns. Here is where it all started. [8:11] My uncle, like my cousin’s dad, came to one of the baseball games, and we had no idea that he knew the other coaches. And all of a sudden, they realized these kids are carrying guns. They’re going to kill each other. So they sat us down, disarmed us. It’s a pretty funny thing that’s in the book. I remember my uncle saying, whoever has a weapon, you put it on the table right now. I take a sock out of my pocket. He’s, what’s wrong with you? He goes, I asked for weapons, not your dirty laundry. I go, there’s a 25 inside the sock. He was shocked. But what they did was this. They disarmed us. They said, you want to kill each other with fists? Go at it. But we have a better idea. Why don’t you sell fireworks? Why don’t you work for us? You’ll make money doing this. First year, we only had about a week before the 4th of July. We sold out a couple pallets that they had. Now, the second year, I said, can we get these same prices? They said absolutely We went nuts to sell this stuff We ended up with an order for $85,000, And that’s how the order was so big That John Gotti got brought into this He was their boss at the time That’s how we met him And again, people say John Gotti, John Gotti Well to us at the time John Gotti was the same as John Smith The name meant nothing to us. [9:26] So some of these guys, older guys that you started dealing with that sat you down were relatives. There were members of the Gambino family then of Gotti’s crew. That is correct. Yep. Yep. They actually had two guys out of the three guys that sat us down. And by the way, none of us, myself included, ever had even the slightest inkling that these guys were involved in organized crime. You actually had two guys that were Gambino guys and one guy who was also a coach who was with the Genovese. [9:54] That was the actual makeup of the three guys that sat us down. And this was that. What towns are you talking about out there in Long Island? Kind of guys that listen from New York. Sure. This is actually Syosset, believe it or not, which was a upper middle class area. Nice and calm, crime free. And again, most of everybody that was with us was from Syosset. [10:19] Interesting. So the fireworks thing, I’ve always wondered about that. I’ve noticed in Kansas City, the mob guys, several of them every year have these huge, big firework tents. And I started asking around. I found out that they might make $100,000 in about two or three weeks time off those fireworks. There must be immense profit in it. And it’s so that kind of profit and kind of a gray area crime, if you will, in some cities, they don’t allow fireworks to be sold or even to be shot off. Mob likes to get into that and make that money. So tell us a little bit more about how that worked. Who were your customers? You guys went out into the community and sold more. You were more like you weren’t retailers. You were more like found other people to retail. It sounds to me like tell me the nuts and bolts of how that worked. [11:05] That is exactly correct. Now, the first year when they gave us the two pallets with about five or six days, maybe a week before the 4th of July, we sold those strictly to local people we know. And by the way, as kids, we loved fireworks ourselves. We still do. I do. I can speak for myself. We love this stuff. Now, when I saw the prices, for example, that these guys can get us, and I’ll use a barometer, very common in New York, a mat of firecrackers, which is a pack of 80 packs inside, 16 firecrackers to a pack. You could buy that for $8 And it would just fly like hotcakes These guys were selling us the stuff At $3 a mat So all these prices Were anywhere from. [11:49] 70, sometimes even 80% cheaper than what we could sell them for. So the profit, like you said, was utterly enormous. Now we had a full year to work our second year because they said, yes, sell as much as you want, go ahead and get the pre-orders. We contacted everybody we knew. All of our guys had people in other places, Huntington, the town of Huntington, we did big business, other places out in Suffolk and even somewhere in the city. [12:13] And again, for young kids at that age to put together an order for $85,000. She knocked everybody. And that’s what really got their attention. And for that kind of money being fronted to us, that’s why they had to bring their boss in, which was John. The other thing that really shocked us too, I was worried about getting caught. Now the legal penalties for getting caught was nothing. Five or $10 fine, nothing on your record. It was nothing. However, the police could take all your firearms. If they took money like that from young kids, we’re finished. Our lives are over. and to be honest, the organization solved that for us. They sat us down with cops. The cops told us to our face, you will never have a problem. Don’t worry about it. And once I heard, that’s when I told our guys, go ahead and sell as much as you can, and that’s when we got the order for the two tractor trailers. I knew at that point in time, the risk is pretty much gone. Yes, there’s a risk of getting robbed, but we had two of our guys’ older brothers who were a really severe, a tough guy, one that’s referenced in the book a lot, Bubbles. And again, he’s a deceased, and we’ll talk about him more in terms of the Galante hit. So people that are going to rob us really would be like, why would I rob these guys? Look at who they’re with. So in my opinion, we had no risk, and that’s why we went nuts with this. [13:30] That’s the beauty of working with the mob. They usually had connections with law enforcement that could get you protected. Now, you brought Gotti into it. Tell us about meeting Gotti for the first time. [13:39] Was he all that, like they say? Was he just this real charismatic personality that you just wanted him to like you and wanted to do what he wanted you to do? What was that like? I’m glad you brought it up because I’m going to tell you that’s the funniest thing that ever happened to any of us in our lives. And I suspect it might have been one of the funniest things that ever happened to him. When we got this order for the two-tracked trailers, he wanted to meet us with some of his other people. One that turned out to be Angelo, quack, quack, Angelo Ruggiero. And we decided to meet at our friend’s house over in Syosset. It was during a school day, but we had no risk because his dad was a New York City cop. His dad wasn’t there. His mom would be out the whole day playing a card game she played called Mahjong. So we said, yeah, let’s do it at his house. Now, these guys show up. Again, we’re teens. We’re 13, 14, 15 in that range. One, a couple guys maybe a couple years older. And these guys were like in their low 30s. That’s all John Gotti was age-wise when we met him, I would say. [14:39] No older, I wouldn’t think, than 35. I could do the math, but right in that range. All nice cars, nice suits. They come in with all the samples. So we lay them all around my friend Jeff’s house I’m talking about in his stoves, his mother’s piano, the couches and everything And they’re going over stuff and they’re saying, look This stuff here comes $48 to a case Your price, I’m just making up numbers for argument’s sake Your price is $175 a case on this one You can easily sell this stuff for $600 or whatever the numbers were So we’re shocked Now to set the stage My friend’s mom was really A kind of a crazy lady she was very Loud and she was extremely Opinionated if not wild She would always kid my not kid She was serious to my friend Jeff saying You’re a no good bum this Boy’s gonna end up in jail she would berate Our friend into the ground I mean this kid was crazy believe me this kid was Driving us to school at 14 and 15 years Old didn’t have a worry in the world So Yeah. [15:40] This is where the humor came in. She came home unexpectedly. Apparently, one of the card players didn’t show up. They couldn’t do it. She walks into her house, and she sees fireworks all over. She sees us with guys who look like gangsters that are 35 years old, and she blows her stack. She screams, who are these hoodlums in my house? What are these devices these criminals have? What is this fool meaning her son done this time with nuts? And I’ll never forget John says to my uncle who was in there He says did you set this up as a gag? Very low so nothing we could hear except a few people And my uncle had a really weird look on his face He goes I wish I could get off that easy So we figure the deal is all over She’s going nuts I run up to her with the price lists And I say Mrs. Goldberg please I know we like to shoot a fire It’s not about that It’s about making money I show her the list And I reference before the matter firecrackers I point to it. I call these guys firework salesmen. That’s what I call John and Angelo. I go, these firework salesmen here can sell us this amount of firecrackers for $3. [16:49] We can sell it all day long for $8. There’s a fortune in this. So then instead of her blowing up, she goes, tell me more. So that was funny enough. So I go through more prices. And just to set the stage for your listeners, a lot of people in New York might know this term. People outside might not. I’m a Christian, but if you have a non-Christian, Jewish people call him Goy or Goyim. She’s looking at the lists, and she explodes in the loudest voice you’ve ever heard. If the Goyim will buy these devices, then sell them to the Goyim we were. We lost it. [17:24] She said that Angelo, my uncle, a bunch of the guys had to go outside. And I stepped outside with them, too, because they didn’t want to insult her and laugh in her face. I don’t know how John stayed in the house with her, but he did for a while. These guys were laughing so hard, tears were coming out of us. So the neighborhood girls that we knew saw these guys all dressed in suits. They thought we were crying, and they sincerely asked, are you guys okay what happened? It was because we were laughing so hard we started crying. So I said, let me get in here. The fireworks deal is more important. So she went over this stuff with us, telling us how we’re going to make money. Just insanity. The book really expands on this. And then afterwards, when John left the house, he also broke down in laughter. He didn’t want to do it in front of her. He couldn’t take it. Out of respect, he didn’t want to laugh in someone’s face like that. But he walked two doors down, and he freaking lost it. So I think it’s got to be one of the funniest things he’s ever had happen to him in his life. He said it was. And it just got crazier from there. [18:19] Now, was Angelo Ruggiero with him? He was his right-hand man. Was he there on this deal? Yeah, Angelo was there with him. Yep, he sure was. What was he like to deal with as a person? I’ve interviewed his son who has a show. What was he like? Was he funny? He seemed like he talked a lot and was a funny guy. I’m just curious. He did. And again, in the account that you guys are going to read about in the book, Tommy, who’s the main character in this book, who again, deceased and gave me all the interactions he had with him, explains what a nice guy he was. I know he had a violent side. I know he has a lot of hits under his belt, but he was apparently a ton of fun. [18:59] When I interacted with him, I thought he was freaking hilarious. And as you’ll see in the book, Angelo is really the one who fed all the inside information nonstop to our buddy Tommy, Tommy, who at that time was playing cards over at John’s Club in Ozone Park, the Bergen, very regularly at that point in time. And the book really traces Tommy about what happened, his interactions with Angelo, his interactions with everybody else. And when you get to the whole crux of the matter, Angelo is the one who told our good friend Tommy that, hey, the commission has authorized a hit on Galante. And the hit is to be done jointly with our family, meaning the Gambinos, and with the Bananos. And that John was going to be the leader of the Gambino faction. [19:48] Sonny Red and Delicato was going to be the leader of the Banano faction, and Joey Messino was not only the one taking the messages to and from Rusty, which is the Philip Mestelli in jail, but Joe Messino was going to supervise the entire operation. So that was the structure of it. Yeah, that’s what I’ve read about it. And also what you’re saying about Angelo Ruggiero is that’s one reason the Bureau was able to learn so much about Castellano because he would go to meetings at Castellano’s house, if I remember right, come back home and get on the phone or have some people come over. And he talked to him about, he said this and he said this and he said that and he said this. That gave him probable cause then to go into Castellano’s house. So he was known to be loose lips, and that’s why he got the moniker quack quack, I’ve heard. But I also heard it was because of the way he walked, so I’m not sure. No, that’s true. Both of what you’re saying is true. And just to touch on him one more time, very important. He loved my friend Tommy because Tommy got him out of more than a couple of jams. I’ll give an example. There was a guy in the Gambino family up in Connecticut. John always referred to him as the genius Tony Mungali And he put a firework sorter in with Angelo. [21:06] Now, this guy blew his stack because no fireworks came, and he had promised the entire neighborhood a gigantic fireworks show. He had his friends, his people of his family over there, neighbors and no fireworks. This guy blew his stack, and this story is detailed in the book. Tommy got a call from another Gambino guy the morning of July 5th, very early. He was still hungover from partying the night before. He said, oh, my God, what’s this about? It’s got to be something bad. Did somebody blow their hand off with fireworks? What’s going on? And the bad news was that this Tony had put a beef in saying, what’s wrong with you people? You didn’t do what you said. And he was blaming Angelo. Tony was all over Angelo. And the bottom line is Tony was right. It was Angelo’s fault. However, my friend Tommy never threw Angelo under the bus. My friend Tommy ate it. And he basically, it’s a real good recounting in the book. And there’s so many stories like this. There’s hundreds of them. But I’ll give you this one real quick. [22:03] Like, so Tommy basically told Tony Mengele, listen, how old are the kids that you promised this big fireworks show to? And Tony blew up. He’s like, what the F does it matter how old the kids are? But my friend Tommy was smart and he was going somewhere. He’s like, listen, these kids don’t know the difference between July 5th and July 4th. We’re going to come to your house tonight. We’re going to give it the most insane fireworks show anybody in your area has ever seen. We don’t want a dime. We’re so sorry this mistake happened They go up there I was with them at that point. [22:38] Nothing but fun. So welcoming. And again, my buddies, none of us would ever throw Angelo under the bus. And believe me, Tony and his uncle, Sandalo, he tried to pin it on Angelo. We said, no, it’s not his fault. It’s not his fault. Bottom line is those guys loved us. One of Tony’s workers ended up being a gigantic fireworks customer of ours. And to the best of my knowledge to this day, and I’m not involved in it in the slightest, To this day, all one of his guys does is sell fireworks in the Connecticut region. Makes a fortune. Interesting. And so that’s a wild story. But again, Angelo loved Tommy because so many times Tommy would say, look, Angelo didn’t do this. I did. What did Angelo do in return? He gave Tommy so many different pieces of information. And again, I won’t bog you down, but each one of these stories is so interesting. Angelo had some fireworks clubs that he made money on. [23:32] There’s no other way to put it. Angelo was not working much at all. And then one of these meetings, John brought everyone in and said, listen, from now on, these clubs that sell fireworks, particularly Oceanside, New York, Long Beach, Bayville, Massapequa, he goes, I’m giving them to you guys to run. And now, obviously, none of us want anything to do like that. We’re going to cut out his friends. We’re going to end up in a freaking meat grinder or end up in a cement truck. So we all told John we didn’t want it. John said, that’s it. It’s over. It’s yours. so then our next step was to make sure we figured out how much roughly those guys were making. [24:05] I give my friend tommy all the credit in the world he ended up giving angelo more money by a lot, for using the place than angelo ever made doing work and this time angelo doesn’t have to do any work angelo loved us all these guys loved us because we paid them more than they made and now they didn’t have to do a damn thing so our guys were very smart and calculating particularly Tommy, but some of the other ones. And that was a good Angelo story. Yeah, it is. And I’ve read that not only Gotti and in his neighborhood, but other mob guys around in New York and their neighborhoods, they would put on a huge fireworks shows for everybody in the neighborhood every year. Gotti particularly was noted for that. That is interesting, their love for fireworks and fireworks shows. Did they ever front you these things? Did they front you money or did Did they buy the fireworks? [24:56] You guys made this money each year, but I’m sure you’d spend it all. Then the following year, you’d have to come up with money. How did that work? The money worked. You wanted to be able to pay them back if they fronted anything. [25:08] Yes. You have a bunch of good questions here. I’m going to backtrack one second on what you said about guys in the life loving fireworks. That is a hundred percent fact. Love the fireworks and the stuff that people see at some of the celebrations over at the Bergen. Yeah, that was rooted from our guys providing it. Now, here is one of the reasons why John turned over these four locations to us. He had complaints from multiple people. Castellano, I believe Michael Franzese people. These guys went to the fireworks locations on the best days, like July 2nd and July 3rd, and they were closed. And John blew up at that. He’s making me look like a freaking idiot. I’m telling Castellano’s people, it could have been his nephews or little cousins or whatever, go to this place to load up with fireworks for free. These guys go to the place and it’s closed that’s one of the motivating factors why john, turned that business over to us we had it open all the time now in terms of fronting stuff absolutely the money was enormous those guys fronted it to us all the time big loads that’s just how it was young kids like that we can come up with anything near that kind of money. [26:14] And just another tidbit too the lady i told you about who would go wild when we were doing the deal. She offered to fund some money up too. And that’s detailed in the book as well. But yeah, as we got it to like year number three, I don’t remember us ever putting a penny up after year three. It was all fronted to us. Was it all cash too? When you went out to these clubs and these people with the neighborhoods and stuff, would they always just give you cash each year? [26:40] That is a great question, and the answer is yes for the people we retailed to, yes for the people that walked into the stores. However, we had wholesale customers that we would give credit to. Now, I’ll give you this story, which is also detailed in the book real quick. There was a street gang in Huntington. They were known as the Huntington Hitters, primarily Hispanics. They gave us an order, and one of our good friends got back from a younger kid that he helped out before that his older brother was intending to rob us when we dropped off the fireworks. [27:14] So we had what I thought was a brilliant plan made. Tommy was very instrumental in this, and I gave some feedback too. We told these guys, come meet us at this bar out on Jericho Turnpike in Huntington. We have some additional fireworks we want to show you guys and see if you want it, which was a lie. But we knew that they wouldn’t rob us then because we didn’t have anything honest. Let me tell you what we brought to that meeting. We brought Bubbles and two of his guys that were freaking deadly people. And they had freaking gym bags with them. And they said, don’t worry anything about security when we do this deal. And they showed him stuff inside the bags, heavy duty weaponry. So right away, these Huntington hitter group said, these are the wrong people to rob. So sure enough, right on cue, a day or two later, they called my buddy and said, you know what? We don’t want to do the fireworks business. We can’t. That I petitioned, and I got a few of my friends to agree, and Tommy definitely went with it too. You know what? These guys can make a fortune doing this. Let’s front them five or ten grand worth of this stuff and see what happens. And I’m like, it’s not going to cost us anything. Number one, I don’t think they’re going to rob us. If they do, what did we lose? $1,500 at the most? My friends said we were nuts, but we went with it. And I want to tell you, smartest move we ever made. [28:29] As every year we went by, we fronted them more and more. They were our first customer that we ever fronted a full tractor trailer to. Never had a problem getting one cent from them. It’s funny how that evolved. It’s just absolute madness. But again, I give Tommy a lot of the credit here and some of the other guys very sharp to come up with a business plan like this. [28:52] I tell you, this little crew you got in with early on, they were a bunch of hustlers. But you also had this deal with Gotti and horse racing and getting inside information on horse racing. There’s some pretty good stories there that are in the book. Tell the guys a little bit about that point. Then we’ll move on to the Galante hit. [29:11] Absolutely. Now, horse racing was interesting. We would go to a place called Roosevelt Raceway, which is over in Westbury, Long Island. Really not that far from where we lived over in Syosset. Now, again, I know the law was probably you had to be 18 to make a bet. They didn’t care. I was making bets there at 12 and 13 years old. I’ll tell you this one time that they did care, and I’ll get to that at the end of the question you asked, and you’ll see why. So we were clowns, but even as clowns, we could see it. If a horse, these were harness racing, by the way. If a harness race is coming down the stretch, you didn’t have to be a genius to see that one or two of these horses would hold back, but the other two jockeys would whip the crap out of their horses. So naturally, we felt cheated, even at young ages. Our guys were definitely certified. There’s no question about that. Our guys would throw things at the freaking jockeys. I’m talking about golf balls, rocks. Our guys were insane. And a lot of that stuff is detailed in the book, how crazy we were. But to get to your point, after I think it was the third or fourth year, John walked with Tommy. [30:17] And he said, you guys are bringing in so much money and doing so well. I want to give you a gift. And I remember Tommy, because myself and a little bit of Bart, but myself, I had to pull all this out of my friend Tommy. He knew he was going to pass away. And he wanted this story out in the public. Now, this guy, Tommy, never wanted his real name used, but he gave me detail after detail. Some of the stuff, like I’m explaining with the fireworks and the horse racing, I was there myself to see. But on the heavy stuff, he gave me detail after detail. same with a little bit to Bart. So this is how Tommy explained it to us. John gave him a sheet of paper and Tommy being a smartest said, oh, what is this, John? You want me to go play the freaking lottery with these numbers? What do these numbers mean? John, you smartest. Here’s what the numbers mean. The first number was the number of the race at Roosevelt Raceway. The next four numbers were the only four horses that could win. Usually these races had eight horses in them. Once in a while, seven, once in a while, nine, but eight was the norm. Those are the only four horses that can win. And for the audience, I want to explain to them how that’s possible. [31:24] Let’s say you have an eight horse harness race and you tell four of the jockeys, no matter what happens, you are not to come in the top. They’ll hold the horses back. And by the way, this is not just conjectural rumor. These guys got locked up for it later on down the line, jockeys and everybody what they were doing is it hold the four horses back the organization would have no idea what horse was going to win they just knew which four wouldn’t so what did they didn’t bet winner plays to show they would bet exactus triples and sometimes super factors which means all four and box those four around some yeah so in your example. [32:03] Basically, John gave our buddy Tom three races, and Tommy knew that this has got to be damn better than a tip. It has to be rock solid. So what happened was we all went there, and we knew nothing about it. We didn’t know that we should just bet a small amount of money. We had no knowledge about damaging a pool, so I’ll make it easy for the listeners. Tommy overbet these races like crazy. For example, if a three combination triple should pay $1,500, the first thing the FBI and the New York Racing Authority would ask is, why did this $1,500 triple pay only $400? And the reason is, and they knew it because the race was fixed. So everybody was betting those combinations. Now, the organization was smart enough to only bet small amounts of money, and they used the term not to damage the pool. That was a term they used all the time. We don’t want to damage the pool. [33:04] Again, throw us in the mix. We had absolutely no idea. We didn’t know any of this. So Tommy bet the crap out of these races, and he did damage the pool. And that brought the attention of the authorities. But worse than that, another long story in the book goes back to the Connecticut people, because I think the genius Tony Mengele was the one helping to fix the races. So they figured there was a leak on their side. And John Gotti actually thought he was going to get killed over this. And he told people, including Angelo, I might not be coming back from this meeting. I got sent for here. The horse pulls bad because John was really running the horses with Tony and some other guys. Tony grabbed him by chance outside of the Ravenite, Mr. Neal’s club, and they walked. [33:52] And Tony apparently was furious, like, yeah, let’s kill whoever damaged the pool, whoever did this. And then John apparently told him it was us. And then Tony says, oh, man, those fireworks guys, I love those guys. He goes, okay, nothing’s going to happen here. So apparently Tony went into the meeting, and he basically lied to the people there, Castellano and Neil Delacroach, and he says, listen, I found out the leak. The leak is on our side, and I’ll take care of it. And that’s how it worked But again, that ties back to the fireworks If that never happened, I don’t know what would have happened John had every intention of going in there and saying he’s screwed up He didn’t explain to us And he had no business giving us the numbers And he knows that, He did not have permission to give us anything at the racetrack He took it on himself to do it, And he got saved by that stroke of luck Of meeting Tony in front of the club before the meeting Had someone been outside, whoever Tommy Bellotti or anybody said Hey, get inside, the meeting’s going on Those two would not have had a chance to talk. I don’t know what would have happened, but I think it would have been very bad for Sean. Yeah, would have been. Yeah, that’s interesting. Now, explain to the guys about the pool. Everybody doesn’t know about the pool. [35:04] These exactors and trifectas, how that pool works. That is a great question because we had to have it explained to us. Let’s take any racetrack, and the first number you’re going to have is how many people bet on what’s focused on triples. Now, the definition of a triple is horses come in the order of one, two, three. So if you bet a 7-4-3 triple, the race must end 7-4-3 for you to hit that triple. Now, the next variation of that is if you like the 7-4-3, what most people will do is they will do what’s called boxing that triple, which means they have 7-4-3 and that’s a winner. [35:43] But so is 4-3-7. So is any combination. So is 2-7-4. [35:49] 3-7-4. Any of the combination of your three horses win. Now, they can tell what a triple should pay based on the amount that’s spent and what the odds are. Let’s say you have a horse that’s a mid shot, like an 8 or 10 to 1. You have a favorite in there and maybe a halfway of a little bit of a long shot. They know what that should pay in a certain range. Now, if you know that race was fixed, and by the way, it’s all pari-mutual, so the weighting is average. If you’ve got $10,000 in a triple pool and you have 10 winning tickets, each ticket’s going to get paid $1,000. And they would know that’s legitimate and that’s honest. And there should be about 10 people with those combinations. Now, if you have that same $10,000 worth of triple pool, and again, these are round numbers. It’s way higher, just for an example. and all of a sudden you’ve got 105 winning tickets when mathematically there should be 10 or 15 at the most the money drops that thousand dollar prize now might be 210 dollars and that’s what the feds and everyone new york racing authority looks for if you have a horse that’s eight to one first place let’s say ten to one second place and let’s say five to two third place that triple should pay something like, I’m guessing, $400, $500, $600 around that range. If that triple pays only $150, right away they know that somebody knew something. [37:16] Too many people bet on that combination. They know how many people probably will bet on any certain combination. And when that gets skewed, too many people bet on one combination, then they know something’s up. Interesting. That’s like these new sports prop bets in the apps on gambling, on the apps on sports. If all of a sudden there’s a whole lot of money goes out on some team on the spread and too much money goes down in one place, then they know there’s something going on. Somebody knows something and they start looking. [37:48] Exactly. They start looking and you make a great point about today’s sports betting. If you have a basketball player, and again, this is not conjecture. There’s already been indictments on this. Let’s say the guy is supposed to have 11 rebounds in a game. All of a sudden, when he has nine, he tells the coach, man, I hurt my ankle. I can’t play anymore. Now, if the balance was normal on his under and his over, no problem. What do we all know happens? The under money bet on this guy is radical. It’s a 95 to 5 ratio. They know right away it’s fixed. And that’s what I believe the guy in Toronto, the Toronto Raptors was doing. And so many other ones were too, but that’s everywhere. We were involved in that way, way back in the day as well, to some degree. We heard so much about it. Yeah, interesting. [38:34] Let’s get into Carmine Galante. The probably most famous, certainly the most famous image, even more famous than Albert Anastasia of Carmine Galante laying there. He was the Bonanno, longtime Bonanno capo and had risen up in the ranks. And he comes out of the penitentiary and Rusty Rustelli is supposed to be the next Bonanno boss. And Carmine decides that he’s going to act like he’s the boss. So let’s talk about how this whole thing started a little bit. That is a great observation. And that’s pretty much how the ball got rolling with those guys. Here’s how we got involved in this. [39:12] We had one of our good friends who was helping us with the fireworks and going to the clubs and having nothing but fun. And then the one night when Tommy was at the club, the cops came in. And I know a lot of people think, oh, Cosa Nostra doesn’t mix with the cops. People will think that they don’t know what they’re talking about. Look at the convictions with gas pipe cases and everybody else. John had guys on his payroll that ended up getting convicted and stuff. [39:39] The cops and Cosa Nostra do work together. despite what everyone else says. Look at us with the fireworks, for example. So anyway, at the card game, what I was told from Tommy is they kept getting messages after messages. And again, these messages at that time would come in over pay phones. There were no cell phones. So you’d have a guy sitting at the pay phone. And as I’m told, most of the messages would be coded numbers. Let’s say Angelo’s number was 167. The guy would just pick up the phone, tell number 167, which is Angelo. [40:11] Another set of code numbers and that might mean hey the cops are coming over now the cops came into the club they came into the bergen and apparently they told everybody listen nobody here is getting locked up we don’t want information we just need to give you some news and from what tommy says because he was there playing cards at the time they told him that our good friend michael had died in a car accident and they wanted to know should they go and wake his dad up and And his dad obviously was in the life made guy and do it that way. Or did John and Angelo perhaps want to go out to the house? They gave him the option to do it. And John and Angelo, of course, jumped at that. And they, whatever they did, they went at the house. I don’t know if they waited till they woke up in the morning, whatever it was and knocked on the door or whatever. But so that’s what happens now at the wake, by the way, just to make the story a little bit more clear, there. [41:09] This was probably our fourth year or so selling fireworks. And every year we sold fireworks, we met more and more people. So many of it is detailed in the book. I can’t even tell you the list of people we met. And you name it, Tony Ducks, Corralo, all these guys. So we’re meeting more and more people. Two in particular that we started hanging out with because they liked us because we were just crazy, drinking, women chasing maniacs, were Baldo and Chesery. And that’s Baldo Amato and Cheshire Bonventry. They were with the Bananos. And we were hanging out with them. They grabbed my friend Tommy at the wake and pulled him away. And everyone’s thinking, oh, they’re really Sicilian. We call them the Zips. They’re tough guys. They probably just don’t want to show their emotions because they love Michael in front of everybody. We didn’t know what was going on. They informed my friend Tommy that our friend, Michael, did not die in a car accident. It was a basic, supposed to be a warning that turned into a hit. [42:12] And Tommy’s, that’s nonsense. The cops told us the car was off the road. The car was a crumpled mess. That’s nonsense. But Baldo insisted and said, no, these guys shot him off the road. So nobody believed any of this. But we came up with the conclusion of, hey, we’re friends with the cops. The cops will take us to the impound yard. Let’s see for ourselves. House so those guys went over there and what tommy says they found bullet holes in like less than a minute they found a couple bullet holes so they knew right away that baldo was telling the truth now all this was going on other people would tell us don’t trust baldo don’t trust chesery the sicilians are the most ruthless cunning backstabbers you’re ever going to meet and i didn’t feel that way and neither did tommy or the other guys that were involved with us our other friends aunt and The whole gang, Gonzo, we didn’t feel that way at all. We thought they really had our best interest. So. [43:08] That stayed quiet, but two of our friends swore on that day, no matter who did this to our friend, Michael, no matter who they are, we don’t care what their rank or anything. [43:19] We’re going to make them pay for what they did. They’re going to have to answer for what they did to our friend. And we know the rules. You can’t touch a maid guy or an associate without getting permission. But we kept everything quiet for another reason. Michael’s dad I referred to as a maid guy. Now, you talk about crazy. This guy was nuts. This guy had no fuse. He’s detailed all over the book. For example, when John O’Neill would tell him to go out and just talk to a guy, don’t hurt him. This guy owes us a couple thousand. Just talk to him. The guy would end up with two broken arms. This guy had no fuse whatsoever. If he ever thought for a minute that somebody had killed his son, the worry was, and I think the worry is correct, he would have gone out and just killed better than adult targets all over the place. Whether they knew anything about it Which 99% of them knew nothing about this He would have just started killing people He would have started a war So that was the reason why the bosses, Did not want him And to his death he never knew that this happened They kept it from him for that reason There was no stopping this guy would have gone on a rampage So that was a big factor in that, So Then you talked before about the card games And Angelo. [44:30] More of these messages came in And my buddy Tommy noticed it And he said, Angelo, what’s going on? And so don’t worry after the card game, I’ll walk you down and we’ll talk to you. Apparently after the card games, Tommy and Angelo would walk down 101st Avenue and have these long talks. And Angelo said to Tommy, the commission has authorized a hit on Carmine Galante. We got the hit. John is our lead. [44:54] We have to do it jointly with the Bananas. Sonny Red is there, and Joe Massino is going to look at the whole thing and supervise the whole thing. So bells went off on my friend Tommy’s head. All of a sudden, he got everybody together. Not me, of course. I was not there when this transpired. I was not there when they organized the hit. But he got the other guys together, and he said, look, this is the guy who killed our friend. We have no risk now because the commissioner wants this guy dead. So these guys came out with what Tommy detailed to me. And by the way, it wasn’t just Tommy who detailed this to us. Bubbles detailed it to us. And there’s one big distinction I need to mention here. Tommy wanted all of this out. He did not want his real name used. [45:40] However, Bubbles wanted his real name used. He used to hang out with general views people. And he told me, he goes, use my name. I want people to know that I did this. And after he passed and that’s why inside the book we do reveal his real name and where he lived and the interesting thing for me was Bubbles and Tommy had no idea that each one of them was talking to me and to a small degree Bart about this so the details that they both gave were exactly the same the most ingenious hit I’ve ever heard of in my life they had police help from the 8-3 precinct over in Bushwick. Apparently, there was some cop over there that hated, I think it was a family dispute of some kind. The guy who was being, I think his grandmother or aunt or somebody was being shaken down by the bananas. So we had that asset. We now had Baldo and Chesery, who were Galante’s top bodyguards. So our guys went out on surveillance for months. And the funny thing about the surveillance was, who else was doing surveillance at the same time? [46:47] John Gotti was, and so was his people. So there was times like when Tommy and the guys would be close to a certain place. And by the way, he was killed at Joe and Mary’s. But that is not the only place that these guys did heavy surveillance on. And it’s not the only place that Galanti hung out at. So the book names a bunch of other places that the surveillance was done. So these guys would be there, and they’d look down the block, and possibly John and Angela were there doing the same surveillance. So they had to leave. Otherwise, John and Angela, what the hell are you guys doing over here? So that was funny to me on that regard But our guys in my opinion Put together the most ingenious hit Down to every single detail. [47:26] Basically took out the police help to help with the zips. The alibi is another crazy part of this. At that time, we would like to do a lot of fishing. We went off to a place called Sentinel Riches in Long Island. And one time we were night fishing over there and we saw guys jump off the boat, get onto smaller boats and come back an hour or two later with bundles. Now you don’t have to be Albert Einstein to realize what they were doing. They were running junk and they were Colombians. Yeah. So I discussed it a little bit with the boat’s captain and he said, just don’t say a word. Don’t go near him. Keep you guys away. We almost had a problem because again, our guys were drunk and our guys were carrying and our guys will, we came close to having a problem. But Tommy put this together. He had the boat captain go out one day and again, he didn’t tell all the people that were with, he didn’t tell his cousin’s crew for Shaw, who was with us that day, our guys jumped off the boat onto a smaller boat, took that boat to the Oak Beach Inn, took stolen cars in on that day, the July 12th, 1979, and they did the hit. [48:35] So Tommy’s uncle was furious with him. He thought he was lying to him. He goes, you’re lying. You were not there. I put you on that boat, which he did. Our friends were drunk and they drove him there on the road. Morning and i picked you up when that boat doc said don’t lie to me you’re on the boat all day and that’s when tommy and again this is detailed in the book like crazy told everybody can you say alibi and what do you mean he goes yeah you just said we were on the boat all day that’s not true, jumped the boat went to the oak beach and took the stolen cars did the work and came back so that was that shocked everybody in the room apparently when tommy was forced to detail, everything that happened on the hit. He even detailed for them all the cars that were involved. He detailed how the marked police cars actually held parking spaces for our guys in front of the place. One was, my understanding, about a half a block north. The other one was about a half a block south of the location over there, which was 205 Knickerbocker. They held the parking spaces. Our guys rolled up. [49:37] And if there was something going on, like, for example, FBI surveillance or unmarked cops in the place, those cop cars were not giving up the space. Our guys would honk and flash at them. But if they did not give up the spaces, the signal to our guys was the place is dirty, leave. So we had a lot of built-in signals like that. And then when they gave up the parking spots, both of the cops moved from one north heading south, one south heading north. What did that do? That let them both take one more scan of the block. Is the block dirty? And if the block was dirty, they were going to blow the sirens and everything was off. But the details, again, that are in the book about this hit are freaking shocking how meticulous it was. [50:22] Interesting. I have one question that Galante’s guy, Cousin Moy, they called him, Angelo Prezzanzano, I probably butchered that, but he was off sick that day. Was he part of it or was he just off sick that day? I’m going to tell you, to be honest, I have no knowledge of that. I know that Boldo and Chessery were the primary bodyguards that day. Yeah, they were there that day. I actually have no knowledge, but the other couple of details that are just beyond fascinating, how our guys operated on this. For example, when the car pulled up with one driver and three shooters, one of the shooters, again, he wanted to be named, so we’re naming him. It was Bubbles. [51:01] And the other two guys, Bubbles was a very big-built guy. He would easily be spotted. Plus, he knew a lot of people in the city. He stayed in the car. The two guys that were normal-built, they went inside. And I want the listeners to understand how skilled these guys were at this hit. [51:19] They had provided Baldo and Chesery with dark jackets that day. Now, I’ve read some stuff that people said, oh, they had big, heavy leather jackets on. That’s a lie. They were lightweight summer jackets. And people said, why do that? The answer is because at that time, people were wearing white and pastels and light clothing. It was burning hot that day in the summer. And if you want to spot somebody in a restaurant, you want them to stick out like a sore thumb. So that was the motivation for those black jackets. Now, check this one out. And again, the book goes through this in so many more details. Our guys walked in prearranged with Baltimore Orioles baseball hats. Because again, keep in mind, Chesaree and Boulder did not have a great command of the English language. They didn’t really 100% know American customs. And we showed them Mets and Yankee hats that everybody has. So now we show them a distinctive bright orange baseball hat with a bird on it that nobody could mistake. Here was the signal. Our guys walked up to them face to face with these hats on. [52:22] Now, that was slick. That was slicker shit, man. It was smart because if the place was hot, if Boldo and Chesery realized there was too many maid guys in there or surveillance guys or FBI in there, they were to immediately tell our guys it’s too crowded today. Only get takeout. Only get takeout. The place is too crowded. That was a signal to our guys to walk out and to tell the people the place is hot. leave. These guys had multiple hot signals here that if something was wrong, they would do it. Now, if they didn’t give those signals, our guys were to turn their hats around. So they walked in with the hats like a normal baseball player. They walked out with the hats like a catch you would wear with his hat on backwards. That was to give Boulder and Chesery the signal, Boulder and Chesery the signal this thing was going down. Now, here’s the most fascinating thing about the story is Tommy recanted for us. That day, July 12th, 79, was supposed to be a dry run. [53:28] And they told everybody, just do it like it’s real. Now, we were all hoping that Bould on Chesaree would do it like it was real, and they did it. They walked out of the place, and they walked north. I believe in their minds, they said, this is a dry run. Nothing’s going to happen. Then they heard the shots, and that’s what happened. And I want to elaborate on this because, again, there’s so much built in here. One of the witnesses said that, and I’ll tell you who the witness was. It was one of the guys who killed his daughter, Torano. His daughter had said that, oh, I saw Baldo crouched over with a gun. Gary, you’re a former detective. You’ve got a scene with four people shot, three dead. And you have a witness saying that a guy was in there with a gun out. You tell me how the guy is not arrested at the very least and tried. And I’m going to give everyone the answer here of why that didn’t happen. And I think it’s pretty clear. [54:25] I’m convinced that the FBI had static surveillance on the place, just like they did to Mr. Neal’s club that we always call the, basically the FBI screen test. Yeah. That’s number one. And, or they had a guy up the street. So I believe what happened here was they looked at what this witness said, and then either their own cameras or a human agent that they had on the streets said, wait a second, we cannot charge these guys. I saw a bold on Chesaree, whatever the number would be, 200 feet up the street before the shots rang out. They’re innocent. They didn’t do the shooting. Otherwise, of course, you got a witness saying, I saw a guy behind a table in a gun in a quadruple shooting, triple homicide, and that guy’s not going to get arrested. So obviously there was something there. [55:16] I was wondering why. And I’m going to take another step for people, too. And again, terrible. Cosa knows the story ever told. But to take this one step further, the cop cars were there. There were two marked cars close in proximity when this went down. I think the FBI might have said, wait a second here. What just happened? One guy that we hate, Galante, is dead. Some other guy, a cap on a maid guy are gone. Look at our cameras. How could we do anything here? There’s marked cops here. I think the feds had to realize the cops played a role in this. [55:50] Let’s just kill it and move on. I think that’s possible. Now, the cop cars were also referenced by Tommy. He told us the meeting that they had. It was a life or death meeting, by the way. When John Gotti and other people went to that meeting, Tommy’s uncle and people like that, there was a good chance none of them were going to come out alive. The book details that Castellano, who everyone knows, wanted to kill John Gotti, had a cast of killers in that building. Roy DeMail’s people were in there. There were people in there that you couldn’t even believe. Nino Gadge’s people in there. Hardcore butchers. They knew how to dispose of and chop up bodies. So in that meeting, apparently what Tommy made clear, and again, we took notes, we went over this for hours, days, literally years. [56:36] Sonny Red and Delicato made the statement in that meeting because, again, Sonny Red and Delicato put in the beef, hey, you guys did this hit without us. John Gotti’s saying, fuck you. Excuse my language. Effu. You guys did the hit without us. Nobody knew who did this hit, and I’ll get to that later. What happened here was that Sonny Red and Delicato and his people made an immediate beef, and we’ll talk about that later, saying, hey, The commission said this is to be a joint hit Between the Bananos and the Gambinos And I can definitely confirm From what they told me, Banano people and Gambino people Were on this hit together and doing surveillance So when Galante got killed Sonny Red and his Banano people Were furious Because they thought John Gotti went off And did a hit against the commission’s wishes At the same time, John Gotti was furious At Sonny Red and his people Thinking they did the work Without them being notified But the thing that Tommy always stressed is, again, that meeting was a death trap. Castellano always hated Gotti. Castellano wanted Gotti out. And this was the chance to do it for breaking the commission rule. So Castellano had hardcore murderers there that day. Roy DeMeo and his crew. [57:49] Incredible. You know, Gadgi, a cast of murderers. And John Gotti being street smart. And again, this is fully detailed in the book. It’s just too much to talk about here. John Gotti had made some very heavy precautions himself. Going into that meeting. But what the catch for me was, Sonny Red and Delicato said something like, whoever did this hit was either the most incompetent hitman ever, or possibly they were zips from Montreal that couldn’t give a crap if they were shot at or in a police shootout or whatever. They just didn’t care. And then Tommy said, what if I tell you that those cops were in on the hit? And that silenced the room. And that’s when Tommy had to come clean and talk about everything about it. And it shocked the people that were in that run that this hit was done like that. But that’s, that’s really how this thing was done. Interesting. Guys, you got to get this book. I’m telling you, Made on Long Island. And there’s a whole lot more details, these behind the scenes details about the Galante hit with some real people involved. It’s a lot different story than what we’ve ever heard. I know that. And even people went to jail behind this. But it was mainly on the say-so of informants who, as we know, will pretty much say anything to g

In this episode, Gianni and Jeanie welcome co-author Michael Benson as the discussion revolves around Benson's new book about Carlo Gambino, along with his previous collaboration with the host on various organized crime books. Benson shares insights into his journey into writing about gangsters, starting with a chance encounter with Frank Damario and editing his book. He details the process of writing about Carmine Persico, Albert Anastasia, and other notable gangsters. The conversation also touches on personal anecdotes including Benson's background and experiences, as well as the Gianni's reflections on growing up surrounded by organized crime figures.

In this episode of Gangland Wire, host Gary Jenkins, retired Kansas City Police Intelligence Unit detective, continues his deep dive into organized crime history with prolific Mafia author Jeffrey Sussman. Sussman, the author of eight books on organized crime, joins Jenkins for a wide-ranging conversation that spans the rise, violence, prosecutions, and survival tactics of La Cosa Nostra in America. Drawing from works like Backbeat Gangsters and his latest release Mafia Hits, Misses Wars and Prosecutions, Sussman offers sharp insight into how the Mafia enforced silence, eliminated enemies, and adapted to government pressure. The discussion opens with omertà, the Mafia's infamous code of silence, and how mob warfare enforced loyalty through fear. Sussman recounts notorious hits and mob wars that shaped organized crime, then shifts to landmark prosecutions led by Thomas Dewey, whose relentless pursuit of Murder Incorporated dismantled the mob's most feared execution squad. Jenkins and Sussman examine the disastrous Appalachian Conference, where Vito Genovese overplayed his hand, drawing national attention to the Mafia and setting the stage for informants like Joe Valachi to break decades of secrecy. The episode also explores the Mafia's darkest execution methods, including lupara bianca—murders designed to leave no body and no evidence—along with chilling stories involving Mad Sam DeStefano. The assassination attempt on Joe Colombo, and its ties to Joey Gallo, highlight how ego and publicity often proved fatal in the mob world. The episode concludes with Sussman previewing his upcoming book on the Garment District, blending personal family history with organized crime's grip on American industry. Together, Jenkins and Sussman deliver a sweeping, chronological look at how the Mafia rose, fractured, and endured—leaving a permanent mark on American culture. Get his book Mafia Hits, Misses, Wars, and Prosecutions. ⏱️ Episode Chapters 00:00 – Introduction and Jeffrey Sussman's Mafia work 03:45 – Omertà and enforcing silence 07:30 – Mafia hits and internal wars 12:10 – Thomas Dewey and Murder Incorporated 18:40 – St. Valentine's Day Massacre 23:30 – Formation of the Five Families 28:50 – Italian and Jewish mob alliances 34:20 – Capone, Lansky, and Luciano 39:45 – Appalachian Conference fallout 45:10 – Vito Genovese and Joe Valachi 50:30 – Lupara blanca and body disposal 55:20 – Mad Sam DeStefano's brutality 59:40 – Joe Colombo assassination 1:05:30 – Betrayal and mob survival 1:10:50 – Sussman's upcoming Garment District book   [0:00] Hey, welcome, all you Wiretipers, back here in the studio of Gangland Wire, as you can see. This is Gary Jenkins, retired Kansas City Police Intelligence Unit detective and later sergeant. I have a guest today. He is a prolific author about the mob in the United States. We have several interviews in the archives with Jeffrey Sussman. Welcome, Jeffrey. Thank you, Gary. It’s a pleasure to be with you once again. All right. How many mob books you got? Eight or nine, I think. Eight or nine. I know you’ve covered Tinseltown, the L.A. Families, the crime in L.A., the Chicago. What are some of those? I did Las Vegas, which had a number of the Chicago outfit members in it. I did Big Apple Gangsters. Oh, yeah. My last one was Backbeat Gangsters about the rock music business. Oh, yeah. And then I did also one about boxing and the mob, how the mob controlled boxing. And then my new book is Mafia Hits, Misses Wars and Prosecutions. The update is February 19th. All right. Guys, when I release this, we’re doing this, actually, we’re doing this before Christmas. But when this comes out, while you’ll be able to go to the Amazon link that I’ll have in there, get that book, we’ll have, you’ll see a picture of it as we go along. So you’ll know what the cover looks like. It sounds really interesting, especially about the Mafia Misses. But I’m sure that’s interesting. [1:29] Well, the mob, that’s their way of enforcing their rules. The omerta, somebody talks, they’re going to rub you out, supposedly. And by mob, we’re talking about primarily La Cosa Nostra, Sicilian-based organized crime in the United States. Yeah. The five families particularly have brought this up front. The five families have really perfected this as an art, killing their rivals, killing people that threaten them in any way, killing people that they even had a contract on Tom Dewey, the prosecutor, I believe, at one time. That would be a bomb miss, wouldn’t it? Yeah, actually, what happened with that is Dutch Schultz wanted the commission to take out a contract on Tom Dewey, and they said, no, we can’t do that, because if we do that, it’ll bring down too much heat on us. And so the mob wound up killing Dutch Schultz because he was too much of a threat to them in some ways. But the irony was that if they had killed him, Lucky Luciano never would have been prosecuted. He was prosecuted by Thomas Dewey. Lucky Bookhalter never would have been prosecuted and gone to the electric chair, several others as well. So, by not killing Dewey, they set themselves up to be arrested and get either very long prison terms or go to the electric chair. [2:57] Yeah, Dewey sent, I think it was four members of Murder Incorporated to the electric chair and the head of it, the Lepke book halter. And then he arrested and got a conviction against Lucky Luciano for pimping and pandering, which should have been a fairly short sentence, just a couple of years. But he had him sentenced to 50 years in prison, which is amazing, the pimping. [3:20] So if they had killed Thomas Dewey, they probably would have been better off. But that’s 2020 hindsight. Yeah, hindsight’s always 2020. And a cost-benefit analysis, if you want to apply that, why the cost of killing Tom Dooley might have been much less than the actual benefit was. That’s right. Exactly. And they came to realize that, but it was too late for them. I think they always do a cost-benefit analysis in some manner. How much heat’s going to come down from this? Can we take the heat? Because I know in Kansas City, our mob boss, Nick Savella, was in the penitentiary. He was about to get out, and he sent word out, said I want all unfinished business taken care of by the time I get out. Because when I get out, I do not want all these headlines, because murder generates headlines. And so there was like three murders in rapid succession right after that. [4:13] So they worry about the press and hits, murders generate press. So let’s go back and talk about some particular ones. One of the most famous ones was the St. Valentine’s Day Massacre. Do you cover that? [4:26] Yeah, I start with the assassination of Arnold Rothstein in 1928, and then I go right into the St. Valentine’s Day Massacre. I go into the Castel Marari’s War, the birth of the five families. They had a famous meeting at the Franconia Hotel where the Jewish and Italian gangsters decided to form an alliance rather than fight one another. I went through the trial and conviction of Al Capone, the Bug and Meyer gang. Which evolved into Murder Incorporated, and then how Mayor LaGuardia went after the mob in New York and drove out Frank Costello, who had all the slot machines in New York, drove him down to Louisiana, where Frank Costello paid Huey Long a million dollars to let him operate slot machines all around New Orleans and the rest of Louisiana. And then there was William Dwyer, O’Dwyer, and Burton Turkus, who prosecuted the mob, other members of Murder Incorporated, and then how the federal government was using deportation to get rid of a lot of the mobsters, and how the mafia insinuated itself with entertainers and was controlling entertainers like Frank Sinatra and Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis and others. [5:44] And then the Appalachian Conference, and what an embarrassment that was to Vito Genovese, who wanted to declare himself the boss of bosses. Instead, he became the schmuck of schmucks because the FBI invaded this. And there was a theory that this was really set up, Meyer Lansky, Carl Gambino, and Lucky Luciano, because they didn’t want Vito Genovese to become the boss of bosses because Vito Genovese was responsible for the attempted murder of Frank Costello, and they wanted to get rid of him. After they embarrassed him with Appalachian, And then they set him up for a drug buy. Which is ridiculous because you don’t have the head of a mafia family going out on the street and buying heroin from someone. But that’s what they got him for. And they sent him off to prison for 15 years where he died. But in the realm of unintended consequences, which we just heard some, he goes down to Atlanta and a guy named Joe Valacci is down there. And he thinks that Vito Genovese is given to the fisheye and maybe wants to have him killed. [6:52] If Vito Genovese is not in Atlanta, Joe Valacci does not turn and become the first big important witness against the mob in the United States that couple that with Appalachian. And embarrassment to the FBI and then this Joe Valacci coming out with all these stories explaining what all that meant, the organized crime in the United States, why we may not have the investigation that subsequently came out of all that. It’s crazy, huh? Yeah, exactly. In terms of unintended consequences, because if Vito Genovese hadn’t given the kiss of death, supposedly, to Joe Valacci, you never would have had Joe Valacci’s testimony about how the mob operates. He opened so many doors and told so many secrets. It was a real revelation to the world. [7:42] Now, what about these murders? And I understand they call them a lupara blanca, where the body is never found. Did you talk about any of those or look into that at all? [7:53] We’ve had them in Kansas City, where it’s obviously a mob murder. They even will send a message to the family. We had one where the guy disappeared. Nobody ever found his body. But somebody called the family and said, hey, go up on Gladstone Drive and check this trash can. And then they find the guy’s clothes and his driver’s license, everything in there. Now, did you go into any of those blanks? Yeah, there were a number of mob hits, especially during the murder ink era where they would dispose of the bodies and no one would ever find them. But they would leave clues around for members of the family just so they would know that their father or their son or their brother, whoever was no longer in this world. [8:39] Yeah, that was done quite a bit. And when the Westies, which was an Irish gang that operated on the west side of New York, they believed that if you never found the corpse, you could never convict them of murder. So they used to take their dead bodies out to an island in the East River and chop them into little pieces and then dump them in the river and no one would ever find them. And supposedly they did that with dozens and dozens of bodies. Yeah. Interesting. Yeah, and it is. It’s hard to prosecute without the body. It’s been done, but it’s really hard to do. You’ve got to have a really lot of circumstantial evidence to approve a murder without a body. And when Albert Anastasia and Leffy Foucault, who were running Murder Incorporated, they believed two things. One, that if you didn’t find the body, it would be hard to prosecute. And if you couldn’t show a motive, that would be the other thing that would make it difficult. So there would be absolutely no connection between the person who killed the victim and the victim. There was no connection whatsoever. So it was almost as if it was a stranger. In fact, it was a stranger who would commit the murder and then disappear and make sure that the body also disappeared. So you’d have neither motive nor body. Interesting. Pretty stiff penalty for murder. So I understand why you take some extra. Exactly. [10:08] Yeah, that tried to disassociate yourself from any motive for the body. There’s a guy in Chicago named Mad Sam DeStefano. Oh, sure. Lone shark and particularly egregious person when it came to collecting and was responsible for some murders and tortures. And they claim that he would buddy up to the person he knew he wanted to have killed and give him a watch. So then when the police came back around, he’d say, he was my friend. I gave him a present. I gave him that watch. Look and see. Ask his wife. I gave him a watch. Yeah. And I think it was Anthony Spolatro who was charged by the outfit of getting rid of Sam DiStefano because he was a friend. He had been like a protege of Crazy Sam. And so Sam didn’t suspect him as the person who would come and kill him. Yeah, that’s common clue. They say, look out. When a friend comes around and it seems a little bit funny and they want her particularly nice to you and you know you’re in trouble, anyhow, look out. Because that’s the guy that’s going to get you. Exactly. At least set you up. Maybe they have somebody else come in and pull the trigger, somebody that’ll leave town or whatever, but your friend’s going to set you up, make you comfortable. [11:24] Yeah, I think that’s exactly how it happened. We talked a little bit about the Joe Colombo murder. Did you look at that? Yes. [11:31] Tell us about that, because I’m really interested in that. I’d kind of like to do a larger story, just focusing on that, what really happened there, because that’s a mystery. Did this Jerome Johnson, this black guy, do it? Why would he do it? Nobody ever came out and connected him directly to Joey Gallo, and that’s the claim. So talk about that one. What happened is Joe Colombo formed the Italian Anti-Defamation League because he thought Italians were being blamed for too many things. And Colombo was responsible for having the producers of the movie The Godfather never use the word mafia in the movie, never use La Cosa Nostra in the movie. And he was making a big splash for himself. And this was driving a lot of people in the mafia a little crazy. They’re getting nervous because he was getting so much attention for himself, and it’s not the kind of attention they wanted. And Gambino was particularly upset about this. And Joey Gallo had been in prison, and he had been involved in the war against Profaci earlier on. And when he got out of prison, he felt that the new head of the Profaci family, who was Joe Colombo, should honor him with the amount of time that he spent in prison. And Joe Colombo offered him $1,000. [12:57] And Gallo was incensed by that. He expected $100,000. [13:02] And so he started another war with Colombo. [13:09] This would be good for Carlo Gambino because then he could use Joey Gallo to get rid of someone and his hands wouldn’t appear to be anywhere near this. And when Joey Gallo was in prison, he befriended a lot of black gangsters who were drug dealers and showed them how to succeed in the drug dealing business. And his attitude was that the mafia was very prejudiced against black people, but he thought that was stupid. He thought that we should use black criminals the same way we use any other criminals. And so he befriended a lot of blacks when he was in prison. And no one really knows how exactly he came in contact with Jerome Johnson. But anyway, Jerome Johnson was given the mission of assassinating Joe Colombo at a demonstration where Joe Colombo would be speaking about the Italian American Anti-Defamation League, which had attracted a lot of entertainers. Frank Sinatra was on the board of it. They raised a lot of money. I spoke to some Italian friends of mine at the time, and they said that people from the Italian Anti-Defamation League went around to small Italian-run stores, pizza parlors, shoe repair stores, whatever, and had them closed down for that day so that these people should attend the rally. And the rally was being held, I believe, in Columbus Circle. [14:36] And Jerome Johnson was there, and he had a press pass. So he was permitted to get very close to Joe Colombo because it appeared that he was a reporter or a photographer for a newspaper. And as soon as he got close enough, he pumped a couple of bullets into Joe Colombo’s head. Immediately, three or four gangsters descended on Jerome Johnson and killed him immediately. [15:02] And those three or four people who killed him, they disappeared into the crowd. No one ever found them again. I know. I wish we’d had cell phone footage from that. No one wouldn’t have gotten away if everybody had their cell phones out that day when they would have seen everything that happened. [15:21] Exactly. Columbo existed in a vegetative state. I think it was for about seven years before he finally died. I didn’t realize it was that long. Wow. Yeah, but he was semi-conscious. He couldn’t communicate. He was paralyzed. But the The Colombo family believed that it was Joey Gallo who was responsible for this. Joey Gallo and his new wife had been having a dinner with friends at the Copacabana nightclub in New York. They were joined at their table by Don Rickles, who had been performing that night. Comedian David Steinberg, who had been the best man at Joey Gallo’s wedding to a second wife, was there. And he suggested to them that they left the Copacabana about three o’clock in the morning. And he suggested to them that they all go down to Little Italy, go to Chinatown, and we’ll have a late dinner there. So Rick Olson and Steinberg said, it’s too late for us. You go and enjoy yourself and we’ll see you another time. Joey Gallo, his bodyguard, a Greek guy, I can’t remember his name exactly. Peter Dacopoulos. That’s it. And his wife, and Decapolis’ girlfriend and Joey Gallo’s stepdaughter. They all drove downtown. They couldn’t find anything open in Chinatown, so they drove over to Little Italy, and they went into Umberto’s Clam House. [16:49] And it was very strange, because supposedly a gangster would never do this. Joe Colombo was sitting with his back to the door. [16:58] Usually, your back is to the wall, and you’re facing the door. Oh, Joey Gallo was sitting with his back to the door. Yeah, I meant Joey Gallo. Yeah. Go ahead. And there was kind of a lonely guy sitting at the bar having a drink, and no one paid any attention to him. He was a mob wannabe, and he recognized Joey Gallo, and he went to a mob social club that was a few blocks away that was a hangout for Colombo gangsters. And when he came in and told them that joey gallo was there and the one of the guys there called a capo from the colombo family and told him who they saw and so forth and apparently he instructed them to go and get rid of him and so they took the mob wannabe guy and they got in two cars and they drove down to or around the block whatever it was to umberto’s clam house they went in and they immediately started shooting. And Colombo flipped over the table. I’m sorry, Joey Gallo flipped over the table and had his wife and girlfriend in the step door to get behind the table. And he and Peter were firing back at these guys. [18:07] Peter got shot in the ass and complained about it for many months afterwards, and Joey Gallo ran out onto the street chasing them, and he got shot in the neck, and I think it hit his carotid artery, and he bled to death on the sidewalk. And the guys from the Columbo and the Columbo wannabe guy, they quickly drove up to an apartment on the Upper East Side where the Columbo capo was. And he told them to go to a safe house in Nyack, New York, where they went. And meanwhile, the mob wannabe guy who had fingered Columbo, he’s getting very nervous. He feels that his life isn’t worth too much. He’s in over his head. [18:51] Right. So he sneaks out in the middle of the night and takes a plane to California to live with his sister. And he tries to get into the witness protection program, but they don’t believe him. They don’t believe he has enough evidence to make it worthwhile. No one knows exactly what happened to him afterwards. And the guys who supposedly killed Gallo, nothing really happened to them either. There was a huge funeral for Joey Gallo in Brooklyn. And it was like one of those old mob funerals that you see in a movie with a hundred flower cars and people lining the streets. And I think it was Joey Gallo’s mother who threw herself into the grave on top of the coffin. Oh, really? And Joey Gallo’s. [19:38] He had two brothers, one of whom had died of cancer, and the other one wound up going into another mob family. That was part of the peace deal. I can’t remember if it was the Gambino family or the Genovese family. He went into one of those two families. I think it was Gambino family, that Albert Kidd Twist gallo, I think was his name. And I think it was the Gambino family. He just kept a low profile until he died of natural causes. I think he’s dead now. He never heard from him again, basically. Exactly. [20:06] Interesting. That’s a heck of a story. A lot more stories like that in there, too. I bet. What was your favorite story out of that, or the one that shocked you or you learned something? Maybe something that you learned that you didn’t know or cut through some myth. [20:20] Probably, I’m just looking at my notes here to see what really fascinated me the most. I think the evolution of the Bug and Meyer gang. This guy, Ralph Salerno, who was a fascinating guy who headed the New York Prime Strike Force, Mafia investigators He’s been dead for about I think 10 or 15 years But I spent about Two or three hours Interviewing him A long time ago Didn’t he write a book Didn’t he write a book Called The Crime Confederation Or something like that Yes he did Yeah And it’s excellent So he knew Meyer Lansky He had met Bugsy Siegel Back once In the early 1940s He knew Frank Costello He knew all of these people And it was fascinating To, to hear his stories. And he said that during the time of the Bug and Meyer gang, they were the most vicious gang in New York. And they had a complete menu for crimes that they would commit on your behalf. Burglaries, murders, throwing people out of windows, breaking arms and legs, killing by stabbing, killing by shooting, killing by knifing. And each one had a price. And he said they actually had it printed. It was like a menu and you could check off what you wanted. [21:40] Crazy. And then he said, as they got more and more involved in prohibition, they got out of this and it evolved into Murder Incorporated, which had about 400 members, primarily Jewish and Italian gangsters. And it was run by Albert Anastasia and Lepke Bookhalter. [22:05] And when Thomas Dewey came into power, he wanted very much to convict these guys, but, Murder Incorporated had this fascinating idea that every member of Murder Incorporated would receive a monthly retainer and then it paid a special price for committing murders. And the more ambitious the member was, the more murders he would commit. So there were a couple who were really very ambitious and did a lot of murders. And each one had a specialty. So there was this one guy named Abe Hidtwist Relis, who only killed people with an ice pick in the back of the neck. And then he would leave the body in a car, talking about getting rid of bodies, and he would burn the body and leave it in the car and let other people know who were the relatives that he had been done away with. And then there was a guy named Pittsburgh Phil, who was the most ambitious of them, who supposedly committed about 100 to 150 murders because he just loved getting money for each one that he committed. [23:15] Then there was a guy named Louis Capone, who’s no relation to Al. He worked with a partner named Mendy Weiss, and the two of them went out and killed people together. They thought it was a fun event for them. It was like a boy’s night out. Who we’re going to kill today. Weren’t they two of them that got the electric chair? Yes, they did. And there’s a picture of them on the train up to Singh on their way to the electric chair. And they’re laughing. This is nothing. This is just another fun time for us. And yeah, I think there were four of them who finally went to the electric chair. And then one member of this was a guy named Charlie the Bud Workman, who finally got indicted for the murder of Dutch Schultz. He was the one who carried out the murder of Dutch Schultz for the mob. And he got, I think he was 30 years in prison. But according to his son… [24:13] Who is a PGA golfer, who is well-known in PGA circles as a very good golf competitor, said that the mob took care of his family for the entire time that Workman was in prison because he never spoke about anybody else. He really observed the rules of a murder, and they appreciated him for that. So that whole episode was like a corporation murder, which is why they called it Murder, Inc., that would go out and kill people on orders only from the mafia. They only worked for the mafia. You couldn’t hire them if you weren’t a member of the mafia. And it had to go through a mafia boss for the instructions to come down to them. A soldier couldn’t tell them what to do. Even a capo couldn’t tell them. It had to go up to a boss, the boss had to approve it, and then assign someone to do it. And they all worked out of a candy store in Brooklyn called Midnight Roses because it was open 24 hours a day. And the phone would ring there from giving whoever it was instructions about who was to be killed, where they were to be killed, how they were to do it, and so forth and so on. [25:27] So what was also interesting is even though Bugsy Siegel had left the Bug and Meyer gang, he still loved participating in murder. He liked killing people. And his partner in these murders was a guy named Frankie Carbo, who became a big deal in boxing. He controlled most of the boxing in America up until at the time of Sonny Liston. And his partner in this was a man named Blinky Palermo. [25:59] And according to Ralph Natale, who for a while had been the boss of the Philadelphia crime family, it was Frankie Carbo who was sent by the mob to kill Bugsy Siegel. Because if he was caught or Bugsy Siegel saw him around, he wouldn’t suspect that he was his killer because they were friends and they had operated as partners together. So this goes back to what we were talking about earlier. It’s your friend who comes closest to you and then arranges you to be assassinated. So I found that whole story just fascinating. Interesting. I’ll tell you what. And there’s those and a whole lot more stories in this, isn’t there, Jeff? Yes, there are. I think that the book covers pretty much the mob history, beginning with the founding of the five families, going all the way up through Sammy the Bulgurvano’s testimony against John Gotti and the commission trial, where they decapitated the heads of the five families. Not literally, folks. Not literally. Not literally. We didn’t literally decapitate. Rudy Giuliano, he tried to. He tried to. He tried to. Metaphorically, he decapitated the heads of the five families. Exactly. [27:15] You know, what was interesting, though, is in the 1930s, you had Thomas Dewey. In the 1960s, you had Robert Kennedy, who went after the mob. And then later on, you had Rudy Giuliani going after the mob. And the mob always managed to reorganize itself and figure out a new way of existing. They were very opportunistic and they always managed to find a way to keep going, even if it was very low key, which is what it is now, where they operate in the shadows and they don’t have any John Gottis or Al Capone’s out there getting a lot of attention for themselves. They’re still out there doing things. Yeah. Yeah. They finally learned something about that getting publicity. And most recently, they put together a whole scheme, and this goes way back, of cheating people. Big whales, I call them whales, of rich men that like to gamble and brush up against kind of the dark side and cheat them at cards. They’ve been doing that for years. They just do it under goes to clear black to the Friars Club scam in Los Angeles where Ronnie Roselli and some others had a spotter, would see who had what cards in what’s hands, then would tell another player. And so now there’s just more electronic, but the same game just upgraded to electronics. [28:30] That’s right. What someone I spoke to interviewed said, he said they’re very involved in electronic gambling poker machines and that kind of thing. And a lot of offshore gambling and offshore money laundering. And to some extent, even drug dealing now. And they’re still very involved in New York in the construction business. Oh, really? Yeah. Union business. They’re still in it, huh? And I know in Kansas City, there’s a couple of examples where they put money into a buy here, pay here car dealership into a title loan place because there’s a huge rate of interest on those things. And there’s a lot of scams that go down out of those places, especially the old crap cars and put them together and sell them to poor people for they’ve got $500 in the car and they sell it to them for $2,000. They charge them a 25% interest and then go repo it when the car breaks down, turn around and patch it up and sell it again. So there’s always schemes going on out there to mob will put their money into. Oh, it’s incredible. I knew of one scheme where they would They would sell trucks to people and give them a special route. And so on that route, they could make enough money to pay off the loan on the truck. But then they would take away the route from them. They couldn’t pay off the truck. So they would repossess the truck and sell it to someone else and do it all over again. [29:50] Oh, I know. They got to tell you that. And Joey Messino and the Bananos, they organized the tow main wagons, the lunch truck, the snack wagons. Right, exactly. Organize them. And then they start extorting money, formed an association. And then to get to good spots, then you had to kick money to them. And just to be part of the organization, that was kicking money to them. There’s always something. They always manage to find a place where they can make money. And it’s like whack-a-mole. You can stop them here, you can stop them there, and then they pop up in three other places. [30:24] Really all right jeffrey susman i’m so happy to talk to you again i haven’t talked to you for a while and i hope everything else is everything’s going okay for you in new york city yep i’m working on a new book uh what are you working on now oh my god you are so prolific i look on your amazon page just when i was getting ready to do this trying to think of some of those other titles Oh, my God. I’m working on a book about the Garment Center. Ah, interesting. Only because my family was involved in that business, and they had to deal with the mob in various ways, with trucking companies, unions, and so forth. And since I knew that, and I had a lot of information, a lot of contacts, I thought I would tackle that next. I remember when I had my marketing PR business back in the 1970s. [31:16] I had a client who was in the fitness business, and I had a cousin of my mother’s who was a very famous dress designer at the time, and he had a big showroom on 7th Avenue, which is in the garment center. I went to see him because I wanted to see if I could get a deal for my client to manufacture exercise clothes and brand it with her name. I made a date to have lunch with this cousin of mine, and he said, come up to my showroom. we’ll meet for lunch, And so I got to the showroom, and I called out his name when I walked in. It was empty. And this guy comes running out of the back, and he just has a shirt on, and he has a shoulder holster, .38 caliber gun in it. And he says to me, who the F are you? I said, I’m so-and-so’s cousin. I’m here to have lunch with him. He disappeared into the back. And a couple of minutes later my mother’s cousin comes out and i said who was that what was that about he says i don’t want to talk about it now i’ll tell you all for lunch so we go down to a restaurant around the corner and i asked him again and he says he said he couldn’t have his dresses delivered to any department store unless he made a deal with yeah i forgot if it was the gambinos or the lucasies that he had to take this guy on as a partner otherwise the trucks wouldn’t deliver his garments. And there was nothing he could do about it. It was either that or go out of business. [32:45] I’ll tell you what, they’re voracious. They’re greedy and voracious and don’t care. Just give me those, show me the money. That’s all it is. It’s all about money and any way to get it. And then there’s always a threat of murder behind it. If you don’t cooperate, think of the worst thing that can happen to you. And that’s what’ll happen. Yeah. I’ve had guys over the years tell I’m like, oh, you ought to throw in with one of those ex-mobsters that’s doing podcasts and try to do something with them. I say, I ain’t doing business with them. They play by their rules. I play by society’s rules. And I don’t have time to mess with that. Yeah. And that was a smart thing to do. Because also, when I had this fitness client, I met someone who was… I didn’t know what was connected to the mob, but a mutual friend, this guy said that he wanted to set up fitness centers all around the country for my clients. So I mentioned this to a mutual friend and he said, whatever you don’t go into business with this guy, I said, regret it for the rest of your life. So I advised my client not to do it. [33:49] Yeah. Cause initially before we knew that it sounded like a great opportunity. And then when you investigate, it’s not such a great opportunity. Yeah, really. Speaking of that, we tell stories for hours. I just heard a story. We had a relocated mobster, a guy that testified against Gigante, came here to Kansas City. And he was, of course, under witness protection and he’s got an assumed name. And he befriends a guy that has a fitness center. He has a franchise of Gold’s Gym or something. And he has a fitness center. And he talks this guy into taking him on, investing a little money in it, taking him on as his partner. Within the next couple of years, this mobster, he’s got two of his kids working there and neither one of them are really doing anything, but they’re drawing a salary and the money’s trickling out. And the guy, the local guy, he just walks away from it because this guy’s planned by the mob’s rules. So he just ended up walking away from it, did something else. So it’s do not go into business with these guys. No, never. Never. [34:48] Jeffrey Suspett, it’s a pleasure to have you back on the show. Thank you so much. It’s a pleasure to be with you again, Gary. It’s always a pleasure. Thank you very much.

In this episode, I sit down with actor Gary Pastore, a longtime working actor best known for his unforgettable role in A Bronx Tale. We talk about how one of the film's most iconic lines came together, growing up Italian in New York, and the real-life path of a working actor. Gary shares stories from Goodfellas, working with Martin Scorsese, playing real-life mob figures like Albert Anastasia, and the importance of networking the right way in Hollywood. We also discuss longevity in the business, reputation, and why being a good person off-camera matters just as much as talent.

A "fictional memoir" from Jack O'Halloran. ("Non" in Superman movies 1 and 2)Jack Pagano has always felt he is different. Smart and physically talented, the normal pursuits of youth--women and sports--have always come a little too easy to him and left him unfulfilled. At age seventeen, Jack is eager to leave high school and begin his college career.But the schooling that lies ahead of him is of a far different variety than he could have ever imagined.Albert Anastasia, the notorious leader of Murder, Inc., appears and claims Pagano as his son. But before Jack can make heads or tails of his new-found father, Anastasia is gunned down at the Park Sheraton Hotel.Under the tutelage of his late father's associates, Meyer Lansky and Frank Costello, Jack enters a world where crime and politics, money and murder, and the American way of life are all but a hand's breadth apart and inextricably linked.At the same time, another father is grooming his son to further his plans: Joseph Kennedy, the patriarch of what will become American's ruling dynasty, has set his sights on the White House--and with the help of some old friends in Chicago, his son, also Jack, will rise to power.Then, one autumn day in Dallas…“Renaissance man, Jack O'Halloran—prizefighter, actor, and now author—has written a shocking and fast-paced novel of Mafia intrigue. This book is packed with all the twists and turns of a carnival ride.” — Dan E. Molde a, best-selling author of Evidence Dismissed“A stellar debut. Deftly plotted and expertly executed, Family Legacy is a gripping yarn that transcends the traditional crime novel or mob thriller. Jack O'Halloran is a fresh voice in a crowded genre. Highly recommended.” — Sheldon Siegel, New York Times Best Selling Author of Perfect Alibihttps://amzn.to/3IIzkU1Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-opperman-report--1198501/support.

In this episode of the podcast, I'm joined by author Ron K. Fried for a deep dive into one of the most compelling figures in organized crime history: Frank Costello, the mob boss who rose to power during Prohibition and later became known as the “Prime Minister of the Underworld.” We discuss Ron's novel Frank Costello: A Novel—a carefully researched work of historical fiction that vividly brings Costello's complex character to life. Together, we explore the real-life events behind the book and how Ron approached writing about a man who straddled the worlds of organized crime and political power.We start with Costello's early years—his immigration from Sicily, his upbringing in East Harlem, and how he gravitated toward petty crime and gang life. In this environment, he met future legends like Charles “Lucky” Luciano, Meyer Lansky, Benjamin “Bugsy” Siegel, and Vito Genovese—key figures in the creation of a national crime syndicate.During Prohibition, Costello built his fortune and reputation through bootlegging, running extensive liquor operations, and leveraging alliances that would shape the mob's future. We discuss the bloody 1931 power shift following the assassinations of Joe Masseria and Salvatore Maranzano, which led to the formation of the Five Families. As Luciano's trusted associate, Costello rose in the ranks of what would become the Genovese Crime Family.We explore the mid-1930s transition period when Luciano was imprisoned and Genovese fled to Italy to avoid a murder charge. This opened the door for Costello to become acting boss, a position he would hold for nearly 20 years. During this time, he built a reputation as a refined, politically connected mobster who favored influence over brute force—garnering real sway in political and judicial circles.We delve into Costello's political entanglements, including the wiretap involving Judge Thomas Aurelio, in which Costello was caught influencing judicial appointments. We also examine his ties to New York Mayor William O'Dwyer and his suspected involvement in the mysterious death of Abe Reles, a Murder, Inc. informant who “fell” from a window while under police protection.One major focus is Costello's appearance at the 1951 Kefauver Committee hearings, a turning point in his career. His decision to only allow his hands to be filmed became a media sensation and diminished his power and mystique. The public scrutiny weakened his position and empowered rivals—most notably, Vito Genovese, who sought to reclaim the top spot in the family.We look at the 1957 assassination attempt on Costello, carried out by Vincent “The Chin” Gigante on Genovese's orders. Though Costello survived, he chose to step down. We also discuss the murder of Albert Anastasia later that year, and the theory that Costello may have had a hand in framing Genovese, leading to his 1959 conviction on narcotics charges.From there, we examine Costello's final years, during which he remained influential behind the scenes but largely retired from active leadership. We reflect on his complex legacy: a ruthless gangster who carefully curated an image of legitimacy and respectability. Ron shares how he explored that duality in his novel—bringing humanity to a man who lived in both the criminal underworld and the corridors of political power.We also discuss mob portrayals in film and television, and look ahead to the upcoming 2025 gangster film Alto Knights, a much-anticipated movie featuring dramatizations of several key historical figures we covered. Our conversation touches on why the Mafia continues to fascinate the public and how Frank Costello's story stands apart as one of strategy, survival, and power.

In the 1930s, an association of primarily Italian mafiosos and Jewish organized crime gangsters, based in Brooklyn, was formed for the purpose of putting distance between the underworld figures ordering hits, and the people carrying out those executions. This organization would come to be known as, Murder Incorporated. And this is their insanely violent story, loaded with crazy characters and their colorful nicknames. Merch and more: www.badmagicproductions.com Timesuck Discord! https://discord.gg/tqzH89vWant to join the Cult of the Curious PrivateFacebook Group? Go directly to Facebook and search for "Cult of the Curious" to locate whatever happens to be our most current page :)For all merch-related questions/problems: store@badmagicproductions.com (copy and paste)Please rate and subscribe on Apple Podcasts and elsewhere and follow the suck on social media!! @timesuckpodcast on IG and http://www.facebook.com/timesuckpodcastWanna become a Space Lizard? Click here: https://www.patreon.com/timesuckpodcast.Sign up through Patreon, and for $5 a month, you get access to the entire Secret Suck catalog (295 episodes) PLUS the entire catalog of Timesuck, AD FREE. You'll also get 20% off of all regular Timesuck merch PLUS access to exclusive Space Lizard merch.

In this bonus episode of Gangland Wire, I follow up on my interview with Mafia historian Anthony DeStefano to discuss New York City's organized crime more. One of the most significant topics Anthony and I covered was the Alto Nights social club. This was not only the title, but also the central character in the recent Mafia film written by Goodfellas scribe Nicholas Pileggi, who starred Robert De Niro in dual roles. Gary sets the record straight on two pivotal New York crime hangouts—the Ravenite Social Club and the Alto Knights Social Club—which the media frequently confuse. The Ravenite at 247 Mulberry, tied to Carlo Gambino, played a crucial role in his rise to power after Albert Anastasia's assassination. Meanwhile, the Alto Knights Social Club, at 86 Kenmarre, emerged from the old Cafe Royale, a well-known bookmaking hub, solidifying its place in Genovese family history. Only three blocks separated these clubs, but they were miles apart in Mafia history. Listeners will hear about notorious gangsters who frequented the Alto Knights, including Vito Genovese, Michael Miranda, and infamous enforcer Buster Ardito. Through historical anecdotes and law enforcement surveillance records, this episode paints a vivid picture of mob life—its power struggles, criminal enterprises, and the relentless pursuit by federal authorities. Click the link on Anthony DeStefano's name to see his mob books. Subscribe to get gangster stories weekly Hit me up on Venmo for a cup of coffee or a shot and a beer @ganglandwire Click here to "buy me a cup of coffee" To go to the store or make a donation or rent Ballot Theft: Burglary, Murder, Coverup, click here To rent Brothers against Brothers, the documentary, click here.  To rent Gangland Wire, the documentary, click here To buy my Kindle book, Leaving Vegas: The True Story of How FBI Wiretaps Ended Mob Domination of Las Vegas Casinos. To subscribe on iTunes click here. Please give me a review and help others find the podcast. Donate to the podcast. Click here! Transcript [0:00] Well, hey, all you wiretappers. Good to be back here in Studio Gangland Wire. A little bonus episode here. Hopefully, you just listened to or watched my interview with Anthony DeStefano, who had these books about Frank Costello and Vito Genovese, and from which Nick Pileggi researched to write his screenplay for the most recent movie that's just released, Alto Nights, It's a pretty interesting movie. We haven't seen a movie about the mob in the 50s since the 50s or the 60s, I don't think. And they talk about the Alto Knight Social Club. That's what this was all about, the Alto Knight Social Club. It was a Genovese social club. But what I've noticed is there's a lot of discussion about where was this club? And there's a whole school of thought, thanks to the New York Times or another New York newspaper, were obviously conflating the Ravenite Social Club and the Alto Knights Social Club. Two different clubs. So let's look at the Ravenite, which was at 247 Mulberry Street. And what the papers are saying, that the Alto Knights name was changed by Carlo Gambino when he inherited it from Albert Anastasia after he was killed. Barbershop Quartet, if you remember, murdered him in the Barbershare most famous mob photos ever, I think. Bosley Gambino changed it to the Raven Knights, Raven Knights, like, you know. [1:26] Knights with a sword and the raven, because he loved the Edgar Allan Poe poem so much, the one called the Raven, you know, the Raven, quote, the Raven nevermore. Now, it seems kind of weird that Gambino must have been a pretty erudite, sophisticated mob boss. If you read Edgar Allan Poe and poems, you know, I remember it because it's just so immensely popular. It got to, you know, quote the Raven nevermore. It's such a great line that, you know, you've heard of it. I don't think I ever read the whole thing. It's certainly not for fun, maybe in school.

You don't earn a nickname like The Lord High Executioner by not killing a whole lot of people. And Albert Anastasia, one of the most psychotic gangsters to ever come out of New York City, was alleged to have participated in at least 60 murders as part of his role as one of the leaders of Murder, Inc., the hitmen organization that Lucky Luciano and the other members of The Commission tasked with doling out mafia justice. Anastasia's rise to power in the violent mob wars of the 1920's and 1930's is the stuff of mafia lore, but there is such as thing as being too violent, even for someone who became the boss of one of the five families. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Murder Incorporated was a secretive enforcement arm of the National Crime Syndicate in the 1930s and 1940s, established to carry out assassinations and enforce the Syndicate's control over organized crime across the United States. Led by figures like Louis "Lepke" Buchalter and Albert Anastasia, the organization comprised professional hitmen such as Abe "Kid Twist" Reles and Harry "Pittsburgh Phil" Strauss. Responsible for hundreds of murders, they used brutal and varied methods to eliminate rivals, informants, and those who defied the Syndicate's authority. Law enforcement efforts, spearheaded by prosecutors like Thomas E. Dewey, intensified as public outcry grew. Reles eventually became an informant, providing critical testimony that led to the conviction and execution of key members, including Buchalter. The dismantling of Murder Incorporated marked a significant turning point in the fight against organized crime, and recent discoveries have shed additional light on their extensive operations and enduring impact on law enforcement tactics.(commercial at 13:35)to contact me:bobbycapucci@protonmail.com

Murder Incorporated was a secretive enforcement arm of the National Crime Syndicate in the 1930s and 1940s, established to carry out assassinations and enforce the Syndicate's control over organized crime across the United States. Led by figures like Louis "Lepke" Buchalter and Albert Anastasia, the organization comprised professional hitmen such as Abe "Kid Twist" Reles and Harry "Pittsburgh Phil" Strauss. Responsible for hundreds of murders, they used brutal and varied methods to eliminate rivals, informants, and those who defied the Syndicate's authority. Law enforcement efforts, spearheaded by prosecutors like Thomas E. Dewey, intensified as public outcry grew. Reles eventually became an informant, providing critical testimony that led to the conviction and execution of key members, including Buchalter. The dismantling of Murder Incorporated marked a significant turning point in the fight against organized crime, and recent discoveries have shed additional light on their extensive operations and enduring impact on law enforcement tactics.(commercial at 13:35)to contact me:bobbycapucci@protonmail.comBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-epstein-chronicles--5003294/support.

This episode was originally published on The Murder Sheet's main feed on September 6, 2024.The Cheat Sheet is The Murder Sheet's segment breaking down weekly news and updates in some of the murder cases we cover. In this episode, we'll talk about. two Clark County cases in different states that both involve corruption, as well as several murders involving children.ABC 11's coverage of the murders of Blake and London Deven and the arrest of Avantae Deven: https://abc11.com/post/avantae-deven-arrested-adoptive-mother-missing-children-blake/15002736/WRAL's coverage of the murders of Blake and London Deven and the arrest of Avantae Deven: https://www.wral.com/story/wral-investigates-confession-connected-to-deven-murders/21605339/WRAL's further coverage of the murders of Blake and London Deven and the arrest of Avantae Deven: https://www.wral.com/story/why-havent-police-charged-person-who-confessed-to-participating-in-deven-murders-wral-asked-a-judge/21608573/CNN's coverage of Colt Gray and the shooting that claimed the lives of students Mason Schermerhorn and Christian Angulo and teachers Richard Aspinwall and Christina Irimie: https://www.cnn.com/us/live-news/apalachee-school-shooting-georgia-09-05-24/index.htmlWSB-TV's coverage of Colt Gray and the shooting that claimed the lives of students Mason Schermerhorn and Christian Angulo and teachers Richard Aspinwall and Christina Irimie: https://www.wsbtv.com/news/local/barrow-county/colt-gray-what-we-know-about-14-year-old-apalachee-high-school-shooting-suspect/SQMMEKLHMRGKZE7GIQZCW6MAXA/BBC's coverage of Colt Gray and the shooting that claimed the lives of students Mason Schermerhorn and Christian Angulo and teachers Richard Aspinwall and Christina Irimie: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c049yw352r1oWCVB's coverage of the murder of Elijah Clunie: https://www.wcvb.com/article/dorchester-boston-two-people-shot/62035901Boston 25's 's coverage of the murder of Elijah Clunie: https://www.boston25news.com/news/local/walked-up-execution-style-customera-shot-killed-while-getting-haircut-dorchester-barbershop/44XAFVTCX5EUNIM5LW5LPAY5CQ/The Boston Herald's coverage of the murder of Elijah Clunie: https://www.bostonherald.com/2024/09/02/two-shot-one-dead-in-dorchester-barbershop-boston-police-seek-publics-help/The Gaston Gazette's coverage of the murder of Elijah Clunie: https://www.gastongazette.com/story/news/2013/10/25/today-in-history-mob-boss/34362241007/Law & Crime coverage of Robert Telles's conviction of the murder of Jeff German: https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=34&v=YdQGXSzQ2zs8 News Now's coverage of Robert Telles's conviction of the murder of Jeff German: https://www.8newsnow.com/investigators/jury-foreman-in-las-vegas-telles-murder-trial-says-own-testimony-undermined-case-he-really-thought-he-could-prove-his-innocence/KTNV's coverage of Robert Telles's conviction of the murder of Jeff German and the cross-examination by Deputy Chief Prosecutor Christopher Hamner: https://www.ktnv.com/news/crime/telles-on-trial/foreperson-explains-how-robert-telles-walk-helped-jurors-reach-verdictThe Indiana Capital Chronicle's coverage of Jamey Noel: https://indianacapitalchronicle.com/2024/08/30/a-pardon-for-jamey-noel-wont-come-from-his-administration-holcomb-says/?fbclid=IwY2xjawE_5vVleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHXJuQpKfu_CrWqqccD4MuwdGlYf8M_hd9Jihuvl7Ev3NY3z_-nlx_W2Fuw_aem_AT4vyzgL4AiJlRsKEg8mmg&sfnsn=moWHAS 11's coverage of Jamey Noel: https://www.whas11.com/article/news/crime/indiana-state-police-jamey-noel-spent-thousands-at-st-elmo-steak-house-in-indianapolis/417-62f2dd19-9603-41df-893d-85a88a29612bCome see us do our first live show in Kendallville, Indiana https://clcevents.eventcalendarapp.com/u/43485/315102Support The Murder Sheet by buying a t-shirt here: https://www.murdersheetshop.com/Send tips to murdersheet@gmail.com.The Murder Sheet is a production of Mystery Sheet LLC.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Jack O'Halloran : Family LegacyJack Pagano has always felt he is different. Smart and physically talented, the normal pursuits of youth―women and sports―have always come a little too easy to him and left him unfulfilled. At age seventeen, Jack is eager to leave high school and begin his college career.But the schooling that lies ahead of him is of a far different variety than he could have ever imagined.Albert Anastasia, the notorious leader of Murder, Inc., appears and claims Pagano as his son. But before Jack can make heads or tails of his new-found father, Anastasia is gunned down at the Park Sheraton Hotel.Under the tutelage of his late father's associates, Meyer Lansky and Frank Costello, Jack enters a world where crime and politics, money and murder, and the American way of life are all but a hand's breadth apart and inextricably linked.At the same time, another father is grooming his son to further his plans: Joseph Kennedy, the patriarch of what will become American's ruling dynasty, has set his sights on the White House―and with the help of some old friends in Chicago, his son, also Jack, will rise to power.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-opperman-report--1198501/support.

Today on Crime & Entertainment we have, Jack O'Halloran. Jack is an American actor and former boxer. O'Halloran fought in 57 professional boxing matches (including fights with future heavyweight champions George Foreman and Ken Norton), but he is best known for acting in such films as Farewell, My Lovely, the 1976 King Kong, Superman, Superman II, Hero and the Terror and the 1987 Dan Aykroyd/Tom Hanks spoof Dragnet. Jack  also has a book Family Legacy,  where he details that he is really the illegitimate son of mafia hitman and crime boss Albert Anastasia. We get into all that & more here on Crime & Entertainment.Connect with Jack Here on IGhttps://www.instagram.com/theofficial...Jack's Bookhttps://www.amazon.com/Family-Legacy-...Like us on Facebook -    / crimeandentertainment  Follow us on Instagram -    / crimenentertainment  Listen on Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/4T67Bs5...Listen on Apple Music - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast...Listen on Stitcher - https://www.stitcher.com/show/crime-e...Listen on Google Podcast -

This week is the profile of ruthless murderer and future Mafia boss Albert Anastasia. From his early days getting into crime, his leadership in the infamous Murder Inc., his rise to boss of the now Gambino family to his grisly murder in a barbershop, it's all here!Subscribe to our YouTube to get shorts, clips, full episodes, and exclusives!youtube.com/@bangdangnetworkBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/show/outlaws-gunslingers/support.

Dark Rideby Lou Berney9/23/23 William MorrowThis week we visited with an old friend, Lou Berney, about his new book “Dark Ride.:From Lou Berney, the acclaimed, multi award-winning author of November Road and The Long and FarawayGone, comes a Dark RideSometimes the person you least expect is just the hero you needTwenty-one-year-old Hardy “Hardly” Reed—good-natured, easygoing, usually stoned—is drifting through life.A minimum-wage scare actor at an amusement park, he avoids unnecessary effort and unrealistic ambitions.Then one day he notices two children, around six or seven, sitting all alone on a bench. Hardly checks ifthey're okay and sees injuries on both children. Someone is hurting these kids.He reports the incident to Child Protective Service.That should be the end of it. After all, Hardly's not even good at looking out for himself so the last thing hewants to do is look out for anyone else. But he's haunted by the two kids, his heart breaking for them. And themore research he does the less he trusts that Child Protective Services —understaffed and overworked—willdo anything about it.That leaves...Hardly. He is probably the last person you'd ever want to count on. But those two kids havenobody else but him. Hardly has to do what's right and help them.For the first time in his life, Hardly decides to fight for something. This might be the one point in his entire life,he realizes, that is the entire point of his life. He will help those kids.At first, trying to gather evidence that will force the proper authorities to intervene, Hardly is a total disaster.Gradually, with assistance from unexpected allies, he develops investigative skills and discovers he's smarterand more capable than he ever imagined.But Hardly also discovers that the situation is more dangerous than he ever expected. The abusive father whohas been hurting these children isn't just a lawyer—he also runs a violent drug-dealing operation. The motherclaims she wants to escape with the kids—but Hardly isn't sure he can trust her.Faced with a different version of himself than he has ever known, Hardly refuses to give up. But hiscommitment to saving these kids from further harm might end up getting the kids, and Hardly himself, killed.TRIVIALast week's question was:Isaac Asminov was a prolific author but he had one serious phobia.. What was it?a. Fear of the number 13b. Fear of Heightsc. Fear of Closed spacesd. Fear of flyingThe answer is d. Fear of Flying.. Asimov was afraid of flying, doing so only twice: once in the course ofhis work at the Naval Air Experimental Station and once returning home from Oahu In 1946. Consequently, heseldom traveled great distances. This phobia influenced several of his fiction works, such as the Wendell Urthmystery stories and the Robot novels featuring Elijah Baley. In his later years, Asimov found enjoymenttraveling on cruise ships, beginning in 1972 when he viewed the Appollo 11 launch from a cruise ship. Onseveral cruises, he was part of the entertainment program, giving science-themed talks aboard ships such asthe Queen Elizabeth 2. He sailed to England in June 1974 on the SS France for a trip mostly devoted tolectures in London and Birmingham, though he also found time to visit Stonehenge.This week's question is:Mystery author Charlotte MacLeod had a family connection to which criminala. Whitey Bulgerb. John Gottic. Al Caponed. Albert Anastasia

On Episode 46, We delve into the life of Carlo Gambino, former boss of the Gambino family for nearly 20 years,  he came up working for both the D'Aquila and Masseria mob organizations, before being made a capo in the Mangano family, following the creation of the 5 families, he continued to garner power, becoming Albert Anastasia's consigliere, then underboss, before Gambino took him out and began his 20 year run as head of the family that bears his name, I hope everyone enjoys today's episode and tunes back in next week for Episode 47Please give us a follow on our socials-Instagram and Twitter: @theblackhandpodSources:Background Music:Music: Dark Flashes by Shane Ivers - https://www.silvermansound.comIntro Music:Music: Void Glider by Shane Ivers - https://www.silvermansound.comIntro audio sources:Lufthansa clip belongs to The Fox Corporation“New York City is a warzone” clip belongs to CBS Broadcasting Inc.Joey Gallo and “Leave by violence” clip belongs to the American Broadcasting CompanySupport the show

On Episode 36, we delve into the life of former Gambino family boss Albert Anastasia, by his 20's he had hooked up with Lucky Luciano, which would lead to him becoming one of the preeminent waterfront bosses of his time, as well as the architect behind Murder Inc, the enforcement wing of Luciano's National Crime syndicate, which boosted his rise to eventual boss of what would become the Gambino crime family, becoming a monumental figure in the process. i hope everybody enjoys today's episode, there wont be one next week as ill be on vacation, but we'll be back in business on Wednesday July 5th.PLEASE follow us on our socials-Instagram and Twitter: @theblackhandpodSources:Background Music:Music: Dark Flashes by Shane Ivers - https://www.silvermansound.comIntro Music:Music: Void Glider by Shane Ivers - https://www.silvermansound.comIntro audio sources:Lufthansa clip belongs to The Fox Corporation“New York City is a warzone” clip belongs to CBS Broadcasting Inc.Joey Gallo and “Leave by violence” clip belongs to the American Broadcasting CompanySupport the show

Today's podcast features mafia hitman Albert Anastasia's Son Jack O'Halloran. Jack and I talk about his father Albert and his life of crime. Albert was murder when Jack was very young. Jack explains why his father was murder during our interview. After his father died some of his fathers friends started to mentor him Meyer Lansky, Carlos  Marcello, Lucky Luciano, and Raymond Paterica Sr. Jack had a career in the movie industry and he was a professional fighter. This is episode 142! Jack's Book- Family Legacy https://a.co/d/cqb7ecP Find all of our Invest In Yourself Platforms Clothing Website- https://iiyclothing.bigcartel.com/products YouTube- https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6wGSATB9uusaUCvICpJZ_Q Spotify- https://open.spotify.com/show/6d5D4lauoKHeQ1obygbOhM?si=s37hThFuQACwN1EDZKFQfg&fbclid=IwAR2WNDWcwAJe-SaFOQT6AwW2P0TcntJzOy9inskcULxIswBY9dZniUYjki0&nd=1 Apple Podcasts- https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/i-i-y-podcast/id1577114137 Instagram- https://www.instagram.com/invest_in_yourself_2020/ TikTok- https://www.tiktok.com/@invest_in_yourself_2020?lang=en Facebook- https://www.facebook.com/IIYCLOTHING Email- iiypodcast2021@gmail.com If you would like to donate to the channel here is my cash app https://cash.app/$investinyourself2020#albertanastasia #jimmyhoffa #frankcostello #meyerlanksy #jimmyhoffa #hitman #mafia #truecrime #anthonyaccardo #samgincana #luckylucaino #franksintra #arnoldrothstein #vitogenovese #tommyluchese #murderinc Find all of our Invest In Yourself Platforms Subscribe to Salvatore Polisi & My Patreon Channel- https://patreon.com/user?u=93654095 Clothing Website- https://iiyclothing.bigcartel.com/products YouTube- https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6wGSATB9uusaUCvICpJZ_Q Spotify- https://open.spotify.com/show/6d5D4lauoKHeQ1obygbOhM?si=s37hThFuQACwN1EDZKFQfg&fbclid=IwAR2WNDWcwAJe-SaFOQT6AwW2P0TcntJzOy9inskcULxIswBY9dZniUYjki0&nd=1 Apple Podcasts- https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/i-i-y-podcast/id1577114137 Instagram- https://www.instagram.com/invest_in_yourself_2020/ TikTok- https://www.tiktok.com/@invest_in_yourself_2020?lang=en Facebook- https://www.facebook.com/IIYCLOTHING Email- ...

Today's podcast features  Dave Iacovetti Jr. His father was a Dave Iacovetti Sr. He was a capo in the Gambino Crime Family. Dave Sr. worked with Albert Anastasia, Carlo Gambino, and many more high level members in the Gambino Crime Family. Dave Jr talks about his father and crimes that he did. Dave Jr. also had legal trouble himself growing up. He ran a tax scam when he was 14 years old and it didn't end well. Another fun fact about Dave Jr. was that he was almost adopted by Frank Sinatra.  Dave's Club Tv Page- https://m.facebook.com/clubtvnetwork Find all of our Invest In Yourself Platforms Clothing Website- https://iiyclothing.bigcartel.com/products YouTube- https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6wGSATB9uusaUCvICpJZ_Q Spotify- https://open.spotify.com/show/6d5D4lauoKHeQ1obygbOhM?si=s37hThFuQACwN1EDZKFQfg&fbclid=IwAR2WNDWcwAJe-SaFOQT6AwW2P0TcntJzOy9inskcULxIswBY9dZniUYjki0&nd=1 Apple Podcasts- https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/i-i-y-podcast/id1577114137 Instagram- https://www.instagram.com/invest_in_yourself_2020/ TikTok- https://www.tiktok.com/@invest_in_yourself_2020?lang=en Facebook- https://www.facebook.com/IIYCLOTHING Email- iiypodcast2021@gmail.com If you would like to donate to the channel here is my cash app https://cash.app/$investinyourself2020#Daveiacovetti #mafia #gambino #carlogambino #johngotti #albertanastasia #meyerlansky #bugsysiegal #luckylucaino #truecrime #crimestories #father #wiseguy #mademenFind all of our Invest In Yourself Platforms Subscribe to Salvatore Polisi & My Patreon Channel- https://patreon.com/user?u=93654095 Clothing Website- https://iiyclothing.bigcartel.com/products YouTube- https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6wGSATB9uusaUCvICpJZ_Q Spotify- https://open.spotify.com/show/6d5D4lauoKHeQ1obygbOhM?si=s37hThFuQACwN1EDZKFQfg&fbclid=IwAR2WNDWcwAJe-SaFOQT6AwW2P0TcntJzOy9inskcULxIswBY9dZniUYjki0&nd=1 Apple Podcasts- https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/i-i-y-podcast/id1577114137 Instagram- https://www.instagram.com/invest_in_yourself_2020/ TikTok- https://www.tiktok.com/@invest_in_yourself_2020?lang=en Facebook- https://www.facebook.com/IIYCLOTHING Email- ...

His majesty the executioner was just one of his nick names. Who was one of the most ruthless and feared members of cosa nostra? listen all about it in Albert Anastasia , a podcast from the series The History of the American Mafia

Have You Heard Of Murder Inc.? A Real And Deadly Criminal Enterprise That Actually Existed!Throughout American history, the country has seen crime syndicates rise and fall. One of the most infamous has to be Murder, Inc., a group of killers led by Louis Buchalter and Albert Anastasia. Murder, Inc. accepted contract hits on enemies. Their murders were brutal and violent and the group spread fear throughout the United States.Have You Heard Of Murder Inc.? A Real And Deadly Criminal Enterprise That Actually Existed!KURIOUS - FOR ALL THINGS STRANGE

GIANNI RUSSO was born in Manhattan in 1943 and raised in the then close-knit Little Italy, and later Rosebank, Staten Island. After reprising Carlo Rizzi in a brief flashback scene at the end of The Godfather Part II, Russo acted in more than 46 films, including Goodnight, My Love (1972), Lepke (1975, as Albert Anastasia), Laserblast (1978), Chances Are (1989), The Freshman (1990), Side Out (1990), Another You (1991), Super Mario Bros. (1993), Any Given Sunday (1999) and Seabiscuit (2003). Russo claims that he started a fledgling career in organized crime working as an errand boy and mob associate for Frank Costello as an adolescent but later abandoned the dangerous and volatile lifestyle of organized crime. The Staten Island Mafioso Tommy Bilotti was reportedly best man at Russo's wedding. Since the beginning of his acting career, Russo owned a Las Vegas restaurant called Gianni Russo's State Street at 2570 State Street on the Las Vegas Strip (closed in 1988), and reportedly defeated 23 federal criminal indictments on a variety of charges stemming from alleged organized crime associations. Russo is also a singer. In 2004, he released a CD called Reflections that pays homage to Dean Martin and Frank Sinatra. Russo owns a wine brand, Gianni Russo Wines, which debuted in 2009. In 2019, he published his memoir, Hollywood Godfather: My Life in the Movies and the Mob. Listen to his podcast https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast... --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/john-aidan-byrne0/support

Tune in this week to hear some wild Mafia stories! We are going over Pablo Escobar, Albert Anastasia, Jimmy Hoffa, Bugsy Siegal, Paul Castellano, and Angelo Bruno/Antonio Caponigro.  

Attend the tale of Angelo Maxwell / His skin was dark and his taste was odd / He shaved the faces of gentlemen / Who never thereafter were heard of again / He trod a path that few have trod / Did Angelo Maxwell / The crochety barber of Cicely A little ballad to get us started for this week. Co-hosts Lee and Charles are kicking things off with topics such as Murder INC., moose caca, Albert Anastasia, and more! Later on, we're having Northern Exposure fan Lauren join in on the pod as she discusses oh so many things such as the green dice earrings the Shelly wears, housing sets, and possible errors in print and handwriting! patreon.com/northernoverexposurepodcast Theme music by Matt Jackson Podcast Artwork by Bball Y'all (bballyall.com) Available on Apple Podcasts, Google Play Music, Stitcher, Spotify, and SoundCloud. write in: northernoverexposurepodcast@gmail.com twitter: twitter.com/NorthernOverPod

Lock, Dan and Cancer discuss the life of New York Crime Lord Albert "The Lord High Executioner" Anastasia --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/badguy-lock/message

FAMOUS MOB HITS Pt. 2 – “THE WARS”.   The Wars, The War of the Captains, Joe Columbo, Joe Bonano, Joe Profaci, Frank Costello, Albert Anastasia, Joey Gallo, Joseph Magliocco, these are just a few of the names of legend that Matt brings to life in this powerful Episode.  Jerome Johnson, Sonny Pinto, Carmine Galante, Rusty Rastelli, the list goes on. Matt represented or knew many of these infamous gentlemen and their associates.  Locales like Umbertos Clam House, Sparks Steakhouse, Joe & Mary's Restaurant, all are singed by the flames of death and assassination.  John Gotti, Angelo Ruggiero, Greg Scarpa, Sonny Black. If you know these names, the history, the time frame, then DON'T MISS “THE WARS”, an Episode worthy of View from Mulberry Street's amazing stories.          

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Today's video features two mafia members Frank DiMatteo and Derek Galanis. Frank Dimatteo was in the Gallo Crew which is a crew inside the Colombo Crime Family. Derek Galanis is an associate of the Cherry Hill Gambinos. Today we talk about the differences between their era's. Frank was a part of the old school mafia generation and Derek was a part of the new school mafia. We talk about the different crimes each era took part in. We also talk about Frank and Derek never becoming informants and wbu they didn't. Franks Website- https://mobcandymag.com Derek's Book links belowGalanis Crime Family - https://www.amazon.com/Greed-Fear-Galanis-Crime-Family/dp/1980343861Warrior of the Light- https://www.amazon.com/Warrior-Light-Fighters-Journey-through/dp/1074823834/ref=pd_aw_fbt_img_sccl_1/146-8555500-5216806?pd_rd_w=5rVJm&content-id=amzn1.sym.b6e57bf5-2054-445a-8980-1886178987a5&pf_rd_p=b6e57bf5-2054-445a-8980-1886178987a5&pf_rd_r=H46MVRK4PEW1EJ3KP92E&pd_rd_wg=zsobY&pd_rd_r=e2e23766-da11-486d-a9e3-b24755524a02&pd_rd_i=1074823834&psc=1Find all of our Invest In Yourself Platforms Clothing Website- https://iiyclothing.bigcartel.com/productsYouTube- https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6wGSATB9uusaUCvICpJZ_QSpotify- https://open.spotify.com/show/6d5D4lauoKHeQ1obygbOhM?si=s37hThFuQACwN1EDZKFQfg&fbclid=IwAR2WNDWcwAJe-SaFOQT6AwW2P0TcntJzOy9inskcULxIswBY9dZniUYjki0&nd=1Apple Podcasts- https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/i-i-y-podcast/id1577114137Instagram- https://www.instagram.com/invest_in_yourself_2020/fbclid=IwAR3_McZpdI3C8oy-XpAXXNfyfcoYPMtZRKab0YNSeUoA2nssgywe3Et3fnUTikTok- https://www.tiktok.com/@iiy_clothing_podcast?fbclid=IwAR1oCed6gwFX5hO1ICGMmqp_6TZ-w1feubsYHnTjed00Ddz4_4zotG1HAikFacebook- https://www.facebook.com/IIYCLOTHINGEmail- iiypodcast2021@gmail.com#frankdimatteo #derekgalanis #colombo #gambino #mafia #mobster #oldschool #newschool #era #truecrime 

Ángel Antonio Herrera celebra el 80 aniversario de la película 'Casablanca' charlando sobre "el gangsterismo" y el género del gángster como tema en el cine y la literatura. Así, hablamos de los nombres los gángsters reales e históricos como Albert Anastasia, Joseph Bonanno, John Goti, Frank Costello, Carlo Gambino, Al Capone, Lucky Luciano, Meyer Lansky... 

Ángel Antonio Herrera celebra el 80 aniversario de la película 'Casablanca' charlando sobre "el gangsterismo" y el género del gángster como tema en el cine y la literatura. Así, hablamos de los nombres los gángsters reales e históricos como Albert Anastasia, Joseph Bonanno, John Goti, Frank Costello, Carlo Gambino, Al Capone, Lucky Luciano, Meyer Lansky... 

All aboard the Hot Mess Express! Grab your cocktails and buckle up for a good old fashion Mobster crime story. Learn about Albert Anastasia's crimes and his terrible death. Socials: Instagram- tequilashewrote Tiktok- tequilashewrote Facebook- tequila, she wrote Twitter- tequilashewrote Patreon- tequilashewrote Email- tequilashewrote@gmail.com Resources: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Anastasia https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/six-most-famous-mob-murders-all-time-180971714/ https://themobmuseum.org/notable_names/albert-anastasia/ --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/tequilashewrote/support

We're here to make you an offer you can't refuse. Stories of murder, money, drama, and.....nicknames??? We are talking about the mob starting with Albert Anastasia.

This week's episode is part two of our Mob Hits Series. The hits covered in this episode are: Albert Anastasia, Danny Greene, and the St. Valentine's Day Massacre. Follow The Mob Files on: Twitter YouTube Sources https://themobmuseum.org/blog/the-fall-of-murder-inc/ https://gangsterreport.com/cleveland-top-5-mob-hits/ https://www.forbes.com/sites/kellyphillipserb/2020/10/17/al-capone-convicted-on-this-day-in-1931-after-boasting-they-cant-collect-legal-taxes-from-illegal-money/?sh=1a90b4e1435d https://www.onthisday.com/articles/al-capone-public-enemy-number-one https://www.chicagomag.com/Chicago-Magazine/May-2012/The-Chicago-Mobs-Rise-and-Fall/ https://themobmuseum.org/blog/the-fall-of-murder-inc/ Music by Ahmadmusic from Pixabay #Mob #Mafia #Five Families #Gambino #Capone

Carmine Lombardozzi, a workhorse for Albert Anastasia, is known for getting mixed up in dangerous affairs. He brings that same behavior into one of Sammy's bars and Sammy has zero tolerance for it.

 was an Italian-American mobster, hitman, and crime boss. One of the founders of the modern American Mafia, and a co-founder and later boss of the Murder, Inc. organization, Anastasia eventually rose to the position of boss in what became the modern Gambino crime family. He also controlled New York City's waterfront for most of his criminal career, including the dockworker unions. Anastasia was murdered on October 25, 1957, on the orders of Vito Genovese and Carlo Gambino; Gambino subsequently became boss of the family. Anastasia was one of the most ruthless and feared organized crime figures in American history; his reputation earned him the nicknames "The Earthquake", "The One-Man Army", "Mad Hatter" and "Lord High Executioner".

Sappiamo bene che ogni criminale spesso si specializza in un tipo di delitto, ebbene Albert Anastasia si specializzò nell'organizzazione di omicidi. Non possiamo affermare che “Sua maestà il Boia” o “Il cappellaio pazzo”, come venne soprannominato, si dedicò solo a quel tipo di delitti, infatti fu implicato in tanti altri racket quali le estorsioni ai sindacati e ai lavoratori portuali, il gioco d'azzardo, la prostituzione e durante il periodo del proibizionismo al contrabbando. Fu uno dei mafiosi più spietati e temuti di Cosa Nostra nella storia degli Stati Uniti.Diventa un supporter di questo podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/storia-della-mafia-americana--4689841/support.

Musiche di Thomas Nicosia. A seguito della creazione della Commissione fu necessario che qualcuno facesse rispettare le decisioni dei boss. Pertanto negli anni 30 si creò la OMICIDI S.P.A, che previo compenso, aveva il compito di minacciare, mutilare o uccidere coloro che disubbidivano ai voleri dei componenti della Commissione. Questa organizzazione fu gestita da Louis "Lepke" Buchalter e in seguito da Albert Anastasia.Diventa un supporter di questo podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/storia-della-mafia-americana--4689841/support.

Lucky Luciano, ça te dit quelque chose ? Si tu as vu la série « Boardwalk Empire », je suppose que oui. De son vrai nom Salvatore Lucania, ce gangster était connu pour être le chef suprême de la mafia américaine, ainsi que le dirigeant des 5 familles de la Costa Nostra de New York dans les années 30 à 50. Eh oui, le parrain des parrains aux États-Unis à l'époque, c'était lui. Il est celui qui a créé la Commission (une sorte de gouvernement du crime organisé américain). D'ailleurs, ce n'est pas pour rien qu'il a inspiré les personnages de Vito et Mickael Corleone dans la célèbre saga « Le Parrain ». Pour connaître son incroyable histoire, je te propose donc ce documentaire en français (2021). Comme la trilogie « Le Parrain », il sera disponible en 3 parties. Après la 1ère et 2ème partie, voici donc le dernier volet. Dans cette 3ème partie, on parlera de l'apogée et de la fin de Charles « Lucky Luciano » : la réunion de Chicago, ses ennuis avec la justice, ainsi que la conférence de La Havane. Comme d'habitude, il sera accompagné de ses plus fidèles associés : Meyer Lansky, Bugsy Siegel, Frank Costello, Vito Genoese ou encore Albert Anastasia.

jack Pagano has always felt he is different. Smart and physically talented, the normal pursuits of youth―women and sports―have always come a little too easy to him and left him unfulfilled. At age seventeen, Jack is eager to leave high school and begin his college career. But the schooling that lies ahead of him is of a far different variety than he could have ever imagined. Albert Anastasia, the notorious leader of Murder, Inc., appears and claims Pagano as his son. But before Jack can make heads or tails of his new-found father, Anastasia is gunned down at the Park Sheraton Hotel. Under the tutelage of his late father's associates, Meyer Lansky and Frank Costello, Jack enters a world where crime and politics, money and murder, and the American way of life are all but a hand's breadth apart and inextricably linked. Jack O'Halloran: Family Legacy Actor, Boxer, author ... At the same time, another father is grooming his son to further his plans: Joseph Kennedy, the patriarch of what will become American's ruling dynasty, has set his sights on the White House―and with the help of some old friends in Chicago, his son, also Jack, will rise to power.

jack Pagano has always felt he is different. Smart and physically talented, the normal pursuits of youth―women and sports―have always come a little too easy to him and left him unfulfilled. At age seventeen, Jack is eager to leave high school and begin his college career.But the schooling that lies ahead of him is of a far different variety than he could have ever imagined.Albert Anastasia, the notorious leader of Murder, Inc., appears and claims Pagano as his son. But before Jack can make heads or tails of his new-found father, Anastasia is gunned down at the Park Sheraton Hotel.Under the tutelage of his late father's associates, Meyer Lansky and Frank Costello, Jack enters a world where crime and politics, money and murder, and the American way of life are all but a hand's breadth apart and inextricably linked.Jack O'Halloran: Family LegacyActor, Boxer, author ...At the same time, another father is grooming his son to further his plans: Joseph Kennedy, the patriarch of what will become American's ruling dynasty, has set his sights on the White House―and with the help of some old friends in Chicago, his son, also Jack, will rise to power.

Lucky Luciano, ça te dit quelque chose ? Si tu as vu la série « Boardwalk Empire », je suppose que oui. De son vrai nom Salvatore Lucania, ce gangster était connu pour être le chef suprême de la mafia américaine, ainsi que le dirigeant des 5 familles de la Costa Nostra de New York dans les années 30 à 50. Eh oui, le parrain des parrains aux États-Unis à l'époque, c'était lui. Il est celui qui a créé la Commission (une sorte de gouvernement du crime organisé américain). D'ailleurs, ce n'est pas pour rien qu'il a inspiré les personnages de Vito et Mickael Corleone dans la célèbre saga « Le Parrain ». Pour connaître son incroyable histoire, je te propose donc ce documentaire en français (2021). Comme la trilogie « Le Parrain », il sera disponible en 3 parties. Il y a 1 mois, je vous avais partagé la 1ère partie. Nous continuions donc avec la 2ème partie, qui parlera de la façon dont Lucky Luciano est monté au sommet de la mafia. Tu découvriras comment Luciano a fait pour grimper au sommet de la pègre, avec une stratégie pour le moins spectaculaire. Comme d'habitude, il sera accompagné dans cet épisode de ses plus fidèles associés, dont : Meyer Lansky, Bugsy Siegel, Frank Costello, Albert Anastasia et les autres. Sa rivalité avec Masseria et Maranzano sera également traitée dans ce documentaire. Voilà je te souhaite un bon visionnage. (Ce reportage s'est largement inspiré du livre biographique « Testament » dans lequel Martin A. Gosch interviewe Charlie « Lucky » Luciano).

Lucky Luciano, ça te dit quelque chose ? Si tu as vu la série « Boardwalk Empire », je suppose que oui. De son vrai nom Salvatore Lucania, ce gangster était connu pour être le chef suprême de la mafia américaine, ainsi que le dirigeant des 5 familles de la Costa Nostra de New York dans les années 30 à 50. Eh oui, le parrain des parrains aux États-Unis à l'époque, c'était lui. Il était celui qui a créé la Commission (une sorte de gouvernement du crime organisé américain). D'ailleurs, ce n'est pas pour rien qu'il a inspiré les personnages de Vito et Mickael Corleone dans la célèbre saga « Le Parrain ». Pour connaître son incroyable histoire, je te propose donc ce documentaire en français (2021). Comme la trilogie « Le Parrain », il sera disponible en 3 parties. Dans cette vidéo, tu auras la 1ère partie qui parlera de sa jeunesse et de son ascension dans la pègre.. Tu découvriras comment Lucky Luciano a vécu jeune, avec la formation de son gang (incluant Meyer Lansky, Frank Costello, Bugsy Siegel, Vito Genovese, Albert Anastasia ou encore Joe Adonis), les origines de sa gigantesque fortune (trafic d'alcool, racket et usure) et sa rivalité avec les vieux Dons (Giuseppe Masseria dit « Joe The Boss » et Salvatore Maranzano). En bonus, il y aura également un passage dans lequel Al Capone est cité. (Ce reportage s'est largement inspiré du livre biographique « Testament » dans lequel Martin A. Gosch interviewe Charlie « Lucky » Luciano).

O'Halloran was born in Philadelphia, and was raised by his mother, Mary, and stepfather, Peter Paul Patrick O'Halloran;[2] in his book Family Legacy, he claims to be the illegitimate son of mafia hitman Albert Anastasia.[3] He lived in Runnemede, New Jersey.[4] Fighting as "Irish" Jack O'Halloran from Boston, he was a heavyweight boxing contender active from 1966 to 1974. The 6-foot, 5-inch O'Halloran was undefeated in his first 16 professional fights. During his boxing career, O'Halloran defeated former title contenders Cleveland Williams and Manuel Ramos. He also defeated Danny McAlinden, who won a bronze medal in boxing at the 1966 British Empire and Commonwealth Games in Kingston, Jamaica and later became the British and Commonwealth Heavyweight Champion. O'Halloran's losses included defeats to Joe Roman (twice), Joe Bugner, Ron Lyle, and future heavyweight champions George Foreman and Ken Norton. Professional athlete in football and boxing. Film industry as an Actor, writer, producer. Published author of novel Family Legacy. Superman 1&2 as Non Contact Guest: https://pro.imdb.com/name/nm0641172/ Book: https://familylegacythenovel.com/ Host Contact information: www.drajrbutler.com. Sponsors information: www.tradeacademypro.com Sign up for free trading newsletter --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/momentsofgrace/support

Welcome to Season 4 of Which Murderer!In Season 4 Episode 1 Mel and Holly cover Mob Murders - Mel's choice as Holly has terrible taste in TV shows. It all connects. Holly kicks off the episode with the story of Albert Anastasia before Mel tells you about Abe Reles.The girls discuss Holly's terrible brain, some new possible career options, an overview of Mel's extensive criminal history, there are some absolutely fabulous names and crazy case connections made between the two murderers. Production, recording and postproduction completed by Holly who has taken out a contract to have a microchip put into Consulting Producer Craigs head so she can talk to him at any given moment. Holly also edited this week. All complaints can be gently folded into origami as Consulting Producer Craig is more likely to open them then. www.whichmurderer.comWARNING - Explicit language, content and themes (plus whatever else will cover us legally). All opinions stated are our own and case information was gathered from legitimate sources within the public realm.Pre-recorded in Scotland

Interview: I am joined by actor, boxer, and author Jack O'Halloran.  Best known as Kryptonian villain Non the menacing mute and muscle for General Zod in Superman (1978) and Superman II (1980). Jack shares a ton of stories from the set of Superman. Great stories about working with Richard Donner, Christopher Reeve, Marlon Brando, Gene Hackman and so much more. Jack also shares some amazing boxing stories and hanging out with Muhammad Ali. Jack also discusses King Kong, March or Die, Farwell My Lovely, working on Dragnet with Tom Hanks and Dan Ackroyd, and his time with David Hasselhoff on Knight Rider.  We also dive into Jack's book 'Family Legacy'.  'Family Legacy' details his relationship with his father and leader of Murder, Inc., Albert Anastasia.  The discussion of his books leads us into a deep dive into the JFK Assassination and Jimmy Hoffa.   Our Guest, Jack O'Halloran http://familylegacythenovel.com  Live From Detroit: The Jeff Dwoskin Show: WINNER TOP 25 INDIE PODCASTS 2020 from Indie Pods United! SceneSnobs.com, 2021 Snobby Awards: Winner 'Best Comedy Podcast', 'Best Interview Podcast', 'Podcaster of the Year' JOIN OUR MAILING LIST!  https://jeffisfunny.com/mailing-list/  Buy me a coffee! https://www.buymeacoffee.com/JeffDwoskinShow  Jeff Dwoskin Presents: Crossing the Steams: Every Wednesday at 9:30 PM ET we are LIVE discussing the best TV shows to binge-watch. I'm joined by a panel of TV watching experts. You don't want to miss the fun! (Watch past episodes) Watch LIVE: @bigmacher on Twitter:  https://twitter.com/bigmacher  The Jeff Dwoskin Show on YouTube Subscribe to YouTube Channel: https://bit.ly/CTSYouTubeSubscribe  Hashtag Fun: Jeff dives into recent trends and reads some of his favorite tweets from trending hashtags. The hashtag featured in this episode is #SignsYourNeighborIsASuperVillain Social Media: Jeff talks about being finding amazing virtual conferences.  Check out the Podfest Expo master class May 10-13 (jeff is speaking). Use the code DETROIT for a free ticket (https://podfestexpo.com/) Featured on the show: Hashtag Game: #SignsYourNeighborIsASuperVillain Hosted by: https://twitter.com/SciFiTags  Tweets featured on the show: https://twitter.com/mrjafri/status/1360680194021941248?s=20 https://twitter.com/ThePublicGadfly/status/1360681176994897921?s=20 https://twitter.com/Saga_Says/status/1360683686522462210?s=20 https://twitter.com/bigmacher/status/1360680835746328580?s=20 https://twitter.com/MasterJediMara/status/1360680552882266116?s=20 https://twitter.com/Colbywinters/status/1360689099938627584?s=20 https://twitter.com/NeverThatRobin2/status/1360681949631758337?s=20 https://twitter.com/Shadewing/status/1360687069283176450?s=20 https://twitter.com/GinaPra23622738/status/1360693126227234819?s=20 https://twitter.com/daranthered/status/1360682949117501442?s=20  Follow Hashtag Roundup to tweet along with fun hashtags daily! https://twitter.com/HashtagRoundup   Download the Hashtag Roundup app at https://app.hashtagroundup.com/ Follow Jeff Dwoskin: Jeff on Twitter: https://twitter.com/bigmacher  The Jeff Dwoskin Show: https://twitter.com/JeffDwoskinShow  Podcast website: https://jeffisfunny.com  Instagram: https://instagram.com/JeffDwoskinShow  The Jeff Dwoskin Show is available on Castbox, Amazon Music, Humbly, Goodpods,  iHeart Radio, Pandora, Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Stitcher, and more! 

Murder, Inc. was arguably the most ruthless and successful hit squad in American history, killing hundreds of people throughout the 1930s. It was led by a brutal Brooklyn gangster named Abe "Kid Twist" Reles, who under orders from mob bosses like Lucky Luciano, Lepke Buchalter and Albert Anastasia, dispatched his hitmen across the country to kill anyone who threatened the interests of "The Commission", a national federation of Italian-American and Jewish mobsters. Eventually Reles would turn government witness, but before he could testify against the upper echelons of his organization, he would die from a fall from a hotel room. Which leads to an enduring historical mystery: Was it suicide? An accident? Or murder?My guest, Michael Cannell, author of "A Brotherhood Betrayed: The Man Behind the Rise and Fall of Murder, Inc.", shares details about the deadly organization and the colorful Kid Twist, and offers some theories about what really happened to him in Suite 623 of the Half Moon Hotel on November 12, 1941. More information can be found here: http://www.michaelcannell.com/

Episode: #169 Subject: The Pope  Host: Al Martinino aka Alpha Mike Word Of The Week: For where your treasure is there will your heart be also. Matthew 6:21   Intro: Host Alpha Mike welcomes the “Nation” to episode #169. How to contact us two websites,www.RaiderCopNation.com & www.RaiderCop.com.  Alpha talks about the ongoing never-ending election. Also reminder on our new 30 mins format being created for the 2021 season. That’s right 30 mins or less in each episode and an increase of two episodes a week. Main Topic: The Pope  Born Constantino Paul Castellano, June 26, 1915, NYC Bensonhurst Dropping out of school at the 8th grade, to get in the family business, a butcher His father Giuseppe, Butcher was a member of the Mangano Family His sister Kathryn would marry Carlo Gambino Paul and Carlo were cousins Paul would have 4 kids, Paul, Philip, Joseph, & Constance Paul stood 6.5 about 300 lbs, hence Big Paul Paul was not known as a tough guy, but an earner Paul would become a multimillionaire as an associate   Paul would control the Italian lottery on 17th ave in Brooklyn  Arrested in 1934 at the age of 19 on a failed clothing store (hold up)  Paul would grow in the LCN/Mafia under his cousin, Carlo Gambino  in the 1940s Paul would become a made member of the Mangano Family   1951 Vincent Mangano would be killed by Albert Anastasia  1957 Albert Anastasia would be killed by Vito Genovese and Carlo Gambino  1957 Carlo took Paul to the commission meeting making Carlo Gambino boss and changing the name to the Gambino Family  In 1960 paul would serve jail time for the commission meeting along with over 60 other mobsters, the case was overturned on appeal  In the 1970's Gambino would rely on Paul for the day to day operations 1975 Paul ordered the killing of Vito Borelli 1975 Paul indicted on loansharking and tax evasion Paul would become the official boss of the Gambino Family in 1976 upon the death of Carlo Gambino Paul had many businesses such as poultry selling to 300 shops Paul also controlled Key Food & Waldbaum supermarkets Paul sons would run the businesses Paul Jr, & Joseph Paul would control construction with, "The Club" Paul home mansion on Staten Island was nicknamed the "Whitehouse" costing 52 million Paul was very smart and articulate as stated by Fat Tony on FBI tapes Paul son, Philip would become president of Scara-Mix Concrete Corp Paul made a pack with the Cherry Hill Gambino's (Zips) and the Westie's (Irish Gang) form Hell's Kitchen NYC   Paul circle of power were the following crew members, Joseph Corrao, Thomas Bilotti, Thomas Gambino, Daniel Marino, and James Failla Underboss Aniello Delacroce would die Dec 2, 1985, Paul would not attend the funeral a big mistake along with other mistakes  Dec 16, 1985, Paul Castellano would be gun down 14 days after Neil Delacroce death  Up Next: All Hands Ahoy #170 from the files of the Buccaneer files. Test Everything 5 minutes on the Power of God  Instagram @milo_raider_cop  Co-host of Raider-Cop Tube coming in 2021 Spotify   Stitcher  PodBean TuneIn  Join the Raider-Cop NATION Pistol Pete the Gunsmith Kilo Sierra’s Firearms Training or Investigation: Sepulveda inc #EmpanadaLadiesOfGeorgia MeWe, WimKin, Rumble.ApplePodcast GooglePodcast Pandora Twitter: @RaiderCopNation  Parler: @RaiderCop  Facebook: @RaiderCopNation#JailsLASD #CACorrections #MDCR #NYPD #LAPD #LASD #MDPD #MPD #NYSP #NJSP #LVPD #Security #HCSO #PBSO #BSO #OCSO #PCSO #SFPD #DPD #HPD #SAPD #LCSO #FMPD #CCSO #NYC #NYCDOC #NJDOC #PPD #SLPD #CPD #TestEverything @RaiderCopNation #RaiderCopNation #TrainUp #o9TG #WiseGuySeries #TrainUpSeries #RollCallSeries #ThinkOuttaDaBox #SideBarSeries #BeLikeJack #Corrections #RaiderCopYoutube Free Music: Triumph by Yung Logos, Rodeo Show by The Green Orbs, Minor Blues for Booker E’s Jammy Jams, Happy Birthday Mambo, by E’s Jammy James. The Awakening Patrick jazz Space, The Current Blues, Blue Infusion, Front Porch Blues, Crazy Blues, Midnight Special, Super Blues, Bright Eyed Blues, Bleeker Street Blues, Olde Salooner Blues, Miles Beyond, D.J. Freedem, Causmic, Verified Picasso, Coyote Hearing, Diamond OrtizPatrikiosMusic: I'm Back by Eye of the beholder.This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.   

Episode: #167 Subject: The Silver Fox Host: Al Martinino aka Alpha Mike Word Of The Week: Anxiety In the heart of Man cause depression but a good word makes it glad. Proverbs 12:25  Intro: Host Alpha Mike welcomes the “Nation” to episode #166. How to contact us two websites,www.RaiderCopNation.com & www.RaiderCop.com.  Alpha talks about the new 30 mins format being created for the 2021 season. That’s right 30 mins or less in each episode and an increase of two episodes a week. Main Topic: The Silver Fox Born, Carlo "Don Carlo" Gambino, Aug 24, 1902, in Palermo, Sicily Family members of Passo di Rigano Gambino entered the U.S. at Norfolk, Virginia on 12/23/1921 as a stowaway Once in NYC, he joins his cousin's trucking company (The Castellanos) Married in 1932, to Paul Castellanos Sister, which was also his cousin 4 children, Thomas, Joseph, Carlo, and Phylis Carlo would join Joe The Boss Masseria clan prior to 1931 Carlo would become a member under Vincent Mangano who was boss for 20 years. Carlo would grow under Mangano, becoming a Capo Upon Mangano's murder in 1951, he would remain a Capo In 1957 Carlo, would become Consigliere, replacing Joseph Biondo Vito Genovese would make a deal with Carlo on killing Albert Anastasia, giving Carlo the chance to become boss of the family  In December 1957 the Commission would place Carlo boss of the family and change the name to Gambino family. By 1960 the bosses Bonanno and Profaci & Genovese would all have issues giving Gambino an edge on the Commission Carlo would have during the '60s about 1000 associates and 500 made men Carlo oldest son Thomas married Tommy Lucchese, daughter in 1962 Carlo would develop a heart condition in 1953, 1967, and 1970 during several court case The Silver Fox as Chairman of the Commission 1970 Gambino would wack Thomas Eboli who was the front boss for the Genovese family Gambino nephew would be kidnap by Irish hoods and John Gotti would become a star in Gambino's eyes Gambino Died in Massapequa LI at his home on Oct 15, 1976, at the age of 74 Up Next: December 5, 2020: Batten Down The Hatches (BuccaneerSeries) #168 Test Everything 5 minutes on the Power of God  Instagram @milo_raider_cop  Co-host of Raider-Cop Tube coming in 2021 Spotify   Stitcher  PodBean TuneIn  Join the Raider-Cop NATION Pistol Pete the Gunsmith Kilo Sierra’s Firearms Training or Investigation: Sepulveda inc #EmpanadaLadiesOfGeorgia MeWe, WimKin, Rumble.ApplePodcast GooglePodcast Pandora Twitter: @RaiderCopNation  Parler: @RaiderCop  Facebook: @RaiderCopNation#JailsLASD #CACorrections #MDCR #NYPD #LAPD #LASD #MDPD #MPD #NYSP #NJSP #LVPD #Security #HCSO #PBSO #BSO #OCSO #PCSO #SFPD #DPD #HPD #SAPD #LCSO #FMPD #CCSO #NYC #NYCDOC #NJDOC #PPD #SLPD #CPD #TestEverything @RaiderCopNation #RaiderCopNation #TrainUp #o9TG #WiseGuySeries #TrainUpSeries #RollCallSeries #ThinkOuttaDaBox #SideBarSeries #BeLikeJack #Corrections #RaiderCopYoutube Free Music: Triumph by Yung Logos, Rodeo Show by The Green Orbs, Minor Blues for Booker E’s Jammy Jams, Happy Birthday Mambo, by E’s Jammy James. The Awakening Patrick jazz Space, The Current Blues, Blue Infusion, Front Porch Blues, Crazy Blues, Midnight Special, Super Blues, Bright Eyed Blues, Bleeker Street Blues, Olde Salooner Blues, Miles Beyond, D.J. Freedem, Causmic, Verified Picasso, Coyote Hearing, Diamond OrtizPatrikiosMusic: I'm Back by Eye of the beholder.This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.   

In Part II of this exclusive interview with Jack O'Halloran, son of the notorious crime boss/Godfather Albert Anastasia, he reveals whether the infamous Teamster's boss Jimmy Hoffa will ever be found. He also discusses his heavyweight boxing bouts with Ken Norton and George Foreman and...his near-fight with Muhammad Ali. He also discusses working on films with Marlon Brando, Gene Hackman and Robert Mitchum. Was the film The Irishman part fiction? Find out what Jack knows about that movie too. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Imagine being the son of a Godfather...the crime boss of all crime bosses. Jack O'Halloran is the son of Albert Anastasia, known as the Lord High Executioner, who was infamously gunned down while getting a haircut in the Park Central Hotel in NYC. Jack went on to win the first 16 fights of his professional boxing career and fought Ken Norton and George Foreman & narrowly missing a chance to fight Muhammed Ali in 1973. He then played the villain Non in the two Superman movies starring Christopher Reeve. In this history-making world exclusive episode, Jack reveals WHAT REALLY HAPPENED TO JFK!!! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Episode #164 Subject: Congratulations To Who? Host: Al Martinino aka Alpha Mike Word Of The Week: For nothing is secret that will not be revealed, nor anything hidden that will not be known and come to light. Luke 8:17  Intro: Host Alpha Mike welcomes the “Nation” to episode #164. How to contact us two websites,www.RaiderCopNation.com & www.RaiderCop.com. Alpha talks about the only three social media platforms we are on. Twitter: @RaiderCopNation  Parler: @RaiderCop  Facebook: @RaiderCopNation Alpha peeks in to hear the counting of ballots. The social network purge, don't get caught up. The elections lawsuit and three sheets to the wind. Join the ranks of the USCCA, just like 350,000 other Americans have, well it’s easy by texting, Raider to 87222, or click on the USCCA link below. As an affiliate of the USCCA, we get a small portion that help’s us providing new content and equipment. Main Topic: Born Carmine John Perico Jr, Aug 8, 1933, Brooklyn, New York Know as Junior plus other names Snake & Immortal Father, Carmine John Persico, Sr. and Mother Assunta Susan Plantamaura His father was a legal stenographer, middle-class family Junior's brothers which both were Capo's Theodore and Alphonse  Turf, Carroll Gardens, Red Hook, Bensonhurst, Brooklyn  Drop out from H.S. at 16  Junior became the leader of the Garfield Boys Street gang. The AAA of organized crime At age 17 Junior is charged with killing a rival gang member, charges dropped  In the 1950s becomes a member of the Profaci Family, under Capo Frank "Frankie Shots" Abbetemarco  Junior started off in the Porfaci clan with Bookmaking, Loansharking, Burglaries, Hijackings  He would be arrested 12 times in the 50s spending only a few days  Junior will start working with the Gallo brothers, which are also under Frankie Shots  On October 25, 1957, Junior is called in on the hit of Albert Anastasia, along with the Gallos  Nov 4, 1959, Profaci orders the hit on Capo Frankie Shot Abbetemarco which is carried out by Junior Frankie shots is killed on Profaci orders, for refusing to kick up monies to the boss   The beginning of the Profaci/Colombo war breaks out, many believe the Carlo Gambino is encouraging the Gallos  Aug 12, 1961, Junior earns the nickname people would not say to his face, "Snake" the name is giving by Frank Punchy Illiano, which would become a Capo of the Genovese family  Sept 21, 1961, the Gallo crew gives Gambino Capo Aniello Dellacroce a beatdown. Dellacroce would become the Underboss of the Gambino Family 65-85 Junior is approached by Frank Costello out of friendship for Joe Profaci in switching sides from the Gallos to Profaci and giving Profaci info of the activities.  Junior calls a meeting with Larry Gallo at the Saraha Lounge in Brooklyn, an attempt on Larry Gallo life is done as shown in the Godfather Movie Junior would be charged with the incident at the Saraha Lounge but the charge was dropped   In 1962, Joe Profaci would die of cancer  1963 the Gallo bomb Junior's car, but Junior had his Cadillac re-enforce with steel prior  1963 after the bombing the Gallos shoot and hit Junior hitting him in the face, hand, and shoulder. The injury would affect Junior right arm for life  1963 Joey Crazy Gallo would be sent to prison ending the first Profaci/Colombo war 1963/64 Joe Colombo awarded the family by the Commission. Junior is made a Capo  By the late 60s Juniors crew is one of the biggest and strongest in the Colombo family  In 1971 Joey Gallo released from prison, war starts again  June 28, 1971, Joe Colombo is shot placing him in a coma until his death on May 22, 1978 April 7, 1972, Joe Gallo is shot and killed at Umberto Restaurant in Manhattan. Joey Gallo was celebrating his birthday  Junior is released from prison in 1979. Junior would spend most of his leadership in prison than out of prison 1984 the great commission case will convict Cosa Nostra bosses in NYC to 100 years. Junior would obtain 139 years  1986 at the sentencing of the commission case Junior is the youngest boss of the five families at age 53  at the time of the commission case, Junior was the boss of the Colombo family for the past 14 years, he would rule for a total of 47 years  1988 Junior appoints Capo Vic Orena as Acting Boss or Street Boss. Two years later Vic wants to become the official boss causing the 3rd Colombo war  1991 the LCN Commission refuses to back Junior as boss backing Vic Orena at the request of the Gambino family, "John Gotti" 1996 Junior son Alphonse and next boss is giving a life sentence for killing Orena's underboss Wild Bill Catulo By the end of the 3rd war, 12 members of the Colombo family are dead    Junior will continue to be the boss of the family, until his death in 2019  Today the Colombos are lead by Andy Russo, Junior cousin, and will eventually be given to Teddy Persico, Junior's nephew.   Song of the week: Angelina, Louis Prima  Up Next: Cigar, Rusty, & Bananas #165 Become a member of the USCCA by hitting the link below or text “Raider” to 87222 @RaiderCopNews @TestEvery1521 Test Everything 5 minutes on the Power of God Instagram @day_with_milo Co-host of Raider-Cop Tube coming 2021 @raidercoppodcast Parler: @RaiderCopNation Facebook  Twitter Spotify   Stitcher  PodBean  YouTube TuneIn Join the Raider-Cop NATION Pistol Pete the Gunsmith Kilo Sierra’s Firearms Training or Investigation: Sepulveda inc #EmpanadaLadiesOfGeorgia Manifest Your Dreams With Moxie MatronApplePodcast GooglePodcast Pandora#JailsLASD #CACorrections #MDCR #NYPD #LAPD #LASD #MDPD #MPD #NYSP #NJSP #LVPD #Security #HCSO #PBSO #BSO #OCSO #PCSO #SFPD #DPD #HPD #SAPD #LCSO #FMPD #CCSO #NYC #NYCDOC #NJDOC #PPD #SLPD #CPD #TestEverything @RaiderCopNation #RaiderCopNation #TrainUp #o9TG #WiseGuySeries #TrainUpSeries #RollCallSeries #ThinkOuttaDaBox #SideBarSeries #BeLikeJack #Corrections Twitter @RaiderCopNation, Parler @RaiderCop, FaceBook @RaiderCopNation, Instagram @DayWithMilo, Tik Tok @RaiderCop,Youtube Free Music: Triumph by Yung Logos, Rodeo Show by The Green Orbs, Minor Blues for Booker E’s Jammy Jams, Happy Birthday Mambo, by E’s Jammy James. 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Our conversation today is something that is both inspirational and powerful, thanks to our guest, Jack O’Halloran. Jack bravely shares his story on how his career on-screen and as a fighter, who’s career ended due to acromegaly, causing depression and eventually alcoholism. Even more bravely, he criticizes the government and the politicians, saying every day there’s taxpayer’s money misused for activities that most Americans wouldn't approve of. He sure knows a lot of secrets, too, including a conspiracy behind Obama’s presidency. * Jack talked about his book, Family Legacy. He said this book aims to tell the truth about what happened in America. It is about the political conspiracy driven by Mafia. It is Jack O’Halloran’s fictionalized life, the system he was exposed to as he was growing up, and his relationship with Albert Anastasia and the Gambino family. * Jack O’Halloran is known as Irish Jack in the boxing ring. He is also a former actor who has appeared in the movies, Superman II and King Kong. He is now a novelist and Family Legacy is his first book. * Family Legacy Website: * http://www.familylegacythenovel.com/Author.html * Family Legacy Amazon Book Link: * https://www.amazon.com/Family-Legacy-Jack-OHalloran/dp/1849821062 * The Harrison Act: * https://www.naabt.org/documents/Harrison_Narcotics_Tax_Act_1914.pdf * The Littlest Junkie: * https://www.nytimes.com/1973/01/10/archives/tv-heroin-addiction-in-the-newborn-the-littlest-junkie-written-by.html * This Episode Was Sponsored By Lewis Graphic Design Services: * Johanna Lewis offers web design services, commercial production services, as well as logo designs. What makes them unique is that they can take their customer's vision that they have in their head and produce it into something tangible that they can physically see. * Don’t take my word for it, go see for yourself at johannalewis.com and if you contact Lewis Graphic Design Services before January 1, 2021 you will receive a 10% discount on your 1st order…. * So what are you waiting for?? Go check out Lewis Graphic Design Services @ johannalewis.com and use promo code (nwtgbupod) for your 10% discount. * Promo Code For 10% Off Your 1st Order: nwtgbupod * Indie Pods United Virtual Summit: * Facebook Group: * https://www.facebook.com/groups/indiepodsunited * For Event Tickets: * To Purchase Tickets Go To Eventbrite * #togetherwelisten * Worst Christmas Ever Link: * https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7286474/ * Website for The Con: * https://www.thecon.tv/ * Here is where you can find me: * Linktree: * https://linktr.ee/Nowheretogobutup * To support the show through Patreon: * https://www.patreon.com/user?u=19859993 * You can also tip me through PayPal: * www.paypal.com * The Cash App: * $nwtgbupod * recipient: norcaldroneservices@yahoo.com * *

Our conversation today is something that is both inspirational and powerful, thanks to our guest, Jack O'Halloran. Jack bravely shares his story on how his career on-screen and as a fighter, who's career ended due to acromegaly, causing depression and eventually alcoholism. Even more bravely, he criticizes the government and the politicians, saying every day there's taxpayer's money misused for activities that most Americans wouldn't approve of. He sure knows a lot of secrets, too, including a conspiracy behind Obama's presidency. * Jack talked about his book, Family Legacy. He said this book aims to tell the truth about what happened in America. It is about the political conspiracy driven by Mafia. It is Jack O'Halloran's fictionalized life, the system he was exposed to as he was growing up, and his relationship with Albert Anastasia and the Gambino family. * Jack O'Halloran is known as Irish Jack in the boxing ring. He is also a former actor who has appeared in the movies, Superman II and King Kong. He is now a novelist and Family Legacy is his first book. * Family Legacy Website: * http://www.familylegacythenovel.com/Author.html * Family Legacy Amazon Book Link: * https://www.amazon.com/Family-Legacy-Jack-OHalloran/dp/1849821062 * The Harrison Act: * https://www.naabt.org/documents/Harrison_Narcotics_Tax_Act_1914.pdf * The Littlest Junkie: * https://www.nytimes.com/1973/01/10/archives/tv-heroin-addiction-in-the-newborn-the-littlest-junkie-written-by.html * This Episode Was Sponsored By Lewis Graphic Design Services: * Johanna Lewis offers web design services, commercial production services, as well as logo designs. What makes them unique is that they can take their customer's vision that they have in their head and produce it into something tangible that they can physically see. * Don't take my word for it, go see for yourself at johannalewis.com and if you contact Lewis Graphic Design Services before January 1, 2021 you will receive a 10% discount on your 1st order…. * So what are you waiting for?? Go check out Lewis Graphic Design Services @ johannalewis.com and use promo code (nwtgbupod) for your 10% discount. * Promo Code For 10% Off Your 1st Order: nwtgbupod * Indie Pods United Virtual Summit: * Facebook Group: * https://www.facebook.com/groups/indiepodsunited * For Event Tickets: * To Purchase Tickets Go To Eventbrite * #togetherwelisten * Worst Christmas Ever Link: * https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7286474/ * Website for The Con: * https://www.thecon.tv/ * Here is where you can find me: * Linktree: * https://linktr.ee/Nowheretogobutup * To support the show through Patreon: * https://www.patreon.com/user?u=19859993 * You can also tip me through PayPal: *

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Jack Pagano has always felt he is different. Smart and physically talented, the normal pursuits of youth―women and sports―have always come a little too easy to him and left him unfulfilled. At age seventeen, Jack is eager to leave high school and begin his college career. But the schooling that lies ahead of him is of a far different variety than he could have ever imagined. Albert Anastasia, the notorious leader of Murder, Inc., appears and claims Pagano as his son. But before Jack can make heads or tails of his new-found father, Anastasia is gunned down at the Park Sheraton Hotel. Under the tutelage of his late father's associates, Meyer Lansky and Frank Costello, Jack enters a world where crime and politics, money and murder, and the American way of life are all but a hand's breadth apart and inextricably linked. Jack O'Halloran: Family Legacy Actor, Boxer, author ... At the same time, another father is grooming his son to further his plans: Joseph Kennedy, the patriarch of what will become American's ruling dynasty, has set his sights on the White House―and with the help of some old friends in Chicago, his son, also Jack, will rise to power. Jack

Jack Pagano has always felt he is different. Smart and physically talented, the normal pursuits of youth―women and sports―have always come a little too easy to him and left him unfulfilled. At age seventeen, Jack is eager to leave high school and begin his college career. But the schooling that lies ahead of him is of a far different variety than he could have ever imagined. Albert Anastasia, the notorious leader of Murder, Inc., appears and claims Pagano as his son. But before Jack can make heads or tails of his new-found father, Anastasia is gunned down at the Park Sheraton Hotel. Under the tutelage of his late father's associates, Meyer Lansky and Frank Costello, Jack enters a world where crime and politics, money and murder, and the American way of life are all but a hand's breadth apart and inextricably linked. Jack O'Halloran: Family Legacy Actor, Boxer, author ... At the same time, another father is grooming his son to further his plans: Joseph Kennedy, the patriarch of what will become American's ruling dynasty, has set his sights on the White House―and with the help of some old friends in Chicago, his son, also Jack, will rise to power. Jack

Jack Pagano has always felt he is different. Smart and physically talented, the normal pursuits of youth―women and sports―have always come a little too easy to him and left him unfulfilled. At age seventeen, Jack is eager to leave high school and begin his college career.But the schooling that lies ahead of him is of a far different variety than he could have ever imagined.Albert Anastasia, the notorious leader of Murder, Inc., appears and claims Pagano as his son. But before Jack can make heads or tails of his new-found father, Anastasia is gunned down at the Park Sheraton Hotel.Under the tutelage of his late father's associates, Meyer Lansky and Frank Costello, Jack enters a world where crime and politics, money and murder, and the American way of life are all but a hand's breadth apart and inextricably linked.Jack O'Halloran: Family LegacyActor, Boxer, author ...At the same time, another father is grooming his son to further his plans: Joseph Kennedy, the patriarch of what will become American's ruling dynasty, has set his sights on the White House―and with the help of some old friends in Chicago, his son, also Jack, will rise to power.Jack

In episode 3, I tell the story of the life of Albert Anastasia, the hit man for the mafia, and the tales from Corvin Castle, a Romanian castle on top of a mountains edge.

During the 1930s, Albert Anastasia was the leader of Murder Inc., the mafia’s crew of contract killers. But after World War II, he shot his way to the top to become the boss of one of New York’s Five Families. Unfortunately for him, the Feds were more determined than ever to keep the notorious killer in prison for good.

By the time he immigrated to America just after World War I, Albert Anastasia knew that if he wanted to climb the ranks of New York's underworld, he would have to get his hands dirty.

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Today we get to sit down with a real legend, heavyweight boxer and prolific actor "Irish" Jack O'Halloran. With an impressive record of 34-21-2 with 17 KO's, and having beat such names as Rahman Ali and Alvin Lewis, he already had an impressive career before he began acting. He blames Robert Mitchum for his acting career, after he talked him into appearing in Farewell. My Lovely. He went on to appear in such movies as King Kong (1976), Superman (1978), Superman 2 (1980), Dragnet (1987), and Flinstones (1994). He is now writing a series of books called Family Legacy, about his father Gambino Family boss Albert Anastasia. The first book is currently available, with book 2 of 4 set to release in about a month. You can get his book here: www.familylegacythenovel.com You can also follow Anastasia Productions on FaceBook. Please like and share the show, and follow us at our home on FaceBook. Stay up to date with our semi regularly updated website www.albinorhino.me. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/adventuresofalbinorhino/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/adventuresofalbinorhino/support

Jack is the son of Albert Anastasia a member of the Gambino crime family, and a true believer that organized crime makes neighborhoods safer, it was a very interesting conversation! We also touched upon the JFK assassination, his match with George Foreman, his association with Jimmy Hoffa.Films! He's done so many films during his lifetime, and is still working! Starting with Farewell, My Lovely, and then Superman I and II where he played one of the villains Non, to King Kong (1976), and many others, makes me want to be like Jack! What an interesting life!Thank you all for going on these little adventures with me!#gratitude#grateful#realnickandruss#albertanastasia#JackOHalloran

This week consummate pretty boy Aaron Joseph Pita brings us the murderous saga of mafia hitman and eventual crime boss Albert Anastasia, who's rise to power was brutal, bloody and began and ended with a barber! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Click Below to listen! Episode is now live!We welcome Jack O'Halloran! Jack is an actor who you may recognize from Superman 1 and 2, Dragnet, the 1976 version of King Kong, just to name a few- he's had lots of great roles (and you should hear about the ones he's turned down!) In the 1960s and 70s he was a heavyweight boxer who was a contender for the heavyweight championship and fought George Foreman and Ken Norton- and is in several professional boxing Halls of Fame throughout the United States. He also talks about his book "Family Legacy" which tells the story of his father, Albert Anastasia, one of the founders of Murder Inc., who would later go on to become the head of what would become the Gambino Crime Family. My favorite thing about him however, is that we've both played 6'6" mute villians in productions based on DC comics superheroes!Subscribe for free on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Stitcher, Spotify, Overcast, Pocketcast, Castro, Castbox, iHeart Radio, and https://fowlplayersradio.buzzsprout.com

Though not as well known today as many of his contemporaries, few American mob bosses were as feared as Albert Anastasia. As head of “Murder Inc.”, Anastasia presided over the contract killing of hundreds of people, some of whom he murdered with his own hands. In Lord High Executioner: The Legendary Mafia Boss Albert Anastasia (Citadel, 2020), Frank DiMatteo and Michael Benson draw upon DiMatteo’s firsthand experiences with several of Anastasia’s contemporaries to recount the tale of Anastasia’s bloody career. Born Umberto Anastasio, the young Anastasia went AWOL from the Italian Navy in order to start his life in America. During the 1920s Anastasia rose rapidly in the ranks of the New York mob in the thanks to his organizing abilities and his willingness to do dangerous work. When “Lucky” Luciano organized the five families in 1931, Anastasia became the underboss of Vincent Mangano and was placed in charge of their enforcement arm. Over the next quarter of a century Anastasia ruled through intimidation and bloodshed, until his growing public infamy and a series of missteps on his part led to his own execution in a Manhattan barbershop in 1957.

Though not as well known today as many of his contemporaries, few American mob bosses were as feared as Albert Anastasia. As head of “Murder Inc.”, Anastasia presided over the contract killing of hundreds of people, some of whom he murdered with his own hands. In Lord High Executioner: The Legendary Mafia Boss Albert Anastasia (Citadel, 2020), Frank DiMatteo and Michael Benson draw upon DiMatteo’s firsthand experiences with several of Anastasia’s contemporaries to recount the tale of Anastasia’s bloody career. Born Umberto Anastasio, the young Anastasia went AWOL from the Italian Navy in order to start his life in America. During the 1920s Anastasia rose rapidly in the ranks of the New York mob in the thanks to his organizing abilities and his willingness to do dangerous work. When “Lucky” Luciano organized the five families in 1931, Anastasia became the underboss of Vincent Mangano and was placed in charge of their enforcement arm. Over the next quarter of a century Anastasia ruled through intimidation and bloodshed, until his growing public infamy and a series of missteps on his part led to his own execution in a Manhattan barbershop in 1957. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Though not as well known today as many of his contemporaries, few American mob bosses were as feared as Albert Anastasia. As head of “Murder Inc.”, Anastasia presided over the contract killing of hundreds of people, some of whom he murdered with his own hands. In Lord High Executioner: The Legendary Mafia Boss Albert Anastasia (Citadel, 2020), Frank DiMatteo and Michael Benson draw upon DiMatteo’s firsthand experiences with several of Anastasia’s contemporaries to recount the tale of Anastasia’s bloody career. Born Umberto Anastasio, the young Anastasia went AWOL from the Italian Navy in order to start his life in America. During the 1920s Anastasia rose rapidly in the ranks of the New York mob in the thanks to his organizing abilities and his willingness to do dangerous work. When “Lucky” Luciano organized the five families in 1931, Anastasia became the underboss of Vincent Mangano and was placed in charge of their enforcement arm. Over the next quarter of a century Anastasia ruled through intimidation and bloodshed, until his growing public infamy and a series of missteps on his part led to his own execution in a Manhattan barbershop in 1957. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Though not as well known today as many of his contemporaries, few American mob bosses were as feared as Albert Anastasia. As head of “Murder Inc.”, Anastasia presided over the contract killing of hundreds of people, some of whom he murdered with his own hands. In Lord High Executioner: The Legendary Mafia Boss Albert Anastasia (Citadel, 2020), Frank DiMatteo and Michael Benson draw upon DiMatteo’s firsthand experiences with several of Anastasia’s contemporaries to recount the tale of Anastasia’s bloody career. Born Umberto Anastasio, the young Anastasia went AWOL from the Italian Navy in order to start his life in America. During the 1920s Anastasia rose rapidly in the ranks of the New York mob in the thanks to his organizing abilities and his willingness to do dangerous work. When “Lucky” Luciano organized the five families in 1931, Anastasia became the underboss of Vincent Mangano and was placed in charge of their enforcement arm. Over the next quarter of a century Anastasia ruled through intimidation and bloodshed, until his growing public infamy and a series of missteps on his part led to his own execution in a Manhattan barbershop in 1957. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Though not as well known today as many of his contemporaries, few American mob bosses were as feared as Albert Anastasia. As head of “Murder Inc.”, Anastasia presided over the contract killing of hundreds of people, some of whom he murdered with his own hands. In Lord High Executioner: The Legendary Mafia Boss Albert Anastasia (Citadel, 2020), Frank DiMatteo and Michael Benson draw upon DiMatteo’s firsthand experiences with several of Anastasia’s contemporaries to recount the tale of Anastasia’s bloody career. Born Umberto Anastasio, the young Anastasia went AWOL from the Italian Navy in order to start his life in America. During the 1920s Anastasia rose rapidly in the ranks of the New York mob in the thanks to his organizing abilities and his willingness to do dangerous work. When “Lucky” Luciano organized the five families in 1931, Anastasia became the underboss of Vincent Mangano and was placed in charge of their enforcement arm. Over the next quarter of a century Anastasia ruled through intimidation and bloodshed, until his growing public infamy and a series of missteps on his part led to his own execution in a Manhattan barbershop in 1957. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Jack O'Halloran sits down to talk about his father Albert Anastasia and the Mob life that followed by countless wins in the boxing ring, and on to major Hollywood films. Tune in to hear about his success and he talks about being at the Kennedy assassination in his book family legacy. 

Albert Anastasia: Lord High Executioner

Albert Anastasia: Lord High Executioner

Peter welcomes Frank DiMatteo back to the program.  We talk about Frank's Book on Albert Anastasia, "The Lord High Executioner".  Enjoy stories about the NY mob and a guy nearly everyone wanted dead.  https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/48108326-lord-high-executionerSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

If you were a longshoreman from the 1920s to the 1950s, you lived in fear of this man. Though his reign and reputation were barely a footnote in history, the power Albert Anastasia wielded over the New York harbor was absolute. Anastasia proved that if no one is willing to testify against you… you can get away with just about anything. This episode premiered on Friday, March 6, 2020. For more episodes like this one, subscribe to Villains on Spotify, or wherever you listen to podcasts.

Jack O'Halloran is a former boxer fighting as “Irish” Jack and actor. He is best known for acting in such films as Superman, Superman II, Dagon: Troll World Chronicles and Dragnet. Jack is an inductee into the California Boxing Hall of Fame and has boxed some of the biggest names including George Foreman and Ken Norton. Jack is the author of Family Legacy about former boss of the Gambino crime family, Albert Anastasia who was shot and killed in a barber shop.

On this episode, I chat with Jack about his father, Albert Anastasia, who was involved with the crime syndicate called Murder, Inc. Jack wrote a book titled Family Legacy, which tells the story of his father's involvement in the Gambino family. Jack was a prize heavyweight boxer, fighting George Foreman. He is also an actor who was one of the villains in the Superman movie series. Then after the break, Carmine tells the story of his youth as a martial arts champion. Like Jack, Carmine is also an actor, appearing in several self-produced martial arts films, including the popular cult classic Face the Wind, and multiple award-winning short films. Michael G Moore Podcast Host In A City Like Yours inacitylikeyours.com Follow the show on social media Facebook Group, Twitter, Instagram Podcatchers: Apple Podcasts Big Heads Media Castbox iHeart Radio Radio Public Spotify Stitcher TuneIn YouTube --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/rotm-ent/support

On this episode, I chat with Jack about his father, Albert Anastasia, who was involved with the crime syndicate called Murder, Inc. Jack wrote a book titled Family Legacy, which tells the story of his father's involvement in the Gambino family. Jack was a prize heavyweight boxer, fighting George Foreman. He is also an actor who was one of the villains in the Superman movie series. Then after the break, Carmine tells the story of his youth as a martial arts champion. Like Jack, Carmine is also an actor, appearing in several self-produced martial arts films, including the popular cult classic Face the Wind, and multiple award-winning short films.   Jack O'Halloran's Links The book, Family Legacy  https://www.amazon.com/Jack-OHalloran/e/B003VOLEGG/ref=dp_byline_cont_ebooks_1  Jack's Wikipedia  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_O'Halloran Facebook  https://www.facebook.com/jack.ohalloran1   Twitter  https://twitter.com/MAnastasia LinkedIn  https://www.linkedin.com/in/jack-o-halloran-6040563/   IMDB  https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0641172/  Boxing  https://boxerlist.com/boxer/jack-ohalloran/100/ Superman Jack Interview  https://www.supermanhomepage.com/movies/movies.php?topic=interview-jack-ohalloran Interview  https://jeffcramer.blogspot.com/2011/09/very-candid-conversation-with-jack.html Rotten Tomatoes  https://www.rottentomatoes.com/celebrity/jack-ohalloran Youtube boxing fight with George Foreman  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-COUjZkpnQ About his father, Albert Anastasia  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Anastasia Murder, Inc.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder,_Inc. The Gambino family  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gambino_crime_family   Carmine Caradonna's Links Facebook  https://www.facebook.com/people/Carmine-Caradonna/100000546672223 Twitter  https://twitter.com/Caradonna13  LinkedIn  https://www.linkedin.com/in/carmine-caradonna-18b796102/  IMDB  https://www.imdb.com/name/nm7733047/ The $treetz Movie  https://www.amazon.com/treetz-Angel-Salazar/dp/B07JVCBWJ5/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=the+%24treetz&qid=1581765460&sr=8-1 FilmFreeway  https://filmfreeway.com/carminecaradonna Youtube Face the Wind  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=317IrXZp1_Y Youtube  https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCMSw8viN6T4JUdRVE7dVeKg Youtube  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=volwJX1Yrbk Youtube Interview  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rZSLtt3aFK0    

Working as a new longshoreman on the Brooklyn docks, Albert realizes there is a lot of power in being a made man. Deciding to help fellow mobster Lucky Luciano to the top of the food chain, his world is consumed by murder and money.Find out more at https://fight-the-fate.pinecast.coThis podcast is powered by Pinecast.

Podcast: Raider-Cop Podcast Nation Date: Sept 18, 2019 Episode#105 Subject: Joe Gallo aka Crazy Joe, Joe The Blond  Host: Alpha Mike Characters: Joe Gallo, Larry Gallo, Albert Gallo, Joe Profaci, Joe Colombo, Joe Magliocco, Carlo Gambino, Albert Anastasia, Carmine "Sonny Pinto" DiBiase, Joseph "Joe Pesh' Luparelli, Matty "The Horse" Ianniello, Vincent "The Chin" Gigante, Raymond Patriarca, Ali Waffa, Nicky Barnes  Quote of the week: "Now the Lord is the Spirit; and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty".  Intro: Host Alpha Mike explains to the audience some changes were done to the episode schedule for the month of Sept because of a goof on the part of Alpha Mike. Yep Alpha, makes mistakes. Reminder to all on hooking up with us via our web-site www.raidercopnation.com and our other social networks.  Main Topic: Joe Gallo, aka Crazy Joe was born April 7, 1929 in the Red Hook Section of Brooklyn, NY. His dad, Umberto Gallo was a bootlegger during prohibition and never prevented his three sons from a life of crime. Joe, has two other brothers, Larry and Albert. Joe subsequently drop out of High School and in 1950 was diagnosed with schizophrenia. Joe and his brothers work for the Profaci family in the Red Hook Section of Brooklyn controlling the ranks. In 1957 Joe and Larry were tap along with Carmine Persico to carryout a hit on family boss Albert Anastasia, ring leader of murder incorporated. Upon completion of the hit, Carlo Gambino took over the family with approval of the commission. Joe Gallo and Carmine Persico were subsequently made members of the Profaci family. In 1958 The McClellan Committee in Washington D.C., held hearings on organized crime and summons Larry and Joe Gallo to testify. The Country saw a true gangster in the person of Joe Gallo on national T.V. 1961 the Gallo brothers weren't happy with boss Joe Profaci and giving them a bigger share of the loot and took matters to a different level. The 1st Colombo wars broke out in 1961. Joe Gallo kidnap the under boss of the family Joe Magliocco and 4 Capos, one being Joe Colombo. The attempted to Kidnap the boss Joe Profaci also, but Profaci escaped to Florida checking into a hospital. The hostages were keep at times in the basement of an apartment building in the Red Hook Section of Brooklyn (President Street). While in the basement they would be chained just far enough from Joe Gallo pet lion "Cleo". After 3 weeks they were released. But Profaci had no intention of giving up, he killed Joe & Larry Gallo's chief enforcer Joseph "Joe Jelly" Gioelli". Once he was killed, he was dump in front of a diner the Gallos controlled, filled with dead fish. Profaci also made a deal with Carmine Persico to kill Larry Gallo and receive a bigger share of the profits. Larry Gallo, meet Carmine "The Sneak" Persico in a bar (the Sahara) in Brooklyn. While Larry was seating at the bar, the Persico attempted to strangle him, but during the event a NYPD Officer walking the beat enter the bar and notice some one on the floor. The Persico's escaped via the back door. Shortly after Joe was arrested and found guilty of shaking down stores. Joe was sentence to 7 years. While in prison he meet Nicky Barnes soon to be a major drug dealer in Harlem. With the help of Joe Gallo, Nicky Barnes began a partnership. During Joe prison time there was a prison riot at Auburn Correctional were Joe saved several Correctional Officers, which later would testify for Joe's parole hearing. Upon Joe's release the 2nd Colombo wars took off. Joe Profaci had died while Joe was in prison and now Joe Colombo was the boss of the new named Colombo family. Joe didn't recognize a peace deal which was created when he was in prison, at the hands of New England crime boss Raymond Patriarca.  In 1971 upon Joe release the family offered him 1,000 as a peace offer, Joe was insulted. In 1972 on April 7, Joe Gallo's birthday, while celebrating Joe was gunned down in Umberto's Clam House in Little Italy. Alpha explains all the details and more.  What’s Next: September 25, 2019 “Mass Shootings #106″ with Kilo Sierra @o9TacticalG www.o9tg.com @TestEvery1521 Test Everything 5 minutes on the Power of God  Instagram @raidercoppodcast Parler: @RaiderCopNation  Hook up with our brother podcast America's Fewand pick up a sticker  Facebook  Twitter iTunes  Spotify   Stitcher  Google Play  PodBean  YouTube TuneIn Join the Raider-Cop NATION Pistol Pete the Gunsmith  Kilo Sierra’s companies: Sepulveda inc #EmpanadaLadiesOfGeorgia #JailsLASD #CACorrections #MDCR #NYPD #LAPD #LASD #MDPD #MPD #NYSP #NJSP #LVPD #Security #HCSO #PBSO #BSO #OCSO #PCSO #SFPD #DPD #HPD #SAPD #LCSO #FMPD #CCSO #NYC #NYCDOC #NJDOC #PPD #SLPD #CPD #TestEverything @RaiderCopNation #RaiderCopNation #TrainUp #o9TG #WiseGuySeries #TrainUpSeries #RollCallSeries #ThinkOuttaDaBox #SideBarSeries

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... The post The execution of Louis Lepke Buchalter appeared first on Gangland Wire.

Today, we head over to the Villains bracket where to founder of the Soviet Union, Vladimir Lenin faces off against a former Emperor of the Roman Empire, Nero. Find out who heads to the second round to face the American Mafia leader, Albert Anastasia.Support the show (http://www.battlegroundhistory.com)

The mob’s merchant of death and family man, Albert Anastasia, continues as head of Murder Inc. But when the Commission decides to shutdown this violent organization how does Albert adjust to his new role in the mob? What are the three cardinal rules of the modern mafia that Anastasia would break? Our sponsors for this episode is [Hims](https://www.forhims.com/mafia) and [Framebridge](https://www.framebridge.com/) CODE: MAFIA. Mafia's theme is "Spellbound Hell" by Damiano Baldoni. Music in this episode is “If The Veins Are Closed, The Hands Will Rot Away” by [LG17](http://freemusicarchive.org/music/LG17/); “Loco (No Suffering)” by [Parvus Decree](http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Parvus_Decree/Loco/); “Mare” & “Evermore” by [Kai Engel](http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Kai_Engel); “Wastelands” by [Sergey Cheremisinov](http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Sergey_Cheremisinov/); "Misery" by Damiano Baldoni. Sound effects from freesound.org by [jop9798](ttps://freesound.org/people/jop9798/), [UnderlinedDesigns](https://freesound.org/people/UnderlinedDesigns/) and [Australopithecusman](https://freesound.org/people/Australopithecusman/). Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License

Albert Anastasia was chosen by Lucky Luciano to be the head of Murder Inc. where he violently enforced the modern Mafia as the head of their killing squad. And the employees of Murder Inc. were not only good at their jobs: but took pride in their work. Our sponsor for this episode is [SimpliSafe](https://simplisafe.com/mafia). Mafia's theme is "Spellbound Hell" by [Damiano Baldoni](http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Damiano_Baldoni/). Music in this episode is “Oxygen Garden” by [Chris Zabriskie](http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Chris_Zabriskie); “Weissenborn, Six Trios for Three Bassoons” by [Grossman, Ewell, Grainger](http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Grossman_Ewell_Grainger/); “Golden Eye” [Daniel Birch and Ben Pegley](http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Daniel_Birch__Ben_Pegley); "Fog" by [Sergey Cheremisinov](http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Sergey_Cheremisinov/); "Bushwick Tarantella" by [Kevin MacLeod](https://incompetech.com/); "Misery" by Damiano Baldoni. Sound effects from freesound.org by [odditonic](https://freesound.org/people/odditonic), [lazy monk](https://freesound.org/people/lazymonk), [anthousai](https://freesound.org/people/Anthousai/), [saturdaysoundguy](https://freesound.org/people/saturdaysoundguy/), [nebulasnails](https://freesound.org/people/nebulasnails/), [1histori](https://freesound.org/people/1histori/), [inspectorj](https://freesound.org/people/InspectorJ/) and [michorvath](https://freesound.org/people/michorvath/). Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License

Today's battle is from the Villains bracket where we pit American Mafia member, the Lord High Executioner, Albert Anastasia versus the murderer who has captivated generations, Jack the Ripper.Support the show (http://www.battlegroundhistory.com)

ack Pagano has always felt he is different. Smart and physically talented, the normal pursuits of youth―women and sports―have always come a little too easy to him and left him unfulfilled. At age seventeen, Jack is eager to leave high school and begin his college career.But the schooling that lies ahead of him is of a far different variety than he could have ever imagined.Albert Anastasia, the notorious leader of Murder, Inc., appears and claims Pagano as his son. But before Jack can make heads or tails of his new-found father, Anastasia is gunned down at the Park Sheraton Hotel.Under the tutelage of his late father's associates, Meyer Lansky and Frank Costello, Jack enters a world where crime and politics, money and murder, and the American way of life are all but a hand's breadth apart and inextricably linked.Jack O'Halloran: Family LegacyActor, Boxer, author ...At the same time, another father is grooming his son to further his plans: Joseph Kennedy, the patriarch of what will become American's ruling dynasty, has set his sights on the White House―and with the help of some old friends in Chicago, his son, also Jack, will rise to power.JackThis show is part of the Spreaker Prime Network, if you are interested in advertising on this podcast, contact us at https://www.spreaker.com/show/1198501/advertisement

ack Pagano has always felt he is different. Smart and physically talented, the normal pursuits of youth―women and sports―have always come a little too easy to him and left him unfulfilled. At age seventeen, Jack is eager to leave high school and begin his college career. But the schooling that lies ahead of him is of a far different variety than he could have ever imagined. Albert Anastasia, the notorious leader of Murder, Inc., appears and claims Pagano as his son. But before Jack can make heads or tails of his new-found father, Anastasia is gunned down at the Park Sheraton Hotel. Under the tutelage of his late father's associates, Meyer Lansky and Frank Costello, Jack enters a world where crime and politics, money and murder, and the American way of life are all but a hand's breadth apart and inextricably linked. Jack O'Halloran: Family Legacy Actor, Boxer, author ... At the same time, another father is grooming his son to further his plans: Joseph Kennedy, the patriarch of what will become American's ruling dynasty, has set his sights on the White House―and with the help of some old friends in Chicago, his son, also Jack, will rise to power. Jack

Jack O'Halloran : Family LegacyJack Pagano has always felt he is different. Smart and physically talented, the normal pursuits of youth―women and sports―have always come a little too easy to him and left him unfulfilled. At age seventeen, Jack is eager to leave high school and begin his college career.But the schooling that lies ahead of him is of a far different variety than he could have ever imagined.Albert Anastasia, the notorious leader of Murder, Inc., appears and claims Pagano as his son. But before Jack can make heads or tails of his new-found father, Anastasia is gunned down at the Park Sheraton Hotel.Under the tutelage of his late father's associates, Meyer Lansky and Frank Costello, Jack enters a world where crime and politics, money and murder, and the American way of life are all but a hand's breadth apart and inextricably linked.At the same time, another father is grooming his son to further his plans: Joseph Kennedy, the patriarch of what will become American's ruling dynasty, has set his sights on the White House―and with the help of some old friends in Chicago, his son, also Jack, will rise to power.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-opperman-report--1198501/support.

Our first Mini Episode! Twisted Sister Jessica tells the tail of Murder Inc's mob boss, Albert Anastasia. Music By: Grave Matters by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution licence (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Source: http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/index.html?isrc=USUAN1100215 Artist: http://incompetech.com/

Long before Albert Anastasia  forms Murder Incorporated in 1919, he and his brothers arrived in New York City, working on a freighter. Jumping ship, the brothers stayed in the United States, working as longshoremen on the... The post Murder Incorporated – Part 1 appeared first on Gangland Wire.

This is one of if not my FAVORITE episode of all time as I have one of the greatest screen villains of all time NON from Superman 2. What a lot of people also don't know is Jack in the late 60's and early 70's was a world class boxer so we had ALOT to talk about!! Follow him on Twitter @MAnastasia and at www.familylegacythenovel.com as well as me on Twitter/Instagram @EarlSkakel Boxing O'Halloran was born in Philadelphia and lived in Runnemede, New Jersey.[2] Fighting as "Irish" Jack O'Halloran from Boston, he was a heavyweight boxing contender active from 1966 to 1974. The 6-foot, 6-inch O'Halloran was undefeated throughout his first 16 professional fights. During his boxing career, O'Halloran defeated former title contenders Cleveland Williams and Manuel Ramos. He also defeated Danny McAlinden, who won a bronze medal in boxing at the 1966 British Empire and Commonwealth Games in Kingston, Jamaica and later became the British and Commonwealth Heavyweight Champion. O'Halloran's losses included defeats to Joe Bugner, Ron Lyle, and future heavyweight champions George Foreman and Ken Norton. In 1973, O'Halloran was close to attaining a match against Muhammad Ali when he was knocked out by Jimmy Summerville.[3] This ended his chances to fight Ali. Although O'Halloran went on to defeat Summerville by K.O. in a rematch, with only three more wins and five losses he was never again a serious heavyweight contender. The California Boxing Hall of Fame has listed O'Halloran as one of its inductees of the 2009 HOF class.[4] Acting career Retiring from boxing in 1974 with a record of 34-21-2 (17 knockout victories),[4] O'Halloran turned to a career as an actor. He first won the role of ex-convict Moose Malloy in the 1975 film Farewell, My Lovely, featuring Robert Mitchum as private eye Philip Marlowe. After Farewell, My Lovely O'Halloran was offered other roles, some of which he turned down, including the role of Jaws in The Spy Who Loved Me which went to Richard Kiel.[5] Superman film series This led to other tough "henchmen" style roles which culminated in the role he is best known for, Non, the menacing-but-mute member of the trio of Kryptonian supervillains banished to the Phantom Zone by Jor-El (Marlon Brando) in Superman (1978) and inadvertently released by Superman in Superman II (1980). In an interview with Starlog Magazine in 2006, O'Halloran stated that he and Christopher Reeve did not get along during the making of Superman II. On one occasion, he had Reeve against a wall, but Richard Donner intervened and dissuaded him from hitting Reeve.[6] (He also later discussed this incident on the How Did This Get Made? podcast's Episode 24.1.)[7] Despite the clash between them, O'Halloran stated that his heart went out to Reeve after his 1995 accident, and commended him for helping others with spinal cord injuries.[8] According to O'Halloran, the reaction he gets most often from fans is "My God, he can talk!".[3] He is also an active participant on his own messageboard on the Internet Movie Database. Other acting roles O'Halloran has also played supporting roles in King Kong (1976), March or Die (1977), The Baltimore Bullet (1980), Dragnet (1987), Hero and the Terror (1988), Mob Boss (1990), and The Flintstones (1994). Writing In 2010, O'Halloran released Family Legacy. The book also outlines O'Halloran's relationship with his claimed father, a former boss of the Gambino crime family, Albert Anastasia.[11]