Podcasts about bonnano

This month for our Mafia Series we start a whole new family! We move on to the fourth of the 5 families, the Lucchese Family. In this first episode, we will take a look at the beginning of the family and go through some notable crimes and trials and end it with some current activities of the family today.  Subscribe to our YouTube! https://www.youtube.com/@bangdangnetworkBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/outlaws-gunslingers--4737234/support.

Joseph Bonnano, a 22-year veteran of the FDNY who served from 1979 until 2001 and is a professional chef to boot, joins the program for the milestone Volume 60 of The Best of The Bravest: Interviews With The FDNY's Elite. Connect With Mike Colón: X: https://x.com/mikeinnewhaven Instagram: https://instagram.com/mikecolo... Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MikeC... LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/newsl... Media Website: https://mike-colon-media.com/ Consulting Website: https://www.mcmediaeditingserv... Business Line: 917-781-6189 Media Email: thecolonreport@gmail.com Consulting Email: mike@mcmediaeditingservicesllc.com Connect With Producer Vick: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/prod... Connect With Joseph Bonanno: YouTube Channel: https://youtube.com/@americanfirehousecuisine?feature=shared Website: https://www.ffbha.org/ Listen To The Podcast: iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/... iHeart: https://www.iheart.com/podcast... Spreaker: https://www.spreaker.com/show/... Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/... PlayerFM: http://front.player.fm/series/... Google Podcasts: https://podcasts.google.com/se... Amazon: https://music.amazon.com/podca... YouTube (Video Version): https://www.youtube.com/live/A... Sponsors: MC Media Editing Services: https://www.mcmediaeditingserv... Ryan Investigative Group LLC:https://www.ryaninvestigators.... Outro Song: Huey Lewis & The News - Hip To Be Square (1986)Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/mic-d-in-new-haven--2828702/support.

Gene Borrello was part of the last generation of NYC's wild wise guys. He joined the Bonnano Crime Family at a young age and quickly got close with the family's boss. His reputation of violence and brutality made him a name that everyone in the city feared. After being indicted on RICO charges he eventually flipped on his former crime associates and entered witness protection. He's here to tell us all about the final days of the mob as the world knew it! Go Follow Gene! IG: https://www.instagram.com/geneborrello/ Podcast: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLXcEOVWzV1YqvHd0vn94aeFLJrLgntzqP Book: https://www.amazon.com/Born-LIfe-Borrello-Ex-Bonanno-Enforcer/dp/1667805576 This Episode Is Brought To You By The Following Sponsor: RocketMoney! Visit https://www.rocketmoney.com/connect and stop wasting your money TODAY! Join The Patreon For Bonus Content! https://www.patreon.com/theconnectshow Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode, Fabio Bonanno shares his personal growth journey and leadership philosophy. They delve into the modern definition of masculinity, the impact of nutrition and exercise on mental health, and the importance of understanding oneself. The discussion also touches on experiences with depression, resilience, and the role of financial literacy in defining life goals.   00:00 - Introduction of guest Fabio Bonanno 01:04 - Fabio's personal growth journey and understanding of leadership 09:28 - Fabio's family influence and career transition 15:50 - Sean and Fabio's discussion on personal motivations and societal views 26:15 - The modern definition of masculinity and the importance of role models 31:02 - Sean Barnes shares his personal experience of injury and recovery 38:34 - The impact of good nutrition, exercise, and job satisfaction on mental health 42:36 - Sean Barnes and Fabio Bonanno's experiences with depression and resilience 50:01 - Understanding oneself and finding one's path to happiness 58:52 - Fabio Bonanno's thoughts on financial literacy and defining life goals 1:02:12 - Conclusion of the episode with Fabio Bonanno  

On Episode 54, We delve into the history of the Giannini Crew, a mob farm team closely connected to the Bonnano family that ran the streets of Queens throughout the 70's, 80's, and to a lesser extent, the 90's, they were a group of young, rough and tumble, Sicilian American youths, most of whom were the sons and nephews of older mobsters who made their name through heroin trafficking, namely that connected to the Pizza Connection case, and in step with that, the group was founded by a heavyweight mobster of a similar ilk, named Baldassare Amato, who became prolific for his role in the murder of Carmine Galante, and eventually turned the Giannini Crew into one of the most feared groups in the New York mob scene at the time, I hope everyone enjoys today's show and tunes back in next week for Episode 55PLEASE 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

An FBI operation slated for 6 months turned into over 5 years of work that Agent Joseph Pistone put into infiltrating the mob under his alias Donnie Brasco. He quickly gained access to the inner working of the Bonanno family, almost becoming a made men before the FBI pulled the plug on his operation. His work exposed aspects of the mafia never before confirmed and his infiltration resulted in over 100 mobsters put behind bars, including several bosses.Check out our YouTube channel where we post shorts, clips, full episodes, and exclusives! youtube.com/@bangdangnetworkBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/show/outlaws-gunslingers/support.

On this episode we wrap up the bosses of the Bonanno Family with the last 4 official and acting bosses. Vincent Basciano took over after Massino went to prison in 2004. When Basciano went to prison in 2007, Salvatore Montagna took over until he was deported in 2009 and Vincent Badalamenti took over until his imprisonment in 2012. Since then, the current and official boss is Michael Mancuso who was just sent back to prison in September 2023 for 11 months.Check out our YouTube channel where we post shorts, clips, full episodes, and exclusives! youtube.com/@bangdangnetworkBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/show/outlaws-gunslingers/support.

This week we take a look at longtime Bonanno member and eventual boss Joseph "Big Joey" Massino. He was called "The Last Don" due to him being the only boss of the five families not being in prison at the time. He is most widely known as the first sitting boss in the history of the Mafia to turn state's evidence.Check out our YouTube channel where we post shorts, clips, full episodes, and exclusives!youtube.com/@bangdangnetworkBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/show/outlaws-gunslingers/support.

We take a look at two more bosses of the Bonanno Family in this episode. First up is Carmine Galante who seized control of the family after Rastelli went to prison in 1976 which led to the other mob bosses ordering a hit. His death picture is one of the most famous Mafia pictures out there. After Galante's death, the Commission appointed Salvatore "Sally Fruits" Farrugia as boss though little is known about him. Next up was Anthony "Old Man" Spero who ruled the family while Rastelli was in prison until Joseph Massino took over in 1991.Check out our YouTube channel where we post shorts, clips, full episodes, and exclusives!youtube.com/@bangdangnetworkBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/show/outlaws-gunslingers/support.

We continue our look into the Bonanno Family with four more men who were either acting boss or permanent boss. DiGregorio and Sciacca came out of the Banana War as bosses following Joe Bonanno. Evola and Rastelli were next in line after those two. All four of their stories are right here!Check out our YouTube channel where we post shorts, clips, full episodes, and exculsives!youtube.com/@bangdangnetworkBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/show/outlaws-gunslingers/support.

On Episode 42, we delve into the life of Joseph Massino, former boss of the Bonnano family from 1991 until 2004, he rose quickly through the family under the tutelage of Philip "Rusty" Rastelli, and by 1981 was really running the family on his behalf, and over the course of his tenure, Massino would prove to be one of the last great mob bosses of the 20th Century, I hope everybody enjoys today's episode and tunes back in next week for Episode 43.Please 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 this Thursday edition of Sid & Friends in the Morning, Joseph Pistone, also known as "Donnie Brasco," highlights today's guest linuep as he details for Sid what it was like for him going deep undercover for the FBI during their investigation into the Bonnano crime family. In news of the day, Mayor Eric Adams announces yesterday that he expects New York City's migrant crisis to cost the city around $12 billion dollars over the next three years, a Utah man is killed by the FBI after making online threats to assassinate President Joe Biden, the walls continue to close in on the President regarding his corrupt business dealings during his time as Vice Presidend, and co-founder of The Band Robbie Robertson passes away at the age of 80 years old. Norman Seabrook, Curtis Sliwa, Andrew Napolitano, Sal Greco, Bill O'Reilly, Bo Dietl and Joseph Pistone join the program on this Friday-eve morning in midtown Manhattan. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Two members of the Lucchese crime family have been charged with murdering a fellow family member and the attempted murder of a Bonanno family member from Whitestone. The U.S. attorney's office said Caldwell and Londonio were members of the criminal organization, La Cosa Nostra, also known as the Mafia.La Cosa Nostra operated through six entities known as families in the New York/ New Jersey area, including the Lucchese family, Bonnano family, and Gambino family. The families operate through groups known as “crews” or “regimes” that consists of “made” members, sometimes known as “soldiers” or “good fellows.”•What are “Soldiers?” What are Associates?”•How do they become a member of the family?•What does it mean to be “Made?”•Is the above story evidence that the Mafia still operates and remains strong?Expert Insight from a True Mafia Historian and Co-Author of “The Lufthansa Heist: Behind the Six-Million Dollar Cash Haul That Shook the World” with Henry HillTo listen to all our XZBN shows, with our compliments go to: www.spreaker.com/user/xzoneradiotv.The current edition of The 'X' Chronicles Newspaper is available at www.xchronicles.net.This episode of The ‘X' Zone with Rob McConnell is brought to you by BEAUTIFUL MIND COFFEE - For the coffee that your brain will love, visit Beautiful Mind Coffee, www.beautifulmindcoffee.ca. It's Brainalicious!

Following last week's focus on the casino deal between Traficante, Sonny Black, and the Bonnano family– in this episode, stakes are raised even higher as Donnie Brasco finds himself in a bit of a pickle between in Milwaukee with Tony Conti and Lefty Ruggiero. Joe takes us through several FBI tapes detailing the ins and outs of their biggest target on the Milwaukee crime scene: Frank Balistrieri, boss of the Milwaukee, Wisconsin family. As Joe begins to fight an internal battle between family and work, we hear how he's at risk of creating distrust from Lefty Ruggiero as he continues to keep the many stories he's crafted and his real identity a secret as he continues to help the FBI collect evidence. If you want more tapes and videos of the show, you can sign up to become a member of The Motion Lounge HERE. Not ready to become a friend of ours? Stay connected via social using the links below: Instagram: @deepcoverpod Facebook: @deepcoverpodcast

Joe Pistone always wanted to be an FBI agent. After a stint in naval intelligence, he started as a Special Agent. His background eventually led him to become Donnie Brasco, one of the longest and most successful undercover operations in law enforcement history. Just weeks away from being inducted into the Bonnano crime family as a ‘made guy', the FBI shut it down.Join us at Patreon.com/gameofcrimes for great content you won't hear anywhere elseDonate at paypal.me/gameofcrimes or go to paypal.com and use our email: gameofcrimespodcast@gmail.comGo to GameOfCrimesPodcast.com for more info and merchFollow us on...TwitterFacebookInstagramSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

On Episode 18 we delve into the life of one of the Five Families most infamous mobsters in Carmine Galante, an utterly ruthless gangster who was suspected to be involved in up to 80 murders, but more then that, Galante was one of the biggest drug dealing heavyweights the American Mafia has ever seen, and towards the end of his life, he made a power grab within the Bonnano family which led to him becoming the family's unofficial acting boss in the late 1970'sPLEASE 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 Company

Joe Pistone always wanted to be an FBI agent. After a stint in naval intelligence, he started as a Special Agent. His background eventually led him to become Donnie Brasco, one of the longest and most successful undercover operations in law enforcement history. Just weeks away from being inducted into the Bonnano crime family as a ‘made guy', the FBI shut it down.Join us at Patreon.com/gameofcrimes for great content you won't hear anywhere elseDonate at paypal.me/gameofcrimes or go to paypal.com and use our email: gameofcrimespodcast@gmail.comGo to GameOfCrimesPodcast.com for more info and merchFollow us on...TwitterFacebookInstagramSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

www.patreon.com/accidentaldads for bonus content and to support the show AND The Save The Music Foundation!   Top police stings   A sting operation is a deceitful operation used by law enforcement to apprehend criminals in the act of trying to commit a crime. In order to obtain proof of a suspect's misconduct, a typical sting involves an undercover law enforcement officer, investigator, or cooperative member of the public acting as a criminal partner or prospective victim and cooperating with a suspect's activities. Journalists for the mass media occasionally use sting operations to film and disseminate footage of illegal conduct.   Sting procedures are prevalent in many nations, including the United States, but are prohibited in others, like Sweden and France. Certain sting operations are prohibited, such as those carried out in the Philippines where it is against the law for police enforcement to act as drug traffickers in order to catch purchasers of illegal substances.   Examples   Offering free sports or airline tickets to lure fugitives out of hiding. Deploying a bait car (also called a honey trap) to catch a car thief Setting up a seemingly vulnerable honeypot computer to lure and gain information about hackers Arranging for someone under the legal drinking age to ask an adult to buy an alcoholic beverage or tobacco products for them Passing off weapons or explosives (whether fake or real), to a would-be terrorist Posing as: someone who is seeking illegal drugs, contraband, or child pornography, to catch a supplier (or as a supplier to catch a customer) a child in a chat room to identify a potential online child predator a potential customer of illegal prostitution, or as a prostitute to catch a would-be customer a hitman to catch customers and solicitors of murder-for-hire; or as a customer to catch a hitman a spectator of an illegal dogfighting ring a documentary film crew to lure a pirate to the country where a crime was committed.   Whether sting operations constitute entrapment raises ethical questions. Law enforcement might have to be careful not to incite someone who wouldn't have otherwise committed a crime to do so. Additionally, while conducting such operations, the police frequently commit the same crimes, like purchasing or selling narcotics, enticing prostitutes, etc. The defendant may raise the entrapment defense in common law jurisdictions.   Contrary to common belief, however, laws against entrapment do not forbid undercover police personnel from pretending to be criminals or deny that they are police officers. Entrapment is normally only a defense when suspects are coerced into confessing to a crime they probably would not have otherwise committed. However, the legal meaning of this coercion differs widely from jurisdiction to jurisdiction. Entrapment might be used as a defense, for instance, if undercover agents forced a possible suspect to manufacture illicit narcotics in order to sell them. Entrapment has often not taken place if a suspect is already producing narcotics and authorities pretend as purchasers to apprehend them.   Operation Entebbe The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) commandos successfully carried out Operation Entebbe or Operation Thunderbolt, a counterterrorism hostage-rescue mission, at Entebbe Airport in Uganda on July 4, 1976. A week earlier, on June 27, two members of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine - External Operations (PFLP-EO) (who had previously split from the PFLP of George Habash) and two members of the German Revolutionary Cells hijacked an Air France Airbus A300 jet airliner carrying 248 passengers. The declared goal of the hijackers was to trade the hostages for the release of 13 detainees in four other countries and the release of 40 Palestinian terrorists and related prisoners who were detained in Israel. The flight, which had left Tel Aviv for Paris, was rerouted after a stopover in Athens through Benghazi to Entebbe, the country of Uganda's principal airport. The ruler Idi Amin, who had been made aware of the hijacking from the start[10], encouraged the hijackers and personally greeted them. The hijackers confined all Israelis and a few non-Israeli Jews into a separate room after transferring all captives from the plane to a deserted airport facility.  148 captives who were not Israelis were freed and taken to Paris over the course of the next two days. Ninety-four passengers—mostly Israelis—and the 12-person Air France crew were held captive and threatened with execution.  Based on information from the Israeli intelligence service Mossad, the IDF took action. If the demands for the release of the prisoners were not granted, the hijackers threatened to murder the hostages. The preparation of the rescue effort was prompted by this threat. These strategies included getting ready for armed opposition from the Uganda Army. It was a nighttime operation. For the rescue mission, Israeli transport planes flew 100 commandos to Uganda over a distance of 4,000 kilometers (2,500 miles). The operation took 90 minutes to complete after a week of planning. Out of the 106 captives still held, 102 were freed, and three were murdered. In a hospital, the second captive was later slain. Lt. Col. Yonatan Netanyahu, the unit leader, was one of the five injured Israeli commandos. Netanyahu was Benjamin Netanyahu's elder sibling and the future Israeli prime minister. Eleven Soviet-built MiG-17s and MiG-21s of the Ugandan air force were destroyed, and all five hijackers and forty-five Ugandan troops were killed. Idi Amin gave the command to attack and kill Kenyans living in Uganda after the operation because Kenyan sources supported Israel. 245 Kenyans in Uganda were killed as a consequence, and 3,000 left the nation. In honor of Yonatan Netanyahu, the commander of the force, Operation Entebbe, which had the military codename Operation Thunderbolt, is occasionally referred to retroactively as Operation Jonathan.   Operation Valkyrie Senior Nazi military officers and Adolf Hitler convened in the Wolf's Lair in Rastenburg, Eastern Prussia, on July 20, 1944. Hitler's body was discovered scattered across the table as the Nazi military chiefs sat down to plan troop deployments on the Eastern Front when an explosion burst through the steamy meeting room. With the Führer's death, the Nazi threat to Europe could have been lifted. or so it seems at first.   Claus von Stauffenberg and his accomplices believed they had turned the course of World War II and maybe saved thousands of extra lives for a brief period of time in history. The July Plot, also known as Operation Valkyrie, was the most famous attempt to have Hitler killed, although it was ultimately unsuccessful for a variety of reasons, some of which are still unknown to this day. The July Plot Is Hatched Many Germans, including some of the country's top military figures, had begun to lose faith in Germany's ability to win the war by the summer of 1944. Hitler was widely held responsible for ruining Germany. The Wolfsschanze was one of Hitler's military headquarters. A number of prominent politicians and senior military figures devised a plan to murder the Führer by detonating a bomb at a conference there in order to spark political unification and a coup. Operation Valkyrie was the name of the strategy. The plan was that after Hitler's death, the military would assert that the murder was the result of a Nazi Party coup attempt, and the Reserve Army would take significant buildings in Berlin and detain senior Nazi figures. Carl Friedrich Goerdeler would become Germany's new chancellor, and Ludwig Beck would become its first president. The new administration wanted to negotiate a peaceful conclusion to the war, ideally with benefits for Germany. The main conspirators' motives varied, according to Philipp Freiherr Von Boeselager, one of the last remaining participants in the July Plot. Many of them only saw it as a means of avoiding military defeat, while others hoped to at least partially restore some of the nation's morals. They chose Claus von Stauffenberg, a young colonel in the German army, to carry out the assassination. Despite not being a member of the Nazi party in the traditional sense, Stauffenberg was a devoted German patriot. In the end, he came to think that if Germany was to be saved, it was his patriotic duty to expel Adolf Hitler. Hitler, though, had experienced assassination attempts before. Assassination attempts against Hitler had been more frequent since his spectacular ascent to the top of Germany's political scene in the late 1930s. Hitler, who was becoming more and more paranoid, frequently altered his plans without warning and at the last minute. What Went Wrong Stauffenberg entered the bunker at Wolfsschanze on July 20, 1944. The conference was planned to take place in a concrete, windowless subterranean bunker that was closed off by a large steel door. By making sure it happened within one of these facilities, the detonation would be confined and anyone nearby the explosive device would die quickly from the shrapnel. The conference was moved to an above-ground wooden bunker with better air circulation on July 20 due to the oppressively hot weather, according to Pierre Galante's Operation Valkyrie: The German Generals' Plot Against Hitler. Numerous windows, a wooden table, and other beautiful furniture were all present in the area, which meant that the potential explosion would be much diminished since the energy of the blast would be absorbed and diffused. Stauffenberg was aware that this was the case, but he nonetheless proceeded, assuming that two explosives would be sufficient to destroy the room and kill everyone within. Stauffenberg excused himself when he arrived, saying that he needed to change his clothing, and went to a private room. The two explosives needed to be armed and primed. However, he only had time to arm one of the two devices due to an unexpected phone call and a quick knock at his door. Thus, the possibility of a greater blast was cut in half. Stauffenberg realized that in order to cause any kind of harm, the explosive device needed to be placed as near to Hitler as possible. He was able to get a seat as near to Hitler as possible with only one other person between them by claiming that his hearing was impaired due to his wounds. Placing the bag as near to Hitler as possible, Stauffenberg then left the room pretending to take a personal call. The briefcase was accidentally shifted to the opposite side of a large wooden leg that was supporting the meeting room table as another official was taking a seat. The Aftermath Panic broke out after the device exploded at precisely 12:42 pm. Twenty individuals were hurt, including three cops who subsequently died from their injuries, and a stenographer was instantaneously murdered. Stauffenberg and his assistant Werner von Haeften leapt into a staff car and bluffed their way past three different military checkpoints to flee the mayhem at the Wolfsschanze complex because they believed that Hitler was indeed dead. Hitler, however, along with everyone else who was protected by the large wooden table leg, only suffered a few minor cuts and an eardrum perforation. He had fully torn-up pants, and the Nazi leadership would subsequently utilize pictures of them in a propaganda effort. Ian Kershaw, a historian, claims that during the explosion, contradictory news concerning Hitler's fate came. In spite of the disarray, the Reserve Army started detaining senior Nazi officials in Berlin. The entire scheme, however, was eventually thwarted by delays, unclear communication, and the announcement that Hitler was still alive. The conspirators were all given the death penalty in a hastily called court martial the same evening by General Friedrich Fromm. In the courtyard of the Bendlerblock, a makeshift firing squad murdered Stauffenberg, von Haeften, Olbricht, and another officer, Albrecht Mertz von Quirnheim, while Ludwig Beck committed himself. At Berlin's Plötzensee jail, Berthold Stauffenberg was gently strangled while the incident was being recorded for Hitler to see. Hitler's life was ultimately saved that day by a number of interrelated reasons, but the conspirators were right that Germany was headed for disaster. Less than a year later, the Nazi leader and his closest advisers committed suicide. Operation Iceman Ever wonder what its like working undercover with an alleged murderer? Well, let's just say it's not hard to get a stuffy nose around this case… In fact, serial killer Richard Kuklinski's preferred method of murder involved using a nasal spray bottle to spritz cyanide into the faces of his victims. As a result, undercover agent Dominick Polifrone was never more on guard than during the 18 months he spent building a case against the so-called Iceman. “No matter where I went with him, I wore this leather jacket with a pocket sewn inside containing a small-caliber weapon,” recalls Polifrone, who gained his target's confidence and taped dozens of their conversations. “I knew that I was somewhere on his hit list. If he'd pulled out that nasal spray, I'd have to protect myself.” The streetwise New Jersey officer acquired enough proof before Kuklinski had suspicions, preventing that situation from occurring. Finally, the enormous 6-foot-4 gangland killer was apprehended thanks to his evidence. “I've met hundreds of bad guys, but Kuklinski was a totally different type of individual,” he tells The Post. “He was coldhearted — ice-cold like the devil. He had no remorse about anything.”  Kuklinski was captured by Polifrone in a combined operation between the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms and the office of the New Jersey attorney general. The criminal, who was a leading suspect in the murder of a mobster whose body was found two years after his disappearance, was posing as a respectable businessman residing in suburban Dumont, New Jersey. The reason the medical examiners discovered ice in the muscle tissue was because Kuklinski, who earned his notoriety for frequently freezing the bodies of his victims and then defrosting them, erred that time. Police made an indirect connection between the deceased man and Kuklinski, who was charged with a number of previous homicides.  “We had to get something nobody knew,” recalls Polifrone. The sting only appears briefly on screen in the film. In order to gain Kuklinski's trust, Polifrone, a resident of Hackensack, New Jersey, pretended to be a "bad person" for a whole year and a half. They met in parks and rest areas along highways and discussed the horrific killings Kuklinski had carried out, including a Mafia hit in Detroit for which he was paid $65,000. Additionally, there were "statement killings." To put a dead canary in the mouth of a victim as a warning to other victims, one mafia leader paid him extra. Another occasion, Kuklinski made light of the fact that he saw a gang member consume an entire cheeseburger laced with cyanide before passing away while joking with Polifrone. Recalls the cop: “He told me that cyanide normally works real quick and easy, but that ‘this guy has the constitution of a God damn ox, and is just eating and eating.  “He said he almost ate the whole burger and then, bam, he's down!” Polifrone knew exactly how to play his role. “I laughed, of course,” he shrugs. “That's what bad guys do.”  Paradoxically, Kuklinski was a committed family man. He led a Jekyll-and-Hyde existence.  “He never socialized, gambled or messed around with other women,” adds Polifrone. “He lived for his wife and kids.” One minute he'd be repairing his daughters' toys, the next, dismembering a body with a chain saw and stuffing it into an oil drum. “He would come home and completely shut off this murderous component and seek security and love from his family,” says “Iceman” director Vromen. “He fulfilled the need to provide for them by killing.” Polifrone finally nailed Kuklinski after tricking him into buying what he thought was pure cyanide. A team of feds and ATF officers arrested him in December 1986. Twenty-eight years later, he reflects on the man who died, apparently of natural causes, in Trenton Prison in 2006 at age 70. Eyebrows were raised because he was due to appear as a witness at the trial of a Gambino family underboss. “I hope he died a slow death because of what he did to families and individuals,” concludes Polifrone. “He had no mercy. And if it was foul play, that's OK with me.” So let's talk about some controversial sting operations you may or may not have heard of.   ACORN Sting   Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now is known as ACORN. ACORN was a group of neighborhood-based organizations in the US that supported low- and middle-income families. They also offered details on affordable housing and voter registration. James O'Keefe and Hannah Giles, two young conservative activists, published recordings that had been edited with care in 2009. The two pretended to be a pimp and a prostitute before using a hidden camera to get unflattering answers from ACORN workers that seemed to give them advice on how to hide their prostitution business and avoid paying taxes.The plea for assistance in obtaining funding for a brothel didn't appear to deter the ACORN employees either. This sparked a national debate and led to a reduction in financing from public and private sources. ACORN declared on March 22, 2010, that it was disbanding and shutting all of its connected state chapters as a result of declining funding. Interesting fact: On January 25, 2010, James O'Keefe and three other people were detained on felony charges for allegedly tampering with the phones at Democratic Senator Mary Landrieu's office in New Orleans. O'Keefe stated that he was looking into claims that Landrieu's staff had dismissed constituent phone calls over the health care issue. O'Keefe recorded the action as they pretended to be telephone repairmen.In the end, they were accused with breaking into a government building under false pretenses, a misdemeanor. Following his admission of guilt, O'Keefe received a three-year probationary period, 100 hours of community service, and a $1,500 fine.   Operation West End The largest undercover news story in Indian journalism has been described like this. In order to expose the alleged culture of bribery inside the Indian Ministry of Defense, a well-known newspaper from India by the name of Tehelka—which translates as "sensation" in Hindi—started its first significant undercover operation, "Operation West End" in 2001. Two reporters from the publication pretended to be London-based armaments dealers from a fake firm. In the undercover film, numerous politicians and defense officials are shown discussing and accepting bribes in exchange for assisting them in obtaining government contracts, including Bangaru Laxman, secretary of the ruling BJP party. Laxman and Military Minister George Fernandes (shown above) resigned following the release of the tapes, and a number of other defense ministry employees were placed on administrative leave.   Interesting Fact: Instead of initially acting on the evidence from the sting operation, the Indian government accused the newspaper of fabricating the allegations. The main financial backers of Tehelka were made targets of investigations, and the newspaper company was almost ruined. In 2003, Tehelka was re-launched as a weekly newspaper, and was funded by faithful subscribers and other well-wishers. In 2007, Tehelka shifted to a regular magazine format.   Senator Larry Craig On June 11, 2007, an undercover police officer conducting a sting operation targeting males cruising for sex at the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport detained Idaho Senator Larry Craig. Sgt. Dave Karsnia, the arresting officer, claimed that just after noon, the suspect entered a restroom and shut the door. Craig then moved into the stall next to him and propped his suitcase up against the stall door's front. By obscuring the front view, this is frequently done in an effort to hide sexual activity. Several minutes later, the officer claimed to have noticed Craig looking into his stall through a gap, tapping his right foot repeatedly, then moving it till it brushed Karsnia's. Craig then passed his hand under the stall divider into Karsnia's stall with his palm up and guided it along the divider toward the front of the stall three times. Karsnia then waved his badge back, to which the senator responded, “No!” The senator pleaded guilty to disorderly conduct and paid a fine, but changed his mind after word of his arrest later became public. Craig claimed he just had a “wide stance”, and he only pleaded guilty to avoid a spectacle.An appeals court rejected his request to change his mind about entering a guilty plea. Craig completed his time in the Senate but was unable to have his case dismissed by the Senate Ethics Committee. Craig departed office on January 3, 2009, having not to run for reelection in 2008. Fascinating Fact: Soon after Craig was arrested, the men's room started to resemble a tourist destination, with people coming to seek directions and take photographs. Even restroom tissue may be purchased on eBay. Listen to the conversation between Senator Craig and Sgt. Karsnia immediately following the arrest here.   7 Sarah Ferguson was victimized by Mazher Mahmood, a reporter for the tabloid daily "News of the World," in May 2010. In order to set up a meeting with Ferguson, Mahmood pretended to be a wealthy international businessman. The Duchess, who was discreetly recorded throughout the encounter, offered to connect the "tycoon" with Prince Andrew's influential inner circle. "500,000 pounds when you can, to me, open doors," Sarah Ferguson is heard saying on the video. She may also be seen removing a briefcase that is holding $40,000 in cash. After the event was reported, Ferguson's spokesman claimed she was both "devastated" and "regretful." She said that she had been drinking before asking for the money and was "in the gutter at that point" in an interview with Oprah Winfrey. Mazher Mahmood, the guy who pretended to be the tycoon, is referred to as the "Fake Sheikh" and has conned several famous people. No one is certain if that is his true name or what his real history is since he likes to make things as mysterious as possible. The journalist denies ever allowing his face to appear in any of his pieces and claims to have received several death threats. He also avoids public appearances.   Bait Cars The Minneapolis Police Department employed the first bait cars in the 1990s. The largest bait car fleet in North America is now situated in Surrey, British Columbia, which is widely regarded as the continent's "auto theft capital." The cars are carefully modified, equipped with GPS tracking equipment, audio/video surveillance, and an engine-disabling remote control. It has helped to lower car theft by 47% when it was introduced in Surrey, British Columbia, in 2004. In one of the more contentious bait vehicle stings, a lady was murdered nearly instantaneously after a robber driving a bait car drove into her in Dallas, Texas, in 2008. To resolve the litigation, $245,000 was given to the victim's family. Fact: The key to determining whether police are utilizing a bait car improperly and would result in entrapment is if they left it in a way that would tempt someone who would not ordinarily commit a crime. Here, you can view one of the more eye-catching (to put it mildly) bait vehicle stings. Many others will undoubtedly have the same thoughts as I had. “Where the heck was the kill switch?”   Marion Barry A well-known politician and former mayor of Washington, D.C., Marion Barry. Police were going to conduct an undercover narcotics transaction with former Virgin Islands official Charles Lewis on December 22, 1988, but they were turned back when they discovered Mayor Marion Barry was in Lewis's hotel room. This prompted a grand jury inquiry into potential mayor meddling in the narcotics probe. Barry testified for three hours in front of the grand jury before telling reporters he had done nothing wrong. Then, on January 18, 1990, Barry was arrested in a Washington, D.C. hotel after using crack cocaine in a room with his former girlfriend, who had turned informant for the FBI. This was the result of a sting operation put up by the FBI and D.C. Police. Barry said the now-famous phrase, "Bitch set me up," which has come to be linked with him. Following his arrest and subsequent trial, Barry made the decision not to run for mayor again. He was charged with 14 charges by a grand jury, including suspected grand jury perjury. The mayor could have spent 26 years in prison if found guilty on all 14 counts. Barry was only given a six-month prison term after the jury found him guilty of using cocaine. Barry campaigned for municipal council after being let out of prison. He garnered 70% of the vote due to his widespread popularity and the perception held by many that Marion Barry was the target of a political witch hunt by the government. Then, in 1995, Barry won a fourth term as mayor of Washington, D.C. Barry is currently back in his position on the D.C. city council. Regardless of your opinion on Marion Barry, you have to respect his perseverance and drive to help the people of Washington, D.C. The aforementioned occurrence is only a small portion of his remarkable life. A documentary titled "The Nine Lives of Marion Barry" was produced by HBO.    Joran Van der Sloot Dutch national Joran Van der Sloot is a key suspect in the case of Natalee Holloway, who vanished on May 30, 2005, while traveling to Aruba to celebrate her high school graduation. On March 29, 2010, Van der Sloot got in touch with Beth Twitty Holloway's mother's attorney John Q. Kelly, reviving the case. Van der Sloot promised to provide details about Holloway's demise and the whereabouts of her remains in exchange for a total of $250,000 with a $25,000 down payment. After Kelly and Twitty made contact with Alabama law enforcement, the FBI launched a sting operation. On May 10, Van der Sloot accepted a wire transfer of $15,000 to his Dutch bank account along with an additional cash payment of $10,000. He drove Kelly to the location of Holloway's remains in exchange for the cash. He indicated a home, saying that his father had assisted in burying the body in the foundation. The home had not yet been constructed when Holloway vanished, therefore this turned out to be untrue. Later, Van der Sloot informed Kelly through email that the entire incident was a fraud. At this point, police might have detained Van der Sloot for wire fraud and extortion, but they chose to wait while they worked to establish a case of murder against him. Van der Sloot was not only let free, he was also given permission to depart Aruba and travel to Bogotá, Colombia, and then Lima, Peru, with the money he had made from the operation. He met Stephany Flores Ramirez, a 21-year-old University of Lima business student, in a casino hotel in the city. Ramirez and Van der Sloot are seen entering a hotel room together on security footage, but only Van der Sloot is seen exiting. On June 2, Ramirez was discovered dead in the hotel room that Van der Sloot had booked, her neck broken and she had been battered to death. On May 30, 2010, precisely five years after Natalee Holloway vanished, Ramirez passed away. A person arrested Van der Sloot He admitted to the murder on June 3 and June 7. Fascinating fact: Van der Sloot is presently detained at Peru's Miguel Castro jail, where murder charges have been brought. He apparently now claims that if he is permitted to move to a jail in Aruba, he would tell the whereabouts of Natalee Holloway's remains.   Perverted Justice Stings Perverted-Justice is a group that uses volunteers to masquerade as juveniles online, often between the ages of 10-15, and wait for an adult to message or email the decoy back. If the topic becomes sexual, they won't actively reject it or support it. Then, in order to set up a meeting, they will attempt to identify the males by acquiring their phone numbers and other information. The group then provides law enforcement with the information. Additionally, Perverted-Justice has worked with the American reality show "To Catch a Predator." In Murphy, Texas, one of the more contentious instances took place in 2006. Louis Conradt (seen above), a district attorney in Texas, pretended to be a 19-year-old college student and had sexually explicit internet conversations with a person he thought was a 13-year-old kid. They hired an actress to portray the youngster on the phone when Conradt demanded images of the boy's genitalia. Conradt stopped returning phone calls and instant messages, so police and the reality program decided to conduct a search warrant operation at his residence. A gunshot was heard as the police entered the scene to make an arrest. Conradt was inside with a self-inflicted wound when they arrived, and he eventually passed away at a hospital. 23 people were taken into custody for online solicitation of minors as a consequence of the sting operation in Murphy, Texas. Due to inadequate evidence, none of the 23 instances were prosecuted as of June 2007. Conradt's family launched a $105 million lawsuit against Dateline's To Catch a Predator series. The dispute was ultimately resolved outside of court. All next episodes' development was halted by the network in 2008. Rachel Hoffman On February 22, 2007, a traffic stop in Tallahassee, Florida, resulted in Rachel Hoffman being found in possession of 25 grams of marijuana. Then, on April 17, 2008, police searched her flat and found 4 ecstasy tablets and 151.7 grams of marijuana. Police allegedly threatened to put her in jail unless she worked as an undercover informant for them, according to her account. She was then dispatched untrained to an undercover gathering to purchase a weapon and a significant quantity of narcotics from two alleged drug traffickers. The suspects relocated the drug purchase while she was there. When she departed the buy place in the car with the two suspects, the police officers who were keeping an eye on the sting lost sight of her. The identical gun she was intended to purchase was used to kill her by the two suspects while they were in motion. Two days later, her corpse was discovered close to Perry, Florida. One of the murder suspects was convicted of first-degree murder and given a life sentence without the possibility of parole on December 17, 2009, which would have been Rachel Hoffman's 25th birthday. Trial for the second murder suspect is set for October 2010. Interesting Fact: On May 7, 2009, a law called “Rachel's Law” was passed by the Florida State Senate. Rachel's Law requires law enforcement agencies to (a) provide special training for officers who recruit confidential informants, (b) instruct informants that reduced sentences may not be provided in exchange for their work, and (c) permit informants to request a lawyer if they want one.    Mr. Big The Royal Canadian Mounted Police created Mr. Big, sometimes known as "the Canadian method," in the early 1990s in response to unsolved killings. It is employed in Canada and Australia, but many other nations, like the United States and England, view it as entrapment. The technique works something like this: An undercover police unit poses as members of a fictitious gang, into which the suspect is inducted. The suspect is invited to participate in a series of criminal activities (all faked by the police). In addition, the “gang members” build a personal relationship with the suspect, by drinking together and other social activities. After some time, the gang boss, Mr. Big, is presented to him. The police have a fresh interest in the first crime, and the suspect is instructed to provide the gang with further information. They clarify that Mr. Big might be able to affect the course of the police investigation, but only if he confesses to the full extent of the crime. He is also warned that if he conceals any other previous offenses, the gang could decide against working with him in the future since he would be a burden. The Royal Canadian Mounted Police are shown in the picture above carrying the hats of the four officers who were killed in Edmonton, Canada, in 2005 at a memorial service. Two of the men serving prison sentences for the murders made confessions to Mr. Big operatives.Interesting Fact: In British Columbia, the technique has been used over 180 times, and, in 80% of the cases, it resulted in either a confession or the elimination of the suspect from suspicion. However, cases of false confessions and wrongful convictions have recently come to the public's attention, and many are starting to question the controversial technique. In 2007, a documentary was made, called Mr. Big, that was very critical of the procedure.   You can't talk about undercover operations without talking about the mob. Here are five badasses who infiltrated the mob.   In law enforcement, working as an undercover officer carries the high risk of discovery by criminal suspects, leading to violence, torture and death. But the rewards can be huge, with wire recordings and eyewitness testimony that can result in arrests and convictions. A trained officer knows how to strategize, win the confidence of their targets and get them to reveal what's needed to build a case to take to trial. It requires an unusual kind of person, able to work under stress, stay focused, pull off the character he or she is playing and be prepared to tell many lies. What follows here is a list of five remarkable individuals whose undercover operations, despite real dangers, resulted in the convictions of leaders and associates of organized crime, over almost a century. This list leaves out many other famous undercover officers, whom we would like to recognize in the future. Perhaps because of the gravity of the investigations, and the financial resources required, all of these undercover officers worked for agencies of the U.S. government. MICHAEL MALONE Mike Malone worked undercover for the Treasury Department's Intelligence Unit. In the late 1920s, he infiltrated Al Capone's Chicago Outfit and helped convict the crime boss of tax evasion. Michael Malone had all the makings of an undercover agent who would successfully infiltrate Al Capone's Chicago gang for nearly two years. Malone, whose parents came over from Ireland, grew up in New Jersey and meshed well with its European immigrants, eventually learning to speak Gaelic, Italian, Yiddish and Greek. With his “black Irish” dark hair and skin, he resembled someone from southern Europe. After finessing his way into Capone's inner circle in 1929, Malone proved invaluable to his superiors in the Treasury Department pursuing a tax evasion case against the Chicago crime boss. Despite the danger, Malone kept an iron will. Blowing his cover would have proved fatal. But given his skills, it didn't happen. While Malone kept up the charade, he delivered information that proved incriminating not only for Capone, but for his top enforcer, Frank Nitti (aka Nitto). Malone remained disguised within Capone's bootlegging band even for a time after the feds filed tax charges against Capone, Nitti and Capone's brother, Ralph, in 1931. When Capone's jury trial commenced, and the Treasury Department removed Malone from his undercover job, the agent gained a bit of respect from the embarrassed gang chief himself. In the Chicago courthouse, Malone happened to enter an elevator where Capone stood with his defense lawyers. “The only thing that fooled me was your looks,” Capone is said as to have remarked to Malone. “You look like a Wop. You took your chances, and I took mine. I lost.” From 1929 to 1931, Malone fed intelligence about Capone that would culminate in the historic conviction of the nation's most notorious Mob boss. His fascinating story began after his service in World War I. With law enforcement his career goal, Malone joined the Treasury Department's Intelligence Unit later known as the “T-Men.” Early on, in the 1920s, Malone appreciated how donning disguises brought him closer to the suspects. He posed in everyman roles such as garbage man and shoe shiner. Elmer Irey, chief of the Intelligence Unit, had worked with undercover agent Malone on Prohibition cases. Once, Irey enlisted Malone to smash a West Coast version of “Rum Row,” rumrunners selling contraband Canadian liquor from ships off the coast of San Francisco. Malone posed as gangster from Chicago in hiding, with money to invest in illegal booze. He devised a nighttime sting operation. Agents posing as bootleggers drove speedboats out to the booze-laden mother ship and, after money changed hands, Malone fired off a flare, signaling the U.S. Coast Guard, which boarded the mother ship and arrested the astonished bootleggers. President Herbert Hoover entered office in March 1929, a few weeks following the infamous St. Valentine's Day Massacre in Chicago, where seven men associated with Capone's bitter rival in bootlegging, George “Bugs” Moran, died in gunfire. Hoover conferred with Irey and urged him to compile a team of special agents to “get Capone” on tax charges. Meanwhile, another team of Prohibition Unit agents in Chicago, headed by Eliot Ness, would attack Capone on violations of federal liquor laws under the Volstead Act. Irey appointed Special Agent Frank Wilson, Malone and several others to the get Capone team. Meanwhile, a group of wealthy business executives in Chicago, called the Secret Six, donated large sums of money for expenses to assist the feds in getting Capone. Malone used their largess to purchase some expensive clothing to look the part of a well-heeled hoodlum that Capone would envy. Malone set about infiltrating Capone's underworld at its core – the Lexington Hotel, where the boss and his men lived. Wearing a fancy suit, purple shirt and white hat, Malone sat in the lobby, reading newspapers for days on end. He spoke in an Italian accent, introduced himself as “Mike Lepito,” met Capone men playing craps and played the part of a mobster. He mailed letters to friends in Philadelphia, who wrote back. Capone's guys broke into his room, noted his pricey checkered suits and silk underwear. They opened his mail from Philadelphia, read the letters written, impressively, in underworld lingo they understood. They informed Capone. Finally, Capone sent a cohort down to the lobby to ask “Lepito” about his business in town. “Keeping quiet,” Malone replied in his Italian inflection. In the coming days, over drinks, Malone told the guy he was on the lam for burglary in Philadelphia. That got Malone invitations to play poker and trade gossip with the gang, then dinner at their hangout, the New Florence, and then to attend the birthday party Capone planned for Frank Nitti at the Lexington. Malone met Capone at Nitti's party. The secret agent's new acquaintances included big-shot hoods Nitti, “Machine Gun” Jack McGurn, Jake “Greasy Thumb” Guzik, Paul “The Waiter” Ricca, Murray “The Camel” Humphreys and Sam “Golf Bag” Hunt. Malone was in. He discreetly phoned Wilson about what he'd overheard within the gang. Wilson and his aides traced signatures on bank checks while pursuing tax evasion cases against Nitti and Guzik. A federal court in Chicago convicted Guzik, who got a five-year sentence. But Nitti skipped town. Malone, assigned to find him, followed Nitti's wife to an apartment building in Berwyn, Illinois. There, the cops nabbed Nitti, later sentenced to 18 months in prison for tax evasion. Then the police pinched Al himself following his 1931 indictment on tax charges. “Mike Lepito” was there at the Lexington when Al Capone arrived back, triumphant about his release on $50,000 bail. Malone listened and reported to Wilson about Capone's scheme to bribe and fix the jury in his favor. The feds moved quickly and a judge created a new list of jurors. Malone then reported Capone's plot to hire five gunman from New York to kill four federal officials in Chicago – including Wilson. With safety measures in place, Capone ordered the gunmen to leave town. Capone's trial, after a judge refused to plea bargain with the Mob boss, started in October 1931. Four days afterward, Malone finally gave up the act. The news spread fast to Capone and his men. Malone had heard that Phil D'Andrea, Capone's bodyguard, planned to bring a concealed gun into the courthouse. Malone and another agent frisked and disarmed D'Andrea, and had him arrested. A jury Capone could not fix found the boss guilty on 22 criminal counts. The judge gave him 11 years in the federal pen and a $50,000 fine, plus court costs. Months later, in early 1932, the Intelligence Unit had Malone, Irey, Wilson and Special Agent A. P. Madden probe the kidnapping of aviator Charles Lindbergh's son. The team's persistence paid off within two years, with the capture (and conviction) of suspect Bruno Hauptman, who still had some of the marked currency the agents convinced Lindbergh to use as ransom money. Malone had other notable cases. In 1933, Irey assigned him to find fugitive New York gangster Waxey Gordon, wanted for tax evasion. Malone located Gordon in a remote cottage in the Catskill Mountains. Special Prosecutor Thomas Dewey took the case, and the court put Waxey away for 10 years. A year later, Malone infiltrated Louisiana Governor Huey “Kingfish” Long's crooked crew. After Long's assassination, the IRS won a tax fraud conviction against Malone's target, Long's close aide, Seymour Weiss. In his last undercover operation before his death, the Intelligence Unit gave Malone a large amount of cash and a Cadillac to use in Miami Beach, disguised as a rich syndicate man. He found and reported what the agency wanted – details of a coast-to-coast illegal abortion ring. After Malone's death in 1960, Wilson described him to a news reporter as “the best undercover agent we ever had.” JOSEPH PISTONE Joe Pistone is one of the FBI's most celebrated undercover agents. Using the name Donnie Brasco, he infiltrated the New York Mafia and helped produce 200 indictments. Courtesy of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. In New York City during the mid-1970s, the FBI investigated a rash of truck hijackings happening each day. The agency assigned agent Joseph “Joe” Pistone to go undercover for six months to find out where the Mob-connected thieves took the stolen cargo. His adopted name was “Donnie Brasco.” He was so effective as a wiseguy that the FBI let him keep it up. No one knew how far the investigation would lead, or what it would mean for Pistone, who started as an agent in 1969. His experience would eventually prompt the mobsters in New York to put out a $500,000 contract for his murder, but it never happened. In the end, the evidence and trial testimony he provided in the 1980s produced 200 indictments of Mob associates and more than 100 convictions. His work decimated the Bonannos, one of New York's five major crime families. Pistone's journey while undercover, impersonating a mobbed-up jewel thief, would last an incredible five years, from 1976 to 1981, during which he penetrated the upper levels of the Bonnano organization. No FBI agent had made it inside the Mob like that. The agency beforehand had to rely on informants. Pistone took a class to learn about jewelry to make his affectation believable. In Brooklyn and Manhattan, he roamed bars and restaurants frequented by Mob types. He communicated using the street smarts he absorbed growing up as a working-class Italian-American kid in Paterson, New Jersey, where he went to Italian social clubs and encountered local hoods. Years in, he had the Bonanno circle so convinced that it moved to have him a “made” man shortly before the FBI ended his assignment. At first he befriended low-level mobsters. He wore a wire to record conversations, and committed to memory names and license plates since taking notes would obviously raise red flags. By 1976, he'd won the trust of important Bonnano members, notably family soldier Benjamin “Lefty Guns” Ruggiero, said to have killed 26 people, and capo Dominick “Sonny Black” Napolitano. Ruggerio recommended him so that he could join the clan. Pistone's Mob activities centered in New York and Florida, taking him away from his wife and young daughters for extended times. Pistone even had to vacation with his demanding cohorts. He moved his family members out of state for their protection. As “Donnie Brasco,” Pistone helped Ruggerio transfer stolen goods and sell guns. He engaged in loansharking, extortion and illegal gambling. Once, while pretending to be an expert in burglar alarms, angry Mob associates intent on committing burglaries demanded he reveal the name of a mobster who would vouch for him. The FBI used an informant to quell their suspicions. In the 1997 film Donnie Brasco, undercover agent Joe Pistone is played by Johnny Depp, left. Al Pacino, right, plays Benjamin “Lefty” Ruggiero. In 1981, the situation intensified again when the crime family commanded him to kill an adversary. The FBI pulled him out of the sting. It was time to start making cases, and for him to testify in open court as himself. Starting in 1982, Pistone's testimony over the next several years in racketeering cases sent more than 100 mobsters to long prison terms. Prosecutors considered him crucial to convicting 21 defendants in the “Pizza Connection” case of pizzerias used to traffic in heroin and launder money for the Sicilian Mafia. Pistone went into hiding and later retired from the FBI, unscathed, in 1986. In the 1990s, Salvatore “Sammy the Bull” Gravano, former underboss for the Gambino family who turned FBI informant, said the embarrassment from the “Brasco” case drove bosses in New York's crime families to suspend the Bonanno group from its board of directors. But Pistone couldn't stay retired. In 1992, at age 53, he requested reinstatement with the FBI, which agreed only if he would enter the agency's strict training class, lasting 16 weeks at its base in Quantico, Virginia. Pistone endured the rigorous course alongside recruits in their 20s. He passed and the FBI rehired him, at least until the mandatory retirement age of 57. Pistone's 1988 book on his undercover experiences, Donnie Brasco: My Undercover Life in the Mafia, was a bestseller. Based on the book, actor Johnny Depp portrayed Pistone in the 1997 feature film Donnie Brasco, with Al Pacino as Ruggerio. JACK GARCIA Jack Garcia was an FBI undercover agent of Cuban descent who convinced members of the Italian-American Mafia that he was Italian. He took part in more than 100 undercover investigations over a 26-year career. Before he succeeded in infiltrating New York's Gambino crime family, FBI agent Joaquin “Jack” Garcia had to go school. That is, the FBI's “mob school,” where he received an education in how to hit the ground running with veteran mobsters. His teacher was special agent Nat Parisi. First off, Parisi said, do not carry a wallet – wiseguys carry wads of currency, often bound by the kind of rubber band grocery stores use to keep broccoli together. Also, correctly pronouncing Italian food matters – as Tony Soprano might say, those long pasta shells are not “manicotti,” but “manicote.” Another valuable lesson he learned is that his Mob brethren loved compliments – his favorite one: “Where did you get those nice threads? You look like a million dollars.” In his 26-year career as an FBI agent, Garcia took part in more than 100 undercover investigations, from Miami to New York, Atlantic City and Los Angeles, targeting mobsters, drug traffickers and corrupt politicians and cops. He participated in the highest number of undercover cases in FBI history. In many of his capers, he impersonated a mobster, using the name “Jack Falcone” (in honor of the Italian judge Giovanni Falcone, killed by the Sicilian Mafia in the 1990s). As a backstory, he told his Mob marks about having a Sicilian pedigree (actually he's a native of Havana and grew up in the Bronx) with an expertise in stealing and fencing stolen goods, with jewelry as his specialty. Sometimes, he had to run several undercover roles at once. He took advantage of his fluency in Spanish and Italian, being careful not to mix things up when the phone rang. In the early 2000s, the FBI chose Garcia for what would be the most fruitful infiltration of an organized crime family since Joe Pistone's in the 1970s. While undercover as “Jack Falcone” with the Gambino's family's chapter in Westchester County, New York, for two years, he flashed cash, Rolex watches, diamond rings, flat-screen TVs and other supposed stolen property (items seized in other FBI cases). Much of the cash he held went to pay for expensive dinners – mobsters, he said, are notoriously cheap when the check comes. He gained 80 pounds over the two years. One mobster in particular who liked his money and goods, and would become his almost daily companion, was Gambino capo Gregory DePalma. An “old school” hood who in 2003 finished serving 70 months for racketeering, DePalma right away threatened violence and extorted owners of Westchester-area construction firms, strip joints, restaurants and other businesses. Garcia said he witnessed DePalma commit a crime almost every day. The FBI had Garcia pose as a wiseguy seeking to invest in a topless bar in the Bronx. Garcia's inquiries led him to meet DePalma in 2003. By providing stolen property for DePalma to sell for cash, Garcia convinced him that “Jack Falcone” was an experienced jewelry thief and fencer from Miami. When Garcia hung out with DePalma over the two-year period, he wore a body wire, and the FBI planted bugging devices at DePalma's hangouts. Garcia gave DePalma a cell phone that the talkative mob capo used prodigiously, not knowing the FBI had bugged it. The operation yielded 5,000 hours of recorded conversations used to implicate DePalma and other Gambino men in racketeering. In 2005, DePalma planned to honor “Falcone” by rendering him “made” within the Gambino family. In a recorded conversation, Garcia as “Falcone” replied to DePalma, “I'm honored for that,” he said, in the tape later used in court. “I will never let you down either.” But it wasn't to be. After Garcia witnessed a Gambino soldier beat another member with a crystal candlestick, the FBI shut down the undercover operation. (Garcia and Pistone are the only law enforcement officers ever nominated to be “made.”) Garcia's efforts inside the Gambino crew paid off big time. The evidence he delivered for the FBI resulted in the arrest of 32 Gambino members and associates, including DePalma, Gambino boss Arnold “Zeke” Squitieri and underboss Anthony “The Genius” Megale. DePalma went to trial in 2006. Garcia, who retired from the FBI two months before the trial started, agreed to testify in federal court in Manhattan. The jury found DePalma guilty on 27 counts, and the judge gave the 74-year-old a 12-year prison term. Like Pistone, Garcia's undercover career is chronicled in a memoir, Making Jack Falcone: An Undercover FBI Agent Takes Down a Mafia Family. KIKI CAMARENA Kiki Camarena was an undercover agent for the Drug Enforcement Administration in Mexico. After contributing information that led to major drug busts, he was tortured and murdered by drug cartel bosses in 1985. Enrique “Kiki” Camarena, the late Drug Enforcement Administration agent assigned to investigate drug trafficking in Guadalajara, Mexico, in the 1980s, is famous as one of the most heroic DEA agents ever. But he is more well-known in death than in life. His torture-murder in Mexico in 1985 took place at the hands of drug cartel bosses with the complicity of high-level Mexican government officials, law enforcement and, allegedly, the CIA. At the time, the Reagan administration was secretly training and supplying Central American guerilla fighters, known as the “Contras,” against the leftist Sandinista government in Nicaragua. The U.S. government allegedly granted the cartel bosses free rein to traffic drugs – to the point of using CIA-recruited American pilots to fly cocaine into the United States to sell for cash so the cartel could make donations to buy more weaponry for the Contras. Camarena, born in Mexicali, Mexico, in 1947, moved with his impoverished family to Calexico, California. He served as a firefighter in Calexico, and with a strong desire for police work, joined the Imperial County Sheriff's Department, moving up to its narcotics task force. The experience led to his career in the DEA starting in 1975. Assigned to the DEA office in the “narco paradise” of Guadalajara in 1980, Camarena was a convincing undercover officer with his appearance and ability to speak Spanish and barrio “street” language to fit in with the drug underworld. His target was the powerful Guadalajara drug cartel (which later evolved into the Sinaloa cartel). In the early 1980s, in what he called “Operation Padrino,” Camarena arranged for U.S. agents to seize international bank accounts held by wealthy cartel drug lords. He developed evidence of major marijuana plantations in the Mexican state of Zacatecas, based on informants and overflights in a plane flown by his DEA pilot, Alfredo Zavala Avelar. In November 1984, from his background work, Mexican federal police and the DEA raided enormous pot-growing operations on a ranch in Zacatecas that employed thousands of field hands. The task force confiscated 20 tons of marijuana, burned the crop and made 177 arrests. The bust cost cartel figure Rafael Caro Quintero about $50 million. Caro Quintero believed his operation had the protection of the Mexican army, and the CIA, since he owned a farm used to train the U.S.-backed Contras. He vowed revenge against Camarena. Meanwhile, a DEA force organized by Camarena seized a large cache of cocaine shipped by cartel boss Miguel Felix Gallardo's operation to New Mexico and Texas. Gallardo also believed he had CIA and Mexican official protection. During the fall of 1984, Quintero held meetings with top cartel traffickers Gallardo, Ernesto “Don Neto” Fonseco Carrillo and Ruben Zuno Arce. Also present, thanks to rampant corruption bought by the Guadalajara cartel, were Mexico's minister of domestic affairs and DFA chief Manuel Bartlett Diaz, plus Mexico's defense minister, the head of Mexico's Interpol office and the governor of the state of Jalisco. The agenda was to kidnap Camarena and get him to reveal his informants and other information. Zuno Arce gave the order. Fonseca only intended to scare and release him, but Quintero wanted to kill the DEA man. On February 7, 1985, Quintero and Gallardo directed their henchmen to kidnap Camarena off a street in Guadalajara. As the agent walked from the U.S. consulate to meet his wife for lunch, they forced him at gunpoint into a car and drove him to a residence used for cartel rendezvous. They bound and blindfolded him, turned on a tape recorder and questioned him, during which he was severely beaten and tortured. The lead interrogator was the crooked head of the secret police in Guadalajara, Sergio Espino Verdin. The cartel men wanted to know what Camarena knew about them, their dealings with Mexican officials and the CIA's involvement in drug trafficking. The gangsters also brought in and beat up Zavala, Camarena's pilot. Both men died about two days later, angering Fonseco, who told Quintero not to kill Camarena. Camarena's wife reported him missing and Washington launched what would be the largest manhunt in the history of the DEA. The cartel had the two men's bodies buried, then dug up and relocated to a farm in another state, where Mexican police found them in early March. During his funeral a week later, Camarena's family interred his ashes in Calexico. His slaying triggered an international incident. U.S. officials ordered all cars from Mexico at the border searched, effectively closing it. The investigation revealed the CIA connection, leading to bitter clashes between CIA and DEA agents. A federal court in Los Angeles charged 22 defendants in the murders of Camarena and Zavala. Under pressure, Mexican authorities acted, arresting 13 men. Mexican courts convicted Fonseco, Quintero and Espino, and sentenced each to 40 years, although Quintero won early release on a technicality in 2013. U.S. officials are still seeking Quintero to face federal charges. Mexican police arrested Gallardo in 1989, and he received 40 years. A court in Los Angeles found Zuno Arce guilty in the murders in 1990, sentenced him to two life terms in prison, where he died in 2012. In Camarena's honor, in 1985 the National Family Partnership started the National Red Ribbon Campaign, a volunteer anti-drug use and education effort that urges youths to recite a pledge to refrain from drugs, and celebrates “Red Ribbon Week” on drug awareness each October. Camarena's is featured as a character, played by actor Michael Pena, in a chapter of the Netflix series Narcos: Mexico, about on his actions with the DEA. JAY DOBYNS Jay Dobyns went undercover with the Hells Angels outlaw motorcycle gang for 20 months in Arizona on behalf of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. His work led to 16 arrests. For Jay Dobyns, fitting in with the infamous biker gang the Hells Angels for almost two years meant adhering to his undercover alter ego, Jay “Bird” Davis, to the point of obsession. To maintain his cover, he had to divert his mind away from his wife and kids. And it all would be worth it – at least that's what he thought at the time. Dobyns had hit on his best clandestine ruse yet while in Arizona in 2001, after 15 years of service as an undercover special agent with the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. While working undercover cases in the late 1980s for the ATF, he'd been injured twice – from a gunshot wound to the back from a suspect in Tucson and when gunrunners hit him with a car during an attempted getaway in Chicago. He took part in investigations of the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing and the 9/11 terrorist attacks. Other undercover roles of his ended in the arrests of a Mexican drug boss and members of the Aryan Brotherhood gang. Altogether, he served in more than 500 undercover operations disguised as a hitman and Mob debt collector. He infiltrated organized crime groups and gangs engaged in drug and arms smuggling. In 2001, to gather intelligence as “Davis” for the ATF in northern Arizona, Dobyns worked in the Bullhead City area, posing as a gun seller and an enforcer for a nonexistent collections agency. But his operation was interrupted in 2002 with the now-famous riot and shootout among members of the Angels and a competing biker gang, the Mongols, at the Harrah's casino in nearby Laughlin, Nevada, during the annual River Run motorcycle rally. Two Angels and one Mongol died and dozens of people were injured. The ATF brass soon redirected him to penetrate the dangerous Hells Angels club. Dobyns certainly had the physical part down with his beard and six-foot, one-inch frame he used as an all-conference football player for the University of Arizona. Later, an Angels member would apply tattoos covering his upper arms. Dobyns teamed with another ATF agent, two other undercover officers and a pair of paid informants. The idea was to create a fake biker gang with the aid of one of the informants who once served in a motorcycle gang based in Tijuana, Mexico. The gangster informant and Dobyns would run the gang, called the Solo Angeles, promote it as a pro-Hells Angels crew and request to join the Angels as a “nomad” chapter. The ATF named the setup “Operation Black Biscuit.” As a convincer, Dobyns and his fellow agent feigned an execution of a Mongol member, tying up an agent, placing cow's brains and bloody Mongol clothing on him and taking a photo. Based on the picture, the Angels took the bait and let them hang out and ride with them. They trusted him so much they offered to make him a member of the Angels' Skull Valley Chapter. He was the first law enforcement officer to infiltrate the Angels. His undercover penetration of the Angels lasted more than 20 months, one of the longest ever for the ATF. His work ended with 16 arrests from the Angels gang. But the criminal case, amid problems between the ATF and Justice Department lawyers, fell through in federal court. Federal prosecutors blamed the ATF, saying the agency did not reveal evidence from informants. In 2006, the feds dropped racketeering enterprise charges – the most serious — against all but four of 42 Angels charged in the Laughlin riot. Dobyns' battle with his own employer, the ATF, soon began. He filed suit in federal court against the agency alleging it did not protect him while he was on duty. He won a $373,000 settlement in 2007. The next year, Dobyns's wife and two kids barely escaped after someone firebombed the family home in Tucson. The ATF investigated Dobyns himself as a suspect in the arson. Investigators cleared him. In 2014, the year he retired after 27 years with the ATF, he filed another suit, for $17.2 million, saying the ATF failed to safeguard his family amid death threats. A judge awarded him $173,000. During an appeal, the judge voided the monetary judgment, but recommended discipline for ATF personnel and barred seven Justice Department attorneys from the case. He ordered a special master to investigate government actions in the case, and possible misconduct by the feds in the arson investigation. But the judge died of cancer. The special master in a report said that the first case was fair enough and required no further probe into the federal government. A new judge accepted the recommendation. Dobyns has authored two books, one on his undercover experiences, another on his travails with the ATF. These days, he delivers lectures on his life to audiences at universities and law enforcement associations nationwide. And now some of our infamous quick hitters:   Donald Duck decoy   Police in Fort Lee, New Jersey used a Donald Duck costume as a decoy to catch drivers who failed to yield to pedestrians. Drivers who didn't stop for the cartoon duck were ticketed. One woman, Karen Haigh, fought her $230 ticket.   "They told me that I was getting a ticket for not stopping for a duck," she told Eyewitness News. "But it scared me. I'm a woman. This huge duck scared me."  Coco the Clown   These old clips from the show COPS show a strange undercover police sting, and proves the adage that clowns are usually scary or just creepy. One cop dressed up as Coco the Clown, an outfit that kind of resembles John Wayne Gacy, to catch women working as sex workers. Spoiler: he pretty much sprays all of them with silly string and the whole thing is sad to watch. Amish woman   At least one cop from the Pulaski Township Police Department in Pennsylvania dressed up as an Amish woman in an attempt to catch a sexual predator. Sgt. Chad Adams of the Pulaski Township Police Department wandered the streets for two months in 2014 after police were tipped off that a predator was masturbating in front of children, according to the Associated Press. He posted on the department's Facebook page, “Hey friends, sometimes being a police officer means going undercover and doing what you have to do to catch the bad guy. Now that our investigation is complete I'll share with you this photo! Back in January we had an individual preying on Amish children walking home from school. The male individual was pulling up to the children and getting out of his car and masturbating in front of them. Although we did not apprehend the individual we believe he was caught in another county. I wanted to share with you that we will use all means available to try and protect our children. That includes dressing up as an Amish woman to attempt to apprehend a pervert! Thanks goes out to the Neshannock police and New Wilmington police in assistance with the investigation! Sincerely, Sergeant Chad Adams.”   Sadly, the sting didn't work, but police believe it is because the culprit moved into another county.   DVD Prize sting   Police in Phoenix, Arizona set up a sting to catch people with outstanding warrants, mostly DUIs, in 2002. The people were told they won a DVD player. People thought they were showing up to pick up their prize. Instead, they walked right into their own arrest. Watch as these suspects went from excited to shocked to sad. Panhandling trick   In 2015, undercover cops in California posed as panhandlers to ticket distracted drivers. They stood on the side of the road, posed as panhandlers and holding signs that identified them as police officers. The pieces of cardboard they were holding also stated that they were looking for seatbelt and cellphone violations. For those drivers who weren't paying attention

Two members of the Lucchese crime family have been charged with murdering a fellow family member and the attempted murder of a Bonanno family member from Whitestone. The U.S. attorney's office said Caldwell and Londonio were members of the criminal organization, La Cosa Nostra, also known as the Mafia. La Cosa Nostra operated through six entities known as families in the New York/ New Jersey area, including the Lucchese family, Bonnano family, and Gambino family. The families operate through groups known as “crews” or “regimes” that consists of “made” members, sometimes known as “soldiers” or “good fellows.” •What are “Soldiers?” What are Associates?”•How do they become a member of the family?•What does it mean to be “Made?”•Is the above story evidence that the Mafia still operates and remains strong? Expert Insight from a True Mafia Historian and Co-Author of “The Lufthansa Heist: Behind the Six-Million Dollar Cash Haul That Shook the World” with Henry Hill

Anthony "Hootie" Russo stopped by The Sober Sit Down to detail his time as a crew member of the Gambino crime family. After describing his upbringing as a first-generation immigrant growing up in the largest mafia area in the world, Russo admitted that he wanted to be a "street guy" at five years old and started selling drugs before his teen years. As a teenage drug dealer, Russo became affiliated with the mafia and explained why he chose the Gambinos over the Bonnano family. Russo also described a failed attempt at expanding his cocaine operation and explained why he was never a made man. He went on to detail his prescription pill operation and his time behind bars before describing the aftermath of "The Mafia Takedown," which was the biggest one-day bust in United States history. In this episode called Street Survivor, Hootie and I talk about the life and all the good, the bad, and the rebound of this life on the streets. It's not about what you did, it's what you did about it.

Retired KCPD Intelligence Unit Detective Gary Jenkins and mob historian Camillius “Cam” Robinson discuss the life and times of New York Mob boss, Bill Bonanno. GET THE MAGIC MIND 40% DISCOUNT CLICK ON THIS LINK... The post The Life of Bill Bonnano appeared first on Gangland Wire.

In todays episode, John takes you through the life of Phillip Rusty Rastelli, a former bonnano boss. John explains how his death on this day June 24th 1991 would spark the great comeback of the Bonnano family. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/this-day-in-the-mob/support

On Episode 50 of the Sit Down, Jeff delivers a special interview with an individual named Francesco "Frank"  Fiordilino  who for years was a Bonanno Family associate. Frank was born in Sicily and came to America as a young child. He grew up in Queens and came up under his uncle, a Bonnano capo. He ultimately started running around with a group called the Giannini Crew and in the end faced major decisions that he now has to live with. He tells some interesting stories as well about people like Nicky Santora, Joe Massino, Jackie DeRoss and more. Check it out.  --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- PLEASE give us a follow on socials! FOLLOW US ON YOUTUBE: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCMYV0eyKQFhNZwLXpx7I0Ng FOLLOW US ON TWITTER: @thesitdown7  Check out our present sponsor BetterHelp... get help with online therapy now: www.betterhelp.com/sitdown for 10 percent off Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On Episode 50 of the Sit Down, Jeff delivers a special interview with an individual named Francesco "Frank" Fiordilino who for years was a Bonanno Family associate. Frank was born in Sicily and came to America as a young child. He grew up in Queens and came up under his uncle, a Bonnano capo. He ultimately started running around with a group called the Giannini Crew and in the end faced major decisions that he now has to live with. He tells some interesting stories as well about people like Nicky Santora, Joe Massino, Jackie DeRoss and more. Check it out. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- PLEASE give us a follow on socials! FOLLOW US ON YOUTUBE: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCMYV0eyKQFhNZwLXpx7I0Ng FOLLOW US ON TWITTER: @thesitdown7

Frank Bonnano is a managing director and head of marketing at StoneCastle Partners, LLC. Stonecastle provides stable, cost-efficient funding to bank throughout the U.S. and harnesses this demand to create unique fixed-income cash products for institutional depositors.   In today's episode, Doug & Frank talk about a subject we have not discussed on our more than … Continue reading Episode 73 – It's Time to Talk About Cash – With Frank Bonnano →

On Episode 45 of the Sit Down, Jeff and Blackjack delve into the life of Bonnano captain Vinny Asaro. Vinny was a gangsters gangster and lived a very interesting life. By the end though, he was brought in by the FEDS for his alleged involvement in a very famous crime. He would beat the rap on those crimes but would face the music because he couldn't let go of the life he coveted as a gangster. Before the biography we also delve into some of your listener questions. Asaro biography starts around the 31 min mark --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- PLEASE give us a follow on socials! FOLLOW US ON YOUTUBE: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCMYV0eyKQFhNZwLXpx7I0Ng FOLLOW US ON TWITTER: @thesitdown7

On Episode 45 of the Sit Down, Jeff and Blackjack delve into the life of Bonnano captain Vinny Asaro. Vinny was a gangsters gangster and lived a very interesting life. By the end though, he was brought in by the FEDS for his alleged involvement in a very famous crime. He would beat the rap on those crimes but would face the music because he couldn't let go of the life he coveted as a gangster. Before the biography we also delve into some of your listener questions.  Asaro biography starts around the 31 min mark --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- PLEASE give us a follow on socials! FOLLOW US ON YOUTUBE: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCMYV0eyKQFhNZwLXpx7I0Ng FOLLOW US ON TWITTER: @thesitdown7  Check out our present sponsor BetterHelp... get help with online therapy now: www.betterhelp.com/sitdown for 10 percent off Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today we take our quest for resilience to the next level with data-backed insights from George Bonnano, Professor of Clinical Psychology at Columbia University where he heads the Loss, Trauma, and Emotion Lab which has studied resilience in the face of extreme adversity for 25 years. He's the author of the new book "The End of Trauma: How the New Science of Resilience Is Changing How We Think About PTSD." In this episode Joe De Sena, founder and CEO of Spartan, asks Bonnano the ultimate questions about resilience - what's it made up of and how can we get it? George A. Bonanno, Ph.D. is a Professor of Clinical Psychology at Columbia University. His research has for over 25 years centered on defining and documenting resilience in the face of loss or potential traumatic events, including disaster, loss, terrorist attack, bio-epidemic, traumatic injury, life-threatening injuries medical events, and military deployment, and on investigating the role of flexible responding in predicting psychopathological and resilient outcomes. He was honored recently with the Cattell award from the Association for Psychological Science “for a lifetime of intellectual achievements in applied psychological research and their impact on a critical problem in society at large.”    George Bonnano's Book “The End of Trauma: How the new science of resilience is changing how we think about PTSD” https://amzn.to/3ji63iN   Loss, Trauma, and Emotion Lab: http://www.tc.edu/LTElab/   Joe De Sena's Parenting book “10 Rules for Mental Toughness for Families” www.spartan.com/10Rules   The Tough Bible - the best information from Spartan Up all in one place Spartan.com/toughbible    This episode of Spartan Up is brought to you by DUROLANE, a single injection that may provide up to six months 1 of relief from osteoarthritis knee pain. Risks can include general knee pain and pain at the injection site. You can see full prescribing information at DUROLANE.com. FOLLOW SPARTAN UP: Spartan Up on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/spartanuppodcast/ Spartan Up on Twitter https://twitter.com/SpartanUpPod   CREDITS: Producer – Marion Abrams, Madmotion.com Host: Joe De Sena Sefra Alexandra, Johnny Waite & Colonel Nye will be back soon, we miss them! © 2021 Spartan

#JoePistone on Real Crime Stories: On July 26, 1981, he and his fellow wise guys learned that #DonnieBrasco—who they knew as a small-time jewelry thief and burglar, who they thought was their partner and even their friend, who they were about to officially induct into the Bonnano crime family—was actually FBI Agent Joe Pistone. Pistone had fooled them all with a masterful acting job that had begun in 1976 and lasted six long years. He had appeared in “Little Italy” in New York City as a stranger and outsider, slowly meeting and making friends with a series of mobsters, gaining their trust, making it look like he was participating in their life of crime—all the while secretly gathering vital intelligence on the Mafia and its criminal ways. It wasn't easy, to be sure. Pistone had to think, talk, and act like a crook (he spent two full weeks, for example, studying the jewelry industry). He had to know the rules of the Mafia game. He had to tell lies—lots of lies—convincingly, about who he was and what he was up to. He had to make friends with mobsters and criminals and be separated from family and friends for long stretches of time, even on holidays. It was incredibly dangerous work as well. While playing his part, Pistone could have been seen with the wrong person or been recognized by someone he knew. His various recording devices could have been exposed or gone haywire and given him away. He might have let a word slip. The slightest mistake or accident could have cost him his life. His mission was so secret that only a handful in the FBI knew about it. The decision to put Pistone into this undercover role was made by our office in New York City, home of the five main Mafia families—Bonanno, Gambino, Colombo, Genovese, and Lucchese. In years past, we'd had some success in gathering intelligence on the mob, but typically only around the edges. The core—the leadership—was often untouchable because of the Mafia's code of silence. Agents in our New York office decided to try out a longer-term undercover operation—one of the first of its kind. But even they had no idea that it would end up lasting so long and bearing so much fruit. And what an intelligence goldmine it was. The operation gave us a window into the inner workings of the Mafia generally and the Bonanno family specifically (and to a lesser degree, some of the other families), not only in New York, but in Florida, Michigan, and elsewhere. We learned firsthand who the players were, what kinds of rackets they were running, and what rules they played by. And it ultimately led to more than 100 federal convictions. The tool that Pistone and a small band of agents bravely pioneered in the ‘70s was used again and again with great effect over the next several decades, generating intelligence that helped us target and take down major criminal enterprises and deal a serious blow to the Mafia. And it became a staple of our intelligence tradecraft, a crucial arrow in the quiver we use to protect the American people. Deep Cover: The Real Donnie Brasco: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/deep-cover-the-real-donnie-brasco/id1515609437 Watch all our interviews: https://www.youtube.com/c/policeoffthecuff?sub_confirmation=1Support POC on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/policeoffthecuffListen to our Podcast: https://anchor.fm/otcpod1Stay updated on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Policeoffthecuff-312794509230136/Follow our Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/policeoffthecuff/ --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/otcpod1/support

Why does every business need a BAIL team?  Do I need a lawyer for my business?  How do I put an attorney on retainer?  We talk with Jonathan Friedler attorney at law about business law and how to protect yourself in business with a relationship with a great attorney.Jonathan Friedler is an attorney at Geraghty & Bonnano, LLC in New London, Connecticut.  They are a civil litigation firm and primarily handle business issues, including contracts and litigation.  Services include business formation, contract preparation/ review, compliance, business negotiations, dispute resolution, and litigation.  Geraghty & Bonnano's typical clients include lenders and trades people in need of collection work and foreclosure, partners involved in a firm dissolution, contractors and homeowners involved in construction disputes.  In addition to his litigation practice, Attorney Friedler regularly represents lawyers in ethics/ attorney discipline matters throughout the State of Connecticut, including claims regarding conflicts, privilege, IOLTA/ file management, unauthorized practice of law, attorney advertising, and attorney competence.  He represents his attorney clients before local panels, at Statewide Grievance Committee hearings, and in presentment hearings in the Connecticut Superior Court. Attorney Friedler is active in the Young Lawyer's Section of the Connecticut Bar Association: In 2018, he was the YLS Executive Committee Chair of Professional Responsibility and Ethics, and he has served as the YLS Executive Committee Director for Non-CLE Events since 2019.  He received the YLS Rookie of the Year award in 2019, and Star of the Year Award in 2020.Disclaimer: Today's presentation is not meant to be construed as legal advice: if you have a legal question, you should consult with an attorney licensed to practice within the appropriate state to review your particular situation.  This presentation does not constitute solicitation for an attorney-client relationship and no confidential or attorney-client relationship will exist without an express written agreement.  Please do not send unsolicited confidential information to the presenters.Follow the podcast at @itsjustbusinesspodcast on all the major podcasting platforms.Connect with us:To get in touch with us, email the podcast at itsjustbusinesspodcast@gmail.com.Join us on Facebook, Instagram, or LinkedIn - we appreciate your support!www.itsjustbusinesspodcast.comYou can find Russ @reliable.remediationRuss Harlow – Reliable Remediation – Disaster RestorationGoogle: https://g.page/r/CXogeisZHEjMEBAYou can find Dana @adashofboss, @dana.dowdell and @hrfanatic Dana Dowdell – Boss Consulting – HR ConsultingGoogle -  https://tinyurl.com/y4wxnavx

Jimmy Cournoyer brought a billion dollars of weed into New York City and the east coast through an organization that brought together the Rizzuto and Bonnano Italian Mafia families, Native American Smugglers, Hell's Angels, and the Sinaloa Cartel into one massive money-laundering, weed-smuggling, cocaine-distributing organization. And he did it all before he was 30 years old while dating a lingerie model, being besties with top MMA star George St. Pierre, and partying with Leonardo Dicaprio. With a lovely tangential story about the time Danny made a documentary about the owner of a butcher shop who ended up being Mikey "The Butcher" Virtuouso, Bonnano crime family soldier and maker of the best sandwiches in New York City.

#JoePistone on Real Crime Stories: On July 26, 1981, he and his fellow wise guys learned that #DonnieBrasco—who they knew as a small-time jewelry thief and burglar, who they thought was their partner and even their friend, who they were about to officially induct into the Bonnano crime family—was actually FBI Agent Joe Pistone. Pistone had fooled them all with a masterful acting job that had begun in 1976 and lasted six long years. He had appeared in “Little Italy” in New York City as a stranger and outsider, slowly meeting and making friends with a series of mobsters, gaining their trust, making it look like he was participating in their life of crime—all the while secretly gathering vital intelligence on the Mafia and its criminal ways. It wasn’t easy, to be sure. Pistone had to think, talk, and act like a crook (he spent two full weeks, for example, studying the jewelry industry). He had to know the rules of the Mafia game. He had to tell lies—lots of lies—convincingly, about who he was and what he was up to. He had to make friends with mobsters and criminals and be separated from family and friends for long stretches of time, even on holidays. It was incredibly dangerous work as well. While playing his part, Pistone could have been seen with the wrong person or been recognized by someone he knew. His various recording devices could have been exposed or gone haywire and given him away. He might have let a word slip. The slightest mistake or accident could have cost him his life. His mission was so secret that only a handful in the FBI knew about it. The decision to put Pistone into this undercover role was made by our office in New York City, home of the five main Mafia families—Bonanno, Gambino, Colombo, Genovese, and Lucchese. In years past, we’d had some success in gathering intelligence on the mob, but typically only around the edges. The core—the leadership—was often untouchable because of the Mafia’s code of silence. Agents in our New York office decided to try out a longer-term undercover operation—one of the first of its kind. But even they had no idea that it would end up lasting so long and bearing so much fruit. And what an intelligence goldmine it was. The operation gave us a window into the inner workings of the Mafia generally and the Bonanno family specifically (and to a lesser degree, some of the other families), not only in New York, but in Florida, Michigan, and elsewhere. We learned firsthand who the players were, what kinds of rackets they were running, and what rules they played by. And it ultimately led to more than 100 federal convictions. The tool that Pistone and a small band of agents bravely pioneered in the ‘70s was used again and again with great effect over the next several decades, generating intelligence that helped us target and take down major criminal enterprises and deal a serious blow to the Mafia. And it became a staple of our intelligence tradecraft, a crucial arrow in the quiver we use to protect the American people. Deep Cover: The Real Donnie Brasco: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/deep-cover-the-real-donnie-brasco/id1515609437 Watch all our interviews: https://www.youtube.com/c/policeoffthecuff?sub_confirmation=1Support POC on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/policeoffthecuffListen to our Podcast: https://anchor.fm/otcpod1Stay updated on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Policeoffthecuff-312794509230136/Follow our Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/policeoffthecuff/ --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/otcpod1/support

Retired FBI under cover agent Joe Pistone On July 26, 1981, he and his fellow wise guys learned that Donnie Brasco—who they knew as a small-time jewelry thief and burglar, who they thought was their partner and even their friend, who they were about to officially induct into the Bonnano crime family—was actually FBI Agent Joe Pistone. Pistone had fooled them all with a masterful acting job that had begun in 1976 and lasted six long years. He had appeared in “Little Italy” in New York City as a stranger and outsider, slowly meeting and making friends with a series of mobsters, gaining their trust, making it look like he was participating in their life of crime—all the while secretly gathering vital intelligence on the Mafia and its criminal ways. It wasn’t easy, to be sure. Pistone had to think, talk, and act like a crook (he spent two full weeks, for example, studying the jewelry industry). He had to know the rules of the Mafia game. He had to tell lies—lots of lies—convincingly, about who he was and what he was up to. He had to make friends with mobsters and criminals and be separated from family and friends for long stretches of time, even on holidays. It was incredibly dangerous work as well. While playing his part, Pistone could have been seen with the wrong person or been recognized by someone he knew. His various recording devices could have been exposed or gone haywire and given him away. He might have let a word slip. The slightest mistake or accident could have cost him his life. His mission was so secret that only a handful in the FBI knew about it. The decision to put Pistone into this undercover role was made by our office in New York City, home of the five main Mafia families—Bonanno, Gambino, Colombo, Genovese, and Lucchese. In years past, we’d had some success in gathering intelligence on the mob, but typically only around the edges. The core—the leadership—was often untouchable because of the Mafia’s code of silence. Agents in our New York office decided to try out a longer-term undercover operation—one of the first of its kind. But even they had no idea that it would end up lasting so long and bearing so much fruit. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/otcpod1/support

Un proyecto del grupo Tucucuentos Solidarios del Ente Cultural de Tucumán, que contiene más de 50 audiocuentos de autores locales en las voces de las narradoras Alejandra Jiménez, Olga Martínez, Neli Santillán, Gloria Argañaraz, Olga Bonano, Silvia Israilev y Graciela Palavecino.

Un proyecto del grupo Tucucuentos Solidarios del Ente Cultural de Tucumán, que contiene más de 50 audiocuentos de autores locales en las voces de las narradoras Alejandra Jiménez, Olga Martínez, Neli Santillán, Gloria Argañaraz, Olga Bonano, Silvia Israilev y Graciela Palavecino.

Un proyecto del grupo Tucucuentos Solidarios del Ente Cultural de Tucumán, que contiene más de 50 audiocuentos de autores argentinos en las voces de las narradoras Alejandra Jiménez, Olga Martínez, Neli Santillán, Gloria Argañaraz, Olga Bonano, Silvia Israilev y Graciela Palavecino.

GGs! What's in your wellness kit for 2021? Have you tried sound therapy? If you have been on the fence about it or are curious to learn more about it, this episode is for you! Phyllicia Bonnano, co-founder of Sisters of Yoga, and @Sweat Instructor, deep dives into the power and practice of yoga as a self care habit! Listen and learn: The celebrity who inspired her to start yoga in her teens The path that led her to empowering women of color to wellness and mindfulness How sound therapy heals emotions The importance of connectedness Why we need to cultivate a pandemic wellness kit Follow Phyllicia on IG @phyllicia.bonnano We want to hear from you! Shoot an email over to welcome@thegreatgirlfriends.com or drop me a DM ON IG @sybil_amuti THE GREAT GIRLFRIENDS INSTAGRAM: @thegreatgirlfriends THE GREAT GIRLFRIENDS FB COMMUNITY: https://www.facebook.com/groups/TheGreatGirlfriends/

Episode: 186 Host: Alpha Mike Word Of The Week: “Commit your works to the Lord and your thoughts will be established ” Proverbs 16:3 Intro: Alpha welcomes the Nation to episode #186. Alpha tells the Nation, the sad news of the death of his Aunt to COVID-19. How to contact us RaiderCop.Com and RaiderCopNation.com. Regular program will start Feb 3, 2021. The Hearties list coming along, and can be found on the website: Raider Cop Nation. More coming soon. Main Topic: The Return Of The Black Hand "Zips" 1. What is the meaning of, "Zips"? 2. Why did they go to America, New York City? 3. Two Bosses Joe Bonanno and Carlo Gambino 4. John Gambino, leader of the zips for the Gambino Family 5. Sal Catalano, leader of the zips for the Bonnano family 6. How it works? Reference: Cigar, Rusty & Bananas #165 Lorenzo Mannino Frank Cali Domenico Cefalu Baldo Amato Cesare Bonventre Guiseppe Ganci Benny Zito Up Next: “Dominican Law Enforcement Officers of Florida (DLEOFL), #187 Feb 3, 2021Instagram @milo_raider_cop  Co-host of Raider-Cop Tube coming in 2021 Spotify   Stitcher  PodBean Join the Raider-Cop Nation Pistol Pete the Gunsmith Kilo Sierra’s Firearms Training or Investigation: Sepulveda inc MeWe, WimKin, Rumble.ApplePodcast GooglePodcast Pandora  Parler: @RaiderCop  CloutHub: @RaiderCopWimkin: @Martinino and Raider Cop PodcastMeWe: Raider-Cop Podcast & Alpha Mike#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 #TheWord #Buccaneer #RaiderCopPodcast #BeLikeJack #Corrections #RaiderCop #EmpanadaLadiesOfGeorgiaYoutube 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 Ortiz, Nico Staf Brooklyn & The Bridge,PatrikiosMusic: I'm Back by Eye of the beholder. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 

A photo bombing clown spirit…A wailing ghost searching for her lost husband…Don’t go in any closets, because the spirits that haunt this place may lock you in…This is the Kreischer Mansion, a Victorian mansion in Staten Island, New York. This historic property is said to be haunted by many spirits, and was also the killing ground for the Bonnano crime family.HOSTED BY: Aimee BrooksSPECIAL GUEST: Rick RispoliCHECK OUT THE WEBSITE:https://www.creepypodcast.comON YOUTUBE:https://www.youtube.com/c/ToxicContentBONUS PODCASTS, VIDEOS AND POSTS FOR PATREON FANS:https://www.patreon.com/creepypodcastCONNECT:https://www.instagram.com/creepypodcast/https://www.instagram.com/missaimeebrooks/https://www.facebook.com/Aimee-Keeps-It-Creepy-Podcast-108668844044575https://twitter.com/Creepy_PodcastWIN STUFF:https://www.creepypodcast.comFOR THE MOST AMAZING ARTISAN CANDLES, check out A Candle Story:https://www.acandlestory.comIF YOU HAVE A CREEPY PARANORMAL OR TRUE CRIME STORY THAT YOU WOULD LIKE TO SHARE ON THE SHOW, PLEASE EMAIL A BRIEF DESCRIPTION TO: info@creepypodcast.comPRODUCER: Rick La FondSOUND DESIGNER: Paul TintaDon’t forget to keep it creepy!

About Kelly Bonanno: Kelly Bonanno is an Eco Friendly Lifestyle & Wellness Coach, Speaker and host of Clean Beauty Scene Podcast. Eco wellness is her signature holistic and realistic approach to overall well-being based on the 7 Pillars of Health. Kelly's specialty is helping busy, overwhelmed women decrease inflammation, optimize weight loss, reduce toxic load and go green without giving up glamour! Kelly also helps business owners reduce sick days and burn out while increasing productivity, focus, and morale with her innovative Eco Wellness Programs and workshops. What We Discuss In this Episode We discuss that intermittent fasting is, its benefits and how you can do it without feeling you are being deprived or starving. What are the biggest benefits to this lifestyle, and what are the disadvantages to this type of lifestyle (if any)? Why has this become the latest "buzz word." Are there different types of intermittent fasting and if so, what are they? We discuss if this is something for everyone or whether there are certain types of ailments that would preclude you from trying intermittent fasting. Lastly, we discuss how you can get started with intermittent fasting.   Free Resource from Kelly Bonanno: Want to learn more about intermittent fasting? Join Kelly’s free 5 day challenge starting November 15th : https://bit.ly/2TnHnIE Connect with Kelly Bonanno: Website: https://kellybonanno.com/   Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kellybonanno/   Facebook Group:  https://www.facebook.com/groups/savvygirlsorganicworld   Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SavvyGirlsOrganicWorldWithKellyBonanno   Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/kelly_bonanno/boards/   Clean Beauty Scene Podcast: https://apple.co/32rfULb   Connect with Lynne: If you are looking for a community of like-minded women on a journey - just like you are - to improved health and wellness, overall balance, and increased confidence, check out Lynne's private community in The Energized & Healthy Women's Club. It's a supportive and collaborative community where the women in this group share tips and solutions for a healthy and holistic lifestyle. (Discussions include things like weight management, eliminating belly bloat, wrangling sugar gremlins, and overcoming fatigue, recipes, strategies, and much more so women can feel energized, healthy, confident, and joyful each day. Website:  https://holistic-healthandwellness.com Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/holistichealthandwellnessllc Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lynnewadsworth   Free Resource: MID-LIFE got you spinning? Are you ready to feel energized, vibrant and healthy?   Join us on our journey to increased vitality, holistic health and wellness.  We share tips, recipes, encouragement in a fun and safe community. Grab your free resource here:   https://holistic-healthandwellness.com/learn-how-to-ditch-the-hormonal-weight/     Did You Enjoy The Podcast? If you enjoyed this episode please let us know! 5-star reviews for the Living Life Naturally podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Pandora, or Stitcher are greatly appreciated. This helps us reach more women struggling to live through midlife and beyond. Thank you. Together, we make a difference!

About Kelly Bonanno: Kelly Bonanno is an Eco Friendly Lifestyle & Wellness Coach, Speaker and host of Clean Beauty Scene Podcast. Eco wellness is her signature holistic and realistic approach to overall well-being based on the 7 Pillars of Health. Kelly's specialty is helping busy, overwhelmed women decrease inflammation, optimize weight loss, reduce toxic load and go green without giving up glamour! Kelly also helps business owners reduce sick days and burn out while increasing productivity, focus, and morale with her innovative Eco Wellness Programs and workshops. What We Discuss In this Episode We discuss that intermittent fasting is, its benefits and how you can do it without feeling you are being deprived or starving. What are the biggest benefits to this lifestyle, and what are the disadvantages to this type of lifestyle (if any)? Why has this become the latest "buzz word." Are there different types of intermittent fasting and if so, what are they? We discuss if this is something for everyone or whether there are certain types of ailments that would preclude you from trying intermittent fasting. Lastly, we discuss how you can get started with intermittent fasting.   Free Resource from Kelly Bonanno: Want to learn more about intermittent fasting? Join Kelly’s free 5 day challenge starting November 15th : https://bit.ly/2TnHnIE Connect with Kelly Bonanno: Website: https://kellybonanno.com/   Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kellybonanno/   Facebook Group:  https://www.facebook.com/groups/savvygirlsorganicworld   Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SavvyGirlsOrganicWorldWithKellyBonanno   Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/kelly_bonanno/boards/   Clean Beauty Scene Podcast: https://apple.co/32rfULb   Connect with Lynne: If you are looking for a community of like-minded women on a journey - just like you are - to improved health and wellness, overall balance, and increased confidence, check out Lynne's private community in The Energized & Healthy Women's Club. It's a supportive and collaborative community where the women in this group share tips and solutions for a healthy and holistic lifestyle. (Discussions include things like weight management, eliminating belly bloat, wrangling sugar gremlins, and overcoming fatigue, recipes, strategies, and much more so women can feel energized, healthy, confident, and joyful each day. Website:  https://holistic-healthandwellness.com Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/holistichealthandwellnessllc Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lynnewadsworth   Free Resource: MID-LIFE got you spinning? Are you ready to feel energized, vibrant and healthy?   Join us on our journey to increased vitality, holistic health and wellness.  We share tips, recipes, encouragement in a fun and safe community. Grab your free resource here:   https://holistic-healthandwellness.com/learn-how-to-ditch-the-hormonal-weight/     Did You Enjoy The Podcast? If you enjoyed this episode please let us know! 5-star reviews for the Living Life Naturally podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Pandora, or Stitcher are greatly appreciated. This helps us reach more women struggling to live through midlife and beyond. Thank you. Together, we make a difference!

Two members of the Lucchese crime family have been charged with murdering a fellow family member and the attempted murder of a Bonanno family member from Whitestone. The U.S. attorney's office said Caldwell and Londonio were members of the criminal organization, La Cosa Nostra, also known as the Mafia. La Cosa Nostra operated through six entities known as families in the New York/ New Jersey area, including the Lucchese family, Bonnano family, and Gambino family. The families operate through groups known as “crews” or “regimes” that consists of “made” members, sometimes known as “soldiers” or “good fellows.” •What are “Soldiers?” What are Associates?”•How do they become a member of the family?•What does it mean to be “Made?”•Is the above story evidence that the Mafia still operates and remains strong? Expert Insight from a True Mafia Historian and Co-Author of “The Lufthansa Heist: Behind the Six-Million Dollar Cash Haul That Shook the World” with Henry Hill

John Alite, Gene Borrello, and Felix Levine sit down with Vincent Rossetti, former Bonnano Associate who made a lot of money through various ways, including schemes on Wall Street. We will be doing a follow-up episode with Vincent soon.

How do affects capture your body and behaviours? This is the first lecture that addresses: Facework - definition, Lambie and Marcel's picture of emotion, from biological process to psychological motive (theory of motivation), basic affects (and taking them apart in Facework), trauma and facial expression (Bonnano et al), uses of facework; Work - Dejours and work; Hochschild and emotional labour; Costs of facework; Facework and the development of a false self?; Hypocrisy. Contact Email: philosophyofpsychoanalysis@gmail.com Lecturer: Associate Professor Doris McIlwain. Theme song creator: Rose Mackenzie-Peterson. Logo creator: Campbell Henderson. https://www.campbellhenderson.com/artwork Thanks to Dr. Andrew Geeves and Professor John Sutton for all their hard work. Sadly A/Prof. Doris McIlwain, the course creator, died of cancer in 2015. This podcast is created by her family and friends, with hopes that her curiosity, joy and intellectual playfulness will keep inspiring and informing those who listen.

So, Joe has left the Colombo family, he’s a free mobster… where to next? The Bonannno family. Utilizing his acquaintance with Anthony “Tony” Mirra, an American mobster, soldier and later caporegime for the Bonanno crime family, Joe gets introduced to various contacts in the Bonnano family. He’s even introduced to the likes of Carmine Persico, the long-time boss of the Colombo crime family. Throughout this episode, Joe and Leo discuss the cold-blooded and graphic nature of the mafia’s kills, the mental strength someone in Joe’s position needed to have, and how Joe came to meet the person who would be known as his mentor in the Bonnano family: Lefty Ruggerio.01:08 – Anthony “Tony” Mirra07:22 – Mafia Murders: are they serial killers?11:34 – Joe Pistone’s Mental Strength13.39 – More on Anthony “Tony” Mirra: getting introduced to the Bonanno Family17:12 – Lefty RuggerioFollow the show on Facebook, Instagram, or Twitter!Watch on YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLKeT_Ic27g59iGfh23QoP0xG-6aLodMWgOr find us on the web https://www.deepcoverpodcast.com/A Jam Street Media Production. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Podcast: Raider-Cop Podcast Date: June 10, 2020 Episode #143 Subject: The Prime Minister Host: Al Martinino aka Alpha Mike Intro: Alpha welcomes the Nation to episode # 143, and how to contact us via our website RaiderCopNation.com   Alpha, advised the audience coming in 2021, Raider-Cop Tube. Along with Alpha, new co-host, "Milo" the podcast will take to video outlet of YouTube.. Want to meet, Milo you can by going to Instagram hitting, day_with_milo Alpha, breaks down the current La Cosa Nostra (LCN), and why the five families will never disappear. Alpha, talks about great show on YouTube about the mob called, Coffee with Cullotta Word Of The Week: Commit Your Works To The Lord, And Your Thoughts Will Be Established. Proverbs 16:3  Main Topic: Outline format Born Francesco Castiglia, Jan 26, 1891 Calabria, Italy At the age of 4, headed to America on a ship with his mother and brother, dad was in New York City already Frank and his family settle in the East Harlem section of Manhattan At 13 Frank becomes a member of the local street gang Frank now starts to use the name Costello Frank does jail time in 1908, 1912, & 1917 Got married to a jewish woman, and becomes a member of the Morello gang Morello or Giuseppe "the clutch hand" Morello would later become the Genovese Frank, while with the Morello gang met Charlie Lucky Luciano leader of the lower east side Sicilian faction Older Sicilian mobster warned Lucky of working with Costello, which they called the dirty Calabrian Lucky didn't believe in that old form of thinking making friends with Costello, Lansky, Siegel, Rothstein 1925 Costello becomes a U.S. Citizen Costello attends the mob meeting in Atlantic City 1929 creating the National Crime Syndicate, pre LCN Commission April 15, 1931, killing Joe The Boss Masseria. Genovese was one of the shooters, Luciano takes over the Masseria family. Sept 10, 1931, Killing of Marazano by sending in Jewish gangsters, Lansky, Siegel, Lucky Luciano begins creating the commission 1931 Luciano creates the five family, Luciano, Bonnano, Profaci, Mangano, & Gagliano 1956 Joe Adonis a powerful capo deported to Italy leaving Costello valnable 1957 Vito Genovese make attempt to kill Frank Costello to become boss, the shooter was Vincent The Chin Gigante Frank Costello retires in 1957 giving the family to Vito Genovese U.S. Gov't attempts to deport Frank Costello but fails in court Feb 1973 Frank Costello has a heart attack dying on Feb 18, 1973 Costello buried in Queens, NYC (St. Michael Cemetery)  In 1974, the door of Frank Costello's mausolemum are blown off by Bonanno Underboss Carmine The Cigar Galante upon release from prison after 20 years Costello ruled the Luciano Family from 1936-1957 and was part of the Luciano Family administration since 1931. Frank Costello born with a golden spoon. Song of the week: Tom Jones 1967, Green, Green, Grass of Home Up Next: The Law Enforcement Officers Safety Act LEOSA, so what's the problem ? #144 @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 iTunes  Spotify   Stitcher  Google Play  PodBean  YouTube TuneInJoin the Raider-Cop NATION Pistol Pete the Gunsmith Kilo Sierra’s Firearms Training or Investigation: Sepulveda inc #EmpanadaLadiesOfGeorgia #BullDozerFishing #MoxieMatron @TanTenacity74 Twitter Manifest Your Dreams With Moxie Matron #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 @RaiderCopNation, FaceBook @RaiderCopNation, Instrgram @DayWithMilo, Tik Tok @RaiderCopNation, Linkedin @raider-cop-podcast-ao12b96b/  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. 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 PatrikiosMusic: I'm Back by Eye of the beholder.This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.   

Michael Bonnano is the CEO of Performance Partners and Virtual Support Solutions. They use the Bank Methodology to improve patient case acceptance. As a past practice owner, he understands the issues dentists face. The average offices are missing 87-250 calls per month. By providing call rollover, you can greatly increase your ROI. Their training to meet the high caliber response of a practice means better success for you. They have found that 75% of unanswered calls do not leave a message. That is revenue lost for your office. If you spend money acquiring new patients but they can't get a person on the phone, you are wasting money. With an average of 87 calls lost per month, assuming 25% being new patients, which can mean hundreds of dollars lost or more. By becoming an extension of your team, your office can be strengthened. US Dental Triage is a group set up out of a response to Covid-19. They have donated PPE to local hospitals as well as making a hotline available for free that connects available dentists to patients needing assistance. To get on the list, go to dentaldss.com. Many of the dentists are very busy. The dentists who want to be busy are staying busy. By using a call service, they are able to check on patients during the closure, notify patients upon reopen, or to fill the schedule in preparation of opening. Their fees from 7 am-9 pm M-F is $6 per call. After hours and weekends are $10 per call. Being able to handle schedule changes after hours gives you more time to fill your appointments and be more productive. 37% of your calls happen nights and weekends. If there's a hangup call or solicitor, you are not going to be charged. They have 100% retention and have grown by 100% just based on referrals. Nifty Deal: 1st 10 Call Rollover calls complimentary - no setup fees, month-to-month! To get this deal: jw@performancepartners.us, or alt. phone 612-597-3666 To be added to the triage list: www.usdentaltriage.com

iPulse Podcast: Reporter's Notebook - Joey Bonnano - 4/21/20

iPulse Podcast: Reporter's Notebook - Joey Bonnano - 4/10/20

Gene Borrello is a former enforcer for the Bonnano crime family. After living a crime-filled life and multiple stints to prison including Riker's Adolescent jail, Borrello recently was released and is looking to turn his life around.

This week we have a real treat for everyone. We get to sit down with Chuck Bonanno the VP of Dealer Development for NIADA. Chuck has decades of experience as a teacher and an operator. Get educated on where Chuck sees the used car market going and the importance of continuing your education as a dealer. Get your note pad out!

Joseph Massino was the legendary godfather of the Bonnano crime family, known as ‘The Last Don’ of a generation. And he absolutely crushed anyone who went against the mafia code of silence or 'Omerta.' But when the family was infiltrated by the legendary undercover agent Donnie Brasco, it spelled the end for the Bonannos and for the Mafia. Our sponsors for this episode are [Uncover: Escaping NXIVM](https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/uncover/id1364665348?mt=2) [](http://www.cbc.ca/radio/sks)podcast and [SimpliSafe](https://simplisafe.com/mafia). Mafia's theme is "Spellbound Hell" by [Damiano Baldoni](http://damianobaldoni.altervista.org/index.php/en/). Music in this episode is "Misery" by Damiano Baldoni; “Hiding Your Reality”, “Nerves”, “Comfortable Mystery 2 & 3” by [Kevin MacLeod](https://incompetech.com/). Sound Effects from [freesound.org](https://freesound.org/home/) by [hopflog](https://freesound.org/people/hopflog/sounds/), [14g-panska](https://freesound.org/people/14G_Panska_Vagnerova_Adela/sounds/), and [vibe-crc](https://freesound.org/people/vibe_crc/sounds/). Licensed under [Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/).

In our final episode on grief, we continue our conversation with Professor George A. Bonnano and learn about the differences between grief and depression. We hear from John W. Evans, author of the award-winning memoir, “Young Widower,” about the complicated grief he experienced after losing his wife to a bear attack in 2007. Catherine and Rebecca chat about ways to be supportive of grieving friends and loved ones, and we end with a story from journalist Carmel Delshad about the ways grief changed her for the better. More info at www.grouppodcast.com. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

As part of our continued conversation about grief, we speak with Professor George A. Bonnano, expert on bereavement and author of “The Other Side of Sadness.” We learn the evolutionary purpose of grief and the dangers of assuming that everyone should follow a particular model for mourning. We also hear three stories about dealing with loss: we speak with Carly about how she recovered after her experience with stillbirth; Julie shares what it was like to be forced into grief counseling during high school; and former New York Times health reporter Catherine Saint Louis explains why she was nervous about her absence of grief after the death of her estranged father. Grief Stories #2 will be released on 5/16. More info at www.grouppodcast.com. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

“In the world of organized crime, the bosses grab the headlines, as the names Capone, Gotti, Bonnano, Catroni and Rizzuto attest. But a crime family has many working parts and the young mobster known as The Weasel was the epitome of a crucial, invisible cog—the soldier, the muscle, the driver, the gopher.” Taken from the inside flap of the Weasel—A Double Life in the Mob, by Adrian Humphreys. The Weasel is Marvin Elkind. He will be our guest to talk about the Mob and the death of Jimmy Hoffa. Follow us online Crime Wire on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheNewCrimeWire/ Crime Wire on Twitter: https://twitter.com/NewCrimeWire

THE LAST OF THE OLD-WORLD MOB BOSSES AND THE ULTIMATE BETRAYAL-For more than twenty years, Joseph "Big Joey" Massino ran what was called the largest criminal network in the U.S., employing over two hundred and fifty made men and untold numbers of associates. The Bonanno family was responsible for over thirty murders, even killing a dozen of its own members to enforce discipline and settle scores. He would be brought down by Salvatore "Good Looking Sal" Vitale, the underboss who was not only Massino's closest and most trusted friend, but also his brother-in-law. In the end, facing the death penalty and the prospect of leaving his family penniless, Massino started talking to the FBI--the first Mafia Godfather to break the sacred code of omerta, and the end of a centuries-old tradition. THE KING OF THE GODFATHERS-Anthony M. DeStefano.