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Beyond the Darkness
S21 Ep23: Mafia Secrets: Untold Tales From The Hollywood Godfather w/ Gianni Russo

Beyond the Darkness

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 24, 2026 181:55


True Crime Tuesday presents: Mafia Secrets: Untold Tales From The Hollywood Godfather with Actor/Singer/Movie Producer/Businessman/Author, Gianni Russo!The Kennedys, Marilyn, the Vatican, Vegas, The Godfather, the Mob, and more . . .During a cursed childhood in a Manhattan neighborhood teeming with Italian immigrants, Gianni Russo fended for himself at an early age. It was a quality that didn't go unnoticed by Frank Costello—father figure, mentor, and legendary crime boss. Thanks to Costello, Gianni was only twelve when his luck would change for a lifetime. All of it charmed—and thrilling. With it came Hollywood glamor, Vegas risk-takers, political conspiracies, sex, murder, shadow governments, and secrets. The stories Gianni Russo could tell . . .Now he does in this bombshell confessional. This is the inside account of the Sicilian Mafia, Cosa Nostra, what really transpired in those Mulberry Street clubs, and who whacked whom—including how mobster Tony Spilotro and his brother really died, finally revealed for the first time. This is Gianni, buddy of Frank Sinatra, and intimately more with Marilyn Monroe. What's the cover-up behind her death, JFK's, and Jimmy Hoffa's? It's all here. So is the clandestine role of the pope as the sacred boss of bosses, the glory days and downfall of Las Vegas, and the colorful behind-the-scenes tales of Gianni's role in the greatest movie ever made, The Godfather.On Today's TCT, Gianni returns to spill it all! Inside stories on Marilyn, The Kennedys, Vatican money laundering, Elvis, His remember on Robert Duvall and Diane Keaton, and he even tells us the staggering amount of money that flowed through his hands in just five years of running nightclubs in Las Vegas! (IT IS STAGGERING!)Get your copy of Mafia Secrets: Untold Tales From The Hollywood Godfather here: https://www.amazon.com/Mafia-Secrets-Untold-Hollywood-Godfather-ebook/dp/B0DYWKL3Z7?ref_=ast_author_mpbLearn more about Gianni here:  https://www.giannirusso.com/PLUS AN ALL NEW DUMB CRIMES AND STUPID CRIMINALS W/ JESSICA FREEBURG!!A naked Wisconsin man stole an ambulance with a patient in it and took Police for a joyride!  See the video here:  https://www.wsaw.com/2026/02/19/suspect-identified-stolen-ambulance-chase-with-patient-still-inside/?utm_source=fark&utm_medium=website&utm_content=link&utm_campaign=fark&ICID=ref_fark#A Florida man smashes a random SUV with a hammer in a Publix parking lot after thing it is his ex's! See his reaction when he is caught, arrested, and informed:  https://www.wesh.com/article/florida-man-smashes-suv-hammer-publix-parking-lot/70393741?utm_source=fark&utm_medium=website&utm_content=link&utm_campaign=fark&ICID=ref_farkCheck out Jessica Freeburg's website and get tickets to her events here:  https://jessicafreeburg.com/upcoming-events/and check out Jess on Tik Tok:  https://www.tiktok.com/@jessicafreeburgwritesFor the first time, get ALL NEW TRUE CRIME TUESDAY GEAR!  Represent your favorite true crime podcast in style! There are new and different (and really cool) items all the time in the Darkness Radio Online store at our website! . check out the Darkness Radio Store!   https://www.darknessradioshow.com/store/Make sure you update your Darkness Radio Apple Apps!and subscribe to the Darkness Radio You Tube page:  https://www.youtube.com/@DRTimDennis#crime #truecrime #truecrimepodcasts #truecrimetuesday #giannirusso #mafiasecrets #untoldtalesfromthehollywoodgodfather #carlo #thegodfather #carlogambino #frankcostello #joekennedy #johnfkennedy #bobbykennedy #kennedyassasination #deathofmarilynmonroe #deathofjimmyhoffa #franksinatra #calnevalodge #lasvegas #meyerlansky #pabloescobar #shahofIran #popejohnpaul2 #vatican #vaticanmoneylaundering  #dumbcrimesstupidcriminals #TimDennis  #jessicafreeburg #ghoststoriesink #paranormalauthor #massshooting #shootings #stabbings #murder #dismemberment  #drugsmuggling #bribery #publicsex  #floridaman #drugcrimes #foodcrimes #stupidcrimes #funnycrimes  #sexcrimes #dumbcrimes

Darkness Radio
S21 Ep23: Mafia Secrets: Untold Tales From The Hollywood Godfather w/ Gianni Russo

Darkness Radio

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 24, 2026 181:55


True Crime Tuesday presents: Mafia Secrets: Untold Tales From The Hollywood Godfather with Actor/Singer/Movie Producer/Businessman/Author, Gianni Russo!The Kennedys, Marilyn, the Vatican, Vegas, The Godfather, the Mob, and more . . .During a cursed childhood in a Manhattan neighborhood teeming with Italian immigrants, Gianni Russo fended for himself at an early age. It was a quality that didn't go unnoticed by Frank Costello—father figure, mentor, and legendary crime boss. Thanks to Costello, Gianni was only twelve when his luck would change for a lifetime. All of it charmed—and thrilling. With it came Hollywood glamor, Vegas risk-takers, political conspiracies, sex, murder, shadow governments, and secrets. The stories Gianni Russo could tell . . .Now he does in this bombshell confessional. This is the inside account of the Sicilian Mafia, Cosa Nostra, what really transpired in those Mulberry Street clubs, and who whacked whom—including how mobster Tony Spilotro and his brother really died, finally revealed for the first time. This is Gianni, buddy of Frank Sinatra, and intimately more with Marilyn Monroe. What's the cover-up behind her death, JFK's, and Jimmy Hoffa's? It's all here. So is the clandestine role of the pope as the sacred boss of bosses, the glory days and downfall of Las Vegas, and the colorful behind-the-scenes tales of Gianni's role in the greatest movie ever made, The Godfather.On Today's TCT, Gianni returns to spill it all! Inside stories on Marilyn, The Kennedys, Vatican money laundering, Elvis, His remember on Robert Duvall and Diane Keaton, and he even tells us the staggering amount of money that flowed through his hands in just five years of running nightclubs in Las Vegas! (IT IS STAGGERING!)Get your copy of Mafia Secrets: Untold Tales From The Hollywood Godfather here: https://www.amazon.com/Mafia-Secrets-Untold-Hollywood-Godfather-ebook/dp/B0DYWKL3Z7?ref_=ast_author_mpbLearn more about Gianni here:  https://www.giannirusso.com/PLUS AN ALL NEW DUMB CRIMES AND STUPID CRIMINALS W/ JESSICA FREEBURG!!A naked Wisconsin man stole an ambulance with a patient in it and took Police for a joyride!  See the video here:  https://www.wsaw.com/2026/02/19/suspect-identified-stolen-ambulance-chase-with-patient-still-inside/?utm_source=fark&utm_medium=website&utm_content=link&utm_campaign=fark&ICID=ref_fark#A Florida man smashes a random SUV with a hammer in a Publix parking lot after thing it is his ex's! See his reaction when he is caught, arrested, and informed:  https://www.wesh.com/article/florida-man-smashes-suv-hammer-publix-parking-lot/70393741?utm_source=fark&utm_medium=website&utm_content=link&utm_campaign=fark&ICID=ref_farkCheck out Jessica Freeburg's website and get tickets to her events here:  https://jessicafreeburg.com/upcoming-events/and check out Jess on Tik Tok:  https://www.tiktok.com/@jessicafreeburgwritesFor the first time, get ALL NEW TRUE CRIME TUESDAY GEAR!  Represent your favorite true crime podcast in style! There are new and different (and really cool) items all the time in the Darkness Radio Online store at our website! . check out the Darkness Radio Store!   https://www.darknessradioshow.com/store/Make sure you update your Darkness Radio Apple Apps!and subscribe to the Darkness Radio You Tube page:  https://www.youtube.com/@DRTimDennis#crime #truecrime #truecrimepodcasts #truecrimetuesday #giannirusso #mafiasecrets #untoldtalesfromthehollywoodgodfather #carlo #thegodfather #carlogambino #frankcostello #joekennedy #johnfkennedy #bobbykennedy #kennedyassasination #deathofmarilynmonroe #deathofjimmyhoffa #franksinatra #calnevalodge #lasvegas #meyerlansky #pabloescobar #shahofIran #popejohnpaul2 #vatican #vaticanmoneylaundering  #dumbcrimesstupidcriminals #TimDennis  #jessicafreeburg #ghoststoriesink #paranormalauthor #massshooting #shootings #stabbings #murder #dismemberment  #drugsmuggling #bribery #publicsex  #floridaman #drugcrimes #foodcrimes #stupidcrimes #funnycrimes  #sexcrimes #dumbcrimes

Cosa Nostra by David Vendetta
David Vendetta - Cosa Nostra 1019

Cosa Nostra by David Vendetta

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 21, 2026 65:53


CamelPhat, Eli & Fur - Waiting Third Development & Ali Wick feat. Francesca Maionchi - Our Parallel Worlds (Lee Rosevere Remix) Lup Ino - Stay The Night Anoraak feat. Julia Kwamya - Shikata Ga Naï (JKRIV Remix) Wein & Greywolf - Never Fold Kozlow - Bark Verolila - Lifeline Max Muller - Kiss Tiga, Boys Noize - Hot Wife 2FA (Adana Twins x Digitalism) - Liquid Bodies (Perel Remix) Alex Vanni - Beat Down Blex - Discoland (Paco Disaster Remix) Lart Sanam - Angel Eyes Passis - Think Too Much Not Too Much - Lost Roman Luxx - I Can Be Happy Contact booking : Julien - bookings@davidvendetta.com - +33 6 65 38 87 67

Cosa Nostra by David Vendetta
David Vendetta - Cosa Nostra 1018

Cosa Nostra by David Vendetta

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 14, 2026 64:55


ESSIGI - I Can't Get No Sleep Bugi - Those Nights Giaggi - So Sweet Meloko, Konvex, Garla - If U Ever Harry Kaze - What U need Nari - Tremula CamelPhat x Josh Gigante - The One Arodes, Alessio Cristiano - Gwele Nari - Latinos Matt Sassari, CHRSTPHR feat. Barbatuques - Baiana Azar Jalil, Jay Aliyev - Electric Pulse ID Layton Giordani x Bart Skils - Deadly Valentine Unwooded - Final Night Contact booking : Julien - bookings@davidvendetta.com - +33 6 65 38 87 67

Tanked Up
Climbing the Cosa Nostra (Tanked Up 458)

Tanked Up

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 11, 2026 95:35


Ben and Aadil get together to discuss a few of the games Ben has been...

Laser
Maxiprocesso

Laser

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 10, 2026 27:37


Il 10 febbraio del 1986 a Palermo è il giorno della prima udienza del dibattimento che ha rappresentato un punto di svolta nel contrasto a Cosa nostra. 349 udienze, 1314 interrogatori, 475 imputati, 19 ergastoli inflitti, 327 condanne, 2665 anni di reclusione: sono i numeri del Maxiprocesso istruito dai giudici Giovanni Falcone e Paolo Borsellino nell'area riservata dell'aula bunker del carcere Ucciardone di Palermo. A presiedere la Corte d'Assise il giudice Alfonso Giordano, designato dopo che altri si erano tirati indietro. In questa puntata di “Laser” ripercorriamo alcuni momenti del Maxiprocesso cercando di capire cosa ha rappresentato e cosa resta oggi. Lo facciamo con il giornalista Franco Nicastro, che ha seguito il Maxiproccesso raccontandolo per Il Giornale di Sicilia, lI Secolo XIX e l'Ansa; il magistrato Antonino Di Matteo, sostituto procuratore presso la Direzione Nazionale Antimafia, vive sotto scorta da 33 anni, è stato impegnato in indagini sulle stragi di mafia e sui rapporti tra Cosa Nostra e parti delle istituzioni, è stato pm nel processo sulla trattativa Stato-mafia; Stefano Giordano, avvocato penalista, ricorda l'impegno di suo padre, il giudice Alfonso Giordano. undefinedCon un estratto dell'intervista che Giovanni Falcone ha rilasciato al telegiornale della RSI nel 1990, due anni prima della Strage di Capaci in cui venne ucciso con la moglie, la magistrata Francesca Morvillo, e gli agenti di scorta Vito Schifani, Rocco Dicillo, Antonio Montinaro. undefinedundefinedundefined

Laser
L'ora del giudizio

Laser

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 9, 2026 23:15


Il Maxi Processo a Cosa Nostra rappresenta un momento epocale nella lotta alla mafia siciliana. Ispirato dalle rivelazioni dei pentiti Tommaso Buscetta e Salvatore Contorno, il procedimento coinvolse 475 imputati per reati come omicidi, traffico di droga, estorsioni e associazione mafiosa e venne celebrato - dal 10 febbraio 1986 al 16 dicembre 1987 - nell'aula bunker costruita accanto al carcere palermitano dell'Ucciardone. La costruzione dell'aula bunker fu un evento storico: non c'erano precedenti di quelle dimensioni, e nemmeno c'erano piani architettonici su cui basarsi. L'architetto Francesco Martuscelli racconta in questo reportage gli aneddoti e le particolarità di questa struttura, che oggi è in fase di ristrutturazione ma che abbiamo potuto visitare guidati dal funzionario giudiziario Rosario Zarcone.undefinedUn'altra delle voci che ricorderà cosa fu il maxiprocesso contro Cosa Nostra è quella di Giuseppe Ayala, che vestì i panni della pubblica accusa. L'esito di quel processo furono 19 ergastoli, 342 condanne per un totale di 2 mila 265 anni di reclusione. La sentenza venne confermata dalla Cassazione il 30 gennaio 1992. undefinedundefinedundefined

Cosa Nostra by David Vendetta
David Vendetta - Cosa Nostra 1017

Cosa Nostra by David Vendetta

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 7, 2026 66:24


&friends feat. JOSEPH - Something About U Adriatique, Coach Harrison & Tim Engelhardt - Maybe Bang La Decks - Utopia (DJ DALI Remix) Marten Lou & CamelPhat - Save Me Ardour, Felipe Puertes - Move Me Marten Lou x Foals - Late Night (Marten Lou x Foals Remix) Qess, Rodriguez Jr & Ursula Rucker - Spaces In Between (Rodriguez Jr Remix) Beatamines - Mauerpark Brieuc - Thinking About You Atric & Frida Darko - Hush Tiga vs Meduza - You Gonna Want Me (I Know) Moshem - Senses Unwooded - Final Night ID Angelos - Those Nights

STORIA DELLA MAFIA AMERICANA
Paul Castellano 2° parte

STORIA DELLA MAFIA AMERICANA

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 6, 2026 7:51


Isolato nella sua villa, Castellano rompe il legame con la strada mentre l'FBI viola il suo fortino con microspie piazzate proprio in cucina. Le intercettazioni svelano l'ipocrisia del boss: tra affari segreti e il disprezzo per i suoi stessi uomini, definiti "scimmie" senza cervello. Il tradimento di John Gotti matura nell'ombra, alimentato dal rancore dei soldati e dall'assenza provocatoria di Paul ai funerali dei fedelissimi. Il 16 dicembre 1985, davanti alla Sparks Steak House, una pioggia di proiettili mette fine al regno del "Re della Carne" nel cuore di Manhattan. La caduta di Castellano segna il tramonto della mafia aziendale, lasciando spazio all'era di Gotti e all'inevitabile declino finale di Cosa Nostra.Diventa un supporter di questo podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/storia-della-mafia-americana--4689841/support.

Italia Mistero
Antonino Madonia – Il boss silenzioso dietro gli omicidi eccellenti di Cosa Nostra (I Corleonesi 82)

Italia Mistero

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 5, 2026 23:04


Cheers 2 Ears!
Disney Goes Cosa Nostra With An Amaretto Sour

Cheers 2 Ears!

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 2, 2026 29:56 Transcription Available


Send us a textTwo Amaretto Sours and a wild idea spark a full-blown caper: what if Disney characters ran a classic mafia? We pour, we taste, and we build an underworld—with Boss Mickey at the top, a heated consigliere debate (Minnie's steel vs Goofy's chill), and capos assigned to every park. It's satire, it's structure, and it's strangely satisfying as we map crews, enforcers, and “fronts” that fit each park's energy.We start at the bar, comparing a scratch Amaretto Sour to a Bartesian version and unpack why an amaretto-forward balance works even for bourbon skeptics. Then we lay out the family tree. Disneyland gets old-school charm with Roger or Oswald and a transportation racket that kicks tribute upstairs. DCA runs on engines and muscle—Lightning or Luigi in charge, with Mr. Incredible and Spider-Man tightening the bolts. Magic Kingdom becomes a jewel operation with the Seven Dwarfs and a sly cash wash through comedy clubs, while Donald or Carousel John keep order in their own unforgettable ways.Things turn shadowy at Hollywood Studios where Scar, Darth Vader, and Loki bring enforcement and intrigue. Kermit offers a gentler alternate leadership style, backed by a toy box crew that improvises for the greater good. Epcot scales up with Figment's unpredictability or Scrooge's iron ledger, calling in Remy, Baymax, Elsa, the Three Caballeros, the Phoenicians, and even Patrick Warburton's legendary Soarin' voice for intimidation by tone alone. Animal Kingdom closes strong with Judy Hopps' discipline, Mufasa's authority, and the Madrigal family's specialized “import/export” skill set.Beyond the laughs, there's a real takeaway on leadership and systems: the right roles, trusted lieutenants, and a balance of force and finesse can run any kingdom—imagined or real. Pour a glass, press play, and then tell us who your Disney underboss would be.Enjoyed the ride? Follow the show, leave a review, and share this episode with a Disney fan who loves a clever twist.

STORIA DELLA MAFIA AMERICANA
Paul Castellano 1° parte

STORIA DELLA MAFIA AMERICANA

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 2, 2026 7:59


Dalla macelleria di Brooklyn alla "Casa Bianca" di Staten Island: la storia di Paul Castellano, il boss della famiglia Gambino. Più manager che gangster, Castellano trasformò Cosa Nostra in una multinazionale capace di tassare ogni grattacielo di New York. Tra vestaglie di seta e il controllo del "Concrete Club", il Re del Pollame dominava la città con la logistica invece del sangue. Ma il suo isolamento dorato e l'ascesa verso gli affari "puliti" iniziarono a separarlo dai soldati che rischiavano la vita in strada. Un viaggio alla scoperta di "Big Pauly", l'uomo che scambiò la violenza di strada con il potere assoluto dei grandi appalti.Diventa un supporter di questo podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/storia-della-mafia-americana--4689841/support.

Balázsék
2026 01 29 Csütörtök Balázsék (Teljes adás)

Balázsék

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 29, 2026 131:51


00:00 - 6 óra 30:48 - Balázs, Lánchíd és a büntetőpontok 1:05:10 - Vendégünk Salvo Riina a Cosa Nostra világszerte ismert vezetőjének, Toto Riinának a fia 1:24:49 - Vakrandik és furcsa randik

Balázsék
3 - Vendégünk Salvo Riina a Cosa Nostra világszerte ismert vezetőjének, Toto Riinának a fia

Balázsék

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 29, 2026 19:39


3 - Vendégünk Salvo Riina a Cosa Nostra világszerte ismert vezetőjének, Toto Riinának a fia by Balázsék

Arroe Collins
Mafia Secrets From The Hollywood Godfather Gianni Russo

Arroe Collins

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 27, 2026 10:06 Transcription Available


A Mafia insider and authentic Hollywood tough guy reveals the explosive secrets he's learned (and kept) for decades in this shocking tell all that unveils the hidden worlds of film and organized crime-from who shot JFK and murdered Jimmy Hoffa to the truth about Marilyn Monroe's death.The Kennedys, Marilyn, the Vatican, Vegas, The Godfather, the Mob, and more .During a cursed childhood in a Manhattan neighborhood teeming with Italian immigrant Gianni Russo fended for himself at an early age. It was a quality that didn't go unnoticed by Frank Costello-father figure, mentor, and legendary crime boss. Thanks to Costello, Gianni was only twelve when his luck would change for a lifetime. All of it charmed-and thrilling. With it came Hollywood glamor, Vegas risk-takers, political conspiracies, sex, murder, shadow governments, and secrets. The stories Gianni Russo could tell . .. Now he does in this bombshell confessional. This is the inside account of the Sicilian Mafia, Cosa Nostra, what really transpired in those Mulberry Street clubs, and who whacked whom-including how mobster Tony Spilotro and his brother really died, finally revealed for the first time. This is Gianni, buddy of Frank Sinatra, and intimately more with Marilyn Monroe. What's the cover-up behind her death, JFK's, and Jimmy Hoffa's? It's all here. So is the clandestine role of the pope as the sacred boss of bosses, the glory days and downfall of Las Vegas, and the colorful behind-the-scenes tales of Gianni's role in the greatest movie ever made, The Godfather. The go-getter Frank Costello once called "The Kid" shares his shocking, exhilarating, sometimes violent, and always riveting life with the dealmakers of Hollywood and the Mob. Gianni Russo lives to tell, and spills it all.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/arroe-collins-unplugged-totally-uncut--994165/support.

Gangland Wire
The Agent Who Discovered Roy DeMeo

Gangland Wire

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 26, 2026 Transcription Available


In this episode of Gangland Wire, Gary Jenkins sits down with author Craig McGuire to discuss his gripping book, Empire City Under Siege, a deep dive into three decades of FBI manhunts, mob wars, and organized-crime investigations in New York City. Craig explains how the project grew out of his collaboration with retired FBI agent Anthony John Nelson, whose career spanned the most violent and chaotic years of New York's Mafia history. From Nelson's early days as a radio dispatcher in 1969 to his transition into undercover and frontline investigative work, the book captures the gritty reality of law enforcement during the 1970s and 1980s. We explore how Nelson's career mirrored the evolution of organized crime and law-enforcement tactics, including the rise of undercover stings, inter-agency cooperation, and the increasing role of technology. Craig highlights the close working relationship between Nelson and NYPD detective Kenny McCabe, whose deep knowledge of Mafia families and quiet professionalism led to major breakthroughs against organized crime. He tells how these two investigators wathced and uncovered the Gambino Family Roy DeMeo crew under Paul Castellano and Nino Gaggi. Throughout the conversation, Craig shares vivid, often humorous slice-of-life stories from the book—tense undercover moments, dangerous confrontations, and the emotional toll of living a double life. These anecdotes reveal not only the danger of the job but also the camaraderie and resilience that sustained agents and detectives working in the shadows. The episode closes with a reminder that Empire City Under Siege is as much about honoring unsung law-enforcement professionals as it is about mob history. Craig encourages listeners to support true-crime storytelling that preserves these firsthand accounts before they're lost to time. Hit me up on Venmo for a cup of coffee or a shot and a beer @ganglandwire Click here to “buy me a cup of coffee” Subscribe to the website for weekly notifications about updates and other Mob information. To go to the store or make a donation or rent Ballot Theft: Burglary, Murder, Coverup, click here To rent ‘Brothers against Brothers’ or ‘Gangland Wire,’ the documentaries click here.  To purchase one of my books, click here. 0:02 Welcome Back to Gangland Wire 2:14 The Journey to Anthony John Nelson 4:46 The Life and Work of Law Enforcement 15:00 Inside Anthony Nelson’s Early Career 26:49 The Dynamic Duo: Nelson and McCabe 30:16 Tales from the Underworld 35:55 The Tragedy of Everett Hatcher 39:12 The High-Stakes World of Undercover Work 40:56 Closing Thoughts and Inspirations transcript [0:00] Hey, all you wiretappers. Good to be back here in studio of Gangland Wire. I say the same thing every time. I hope it doesn’t bore you too much, but I am back here in the Gangland Wire studio. And I have today an author who interviewed and wrote a book with an FBI agent named Anthony John Nelson, who was one of the premier FBI agents in New York City that was working the mob. And even more interesting about him to me was he formed a partnership with a local copper named Kenny McCabe, who you may know the name. I had read the name before several times as I started researching this and looking at the book, but he was a mob buster supreme and Agent Nelson really formed a dynamic duo. But first, let’s start talking to Craig, your book, Empire City Under Seize, Three Decades of New York FBI Field Office Manhunts, Murders and Mafia Wars. How did you get involved with Anthony John Nelson? [0:55] Hi, Gary. Thanks for having me on your show. Big fan. Appreciate the opportunity. Very interesting and winding path that led me to Anthony’s doorstep. I also previously wrote another book, Carmine and the 13th Avenue Boys, which was about an enforcer in the Colombo family during the Third Colombo War. And I was introduced to Carmine Imbriali through Thomas Dades. Tommy Dades, he’s a famous retired NYPD detective. So after the success of that book, Tommy introduced me to another member of law enforcement. I started to work on a project that sort of fell apart. And one of the sort of consultants, friends that I met with during that was Anthony Nelson. And then one day as that, due to my own fumbling, as that project was falling apart, I had a delightful breakfast with Anthony and his wonderful wife, Sydney, Cindy, one Sunday morning. And Anthony’s pulling out all these clips of all these investigations and all these Jerry Capiche gangland clips. And it was just fascinating. And so I started to realize that there’s something here because I’m also a true crime fan and I remember many of these cases. [2:08] So it took a while to get Anthony to agree to write a book. He’s not one for the spotlight. He’s really your sort of quintessential G-man, modern G-man. It’s also somewhat of a throwback. But he eventually was interested in doing a book if we didn’t just shine the spotlight on him. Gary, you should know the original, the working title of the book was In the Company of Courage. And that’s really the theme that Anthony wanted to bring forth. You’ll notice throughout the book, there are some vignettes and some biographical information about many of the members of law enforcement that I interviewed, but then we also covered and who are no longer with us. It was my privilege to write this book sharing Anthony’s amazing history, 30 years at the FBI and then several years at the Brooklyn District Attorney’s Office as an investigator. And just like one of the themes is just to really shed some light on the valuable work that members of law enforcement, including you, sir. Thank you for your service. And we think too often these days, members of law enforcement are maligned and there’s a negative light cast on them. It’s the most difficult job in the world. And we just want to make sure that we’re shining some light on that valuable work that the thousands of members of men and women in law enforcement do every day protecting us. [3:24] I appreciate that. I’ll tell you what, all the way from the rookie on the street making those domestic violence calls and party armed calls and armed robbery alarms calls that are, there’s nothing there the first five times you go. And then all of a sudden there’s a guy running out with a gun all the way up to the homicide detectives. And even the people that handle the budget, they all paid their dues out on the streets and organized crime investigators, of course, and narcotics. I really appreciate that. It’s a thankless job for the most part. Once in a while, you get a little thanks, but not much. As we used to say, it was fun. I can’t believe they pay us to do this. [4:01] Gary, it’s like you’re repeating some of the lines of Frank Pergola to Al King, just like that. And that’s key, that thankless piece. I remember interviewing Frank Pergola, just famous New York City detective, worked on Son of Sam. He also worked on solving 79 homicides related to the Gambinos and the DeMeo family. And he echoed those same sentiments. While you’re investigating a case, it’s the victims’ families and the victims, their nerves are so fraught. It’s such a stressful situation. And the members of law enforcement bear the brunt of a lot of that frustration. [4:41] And too often, there’s no thank you at the end. And it’s not that they want to thank you. It’s just that they want the sort of closure, not even the recognition, just some sort of realization that they did a great job. And it’s unfortunate that they don’t, that doesn’t happen as often as it should. I appreciate it. Let’s talk about Anthony Nelson. He sounds like a very interesting character. Talk a little bit about what you learned from him about his early career. And I want to tell you something, that recalcitrance, I believe that’s the word, $25 word if I’ve ever heard one. His refusal to really make himself a hero or the center of attention. That’s pretty common among cops and FBI agents. I’ve noticed we’ve got, I’ve got a good friend here in Kansas City, wrote a book about the mafia in Kansas City called Mopsers in Our Mist, but he refused to put himself into the book. He had a publishing company that wanted him to do it and was going to pay him to do it, but it had to have him as a hero. He said, we have to have a hero in this book. He says, I won’t do it. So that Mr. Nelson, Agent Nelson, that’s not that uncommon. So tell us a little more about some of his early cases. [5:49] Anthony Nelson, interestingly enough, his career trajectory and really his life tracks with the latter half of the last century. And a lot of the technological evolution, the rise of organized crime post-prohibition, these themes of urbanization, radicalization that came out from the starting in the middle of the century. But really heating up as a young Anthony Nelson joins the FBI in 1969, really mostly in administrative roles, radio dispatcher first, eventually he’s an electronics technician. So I’m sure, Gary, you can reflect on, and some of this will resonate with you, just how archaic some of the technology was. Oh my God, yeah. Yeah. Back then, we have some fantastic anecdotes and stories in the book, but just also like, for example, when you’re responding to a hostage crisis and you don’t have a cell phone, you don’t have minimal communications and talking about, you better make sure you have a pocket full of dimes and knocking on a neighbor’s door because time is of the essence and to establish contact. So just some of this great, really interesting material there. Eventually, Anthony was sworn in as an agent in 1976, and he entered the FBI Academy at Quantico, graduated in 77. [7:13] And interestingly enough, Anthony reflects like some of his fellow graduates, perhaps were not as keen on going to New York, one of the larger field offices, perhaps wanting to cut their teeth at a smaller office, but he obviously wanted to go home. So he was, and he jumped right into the fray, really assigned to hijacking. And he was an undercover operative in Red Hook during the 1970s, like the really gritty. And from the stories and from the various folks I interviewed, this really was gritty New York back then with the economy failing, crime on the rise. [7:48] Gary, you look, I heard an interesting stat last week where you had, there was almost a record setting that New York City had not reported a homicide for a record 12 consecutive days. And that had not happened in decades. So when Anthony joined the FBI, they were recording five homicides in New York City. And also during the 70s, you also had this, when you talk about radicalization, with 3,000 bombings nationwide, corruption was rampant. You had credit card fraud was just kicking off. You had widespread bread or auto theft and hijacking. Again, at the street level, Anthony was the front for a Gambino-affiliated warehouse where he had first right of refusal, where some of the hijackers would bring in the loads. And he was doing this on an undercover basis. So he jumped right in. They set him up in a warehouse and he was buying like a sting, what we called a sting operation. He was buying stolen property. They thought he was a fence. [8:50] Yeah, they started doing that in the 70s. They hadn’t really done, nobody had done that before in the 70s. ATF kind of started sting operates throughout the United States. We had one here, but they started doing that. And that was a new thing that these guys hadn’t seen before. So interesting. He was that big, blurly guy up front said, hey, yeah, bring that stuff on. Exactly. If you look on the cover, there are three images on the cover, and one of them is following one of the busts afterwards where they tracked down the hijacked goods. I believe it was in New Jersey. So you could get the sense of the volume. Now, think about it like this. So he’s in Red Hook in the mid-70s. This was actually where he was born. So when Anthony was born in 49, and if you think about Red Hook in the early 50s, this was just a decade removed from Al Capone as a leg-breaking bouncer along the saloons on the waterfront. And this was on the waterfront, Red Hook eventually moved to Park Slope. [9:49] And this was where Crazy Joe Gallo was prompted, started a mob war. And this was when any anthony is coming of age back then and most of his friends is gravitating so to these gangster types in the neighborhood these wise guys but this was a time pre-9-1-1 emergency response system so the only way to report or get help was to call the switchboard call the hospital directly call the fire department directly so you had the rise of the b cop where it wasn’t just the police they were integral part of the community and there’s this really provocative story Anthony tells the first time he saw a death up close and personal, an acquaintance of his had an overdose. And the beat cops really did a sincere effort to try to save him. And this really resonated with the young Anthony and he gravitated towards law enforcement. And then a little bit, a while later as a teenager, they’re having these promotional videos, these promotional sort of documentary style shows on television. And Anthony sees it, and he’s enamored by it, especially when they say this is the hardest job in America. So he’s challenged, and he’s a go-getter. So he writes a letter to J. Edgar Hoover, and Hoover writes him back. [11:03] So it’s a signed letter, and now Anthony laughs about it. He says it was probably a form letter with a rubber stamp, but it really had an amazing impact. And this is at the time when, you know, in the 50s, you really had J. Edgar really embrace the media. And he actually consulted on the other famous, the FBI television show, several movies, the rise of the G-Man archetype. So Anthony was fully on board. [11:28] Interesting. Of course, J. Edgar Hoover wanted to make sure the FBI looked good. Yes, exactly. Which he did. And they were good. They had a really high standards to get in. They had to be a lawyer or accountant or some extra educated kind of a deal. And so they always think, though, that they took these guys who had never been even a street policeman of any kind and they throw them right into the DPN many times. But that’s the way it was. They did have that higher level of recruit because of that. So, Anthony, was he a lawyer or accountant when he came in? Did he get in after they relaxed that? Oh, that’s spot on. I’m glad you brought that up. So now here’s a challenge. So Anthony needs that equalizer, correct? So if you’re a CPA, obviously a former member of the military, if you’re a successful detective or a local police force, one of these type of extra credentials. [12:20] Anthony’s specialty was technology. Now, when you think of technology… Not the ubiquitous nature of technology nowadays, where you have this massive processing power in your phone, and you don’t really have to be a technologist to be able to use the power of it. This is back in the 1960s. But he always had an affinity for technology. And he was able to, when he, one of the other requirements was as he had to hit the minimum age requirement, he had to work for a certain amount of time, he was able to get a job at the FBI. So he was an electronics technician before he became an agent. [12:59] And he had all of the, and back then this was, it was groundbreaking, the level of technology. And he has some funny story, odd, like man on the street stories about, I’m sure you remember Radio Shack when there was a Radio Shack on every other corner, ham radio enthusiasts. And it was cat and mouse. It was, they had the members of organized crime had the police scanners. And they were able to, if they had the right scanner, they had the right frequency. They were able to pick on the bugs planted really close to them. And he tells some really funny stories about one time there was a member of organized crime. They’re staking out, I believe it was the cotillion on 18th Avenue. And then I believe he’s sitting outside with Kenny McCabe. And then one of this member of organized crime, he’s waving a scanner inside and he’s taunting them saying, look, I know what you’re doing. And so it was that granularity of cat and mouse. [13:55] Rudimentary kind of stuff. Yeah. We had a guy that was wearing what we called a kelk kit. It was a wire and he was in this joint and they had the scanner and so but they had to scan her next door at this club And all of a sudden, a bunch of guys came running and there’s somebody in here wearing a wire. And my friend’s guy, the guy I worked with, Bobby, he’s going, oh, shit. And so he just fades into the background. And everybody except one guy had a suit on. Nobody had a suit on except this one guy. So they focused on this one guy that had a suit on and went after him and started trying to pat him down and everything. Bobby just slipped out the front door. So amazing. I mean, you know, Anthony has a bunch of those slice of life stories. I also interviewed a translator from the FBI to get a sort of a different perspective. [14:42] It’s different. Like the agents a little bit more, they’re tougher. They’re a tougher breed. They go through the training. Some of the administrative professionals, like the translators. So this one translator, it’s a pretty harrowing experience because remember the such the insular nature of the neighborhoods and how everyone is always [14:59] looking for someone out of place. So she actually got a real estate license and poses a realtor be able to rent apartments and then she spoke multiple dialects and then just to have to listen in and to decipher not only the code but also the dialects and put it together when you have agents on the line because remember you have an undercover agent if they get discovered more often than not the members of organized crime are going to think they’re members of another crew so you’re dead either they’re an informant if they think they’re an informant you’re dead if they think you’re an agent yeah just turn away from you say okay we don’t deal with this guy anymore if you think you’re informant or somebody another crew or something trying to worm their way in then yeah you’re dead exactly so interviewing maria for this you get that sense from someone who’s not in like not an agent to get true how truly harrowing and dangerous this type of activity was and how emboldened organized crime was until really the late 90s. And back then, it truly was death defying. [16:02] Oh, yeah, it was. They had so many things wired in the court system and in politically in the late 70s and early 80s and all these big cities. No big city was immune from that kind of thing. So they had all kinds of sources. They even had some clerks in the FBI and they definitely had all the court. The courthouses were just wired. And I don’t mean wired, but they had people in places and all those things. So it was death to find that you got into these working undercover. Ever. Hey, you want to laugh? I don’t want to give away all the stories, but there was a great story. I remember Anthony saying, they set up a surveillance post in an apartment and they brought in all the equipment while they were, then they got the court orders and the surveillance post actually got ripped off twice. So while they try, like after hours, someone’s going, yeah, ripping off all the FBI equipment. So you have this extra level of, so that gives you like, It really was Wild West then. Really? [17:00] So now he gets into organized crime pretty quick, into that squad and working organized crime pretty quick. I imagine they put him in undercover like that because of his accent, his ability to fit in the neighborhood. I would think he would have a little bit of trouble maybe running into somebody that remembered him from the old days. Did he have any problem with that? I spot on, Gary. I tell you, this was he. So he’s operating in Red Hook and actually throughout the next several years, he’s periodically flying down to Florida as a front for New York orchestrated drug deals. So he’s going down to Florida to negotiate multi-kilo drug deals on behalf of organized crime. But at the same time, he’s an agent. He eventually rose to be supervisory special agent. He’s managing multiple squads. So there did come an inflection point where it became too dangerous for him to continue to operate as an undercover while conducting other types of investigations. [18:02] Interestingly enough they opened up a resident agency office the ras are in the major field offices in the fbi they have these they’re called ras i’m sure you’re familiar these like mini offices with the office and they’ll focus on certain areas of crime more geographically based so they opened up the brooklyn queens ra and that really focuses heavily on organized crime but also hijacking because you had the, especially with the airport over there and a lot of the concentrations of, especially in South Brooklyn, going into Queens. So he worked there. Also the airport. Also the mass, you have this massive network of VA facilities. You have the forts. So you need these other RA offices. So you have a base of operations to be able to investigate. But Anthony has such a wide extent of case history, everything from airline attacks to art theft heists to kidnappings, manhunts, fugitives. There was Calvin Klein, the famous designer, when his daughter was kidnapped by the babysitter, it did do it. Anthony was investigating that. So it’s just, and while he has this heavy concentration in organized crime. I mentioned that. What’s this deal with? He investigated a robbery, a bank robbery that was a little bit like the dog day afternoon robbery, a standoff. What was that? [19:30] This was actually, it was the dog day afternoon robbery. They based a dog day afternoon on this. Exactly. What you had, and this was before Anthony was when he was still in his administrative role. So he had a communications position. So he was responsible for gathering all the intel and the communications and sharing it with the case, the special agents on site. So what you had was like, he’s with the play by play of this really provocative hostage. It was a bank robbery that quickly turned into a hostage crisis. And then, so throughout this whole, and the way it eventually resolved was the perpetrators insisted on a particular agent. I apologize. It slips my mind, but he’s a real famous agent. So he has to drive them to JFK airport where they’re supposed to have a flight ready to fly them out of the country. And what happens is they secrete a gun into the car and he winds up shooting the bank robbers to death. And there were so many different layers to this bank robbery. It eventually became the movie. And a funny story aside, the movie, while they’re filming the movie, Anthony’s at his friend’s house in downtown Brooklyn. It may have been Park Slope. And they’re calling for extras. His friends run in and say, hey, they’re filming a movie about this bank robbery that happened on Avenue U. You want to be an extra? And he said, nah, no thanks. The real thing was enough for me. [20:55] I’ll tell you what, it wasn’t for a New York City organized crime and New York City crime. Al Pacino wouldn’t have had a career. That’s the truth. [21:05] Now, let’s start. Let’s go back into organized crime. Now, we’ve talked about this detective, Kenny McCabe, who was really well known, was famous. And during the time they worked together and they were working with the Brooklyn District Attorney’s Office. Is that correct? Were both of them working for it? Was he at the FBI and Kenny was with the Brooklyn DA’s office? [21:26] When you think about thematically, in the company of courage, Kenny McCabe was really close. This was a career-long, lifelong, from when they met, relationship, professional relationship that became a deep friendship between two pretty similar members of law enforcement. [21:46] Kenny McCabe had a long career in the NYPD as organized crime investigator before he joined the Southern District Attorney’s Office as an investigator. So the way they first crossed paths was while Anthony was working a hijacking investigation. So he gets a tip from one of his CIs that there’s some hijacked stolen goods are in a vehicle parked in a certain location. So he goes to stake it out. Like they don’t want to seize the goods. They want to find out, they want to uncover who the hijackers are and investigate the conspiracy. So then while he’s there, he sees a sort of a familiar face staking it out as well. Then he goes to the, he goes to the NYA, a detective Nev Nevins later. And he asks about this guy. And so this detective introduces him to Kenny McCabe and right away strike up with his interesting chemistry. And they’re like, you know what? Let’s jointly investigate this. So they wind up foiling the hijacking. But what starts is like this amazing friendship. And I’ll tell you, the interesting thing about Kenny McCabe is almost universally, he’s held in the highest regard as perhaps law enforcement’s greatest weapon in dismantling organized crime in the latter half of the 20th century. For example, I interviewed George Terra, famous undercover detective who eventually went to the Brooklyn District Attorney’s Office. [23:12] And he had a great way. I hope I don’t mangle. Kenny knew all the wise guys and they all knew Kenny. And when I say he knew all the wise guys, he knew their shoe sizes. He knew who they partnered with on bank jobs years ago. So he knew who their siblings were, who their cousins were, who they were married to, who their girlfriends were, what clubs they frequented. For example, during the fatical hearings, where they would do sentencing, often the defense attorneys would want the prosecutors to reveal who their CIs are for due process, for a sense of fairness. And they refused to do that, obviously, for safety reasons, and they want to compromise ongoing investigations. So in dozens, perhaps so many of these cases, they were bringing Kenny McCabe. He was known as the unofficial photographer of organized crime. [24:07] For example, I think it was 2003, he was the first one who revealed a new edict that new initiates into Cosa Nostra had to have both a mother and a father who were Italian. Oh, yeah. I remember that. Yeah. He was also, he revealed that when the Bonanno family renamed itself as Messino, he was the one who revealed that. And then when Messino went to prison for murder, his successor, Vinnie Bassiano, Vinnie gorgeous. When he was on trial, that trial was postponed because so many of law enforcement leaders had to attend Kenny McCabe’s funeral, unfortunately, when he passed. So this is such a fascinating thing. Now, why you don’t hear more about Kenny McCabe, and I interviewed his son, Kenny McCabe Jr. Duke, is like Kenny McCabe like really issued the media spotlight. He would not, he wasn’t interested in grabbing the microphone. So you have almost no media on Kenny McCabe. If you do a Google search for him, I believe the only thing I ever found was a picture in his uniform as an early career police officer. [25:19] So it’s really hard to even do a documentary style treatment without having any media because B-roll is just going to get you so far. So really what Duke has been doing over the last two decades or more is really consolidating all of these as much material as he can. And I think eventually when he does put out a book, this thing’s going to explode. It’s going to be like true Hollywood treatment. But now going back to the mid-70s, so these two guys hook up. You have the FBI agent and you have the police detective. [25:49] Craig, what you always hear is that the FBI is suspicious and doesn’t trust local authorities. And local policemen hate the FBI because they always grab all the glory and take everything, run with it. And they’re left out. And I didn’t have that experience myself. They’ve got the case. They’ve got the laws. We don’t locally, county and statewide, you don’t have the proper laws to investigate organized crime. Yes, sir. But the feds do. So that’s how it works. This really blows that myth up that the local police and the FBI never worked together and hated each other. [26:25] I’m so glad you brought that up because this was very important to Anthony. He has so many lifelong friends in the NYPD, and I’ve interviewed several of them. And just this sincerity comes across, the camaraderie. In any walk of life, in any profession, you’re always going to have rivalries and conflict, whether healthy conflict or negative conflict. [26:46] Even more, you’re going to find that in law enforcement because the stakes are so high. But it’s a disservice to… And what we want to do is sort of dispel the myth that there was no cooperation. Why there were very well-publicized conflicts between agencies prosecuting certain cases. This was the time where technology was really enabling collaboration. Remember, and you had a time, if you had to investigate a serial crime, you had to go from jurisdiction to jurisdiction and you had to interview investigators. You had to comb through written records to piece this together. So it really was not conducive for collaboration. [27:22] So what you saw was the rise of, and then you had these investigative tools and these legal tools like RICO, while they were still trying to figure out and to build. So now you had the litigious tools where you could build conspiracies and prosecute them. So this sort of helped ferment this sort of collaborative interagency, which eventually led to these joint task force that were very successful. What I really love is this microcosm of Anthony Nelson and Kenny McCain. Now, Anthony Nelson was issued a Plymouth Grand Fury with the full police interceptor kit. If you’re familiar with that make and model, no automobile ever created screams cop-mobile like the Grand Fury. And so what you had was after hours, Anthony and Kenny would join up and they would go prowling the underworld with the Grand Fury on purpose. They wanted to be as conspicuous as possible. to the point where they would park in bus stops across the street from these social clubs. And when I say social clubs, they were… [28:29] Everywhere. There were dozens of them all over Brooklyn and Queens. And these are cafe, social clubs, bars, restaurants with heavy OC presence, blatantly conducting their business. So you have these two, Anthony’s always driving. Kenny’s always riding shotgun with his camera. I assume it was some sort of 35 millimeter hanging out the side, taking down names, license plates. Just a great story. You had Paul Castellano in front of Veterans and Friends on 86th Street when he had Dominic Montiglio start that social club so he could have more of a presence in Brooklyn on the street so that he actually crosses the street and he goes to Kenny and Anthony. And he’s saying, guys, you don’t have to sit out here. You could come down to Ponte Vecchio in Bay Ridge. I have a table there anytime you want to talk to me. So it’s that level of bravado. But pretty soon it changed. Once more of this intel started to build these real meaningful cases, Castellana put an edict, don’t talk to these two, don’t be photographed. What came out of that was an amazing partnership where they gathered so much intelligence and Anthony is very. [29:46] Quick to have me point out, give more credit to the investigators, to the agents, to the detectives. They gathered a lot of the intelligence to help with these investigations, but you had so many frontline folks that are doing a lot of the legwork, that are doing the investigations, making the arrests, that are crawling under the hoods. So it’s pretty inspiring. But then you also had some really good, and I don’t want to share all the stories [30:12] in the book. There’s a great story of Kenny and Anthony. They go into Rosal’s restaurant because they see this. [30:21] There may have been a warrant out on this member of law enforcement. So they had cause. So they go in and there’s actually some sort of family event going on. And they’re playing the theme song of The Godfather. As they go in and then they have to go into the back room to get this member of organized crime who’s hiding. So it’s these kind of really slice of life kind of stories that just jump out, jump out of the book. Really? I see, as I mentioned, they had some kind of a run-in with Roy DeMeo at the Gemini. You remember that story? Can you tell that one? Yeah, there’s, so Kenny and Anthony, throughout the hijacking investigations. [30:59] Were, they were among the first to really learn of this mysterious Roy. And his rise. And then also Nino. Remember Nino Gadgi was the Gambino Capo who took over Castellano’s crew, Brooklyn crew, when he was elevated. And then Roy DeMeo was really this larger than life maniac serial killer who formed the Gemini crew, which was a gang of murderers really on the Gemini Lounge in Flatlands, which is really close to Anthony’s house. And Kenny’s not too far. Didn’t they have a big stolen car operation also? Did they get into that at all? Yes. Stolen cars, chop shops. Remember, this is when you had the introduction of the tag job, where it was relatively easy to take the vehicle identification numbers off a junked auto and then just replace them with the stolen auto, and then you’re automatically making that legitimate. And then, so they’re doing this wholesale operation where they’re actually got to the point where they’re shipping hundreds, if not thousands of these tag jobs overseas. So it was at scale, a massive operation. Roy DeMay was a major earner. He was such an unbalanced, very savvy business for the underworld, business professional, but he was also a homicidal maniac. [32:22] Some say they could be upwards of a hundred to 200 crimes. Frank Pergola alone investigated and So 79 of these crimes associated with this crew. And it got to the point where, and he had a heavy sideline in drugs, which was punishable by death in the Gambino family, especially under Castellano. So then what you had was all these investigations and all this intelligence that, and then with this collaboration between the FBI and NYPD. Oh, wow. It is quite a crew. I’m just looking back over here at some of the other things in there in that crew in that. You had one instance where there was a sentencing hearing and of a drug dealer, I believe, a member of organized crime. And Kenny McCabe is offering testimony to make sure that the proper sentencing is given because a lot of times these guys are deceptive. [33:16] And he mentions DeMeo’s name. So DeMeo in a panic. So then maybe a couple of nights later, they’re parked in front of veterans and friends. And DeMeo comes racing across 86th Street. Now, 86th Street is like a four-lane thoroughfare. It’s almost like, oh, I grew up in the air a few blocks away. So he’s running through traffic. And then he’s weaving in and out. And he’s screaming at Kenny McCabe, what are you trying to kill me? Putting my name into a drug case? They’re going to kill me. And so it’s that kind of intimate exchanges that they have with, with these key members of organized crime of the era. [33:52] Wow. That’s, that’s crazy. I see that they worked to murder that DEA agent, Everett Hatcher, that was a low level mob associate that got involved in that. And then supposedly the mob put out the word, but you gotta, we gotta give this guy up. But you remember that story? Now, this is another instance where I remember this case. And I remember afterwards when they killed Gus Faraci. So what you had was, again, and this is very upsetting because you had DEA agent Everett Hatchard, who is a friend of Anthony’s. To the point where just prior to his assassination, they were attending a social event together with their children. And he would also, they would run into each other from time to time. They developed a really beyond like camaraderie, like real friendship. So then, so Hatcher has, there’s an undercover sting. So there’s Gus Faraci, who’s, I believe he was associated with the Lucchese’s, with Chile. [34:55] So he gets set up on the West Shore. And so he’s told to go to the West Shore Expressway. Now, if you’ve ever been on that end of Staten Island, that whips out heading towards the outer bridge. This really is the end of the earth. This is where you have those large industrial like water and oil tankers and there’s not really good lighting and all this. It’s just like a real gritty. So he loses his surveillance tail and they eventually, he’s gunned down while in his vehicle. So then Anthony gets the call to respond on site to investigate the murder. He doesn’t know exactly who it is until he opens up the door and he sees it’s his friend. And this is the first assassination of a DEA agent. It was just such a provocative case. And the aftermath of that was, again, like Gus Faraci, who was, he was a murderer. He was a drug dealer, but he did not know. He set him up. He thought he was a member of organized crime. [35:53] He was just another drug dealer. He did not realize he was a DEA agent. And then all hell broke loose. And you had just the all five families until they eventually produced Gus Faraci, set him up, and then he was gunned down in Brooklyn. [36:06] Case closed, huh? Exactly. Yeah. And as we were saying before, I don’t remember it was before I started recording or after that. When you’re working undercover, that’s the worst thing is they think that you’re an informant or a member of another crew and you’re liable to get killed. At one say, I had a sergeant one time. He said, if you get under suspicion when you’re like hanging out in some of these bars and stuff, just show them you’re the cops. Just get your badge out right away because everything just, all right, they just walk away then. It’s a immensely dangerous thing to maintain your cover. Yes, sir. Anthony was always good at that because tall gentleman has the right sort of Italian-American complexion. He’s passable at Italian. So with some of these folks, especially from Italy that come over, he could carry a conversation. He’s not fluent. [36:56] And he just walks in and talks in. It’s a different… George Terror was a fantastic undercover detective. And you talk to some of these undercovers, it’s like you have to be… There’s sort of this misperception that the organized crime members are like these thugs and flunkies. These are very intelligent, super suspicious, addled individuals that are able to pick up on signals really easy because they live on the edge. So you really can’t fake it, the slightest thing. And again, they’ll think that their first inclination is not that you’re a member of law enforcement. Their first inclination is that you’re a member of a rival crew that’s looking to kill me looks at looking to rip me off so i’m going to kill you first it’s just it’s just a wild and imagine that’s your day job oh man i know they could just and i’ve picked this up on people there’s just a look when you’re lying there’s just a look that just before you catch it quick but there’s a look of panic that then you get it back these guys can pick up that kind of stuff just so quickly any kind of a different body language they’re so good with that. [38:02] And he’s also, he has to be able to say just enough to establish his connection and credibility without saying too much that’s going to trip him up. And that’s like being able to walk that line. He tells, again, I hate giving away all these stories because I want readers to buy the book, but he has this fantastic story when he’s on an undercover buy and he’s, I don’t know if it’s Florida, if it’s Miami or it’s Fort Lauderdale and he has to go into a whole, like the drugs are in one location and he’s in that with the drug deals in one location and he’s in this location and, but he knows the money’s not going to come. [38:42] So he has to walk into this hotel room with all these cartel drug guys who are off balance, knowing that he’s got to figure out, how do I get out of this room without getting killed? And once I walk out, will the timing be right that I could drop to the floor right when the responding FBI agents, again, these are FBI agents from a different [39:08] field office that he perhaps doesn’t have intimate working. knowledge of. I got to trust that these guys got my back and they’re not distracted. So I can’t even imagine having to live with that stress. No, I can’t either. All right. I’ll tell you what, the book, guys, is Empire City Under Siege, the three decades of New York FBI field office man hunts, murders, and mafia wars by Craig McGuire with former retired FBI agent Anthony John Nelson. I pulled as many stories as I could out of the book from him. You’re going to have to get the book to get to the rest of. And believe me, I’m looking at my notes here and the stuff they sent me. And there are a ton of great stories in there, guys. You want to get this book. [39:50] I also want to say there’s something special going on at Wild Blue Press. My publisher specializes in true crime. And it’s just, they’re so nurturing and supportive of writers. Just fantastic facilities and promotions. And they just help us get it right. That’s the most important thing, Anthony, accuracy. So if there’s anything wrong in the book, that’s totally on me. It’s really hard to put one of these together, especially decades removed. But then I’m just thankful for the support of nature of Wild Blue and Anthony and all the remarkable members of law enforcement like yourself, sir. Thank you for your service. And Anthony, and I’m just so inspired. I just have to say, they’re like a different breed. And you folks don’t realize how exciting. Because there are so many stories like Anthony would come up with and he would say, do you think readers would be interested in this story? And I fall out of my chair like, oh my God, this could be a whole chapter. So it was as a true crime fan myself of this material, it’s just, it was a wild ride and I enjoyed it. [40:56] Great. Thanks a lot for coming on the show, Craig. Thanks, Gary. You’re the best.

Chiste Interno
Episodio 113 - Bonco Quiñongo

Chiste Interno

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 26, 2026 100:20


Únete a nuestro Patreon y por $5 al mes disfruta los episodios completos, los primeros 50 episodios, acceso a grabaciones en vivo, preestrenos y otros beneficios.  patreon.com/chisteinternoEpisodio 113 - Bonco QuiñongoBonco Quiñongo es un comediante cubano radicado en Miami. Nacido en La Habana, comenzó su carrera como fundador del grupo de comedia universitaria “Pagola La Paga” y, desde entonces, se consolidó como una de las figuras clave de la televisión cubana, formando parte del elenco de programas como “Sabadazo”, “A Jugar” y “Pateando La Lata”. Tras migrar a España, integró el elenco del reconocido programa “El Club de la Comedia” y, posteriormente, ya en Miami, participó en “Cosa Nostra” y se ha desempeñado como locutor en la emisora 95.7 FM. Además, Bonco fue galardonado con las Gaviotas de Oro y Plata por su participación en el  Festival de Viña del Mar.En nuestro episodio hablamos sobre la autenticidad, cómo hablar con audiencias de varios países, la forma en que la radio perdura a través del tiempo, sus experiencias en Cuba, el racismo en la isla, su trayectoria en España y sobre el arte de meterse con las personas. ¡Gracias, Bonco, por visitar Chiste Interno!

Cosa Nostra by David Vendetta
David Vendetta - Cosa Nostra 1016

Cosa Nostra by David Vendetta

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 24, 2026 62:34


Miss Kittin & The Hacker - Frank Sinatra 2001 Radio Slave - Don't Stop Frankey & Sandrino - Acamar Dirty Vegas - Save A Prayer David Vendetta - She Loves Me David Vendetta - No Sex Hunzed & Harvey - Sheeta (Mendo Remix) London Grammar - Hey Now (Sasha Remix) John Monkman & Pete Tong - The Bumps (Pleasurekraft Remix) Worlee - Hot For You Martin Waslewski - Never Leave You Contact booking : Julien - bookings@davidvendetta.com - +33 6 65 38 87 67

Racconti di Storia Podcast
La STRAGE Di Viale Lazio

Racconti di Storia Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 23, 2026 24:12


La sera del 10 dicembre 1969 negli uffici del costruttore Girolamo Moncada a Palermo, in viale Lazio 108, entrano alcuni uomini che vestono la divisa della Guardia di Finanza. Quella che sembra una irruzione delle Fiamme Gialle alla ricerca di documenti relativi ad appalti edilizi si trasforma in pochi secondi in una carneficina: il gruppo, coordinato all'esterno da Totò Riina, è un commando killer di Cosa Nostra che ha la missione di uccidere il boss dell'Acquasanta, Michele Cavataio, accusato di essere il responsabile della prima guerra di mafia. La storia del "Cobra" Cavataio, la sua ascesa, la sua sfida alla Cupola è ripercorsa in questo video che culmina proprio nella strage che costa la vita al boss ribelle e che segna l'ascesa di Binnu u' Tratturi, al secolo Bernardo Provenzano.

Sateli 3
Sateli 3 - Music Non-Stop Sessions: ¡Fiesta Latina! (1947-70s) - 23/01/26

Sateli 3

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 23, 2026 60:03


Sintonía: "Fato consumado" - MILTON BANANA TRIO 1.- "Cosa Nostra" - ERLON CHAVES 2.- "Nao vem que nao tem" - WILSON SIMONAL 3.- "A vida em seus métodos diz calma" - DI MELO 4.- "Guanabara" - DOM SALVADOR & BANDA ABOLIÇAO 5.- "Princesa Negra de Angola" - BEBETO 6.- "Saltei de banda" - ELZA SOARES 7.- "Maria fumaça" - BANDA BLACK RIO 8.- "Jogaram o caxangá" - De SAVOYA COMBOLos 8 cortes extraídos de la recopilación (1xCD) "Samba Sou 70!" (Ziriguiboom/Crammed Discs, 2001) 9.- "Freak Off" - ORCHESTRA HARLOW 10.- "Control" - ISMAEL QUINONES 11.- "Combolu" - EL GRAN COMBO 12.- "Spanish Grease" - EL CHICANOLos 4 cortes extraídos de la recopilación (1xCD) "Freak Off: Latin Breakbeats, Basslines & Boogaloo" (Harmless, 2001) 13.- "Loose Lips" - PERCY MAYFIELD 14.- "Alabama Sue" - ROY GAINES 15.- "Calypso Cha Cha For Spooks" - MONOGRAM CARIBBEAN ORCHESTRA 16.- "Oppin´ For Later" - DUKE GRONER 17.- "Double "A" Mambo" - LINTON GARNER & ALL-STARS 18.- "My Very Own" - DONALD WOODS & THE VEL-AIRESLos 7 cortes extraídos de la recopilación (2xLP/6xVinyl, 10") "Jukebox Mambo Volume III: Afro-Latin Accents In Rhythm & Blues 1947-60" (Jazzman Records, 2017)Escuchar audio

Cosa Nostra by David Vendetta
David Vendetta - Cosa Nostra 1015

Cosa Nostra by David Vendetta

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 17, 2026 70:53


Ralphi Rosario feat. Donna Blakely - Take Me Up (Gotta Get Up) (Légo's Mix) Syntax - Love Song (Skylark Remix) Random Factor & AlexKid - After Come With Me John Dahlback - Pyramid (Dirty South Remix) Dub Pistols - Rapture Inaya Day - Hold Your Head Up High (David Vendetta Rock Da House Mix) Sidekick - Deep Fear (O Sole Mio Remix) Rock The Replicants - Club Para (Shakedown Remix) A Studio feat. Polina - SOS (Skylark Remix) Junior Jack - E Samba (Wiwek Remix) Block & Crown - Iam Ready DJ Kone & Marc Palacios - Be Free Musumeci & Dodi Palese feat. A.I. - The Party Sound Of Legend vs David Vendetta - Hold That Sucker Down Huggy & Dean Newton - Every Single Sound Contact booking : Julien - bookings@davidvendetta.com - +33 6 65 38 87 67

La Traque
Totò Riina, le parrain de la terreur sicilienne : une guerre contre l'Etat (4/4)

La Traque

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 16, 2026 21:47


Première diffusion : septembre 2025. Plongez dans la traque de Toto Riina, le plus redouté parrain de Cosa Nostra. Né dans une Sicile marquée par la misère, il gravit les échelons du crime organisé dans l'ombre des collines de Corleone. Stratège impitoyable, « la bête » impose sa loi par la terreur : assassinats de juges, attentats spectaculaires, règlements de comptes sanglants. Traqué par la justice italienne et l'opinion publique, il devient l'incarnation de la mafia la plus brutale. Années de cavale, climat de peur, chasse à l'homme acharnée… Jusqu'au jour où le piège se referme sur lui, après plus de vingt ans dans l'ombre.  Une guerre contre l'Etat  En 1992, Totò Riina frappe l'État italien : après l'exécution de Salvatore Lima, il fait assassiner les juges Giovanni Falcone et Paolo Borsellino. Ces attentats provoquent un choc national, brisent les protections politiques de Riina et déclenchent une vague de repentis. Quelques mois plus tard, trahi par son chauffeur, le boss de Corleone est arrêté et condamné à la perpétuité. Crédits : Production : Bababam  Textes : Pierre Serisier Voix : Anne Cosmao, Aurélien Gouas Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

La Traque
Totò Riina, le parrain de la terreur sicilienne : un pouvoir total (3/4)

La Traque

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 15, 2026 22:34


Première diffusion : septembre 2025. Plongez dans la traque de Toto Riina, le plus redouté parrain de Cosa Nostra. Né dans une Sicile marquée par la misère, il gravit les échelons du crime organisé dans l'ombre des collines de Corleone. Stratège impitoyable, « la bête » impose sa loi par la terreur : assassinats de juges, attentats spectaculaires, règlements de comptes sanglants. Traqué par la justice italienne et l'opinion publique, il devient l'incarnation de la mafia la plus brutale. Années de cavale, climat de peur, chasse à l'homme acharnée… Jusqu'au jour où le piège se referme sur lui, après plus de vingt ans dans l'ombre. Un pouvoir total En 1981, la guerre des Corléonais ensanglante la Sicile : en trois ans, un millier de mafieux tombent sous les balles. Totò Riina impose sa dictature au sein de Cosa Nostra, où la peur devient la règle. Magistrats, préfets, journalistes et policiers sont exécutés les uns après les autres, jusqu'au général Carlo Alberto dalla Chiesa, abattu à Palerme en 1982. Mais face à la terreur, des mafieux brisent l'omerta : Tommaso Buscetta devient le premier repenti et livre à Giovanni Falcone les secrets de l'organisation… Crédits : Production : Bababam  Textes : Pierre Serisier Voix : Anne Cosmao, Aurélien Gouas Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

La Traque
Totò Riina, le parrain de la terreur sicilienne : d'une guerre à l'autre (2/4)

La Traque

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 14, 2026 21:35


Première diffusion : juin 2023. Plongez dans la traque de Toto Riina, le plus redouté parrain de Cosa Nostra. Né dans une Sicile marquée par la misère, il gravit les échelons du crime organisé dans l'ombre des collines de Corleone. Stratège impitoyable, « la bête » impose sa loi par la terreur : assassinats de juges, attentats spectaculaires, règlements de comptes sanglants. Traqué par la justice italienne et l'opinion publique, il devient l'incarnation de la mafia la plus brutale. Années de cavale, climat de peur, chasse à l'homme acharnée… Jusqu'au jour où le piège se referme sur lui, après plus de vingt ans dans l'ombre. D'une guerre à l'autre  En 1963, l'attentat de Ciaculli plonge Palerme dans le chaos et entraîne une vaste répression contre la mafia. Totò Riina est arrêté puis relâché, apprenant en prison à devenir un chef discret et patient. Libéré, il disparaît et commence à bâtir sa stratégie : manipuler les alliances, éliminer les juges et ses rivaux, et amasser de l'argent grâce aux enlèvements et au contrôle de l'immobilier. Avec l'appui de Michele Greco, il orchestre une guerre sanglante contre les parrains palermitains. En 1981, Riina fait exécuter Bontate et Inzerillo, ouvrant la voie à sa domination totale sur Cosa Nostra. Crédits : Production : Bababam  Textes : Pierre Serisier Voix : Anne Cosmao, Aurélien Gouas Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

La Traque
Totò Riina, le parrain de la terreur sicilienne : un paysan sans pitié (1/4)

La Traque

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 13, 2026 21:19


Première diffusion : septembre 2025. Plongez dans la traque de Toto Riina, le plus redouté parrain de Cosa Nostra. Né dans une Sicile marquée par la misère, il gravit les échelons du crime organisé dans l'ombre des collines de Corleone. Stratège impitoyable, « la bête » impose sa loi par la terreur : assassinats de juges, attentats spectaculaires, règlements de comptes sanglants. Traqué par la justice italienne et l'opinion publique, il devient l'incarnation de la mafia la plus brutale. Années de cavale, climat de peur, chasse à l'homme acharnée… Jusqu'au jour où le piège se referme sur lui, après plus de vingt ans dans l'ombre. Un paysan sans pitié  En pleine guerre, Totò Riina, 12 ans, perd son père et ses frères dans l'explosion d'un obus et devient chef de famille. Révolté par la misère, il se rapproche des jeunes voyous de Corleone et tombe sous l'influence du médecin-mafieux Michele Navarra. Mais très vite, Riina et ses alliés Provenzano et Bagarella basculent dans la violence, assassinant syndicalistes et rivaux. L'élimination de Navarra marque l'ascension sanglante des Corléonais. Totò, méprisé par les grandes familles de Palerme, se tait, observe, apprend et s'impose comme un stratège redoutable au cœur de Cosa Nostra. Crédits : Production : Bababam  Textes : Pierre Serisier Voix : Anne Cosmao, Aurélien Gouas Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Italia Mistero
Giovanni Aiello (Faccia da Mostro- 1°parte) - I Corleonesi 79° parte)

Italia Mistero

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 13, 2026 27:32


Questo video, intitolato "Giovanni Aiello (Faccia da Mostro - 1°parte)", fa parte della serie documentaristica "I Corleonesi" (puntata 80) di Italia Mistero. Analizza i complessi intrecci tra Cosa Nostra, eversione nera e apparati deviati dello Stato, concentrandosi in particolare sull'omicidio dell'agente Nino Agostino. Riassunto del Contenuto La Pista Neofascista: Il documentario ripercorre le indagini di Giovanni Falcone sui delitti politici (come l'omicidio Mattarella), evidenziando i contatti tra mafia e neofascisti dei NAR, mediati da figure come Alberto Volo. L'Agente Nino Agostino: Viene approfondita la figura del poliziotto ucciso il 5 agosto 1989 insieme alla moglie incinta, Ida Castelluccio. Emerge il suo ruolo nel proteggere Falcone e le sue attività di indagine "undercover" sui latitanti. "Faccia da Mostro": Si analizza la figura di Giovanni Aiello, ex poliziotto dai tratti somatici deturpati, indicato dal padre di Agostino come l'uomo che cercava il figlio poco prima del delitto e sospettato di essere un trait d'union tra servizi segreti e criminalità. L'Attentato all'Addaura: Il video collega l'omicidio Agostino al fallito attentato contro Falcone del giugno 1989, suggerendo che Agostino avesse scoperto i responsabili o fosse coinvolto nella sventata esplosione. Depistaggi e Sparizioni: Viene denunciata la sparizione di documenti e dossier dall'armadio di Agostino subito dopo il delitto, un'operazione condotta da "uomini dello Stato" per coprire verità indicibili.

Cosa Nostra by David Vendetta
David Vendetta - Cosa Nostra 1014

Cosa Nostra by David Vendetta

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 10, 2026 66:56


Soul Providers feat. Michelle Shellers - Rise (Bini & Martini Remix) Sex-O-Sonique - I Thought It Was You (12 Inch Mix) Silicone Soul - Right On! (Original Instrumental Version) The Aztec Mystic a.k.a DJ Rolando - Jaguar (Glender At Land Of Elves Remix) Ralphi Rosario feat. Donna Blakely - Take Me Up (Gotta Get Up) (Légo's Mix) Jamie Lewis & DJ Pippi feat. Kim Cooper - So Sexy (Jamie Lewis Darkroom Mix) Lee Kalt & Arthur Explicit feat. Missus M - Special K (Club Mix) Didier Sinclair - Lovely Flight David Morales, Scott Paynter, Delta - Party In De Ghetto Celeda vs Part-T-One - Crazy Underground (David Vendetta Bootleg) Dennis Quin - Dedication To House Music Contact booking : Julien - bookings@davidvendetta.com - +33 6 65 38 87 67

Italia Mistero
Emanuele Piazza: l'informatore dei servizi ucciso da Cosa Nostra (I Corleonesi - puntata 78)

Italia Mistero

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 7, 2026 23:51


Questo video, facente parte della serie sull'inchiesta dei Corleonesi (puntata 78), narra la tragica vicenda di Emanuele Piazza, un ex poliziotto e informatore del SISDE (servizi segreti civili) scomparso a Palermo il 16 marzo 1990. La sua storia è un esempio emblematico di un servitore dello Stato "mandato allo sbaraglio" e poi rinnegato dalle istituzioni dopo la sua morte per mano mafiosa. Riassunto del Contenuto La Scomparsa: Il 17 marzo 1990, l'avvocato Giustino Piazza scopre la misteriosa assenza del figlio Emanuele, che non si è presentato alla sua festa di compleanno. Nella villetta di Sferracavallo tutto è in ordine: la pasta appena cotta, la moto e l'auto parcheggiate, ma Emanuele è svanito nel nulla. Chi era Emanuele Piazza: Ex poliziotto delle "teste di cuoio", aveva lasciato la divisa nel 1985 per collaborare come informatore con il SISDE (nome in codice "Topo"). Il suo compito era infiltrarsi nelle cosche di San Lorenzo e Resuttana per catturare latitanti d'eccellenza come Totò Riina e Bernardo Provenzano. Il Muro di Gomma Istituzionale: Dopo la scomparsa, i servizi segreti e le autorità negarono inizialmente ogni rapporto con lui. Solo grazie alla tenacia del padre e all'intervento di Giovanni Falcone si ottenne la conferma ufficiale che Piazza lavorava per il SISDE come "agente in prova". L'Inganno e l'Omicidio: Francesco Onorato, all'epoca reggente della famiglia di Partanna Mondello e amico di infanzia di Piazza, racconta durante il processo la verità: Emanuele fu attirato in una trappola il 16 marzo 1990, strangolato a Capaci e il suo corpo sciolto nell'acido. I boss erano stati informati da una talpa istituzionale del reale ruolo di Piazza. Le Polemiche e le Ombre: Il video evidenzia il ritardo nelle indagini, le relazioni di servizio concordate per sminuire il ruolo di Piazza e le dichiarazioni di figure come Arnaldo La Barbera e Gianni De Gennaro, criticate dalla famiglia per aver isolato e quasi "cancellato" la figura di Emanuele.

Racconti di Storia Podcast
Tra MAFIA e Terrorismo NERO: Le Ombre Del Delitto MATTARELLA

Racconti di Storia Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 6, 2026 17:29


Nel giorno dell'Epifania del 1980 un brutale delitto è consumato a Palermo. La vittima è Piersanti Mattarella, un politico democristiano che si è ribellato alle logiche mafiose e ai clientelismi esistenti tra la DC e i mammasantissima. Da quel momento le indagini cambiano più volte prospettiva, ora inquadrando il terrorismo dei NAR, ora puntando al cuore di Cosa Nostra. Fino a pochi mesi fa quando emerge un dettaglio inquietante, il tradimento di un servitore dello Stato che si è reso complice di depistaggio. Perché oggi, a 46 anni da quel delitto di mafia, non possiamo ancora sapere chi premette il grilletto in quella mattina palermitana?

Cosa Nostra by David Vendetta
David Vendetta - Cosa Nostra 1013

Cosa Nostra by David Vendetta

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 3, 2026 62:56


David Vendetta vs Keith Thompson - Break 4 Love (DJ Smemo Remix) David Vendetta feat. Rachael Starr - Bleeding Heart (DJ Wnoise Remix) Jaydee - Plastic Dreams A Studio feat. Polina - SOS (Skylark Remix) C-Mos - 2 Million Ways (Axwell Remix) David Vendetta vs Sound Of Legend - Hold That Sucker Down Ralphi Rosario - Take Me Up David Vendetta feat. Polina Griffith - Can't Get Enough David Vendetta feat. Akram - Unidos Para La Musica (Candice Remix) David Vendetta & Damon Grey - Like An Eagle ID Alterboy - Let's Jack Contact booking : Julien - bookings@davidvendetta.com - +33 6 65 38 87 67

Italia Mistero
Chi ha ucciso Dalla Chiesa (4° parte - Mara Cagol e la P2)

Italia Mistero

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 30, 2025 25:59


Questo video, la quarta parte dell'inchiesta sull'omicidio del Generale Carlo Alberto dalla Chiesa, analizza il periodo cruciale che va dai successi contro il terrorismo rosso fino al suo drammatico isolamento a Palermo. Il racconto mette in luce le ombre della Loggia P2 e le resistenze politiche che hanno segnato il destino del Generale, assassinato il 03/09/82 (formato richiesto gg/mm/aa). Riassunto del Contenuto Dalle BR alla Cascina Spiotta: Viene ripercorsa la lotta contro le Brigate Rosse e l'operazione del 05/06/75 che portò alla morte di Margherita "Mara" Cagol. Questo evento segnò l'apice del prestigio militare di Dalla Chiesa, ma anche l'inizio di una sovraesposizione pericolosa. Lo Scandalo della Loggia P2: Viene affrontato il tema spinoso della tessera n. 1751 della Loggia P2 intestata a Dalla Chiesa. Il video esplora la tesi secondo cui il Generale si fosse iscritto per "esigenze di servizio" e per monitorare la struttura, ma come questa appartenenza sia stata poi usata per colpirne la credibilità nel 1981. L'Isolamento Politico: Una volta nominato Prefetto di Palermo, Dalla Chiesa si scontra con il muro della politica siciliana e nazionale. Il video sottolinea l'ostilità della corrente andreottiana e la mancata concessione dei "poteri speciali" che il Generale riteneva indispensabili per combattere Cosa Nostra. L'Intervista a Giorgio Bocca: Viene analizzata la celebre intervista rilasciata poco prima della morte, in cui Dalla Chiesa denunciò apertamente il suo isolamento e la mancanza di sostegno da parte dello Stato, pronunciando la profetica frase: "Un carabiniere può essere ucciso, ma non può essere comprato".

Cosa Nostra by David Vendetta
David Vendetta - Cosa Nostra 1012

Cosa Nostra by David Vendetta

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 27, 2025 68:14


Candice - Reborn David Vendetta feat. Akram - Unidos Para La Musica (Candice Remix) Moderat - More Love (Rampa &ME Remix) Hotlap - Break Out Alexander Swed & Victoric LEROY - La Bohème Carlita, WhoMadeWho, Orsay - Mind Off NooMo - World Comes Down AYYBO & Taylr Renee - Obsession Solomun - Don't Give Up ILLUSIONIZE - Enjoy The Silence ID John Summit & venbee - Palm Of My Hands (Odd Mob Remix) Noir & Haze vs Meduza - Around Disfreq - Sweat! Frankey & Sandrino - Acamar Contact booking : Julien - bookings@davidvendetta.com - +33 6 65 38 87 67

Il cacciatore di libri

"Da che parte stai?" di Emilio Pagani, Alessio Pasquini, Loris De Marco, da una storia di Pietro GrassoPietro Grasso, una vita dedicata alla lotta alla mafia: sostituto procuratore a Palermo (fu lui fra l'altro titolare dell'inchiesta sull'omicidio di Piersanti Mattarella), giudice a latere nel primo maxiprocesso a Cosa Nostra che durò 21 mesi fra l'86 e l'87, procuratore nazionale antimafia, collega ma soprattutto amico di Giovanni Falcone e Paolo Borsellino, del cui lavoro poi è diventato testimone. Oggi, fra l'altro, è fondatore e presidente della Fondazione Scintille di Futuro, che ha l'obiettivo di sviluppare progetti e percorsi di legalità nelle scuole.La vita di Pietro Grasso, quindi, è una costante testimonianza del suo impegno contro la mafia e a favore della legalità. Come accade anche nella graphic novel "Da che parte stai?" (Tunuè) di Emilio Pagani, Alessio Pasquini, Loris De Marco, da una storia di Pietro Grasso. Stavolta, forse più che negli altri libri, Pietro Grasso, ha scelto di raccontare una serie di vicessitudini dal punto di vista della sua famiglia (la moglie Maria e il figlio Maurilio) che ha sempre appoggiato e sostenuto le scelte di Grasso nel suo percorso di lotta alla mafia.

Cosa Nostra by David Vendetta
David Vendetta - Cosa Nostra 1011

Cosa Nostra by David Vendetta

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 20, 2025 67:01


Sinego & Angélica Garcia - El Ritmo (Xinobi Remix) Parallelle & Nicolas Masseyeff - Renegade (Adam Ten & Mita Gami Remix) Collé - She's In Love Again Konvex, Meloko & Garla - If U Ever Neil Amarey & AFU - Belo Horizonti Justice feat. Tame Impala - Neverender (Rampa Remix) Mita Gami - All By Myself deadmau5 & Kaskade - I Remember (John Summit Remix) ID SideKick - Deep Fear (O' Sole Mio Remix) Rachael Starr - Till There Was You (Wnoise Remix) Westbam, Richard Butler - You Need The Drugs (&ME Remix) Tiga & Zyntherius - Sunglasses At Night (Raxon Remix) Contact booking : Julien - bookings@davidvendetta.com - +33 6 65 38 87 67

WDR ZeitZeichen
Vorbild für den Paten: Mafia-Boss Paul Castellano

WDR ZeitZeichen

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 16, 2025 14:50


Als Castellano am 16.12.1985 erschossen wird, endet die große Zeit der Cosa Nostra in New York. Neue kriminelle Organisationen übernehmen, doch ganz verschwindet die Mafia nicht. Von Almut Finck.

Cosa Nostra by David Vendetta
David Vendetta - Cosa Nostra 1010

Cosa Nostra by David Vendetta

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 13, 2025 64:06


Danny Darko feat. Julien Kelland - Paint It Black (NooMo Remix) Lukas & Frank, Yann Hendriksen & Vescu - Back To Black (Afro Edit) Nautik & Juany Bravo feat. Oba Frank Lords - Dark Beat Marten Lou x CamelPhat - Save Me Eli & Fur - Mirage Arodes, Ewerseen - Too Young Adriatique, Coach Harrison, Tim Engelhardt - Maybe Jos & Eli, Sean Doron & Jenia Tarsol - Amore (Solee Remix) Chloé Caillet & Luke Alessi feat. Jocelyn Brown - The One Sidepiece & Bobby Shmurda - Cash Out James Hype & Tita Lau - More Of The Same Fideles - Snaps ID R3HAB, Pupa Nas T, Kevin McKay, Skytech, Fideles feat. Denise Belfon - Work Hugel x Randoree - Work That Body Contact booking : Julien - bookings@davidvendetta.com - +33 6 65 38 87 67

DIAS EXTRAÑOS con Santiago Camacho
BLACK AXE: La Mafia Nigeriana que Acecha tu Bandeja de Entrada

DIAS EXTRAÑOS con Santiago Camacho

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 10, 2025 9:49


Ese email de tu banco, ese mensaje de un admirador secreto, esa herencia inesperada... Detrás de todo ello podría estar BLACK AXE, la organización criminal más temida por la Interpol. Lo que empezó como una fraternidad universitaria en los 70 es ahora una maquinaria implacable de 30.000 miembros que mueve miles de millones en fraudes digitales, tráfico humano y blanqueo de capitales. Hoy desvelamos la investigación de la BBC sobre esta mafia nigeriana que recluta universitarios a base de torturas, amenaza con "lamer tu sangre y masticar tus ojos", y ha conseguido lo que ninguna otra banda criminal africana: conquistar el mundo. Italia reactiva sus leyes antimafia, pero no contra la Cosa Nostra... sino contra el Hacha Negra. Bienvenidos a la cara más oscura de Internet. Escucha el episodio completo en la app de iVoox, o descubre todo el catálogo de iVoox Originals

Cosa Nostra by David Vendetta
David Vendetta - Cosa Nostra 1009

Cosa Nostra by David Vendetta

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 6, 2025 65:07


David Vendetta feat. Keith Thompson - Break 4 Love (DJ Smemo Remix) CamelPhat & Elderbrook - Cola (ARTBAT Remix) CASSIMM - Together One Time Illusionize - Enjoy The Silence NooMo - World Comes Down ID John Summit & venbee - Palm Of My Hands (Odd Mob Remix) Layton Giordani & Green Velvet - When It Kicks Frankey & Sandrino - Acamar Andhim - You're Not Alone David Vendetta feat. Rachael Starr - Bleeding Heart (DJ Blackid Columbia Remix) Disfreq - Sweat! AYYBO, Taylr Renee - Obsession Solomun - Don't Give Up Noir & Haze vs MEDUZA - Around Contact booking : Julien - bookings@davidvendetta.com - +33 6 65 38 87 67

Arroe Collins Like It's Live
Mafia Secrets From The Hollywood Godfather Gianni Russo

Arroe Collins Like It's Live

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 3, 2025 10:06 Transcription Available


A Mafia insider and authentic Hollywood tough guy reveals the explosive secrets he's learned (and kept) for decades in this shocking tell all that unveils the hidden worlds of film and organized crime-from who shot JFK and murdered Jimmy Hoffa to the truth about Marilyn Monroe's death.The Kennedys, Marilyn, the Vatican, Vegas, The Godfather, the Mob, and more .During a cursed childhood in a Manhattan neighborhood teeming with Italian immigrant Gianni Russo fended for himself at an early age. It was a quality that didn't go unnoticed by Frank Costello-father figure, mentor, and legendary crime boss. Thanks to Costello, Gianni was only twelve when his luck would change for a lifetime. All of it charmed-and thrilling. With it came Hollywood glamor, Vegas risk-takers, political conspiracies, sex, murder, shadow governments, and secrets. The stories Gianni Russo could tell . .. Now he does in this bombshell confessional. This is the inside account of the Sicilian Mafia, Cosa Nostra, what really transpired in those Mulberry Street clubs, and who whacked whom-including how mobster Tony Spilotro and his brother really died, finally revealed for the first time. This is Gianni, buddy of Frank Sinatra, and intimately more with Marilyn Monroe. What's the cover-up behind her death, JFK's, and Jimmy Hoffa's? It's all here. So is the clandestine role of the pope as the sacred boss of bosses, the glory days and downfall of Las Vegas, and the colorful behind-the-scenes tales of Gianni's role in the greatest movie ever made, The Godfather. The go-getter Frank Costello once called "The Kid" shares his shocking, exhilarating, sometimes violent, and always riveting life with the dealmakers of Hollywood and the Mob. Gianni Russo lives to tell, and spills it all.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/arroe-collins-like-it-s-live--4113802/support.

Cosa Nostra by David Vendetta
David Vendetta - Cosa Nostra 1008

Cosa Nostra by David Vendetta

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 29, 2025 63:43


Cand'ICE - Reborn Carlita, WhoMadeWho, Orsay - Mind Off Hotlap - Break Out Marten Lou x Foals - Late Night Collé - She's In Love Again Konvex, Meloko, Garla - If U Ever Moderat - More Love (Rampa &ME Remix) Sam Shure - Manifest Franky Wah - Take A Flight Marten Lou & CamelPhat - Save Me Arodes, Ewerseen - Too Young Adriatique, Coach Harrison, Tim Engelhardt - Maybe Qess feat. Ursula Rucker - Spaces In Between (Rodriguez Jr. Remix) CamelPhat & Josh Gigante - The One ID Contact booking : Julien - bookings@davidvendetta.com - +33 6 65 38 87 67

Cosa Nostra by David Vendetta
David Vendetta - Cosa Nostra 1007

Cosa Nostra by David Vendetta

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 22, 2025 62:40


Wasim Arslan - Hal Asmar David Vendetta feat. Akram - Unidos Para La Musica (M. Husler, Color Zebra Remix) Zenbi feat. Rachael Starr - Mad World NooMo - World Comes Down RÜFÜS DU SOL - In The Moment (Adriatique Remix) Tiga vs Meduza - You Gonna Want Me ID Alterboy - Let's Jack David Vendetta vs. Afrojack - Freaky Girl Massano, TH;EN, Carlo Whale - Touch Me Mau P - On Again Stone Van Brooken - Insomnia Sidekick - Deep Fear (Mindtone, Stone Van Brooken & Alex Nocera Remix) R3HAB, Pupa Nas T, Kevin McKay, Skytech, Fideles feat. Denise Belfon - Work Contact booking : Julien - bookings@davidvendetta.com - +33 6 65 38 87 67

Conspiracy Clearinghouse
Operation Gemstone & the Gemstone File

Conspiracy Clearinghouse

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 19, 2025 54:31


EPISODE 150 | Operation Gemstone & the Gemstone File Very often sheer naked greed is hidden behind a glossy finish of virtue, something we can plainly see in the stories of two Gemstones from the conspiracy world – G. Gordon Liddy's whacked out Operation Gemstone plans to help Richard Nixon get reelected, and the outlandish and complicated Gemstone File, which might be the very first mega-conspiracy. Like what we do? Then buy us a beer or three via our page on Buy Me a Coffee.  Review us here or on IMDb. And seriously, subscribe, will ya? Like, just do it.  SECTIONS 01:58 - Operation Gemstone - Nixon in politics, Nixon really wanted to be re-elected, Operation Sandwedge, G. Gordon Liddy has ideas, a discussion about the fate of Jack Anderson, the Watergate break-in 17:39 - The Gemstone File - Authorship issues: "Bruce Porter Roberts", Mae Brussell, Stephanie Caruana, Factsheet Five finds a connection to CREEP 24:03 - The theory: Aristotle Onassis, Joe Kennedy, Meyer Lansky, Eugene Meyer and more; Howard Hughes get kidnapped, injured, doubled; Onassis hates Castro, Onassis hated the Kennedy brothers, RFK exposes Cosa Nostra, "sodium morphate", Onassis and mafia guys killed JFK, Onassis then owned LBJ 40:02 - The JFK conspirators move on, Onassis took out RFK, got the girl, got Nixon in office, Gerald Ford in the frame, "government as theater", the Group of 40 given to Kissinger,  Ted Kennedy and Chappaquiddick  46:12 - Diamonds and Pearls - More deals, more deaths and a lot of money, the Onassis corpro-mafia syndicate fractures after his death, the Mormon Mafia leaked dirt, the Pentagon papers were fake, more deaths and more money, the Brezhnev flu, maybe becomes the Octopus?  Music By Fanette Ronjat More Info: G. Gordon Liddy: Watergate's Most Colorful Character on Politico Notorious GEMSTONE Meeting in Attorney General's Office: Illegal Activities Planned How G. Gordon Liddy Bungled Watergate With an Office-Supply Request Full text of "G. Gordon Liddy, Will : The Autobiography Of G. Gordon Liddy (1980)" G. Gordon Liddy Describes GEMSTONE, the Plan He Presents to John Mitchell in 1972 video Operation Gemstone The Dark Secrets Unveiled video on the Outlaw News Network YouTube channel Gemstone meeting clip from TV show Gaslit Trailer for TV series White House Plumbers Part One: G. Gordon Liddy: The Fascist Behind Watergate video from the Behind the Bastards podcast G. Gordon Liddy's Hardcore Tips For Prison on David Letterman A Skeleton Key to the Gemstone File full text, formatted The Skeleton Key to the Gemstone File article Gemstone File blog Real Gemstone File blog Is Howard Hughes Dead and Buried Off a Greek Island? in Playgirl by Stephanie Caruana Who Really Calls the Shots? Bruce Roberts and The Gemstone File The Gemstone File by Jim Keith full text The Gemstone File: A Memoir by Stephanie Caruana on Amazon Project Seek: Onassis, Kennedy and the Gemstone thesis by Gerald Carroll on Amazon Greatest Conspiracy Theory Ever? A deep dive into The Gemstone File (1975) video on Control Alt History YouTube channel More Gemstone notions - The Opal File: The Financial Takeover of Australia and New Zealand Possible sequel to Gemstone: The Octopus - EPISODE 92 | Octopus's Garden: Dan Casolaro, INSLAW & Death (WIW 10) Follow us on social: Facebook X (Twitter) Other Podcasts by Derek DeWitt DIGITAL SIGNAGE DONE RIGHT - Winner of a Gold Quill Award, Gold MarCom Award, AVA Digital Award Gold, Silver Davey Award, and Communicator Award of Excellence, and on numerous top 10 podcast lists.  PRAGUE TIMES - A city is more than just a location - it's a kaleidoscope of history, places, people and trends. This podcast looks at Prague, in the center of Europe, from a number of perspectives, including what it is now, what is has been and where it's going. It's Prague THEN, Prague NOW, Prague LATER 

Cosa Nostra by David Vendetta
David Vendetta - Cosa Nostra 1006

Cosa Nostra by David Vendetta

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 15, 2025 68:42


Charles J - Riders On The Storm Damian Lazarus feat. Jem Cooke - Searching (Themba's Club Remix) David Vendetta vs Keith Thompson - Break 4 Love (DJ Smemo Remix) Mita Gami - All By Myself Moderat - More Love (Rampa & &ME Remix) Konvex, Meloko & Garla - If U Ever Marten Lou X Foals - Late Night Adriatique, Coach Harrison & Tim Engelhardt - Maybe Sapian - Ruthless Kid Notre Dame - Nobody Told Me Alt Control - Ethnic Tetris David Vendetta vs Michael Calfan vs Axwell vs Empire Of The Sun - Walking Break 4 Resurrection CASSIMM - Together One Time Kream - Wicked Game CamelPhat & Elderbrook - Cola Contact booking : Julien - bookings@davidvendetta.com - +33 6 65 38 87 67

Il cacciatore di libri

"Da che parte stai?" di Emilio Pagani, Alessio Pasquini, Loris De Marco, da una storia di Pietro Grasso.Pietro Grasso, una vita dedicata alla lotta alla mafia: sostituto procuratore a Palermo (fu lui fra l'altro titolare dell'inchiesta sull'omicidio di Piersanti Mattarella), giudice a latere nel primo maxiprocesso a Cosa Nostra che durò 21 mesi fra l'86 e l'87, procuratore nazionale antimafia, collega ma soprattutto amico di Giovanni Falcone e Paolo Borsellino, del cui lavoro poi è diventato testimone. Oggi, fra l'altro, è fondatore e presidente della Fondazione Scintille di Futuro, che ha l'obiettivo di sviluppare progetti e percorsi di legalità nelle scuole.La vita di Pietro Grasso, quindi, è una costante testimonianza del suo impegno contro la mafia e a favore della legalità. Come accade anche nella graphic novel "Da che parte stai?" (Tunuè) di Emilio Pagani, Alessio Pasquini, Loris De Marco, da una storia di Pietro Grasso. Stavolta, forse più che negli altri libri, Pietro Grasso, ha scelto di raccontare una serie di vicessitudini dal punto di vista della sua famiglia (la moglie Maria e il figlio Maurilio) che ha sempre appoggiato e sostenuto le scelte di Grasso nel suo percorso di lotta alla mafia.

PBD Podcast
Mafia States of America | Episode 5 - "The Fall of the Mafia"

PBD Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 11, 2025 44:26


In Episode 5 of Mafia States of America, the bosses dissect the fall. From the RICO Act to Joe Banano's book that gave prosecutors their blueprint, Patrick Bet-David unpacks how Giuliani weaponized the law and crushed Cosa Nostra. Sammy and Michael face the truth of how greed, pride, and arrogance ended the life they once ruled.----

Cosa Nostra by David Vendetta
David Vendetta - Cosa Nostra 1005

Cosa Nostra by David Vendetta

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 8, 2025 65:51


Jackers Revenge - Smooth Operator (Nu Disco Blend) The Coney Island Rhythm Band & Jerk Boy - Dancing Down The Path Francesco Poggi feat. IDA fLO - I Need Your Lovin Lee Kalt & Arthur Explicit feat. Missus M - Special K Rachael Starr - Till There Was You (Wnoise Remix) Manybeat - The Gypsy Woman Pleasurekraft - Tarantula (Max Styler Remix) Supermode - Tell Me Why (James Carter Remix) DJ Roland Clark pres. Urban Soul - Have A Good Time (Monkey Safari Remix) Andhim - You're Not Alone Bel Amour - Bel Amour (David Vendetta & Wnoise Mix) Todd Terry - I Feel Sexxx Betical - Do It Again DJ Falcon - Honeymoon Musumeci & Dodi Palese feat. A.I. - The Party deadmau5 + Kaskade - I Remember (John Summit Remix) Contact booking : Julien - bookings@davidvendetta.com - +33 6 65 38 87 67