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In this episode of Gangland Wire, Gary Jenkins sits down with Bob Cooley, the once–well-connected Chicago lawyer who lived at the center of the city's most notorious corruption machine. After years out of the public eye, Cooley recently resurfaced to revisit his explosive memoir, When Corruption Was King—and this conversation offers a rare, firsthand look at how organized crime, politics, and the court system intersected in Chicago for decades. Cooley traces his journey from growing up in a police family to serving as a Chicago police officer and ultimately becoming a criminal defense attorney whose real job was quietly fixing cases for the Chicago Outfit. His deep understanding of the judicial system made him indispensable to mob-connected power brokers like Pat Marcy, a political fixer with direct access to judges, prosecutors, and court clerks. Inside the Chicago Corruption Machine Cooley explains how verdicts were bought, cases were steered, and justice was manipulated—what insiders called the “Chicago Method.” He describes his relationships with key figures in organized crime, including gambling bosses like Marco D'Amico and violent enforcers such as Harry Aleman and Tony Spilotro, painting a chilling picture of life inside a world where loyalty was enforced by fear.   As his role deepened, so did the psychological toll. Cooley recounts living under constant threat, including a contract placed on his life after he refused to betray a fellow associate—an event that forced him to confront the cost of the life he was leading. Turning Point: Becoming a Federal Witness The episode covers Cooley's pivotal decision in 1986 to cooperate with federal authorities, a move that helped dismantle powerful corruption networks through FBI Operation Gambat. Cooley breaks down how political connections—not just street-level violence—allowed the Outfit to operate with near-total impunity for so long.   Along the way, Cooley reflects on the moral reckoning that led him to turn on the system that had enriched and protected him, framing his story as one not just of crime and betrayal, but of reckoning and redemption. What Listeners Will Hear How Bob Cooley became the Outfit's go-to case fixer The role of Pat Marcy and political corruption in Chicago courts Firsthand stories involving Marco D'Amico, Harry Aleman, and Tony Spilotro The emotional and psychological strain of living among violent criminals The decision to cooperate and the impact of Operation Gambat Why Cooley believes Chicago's corruption endured for generations Why This Episode Matters Bob Cooley is one of the few people who saw the Chicago Outfit from inside the courtroom and the back rooms of power. His story reveals how deeply organized crime embedded itself into the institutions meant to uphold the law—and what it cost those who tried to escape it.   This episode sets the stage for a deeper follow-up conversation, where Gary and Cooley will continue unpacking the most dangerous and revealing moments of his life. Resources   Book: When Corruption Was King by Bob Cooley 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. 0:03 Prelude to Bob Cooley’s Story 1:57 Bob Cooley’s Background 5:24 The Chicago Outfit Connection 8:24 The Turning Point 15:20 The Rise of a Mob Lawyer 23:54 A Life of Crime and Consequences 26:03 The Incident at the Police Station 50:27 The Count and His Influence 1:19:51 The Murder of a Friend 1:35:26 Contracts and Betrayal 1:40:36 Conclusion and Future Stories Transcript [0:00] Well, hey guys, this is a little prelude to my next story. Bob Cooley was a Chicago lawyer and an outfit associate who had been in, who has been in hiding for many years. I contacted him about six or seven years ago when I first started a podcast, I was able to get a phone number on him and, and got him on the phone. He was, I think it was out in the desert in Las Vegas area at the time. And at the time he was trying to sell his book when corruption was king to a movie producer And he really didn’t want to overexpose himself, and they didn’t really want him to do anything. And eventually, COVID hit, and the movie production was canceled. And it was just all over. There were several movie productions were canceled during COVID, if I remember right. A couple people who I have interviewed and had a movie deal going. Well, Bob recently remembered me, and he contacted me. He just called me out of the clear blue, and he wanted to revive his book and his story. He’s been, you know, way out of the limelight for a long time. And so I thought, well, I always wanted to interview this guy because he’s got a real insider’s knowledge to Chicago Outfit, the one that very few people have. [1:08] You know, here’s what he knows about. And he provides valuable insight into the inner workings of the Outfit. And I don’t mean, you know, scheming up how to kill people and how to do robberies and burglars and all that. But the Chicago court system and Chicago politics, that’s a, that’s a, the, the mob, a mafia family can’t exist unless they have connections into the political system and especially the court system. Otherwise, what good are they? You know, I mean, they, they just take your money where they give you back. They can’t protect you from anybody. [1:42] So I need to give you a little more of the backstory before we go on to the actual interview with Bob, because he kind of rambles a little bit and goes off and comes back and drops [1:54] names that we don’t have time to go into explanation. So here’s a little bit of what he talked about. He went from being, as I said before, Chicago Outfit’s trusted fixer in the court system, and he eventually became the government star witness against them. He’s born, he’s about my age. He was born in 1943. He was an Irish-American police family and came from the Chicago South side. He was a cop himself for a short period of time, but he was going to law school while he was a policeman. And once he started practicing law, he moved right into criminal law and into first ward politics and the judicial world downtown. [2:36] And that’s where the outfit and the old democratic machine intersected. He was in a restaurant called Counselor’s Row, which was right down. Bob had an office downtown. Well, he’s inside that system, and he uses his insider’s knowledge to fix cases. Once an outfit started noticing him that he could fix a case if he wanted to, he immediately became connected to the first ward power broker and outfit political conduit, a guy named Pat Marcy. Pat Marcy knew all the judges He knew all the court clerks And all the police officers And Bob was getting to know him too During this time But Bob was a guy who was out in He was a lawyer And he was working inside the court system Marcy was just a downtown fixer. [3:22] But Bob got to where he could guarantee acquittals or light sentences for whoever came to him with the right amount of money, whether it be a mobster or a bookmaker or a juice loan guy or a crap politician, whoever it was, Bob could fix the case. [3:36] One of the main guys tied to his work he was kind of attached to a crew everybody’s owned by somebody he was attached to the Elmwood Park crew and Marco D’Amico who was under John DeFranco and I can’t remember who was before DeFranco, was kind of his boss and he was a gambling boss and Bob was a huge gambler I mean a huge gambler and Bob will help fix cases for some notorious people Really, one of the most important stories that we’ll go into in the second episode of this is Harry the Hook Aleman. And he also helped fix the case for Tony Spolatro and several others. He’s always paid him in cash. And he lived large. As you’ll see, he lived large. And he moved comfortably between mobsters and politicians and judges. And he was one of the insiders back in the 70s, 60s or 70s mainly. He was an insider. But by the 80s, he’s burned out. He’s disgusted with himself. He sees some things that he doesn’t like. They put a contract out on him once because he wouldn’t give somebody up as an informant, and he tipped one of his clients off that he was going to come out that he was an informant, and the guy was able to escape, I believe. Well, I have to go back and listen to my own story. [4:53] Finally in 1986 he walked unannounced they didn’t have a case on him and he walked unannounced in the U.S. Courthouse and offered himself up to take down this whole Pat Marcy and the whole mobster political clique in Chicago and he wore a wire for FBI an operation called Operation Gambat which is a gambling attorney because he was a huge gambler [5:17] huge huge gambler and they did a sweeping probe and indicted tons of people over this. So let’s go ahead and listen to Robert Cooley. [5:31] Uh, he, he, like I said, he’s a little bit rambling and a little bit hard to follow sometimes, but some of these names and, and, uh, and in the first episode, we’ll really talk about his history and, uh, where he came from and how he came up. He’ll mention somebody called the count and I’ll do that whole count story and a whole nother thing. So when he talks about the count, just disregard that it’ll be a short or something. And I got to tell that count story. It’s an interesting story. Uh, he, he gets involved with the only own, uh, association, uh, and, uh, and the, uh, Chinese Tong gang in, uh, Chicago and Chicago’s Chinatown. Uh, some of the other people he’ll talk about are Marco D’Amico, as I said, and D’Amico’s top aide, Rick Glantini, uh, another, uh, connected guy and worked for the city of Chicago is Robert Abinati. He was a truck driver. [6:25] He was also related to D’Amico and D’Amico’s cousin, former Chicago police officer Ricky Borelli. Those are some of the names that he’ll mention in this. So let’s settle back and listen to Bob Cooley. Hey, all you wiretappers. Good to be back here in studio gangland wire. This is Gary Jenkins, retired Kansas City Police Intelligence Unit detective. And, you know, we we deal with the mob here once a week, sometimes twice a week on the podcast. And I have a special guest that hadn’t been heard from for a while. And, you know, to be honest, guys, I’ve kind of gotten away from the outfit. I’ve been doing a lot of New York stuff and Springfield, Massachusetts and all around the country. And I kind of got away from Chicago. And we’re going back to Chicago today. And I’m honored that Bob Cooley got hold of me. Now, you may not know who Bob Cooley was, but Bob Cooley was a guy. He was a mob lawyer in Chicago, and he really probably, he heard him as much as anybody’s ever heard him, and he did it all of his own accord. He was more like an undercover agent that just wasn’t officially designated an FBI agent rather than an informant. But anyhow, welcome, Bob. [7:37] Hello. Nice meeting you. Nice to meet you. And I’ve talked to you before. And you were busy before a few years ago. And you were getting ready to make some movies and stuff. And then COVID hit and a lot of that fell through. And that happened to several people I’ve talked to. You got a lot in common with me. I was a Kansas City policeman. And I ended up becoming a lawyer after I left the police department. And you were a Chicago copper. And then you left the police department a little bit earlier than I did and became a lawyer. And, and Bob, you’re from a Chicago police family, if I remember right. Is that correct? Oh, police, absolute police background, the whole family. Yes. Yeah. Your grandfather, your grandfather was killed in the line of duty. Is that right? [8:25] Both of my grandfathers were killed in the line of duty. Wow. In fact, that’s one of the reasons why I eventually did what I did. I was very, very close with my dad. Yeah, and your dad was a copper. [8:38] He was a policeman, yeah. And in fact, you use that term. I, for many, many years, wouldn’t use that word. It just aggravated me when people would use the word copper. To me, it would show disrespect. Oh, really? I said to us in Kansas City, that’s what we call each other, you know, among coppers. Oh, I know. I know. But I know. But, you know, I just, for whatever reason, one of the things that aggravated me the most, in fact, when I was being cross-examined by this piece of shit, Eddie Jensen, the one I wrote about in my book that was, you know, getting a lot of people killed and whatever. And he made some comment about my father. and I got furious and I had to, you know, my father was unbelievably honest as a policeman. [9:29] Everybody loved him because they didn’t have to share, uh, you know, but he was a detective. He had been written up many times in true and magazines and these magazines for making arrests. He was involved in the cartage detail. He was involved in all kinds of other things, but honest as the day is long. And, and, um, but, uh, again, the, uh, my father’s father was, uh, was a policeman and he was killed by a member of the Capone gang. And, uh, and when he was killed, after he was killed. [10:05] The, uh, well, after he got shot, he got shot during a robbery after he got shot, he was in the hospital for a while. And then he went, then he went back home. He went back home to his, uh, you know, to his house, uh, cause he had seven kids. He had a big family too. And, uh, stayed with his, you know, with his wife and, and, and eventually died. And when he died they had a very mediocre funeral for him. They had a bigger, much bigger funeral when Al Capone’s brother died. But during that time when I was a kid when I was about 13, 12, 13 years old, I worked among other places at a grocery store where I delivered to my grandmother. My grandmother lived in South Park which later became Mark Luther King Drive. She lived a very, very meager life because she basically had nothing. [11:09] What they gave them for the, at that time, what they gave them for the police department was a portion of the husband’s salary when they died, whatever. It was never a big deal like it is now, you know, like it is now when policemen get killed in the line of duty. and I’m thinking at the same time I’m thinking down the road, You know, about certain things from my past did come back to affect me. [11:38] Doing what I was doing, when I got involved, and I got involved absolutely with all these different people. My father hated these people. I didn’t, you know, I didn’t realize how much. I didn’t realize much when I was growing, you know, when I was growing up and whatever. And even when I was practicing law and when I opened up Pratt-Mose, I would have my father and mother come along with other people. And the place was all full of mobsters. I mean, we’re talking about, you know, a lot of Capone’s whole crew. A lot of the gunmen were still alive. In fact, the ones that ran the first award were all gunmen from Capone’s mob. And never said a word, never said a word about it. You know, he met my partner, Johnny Diaco, who was part of the mob, the senator, and whatever colitis could be. My dad, when my dad was dying. [12:38] When my dad was dying, he had what they didn’t call it, but it had to be Alzheimer’s because my dad was a unbelievably, he was a big, strong man, but he was never a fighter, sweet as could be to anybody and everybody. When he started getting bad, he started being mean to my mother and doing certain things. So we finally had to put him into a nursing home. When I went to see him in the nursing, and I had a close relationship with my dad because he saved my life many times when I was a kid. I was involved with stolen cars at school. I should have been thrown out of school. It was Mount Carmel, but he had been a Carmelite, almost a Carmelite priest. [13:25] And whatever, and that’s what kept me from being kicked out of school at Marquette when they were going to throw me out there because I was, again, involved in a lot of fights, and I also had an apartment that we had across the hall from the shorter hall where I was supposed to stay when I was a freshman, and we were throwing huge parties, and they wanted to throw me out of school. My dad came, my dad came and instead of throwing me out, they let me resign and whatever he had done so much, you know, for me. Yeah. [14:00] Now when I, when I meet, when I meet him up in the hospital, I, I came in the first time and it was about maybe 25 miles outside, you know, from where my office was downtown. And when I went in to see him, they had him strapped in a bed because apparently when he initially had two people in the room and when somebody would come in to try to talk to him and whatever, he would be nasty. And one time he punched one of the nurses who was, you know, because he was going in the bed and they wouldn’t, and he wouldn’t let him take him out. You know, I was furious and I had to go, I had to go through all that. And now, just before he died, it was about two or three days before he died, he didn’t recognize anybody except me. Didn’t recognize my mother. Didn’t recognize anybody. Yet when I would come into the room, son, that’s what he always called me, son, when I would come in. So he knew who I basically was. And he would even say, son, don’t let him do this to me when he had to go through or they took out something and he had to wear one. Of those, you know, those decatheters or whatever. Oh, yeah. [15:15] Just before he died, he said to me, he said, son, he said, those are the people that killed my father. He said, and his case was fixed. After, I had never known that. In fact, his father, Star, was there at 11th and State, and I would see it when everyone went in there. Star was up there on the board as if there’s a policeman or a policeman killed in the line of duty. When he told me that it really and I talked to my brother who knew all about all that that’s what happened, the gunman killed him on 22nd street when that happened the case went to trial and he was found not guilty apparently the case was fixed I tell you what talk about poetic justice there your grandson is now in that system of fixing cases. I can’t even imagine what you must have felt like when you learned that at that point in your life. Man, that would be a grief. That would be tough. That’s what eventually made me one day decide that I had to do something to put an end to all that was going on there. [16:25] I’m curious, what neighborhood did you grow up in? Neighborhood identity is pretty strong in Chicago. So what neighborhood do you claim? I grew up in the hood. First place I grew up, my first place when I was born, I was at 7428 South Vernon. Which is the south side, southeast side of the city. I was there until I was in sixth grade. That was St. Columbanus Parish. When I was in sixth grade, we had to move because that’s when they were doing all the blockbusting there in Chicago. That’s when the blacks were coming in. And when the blacks were coming in, and I truly recall, We’ve talked about this many times elsewhere. I remember knocking on the door and ringing the doorbell all hours of the day and night. A black family just moved in down the street. You’ve got to sell now. If you don’t, the values will all go down. And we would not move. My father’s philosophy, we wouldn’t move until somebody got killed in the area. Because he couldn’t afford it. He had nine kids. he’s an honest policeman making less than $5,000 a year. [17:45] Working two, three jobs so we could all survive when he finished up, When he finished up with, when we finally moved, we finally moved, he went to 7646 South Langley. That was, again, further south, further south, and the area was all white at that time. [18:09] We were there for like four years, and about maybe two or three years, and then the blacks started moving in again. The first one moved in, and it was the same pattern all over again. Yeah, same story in Kansas City and every other major city in the United States. They did that blockbusting and those real estate developers. Oh, yeah, blockbusters. They would call and tell you that the values wouldn’t go down. When I was 20, I joined the police department. Okay. That’s who paid my way through college and law school. All right. I joined the police department, and I became a policeman when I was 20. [18:49] As soon as I could. My father was in recruit processing and I became a policeman. During the riots, I had an excuse not to go. They thought I was working. I was in the bar meeting my pals before I went to work. That’s why I couldn’t go to school at that time. But anyhow, I took some time off. I took some time off to, you know, to study, uh, because, you know, I had all C’s in one D in my first, in my first semester. And if you didn’t have a B, if you didn’t have a C average, you couldn’t, you kicked out of school at the end of a quarter. This is law school. You’re going to law school while you’re still an active policeman. Oh yeah, sure. That’s okay. So you work full time and went to law school. You worked full-time and went to law school at the same time. When I was 20, I joined the police department. Okay. That’s who paid my way through college and law school. All right. I joined the police department, and I became a policeman when I was 20, as soon as I could. My father was in recruit processing, and I became a policeman. Yeah, yeah. But anyhow, I went to confession that night. [20:10] And when I went to confession, there was a girl, one of the few white people in the neighborhood, there was a girl who had gone before me into the confessional. And I knew the priest. I knew him because I used to go gambling with him. I knew the priest there at St. Felicis who heard the confessions. And this is the first time I had gone to confession with him even though I knew him. [20:36] And I wanted to get some help from the big guy upstairs. And anyhow, when I leave, I leave about maybe 10 minutes later, and she had been saying her grace, you know, when I left. And when I walked out, I saw she was right across the street from my house, and there’s an alley right there. And she was a bit away from it, and there were about maybe 13, 14, 15 kids. when I say kids, they were anywhere from the age of probably about 15, 16 to about 18, 19. And they’re dragging her. They’re trying to drag her into the alley. And when I see that, when I see that, I head over there. When I get over there, I have my gun out. I have the gun out. And, you know, what the hell is going on? And, you know, and I told her, I told her her car was parked over there. I told her, you know, get out of here. And I’ve got my gun. I’ve got my gun in my hand. And I don’t know what I’m going to do now in terms of doing anything because I’m not going to shoot them. They’re standing there looking at me. And after a little while, I hear sirens going on. [22:00] The Barton family lived across the street in an apartment building, and they saw what was going on. They saw me out there. It was about probably about seven o’clock at night. It was early at night and they put a call in 10-1 and call in 10-1. Assist the officer. Is that a assist the officer? It’s 1031. Police been in trouble. Yeah. And the squad’s from everywhere. Oh yeah. Oh yeah. So you can hear, you can hear them coming. And now one of them says to me, and I know they’re pretty close. One of them says to me, you know, put away your gun and we’ll see how tough you are. And I did. [22:42] Because you know they’re close. And I’m busy fighting with a couple of them. And they start running and I grab onto two of them. I’m holding onto them. I could only hold two. I couldn’t hold anymore. And the next thing I know, I wake up in the hospital about four days later. Wow. What had happened was they pushed me. Somebody, there was another one behind who pushed me right in front of a squad car coming down the street. Oh, shit. Yeah, man. And the car ran completely over me. They pulled me off from under the, just under the back wheels, I was told were right next to, were onto me, blood all over the place. Everybody thought I was dead. Right. Because my brothers, my one brother who was a police kid that, you know, heard all the noise and the family came in. I tried to prostrate my house and they all thought I was dead. But anyhow, I wake up in the hospital about three days later. When I wake up in the hospital, I’m like. [23:54] Every bone of my body was broken. I’m up there like a mummy. And the mayor came to see me. All kinds of people came to see me. They made me into an even bigger star in my neighborhood. The Count lives down the street and is seeing all this stuff about me and whatever. Jumping quickly to another thing, which got me furious. Willie Grimes was the cop that was driving this quad. He was a racist. We had some blacks in the job. He was a total racist. When my brother and when some others were doing their best to try to find these people, he was protecting them. Some of them, if they caught, he was protecting them. [24:48] I was off the job for like nine months when I came back to work. I never came to the hospital to see me. I mean, everybody came. Every day, my hospital went. Because one of the nurses that I was dating, in fact, she was one of those killed. That’s when Richard Speck wound up killing her and some of the others at the same time. It was at the South Chicago Hospital. Holy darn. What they did for me, I had buckets in my womb with ice. We were bringing beer and pizzas and whatever. Every day was like a party in there. When I finally came back to work, it was 11 o’clock at night. I worked out in South Chicago, and I’m sitting in the parking lot, and the media is there. The media, they had all kinds of cameras there. Robert Cooley’s coming back to work after like nine months. They wouldn’t let me go back. [25:51] I’m walking by the squads. And Willie was a big guy. He was probably about 220, a big one of these big muscle builders and all that nonsense. [26:04] He’s sitting in the first car. The cars are all lined up because when we would change, when we would change at like 11 30 uh you know the cars would all be waiting we jumped into the cars and off we go as i’m walking by the car i hear aren’t you afraid to walk in front of my car. [26:26] I look over and he had a distinctive voice i walk over to the car and i reach in and i start punching them, and I’m trying to drag them out of the car. The cameras, the cameras are, you know, they’re all basically inside. They’re all inside. You know, as you walk in there, they’re all inside there. When I do, I eventually walk up there. But the other police came, and they dragged me. They dragged me away, and they brought me in, and whatever. We got transferred out the next day out of the district. And the first policeman I meet is Rick, Rick Dorelli, who’s connected with, who’s a monster. He’s connected with them. And, and he’s the one who told me, he said to me, you know, we played cards and he realized I was a gambler, but I had never dealt with bookmakers. And he said, he says, yeah, you want to make some money? You want to make some easy money? Well, yeah, sure. You know, uh, you know, and thinking that’s, you know, working security or something like that, like I had done back in Chicago, you know, like I had done on the south side. And he said, I want you to make some bets for me with somebody who said. [27:43] And I remember him using the term. He said, I want you to be my face. He said, and I want you to make some bets for me. He said, and he said, and if you, if you’ll do it, I’ll give you a hundred dollars a week just to make the bets for me. And then, you know, and then meet with these people and pay these people off. And I said, sure. You know, I said, you know, why? He says, because I can’t play with these. people he said i’m connected with him he said and i’m not allowed to gamble myself he said but he told me he said i’ve got a couple people i take bets from i’ve got my own side deal going so i want you to do it i want you to do it and i’ll give i’ll give you to them as a customer, and you’re gonna be a customer and he’s and he tells people now that i got this other police He’s in law school. He comes from a real wealthy family, and he’s looking for a place to bet. He’s in Gambia. He’s looking for a place to bet. [28:47] So I call this number, and I talk to this guy. He gives me a number. When you bet, you call, and you do this, and you do that. And I’m going to get $100 at the end of the week. Now, I’m making $5,200 a year, and they’re taking money out of my chest. I’m going to double my salary. I’m going to double my salary immediately. Why wouldn’t you do it? That’s fantastic money at the time. So I start doing it. And the first week I’m doing it, it was baseball season. [29:19] And I’m making these bets. He’s betting $500 a game on a number of games. And he’s winning some, he’s losing some. But now, when I’m checking my numbers with the guy there, he owes, at the end of the week, he owes $3,500. [29:38] And now, it’s getting bigger and bigger, he’s losing. I’m getting worried. What have I got myself into? Yeah, because it’s not him losing, it’s you losing to the bookie. That’s what I’m thinking. I’m thinking, holy, holy, Christopher, I’m thinking. But, you know, I’ve already jumped off the building. So anyhow. I’d be thinking, you better come up with a jack, dude. It’s time to pay up, man. Anyhow, so when I come to work the next day, I’m supposed to meet this guy at one of the clubs out there in the western suburbs. [30:21] I’m supposed to meet the bookmaker out there. And Ricky meets me that morning, and he gives me the money. It’s like $3,400, and here’s $100 for you. Bingo. That’s great. So, okay. When I go to make the payment to him, it’s a nightclub, and I got some money in my pocket. Somebody, one of the guys, some guy walks up. I’m sitting at the bar and, you know, I hear you’re a copper. I said, pardon me? He says, I hear you’re a copper. He was a big guy. Yeah. I hear you’re a copper. Because at that time, I still only weighed maybe like, well, maybe 60, 65 pounds. I mean, I was in fantastic shape, but I wasn’t real big. And I said, I’m a policeman. I don’t like policemen. I said, go fuck yourself. or something like that. And before he could do anything, I labeled him. That was my first of about a half a dozen fights in those different bars out there. [31:32] And the fights only lasted a few minutes because I would knock the person down. And if the person was real big, at times I’d get on top and just keep pounding before they could do anything. So I started with a reputation with those people at that time now as I’m, going through my world with these people oh no let’s stay with that one area now after the second week he loses again, this time not as much but he loses again and I’m thinking wow, He’s betting, and I’m contacted by a couple of people there. Yeah. Because these are all bookmakers there, and they see me paying off. So I’m going to be, listen, if you want another place to play, and I say, well, yeah. So my thought is, with baseball, it’s a game where you’re laying a price, laying 160, laying 170, laying 180. So if you lose $500, if you lose, you pay $850, and if you win, you only get $500. [32:52] I’ve got a couple of people now, and they’ve got different lines. And what I can do now is I check with their lines. I check with Ricky’s guy and see what his line is. And I start moving his money elsewhere where I’ve got a 30, 40, sometimes 50 cent difference in the price. So I’d set it up where no matter what, I’m going to make some money, No matter what happens, I’ll make some money. But what I’m also doing is I’m making my own bets in there that will be covered. And as I start early winning, maybe for that week I win maybe $1,000, $1,500. And then as I meet other people and I’m making payments, within about four or five months, I’ve got 10 different bookmakers I’m dealing with. Who I’m dealing with. And it’s become like a business. I’m getting all the business from him, 500 a game, whatever. And I’ve got other people that are betting, you know, are betting big, who are betting through me. And I’m making all kinds of money at that time. [34:14] But anyhow, now I mentioned a number of people, A number of people are, I’ve been with a number of people that got killed after dinner. One of the first ones was Tony Borsellino, a bookmaker. Tony was connected with the Northside people, with DeVarco, the one they called DeVarco. And we had gone to a we had gone to a I knew he was a hit man, we had gone to a basketball game over at DePaul because he had become a good friend of mine he liked hanging with me, because I was because at that time now I’m representing the main madams in Chicago too and they loved being around me they liked going wherever I was going to go so I always had all kinds of We left the ladies around. And we went to the basketball game. Afterwards, we went to a restaurant, a steakhouse on Chicago Avenue. [35:26] Gee, why can’t I think of a name right now? We went to a steakhouse, and we had dinner. And when we finished up, it came over there. And when we finished up, I’d been there probably half a dozen times with him. And he was there with his girlfriend. We had dinner and about, I’d say it was maybe 10, 30, 11 o’clock, he says, you know, Bob, can you do me a favor? What’s that? Can you drop her off? He said, I have to go meet some friends. I have to go meet some friends of ours. And, you know, okay, sure, Tony, not a problem. And, you know, I took her home. [36:09] The next day I wake up, Tony Barcellino was found dead. They killed him. He was found with some bullets in the back of his head. They killed him. Holy Christopher. And that’s my first—I found that I had been killed before that. But, you know, wow, that was—, prior to that, when I was betting, there was i paid off a bookmaker a guy named uh ritten shirt, rittenger yeah john rittenger yeah yeah yeah he was a personal friend yeah was he a personal friend of yours yeah they offed him too well i in fact i he i was paying him i met him to pay him I owed him around $4,500, and I met him at Greco’s at my restaurant he wanted to meet me out there because he wanted to talk to me about something else he had a problem some kind of a problem I can’t remember what that was. [37:19] But he wanted to meet me at the restaurant so I met him at Greco’s, And I paid him the money. We talked for a while. And then he says, you know, I got to go. I got to go meet somebody. I got to go meet somebody else. I got to go straight now with somebody else. And he said, I’ll give you a call. He said, I’ll give you a call later. He said, because, you know, I want to talk to you about a problem that I have. He says, I want to talk to you about a problem that I have. I said, okay, sure. He goes to a pizza place. Up there in the Taylor Street area. That’s where he met Butchie and Harry. In fact, at the time, I knew both of them. Yeah, guys, that’s Butch Petrucelli and Harry Alem and a couple of really well-known mob outfit hitmen. Yeah, and they’re the ones that kill them. I’m thinking afterwards, I mean, But, you know, I wish I hadn’t, I wish I hadn’t, you know, I wish I could save him. I just gave him. Man, you’re cold, man. [38:34] You could have walked with that money. That’s what I’m saying. So now, another situation. Let me cut in here a minute, guys. As I remember this Reitlinger hit, Joe Ferriola was a crew boss, and he was trying to line up all the bookies, as he called it. He wanted to line them up like Al Capone lined up all the speaks, that all the bookies had to fall in line and kick something into the outfit, and Reitlinger wouldn’t do it. He refused to do it no matter. They kept coming to him and asking him his way. I understand that. Is that what you remember? I knew him very well. Yeah. He was not the boss. Oh, the Ferriola? Yeah, he wasn’t the boss, but he was kind of the, he had a crew. He was the boss of the Cicero crew. Right. I saw Joe all the time at the racetrack. In fact, I’m the one who, I’m the one, by the time when I started wearing a wire, I was bringing undercover agents over. I was responsible for all that family secret stuff that happened down the road. Oh, really? You set the stage for all that? I’m the one who put them all in jail. All of them. [39:52] So anyhow, we’re kind of getting ahead of ourselves. Reitlinger’s been killed. Joe Borelli or Ricky Borelli’s been killed. These guys are dropping around you, and you’re getting drawn into it deeper and deeper, it sounds to me like. Now, is this when you – what happens? How do you get drawn into this Chicago outfit even more and more as a bookie? Were you kicking up, too? Well, it started, it started, so many things happened that it just fell into place. It started, like I say, with building a reputation like I had. But the final situation in terms of with all the mobsters thinking that I’m not just a tough guy, I’m a bad guy. [40:35] When I get a call, when Joey Cosella, Joey Cosella was a big, tough Italian kid. And he was involved heavily in bookmaking, and we became real close friends. Joey and I became real close friends. He raised Dobermans, and he’s the one who had the lion over at the car dealership. I get a call from Joey. He says, you’ve got to come over. I said, what’s up? He says, some guys came in, and they’re going to kill the count. They want to kill the count. And I said, And I said, what? This is before the Pewter thing. I said, what do you mean? And so I drive over there, and he says, Sammy Annarino and Pete Cucci. And Pete Cucci came in here, and they came in with shotguns, and they were going to kill them. I said, this was Chicago at the time. It’s hard to believe, but this was Chicago. And I said, who are they? I didn’t know who they were. I said, who are they? I mean, I didn’t know them by name. It turns out I did know them, but I didn’t know them by name. They were people that were always in Greco’s, and everybody in Greco knew me because I’m the owner. [41:49] But anyhow, so I get a hold of Marco, and I said, Marco, and I told him what happened. I said, these guys, a couple of guys come in there looking for the talent. That are going to kill him because apparently he extorted somebody out of his business. And I said, who were they with? And he said, they were with Jimmy the bomber. They were with Jimmy Couture. [42:15] I said, oh, they’re for legit then? I said, yeah. I said, can you call? I said, call Jimmy. I knew who he was. He was at the restaurant all the time. He was at Threatfuls all the time with a lot of these other people. And I met him, but I had no interest in him. He didn’t seem like a very friendly sort of anyone. I could care less about him. I represented a lot of guys that worked for him, that were involved with problems, but never really had a conversation with him other than I. [42:53] I’m the owner. So I met with him. I wrote about that in the book. I met with them and got that straightened out where the count’s going to pay $25,000 and you’ll get a contract to the… He ripped off some guy out of a parlor, one of those massage parlors, not massage parlor, but one of those adult bookstores that were big money deals. Oh, yeah. So when I go to meet these guys, I’m told, go meet them and straighten this thing out. So I took Colin with me over to a motel right down the street from the racetrack, right down from the racetrack, and I met with him. I met with Pete Gucci. He was the boss of, you know, this sort of loop. When I get finished talking with him, I come back, and here’s the count and Sammy, and Sammy’s picking a fork with his finger and saying, you know, I rip out eyes with these. [43:56] And the count says, I rip out eyes with these. And I said, what the fuck is going on here? I said, Pete, I said, you know, get him the fuck out of here. And you all at the count said, what’s the matter with you? You know, these guys are going to kill him. And now the moment I get involved in it, he knows he’s not going to have a problem. You know, he’s pulling this nonsense. [44:23] So anyhow, this is how I meet Pete Gucci and Sammy Annarino. After a while, I stopped hanging around with the count because he was starting to go off the deep end. Yeah. Yeah. [44:39] And we were at a party, a bear party with, I remember Willie Holman was there, and they were mostly black, the black guys up there on the south side. And I had just met this girl a day or two before, and the count says, you know, let’s go up to a party, a bear’s party up there on Lakeshore Drive. If we go up there, we go to this party, it’s going to be about maybe 35, 40 people in there, one or two whites, other than the players. And other than that, we’re the only white people there. When we walk into the place, there’s a couple of guys out there with shotguns. It was in a motel. And you walk through like an area where you go in there, and there’s a couple of guys standing there with shotguns. We go in and we go upstairs and, hey, how are you? And we’re talking with people. And I go in one room. I’m in one room. [45:45] There were two rooms there. I’m in one room with a bunch of people and, you know, just talking and having a good old time. And the count was in the second room. And I hear Spade. He always called me Spade. Spade, Spade, you know. And I go in there, and he’s talking with Willie Holman. I remember it was one of them. He was the tackle, I think, with the Bears and a couple of others. And this whole room, all these black guys. And he goes, that’s Spade Cooley. He says, him and I will take on every one of you. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And we’re in a room, and he goes, that’s what he says. You know, him and I will take it on every one of you. And Willie did that. He calmed down. He’s telling him, calmed down. What the fuck? It was about a week or so after this. And because I had been out with the county, he’s calling me two or three times a week to go out. And we’re going, a lot of times it was these areas in the south side with a lot of blood. He liked being around Blacks. [47:00] That’s when I met Gail Sayers, and I met some of these others through him. But a lot of the parties and stuff were in the South Side out there, mostly Blacks and all. But we had gone someplace for dinner, and we’re heading back home. We’re heading back to my place, and we’re in his car. He had a brown Cadillac convertible. On the side of it, it had these, you know, the Count Dante press. And he always ran around. He ran around most of the time in these goofy, you know, these goofy outfits with capes and things like that. I’m driving and when we’re talking and I’m like distracted looking at him. And I’m waiting at a stoplight over there right off of Chicago Avenue. And as we’re there. [47:48] I barely touched the car in front of us, you know, as I’m drifting a little bit and barely touch it. There were four guys in the car and, you know, and the one guy jumps out first, one guy jumps out first and then second one, and they start screaming. And when the count gets out, the guy starts calling you, you faggot or something like that, you know, whatever. And as the other one gets out, I get out of the car. And the next thing I know, they jump back in the car, and they run through a red light, and they disappear. Somebody must have recognized them. One of the other people there must have realized who this is that they’re about to get into a little battle with. In fact, they ran the red light. They just ran the red light and disappeared. They come, no, no, no, no, no. And we go off to my apartment and I’m here with this girl, another girl I had just met a day or so before, because I was constantly meeting new people, uh, running around and, uh, we’re sitting on the couch. I’m sitting in the couch next to her and the count, the count was over there. And he suddenly says to her, he says, he says, this is one of the toughest people I’ve ever met. He said, and he says, tell her how tough you are. Tell her how tough you are. [49:10] I said, you know, I said, you know, you know, and he says, tell them how tough you are. And I said, John, you know, and he walks over, And he makes a motion like this towards me. And he barely touched my chin. But I thought he broke it. He then steps back and he goes, I got to cut this hand off. He says, you saved my life. He said, you saved my life. He said, the only two friends I’ve had in the world were my father and you. He says, I wasn’t even that crazy about my mother. That’s when I said then he goes and he stands and I’m looking at it now he stands up against the window I looked up on the 29th floor, he stands by the window he says get your gun he says and I want you to aim it at me, and say now before you pull the trigger and I’ll stop the bullet, I’ll stop the bullet this guy was nuts and I said I said, what? [50:28] He says, before you pull the trigger. [50:36] Tell me before you pull the trigger and I’ll stop the bullet. He wanted me to shoot him. He stopped the bullet. When I got him out of there, Now when he’s calling me, I’m busy. I’m busy. Once in a while, I’d meet him someplace. No more driving or whatever. That was smart. I hadn’t seen him in probably five or six months. And this is, again, after the situation when I had met with Anna Randall and Gooch and the others. I’m up in my office and I get a I get a call from the county, and he said and I hadn’t probably seen him even maybe in a month or two at all and he said, can I come over and talk to you and I was playing cards in fact I had card games up in my office and, we called him Commissioner. [51:41] O’Malley Ray O’Malley, he was the head of the police department at night. On midnights, he got there at 4 to 12. He started at 4 to 12 until midnights. He was the head of them. He was the commissioner. He was in charge of the whole department. He used to play cards up in my office. We had big card games up in my office. And when he’d come up there, we’d have the blue goose parked out in front. We’d have his bodyguard sitting out there by my door. When he was playing in the games. This went on for a couple of years. [52:15] I was at the office, but, you know, I’m at the office playing cards. [52:20] And I had a, it was a big suite. We had, you know, my office was a big office in this suite. We had about six other, you know, big, big suites in there. And so he comes over, he comes over to meet with me. And so I figure he’s in trouble. He’s arrested. He says, I’ve got a situation going. He says, well, you can get a million dollars. And he said, but if I tell you what it is, he says, and you’re in, he said, you got to be in. I’ll tell you what it is. I said, John, if I need money, I said, you get $2 million, then you can loan me if you want, but I don’t want to know what it is. I said, I just don’t want to know what it is. [52:59] It was about a week or two later. It was a pure later, basically. It was a pure later caper. Yeah, guys, this was like the huge, huge. And the one he set it up with was Pete Gucci, the guy that was going to kill him. That was the one who set it up. I knew that. I thought I remembered that name from somewhere. I don’t remember. They ended up getting popped, but everybody got caught, and most of the money got returned. No, no. No bit that the outfit kept, I understand, if I remember right. What was the deal on that? There was more to it than that. Just before that happened, I go up, and Jerry Workman was another lawyer. Actually, he was attorney up in the office, post-rending bank. When I’m going up into the office, I see Pete Gucci there. This is probably a week or so after the situation with the count. Or maybe even a little bit longer than that. I said, Pete, what are you doing? I said, what are you doing here? Jerry Workston’s my lawyer. Oh, okay. [53:55] Okay. He said, I didn’t know you were off here. I said, yeah. I said, Jerry’s a good friend of mine. Okay. And as I’m walking away, he says, you tell your friend the count to stop calling me at two, three in the morning. He says, I got a wife and kids and whatever. And I said to him, I said, Pete, you got no business dealing. I don’t know what it is. I said, but you guys got no business dealing involved in anything. You got no business being involved with him. And I walked away. I see him and I see him as he’s leaving. I see him as he’s leaving and say goodbye to him. Jerry was going to be playing cards. [54:39] It was card night too. Jerry was going to be playing cards in my office because the people would come in usually about 9 o’clock, 9.30 is when the game would usually start. I talked with Jerry. He had been in there for a while. He was arrested a day or two later. The fbi comes in there because he had stashed about 35 000 in jerry’s couch oh really that was his bond money he got that was his bond money if he got to get bailed out to get him bailed out that was his bond money that was there that’s how bizarre so i got involved in so many situations like this but anyhow anyhow now sammy uh, So it’s about maybe a week or two later after this, when I’m in the car driving, I hear they robbed a purulator. The purulator was about a block and a half from my last police station. It was right down the street from the 18th district. That was the place that they robbed. And not long after that, word came out that supposedly a million dollars was dropped off in front of Jimmy the bomber, in front of his place. With Jimmy the bomber, both Sammy Ann Arino and Pete Gucci were under him. They were gunmen from his group. Now I get a call from, I get a count was never, you never heard the count’s name mentioned in there with anybody. [56:07] The guy from Boston, you know, who they indicated, you know, came in to set it up. The count knew him from Boston. The count had some schools in Boston. And this was one of his students. And that’s how he knew this guy from Boston that got caught trying to take a, trying to leave the country with, you know, with a couple thousand, a couple million dollars of the money. Yeah, I read that. It was going down to the Caribbean somewhere and they caught him. And Sammy Ann Arino didn’t get involved in that. He wasn’t involved in that because I think he was back in the prison at the time. [56:44] Now, when he’s out of prison, probably no more than about maybe three or four months after all that toilet stuff had died down, I get a call from Sam, and he wants me to represent him because he was arrested. What happened was he was shot in a car. He was in a car, and he had gotten shot. And when they shot him, he kicked out the window and somehow fought the guys off. When they found him there in the car and in his trunk, they found a hit kit. They said it was a hit kit. How could they know? It was a box that had core form in it, a ski mask, a ski mask, a gun, a gun with tape wrapped around it and the rest of it. Yeah. And he’s an extra time. Mask and tape or little bits of rope and shit like that. I’d say no. So he was charged with it, and he was charged with it in his case, and he had a case coming up. I met him the first time I met him. He came by my office, and he said, you know, and I said, no, that’s not a problem. And he says, but I’ve got to use Eddie Jensen, too. [57:52] And I said, I said, what do you mean? I said, you don’t need Eddie. And he says, I was told I have to use him. Jimmy Couture, his boy, he said, I have to use him. I know why, because Eddie lets these mobsters know whenever anybody’s an informant, or if he’s mad at somebody, he can tell him he’s an informant, they get killed. And so I said, you know, that piece of shit. I said, you know, I want nothing to do with him. I had some interesting run-ins with him before, and I said, I want nothing to do with that worthless piece of shit. You know, he’s a jagoff. And I said, you know, I says, no. He said, please. I said, no. I said, Sammy, you know, you don’t need me. He knows the judge like I know the judge, Sardini. I said, you know, you’re not going to have a problem in there. I get a call from him again, maybe four or five days after that. He’s out of my restaurant and he says, Bob, please. He said, You know, he says, please, can I meet you? He says, I got a problem. I go out to the meeting. And so I thought, there’s something new. I want you to represent me. I want you to represent me, you know, on the case. And I says, did you get rid of that fence? He says, no, I have to use him. But I says, look, I’m not going to, I want, no, Sammy, no, I’m not going to do it. He leaves the restaurant. He gets about a mile and a half away. He gets shotgunned and he gets killed. In fact, I read about that a couple of days ago. [59:22] I know it’s bullshit. They said he was leaving the restaurant. It was Marabelli’s. It was Marabelli’s Furniture Store. They said he was leaving the furniture store. What they did was they stopped traffic out there. They had people on the one side of the street, the other side of the street, and they followed, they chased him. When he got out of his car and was going to the furniture store, They blasted him with shotguns. They made sure he was killed this time. After that happened, it’s about maybe three or four days after that, I’m up in my office and I get a call. All right, when I come out, I always parked in front of City Hall. That was my parking spot. Mike and CM saved my spot. I parked there, or I parked in the bus stop, or in the mayor’s spot. Those were my spots. They saved it for me. I mean, that was it, for three, four, five years. That’s how it was. I didn’t want to wait in line in the parking lot. So my car is parked right in front of the parking lot. And as I go to get in my car, just fast, fast, so walking, because he was at 134 right down the street from my office and he parks like everybody else in the parking lot so he can wait 20 minutes to get his car. [1:00:40] And, and, and Bob, Bob, and, you know, and when I meet up with him, I’m both standing and we’re both standing right there in front of the, in front of the, uh, the parking lot. And he was a big guy. He weighed probably about 280, 290, maybe more. You know, mushy, mushy type, not in good shape at all. In fact, he walked with a gimp or whatever. And he says, you better be careful, he says. Jimmy Couture is furious. He heard what you’ve been saying about me. [1:01:17] You’ve been saying about me. and something’s liable to happen. And I went reserved. I grabbed him, and I threw him up on the wall, and I says, you motherfuckers. I said, my friends are killing your friends. [1:01:34] I said, my friends, because he represented a number of these groups, but I’m with the most powerful group of all. And when I say I’m with him, I’m with him day and night, not like him just as their lawyer. Most of them hated him, too, because most of them knew what he was doing. Yeah most of these and most of these guys hated him and i said you know but i and and i just like you’re kissing his pants and i don’t know if he crapped in his pants too and uh you know because i just turned around i left that same night jimmy katura winds up getting six in the back of the head maybe three miles from where that took place yeah he was uh some kind of trouble been going on for a while. He was a guy who was like in that cop shop racket, and he had been killing some people involved with that. He was kind of like out away from the main crew closer to downtown, is my understanding. Like, you were in who were you in? Who was I talking about? Jimmy Couture? Jimmy Couture, yeah. He was no, Jimmy Couture was Jimmy Couture, in fact, all these killers, we’ll try and stay with this a little bit first. Jimmy Couture was a boss and he had probably about maybe a dozen, maybe more in his crew and, He didn’t get the message, I’m sure. [1:03:01] Eddie Jensen firmly believes, obviously, because it’s the same day and same night when I tell him that my friends are killing your friends. [1:03:14] He’s telling everybody that I had him kill, I’m sure. Yeah, yeah. Because it was about another few days after that when I’m out in Evanston going to a courthouse. And there you had to park down the street because there was no parking lot. Here I hear Eddie, you know, stay. I’m going to say Bob, Bob. And when he gets up, he says, Bob, he says, when I told you, I think you misunderstood. When I told you it was Jimmy Cattrone. it was it was jimmy katron was a lawyer that you know worked in out of his office close friend of mine too he was a good friend of mine it was jimmy it was jimmy katron that you know not because he obviously thought he believed so he’s got all these mobsters too bosses and all the rest thinking that i was involved in that when i when i wasn’t uh when i was when i wasn’t actually But it’s so amazing, Gary. And that’s one of a dozen stories of the same sort. I met unbelievable people. I mean, we’re talking about in New Orleans. We’re talking about in Boston. Now, if you were to say, who were you with? Always somebody’s with somebody. Were you with any particular crew or any particular crew. [1:04:41] Buzz, were you totally independent? [1:04:46] Everybody knew me to be with the Elmwood Park crew. And that was Jackie Cerrone before Michael, I mean, before Johnny DeFranco. That was Jackie Cerrone. Okay. That was Giancana. That was Mo Giancana. Mo was moving at the clubhouse all the time. That was the major people. [1:05:13] And where was their clubhouse? What did they call their clubhouse? Was that the Survivors Clubhouse, or what was the name of their operation? Every group had one, sometimes more clubhouses. Right. That was where they would have card games in there. They’d have all kinds of other things going. the place was full of like in Marcos I call it Marcos but it was actually Jackie Sharon’s when I first got involved Jackie Sharon was the boss who became a good friend of mine, Jackie Sharon was the boss and Johnny DeFranco was, right under him and then a number of others as we go down, our group alone we had. [1:06:04] Minimum, I’d say, a thousand or more people in our group alone. And who knows how many others, because we had control of the sheriff’s office, of the police department, of the sheriff, of the attorney general. We had control of all that through the elections. We controlled all that. So you had 1,000 people. You’re talking about all these different people who we would maybe call associates. It would be in and out of our club all the time. Okay. Yeah. We’re talking a number of policemen, a number of policemen, a number of different politicians of all sorts that we had. I knew dozens of people with no-show jobs there. We had control of all the departments, streets and sanitation, of absolutely urbanizing. We controlled all the way up to the Supreme Court. What about the first ward, Pat Marcy, and the first ward now? Was your crew and Jackie Cerrone’s crew, did that fall into the first ward, or were they totally there? How did that relate, the Pat Marcy and the politicians? And I found out all this over a period of time. [1:07:28] Everything had changed right about the time I first got involved with these people. All these people you’ve read about, no one knows they were still alive. I met just about all of them when I got connected over there with the first word. A lot of the, we were talking about the gunmen themselves. All the Jackie not just Jackie but I’m talking about Milwaukee Phil Milwaukee Phil and all the rest of them they were over there at Councilors Row all the time because when they were to meet Pat Marcy, what they had there in the first war and, It just so happened, when I started in my office, it was with Alan Ackerman, who was at 100 North, where all their offices were upstairs. The first ward office was upstairs. [1:08:22] And below the office, two floors below, I found out on this when I got involved with them, we had an office. looked like it was a vacant office because the windows were all blackened out. That’s where he had all the meetings with people. When Arcado or Yupa, anybody else, any of the other people came in, this is where he met them. When the people from out of town came in, we’re talking about when, what do you think? [1:08:58] But when Alpha, when Fitzgerald, when all these people would come in, this is where they would have their meetings. Or these are the ones who would be out with us on these casino rides. When these people came in, this is where they would do the real talking because we’d go to different restaurants that weren’t bugged. If this office was checked every day, the one that they had down below, and nobody, nobody, their office was, I think it was on the 28th floor, the first ward office. You had the first ward office, and right next to it, you had the insurance office when everybody had to buy their insurance. Obviously at upper rates big office connected to the first ward office when the back there’s a door that goes right into into theirs but the people were told you never get off or you get off you get off at the office floor but then you you walk you you get off it and i’m sorry you get off it at the. [1:10:11] You don’t get off at the first ward office you get off at one of the other offices one of the other offices or the other floors and when you come in there, then you’ll be taken someplace else after that a double shop that’s where they would go and in fact when I had to talk to Petter Cary messages or whatever people like Marco couldn’t talk to Marcy. [1:10:41] Only a few people could. Only people at the very top level could. Marco, he was a major boss. He could not talk to Marco. If he needed, you know, whatever. Marco D’Amico. Marco was, you had, Marco was the one right under Johnny DeFonza. Yeah. Marco’s the one that was in charge. He was the one who was in charge of all the gambling. Not just in Chicago, but around all those areas in Cook County. We had not just Chicago. They were also the ones that were in charge of all the street tax, collecting all the street tax. That’s where the big, big money was also. Everybody paid. What happened was in the 70s, right as I got involved

New CBS News chief Bari Weiss explains how one-sided reporting of President Trump's deportation of illegal aliens to the supermax prison CECOT in El Salvador led to her canceling a 60 Minutes story. Terrorists may try to aerosolize fentanyl to conduct a mass casualty attack on the US. CNN's salivating over the DOJ's Epstein data dump (which is now mandatory by law, because President Trump signed it) exposes the media's liberal bias IN SPADES. Former New York state rep Joe Borelli destroys an Epstein Crazed Panel with two minutes of common sense.

52:48- John Solomon, award-winning investigative journalist, founder of "Just The News," and the host of “Just the News, No Noise” on the Real America’s Voice network Topic: South Africa shooting; Ex-FBI agent says Pam Bondi has "slam dunk" conspiracy case against Obama's feds; Trump's affordability agenda 1:02:08- Jeff Coltin, Politico NYC Political Reporter and co author of Politico's New York Playbook Topic: Elise Stefanik suspending her gubernatorial campaign 1:14:46- Thomas Homan, Border Czar for the Trump administration Topic: New York City cab driver choked to death by migrant 1:28:44- Patrick J. Brosnan, Retired and Decorated NYPD Detective and the host of "Pat Brosnan: Live From the Batcave" Saturdays at 9 a.m. on AM 970 The Answer Topic: Brown University shooting suspect 1:43:39- Joe Borelli, Former New York City Councilman and Managing Director of Chartwell Strategy GroupTopic: Zohran Mamdani's incoming administration; Elise Stefanik suspending her gubernatorial campaign 1:51:40- Dr. Betsy McCaughey, New York Post columnist, former Lt. Gov. of NY State, Chairwoman and founder of the Committee to Reduce Infection Deaths Topic: Elise Stefanik 2:05:23- Raymond Arroyo, managing editor & host of "The World Over" on EWTN, host of the "Arroyo Grande" podcast, and a Fox News contributorTopic: The current state of Christmas in the United States; Cardinal DolanSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

UPDATED 8:20 a.m. Joe Piscopo departs, and Al Gattullo and Joe Sibilia take over for the remainder of the show. 45:06- Stephen Moore, "Joe Piscopo Show" Resident Scholar of Economics, Chairman of FreedomWorks Task Force on Economic Revival, former Trump economic adviser and the author of "The Trump Economic Miracle: And the Plan to Unleash Prosperity Again" Topic: Trump economic speech 52:30- Gordon Chang, Asia expert, columnist and author of "China is Going to War" Topic: Chinese confrontation with Japan 1:00:11- Bruce Blakeman, Nassau County Executive Topic: Entering the New York Gubernatorial Race 1:12:00- Tricia McLaughlin, Assistant Director for Public Affairs for the Department of Homeland Security Topic: Alleged death threat from twin brothers in Absecon, NJ 1:25:37- Joe Borelli, Former New York City Councilman and Managing Director of Chartwell Strategy GroupTopic: Transition to the Mamdani administration 1:50:25- Chris Grollnek, Retired Police Detective Corporal and Active Shooting ExpertTopic: Shooting at Kentucky State University 2:04:07- David Wildstein, Founder and Editor-in-Chief of New Jersey Globe Topic: Mikie Sherrill's incoming administrationSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

THE TIM JONES AND CHRIS ARPS SHOW 0:00 SEG 1 Joe Borelli, Former Minority Republican Leader of the NYC Council | we call him | TOPIC: Top political headlines of the day | The future of NYC now that Mamdani will be mayor | Why did Curtis Sliwa stay in the race? | Who won the shutdown? | Non-Citizen voting https://x.com/JoeBorelliNYC 16:52 SEG 2 PATRICK TUOHEY, Sr. Fellow at Show Me Institute | TOPIC: Chesterfield Music Studio Seeking Tax Breaks Despite Unpaid Bills | Missouri’s Debt and the Income Tax Debate: A new Reason Foundation report shows Missouri ranks 25th in combined state and local debt, highlighting long-term pension and health obligations that don’t appear in the Truth in Accounting analysis. The findings offer important context about debt and spending as the governor talks about eliminating the income tax.https://showmeinstitute.org/author/patrick-tuohey/https://x.com/PatrickTuohey 34:25 SEG 3 Joey V. reviews the romantic comedy “Eternity” https://newstalkstl.com/ FOLLOW TIM - https://twitter.com/SpeakerTimJones FOLLOW CHRIS - https://twitter.com/chris_arps 24/7 LIVESTREAM - http://bit.ly/NEWSTALKSTLSTREAMS RUMBLE - https://rumble.com/NewsTalkSTL See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

THE TIM JONES AND CHRIS ARPS SHOW 0:00 SEG 1 Joe Borelli, Former Minority Republican Leader of the NYC Council | we call him | TOPIC: Top political headlines of the day | The future of NYC now that Mamdani will be mayor | Why did Curtis Sliwa stay in the race? | Who won the shutdown? | Non-Citizen voting https://x.com/JoeBorelliNYC 16:52 SEG 2 PATRICK TUOHEY, Sr. Fellow at Show Me Institute | TOPIC: Chesterfield Music Studio Seeking Tax Breaks Despite Unpaid Bills | Missouri’s Debt and the Income Tax Debate: A new Reason Foundation report shows Missouri ranks 25th in combined state and local debt, highlighting long-term pension and health obligations that don’t appear in the Truth in Accounting analysis. The findings offer important context about debt and spending as the governor talks about eliminating the income tax.https://showmeinstitute.org/author/patrick-tuohey/https://x.com/PatrickTuohey 34:25 SEG 3 Joey V. reviews the romantic comedy “Eternity” https://newstalkstl.com/ FOLLOW TIM - https://twitter.com/SpeakerTimJones FOLLOW CHRIS - https://twitter.com/chris_arps 24/7 LIVESTREAM - http://bit.ly/NEWSTALKSTLSTREAMS RUMBLE - https://rumble.com/NewsTalkSTL See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

48:03- Philip Wegmann, White House Correspondent for Real Clear Politics Topic: Latest from the White House 56:27- Frank Salgado, Vice President of Empire Water Main & Sewer Inc. Topic: Celebrating Yonkers 1:09:47- Joe Borelli, Former New York City Councilman and Managing Director of Chartwell Strategy Group Topic: Trump meeting with Mamdani 1:23:25- Mike Gallagher, radio talk show host heard weekday mornings at 10 a.m. on AM 970 The Answer Topic: Epstein files, Trump meeting with Mamdani, other news of the day 1:31:06- Marc Morano, Former Senior Staff Member of the Senate Environment & Public Works Committee, publisher of ClimateDepot.com, and the author of "The Great Reset: Global Elites and the Permanent Lockdown" Topic: Climate lawsuit against ExxonMobil 1:45:12- Harmeet K. Dhillon, Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights at the U.S. Department of Justice Topic: "Antifa violence exposes UC Berkeley’s hypocrisy on free speech and tolerance" (Fox News op ed) 1:59:34- Commissioner Ray Kelly, the longest-serving Commissioner of the NYPD in history who was in charge of the Secret Service during his tenure as Deputy Treasury Secretary under President Clinton Topic: Jessica Tisch staying on as NYPD Commissioner 2:05:43- Paul Jacobs for Food for the Poor Topic: Food for the PoorSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Trump says they would consider pulling the FIFA World Cup from Seattle if it’s not safe and called Katie Wilson a communist. SeaTac Airport has a new security checkpoint that will hopefully help deal with holiday travel. Katie Couric tries to get Fetterman to stomp on Charlie Kirk’s grave. // LongForm: GUEST: Former New York City Council Republican Minority Leader Joe Borelli on the release of the Epstein files. // Quick Hit: Michelle Obama claims Americans aren’t ready for a woman president.

Ochelli Effect 11-7-2025 Lancer Special with Johnny Cairnes - Larry Hancock - Joe Borelli2+ Hours of an Extra Friday Show to promote The JFK Lancer Conference, November 21-23 , 2025in two partsJohnny Cairnes Part 1 of 6: No Motive, plus the Silenced WitnessesWritten by Johnny Cairns https://www.kennedysandking.com/john-f-kennedy-articles/part-1-of-6-no-motive-plus-the-silenced-witnessesJFK Assassination - Dealey Plaza UK - Johnny Cairns Part 1 60 facts for 60 yearshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N7ckiMwkJmcJFK Case NOT Closed: Key Evidence Dismissed, Ignored, Altered or Suppressed to Frame Lee Harvey Oswald as the 'Lone' Assassin! Paperback – December 1, 2021by Dave O'Brien (Author), Johnny Cairns (Contributor)https://www.amazon.com/JFK-Case-NOT-Closed-Suppressed/dp/0988018772LARRY HANCOCK:http://larry-hancock.com/https://larryhancock.wordpress.com/https://aarclibrary.org/larry-hancock-archive/Books by Larry:Nexus: The CIA and Political Assassinationhttps://www.amazon.com/Nexus-Political-Assassination-Larry-Hancock/dp/0977465780Oswald Puzzle: Reconsidering Lee Harvey Oswald https://www.amazon.com/Oswald-Puzzle-Reconsidering-Lee-Harvey/dp/1510783407Joe BorelliThe Lone Gunman Podcasthttps://www.youtube.com/@TheLoneGunmanPodcast---BE THE EFFECTSUPPORT Ochelli and The NetworkMrs.OLUNA ROSA CANDLEShttp://www.paypal.me/Kimberlysonn1---NOVEMBER IN DALLAS LANCER CONFERENCENOVEMBER 21-23 2025DISCOUNT FOR YOU10 % OFF code = Ochelli10https://assassinationconference.com/The Fairmont Dallas hotel 1717 N Akard Street, Dallas, Texas 75201. situated with easy access to Dealey PlazaChuck will be the Emcee & A LIVE Myths Panel is PlannedBE THE EFFECTListen/Chat on the Sitehttps://ochelli.com/listen-live/TuneInhttp://tun.in/sfxkxAPPLEhttps://music.apple.com/us/station/ochelli-com/ra.1461174708Ochelli Link Treehttps://linktr.ee/chuckochelliAnything is a blessing if you have the meansWithout YOUR support we go silent.---NOVEMBER IN DALLAS LANCER CONFERENCEDISCOUNT FOR YOU10 % OFF code = Ochelli10https://assassinationconference.com/Coming SOON Room Discount Details The Fairmont Dallas hotel 1717 N Akard Street, Dallas, Texas 75201. easy access to Dealey Plaza

Joe Borelli from Chartwell Strategy talks about the new mayor elect of New York City Zohran Mamdani and what his plans are moving forward and the ripple effect we could feel here in CT

Matt Rooney, Founder and Editor-in-Chief of SaveJersey.comTopic: New Jersey Gubernatorial Race John Solomon, award-winning investigative journalist, founder of "Just The News," and the host of “Just the News, No Noise” on the Real America’s Voice network Topic: Elections around the country Lenny Caro, President of the Yonkers Chamber of Commerce Topic: Celebrating Yonkers Col. Jack Jacobs, a retired colonel in the United States Army and a Medal of Honor recipient for his actions during the Vietnam War Topic: Latest U.S. military strike on an alleged drug cartel boat Joe Borelli, Former New York City Councilman and Managing Director of Chartwell Strategy GroupTopic: New York City Mayoral Race Mike Connors, Attorney at Law at Connors & Sullivan and host of "Ask the Lawyer," airing Saturdays at 6 p.m. and Sundays at 11 a.m. on AM 970 The AnswerTopic: Estate Planning Gone Wrong Jim McLaughlin, pollster, strategic consultant, and CEO and Partner of McLaughlin & AssociatesTopic: Polling in New York and New Jersey races Mike Davis, Founder of the Article III Project, Former Law Clerk for Justice Neil Gorsuch, and Former Chief Counsel for Nominations for the U.S. Senate Committee on the JudiciaryTopic: "Justice is coming for perpetrators of Arctic Frost" (Fox News op ed) Dr. Gil Lederman, Expert in Prostate Cancer and the host of "Radiosurgery New York with Dr. Gil Lederman" on AM 970 The AnswerTopic: Jewish tourist attacked in New York CitySee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

On today’s show, Josh is joined by Joe Borelli, former Minority Leader of the New York City Council, to break down the real-life consequences of a Mayor Mamdani — what his radical vision would mean for New York City and for the rest of America. Josh and Joe sound the alarm on how far-left policies could drive even more people out of blue states and into red ones.Josh also hits the key elections happening Tuesday in Virginia and New Jersey, asking whether Republicans can seize the momentum. He wraps up with sharp commentary on the latest controversy surrounding The Heritage Foundation president’s remarks about Tucker Carlson and Nick Fuentes, and what it reveals about the broader fight for the soul of the Right.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Joe Borelli, former New York City Councilman, calls into the program to talk about the shortcomings of Curtis Sliwa's mayoral campaign in New York City. Borelli highlights Sliwa's failure to gain substantial poll numbers and critique his campaign strategy, messaging, and debate performance. Borelli points out that Sliwa's focus on certain issues hasn't resonated broadly, and his campaign is seen as unprofessional and poorly executed. Despite shared ideological positions, they acknowledge the fragmented support for Sliwa and suggest his campaign is unlikely to succeed. The discussion also covers the potential impact of Andrew Cuomo's involvement and the challenging dynamics of the race. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On this Monday edition of Sid & Friends in the Morning, Sid covers a range of topics starting with intense discussions and controversies in the New York City mayoral race; US President Donald Trump's optimism about striking a trade deal with China, detailing the recent negotiations and future meetings, before returning to the heated NYC mayoral race, highlighting the campaigns, endorsements, and the escalating rhetoric among candidates as election day approaches. Dov Hikind, Fahad Solaiman, Gordon Chang, Joe Borelli, John Catsimatidis & Ray Kelly join Sid on this Monday installment of Sid & Friends in the Morning. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

12 - Trump has brokered peace in the Middle East, and even his biggest critics are giving him credit for what he has done. Will he get the Nobel Peace Prize? Dom lays out the odds. 1205 - Jack Ciattarelli is firm on his position of gravy vs. sauce and pasta vs. macaroni. 1215 - Side - associated with New Jersey 1230 - Former Minority Republican Leader of the NYC Council and State Legislator, Joe Borelli, joins us to break down the state of the NYC mayoral race. How strong of a grip does Zohran Mamdani have on the race? Can Cuomo mount a comeback? Where is Joe leaning with his vote? Are Mamdani's voters willfully ignorant of socialism? What is the state of the government shutdown? 1245 - TPUSA is having their own Super Bowl halftime show. Will the NFL be scared for their advertisers? 1250 - PA Senator Dave McCormick joins us as Trump was able to strike peace in the Middle East. What is Dave's take on what Trump has done here? Is Trump an isolationist, or just using American influence to his advantage? Dave details how dumb shutting down the government is, just because Democrats want to stick it to Trump.

12 - Trump has brokered peace in the Middle East, and even his biggest critics are giving him credit for what he has done. Will he get the Nobel Peace Prize? Dom lays out the odds. 1205 - Jack Ciattarelli is firm on his position of gravy vs. sauce and pasta vs. macaroni. 1215 - Side - associated with New Jersey 1230 - Former Minority Republican Leader of the NYC Council and State Legislator, Joe Borelli, joins us to break down the state of the NYC mayoral race. How strong of a grip does Zohran Mamdani have on the race? Can Cuomo mount a comeback? Where is Joe leaning with his vote? Are Mamdani's voters willfully ignorant of socialism? What is the state of the government shutdown? 1245 - TPUSA is having their own Super Bowl halftime show. Will the NFL be scared for its advertisers? 1250 - PA Senator Dave McCormick joins us as Trump was able to strike peace in the Middle East. What is Dave's take on what Trump has done here? Is Trump an isolationist, or just using American influence to his advantage? Dave details how dumb shutting down the government is, just because Democrats want to stick it to Trump. Your calls. 1 - Dom kicks off hour two with the political violence that keeps rising from the left. Is Antifa on the same level as Hamas and ISIS? 110 - Your calls. 120 - Is the Pope serious with his latest comments? Your calls. 130 - Award-winning film critic, journalist, and founder of Hollywood in Toto, Christian Toto, joins us. Is One Battle After Another an irresponsible movie to release in this day and age? Why did the media not come after this movie like critics did in 2019 for Todd Phillips' Joker? Given that the movie is centered around immigration, you'd think the press would have asked the actors about it during their public relations tour. How are these characters different from other anti-heroes like Tony Soprano? Is it doing well at the box office? What is Christian's take on Zach Bryan? What's next for Christian? What does he think of Trevor Noah's Charlie Kirk joke? 150 - Stop using your kids as a political shield! Your calls. 2 - Greater Philadelphia ZOA Executive Director, Steve Feldman, joins us to react to the peace deal Trump has struck between Israel and Palestine. Can we be sure that the hostages that Hamas has are alive? Is the media still biased towards the Hamas cause? What about social media? What is the heart of the Israel-Hamas conflict? 215 - Dom's Money Melody! 220 - Katie Porter has come under more scrutiny after she got upset at a reporter over her asking follow-up questions in an interview. More video of her being the absolute worst has resurfaced as a result. 230 - SaveJersey.com Founder and Blogger-in-Chief, as well as 1210 WPHT Host, Matt Rooney, joins us from scenic New Jersey. Why does Matt owe Dom a beer? How is the vent shaping up? Is Dom really in Jack Ciattarelli's ear after he made his stance clear on gravy vs. sauce during last night's debate? Why is it so important to send someone like Jack to Trenton? What gimmick should Jack use tomorrow to win over voters? Should Trump get the Nobel Peace Prize? 250 - The Lightning Round!

Dave Rubin of “The Rubin Report” talks about “The View's” Whoopi Goldberg looking visibly rattled after Charlie Kirk's assassination; Destiny shocking his co-panelists on “Piers Morgan Uncensored” with his disgusting reaction to Charlie Kirk's murder; JD Vance's blunt response to a recent YouGov poll showing that liberals are far more supportive of political violence; Joe Borelli getting CNN's Abby Phillip to go silent after reading her the simple facts of how supportive liberals are of political violence; FBI Director Kash Patel explaining to Fox News' Sean Hannity the latest evidence of Tyler Robinson's true motivation for assassinating Charlie Kirk; a Chicago Fatburger restaurant owner who's publicly thanking a concealed carrying customer for saving her business from teenage criminals; Elon Musk's stark warning for Tommy Robinson and the attendees of the “Unite the Kingdom” rally; and much more. WATCH the MEMBER-EXCLUSIVE segment of the show here: https://rubinreport.locals.com/ Check out the NEW RUBIN REPORT MERCH here: https://daverubin.store/ ----------  Today's Sponsors: Kikoff - Use Kikoff to build your credit fast. With affordable plans starting at just $5/mo, no hidden fees, and zero interest. It's simple: you make on-time payments, credit bureaus see good behavior, and your credit can grow—fast. Build credit fast and get your first month for just a dollar! Go to: https://getkikoff.com/rubin Chapter - Chapter's advisors make Medicare simple and always put you first. They listen carefully, compare every plan, and help you get the most savings. Choose the right Medicare plan for yourself with trusted guidance from Chapter. Give them a call today at (332) 867-0207 Tax Network USA - If you owe back taxes or have unfiled returns, don't let the government take advantage of you. Whether you owe a few thousand or a few million, they can help you. Call 1(800)-958-1000 for a private, free consultation or Go to: https://tnusa.com/dave

49:46- Joseph diGenova, former U.S. Attorney for the District of ColumbiaTopic: Suspect in Charlie Kirk assassination allegedly confessed online before arrest 1:06:46- K.T. McFarland, Former Trump Deputy National Security Advisor and the author of "Revolution: Trump, Washington and 'We The People'” Topic: Latest in Israel 1:22:16- Joe Borelli, Former New York City Councilman and Managing Director of Chartwell Strategy GroupTopic: Hochul endorsing Mamdani, Charlie Kirk 1:30:38- Pastor Corey Brooks, founder and Senior Pastor of New Beginnings Church of Chicago and founder and CEO of Project H.O.O.D. Communities Development CorporationTopic: Crime crackdown, Charlie Kirk 1:41:20- Danny Coulson, Former Deputy Assistant Director of the FBI and Founding Commander of the FBI Hostage Rescue TeamTopic: Charlie Kirk investigation 1:55:11- Raymond Arroyo, managing editor & host of "The World Over" on EWTN, host of the "Arroyo Grande" podcast, and a Fox News contributorTopic: Charlie Kirk's impact on Christianity in the United States 2:03:44- Philip Wegmann, White House Correspondent for Real Clear PoliticsTopic: Latest from the White HouseSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Some exciting races are upcoming in 2026. Joe Borelli from Chartwell Strategy wrote an Op-Ed in the NY Post and breaks it all down.

Joe Borelli, Managing Director at Chartwell Strategy Group and former New York City Council Minority Leader, joined the show to discuss how President Trump is doing so far in his second term and the unfolding election for New York City Mayor. The Staten Island Republican spent over a dozen years in elected office, in the State Assembly then City Council, until earlier this year when he left government for the private sector. (Ep 525)

Joe Borelli, Former New York City Council member for the 51st district and Minority Leader of the New York City Council, joins Sid to talk about his successor Frank Morano's political success, before he criticizes certain council members and discusses the current mayoral race, highlighting candidates like Curtis Sliwa, Eric Adams, and Andrew Cuomo. Borelli emphasizes the importance of campaign strategy and effective communication in the mayoral race. He also reflects on broader political dynamics, demographics, and recent improvements in NYC. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On this Wednesday edition of Sid & Friends in the Morning, Sid dives into all the pertinent news of the day including the mayoral race in New York City, highlighting former Governor Andrew Cuomo's surprise attendance at a Bronx event and Curtis Sliwa's busy campaign schedule, pointing out that Mayor Eric Adams had only a photo op event which turned out to be an appreciation event for a young brain cancer fighter, the strategies and challenges faced by the candidates, Governor Hochul's opposition to President Trump's executive order on cashless bail and threats to withhold federal funding from cities, including New York, that maintain such policies, the tension between federal and local governance is explored, President Trump's capital punishment proposal for DC, which would require congressional action to reinstate, the Cracker Barrel logo controversy following public backlash and President Trump's involvement via social media, leading to the company's decision to retain its original logo, and global geopolitical issues featuring Islamist extremism and the struggle for common values in the West. Jennifer Harrison, Joe Borelli, Curtis Sliwa, Scott LoBaido, Monica Crowley & Emily Austin join Sid on this hump day installment of Sid & Friends in the Morning. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Joe Piscopo's guest host this morning is Joe Borelli, Former New York City Councilman and Managing Director of Chartwell Strategy Group 51:33- Chris Swecker, attorney who served as assistant director of the FBI for the Criminal Investigative Division from 2004 to 2006 Topic: Trump seizing control over Washington police and deploying the national guard, Target shooting 1:00:17- Michelle Esquenazi, President of the National Association of Bail Agents (NABA) & CEO of Empire Bail Bonds in NY Topic: Trump vows federal bill to outlaw states’ cash bail bans 1:15:05- Hans von Spakovsky, Manager of the Heritage Foundation's Election Law Reform Initiative and Senior Legal Fellow at the Edwin Meese III Center for Legal and Judicial Studies Topic: Jeanine Pirro's push to change laws in DC amid youth crime 1:27:03- Tom Del Beccaro, attorney, acclaimed author, speaker, and the former Chairman of the California Republican Party Topic: Trump and Newsom fight over National Guard 2:03:51- Rafael Mangual, senior fellow with and head of research for the Manhattan Institute’s Policing and Public Safety Initiative, and a contributing editor of City Journal, and the author of "Criminal (In)Justice" Topic: Trump seizing control over Washington police 2:14:53- Jonathan Hoenig, portfolio manager at Capitalist Pig Hedge Fund LLC and a Fox News Contributor Topic: China tariff deadline extendedSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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23:13- Col. Patrick Callahan, New Jersey State Police Superintendent and State Director of Emergency Management Topic: Two people killed in flooding in Plainfield 35:06- Kristin Tate, columnist for The Hill, political commentator, Sky News contributor, and the author of "The Liberal Invasion of Red State America" Topic: Five Iranian nationals arrested at the northern border 48:02- Daniel Hoffman, Ret. CIA Senior Clandestine Services Officer and a Fox News Contributor Topic: Russia launches new attacks on Ukraine 1:02:51- Joe Borelli, Former New York City Councilman and Managing Director of Chartwell Strategy Group Topic: "Mamdani’s worst threat: Unleashing City Council radicals’ wildest, wokest dreams" (New York Post op ed) 1:11:49- Stephen Moore, "Joe Piscopo Show" Resident Scholar of Economics, Chairman of FreedomWorks Task Force on Economic Revival, former Trump economic adviser, and the author of "The Trump Economic Miracle: And the Plan to Unleash Prosperity Again" Topic: Inflation numbers for June 1:25:57- Pastor Corey Brooks, founder and Senior Pastor of New Beginnings Church of Chicago and founder and CEO of Project H.O.O.D. Community Development Corporation Topic: "Finding peace and spiritual strength amid the raging waters of devastating Texas flood tragedy" (Fox News op ed) 1:32:06- Alan Dershowitz, Harvard Law Professor Emeritus, host of "The DerShow," and the author of "The Ten Big Anti-Israel Lies: And How to Refute Them with Truth" and the new book "The Preventive State." Topic: SCOTUS Department of Education ruling, federal judges block permanent appointment of interim U.S. Attorney for New York 1:46:17- Art Del Cueto, Vice-President of the National Border Patrol Council Topic: Iranian nationals arrested at the northern borderSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

AOC's Bronx girl persona exposed as a fraud, Zohran Mamdani doubles down on plan to target ‘whiter neighborhoods' with higher taxes — and says billionaires shouldn't exist, Border Czar Tom Homan, Hogan Gidley and Joe Borelli join the show. Check Out Our Partners: Advantage Gold: Get your FREE wealth protection kit https://www.abjv1trk.com/F6XL22/4MQCFX/?sub1=Youtube American Financing: Save with https://www.americanfinancing.net/benny NMLS: 182334, http://www.nmlsconsumeraccess.org Brickhouse Nutrition: Go to https://www.FieldofGreens.com and use Code BENNY for 20% OFF your first order Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

On this episode, Liz Wheeler reacts to President Trump and Attorney General Pam Bondi saying that there are many illegal Iranian sleeper cells inside the United States. Plus, Joe Borelli, managing director of the Chartwell Strategy Group and former New York City Council GOP leader, weighs in on the NYC Democrat mayoral primary between Andrew Cuomo and Zohran Mamdani. Tune in to hear Borelli's prediction! SPONSORS: PREBORN!: Your tax-deductible donation of twenty-eight dollars sponsors one ultrasound and doubles a baby's chance at life. How many babies can you save? Please donate your best gift today– just dial #250 and say the keyword, “BABY" or go to https://preborn.com/LIZ. AMERICAN HARTFORD GOLD: American Hartford Gold: Tell them I sent you, and they'll give you up to $15,000 dollars of FREE silver on your first order. So call them now! Click here https://offers.americanhartfordgold.com or call 866-996-5172 or text LIZ to 998899. CROWDHEALTH: Get started today for just $80 per month for your first three months. Go to https://JoinCrowdHealth.com and use promo code “LIZ”. CrowdHealth is not insurance. -- Like & subscribe to make sure you don't miss a single video: https://youtube.com/lizwheeler?sub_co... Get the full audio show on all major podcast platforms: Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast... Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4LhlHfo... iHeart: https://www.iheart.com/podcast/269-th... Subscribe to The Liz Wheeler Show newsletter: https://lizwheeler.com/email Get VIP access to The Liz Wheeler Show on Locals: https://lizwheeler.locals.com/. Stay in touch with Liz on social media: Facebook: / officiallizwheeler Twitter: / liz_wheeler Instagram: / officiallizwheeler Rumble: https://rumble.com/LizWheeler Website: https://lizwheeler.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

51:36- Dr. Rebecca Grant, national security analyst based in Washington, D.C. Specializing in defense and aerospace research, founder of IRIS Independent Research, and Senior Fellow at the Lexington Institute Topic: U.S. air strike on Iran 1:01:07- Assemblyman Dov Hikind, former New York State Assemblyman and the son of holocaust survivors Topic: U.S. air strike on Iran and the impact it will have on Israel 1:12:55- Johnny "Joey" Jones, Fox News military analyst and host, Marine Corps veteran, and the author of "Behind the Badge" Topic: U.S. air strike on Iran 1:26:45- Joe Borelli, Former New York City Councilman and Managing Director of Chartwell Strategy Group Topic: Primary Day in New York tomorrow 1:33:54- Hogan Gidley, Former National Press Secretary for the Trump campaign, former White House Deputy Press Secretary, and a Newsmax contributor Topic: President Trump's actions in Iran air strike 1:48:33- Lt. Col. Robert Maginnis, a retired U.S. Army officer and an experienced military analyst with on-the-ground experience inside Russia and Ukraine and the author of "Preparing for World War III" Topic: "Trump launches precision strikes against Iran. Triumph or trap?" (Fox News op ed) 2:02:10- Lt. Col. Chuck DeVore (Ret.), Chief National Initiatives Officer at the Texas Public Policy Foundation who served as a Republican member of the California State Assembly from 2004 to 2010 Topic: U.S. air strike on Iran 2:10:07- David Friedman, Former U.S. Ambassador to Israel and the author of "Sledgehammer: How Breaking with the Past Brought Peace to the Middle East" Topic: U.S. air strike on Iran and its overall impact on the Middle EastSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Col. Kurt Schlichter, Attorney, Retired Army Infantry Colonel with a Masters in Strategic Studies from the United States Army War College, Senior Columnist at Town Hall, and the author of "Lost Angeles: Silver Bullets on the Sunset Strip"Topic: 700 Marines and another 2,000 National Guard troops deployed in Los Angeles Joseph diGenova, former U.S. Attorney for the District of ColumbiaTopic: DOJ identifying the suspect who attacked a federal officer, California suing the Trump administration Matt Rooney, Founder and Editor-in-Chief of SaveJersey.comTopic: New Jersey Primary Day K.T. McFarland, Former Trump Deputy National Security Advisor and the author of "Revolution: Trump, Washington and 'We The People'”Topic: Latest in Russia-Ukraine war and China Chris Swecker, attorney who served as assistant director of the FBI for the Criminal Investigative Division from 2004 to 2006Topic: FBI involvement in LA troops Joe Borelli, Former New York City Councilman and Managing Director of Chartwell Strategy GroupTopic: Mayor Eric Adams and Jessica Tisch's "No Tolerance" policy for disruptive protesters, upcoming New York primaries Gordon Chang, Asia expert, columnist and author of "China is Going to War"Topic: Trade talks to resume with China Karol Markowicz, Columnist for the New York PostTopic: "Florida stands up against woke mind virus and rejects leftist university president who promised 'DEI 2.0'" (Fox News op ed) Assemblyman Robert Auth, New Jersey Assemblyman representing the 39th district (Bergen & Passaic)Topic: Primary Day in New JerseySee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Joe Piscopo's guest host this morning is Joe Borelli, Former New York City Councilman and Managing Director of Chartwell Strategy Group 53:11- Dr. Rebecca Grant, national security analyst based in Washington, D.C. Specializing in defense and aerospace research, founder of IRIS Independent Research, and Senior Fellow at the Lexington Institute Topic: Latest with Putin in peace talks 1:03:06- Ali Jahangiri, CEO and Founder of EB5 Investors Magazine Topic: Impending "Gold Card" website launch 1:14:40- Assemblyman Paul Kanitra, Republican representing New Jersey's 10th District Topic: Arrests in Seaside Heights over Memorial Day weekend 1:28:32- Assemblyman Jake Blumencranz, Republican representing the 15th District of the New York State Assembly Topic: Antisemitism in New York 1:36:58- Councilman Keith Powers, Democratic candidate for Manhattan Borough President Topic: Race for Manhattan Borough President 2:04:26- Karol Markowicz, Columnist for the New York Post Topic: "Hillary Clinton is back and doing what she does best -- trashing women" (Fox News op ed)See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Joe Piscopo's guest host this morning is Joe Borelli, Former New York City Councilman and Managing Director of Chartwell Strategy Group 37:07- Col. Jack Jacobs, a retired colonel in the United States Army and a Medal of Honor recipient for his actions during the Vietnam War. Jacobs joins Guest Host Joe Borelli to discuss the values of Memorial Day and what it should mean to others, especially the younger generation. Topic: Memorial Day 51:36- David Bernstein, Founder and CEO of the North American Values Institute and the author of "Woke Antisemitism: How a Progressive Ideology Harms Jews," Guest host Joe Borelli and Bernstein discuss how “Woke Antisemitism” has gradually expanded both in New York and in Washington, D.C. over the last few years. Topic: "My peaceful hand was met with murder in woke terror attack on Jewish Museum" (New York Post op ed) 1:03:19- Kyle Bailey, Aviation analyst, pilot, and former FAA Safety Team representative, joins the show with Guest Host Joe Borelli to discuss the potential scenarios of the cause of the plane crash that occurred overnight on Thursday from Teterboro, NJ, into San Diego, CA. Topic: Plane that took off from Teterboro crashes in San Diego 1:13:50- Andrew Garbarino, U.S. representative for New York's 2nd congressional district Topic: Sleeping through the "big, beautiful bill" vote 1:27:53- Dr. Scott Atlas, Robert Wesson Senior Fellow in health policy at the Hoover Institution, Advisor on the White House Coronavirus Task Force under Donald Trump, and the author of "A Plague Upon Our House: My Fight at the Trump White House to Stop COVID from Destroying America" Topic: RFK Jr.'s MAHA report 2:04:18- Robert Sinclair, Senior Manager of Public Affairs at AAA Northeast, joins Guest Host Joe Borelli comparing Memorial Day Traffic in past years, more people are driving this year because of record breaking Memorial Day Weekend gas prices. Topic: Memorial Day travelSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

52:00- John Solomon, award-winning investigative journalist, founder of "Just The News," and the host of “Just the News, No Noise” on the Real America’s Voice network Topic: Concerns about Pete Hegseth, the death of Pope Francis, Trump slamming SCOTUS over deportations, other news of the day 1:00:09- Joe Borelli, Former New York City Councilman and Managing Director of Chartwell Strategy Group Topic: Sean Duffy threatening New York funding over congestion pricing 1:25:32- Rev. Robert A. Sirico is president emeritus and the co-founder of the Acton Institute Topic: "Pope Francis was disruptive. Now, the next pope must clean up the 'mess'" (Fox News op ed) 1:35:19- Steve Forbes, Chairman and Editor-in-Chief at Forbes Media & the co-author of "Inflation: What It Is, Why It's Bad, and How to Fix It" Topic: Trump calling Powell "a major loser," latest on the economy 1:45:58- Gregg Jarrett, Legal and political analyst for Fox News Channel and the author of "The Trial Of The Century" Topic: Nadine Menendez convicted, "Trump’s deportation wins are a rebuke to scheming lawyers and activist judges" (Fox News op ed) 1:58:50- Gordon Chang, Asia expert, columnist and author of "China is Going to War" Topic: China threatening countermeasures in trade warSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Former Councilman Joe Borelli calls in to offer his thoughts on the Mayoral race here in New York City after incumbent Mayor Eric Adams announced this morning that he'll be running as an independent in the general election. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On this Thursday edition of Sid & Friends in the Morning, Sid covers the Department of Justice dropping all charges against New York City Mayor Eric Adams in a move not surprising to anyone, before the Mayor pulls another unsurprising maneuver in removing himself from the Democrat Primary race for Mayor of NYC and instead saying he'll run as an independent in the general election. In other news of the day, Elon Musk is reportedly on the verge of stepping down as the head of DOGE, Speaker of the House Mike Johnson loses his push to block new parents in the U.S. House from proxy voting, and President Trump sends the stock market into a free-falling frenzy after "Liberation Day" in America and the implementation of his sweeping tariffs worldwide. Jeff Lax, Joe Borelli, Bo Dietl, Charles Gasparino, Bill O'Reilly and Emily Austin join Sid on this Friday-eve installment of Sid & Friends in the Morning. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jonathan Hoenig, portfolio manager at Capitalist Pig Hedge Fund LLC and a Fox News ContributorTopic: Trump tariffs and their impact on the economy Joe Borelli, Former New York City Councilman and Managing Director of Chartwell Strategy GroupTopic: Eric Adams' charges dismissed Stephen Moore, "Joe Piscopo Show" Resident Scholar of Economics, Chairman of FreedomWorks Task Force on Economic Revival, former Trump economic adviser and the author of "The Trump Economic Miracle: And the Plan to Unleash Prosperity Again"Topic: Trump tariffs Nicole Parker, Special Agent with the FBI from 2010 through October 2022 and a Fox News contributorTopic: FBI flooded with record number of new agent applications under Kash Patel, testimony on the mismanagement of the FBI by Joe Biden Thomas Homan, Border Czar for the Trump administrationTopic: Latest in Trump's deportations fight Alan Dershowitz, Harvard Law Professor Emeritus, host of "The DerShow," and the author of "The Ten Big Anti-Israel Lies: And How to Refute Them with Truth"Topic: Eric Adams charges dropped, outcome of the Wisconsin Supreme Court election, other legal news of the daySee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Joe Borelli, former NYC Council GOP Leader, joins Sid to talk about the council seat he left behind and how he thinks former WABC host Frank Morano's campaign is going as Morano fights for that very seat. Borelli then dives into the other top local headlines in the news today.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Joe Piscopo's guest host this morning is Joe Borelli, Former New York City Councilman and Managing Director of Chartwell Strategy Group Chris Swecker, attorney who served as assistant director of the FBI for the Criminal Investigative Division from 2004 to 2006Topic: Kash Patel confirmationJim McLaughlin, pollster, strategic consultant, and CEO and Partner of McLaughlin & AssociatesTopic: Trump's approval rating after one month in office, CPAC Shahar Azani, Former Israeli Diplomat and Former Spokesperson of the Israeli Consulate in New YorkTopic: Three buses explode in Israel in suspected terror attackKarol Markowicz, Columnist for the New York PostTopic: "One month of Trump reminds Americans what we’ve been missing" (Fox News op ed) Dr. Betsy McCaughey, New York Post columnist, former Lt. Gov. of NY State, Chairwoman and founder of the Committee to Reduce Infection DeathsTopic: "Pam Bondi’s ‘new DOJ’ has slam-dunk case against NY for shielding illegal aliens" (New York Post op ed), Gov. Hochul's decision on Mayor AdamsSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Joe Piscopo's guest host this morning is Joe Borelli, Former New York City Councilman and Managing Director of Chartwell Strategy GroupCol. Kurt Schlichter, Attorney, Retired Army Infantry Colonel with a Masters in Strategic Studies from the United States Army War College, Senior Columnist at Town Hall, and the author of "We'll Be Back: The Fall & Rise of America"Topic: Trump testing legal limits, Trump's dealings with PutinCouncilman Robert Holden, Democratic City Councilman from QueensTopic: Meeting with Tom HomanCongresswoman Nicole Malliotakis, Representative for New York's 11th Congressional DistrictTopic: Future of NYC injection sites, Trump's impact on New YorkHans von Spakovsky, Manager of the Heritage Foundation's Election Law Reform Initiative and Senior Legal Fellow at the Edwin Meese III Center for Legal and Judicial StudiesTopic: DOJ lawsuit against New YorkLt. Col. Robert Maginnis, a retired U.S. Army officer and an experienced military analyst with on-the-ground experience inside Russia and Ukraine and the author of "Preparing for World War III"Topic: Trump's meetings with Russia, hostagesLiz Peek, Fox News contributor, columnist for Fox News and The Hill, and former partner of major bracket Wall Street firm Wertheim & CompanyTopic: "Trump's 'vibe shift' is rolling across America. Look at the latest evidence" (Fox News op ed)See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Councilman Joe Borelli joins the program to offer his expertise on the local political landscape and where it's headed in 2025. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On this Thursday edition of Sid & Friends in the Morning, we breathe a sigh of relief as President Joe Biden delivers his farewell address from The Oval Office, an office which he'll be yielding to incoming President Donald Trump come Monday's inauguration. In other news of the day, a ceasefire agreement between Israel and the terrorist organization that is Hamas is tentatively on the table but is now on shaky ground as of this morning, and Senate Confirmation Hearings continue on Capitol Hill for President-elect Trump's cabinet nominations. Scott Kaplan, Curtis Sliwa, David Friedman, Brian Kilmeade, Bill O'Reilly and Joe Borelli join Sid on this Friday-eve installment of Sid & Friends in the Morning. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Joe Borelli - a Staten Island Republican, longtime Donald Trump supporter, and New York City Council Minority Leader - joined the show to discuss Trumpism, the 2024 presidential race, New York swing House races, his potential run for Mayor, and more. (Ep 467)

The Ochelli Effect 10-8-2024 Joe BorelliPreview for Lancer 2024 with Lone Gunman Podcast Co-Host Joe Borelli.Why is he called scooter Joe? What does he plan to present at Lancer 2024? What is the latest in JFK Research?Lone Gunman on Spreakerhttps://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-lone-gunman-podcast-jfk-assassination--1181353YouTube Lone Gunmanhttps://www.youtube.com/@TheLoneGunmanPodcastNOVEMBER IN DALLAS 2024JFK Lancer Conference InformationNovember 22-24 2024 Virtual Tickets starting at 74.99In-Person Tickets start at 144.99Student Price is 39.99, must show proof of being a studentUse code Ochelli10 for 10% off your ticketsOn sale at assassinationconference.comDISCOUNT Tickets & Packages + BE Counted as an EFFECTERUse code Ochelli10 for 10% off your ticketDates: November 22nd-24thHotel: Dallas Marriott DowntownRoom prices starting at $169 per nightTo book a room call Marriott Reservations at 1 (800) 228-9290 or (214) 979-9000 and mention the November in Dallas Conference Group RateUse code Ochelli10 for 10% off your ticketIf you would like assistance finding discount flights to the conference or activities for your spouse to do in Dallas they can reach out to Gabby's Getaway Adventures through Facebook or emailgabbiesgetawayadventure@gmail.com BE THE EFFECT LIVE Shows and 24/7 Online RadioListen/Chat on the Sitehttps://ochelli.com/listen-live/TuneInhttp://tun.in/sfxkxAPPLEhttps://music.apple.com/us/station/ochelli-com/ra.1461174708Ochelli Link Treehttps://linktr.ee/chuckochelliKeep Ochelli.com and Chuck Goinghttps://www.paypal.com/paypalme/ochelli

Joe Borelli, New York City Council member for the 51st district and Minority Leader of the New York City Council, calls in to talk about the walls closing in around New York City Mayor and his administration after his Chief Counsel in Lisa Zornberg is the latest to step down from her duties, and why he's seriously considering running for Mayor himself. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On this Monday edition of Sid & Friends in the Morning, there is evidently no bigger game in the world of hunting right now than former President and current GOP nominee for President Donald J. Trump, who was the target of yet another assassination attempt over the weekend while he golfed at his club in Mar-a-Lago. The mere fact that such an attempt was allowed to almost be carried out for the second time in as many months proves in and if itself that the leftist Democrat mainstream fake news media is mostly to blame for these attempts on Trump's life, with their continued pedaling of a narrative that falsely paints the former President as a threat to our Democracy. In other news of the day, Sid's daughter Ava Rosenberg is not backing down after being doxed by her peers at her University in the United Kingdom, just because she is a proud Jew who supports the free Jewish state of Israel. Joe Borelli, Curtis Sliwa, Joe Tacopina, John Catsimatidis, Alan Dershowitz, Karol Markowicz and Dr. Marc Siegel join Sid on this Monday installment of Sid & Friends in the Morning. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Joe Borelli is a researcher of history in particular the assassination of president John F. Kennedy and is the other half of "The Lone Gunman Podcast". Joe has been interested in the JFK case for a few years now but only recently decided to step into the media light after communicating with past guest and show host Rob Clark. The two now are presenting new evidence in the case such as the number of Martins that appear throughout and how some of these have more than a few connections to the intelligence agencies. https://x.com/TheLoneGunman7 https://www.youtube.com/@TheLoneGunmanPodcast/videos https://jfkassassinationconversation.locals.com/ --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/out-of-the-blank/support

Joe Borelli is the Minority Leader of the New York City Council and represents the cities 51st Council District.Follow Clay & Buck on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/clayandbuckSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Joe Borelli is the Minority Leader of the New York City Council and represents the cities 51st Council District.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Barstool's Dave Portnoy busts Washington Post reporter planning hit-piece on him. KJP refuses to answer Doocy question on 10K illegals crossing border in one day. New York City Council Minority Leader Joe Borelli joins Clay and Buck to discuss the migrant crisis and liberals trying to tear down statues in NYC. Kamala Harris on climate change and boiling frogs.Follow Clay & Buck on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/clayandbuckSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.