Podcast appearances and mentions of louis ferrante

LOU'S OTHER EPISODES w/ ME: Ep. 283 - https://open.spotify.com/episode/2t5k2znfkqUPaQhoVySbqO?si=5eNiRIXFS66unpvojVlIaQ Ep. 185 - https://open.spotify.com/episode/78nDhaqL1rjcZGz7PM4oBi?si=01T_oN8mSZWnLAIj99a6ag (***TIMESTAMPS in description below) ~ Louis Ferrante is a former Gambino Crime Family Mobster, historian, author, and TV Host. PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/JulianDorey FOLLOW JULIAN DOREY: INSTAGRAM (Podcast): https://www.instagram.com/juliandoreypodcast/ INSTAGRAM (Personal): https://www.instagram.com/julianddorey/ X: https://twitter.com/julianddorey LOU'S LINKS: BOOK/WEBSITE: https://louisferrante.com/ X: https://x.com/LOUFERRANTE ****TIMESTAMPS**** 0:00 - Send Help 0:27 - Jack Ruby, Bobby Kennedy & Carlos Marcello, JFK Post-Assassination 20:38 - Magic Bullet Theory, Woody Harrelson's Father's Connection to JFK 32:28 - JFK Files & Octopus Murders 56:02 - Secret Service & JFK Assassination 1:05:51 - Dallas PD, Chief Justice Curry & Oswald, Marcello Trial 1:14:47 - Lee Harvey Oswald's Mafia Connection 1:32:29 - Why they K1lled John F Kennedy 1:34:25 - Cuban Revolutionaries & JFK 1:44:40 - 60 years of JFK Files lies, Elon Musk 2:08:28 - Who K1lled JFK? 2:17:09 - Lou putting pieces together CREDITS: - Host & Producer: Julian D. Dorey - In-Studio Producer & Editor: Alessi Allaman - https://www.youtube.com/@alessiallaman Julian Dorey Podcast Episode 286 - Louis Ferrante Music by Artlist.io Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In this episode we sit down to talk to Louis Ferrante all about his Borgata book series which charts to rise of the American Mafia! We spoke about some of the main characters, the relationships between different racial groups in building up the mafia, and how they influenced the American political process!Grab a copy of Borgata: Rise of Empire: A History of the American Mafia and Borgata: Clash of Titans: A History of the American MafiaKeep up to date with Louis through his website, and XIf you want to get in touch with History with Jackson email: jackson@historywithjackson.co.ukTo support History with Jackson to carry on creating content subscribe to History with Jackson+ on Apple Podcasts or support us on our Patreon!To catch up on everything to do with History with Jackson head to www.HistorywithJackson.co.ukFollow us on Facebook at @HistorywithJacksonFollow us on Instagram at @HistorywithJacksonFollow us on X/Twitter at @HistorywJacksonFollow us on TikTok at @HistorywithJackson Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The Stuph File Program Featuring Cynthia Moore, author of Dancing On Coals; & science writer Andrew Fazekas, author of National Geographic Backyard Guide to the Night Sky and National Geographic's Stargazer Atlas: The Ultimate Guide To The Night Sky Download Cynthia Moore is an award-winning playwright and performer who shifted gears and become a clinical psychologist. She shares her journey in the book, Dancing On Coals. Science writer, Andrew Fazekas, The Night Sky Guy, author of National Geographic Backyard Guide to the Night Sky and National Geographic's Stargazer Atlas: The Ultimate Guide To The Night Sky, is back to talk about the long-awaited return of two NASA astronauts who were stranded in space for months on the International Space Station; the Blue Ghost Moon lander; the Starlink satellite train; the James Webb Space Telescope; & the new streaming service from the ISS. This week's guest slate is presented by Louis Ferrante, the former mobster turned author, who has written a series of books about the Mafia. His latest one is Borgata: Clash Of Titans, A History Of The American Mafia. He was back on show #0806.

SPONSOR: 1) Get 15% off with code JULIAN at oneskin.co WATCH LOU'S OTHER EPISODE #185: https://youtu.be/QJQ43u_2pPY (***TIMESTAMPS in description below) ~ Louis Ferrante is a former Gambino Crime Family Mobster, historian, author, and TV Host. PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/JulianDorey FOLLOW JULIAN DOREY: INSTAGRAM (Podcast): https://www.instagram.com/juliandoreypodcast/ INSTAGRAM (Personal): https://www.instagram.com/julianddorey/ X: https://twitter.com/julianddorey LOU'S LINKS: BOOK/WEBSITE: https://louisferrante.com/ X: https://x.com/LOUFERRANTE ****TIMESTAMPS**** 00:00 - Lou's New Book & History of Mafia, Did They Wack JFK 09:03 - Jack vs RFK Comparisons, Jordan Belfort (Almost Clipped), Jail Time & Getting Out in 8 Years 20:02 - Joe Kennedy & Mafia During Prohibition, Frank Costello Buys Kennedy's Liquor Company 33:00 - JFK Wins Election (Barely) & How, Lawyers Lou Used & Terrible Holes in Justice System 43:49 - 2 Mafia Members Responsible for JFK (Marcello & Traficante) 55:06 - Hoover Evidence of Being Gay, Bobby Kennedy Gets Joseph Valachi to Testifies (Rat isn't only Italians can be on anyone) 01:07:21 - Hoover's Cross Dressing Pictures Debunked 01:14:26 - Mafia's Ties with the Navy Exposed (Luciano Deported) 01:21:34 - Tommy Bitrizo Supplied World Trade Center, Louie Dubono Clipped, Story of Kevin Ratting 01:27:31 - Why Did Hoover Ignore the Mob, Bobby Kennedy Wanted to Get Rid of Hoover 01:38:30 - Dulles Planning for Castro & Cuban Exiles, Bay of Pigs Disaster 01:40:00 - Why Kennedy Backed Out on Cuba, Ramifications of Bay of Pigs 01:55:00 - Cuban Missile Crisis, Private Convo's with Krushev & Build Up to Assassination 02:01:45 - Kennedy's Upcoming Re-election Possibility, LBJ Making Deals & Opposite of Kennedy's Policies 02:12:51 - LBJ Behind the Scenes & Rise to Power (Mafia Ties) OTHER JDP EPISODES MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE: - Episode 124 - Paul Rosolie: https://youtu.be/eytcGavv5ck - Episode 130 - Salvatore Bonanno: https://youtu.be/ETuE3h7_48o CREDITS: - Host & Producer: Julian D. Dorey - In-Studio Producer & Editor: Alessi Allaman - https://www.youtube.com/@alessiallaman Julian Dorey Podcast Episode 283 - Louis Ferrante Music by Artlist.io Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Send us a textWelcome to the conclusion of a special two part show with fan favorite, former Gambino Family Mobster turned mafia historian and international bestselling author, Louis Ferrante. Mr. Ferrante grew up in New York City and became entangled in the Gambino crime family. He was eventually arrested and served almost ten years in prison. While he was incarcerated, he taught himself to write, and he fell in love with books. He promised himself that he would someday become an international bestselling author, and he did!Louis Ferrante is an international bestselling author, including his newest book, Borgata: Clash of Titans: A History of the American Mafia: Volume 2 of the Borgata Trilogy. He is also a global speaker and television host for Discovery Networks International. His books have been translated into twenty languages and his television series has aired in over 200 countries and territories around the world.Please enjoy this conversation where we discuss the head of the Kennedy clan, Joe Kennedy and his affiliation with the mob, his manipulation of American Politics that led to his sons John F. Kennedy becoming president and Bobby Kennedy becoming attorney general and both of their eventual assignations. We also dive into the hatred between FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover and the Kennedy's. We also discuss mob and union bosses Jimmy Hoffa, Sam Giancana, Carlos Marcello, Florida don Santo Trafficante and a host of other prominent mafia characters.In today's episode we discuss:.·      J. Edgar Hoover, The Kennedys, and the mob. ·      FBI conducting illegal wiretaps and other illegal activities regarding the mob.·      The mob and the bay of pig's connection.·      The United States hiring mafia hitmen to take out Fidel Castro.·      The Lee Harvey Oswald and Jack Ruby connection with the mob.·      J. Edgar Hoover withholding information on the John F. Kennedy assassination that could have saved his life.·      The Warren Commission. ·      The movie The Godfather and blowback from the real mafia.·      The Jimmy Hoffa / Richard Nixon and the mob connection. Visit Lou on his website to learn more about him and his books!Check out the new Cops and Writers YouTube channel!Check out my newest book, The Good Collar (Michael Quinn Vigilante Justice Series Book 1)!What would you do if you lost the one you loved the most? How far would you go to quench your thirst for vengeance?https://a.co/d/2UsJPbaSupport the show

Send us a textWelcome to part one of a special two-part show with former Gambino Family Mobster turned mafia historian and international bestselling author Louis Ferrante. Mr. Ferrante grew up in New York City and became entangled in the Gambino crime family. He was eventually arrested and served almost ten years in prison. While he was incarcerated, he taught himself to write, and he fell in love with books. He promised himself that he would someday become an international bestselling author, and he did!Louis Ferrante is an international bestselling author, including his newest book, Borgata: Clash of Titans: A History of the American Mafia: Volume 2 of the Borgata Trilogy. He is also a global speaker and television host for Discovery Networks International. His books have been translated into twenty languages, and his television series has aired in over 200 countries and territories worldwide.Please enjoy this conversation where we discuss the head of the Kennedy clan, Joe Kennedy and his affiliation with the mob, his manipulation of American Politics that led to his sons John F. Kennedy becoming president and Bobby Kennedy becoming attorney general and both of their eventual assignations. We also dive into the hatred between FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover and the Kennedy's. We also discuss mob and union bosses Jimmy Hoffa, Sam Giancana, Carlos Marcello, Florida don Santo Trafficante and a host of other prominent mafia characters.In today's episode we discuss:.·      Does Lou ever feel like his life is in danger because of writing these books? He exposes a lot of dirt, some known some unknown on some very powerful families (both mob and non-mob) and politicians..·      The first book of the trilogy, Borgata: Rise of Empire: A History of the American Mafia (Borgata Trilogy).·      The history of the Catholic religion and the mob. ·      Chicago politics and organized crime.·      Trump signing off on the Warren Commission files. What, if any, startling revelations will come out of this? Who do you think killed Kennedy? ·      The rumblings in the mob to kill John F and Bobby Kennedy.·      Joe Kennedy. The big boss of the family. His alliance with the mob, bootlegging, killing illegal aliens (dumping them off boats), FDR and Joe Kennedy?·      Joe Kennedy aspiring to become president but was anti-democracy. More pro-Hitler and Nazis. ·      Joe Kennedy having girlfriend's and then handing them down to his sons after he was done with them.·      JFK, war hero and second son of the Kennedys. Joe had him picked to become president. Joe made a deal with Sam Giancana (Chicago mob) to get his son elected in a very close race between him and Nixon.·      Bobby Kennedy was thought of as a slacker and a wimp. Not up to par for the Kennedy persona.·      Bobby Kennedy going after the teamsters and Jimmy Hoffa. History of Bobby Kennedy and Jimmy Hoffa.·      Frank Sinatra and the mob? Unofficial liaison?Visit Lou on his website to learn more about him and his books!Check out the new Cops and Writers YouTube channel!Check out my newest book, The Good Collar (Michael Quinn Vigilante Justice Series Book 1)!What would you do if you lost the one you loved the most? How far would you go to quench your thirst for vengeance?https://a.co/d/2UsJPbaSupport the show

Former mafia associate Louis Ferrante talks about "Borgata: Clash of Titans," volume two of his history of the American mafia that covers the years 1960-1985. In part two of this two-part interview, Mr. Ferrante further details what he says was the mafia's involvement in the assassination of President Kennedy and discusses Robert Kennedy's battle with mobster Carlos Marcello, boss of the New Orleans Mafia from the late 1940s to the early 1980s.   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Former mafia associate Louis Ferrante talks about "Borgata: Clash of Titans," volume two of his history of the American mafia that covers the years 1960-1985. In part two of this two-part interview, Mr. Ferrante further details what he says was the mafia's involvement in the assassination of President Kennedy and discusses Robert Kennedy's battle with mobster Carlos Marcello (mar-CELL-oh), boss of the New Orleans Mafia from the late 1940s to the early 1980s.   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The release of the JFK assassination files is now tantalisingly close, and every little bit of new information is being immediately inhaled by historians and conspiracy theorists alike. In the last couple of days, Congresswoman Anna Paulina Luna, who was appointed by President Trump to manage the release, has stated that “the initial hearing… was actually faulty” and “I believe that there were two shooters”. This information alone is a bombshell, but coming from a US government official makes it all the more juicy. So what else about the official government account of the assassination could be false? And could this sordid event finally be shown to be a genuine, honest to goodness conspiracy? To answer these questions, Piers Morgan speaks to ex-mobster Louis Ferrante, ex-CIA agent Andrew Bustamante and YouTuber and filmmaker Johnny Harris. After that, Piers turns to Judyth Vary Baker, a woman who claims she was Lee Harvey Oswald's ex lover and claims he told her he was "set up". Uncensored is proudly independent and supported by: American Hartford Gold: Protect your wealth with precious metals! Get up to $15,000 in free silver on your first order. Call 866-692-2474 or Text PIERS to 65532, or click the link below: https://offers.americanhartfordgold.com/piers-morgan/ This paid promotion should not be construed as providing legal, tax, investment, financial, or other advice. ExpressVPN: Go to https://expressvpn.com/PIERS and find out how you can get 4 months of ExpressVPN free! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Former mafia associate Louis Ferrante talks about "Borgata: Clash of Titans," volume two of his history of the American mafia that covers the years 1960-1985. In part one of a two-part interview, he gives a history of the mafia in America, discusses Attorney General Robert Kennedy's war against organized crime and the involvement that he says the mafia had in the 1960 election and 1963 assassination of President John Kennedy. Mr. Ferrante also shares stories about his time as a heist expert for the Gambino crime family, which led to his imprisonment in 1994.     Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Former mafia associate Louis Ferrante talks about "Borgata: Clash of Titans," volume two of his history of the American mafia that covers the years 1960-1985. In part one of a two-part interview, he gives a history of the mafia in America, discusses Attorney General Robert Kennedy's war against organized crime and the involvement that he says the mafia had in the 1960 election and 1963 assassination of President John Kennedy. Mr. Ferrante also shares stories about his time as a heist expert for the Gambino crime family, which led to his imprisonment in 1994.     Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

MAKE HISTORY WITH US THIS SUMMER:https://demystifysci.com/demysticon-2025PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/c/demystifysciPARADIGM DRIFT! Sign up to present YOUR theory: https://demystifysci.com/paradigm-drift-showWhat's still hidden inside the JFK files Trump has promised to release? Since the 1960s historians have been trying to assemble an accurate story that weaves together the shadowy trinity of cuban revolutionaries, secretive three letter agencies, and powerful organized crime families with the fate of JFK. With us for the discussion of what those files will reveal is Louis Ferrante, former member of the Gambino crime family. Check out his books on the history of the Mafia and their involvement with the Kennedy family below. BUY LOUIS' BOOK, “BORGATA: CLASH OF TITANS”: https://amzn.to/3CLMQTJPART 1 of this interview: https://youtu.be/W0nwMS5a1q0PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/c/demystifysciMERCH: https://demystifysci.myspreadshop.com/allAMAZON: Do your shopping through this link: https://amzn.to/3YyoT98SUBSTACK: https://substack.com/@UCqV4_7i9h1_V7hY48eZZSLw@demystifysci(00:00) Go! (00:03:30) Jack Ruby: The Linchpin(00:05:23) Mob Ties and Political Intrigue(00:08:15) The Crime Scene Unfolds(00:13:10) The Dual Conspiracy: Oswald and Ruby(00:20:56) Mysterious Return of Oswald(00:23:01) Ruth Paine's Involvement(00:25:05) Oswald's Impersonation and Cuban Connection(00:28:04) Jack Ruby's Motivations(00:31:57) Staging Oswald as a Communist(00:36:07) Complex Web of Conspirators(00:39:34) Legal Challenges in JFK Assassination(00:42:24) Investigation Anomalies(00:47:12) Kennedy Assassination Doubts(00:56:13) Alternative Theories and Inconsistencies(01:00:38) Testimony Integrity(01:03:22) Potential Assassination Plots(01:06:12) Oswald's Role and Ruby's Intentions(01:10:47) CIA, Rogue Agents, and Secret Service(01:17:22) Secret Service Complicity(01:22:49) Secret Service and JFK Assassination Theories(01:26:31) Trust in Institutions and Assassination Attempts(01:29:03) Writing the Mafia Trilogy#kennedy, #MafiaHistory, #organizedcrime, #TrueCrime, #HistoricalAnalysis, #MobTies, #CrimeDocumentary, #AmericanHistory, #MobBoss, #CrimePodcast, #HistoryUncovered, #UnderworldSecrets, #MobStories, #HistoricalTruths, #philosophypodcast, #sciencepodcast, #longformpodcast Check our short-films channel, @DemystifySci: https://www.youtube.com/c/DemystifyingScience AND our material science investigations of atomics, @MaterialAtomics https://www.youtube.com/@MaterialAtomicsJoin our mailing list https://bit.ly/3v3kz2S PODCAST INFO: Anastasia completed her PhD studying bioelectricity at Columbia University. When not talking to brilliant people or making movies, she spends her time painting, reading, and guiding backcountry excursions. Shilo also did his PhD at Columbia studying the elastic properties of molecular water. When he's not in the film studio, he's exploring sound in music. They are both freelance professors at various universities. - Blog: http://DemystifySci.com/blog - RSS: https://anchor.fm/s/2be66934/podcast/rss- Donate: https://bit.ly/3wkPqaD- Swag: https://bit.ly/2PXdC2y SOCIAL: - Discord: https://discord.gg/MJzKT8CQub- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/DemystifySci- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/DemystifySci/- Twitter: https://twitter.com/DemystifySciMUSIC: -Shilo Delay: https://g.co/kgs/oty671

On this episode, Frank Morano engages in a compelling conversation with Lou Ferrante, a former mob associate turned historian and author. Lou's latest book, 'Borgata: Clash of Titans: A History of the American Mafia: Volume 2 of the Borgata Trilogy', delves deep into the history of organized crime. Lou shares his personal journey from a young hijacker involved with the Gotti family to serving time in the penitentiary where he reformed and educated himself. The discussion covers notable mafia events and figures, including the Profaci-Gallo war, Joe Valachi's high-profile betrayal, and intricate details surrounding the alleged mafia involvement in JFK's assassination. Lou provides unique insights into the mafia's operations, their interactions with law enforcement, and the power dynamics within. The episode also touches upon J. Edgar Hoover's stance on the mafia, internal mafia politics, and the underestimated influence of mob bosses like Carlos Marcello. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Former Gambino family mobster Lou Ferrante joined us for an episode about his three volumes of research on the Mafia. He spoke of the alleged role of the Mob in the JFK assassination just as the files were about to be opened and he and Michael Krasny explored the ethos of the Mob -- the law of Omerta and the past frequency of so called "whackings," as well as the perks of being a mobster and such Cosa Nostra figures as John Gotti, Henry Hill and Joey Gallo. They spoke of politicians and the Mob and how the mob is portrayed in film and television and they exchanged humorous narratives as Ferrante told a funny personal tale and Krasny told a joke. Ferrante spoke of his prison experiences and how he became a writer while incarcerated, including the influence on him of historian Barbara Tuchman. Krasny asked Ferrante of analogies he made in print between the Kennedys and the Medicis and the episode concluded with Krasny drawing out a humorous story from Ferrante about Cuba, President John F Kennedy, Ian Fleming and the CIA's Allen Dulles, and asking Ferrante about the ultimate fate of Teamster leader Jimmy Hoffa and what drives and inspires Ferrante to write.

On the 22nd November 1963 President John F Kennedy was assassinated…..by Lee Harvey Oswald right? Well wrong, because today's guest has a suspect, the boss of the New Orleans mafia, Carlos Marcello who, along with other family bosses Sam Giancana and Santo Traficante, conspired to have the President whacked. Louis Ferrante joins in this second part of our discussion on the mafia and the Kennedys as we talk about the assassination, motives, evidence and those involved. If you haven't listened to part one that's the previous episode. Louis Ferrante Links Part One Borgata Vol II: Clash of Titans: A History of the American Mafia Borgata Vol I: Rise of Empire: A History of the American Mafia Episode from 2024 with Louis Ferrante Aspects of History Links Latest Issue out - Annual Subscription to Aspects of History Magazine only $9.99/£9.99 Ollie on X Aspects of History on Instagram Get in touch: history@aspectsofhistory.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Stuph File Program Featuring Louis Ferrante, author of Borgata: Clash Of The Titans, A History Of The American Mafia; & Stuart Nulman with Book Banter Download Former mobster, Louis Ferrante, is back on the show, to talk about the second book in his Mafia history trilogy. This one is called Borgata: Clash Of Titans, A History Of The American Mafia. Stuart Nulman with another edition of Book Banter. This week it's a themed segment featuring classic books that were banned. The reviewed titles are: Elmer Gantry by Sinclair Lewis (originally published in 1927). All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque (originally published in 1929) The Diary of A Young Girl by Anne Frank (originally published in 1947) Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak (originally published in 1957) The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood (originally published in 1985) Banned Books: The World's Most Controversial Books, Past and Present (Dorling Kindersley Publishing, $23.99) You can also read Stuart's reviews in The Montreal Times and his articles in The Main. This week's guest slate is presented by Jim Connell, the morning man and programmer for CFQR600 in Montreal.

In early 1957, the Robert F Kennedy and his brother Jack were part of the US Senate Rackets Committee and they both attacked the notorious Jimmy Hoffa, the leader of the Teamsters union and a man with numerous connections to the mob. But as Hoffa probably knew at the time, the two of them were themselves involved with the mafia. Joining today is former member of the Gambino crime family and friend of the show Louis Ferrante, the author of three volumes on the history of the mafia in American and today we discuss the second, Borgata Vol 2, Clash of Titans. This is a two part special, with the second episode following on Wednesday. Louis Ferrante Links Borgata Vol II: Clash of Titans: A History of the American Mafia Borgata Vol I: Rise of Empire: A History of the American Mafia Episode from 2024 with Louis Ferrante Aspects of History Links Latest Issue out - Annual Subscription to Aspects of History Magazine only $9.99/£9.99 Ollie on X Aspects of History on Instagram Get in touch: history@aspectsofhistory.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Louis Ferrante is back on the show, sharing more of his extensive research into the history of the American Mafia. In volume two of his trilogy, called "Borgata: Clash of Titans", he focuses on the Mafia during the height of its power in the 1960s and 70s. In our interview he talks about the origins of the animosity between the mob and Bobby Kennedy, and how he believes Bobby's pressure led to his brother's assassination. We also go quite a bit into J. Edgar Hoover's role in the conflict, and I ask Lou what he thinks happened to Jimmy Hoffa's body. More about the author and his work here: https://louisferrante.com/ Our sponsor this week is Acorns. Head here https://acorns.com/notorious or download the Acorns app to start saving and investing for your future today! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This is a good one. Former mobster Louis Ferrante discusses the second volume of his history of the American mafia, Borgata: Clash of Titans, covering the critical period between 1960 and 1985 when the mob was at its height of power. The era began with the Kennedys' rise to power, where Joe Kennedy paradoxically used mob connections to help JFK win the 1960 election, particularly in Illinois and West Virginia. However, Robert Kennedy's aggressive pursuit of organized crime as Attorney General created deep animosity with the mob. The period was marked by the complex relationship between the mafia and Jimmy Hoffa's Teamsters Union. While Hoffa wasn't a mobster himself, he needed mafia support to maintain his position as Teamsters president. The mob had significant control over the U.S. economy through their influence over unions, construction, and various industries. Ferrante presents hard evidence that the mafia, particularly Carlos Marcello, was involved in JFK's assassination, describing failed assassination attempts in Florida and Chicago before the successful Dallas plot. After Kennedy's death, the mob's influence grew as federal law enforcement, under J. Edgar Hoover, focused more on communism and civil rights protesters than organized crime. The period ended with Hoffa's disappearance in 1975, which Ferrante attributes to mob retaliation after Hoffa threatened to expose their activities when trying to regain control of the Teamsters from Frank Fitzsimmons. According to Ferrante, this era represented the apex of mafia power in America, before increased violence and internal conflicts began to tear the organization apart in the 1980s. Great stuff from Ferrante, who is establishing himself as the semi-official historian of the American mafia. Louis Ferrante is an international bestselling author, global speaker, and television host for Discovery Networks International. His books have been translated into twenty languages and his television series has aired in over 200 countries and territories around the world.Keen On is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.Named as one of the "100 most connected men" by GQ magazine, Andrew Keen is amongst the world's best known broadcasters and commentators. In addition to presenting KEEN ON, he is the host of the long-running How To Fix Democracy show. He is also the author of four prescient books about digital technology: CULT OF THE AMATEUR, DIGITAL VERTIGO, THE INTERNET IS NOT THE ANSWER and HOW TO FIX THE FUTURE. Andrew lives in San Francisco, is married to Cassandra Knight, Google's VP of Litigation & Discovery, and has two grown children.Keen On is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit keenon.substack.com/subscribe

The Stuph File Program Featuring some of the great guests of 2024 in this “Best-Of” year ender Stuph File Program Download Fiona Wilson is the co-owner of Dumble Farms in East Yorkshire in the UK. You can visit the farm to experience cow cuddling. (First heard on Stuph File Program #0751. Also heard & seen on YouTube under the title Fiona Wilson - Cow Cuddling). Doug Worple, along with his wife, Becca, are operators of Golden Retriever Experience, where people can visit their farm and play with their dogs and those of their neighbours. (First heard on Stuph File Program #0763. Also heard & seen on YouTube under the title Doug Worple - Golden Retriever Experience). Josee Gautreau is the operator of Llamazing Adventures, which gives people the opportunity to take walks with llamas and alpacas. (First heard on Stuph File Program #0766. Also heard & seen on YouTube under the title Josee Gautreau - Llamazing Adventures). Biko Skalla is the broadcast entertainer for the baseball team, The Savannah Bananas. (First heard on Stuph File Program #0755. Also heard & seen on YouTube under the title Biko Skalla - The Savannah Bananas). Chris Martin is the owner of The Tri-City Chili Peppers, a minor league baseball team in Colonial Heights, Virginia. They've created something called Cosmic Baseball, where they play at night under only black light and the balls, bats, bases and uniforms glow in the dark. (First heard on Stuph File Program #0778. Also heard & seen on YouTube under the title Chris Martin - Cosmic Baseball). Journalist & foreign correspondent, Ivor Davis, is back with a new book that's very personal. It's called The Devil In My Friend, and it chronicles the story of a friend who committed murder. (First heard on Stuph File Program #0797). Louis Ferrante, a former mobster who spent eight years in prison. Since he came out, he's written several books. His latest, called Borgata: Rise Of Empire, A History Of The American Mafia, is the first of a trilogy. (First heard on Stuph File Program #0798. Also heard & seen on YouTube under the title Louis Ferrante - Borgata: Rise Of Empire, A History Of The American Mafia). On January 23, 2024, legendary folk singer Melanie, died at the age of 76. We feature part of an interview that we did with her back at the beginning of 2021. First heard on Stuph File Program #0754. (You can hear the full interview from 2021, via YouTube under the title Melanie – Folk Singing Icon). We remember Peter Marshall, actor, singer, Broadway star, and the original host of The Hollywood Squares. Peter died August 15, 2024 at the age of 98. (First heard on Stuph File Program #0783. Also heard & seen on YouTube under the title Remembering Peter Marshall).(Patreon Stuph File Program fans, there is a Patreon Reward Extra where Peter talks about his singing career, and you'll hear some of his music, plus he shares stories about his sister, actress Joanne Dru, his major league baseball player son, his work on stage and in film, and much more). We remember The Amazing Kreskin, who passed away on December 10, 2024 at the age of 89, with part of an interview we did with him from September 2004. (First heard on Stuph File Program #0800. Also heard & seen on YouTube under the title Remembering The Amazing Kreskin). This week's guest slate is presented by broadcaster Blair Bartrem.

The Stuph File Program Featuring Louis Ferrante, author of Borgata: Rise Of Empire, A History Of The American Mafia; Guinness World Record holder, Sean Greasley; & Stuart Nulman with Book Banter Download Louis Ferrante is back on the show. He's a former mobster who spent eight years in prison. Since he came out, he's written several books. His latest, called Borgata: Rise Of Empire, A History Of The American Mafia, is the first of a trilogy. Sean Greasley is a Guinness World Record holder whose claim to fame is climbing, in record time, the equivalent of Mount Everest without ever leaving his house. Stuart Nulman with another edition of Book Banter. It's our annual roundup of great holiday book ideas. The reviewed titles are: The Spamalot Diaries by Eric Idle (Crown, $34) The Mad Files edited by David Mikics (Library of America, $28.95) The Wall of Life: Pictures and Stories from this Marvelous Lifetime by Shirley MacLaine (Crown, $48) Life: Hollywood (Taschen, $250 US) You can also read Stuart's reviews in The Montreal Times and his articles in The Main. This week's guest slate is presented by broadcaster, Rick Foxx, who is heard on weekends on CFQR 600 Montreal just as The Stuph File Program is heard there on weekends. You can find Rick on Saturdays and Sundays at 2pm. Plus Rick can be heard on WNBZ Plattsburgh, New York & 93.3 LakeFM Saratoga, New York.

The History of the American Mafia: How the Mob Built Its Empire in the US, with Former Gambino Crime Family Associate, Louis Ferrante.In this episode, Mark sits down with former Mob associate Louis Ferrante to discuss his book, Borgata: The Rise of Empire: A History of the American Mafia.The history of the American Mafia, known as La Cosa Nostra or simply "The Mob," is well known. Prohibition in the United States during the Roaring Twenties saw the rise of characters who have since been mythologized in Hollywood: Charles "Lucky" Luciano and his close confidant Meyer Lansky, Al "Scarface" Capone, Arnold "The Brain" Rothstein, Dutch Schultz, Giuseppe "Joe the Boss" Masseria, and Salvatore Maranzano.What makes Borgata different is that it was written by someone who lived "The Life," providing a unique perspective. Lou discusses the formation of The Commission, an underworld ruling council that controlled the Five Families of New York (now known as the Gambino, Genovese, Lucchese, Bonanno, and Colombo), The Outfit in Chicago, and the Philadelphia Mafia.Lou talks about the rules, the use of violence, and how the US government looked to tackle the growing power of organized crime, spearheaded by the likes of prosecutor Thomas E. Dewey.We also hear about Lou's own life in La Cosa Nostra and how he and his crew committed some of the most successful heists in US history, which ultimately landed him in prison.In prison, he began to read everything he could get his hands on, including history, philosophy, and the great classics of literature. He never turned on his former associates, but when he left prison, he also left "The Life." Now he speaks about his experiences with the Mob and has become a successful author (Unlocked: A Journey from Prison to Proust), including his new a huge three-part history of the American Mafia. In this episode, Mark and Lou discuss the first book, Borgata: The Rise of Empire: A History of the American Mafia.====================================================Louis Ferrante's book 'Borgata: The Rise of Empire: A History of the American Mafia' is available here: https://a.co/d/cDcxOQ2 Audible version: https://a.co/d/2VHu3Ht ====================================================

How much do you know about the Italian mafia? Louis Ferrante is a former Mafia associate and heist expert who served eight years in prison after refusing to incriminate his fellow Gambino family members. After extensive research into the history of the Mafia from its origins in Sicily to organizing in America as well as drawing on his own personal experience, Ferrante wrote a three-volume series on the history of the American mafia starting with his book “Borgata: Rise of Empire.” Louis joined us on NightSide to give you an inside look into life in the mafia!Ask Alexa to play WBZ NewsRadio on #iHeartRadio!

We kicked off the program with four news stories and different guests on the stories we think you need to know about! Nazar Yasin - founder of the holistic mental health app Sol discussed September is National Suicide Prevention Month. The Art of Conscious Conversations: Transforming How We Talk, Listen, and Interact. Our guest for this segment is Chuck Wisner – Author & Coach.Rob Kelley - Supply Chain Expert talked about the Canadian freight railroads shut down, dealing a potential blow to North America's economy.Louis Ferrante - former Mafia associate (former Gambino family heist expert) & author talked about  history of the American Mafia. Featuring the book: Borgata: Clash of Titans - covers 1960 to 1985, as the mob comes into conflict with the American political elite.Ask Alexa to play WBZ NewsRadio on #iHeartRadio!

Today I am again joined by a returning guest! He is a former mobster named Louis Ferrante. Louis was an associate of the Gambino Crime Family. Louis was deeply involved with the mafia life. He was doing hijackings, robberies, and many more crimes. This is the second interview I did with Louis. Our previous interview we got a lot of good feedback. Today we talk more about Louis's new book series named Borgata! Louis breaks down the very early history of the mafia.  He brings up so much new information that I haven't heard been covered by other mafia historians. Revolutionizing Your Journey: Travel With Points & MilesHear travel stories from everyday people who learned how to travel for (nearly) freeListen on: Apple Podcasts Spotify

In this episode, host Jason Dressel interviews Lou Ferrante, a former mafia associate turned author, about the history of the American Mafia. Ferrante traces the mafia's origins to Sicily in the Middle Ages and explores its evolution in American society. He discusses mafia ethics, business practices, and their impact on various industries, providing nuanced perspectives. He challenges misconceptions, highlighting the violent and illegal nature of the mafia, offering insights into the complex world of the mafia.

Welcome back to the conclusion of my interview with a former member of the Gambino Crime Family, now International Bestselling Author, Television Producer and Director Louis Ferrante.Mr. Ferrante grew up in New York City and became entangled in the Gambino crime family. He was eventually arrested and served almost ten years in prison. While he was incarcerated, he taught himself to write, and he fell in love with books. He promised himself that he would someday become an international bestselling author, and he did!Lou also created, wrote, produced, and hosted Inside The Gangster Code series for Discovery Channel about maximum security prisons and gang culture around the world.  As a special treat to everyone, I'm bringing back my friend and colleague, Podcaster, Author, and Retired NYPD Detective Vic Ferrari. Vic spent most of his life in New York City and was assigned to the NYPD's organized crime unit which specialized in stolen cars, the same area of criminal expertise that was Lou's, just on the other side of the law.Please enjoy this powerful and inspirational conversation with Lou Ferrante and Vic Ferrari.In today's episode we discuss:·      Life in a maximum-security prison.·      Lightbulb moment for you when you were in prison that it was time for a change. ·      Did you have to do something to declare that you were no longer a member of the mafia? I thought it was a lifetime commitment.·      Did you find God, or turn away from him when you were at your lowest in prison? “No atheists in foxholes.”·      First thing Lou you did when he was released from prison.·      Lou's newest book, Borgata: Rise of Empire: A History of the American Mafia (Borgata Trilogy).·      Why write this book?·      Mob formed in Sicily. Sicily was an island in itself. Didn't like rules or outsiders. ·      How big of an influence is the mafia in Sicily today?·      The mob and turning adversity into fortune?·      Prohibition (Kennedy's and other family's made millions), the stock market crash of 2029, and World War 2, the U.S. military asking the mob for help.·      What should we expect in book two? Check out Lou's newest book, Borgata: Rise of Empire: A History of the American Mafia (Borgata Trilogy)Visit Lou on his website.Check out Field Training (Brew City Blues Book 1)!!Enjoy the Cops and Writers book series.Please visit the Cops and Writers website. Only for Cops and Writers Podcast listeners! Get 50% off the audiobook version of the F.B.I. K-9 thriller, Avenging Adam by Jodi Burnett. Use code, https://jodi-burnett.com/copsandwriters/Support the show

Welcome to part one of my interview with a former member of the Gambino Crime Family, now International Bestselling Author, Television Producer, and Director Louis Ferrante.Mr. Ferrante grew up in New York City and became entangled in the Gambino crime family. He was eventually arrested and served almost ten years in prison. While he was incarcerated, he taught himself to write, and he fell in love with books. He promised himself that he would someday become an international bestselling author, and he did!Lou also created, wrote, produced, and hosted, Inside The Gangster Code series for Discovery Channel about maximum security prisons and gang culture around the world.  As a special treat to everyone, I'm bringing back my friend and colleague, Podcaster, Author, and Retired NYPD Detective Vic Ferrari. Vic spent most of his life in New York City and was assigned to the NYPD's organized crime unit and specialized in stolen cars, the same area of criminal expertise that was Lou's, just on the other side of the law.In today's episode we discuss:·      Why do you think we are fascinated with criminals, more specifically gangsters? Some examples are The Sopranos, Scarface, Sons of Anarchy, etc.…?·      How do you keep these stories of the mob “the old days” fresh for today's audience?·      What parallels are there with the mob and the street gangs of today?·      What was life in a maximum-security prison really like? What keeps someone who will never leave alive in line?·      What is the attraction to being in a gang or mafia?·      Is there a mafia today? If yes, where do they operate?·      How did you go from stealing cars and joyriding to making money chopping a car and later being involved in armed highjackings?·      How did the mob get interested in you?·      Eventually you got arrested. What were the circumstances? By what agency? Did you get offered a deal to be a rat? What was the offer? ·      Is there a code of honor in the mafia and how that has changed over the years? Check out Lou's newest book, Borgata: Rise of Empire: A History of the American Mafia (Borgata Trilogy)Visit Lou on his website.Check out Field Training (Brew City Blues Book 1)!!Enjoy the Cops and Writers book series.Please visit the Cops and Writers website. Only for Cops and Writers Podcast listeners! Get 50% off the audiobook version of the F.B.I. K-9 thriller, Avenging Adam by Jodi Burnett. Use code, https://jodi-burnett.com/copsandwriters/Support the show

Today I am joined by a former mobster Louis Ferrante. Louis was an associate of the Gambino Crime Family.  Louis was deeply involved with the mafia life. He was doing hijackings, robberies, and many more crimes we discuss today. Louis speaks on his stories about John Gotti, Pete Gotti, Sammy The Bull, and many more. Louis would eventually land himself in prison for a number of years. He did run into a lot of high ranking mobsters while locked up. Louis also made up his mind that he was leaving the mafia life for good when he got out of prison without becoming an informant. Louis has many books and I will put his new one in the video description below. I highly recommend it! He was so deeply involved in the mafia so he has a lot of first hand information. Please subscribe to my channel for more interviews like this. He has got quite the redemption story!

This week's guest is a man who has lived about what he writes. Louis Ferrante was a former member of the Gambino crime family, one of the Five Families of New York. He rose up the ranks until he was convicted of crimes and sent to prison where he became a changed man. He has now written a fantastic first volume of three on the history of the mafia, Borgata, and he chatted with our editor on the rise of the mob from their humble beginnings in Sicily through to the 1930s prohibition in the US. Louis Ferrante Links Borgata: Rise of Empire: A History of the American Mafia Mob Rules: What the Mafia Can Teach the Legitimate Businessman Louis on X Aspects of History Links Subscribe to the magazine: only £/$9.99 per year Ollie on X Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Louis Ferrante is an American writer who was a former heist expert and Gambino crime family mobster. He spent eight and a half years in prison for heists and hijackings, successfully appealed his conviction and became a bestselling true crime, business, and science writer. Low Value Mail is a live call-in show with some of the most interesting guests the internet has to offer. Every Tuesday night at 9pm ET. Support The Show and help me get a producer:

Louis Ferrante (born May 13, 1969) is a former high stakes heist expert and Gambino crime family mob associate. He spent eight and a half years in prison for stick ups, heists and hijackings. He successfully appealed his conviction and became a bestselling true crime, business, and science writer. He has previously hosted his own show, which aired on the Discovery Channel and was nominated for a Grierson Trust Award, which is considered the most prestigious documentary award in the UK. On September 15, 2011, Ferrante spoke at The Economist's Ideas Economy: Human Potential Summit in New York City. On October 21, 2014, Ferrante spoke at the CEO Global Leaders Forum in New York City, hosted by billionaire businessman Leonard Lauder. Early life Ferrante was born on May 13, 1969, in Queens, New York, where he was raised. As a teenager, he made his reputation as a gang leader. Ferrante and his gang hijacked delivery trucks[4] all over New York and he soon gained the attention of the Gambino crime family.[5] By his early twenties, Ferrante headed a crew of older armed robbers within the family.[6] Newspaper articles from the 1990s referred to Ferrante as "John Gotti's pal". Another article referred to Ferrante as a "crony of John A. Gotti."[7] On one occasion, Ferrante and his crew flew from New York to California to hold up an armored car. His plans were foiled by the FBI, although there was insufficient evidence to charge Ferrante and his crew with a crime.[8][9] Around this time, he was suspected of masterminding some of the largest heists in U.S. history. Arrests FBI Surveillance Photo of Louis Ferrante in California, on His Way to a Meeting with His Crew FBI Surveillance Photo of Louis Ferrante and His Crew in California Planning an Armored Truck Heist (Ferrante's Back is to the Camera) Ferrante was targeted by many investigations. He was eventually indicted by the FBI, the United States Secret Service, and the Nassau County Organized Crime Task Force.[10] The main witness against Ferrante entered the Witness Protection program. Another informant against Ferrante was William Degel, now the host of Restaurant Stakeout on Food Network.[7] By 1994, and facing a life sentence in prison, Ferrante wrote and distributed a rap song defending crime boss John Gotti. Ferrante hired controversial civil rights attorney William Kunstler to defend him. Ferrante has appeared in at least one biography based on the life of William Kunstler.[11] During the trial, Kunstler claimed that Ferrante's song aggravated law enforcement agencies who had convicted Gotti and that the massive resources used to indict Ferrante multiple times were part of a government vendetta.[12] Ferrante's defense was defeated in court by prosecutors and Ferrante was convicted. In Ferrante's second case, he chose to plead guilty to a thirteen-year sentence, with his third case running concurrent with the first two cases. Ferrante refused to cooperate with the government and did not inform on former associates of the Gambino family.[13] He was sent to the maximum security prison in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, to begin his sentence.

Louis Ferrante, former Mafia Associate and best-selling author, whose latest book is “Borgata: Rise of Empire: A History of the American Mafia” Website: louisferrante.com Book: https://www.amazon.com/Borgata-Empire-History-American-Mafia/dp/1639366016 Topic: the history of the American Mafia Social Media: https://twitter.com/LOUFERRANTE https://www.facebook.com/louis.ferrante.92 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Guest host Matt Ward welcomes retired gangster and current historian Louis Ferrante on for an epic two-hour interview. Ferrante's new book is Borgata: Rise of Empire: A History of the American Mafia, first part of the planned Borgata Trilog,) covering the Mafia's first one hundred years, from 1860's Sicily to 1960's America.

My guest this week is bestselling author Louis Ferrante. He was an associate in the Gambino crime family before going to prison, where he studied history and began writing books. He joins us to talk about the origins of the Sicilian Mafia and how they followed Italian immigrants to the United States, initially establishing themselves in crime-ridden New Orleans alongside a corrupt police force.  His new book is called "Borgata: Rise of Empire: A History of the American Mafia", the first volume of his Mafia trilogy.  More about Lou Ferrante and his work on his website: https://louisferrante.com/ Lou Ferrante's Simon & Schuster Publisher Page: https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Borgata/Louis-Ferrante/Borgata-Trilogy/9781639366019 Lou Ferrante on Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/louferrante Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Scott sits down with former heist man and Gambino Family associate Lou Ferrante. After serving time in prison, Lou is now an author and television producer.

Scott sits down with former heist man and Gambino Family associate Lou Ferrante. After serving time in prison, Lou is now an author and television producer.

        INSIDE THE GANGSTERS CODE Louis Ferrante (born May 13, 1969) is a former high stakes heist expert and Gambino crime family mob associate. He spent eight and a half years in prison for stick ups, heists and hijackings. He successfully appealed his conviction and became a bestselling true crime, business, and science writer. He has previously hosted his own show, which aired on the Discovery Channel and was nominated for a Grierson Trust Award, which is considered the most prestigious documentary award in the UK. On September 15, 2011, Ferrante spoke at The Economist's Ideas Economy: Human Potential Summit in New York City. On October 21, 2014, Ferrante spoke at the CEO Global Leaders Forum in New York City, hosted by billionaire businessman Leonard Lauder. Early life Ferrante was born on May 13, 1969, in Queens, New York, where he was raised. As a teenager, he made his reputation as a gang leader. Ferrante and his gang hijacked delivery trucks[4] all over New York and he soon gained the attention of the Gambino crime family.[5] By his early twenties, Ferrante headed a crew of older armed robbers within the family.[6] Newspaper articles from the 1990s referred to Ferrante as "John Gotti's pal". Another article referred to Ferrante as a "crony of John A. Gotti."[7] On one occasion, Ferrante and his crew flew from New York to California to hold up an armored car. His plans were foiled by the FBI, although there was insufficient evidence to charge Ferrante and his crew with a crime.[8][9] Around this time, he was suspected of masterminding some of the largest heists in U.S. history. Arrests FBI Surveillance Photo of Louis Ferrante in California, on His Way to a Meeting with His Crew FBI Surveillance Photo of Louis Ferrante and His Crew in California Planning an Armored Truck Heist (Ferrante's Back is to the Camera) Ferrante was targeted by many investigations. He was eventually indicted by the FBI, the United States Secret Service, and the Nassau County Organized Crime Task Force.[10] The main witness against Ferrante entered the Witness Protection program. Another informant against Ferrante was William Degel, now the host of Restaurant Stakeout on Food Network.[7] By 1994, and facing a life sentence in prison, Ferrante wrote and distributed a rap song defending crime boss John Gotti. Ferrante hired controversial civil rights attorney William Kunstler to defend him. Ferrante has appeared in at least one biography based on the life of William Kunstler.[11] During the trial, Kunstler claimed that Ferrante's song aggravated law enforcement agencies who had convicted Gotti and that the massive resources used to indict Ferrante multiple times were part of a government vendetta.[12] Ferrante's defense was defeated in court by prosecutors and Ferrante was convicted. In Ferrante's second case, he chose to plead guilty to a thirteen-year sentence, with his third case running concurrent with the first two cases. Ferrante refused to cooperate with the government and did not inform on former associates of the Gambino family.[13] He was sent to the maximum security prison in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, to begin his sentence.

(***TIMESTAMPS in Description Below) ~ Louis Ferrante is a former Gambino Crime Family Mobster, author, and TV Host. You can buy his recent books using the link to my Amazon Store in the “EPISODE LINKS” Section of this description. EPISODE LINKS: - BUY LOU'S BOOKS IN MY AMAZON STORE: https://amzn.to/3RPu952  - Julian Dorey PODCAST MERCH: https://juliandorey.myshopify.com/  - Support our Show on PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/JulianDorey  - Join our DISCORD: https://discord.gg/9fQG8raW  JULIAN YT CHANNELS: - SUBSCRIBE to Julian Dorey Clips YT: https://www.youtube.com/@UChs-BsSX71a_leuqUk7vtDg  - SUBSCRIBE to Julian Dorey Daily YT: https://www.youtube.com/@JulianDoreyDaily  - SUBSCRIBE to Best of JDP: https://www.youtube.com/@bestofJDP  CREDITS: - Hosted & Produced by Julian D. Dorey - Intro & Episode Edited by Alessi Allaman ***TIMESTAMPS*** 0:00 - How Lou got into John Gotti's Mafia; Mobster Bobby “Cabert” Bisaccia 9:25 - Mob Killers vs Regular Killers 13:59 - Leaving the Gambino Mob Life; Merited Hits 21:43 - Anthony “Gaspipe” Casso; Lou's Truck Hijacking beginnings 32:41 - Prison Chemistry Teacher; Latin King vs. Ferrante 35:51 - Illegal Animal Poaching on Discovery Channel 42:07 - Rhino Horns; Lou's Show in Africa that never aired 50:59 - Lou's early career as a hijacker in New York City; Lou's Mom Dies 58:17 - No Mask Hijackings 1:07:16 - Reading people when they stare at a gun; Crystal Ball Brain Theory 1:14:18 - Working at the Chop Shop; Lou's Uncle Billy; Joe Watts 1:25:25 - Uncle Rats Story; Pete Gotti; Lou remembers when Vinny the Chin Gigante “went crazy” 1:35:25 - The 5 Families of New York & their empires; “Honor & Loyalty” 1:44:18 - Lou hates rats; Sammy The Bull Gravano 1:51:25 - Lou goes to prison; Little Vic & Gregory Scarpa 2:02:25 - Friends with Benefits in Prison; Jimmy gets life; First day in prison 2:11:53 - Lou heads to Otisville and decides to leave mob; Lou put in “the Hole” 2:23:26 - Lou's first book; Lou's relationship with the Gotti's 2:33:05 - Lou's father's last moments; Mob Rules 2:41:26 - Lou does National Geographic Prison Show; Mob History 2:52:18 - Lou finds God 3:00:05 - Lou's projects ~ Get $150 Off The Eight Sleep Pod Pro Mattress / Mattress Cover (USING CODE: “JULIANDOREY”): https://eight-sleep.ioym.net/trendifier Julian's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/julianddorey ~ Music via Artlist.io ~ Julian Dorey Podcast Episode 185 - Louis Ferrante

“It's really life lessons.” Chatter rolls with David, Torie, and celebrity mixologist Rodney Ferguson.  They break down the Super Bowl and marvel at the life well lived by remarkable publisher (think “Jaws,: “The Exorcist,” and “Catcher in the Rye”).  Student of life and former Mafia associate Louis Ferrante zooms in to share “Borgata: Rise of Empire, a History of the American Mafia.”  Ferrante blends personal anecdotes with a remarkable grasp of history to track the rise of organized crime in America.  This is part one of a trilogy – he will be back!

Louis Ferrante, former hijacker and Mafia gangster who turned in prison to research, book writing and Judaism, talks about his life in crime and time in prison and his published history of the American Mafia from his perspective as an insider. He also talks about guilt and religion, Mafia violence, snitching and Omerta, and the Mafia's Sicilian roots, as well as The FBI and who may have killed President John F Kennedy.

You're probably familiar with the American mafia, at least through its portrayal in popular culture. But how did this infamous secret society come to be?Louis Ferrante traces its origins in the first volume of his slated trilogy on the subject, entitled Borgata: Rise of Empire: A History of the American Mafia. While there's been plenty written on the mafia, Ferrante, who was incarcerated for being a mobster himself, offers the first insider's history of this crime organization. Today on the show, he shares the surprising influences on the formation of the mafia in Sicily, why Louisiana and not New York was actually the mob's American Plymouth Rock, the unexpected collaboration between the government and the mafia during WWII, the real reason J. Edgar Hoover didn't go after the mob, why that hands-off approach changed, and much more.Connect With Louis FerranteLouis' websiteLouis' previous appearance on the AoM podcast — #551: Inside the Gangsters' Code

This is a conversation with former mobster now mafia historian Louis Ferrante about his intriguing new book BORGATA: RISE OF EMPIRE. The former “chop shop” small time thug now erudite Ferrante is like a cross between Sonny Corleone & Niall Ferguson. Essential viewing/listening. Transcript below.AK (00:18): Hello everybody. It is Tuesday, January the second, 2024. We're in a new year, but old themes. Last year we did several shows on the Mafia, one with the historian Paul Moses on the what he calls, at least the true story of the immigrant cops who fought the rise of the Mafiaa. He had a new book out called Appropriately Enough, the Italian Squad, another with an interesting writer, Matt Beck, the Life We Choose about a series of conversations he had with a Mafiaa member called William Big Belly Delia. He talked about not just Donald Trump and Michael Jackson, but also Jimmy Hoffer, and we're going one better in 2024 rather than writing or talking to people who have spoken to people in the Mafiaa. We have a man, Louis Ferrante, who once upon a time was a member of the Mafia. And since become a very successful writer, the author of many books, bestselling books, including particular Mob Rules, what the Mafia Can Teach the Legitimate Businessman. It was a huge hit. And he has a new book out. It's a history of the Mafia, the Borgata Trilogy, volume one, rise of Empire. It came out in November of last year in the uk, and it's out this week in the US. Louis Ferrante is joining us from his home in Sarasota on the Gulf Coast of Florida. Louis, before we went live, you told me it's very nice in Florida.Louis Ferrante (02:01): Florida's beautiful, the Sunshine State, a lot of sun. I need sun. I grew up in New York, and the winters are dark and dreary, and London's a beautiful place too. I like the people in London, but once again, the weather's not the best part.AK (02:17): Dreary. Yeah, I'm talking to actually from California. So Louis, when you fly out and you get on a plane, you happen to sit next to someone and you get into conversation and they ask you what career you have or had, what would you say?Louis Ferrante (02:31): I'd tell 'em a hijacker if I'm on a plane.AK (02:36): And what do they do?Louis Ferrante (02:38): They look for the attendant or they go to the bathroom? No, I mean, I was a truck hijacker, a little different from a plain hijacker, but I tell them I'm a writer and a television host, which is the truth. I'm a bestselling author. My books have been translated into 2020 languages, and I hosted a show for Discovery Channel.AK (03:04): It's a good trade being a writer. But did you always intend to be one, or how did you go from being, as you say, a truck hijacker, someone who knows the Mafia, the American Mafia to actually writing about it.Louis Ferrante (03:21): I faced the rest of my life in prison, and I was lucky to get out of it with a 13 year sentence. I was represented at the time by the civil rights attorney, William Kunstler, who was very instrumental in, yeah, he helped Martin Luther King, Malcolm X. He went in to negotiate with the convicts during the Attica riots, and he defended me, and I was able to get a plea of 13 years without cooperating against anyone, and I didn't have to go to trial and possibly get the rest of my life sentenced to rest of my life in prison. And while I was there, I started to think through my life and eventually I picked up my first book, fell in Love with books, became an avid reader, and at some point or another I was reading a book a day, and that's what made my time go. And I started to teach myself how to write by reading all the great authors and taking notes as to how Leo Tolstoy begins and ends a chapter, how Dostoevsky Begins and Ends a plot, how Charlotte Bronte introduces a character, et cetera, et cetera. And that's how I taught myself how to write. And by the time I came home from prison, I was ready to be a writer. And my last book, Mob Rules was an international bestseller in 20 languages. And my current book will hopefully get picked up in a lot of languages as well. And it's a trilogy.AK (04:42): Yeah, it's already been picked up by the Germans. You imply that in prison, you were a meticulous reader. Is meticulousness something that's prized within the mafia? Was that one of your skills?Louis Ferrante (05:00): Skills? Yeah, I mean, I was a heist guy. I ran a crew of heist guys, heist and hijackings, and you need to know what you're doing and everything's, you got to cross your T's and dot your i's make sure that everybody knows their role. Make sure that you need a well-oiled machine when you're going to do a heist or a hijack in one mistake. And everybody's lives are at stake, including innocent people. Something I might regret now, but something that was just a fact then. But we wanted to get away with it. We wanted the money. I wasn't thinking about people's lives back then. I was thinking about money and we wanted to get away with it, and you need to know what you're doing and everybody needs to know what they're doing. And I was a big planner. I would make drawings, I would go over everything with everyone. I would do mock runs to the highway to make sure we had an escape route, a backup escape route. I made sure we had backup guys in place. I never just pulled the trigger too fast. At one point, I was picked up by the feds in California where you are. We were in San Francisco and we were looking to hit an armored car, and the feds swooped in on us and grabbed us the day before we were going to hit that armored car. And it was a crucial thing. I was one guy short, and the reason why we waited was I was waiting for an extra guy to come from New York so that he could make sure we had enough guys on the heist. But yeah, so I guess I was meticulous in that sense. I was ignorant and naive in a million other ways, but I was meticulous in that sense.AK (06:27): Yeah, you should come back, Louis. It's much easier to do your heist these days. I don't know if there are any police left in South Africa. Yeah,Louis Ferrante (06:34): I don't know if anyone would care anymore.AK (06:36): Yeah, you'd probably be encouraged. Lots of films and books about how young kids get into the mafia. There's The Godfather, of course, & the Irishmen. How did you get into it?Louis Ferrante (06:48):  If you start committing big enough crimes, they'll find you. And that's what happens. Once I started hijacking trucks, I ran an auto crime, a chop shop. I supplied car parts to auto collision shops for a long time when I was a kid, stole cars, chopped them up and sold them to a shop. That little operation started out with just a few car thieves, me and my friends, and eventually grew into, as I said, a chop shop. And then at some point, once we started hijacking,AK (07:18): What is a chop shop?Louis Ferrante (07:22): Chop shop is you have a shop where you steal a car, you get an order from a collision shop. So a collision shop, for example, has, let's say they got a Mercedes and they got to spend $30,000 in parts because it's a hundred thousand dollars car and the car's wrecked, so they need 30,000 in parts. They might tell us, look, we'll give you five grand, can you get us all the parts? And then they'll put the stolen parts on the customer's car and sell them back the repaired car. So we would get paid then to go out, steal the car, try to get the same color so they wouldn't even have to paint it, but if you had to, you paint it. It's not always easy to match colors, but we would steal the car, chop it up, give them the parts they needed, and then dump the skeleton somewhere in the beginning we dumped it in the woods. And then at some point or another, we started renting. Back then you could lease a building under a phony name and then just abandon the building when you were done with it. I don't think you could get away with that. Nowadays there's too many identifications and stuff required, and people are hip at things like that, but back then you could even fly. When I told you I went to California to knock off an armor car, we flew under different names. Pre 9/11, you just booked an airline ticket under any name. I just picked the name out of the phone book. Just get on a plane.AK (08:35): Those were the days. You mentioned your bestselling book, Mob Rules, what the Mafia can Teach the Legitimate Businessman. There's a sort of cliche, Louis, I'm sure you've heard it a thousand times, that had you been born into the New York or Boston upper classes, you would've ended up at Harvard Business School and made a million dollars that way, is what you were doing. Is that a form of innovation and in some ways equivalent to what kids are taught at Stanford or Harvard Business School these days to think and be meticulous and accomplish what they set out to do?Louis Ferrante (09:19): Yeah, I don't know if they're taught any more to think. I don't know what an Ivy League upbringing is like, so it would be unimaginable for me to even,AK (09:33): But you've met those types.Louis Ferrante (09:36): Oh, all day long. Yeah, all day long. Some of them can't tie their shoes. I mean, just can't fix a flat. I was with a doctor once who got a flat and didn't know what to do, had no idea where the jack was, where to even begin. If I wasn't with him, he would've sat on the side of the road probably for the rest of his life until he died of starvation. So yeah, I would rather grow up and have to learn how to do things yourself.AK (10:01): Where did you grow up? What town?Louis Ferrante (10:03): In Queens? Yeah. I grew up in Queens and one of the five boroughs in New York, lower New York. The lower borough.AK (10:08): Yeah. My son lives there now.Louis Ferrante (10:10): Does he really? What part?AK (10:13): On the border with Brooklyn.Louis Ferrante (10:17): Oh, okay. They're building it up. It's probably up.AK (10:20): Yeah. It's much more fashionable now than it, I'm sure it used to be.Louis Ferrante (10:23): Yeah. I mean, I was in a lower income section of Queens, middle to lower income, so it wasn't all that, but a lot of people now, they've bought up a lot of big real estate in Brooklyn, and I guess they're moving to Queens now too.AK (10:37): Did your family know what you were doing? How old were you when you started your chop shop?Louis Ferrante (10:42): I was in high school when I was running the chop shop, so I kept it from them as best I can. I remember the first time I came home with a tagged car. A tagged car would be if, let's say I bought a wrecked vehicle, let's say a wrecked Cadillac, and I bought the completely, it was totaled out. So you pick up the wreck for a couple hundred bucks. Nobody wants it, but it's got a clean title. If you have a clean title, you don't have to go to motor vehicle and go through an inspection at that time. I don't know if things have changed. Now, this is many years ago. So if you bought a wrecked car, you had a clean title, you could then go out and steal a car, pop a couple of the tags off, for example, the VIN number in the dashboard, pop that tag off, put it on your stolen car, and then drive that as if it's yours. If you get pulled over by a cop, usually the cops just checked the dashboard tag. They never went through the rest of the car unless it was auto crime, which was something different. They'd have to be looking for you. So I came home with a beautiful brand new El Dorado, and I remember my mother was heartbroken. She came out on the porch and looked at it and said, you're killing me. You're breaking my heart.AK (11:48): Right, because she knew what you were doing.Louis Ferrante (11:50): Yeah, of course. How would I afford that car? I didn't have a job. So I tried to tell her that my friend who I work at the Body shop for part-time, he gave me the car and he's going to let me pay it off, but she wasn't buying it. She came from a family who was crooked, although she was law abiding. She was hip to the streets in a way, and she knew something was wrong. And she said, you're breaking my heart. And I never forgot that I did break her heart. She eventually died in my arms. And when I was young, she died at 47. I was 19, turning 20, and I went off the deep end after that. But to this day, I regret that she had to go through that and no, did I admit it to her? No. Did I tell her? But she, no, she knew she was hip.AK (12:33): Louis, talk to me about why you've written this history. Is it bound up with your own history? I mean, much of this history, this first volume is set in the 19th, late 19th, early 20th century when of course you weren't around. But is this a very personal narrative or have you tried to step back and write about the history of the mafia as an objective historian?Louis Ferrante (13:18): Both. And so first answer, I'll answer that question and tell you how the book came about. I do try to be as objective as possible. I don't want anybody to believe that I'm inserting myself where I don't belong. I want to tell a real history. And Publishers Weekly gave me a rave review saying that I did not rest on my own experiences alone.AK (13:40): You didn't threaten them, did you?Louis Ferrante (13:42): No, I did not. No, I didn't hang anybody out of a window or anything. No. And then handed them a pen and said, you know what to do? No, I didn't. Basically, they just said it was Well-researched all my notes. My source notes are in the back years, years reading articles, books. But what I was able to bring to the table from my own insights was I have an extra sense that most people wouldn't have. Being I was a criminal when I read something, I know if it was true or if it wasn't. I know if the writer has been, they don't, usually a writer wouldn't intentionally mislead the reader, but sometimes writers themselves are misled and they may get information, and because they don't know the world or the culture, the subculture, they write the wrong story. And a lot of times I'd be in jail when I was reading history, biographies, science philosophy. I would hear other guys, mob guys reading mob books, and you would hear a lot of guys blurting out b******t never happened, who wrote this crap? And when I finally started to do my own research, I realized that I came across a lot of things that were untrue, and I was able to decipher that stuff for the reader, which I think is interesting. I debunked a lot of old mafia myths that have been around for decades about leading Mafia figures. And I would explain to the reader, this is why it could have never happened. I don't want the reader to just take my word. I want the reader to have confidence in me as a writer to know that this is why this could never have happened. So time and again, I do that. To go back to your original question is where the book came from, how it came about. It wasn't something I really thought about. I was invited to Mob Rules, as we mentioned, was an international bestseller. And I was invited to Sicily by the German media conglomerate at Axel Springer, and it was a retreat for editors in Argento, Sicily. And I was seated next to an older man who happened to be there, and his name was George. And him and I hit it off. He was in his nineties, but a very young nineties, sharp as nails. And we talked all evening, and at the end of the evening, he said, I would like to publish the next book. And it turned out to be Lord George Denfeld, one of the biggest of the 20th century. And the next day we had lunch in Argento overlooking the ruins with Lord George and his charming wife, lady Annabelle. And Lady Annabelle had some priceless input as well, which persuaded me to write the book, what turned down to morphed into a trilogy. Originally, I was contracted to write a book, but I said, you can't squeeze all this into a book. There's too much here. It has to be stretched out. And I probably could have wrote 10 volumes, but I ended up writing a trilogy, and that's how the book came about. Lord George, as I understand it, he had a reputation of connecting writers with subjects, and I was the last one he had personally did that with before he unfortunately passed away.AK (16:39): Louis, if you were to write a history of the Mafia itself, would that begin in Sicily? There's a very strong Sicilian quality, but the mafia existed throughout Italy, of course. Is there something about the Sicilian Mafiaa and the history of the American mafia that are inseparable?Louis Ferrante (18:23): There is, as I pointed out in the early chapters of the book, I dug deep into how the mafia was formed inside the Sicilian womb, and it did indeed start in Sicily and then spread throughout the peninsula up and down the peninsula of Italy. But it was born in Sicily, and it had a lot to do with socioeconomic reasons, culture, family tradition, as I point out all these things in the book. And there was also, I point out a strong Arab influence in Western Sicily, which is interesting because Sicily was invaded by so many different people's over the course of centuries, whether it be the Spanish, the French, the Austrians, and the Arabs at some point. So the Arabs had a strong, I believe, where it developed in Western Sicily for the most part, in places like Palermo and Argento and Casa Lama del Gulfo, there was a strong Arab influence there, which is still present, still prevalent in a lot of places in the architecture and stuff, in words, in people's names, et cetera. So I was able to trace the history deep into Sicily and how it started in America was during the Southern Italian mass exodus wave into the United States after slavery was abolished in the United States in the 1860s. That came on around the same time when the unification of Italy occurred in Europe. And Sicilians were not happy with the unification of Italy being sort of absorbed by Italy proper. And they felt like a lot of Sicilians felt like it was just the newest conqueror, the newest ruler, no different from the bans in France or whoever else was there. So they were like, Hey, you know what? We're not happy with this. And there was a lot of poverty. And when America abolished slavery, we needed labor. We needed cheap labor quick because we no longer had slave labor in the United States. And at that point, we started looking around and there were plenty of poor people in Europe, and we invited them, and they came here in droves, and the mafia rode in on those boats. A lot of them, and I go to detail, I go very, very close detail throughout the early chapters of how exactly that happened. And I'm also very, very careful to point out that most Italian-Americans came here to work hard and to make a new life for themselves and their children and grandchildren, and had nothing to do with the mafia and never committed crimes. But the unfortunate circumstance, the unfortunate byproduct of that mass immigrant wave was the Italian criminals that came with them. A lot of them were fugitives from justice in Sicily, and they planted new flags here in American cities throughout the country, in metropolitan areas. At one point or another. There were just as many Mafia families as there were metropolitan areas across the United States. There was one in every metropolitan area, and then the strongest one survived and went on sort of like Arnold Toby's Darwinian theory of how empires are built, the strong survive. It was the same thing with a lot of these.AK (21:27): Why was it that the Mafia, that the Sicilian Mafia became so dominant, and there were many immigrants from Naples and other parts of mainland southern Italy. What is it about the Southern Sicilian, and is it different in its principles organization, morality or lack of morality from the Neapolitan Mafia, for example?Louis Ferrante (21:51): Yeah. Well, the Neapolitan Mafia was the Kimora. I had done a documentary for the History Channel about them very different from the Italian Sicilian, the Sicilian Mafia in Sicily. A lot of these other mafias from Calabria, from Naples, and even there were a few in northern Italy, very weak. None of them had that sort of Sicilian, the Sicilians. They had something very special on that island. It was an island different throughout up and down the peninsula of Italy. You had city states throughout the Renaissance and stuff. So they were all very, I'm still asked, her father was from Naples, and her mother was from Sicily. So I have two grandparents on my mother's side from Naples and Sicily. And my father's, both parents were from Bari, all from southern Italy. But I'm still asked by people who are Italian American, where are you from? And they sort of connect with you a lot faster if you're from the same place they were from. So you can only imagine back then how territorial Italy was and how people really responded to people like themselves. So at that time, Sicily was an island away from even all those city states, and they were really, really isolated, and they really, really relied on themselves. And throughout history, there were always weak central governments in Sicily, no matter who ruled Sicily, they really never cared about the Sicilian people and implementing any positive changes, whether social changes or institutional changes. They just wanted to pretty much rape Sicily of whatever agrarian products they could get off the island. So most of the time, the Sicilian people relied on themselves, and that went a lot into it as well. And it was a patriarchal society, which in some cases comes from the Arab influence in Sicily.AK (23:33): Are you presenting then the Sicilian Mafia as a resistance, organizational resistance to colonialism of one kind?Louis Ferrante (23:41): Believe it or not, at one point they were. Now, I know that they evolved or devolved extremely quickly into something much more treacherous and less upstanding than that. But I do make the argument that in the very beginning, they were indeed just that in my book, even the word I trace, for the first time, people were, historians were sort of in agreement that it came from an Arabic word, but they threw out a half a dozen different Arabic words that it might've come from one meaning a cave dweller, another one meaning a proud horse, and all kinds of different words from the Arabic language, I was able to trace the word mafia. Those of us in the West who are familiar with the siege of Khartoum, where the Victorian general Gordo, the British General Gordo,, was sent to sort of hold off against the Muslim guy who sort took control and launched this rebellion and said, I am the sort of the prophet. I am the prophet incarnate. And he was sort of like a rebellious character against the status quo all throughout the world, throughout the east and the Middle East. And in this particular case, when the Arabs were pushed into the western region of Sicily, after the unification of Italy, the modest regime was known as the Media, which was one letter away from Mafia. So I left it, look, I'm not an etymologist, but I left it to future historians to debate this. And I make a cogent argument that this is where it came from, my quote, encyclopedia Britannica. I quote people who were on the scene at the time, I quote history books, et cetera, to make this argument. And I do believe it came from that particular word.AK (25:29): As I said, Louis, we've done lots of shows on the mafia infiltration, the response of the police, but is the reason why the Mafia became so powerful and perhaps remained so powerful in the United States because it's a country with a tradition of weak central government, of federal government, of government that isn't for the most part, very effective or efficient. So in other words, was there something, and you have to be careful using this word as a historian, but was there a degree of inevitability about the mafia's rise to power in late 19th century America?Louis Ferrante (26:12): It's a great question, and the answer is yes. There was a Sicilian mobster, and I don't recall his name, but he said, why in the world can anybody think why? When Sicilians left Sicily for New life in America, and a lot of them landed in South America, central America, a lot of them landed in North Africa. They went everywhere. Sicilians were scattered everywhere. But why only in America did the American Mafia, did the Mafia really take root as it did? And that goes to our system, which is we have always had a very corrupt system. And I traced that it was very easily manipulated by mobsters who really learned how to bribe politicians and law enforcement officials during prohibition. And that was a prime time because during prohibition, which took place the roaring twenties into 1930, we had people in America who wanted to drink and were told by their government, you're not allowed. And so the people as a whole didn't agree with this. So they were really, really suddenly the mafiaa who wanted to provide them with liquor, with alcohol and supplying the demand for alcohol weren't seen as these animals anymore. These killers, these beat bad guys, they were all of a sudden these romantic sexy figures who were giving the United States, the people of the country, alcohol when they desperately wanted it. And that's when the mafia began to corrupt a lot of politicians and political machines. And the influence ran throughout law enforcement agencies and that deep influence they had during prohibition, basically, once prohibition was repealed and Americans could drink again, the mafia kept a lot of those deep corrupt alliances that they had made, and they moved on to use them for gambling and stuff, to open up casinos, to have a casino, to have a casino. So a lot of why the mafia was able to prosper here in America had a lot to do with the easily corruptible local governments. And at that point, there wasn't an overarching federal government who could come in and say, Hey, you've been all corrupted. We'll take over from here. We know you're all bought and paid for by the Mafiaa here in your local town. So here the federal government's going to move in with j Edgar Hoover's, FBI, et cetera, et cetera. That didn't happen.AK (28:44): Yeah. And of course, j Edgar Hoover's, FBI began in some ways as a response, not always a particularly effective one to prohibition. To what extent the book covers legendary figures and legendary mafia figures like Lucky Luciano & many others. To what extent do these kind of guys capture the spirit of a violent independent 19th century America?Louis Ferrante (29:16): They do and don't. By the time we get to Luciano and Genovese and Costello, they're sort of this newer generation of American mobsters. So the first generation with these sort of old mustache, peats, grease balls, all the derogatory names that they were called in this country, they were sort of like off the boat, Italians. That was the first generation. Then there was the second generation that were more American, and they weren't as clannish as the Sicilians were. They understood that if they were going to prosper in America, they needed to form these diverse relationships with Jews, with blacks, with Irish. They needed to really, if they were going to get somewhere, they basically came up with the plan that they were going to, Hey, we're going to keep this thing of ours, this thing of ours, this our thing, La Cosa Nostra. We're going to keep that to ourselves.Nobody's allowed entry into this secret organization that we have, but let's deal with everyone. We're not going to get anywhere if we stay to ourselves. And they made alliances with everyone across the country. And that was the key. And that was sort of like that second generation, even though Costello and Luciano came to the country when they were eight or nine years old, they may as well have been born here. They were just as good as Americans, just as good as American born citizens. They were a second generation of this. And they did away with the old ones, the old clannish Mafiosos, who felt like, no, we have to defend ourselves. We have to stick with ourselves. We have to continue to live amongst ourselves, and we can't trust the Irish. We can't trust the blacks or the Jews. This second generation of Italian-Americans said, no, we can trust them and we're going to, and we're going to deal with them.And for example, Frank Costello not only partnered with a million Jews in business, but he married a Jew. So he had a Jewish family. And at one point or another, Al Capone in Chicago, his guy Jake, greasy Thumb Gik was his best friend. He was a Jew. And when somebody had bragged that he made this little Jew greasy thumbs wine, Capone was beside himself, and he went looking for the guy, and he unloaded a revolver in his face and murdered him because Capone wasn't going to allow that to happen. He says, Jew or Italian, it doesn't matter if you're my friend, I protect you, I defend you. So these relationships really started by that sort of next generation of Italian American mobsters. And by my generation, I mean, I had a hijacking heist crew. The two of the toughest guys in my crew were Jews, and they were treated the same as any other Italian. We were all from the same neighborhood. We all grew.AK (31:50): It extend to race as well? I mean, in The Godfather, we all remember the explicit racism of many of the fictional figures were black Americans, African-Americans, were they as welcome as Jewish Americans?Louis Ferrante (32:08): Yes. Now, even in my time you had at one time, I said, for example, mobsters weren't going to go, oh, that African American owes me money. Let's go over there and pay him a visit. Obviously, the lingo would be that N owes me money. Let's go over there and pay him a visit. And the N would refer to us as a grease ball or whop a Guinea. So the words that we used back then would be considered racist today. But were we racist? And what were the Italians or the blacks racist against each other? Absolutely not. The only color we all saw was green. And that was it. And I point out in my book, they made a strong alliance, Lucky Luciano Luciano did with Bumpy Johnson. Bumpy Johnson, when they took over the policy racket in Harlem, they needed to smooth things over with the blacks because the black was a huge population in Harlem blacks. So Luciano struck a deal with Bumpy Johnson, where Bumpy Johnson was going to pretty much handle any black problems in Harlem and deal directly with Luciano. And bumpy Johnson's wife wrote a memoir years later that praised Luciano and said that him and my husband were best friends. And it was a real legitimate friendship. It wasn't just business. They had a real friendship. So all that racism they try to make, that's all television now because it sells. But for the most part, yeah, the talk, you told jokes about each other. You called each other what would be considered horrible names now, but were we really racist toward each other? Absolutely not. People will say Italians. And the Mafia hated gays. The Genovese family ran all the gay clubs in Greenwich Village. They controlled all the gay clubs.AK (33:53): How about women? We did a show last year on female drug gang leaders in Latin America. There aren't that many women in your narrative, are there?Louis Ferrante (34:03): No. I mean, if you want to say misogynistic, then I have to agree. Yeah. Not racist, but misogynistic. The Italian, theAK (34:09):Women in all the movies, the women are at home cooking the past, and the men are out killing each otherLouis Ferrante (34:14): Yeah, go home and cook. No Italian man wants his wife buttoned into his business. So I have to concede that point. I won't give in on racism because it wasn't there. But I will give in on misogynistic outlook toward women.AK (34:27): And I don't necessarily mean that critically. One way. The other narrative, Louis, which of course is most clearly articulated in the Godfather, the movies, the Godfather, maybe even Godfather three, is that the mafia began in a sort of communal way, reasonably decently, even if there was a great deal of violence, and it went really badly wrong with drugs. And of course, that was the foundation of the narrative in The Godfather, the cause of all the bloodshed. Is there any truth in that? There is tell you that veto Corleone in the Godfather wasn't a bad guy, and then it all went wrong when his family got in the drug business.Louis Ferrante (35:07): Yes, there definitely is a direct correlation between the movie and real life and the movie, whether Putto, I believe Mario Puzo, who was the author that they based the movie on, but either Puzo or Francis Ford Coppola adopted it from a real life story, which was Frank Costello. Frank Costello was the acting boss when Lucky Luciano went to jail and then was deported. And when Costello was boss, he was dead set against drugs. He did not want his Borgata dealing drugs because he felt that he had all these big political leaders in Tammany Hall who did everything that they could do for the mob to keep them out of jail, to help them with things. They had judges, they put judges in. They chose the head of Tammany, who in turn helped choose the mayor of New York slash the governor. And then obviously through the governor, Franklin Delano Roosevelt started out in New York and ended up being the president. So it's no telling how high you could go. Well, Costello said, if we continue to deal drugs, these political alliances are going to run away from us. They're not going to, this is something the American people do not like. They're fine with alcohol. They wanted alcohol. We gave it to them. They're fine with gambling. If the United States prohibits gambling and we allow them to gamble, that's fine. The people have no problem with that. They feel like we're providing them with a desire that they have. Even Luciano ran a chain of bordellos. That's an ointment for the hard up. That's fine. But obviously it's human slavery.AK (36:40): can I quote you on that ointment for the hard up?Louis Ferrante (36:44): Well, that's what, yeah, it basically was. It was like an outlet for social frustration maybe. Obviously. Obviously it's woman trafficking. It's disgusting. However, however, Luciano really didn't have a direct connection to it, but it was taking place, but it wasn't thought of by the American people, I should say, as the worst thing in the world.AK (37:10): I mean, the way the Godfather presents it is that this was the argument I think Sonny Cordone made with his father is that if we don't do it, someone else will. There's going to be other groups who do it. Was there any truth to that?Louis Ferrante (37:24): Yes. Yes. And everyone uses that argument today. There are still mobsters who sell drugs and say, if I don't do it, somebody else will. Somebody's got to do it. And me, myself, I never went near drugs. I had an uncle who was a drug addict. He was a heroin addict. And my mother from when me and my sister were little kids, she would beg us, please don't ever do drugs. Please don't ever do drugs. Don't put us through this hell that your uncle put us through. And we never did. I never did it, and I wouldn't sell it. I wouldn't call that curse down upon another person's family. I was dead set against it, but some people did. I knew people who sold drugs. I was in jail with a million different people who sold drugs. I don't think a lot of them sat down and really, really thought deeply about the consequences that could have with regard to mothers crying for the rest of their lives. And some kid dropped dead on his bed because he OD'ed or some, yeah, IAK: Excuse the Dimwittedness of this one. Louis, you've mentioned the word “Borgata” a couple of times. You might define it. Why did you title your book “Borgata”?Louis Ferrante (38:37): Borgata is what we called a crime family is the Borgata or the Broga, we would say, and it's a slang for a crime family. We wouldn't say we belong to a crime family. We wouldn't say we belong to the Mafiaa. We would say, I'm in so-and-So's Borgata or Borgata, and a Borgata. In the Italian definition of the word, it stems from the Latin burial. It's sort of like a poorer neighborhood of Italians would be a Borgata. A poorer community of Italians would be considered a Borgata. And that became, somehow, it became the name of a crime family, which is a little bit of a community. And obviously they don't start off super well off, or they wouldn't be committing crimes. People typically aren't born into wealth and commit crimes. So whoever the name came to mean, a crime family, that's what it means. And nobody had ever used it for a book before. So I figured, what the hell? It's perfect. So I went with the Borgata trilogy.AK (39:32): Well, I hope in this trilogy we're going to get to have you on at least two more shows for volume two and three. You end in the sixties, of course, in The Godfather, there were a wonderful moment in Godfather two, filmed in Cuba. Cuba was central. You make Cuba an important place in this narrative. Why'd you end in the sixties? Did something happen? Did something profoundly change?Louis Ferrante (39:58): Yes. There's a major shift that occurs in 1960 from the beginning of Borgata volume one until the end of Borgata volume one, there really isn't any concerted effort to destroy the Mafia. Thomas Dewey, who went on to become the Governor of New York and eventually ran as the Republican candidate for President against FDR, he did take a shot at locking up some gangsters in New York, but there was never really a concerted effort by the institutions of law enforcement to go after the mob. When Bobby Kennedy, when John f Kennedy's elected president in 1960, or begins his term in 1960, he appoints Bobby Kennedy, his younger brother, the Attorney General of the United States. And Bobby always had a thing against the mafia. He had started out in the McClellan Committee where he went after Jimmy Hoffa, and he went after other gangsters and called them to testify. And he was incensed that they took the Fifth Amendment all the time, and he didn't like that they would hide behind the Fifth, how dare them. And he swore he would go after them one day. And when John F. Kennedy becomes president, and Bobby is appointed Attorney General of the United States, he now suddenly has all of the Justice Department's, 30,000 employees under his control, treasury, I-R-S-I-N-S-F-B-I, et cetera, et cetera.AK (41:18): Although Bobby Kennedy used to call j Edgar Hoover, j Edna Hoover. He never seemed to listen very much to what Bobby Kennedy said.Louis Ferrante (41:27): No, he demeaned Hoover to, I mean, beyond what we would even consider. I mean, our standards today, forget it. They'd cancel Bobby Kennedy in a minute. But he was horrible to Hoover. And Hoover hated him. But Hoover did not. Hoover was dragged into the fight kicking and screaming. Hoover knew that if you made a concerted effort to destroy the mob, a lot of those mobsters, their backgrounds led to Congress led to congressmen, politicians, senator,AK (42:00): And of course, Hoover wonderful new biography, Al Prize winning biography. I'm sure you've read it. He was more interested, I think, in racial divisions in America. He might've been slightly sympathetic to the Mafia because they were white.Louis Ferrante (42:15): Yeah, I mean, he probably was at some point or another, he used the Mafiaa to uncover, I don't know if you're familiar with when those three civil rights workers were killed down in Mississippi.  Johnson put tremendous pressure on Hoover to crack the case, and Hoover probably got dragged into the fray kicking and screaming. I'm sure he didn't want to go after that. He was not deferential to blacks at all, Hoover. But he knew that that's what Johnson wanted. And the public wanted to know who these people were that killed these three civil rights workers, two whites and one black. And Hoover called one of his FBI informants down south and told them, here's the KK guy. The agents told, not Hoover himself, but Hoover's agents told this mob guy, here's the KKK guy. We believe the KKK guy we believe had something to do with it. You could beat it out of him if you want. Go for it. And this guy did. And then they dug up the bodies and they cracked the case. But Hoover, Hoover didn't like Italians, but he didn't go after them. And of course he didn't like blacks. Hoover was old school, very conservative in his views. Yeah. I mean, he was a man of his own time, but he was only concerned with groups trying to advocate the destruction of the United States. He was big on communists. He did not like communists Obviously, blacks and Italians weren't trying to overthrow the United States, but groups for the most part, like communist groups…AK (43:50): Right. His obsession with anti-Communist. And finally, Louis ending in the sixties, of course, in the sixties, America descended into a great deal of political violence, and particularly the assassinations of John F. Kennedy, of Bobby Kennedy, of Martin Luther King, many others. Lots of stories. And I'm sure you covered this in the book about Mafia involvement in one kind of assassination or another in the sixties, is in an odd ironic way at the end of this first volume, did America and the mafia kind of come together? Are they increasingly inseparable in the 1960s in the public use of violence of one kind or another?Louis Ferrante (44:31): That's a great question. I guess they've always remained, there's some sort of inseparability between them. But yeah, America became a very violent place.AK (44:44): Always was, but politically much more violent in the sixties.Louis Ferrante (44:48): Correct. I mean, we didn't have assassinations like we did. There's still a song. I heard it the other day. Where's my old friend, Johnny Martin, Luther King, John and Bobby, they died. Where are they? I forget the lyrics of the song, but it was made on the heels of that violence, and it still plays on the radio today. Where's my old friend Johnny? I think it is. But yeah, I mean, America became a violent place. I do believe that the mafia had something to do directly with John f Kennedy's. I present tremendous evidence in volume two of the Borgata Trilogy, trilogy. They had something to, andAK (45:24): That book's not out yet, right? Louis?Louis Ferrante (45:25): It's not out yet. But they did have something to do with his murder. And I also believe at some point or another, I intend to write a book about the Mafia's involvement with Martin Luther King's murder as well. I do believe there was a mafia informant who had something to do with Martin Luther King's murder as well. And I think if Hoover's hands aren't dirty in each of those cases, he definitely had his head in the sand and he heard things that he chose to ignore. And I think that that was the type of person, Hoover was where if I want a certain outcome and I just didn't see it or didn't hear it, it's like if you have a neighbor whose dog's been crapping on your lawn for the last 10 years, and then somebody beats up the neighbor, maybe you didn't see it. Maybe you looked the other way when it happened. I don't know. Maybe you get the outcome you wanted. So that could be what happened with Hoover.AK (46:19): Final question. I got to ask you this. We will get more next time you come on the show with volume two, talking about JFK and all that. What about you grew up in Queens? What about, you know who, I'm not sure if you've ever met him or come across him, but there's a mafia quality in the way, maybe a wannabe mafiaa quality to your fellow queens in New Yorker?Louis Ferrante (46:43): I never met him. I will say a lot of people have accused him of his construction business and the buildings that went up in New York having some type of mafia involvement. But I will say this, I know for a fact all of the buildings that went up in New York had some sort of mafia involvement. So you couldn't operate as a building developer in New York, especially back then, without having to deal with the mafia controlled unions without having to deal with the mafia controlled construction companies without having to deal with the mafia controlled concrete companies. There was something the mafia had, which was called the Concrete Club. And any bid over a million dollars, which would be any bid for a skyscraper, was controlled by the mafia. They let any bids under a million, they let them go, but anything over a million, they wanted to control. My friend, my former friend, I haven't seen him in years, I did time with him also. Tommy Rizzo supplied the rebar for the Trade Center. He was a Colombo gangster, Colombo family mobster. The guy who was supposed to fireproof the supports in the trade center was a Gambino family mobster. And the Port Authority cleared him of any wrongdoing when the towers fell. But I mean, these are mobsters who have all these contracts in New York and all these building developers to some extent have to deal with them. Now, usually there's a GC on the job, a general contractor, and at some point or another way below, someone like him or someone like somebody, his associates in that industry, somewhere down there, there's someone dealing with the cash envelopes under the table and stuff. But I don't think it ever rises to the height of himself or people like him in the developing industry. I think they're much bigger. They go to the parties. If he has a flamboyant nature, that's a completely different thing. But I mean, as far as incriminating something that he may have done incriminating, I don't believe so. I believe it was done lower, much lower than him. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit keenon.substack.com/subscribe

EPISODE 1909: In this KEEN ON show, Andrew talks to Louis Ferrante, author of BORGATA: RISE OF EMPIRE, the meteoric rise of the Cosa Nostra from 1860s Sicily to 1960s AmericaLouis Ferrante is a former Mafia associate and heist expert who served eight years in prison after refusing to incriminate his fellow Gambino family members. His last book, Mob Rules (HarperCollins), was an international bestseller, and his Discovery Channel Series, Inside the Gangsters Code, earned him a Grierson Award nomination for Presenter of the Year.Named as one of the "100 most connected men" by GQ magazine, Andrew Keen is amongst the world's best known broadcasters and commentators. In addition to presenting KEEN ON, he is the host of the long-running How To Fix Democracy show. He is also the author of four prescient books about digital technology: CULT OF THE AMATEUR, DIGITAL VERTIGO, THE INTERNET IS NOT THE ANSWER and HOW TO FIX THE FUTURE. Andrew lives in San Francisco, is married to Cassandra Knight, Google's VP of Litigation & Discovery, and has two grown children.

«Nos conocemos desde hace años y es la primera vez que me pides ayuda. No recuerdo la última vez que me invitaste a tomar café. Pero hablemos claro: nunca has querido mi amistad. Te asustaba estar en deuda conmigo. Tu paraíso era América. Tenías tu negocio, te ganabas bien la vida, la policía velaba tu sueño con la ley. Y no me necesitabas. Y hoy me pides, no como un amigo, que mate por dinero. ¿Qué he hecho para que me trates con tan poco respeto? Algún día, y ese día puede que nunca llegue, acudiré a ti y tendrás que servirme, pero hasta entonces, Bonasera, acepta mi ayuda en recuerdo de la boda de mi hija». Vito Corleone en la primera escena de El Padrino.Índice:0.32. El atípico modelo de negocio en Jot Down.7.37. Bazinganomics.19.30. Reglas eficientes vía instituciones culturales.27.51. Golden balls.40.44. Lecciones empresariales de Vito Corleone.51.59. «La diferencia entre la mafia y mi empresa es que la mafia está organizada».1.03.59. Todo mafioso está preocupado por su reputación.1.10.05. La inelástica demanda de crack en Baltimore.Apuntes:Corleone Business School. Guillermo de Haro.Ligonomics. Guillermo de Haro & Mache González.El espectador económico. Guillermo de Haro & Laura Blanco.Ataque a los titanes. Hajime Isayama.Los 10 principios de Mankiw, traducidos. Yoram Bauman.El reloj, el gato y Madagascar. José Luis Sampedro.Vacas, cerdos, guerras y brujas. Marvin Harris.Non-cooperative games. John Nash.Leadership strategy and tactics. Jocko Willink.Cromorama. Riccardo Falcinelli.Aprende de la mafia. Louis Ferrante.Gang leader for a day. Sudhir Venkatesh.

Louis Ferrante, former mob wise guy, called about a documentary My email to Louis:  Nice speaking with you today.  Here are few items that may be of interest in fleshing out your show ideas.  It is a show that needs to be done, but hasn't because the bad guys are a pretty close knit group and it's hard to infiltrate their facilities.  Even volunteers and interns who manage to get in are usually kept in the dark about what really happens to the animals, where they come from and where they go.   I keep a website of the people who have come up on my radar for breeding, buying, selling and exploiting big cats.  It is a who's who list of places that would be great to try and get inside so that you could expose them.  The list is at http://www.911AnimalAbuse.com   Mario Tabraue is one of the ones that I think is most likely to be back at his old tricks of smuggling wildlife and drugs, but I have no way to prove it.  He is fighting our federal bill to ban his activities.  The bad guys always try to scare me off by saying they know him and that they can have him make me disappear.  This is one of the best articles about him and is recent:  http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2014/05/mario-tabraue-cocaine-kingpin-lobbying-congress-big-cats   It sounds like your show is more broad than my scope of information, since all I track or deal with are exotic cats.  I don't know if there is a key element to other issues, but there is with the big cats.  It is all about cub handling.   People like Mario Tabraue of ZWF, or Kathy Stearns of Dade City's Wild Things, or Bhagavan Antle of T.I.G.E.R.S., or Joe Exotic Schreibvogel of GW Zoo, or a dozen others like them, claim they can make $25,000 a weekend charging people to pet lion, tiger and liger cubs.  The booking agent for Mario told me they book a million dollars a year in such tours for him.  The thing is that cubs are only allowed to be used, by USDA guidelines, between the ages of 8 and 12 weeks, so every month they need to breed more litters.   There are only 300 or so tigers in legitimate, AZA accredited zoos in the U.S.  The other 5,000 - 10,000 are in private hands, roadside zoos, and non accredited USDA licensed facilities.  It only costs $40 and a one page application for a USDA license, so it doesn't mean anything.   Where are the hundreds of cubs going each year?  The black market is the only potential market for them; yet it has been very hard to prove.  More about the whole cub petting industry here:  http://bigcatrescue.org/abuse-issues/issues/pet-cubs/   Here is a map of big cat owners:  http://bigcatrescue.org/map-of-big-cat-owners/   Lots to talk about.   12/8/14 to me:  This info is incredibly helpful (though heart wrenching). I will explore these links. And these are the sort of tips I would pass on to my fixers, very good leads. Just finished watching you on Temple Tigers segment with Jane Valez-Mitchell. Another tragedy. Feel free to pass along whatever else can help and I look forward to seeing you Friday   12/11/14 I wrote Lou:  Dear Lou,  See you tomorrow morning at 10 at Big Cat Rescue  12802 Easy St Tampa, FL 33625.  Good news today that Mexico banned the use of wild animals in circuses and banned exhibits of dolphins and whales.  Hard to imagine why the U.S. is so far behind when it comes to protecting wild animals.  To date 36 countries, 46 U.S. cities, and 28 jurisdictions in Canada have banned the use of big cats in circus acts. -Carole   Lou wrote Carole:  Hey Carole. Yes, we're on. And I know, we're so outta date. The EU would never even execute someone and we do it everyday, how can they care about animals. But I plan to make a hit show and open up the discussion more. Keep sending info like this. See you tomorrow.  Sent via BlackBerry by AT&T

Miben hasonlít egymáshoz a maffia és a neoliberális gondolkodás? Vissza lehet-e pofázni a főnöknek „a családon" belül, vagy aki nem teljesíti a parancsot, az röpül? Mint az üzleti életben. A brókerek vagy a maffiózók a mohóbbak, és mit lehet tanulni egy kezdő üzletembernek a Fear city című netflixes sorozatból? Csak néhány kérdés azok közül, melyeket a Tangó és Kes új adásában végigbeszélünk. Tényleg úgy van-e minden, mint arra Louis Ferrante a „Maffialeckék” című könyvében oktatja a gazdasági és a pénzügyi világ kezdő és haladó cápáit?

Miben hasonlít egymáshoz a maffia és a neoliberális gondolkodás? Vissza lehet-e pofázni a főnöknek „a családon" belül, vagy aki nem teljesíti a parancsot, az röpül? Mint az üzleti életben. A brókerek vagy a maffiózók a mohóbbak, és mit lehet tanulni egy kezdő üzletembernek a Fear city című netflixes sorozatból? Csak néhány kérdés azok közül, melyeket a Tangó és Kes új adásában végigbeszélünk. Tényleg úgy van-e minden, mint arra Louis Ferrante a „Maffialeckék” című könyvében oktatja a gazdasági és a pénzügyi világ kezdő és haladó cápáit?

Louis Ferrante is a former Mafia associate and heist expert who served eight and a half years in prison after refusing to incriminate members of the Gambino Crime Family. He educated himself in prison where he read thousands of books. He's now an international bestselling author, global business speaker, and hosts a series for the Discovery Channel called Inside the Gangsters' Code. This highly rated series earned Ferrante a nomination in the Presenter of the Year category at the United Kingdom's Grierson Awards, one of the most prestigious documentary awards in the world.Ferrante's first book was a memoir, Unlocked: The Life and Crimes of a Mafia Insider. His second book is Mob Rules: What the Mafia Can Teach the Legitimate Businessman, an international bestseller translated into 15 languages. His third book is based on a theory of the dreaming brain which he began working on while still inside a prison cell. The book is titled, The Three Pound Crystal Ball: How the Dreaming Brain Can See the Future.

Louis Ferrante, Author, Speaker and TV Host joins Bo and Carlo this week. Lou discusses growing up in Queens, and how he went down a wrong path, committing armed robberies as part of the Gambino crime family before being imprisoned. While in jail, Lou educated himself through reading and was able to appeal his case. Now free, he discusses how he became a bestselling author, motivational speaker and TV Host.Support the show.

Louis Ferrante is a former Gambino crime family mobster who, by the age of 21, had netted millions for the mafia. Today, Lou is a legitimate man, dedicating his life to enhancing the minds of others. He’s a best-selling author, a TV host and speaker. This is a story of redemption, of values and a...

On this week's show, we revisit two of our favorite interviews. Behavioral economist Dan Ariely, author of The Honest Truth about Dishonesty, talks about the business of lying. And former mobster Louis Ferrante talks about his book, Mob Rules: What the Mafia Can Teach the Legitimate Businessman. Thanks to Harry’s for supporting The Motley Fool. Get your Free Trial Set – go to Harrys.com/Fool

TRUE CRIME STORY Imagine that Michael Corleone, Tony Soprano, or Henry Hill said no to a life of crime in a flash. Stranger than fiction, right? Meet Louis Ferrante, a bonafide wiseguy, dedicated to the gangster life since his teen years, a professional hijacker, a violent offender, a member of John Gotti’s crew, serving eight years in max security for his crimes. Meet today’s guest, an author, motivational speaker, business mentor, and a TV documentary show host. Yup. It’s Louis Ferrante. Lou discovered his true human potential while he was in lockup. Impossible, you say? Listen to his story, share his life changing journey, and learn how you can be, do, and have anything you desire. BOOKS IN THIS PODCAST In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust All of Marcel Proust’s books Mob Rules by Louis Ferrante Unlocked by Louis Ferrante The Three Pound Crystal Ball by Louis Ferrante CONTACT LOU www.louisferrante.com (http://www.louisferrante.com/) Tell us what you think and feel. Click “Join The Conversation” below. Let your voice be heard.

On this week's show, we revisit two of our favorite interviews. Behavioral economist Dan Ariely, author of The Honest Truth about Dishonesty, talks about the business of lying. And former mobster Louis Ferrante talks about his book, Mob Rules: What the Mafia Can Teach the Legitimate Businessman.

The Stuph File Program Featuring former Tonight Show executive, Dave Berg; Louis Ferrante, author of The Three Pound Crystal Ball: The Theory of Sleep A.I.D. and the Unconscious Mind's Exclusive Access Into the Corridors of Time; & Stuart Nulman with Book Banter Download Dave Berg is a former executive producer of NBC's The Tonight Show back when it was hosted by Jay Leno. He has now written an insider's guide to his years on the show in a book called Behind The Curtain: An Insider's View of Jay Leno's Tonight Show. Former mobster, Louis Ferrante is the author of such books as Mob Rules and the host of the TV show, Inside The Gangsters' Code. But this time he's written something completely different, His latest book is called The Three Pound Crystal Ball: The Theory of Sleep A.I.D. and the Unconscious Mind's Exclusive Access Into the Corridors of Time.(Louis will also be speaking on the topic at the IONS 16th International Conference in Chicago July 22-26, 2015) Stuart Nulman is on with another edition of Book Banter.  This week’s reviewed book is Underwater Babies written by Seth Casteel, (Little,Brown, $23). You can also read Stuart’s reviews in The Montreal Times.  This week's opening slate is presented by Marc Goguen, a freelance voice announcer and former colleague.

On this week's show, we revisit two of our favorite interviews.  We talk with Dan Ariely, author of The Honest Truth About Dishonesty.  And former Gambino family associate Louis Ferrante talks about his book, Mob Rules: What the Mafia Can Teach the Legitimate Businessman.

We revisit some of our favorite interviews on our Labor Day Special.  We talk about the business of lying with Dan Ariely, author of The Honest Truth About Dishonesty:  How We Lie to Everyone - Especially Ourselves.  And former Gambino family associate Louis Ferrante talks about his book, Mob Rules: What the Mafia Can Teach the Legitimate Businessman.

On this week's show, we discuss the MF Global scandal, preview the year ahead, and share some stocks on our radar.   Plus, former Gambino family associate Louis Ferrante talks about his book, Mob Rules: What the Mafia Can Teach the Legitimate Businessman.

The economy adds fewer new jobs than expected.  Groupon files for an IPO.  Google fights with China.  Nokia tumbles.  And 5-Hour Energy scores with seniors.   Our analysts discuss those stories and share some stocks on their radar.  Plus, former Gambino family associate Louis Ferrante talks about his new book, Mob Rules: What the Mafia Can Teach the Legitimate Businessman.