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Il 1984 è l'anno dell'omicidio del giornalista Giuseppe Fava da parte degli uomini di Nitto Santapaola, uomo di Riina, ma è anche l'anno del crollo del traffico internazionale dalla Sicilia agli Stati Uniti. Dapprima l'operazi one Pizza Connection che porta in carcere Gaetano Badalamenti, poi le parole di Tommaso Buscetta che conducono a diversi arresti importanti negli Usa. Ma Buscetta non dice tutto quello che sa sull'argomento. Salvatore Riina, Gaetano Badalamenti,Stefano Bontate, Salvatore Riina hanno in comune un trascorso da trafficanti che non li aveva tenuti tanto lontani fra loro. ISCRIVITI AL CANALE: https://www.youtube.com/@italiamistero?sub_confirmation=1 Oppure vai alla pagina di italiamistero.it: #italiamistero #mafia #riina #buscetta www.italiamistero.it: https://www.italiamistero.it/
Send us a textToday, I'm joined by Rocco Morelli. Rocco was born into a mafia crime family, led by his grandfather, Rocco Morelli, the boss. He followed in his family's footsteps, becoming a “wiseguy.” Eventually, he became a police officer for a few years. He worked his way through college after that. Rocco later returned to crime, landing him in the Pizza Connection Case and prison. On the brink of being ordered to kill, Rocco gave his life to the Lord, transforming his life. Stay tuned to hear how God changed Rocco's life for good.
John Beaton with Fairhaven Farm talks about connecting with community, the land, and about summertime pizza nights
Ich mache Euch ein Angebot, das Ihr nicht ablehnen könnt. In dieser Episode erfahrt Ihr mehr über eine spezielle Form der organisierten Kriminalität: Die Mafia. Die hat herzlich wenig mit dem zu tun, was wir aus Film und Fernsehen kennen. Die Mechanismen des organisierten Verbrechens sind aus rechtlicher und insbesondere verfassungsrechtlicher Sicht extrem spannend und keineswegs so weit von unserem Alltag entfernt, wie wir vielleicht glauben. Denn die Mafia agiert nicht nur in Italien, sondern auch hier in Deutschland. Welche Auswirkungen auf Zivilgesellschaft und Bürgerrechte gibt es und wie sehr schadet die Mafia eigentlich der Demokratie, der Rechtsstaatlichkeit und der Freiheit? Warum wird die Mafia so gerne verharmlost und sogar glorifiziert, warum umgibt sie immer ein Hauch von Hollywood, warum wird sie nicht ernst genommen und warum gibt es keine vernünftigen Mafia-Gesetze? All diese Fragen beantwortet uns ein echter Mafia-Experte, der uns auch erklären kann, was eigentlich die Falcone-Methode ist. Dr. Alessandro Bellardita ist Richter in Karlsruhe, Autor und Journalist. Von Alessandro bekommen wir echte Mafia-Insights, lernen etwas über die Pizza-Connection und erfahren, warum nicht nur Drogengeschäfte zu den Einnahmequellen der Mafia gehören, sondern auch etwas Unerwartetes: Mozzarella! Hört unbedingt mal rein.
Rachel Teichman, LMSW, and Victor Varnado, KSN, delve into the intriguing details of the Pizza Connection Trial, one of the longest criminal trials in U.S. history. They uncover how pizza parlors were used as a front for a major international drug operation. The episode unpacks the trial's legal and cultural significance, blending history with a dose of crime drama. You won't want to miss this slice of true-crime history!Full Wikipedia here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pizza_Connection_TrialSubscribe to our new newsletter, WikiWeekly at https://newsletter.wikilisten.com/ for a fun fact every week to feel smart and impress your friends, and MORE! https://www.patreon.com/wikilistenpodcastFind us on social media!https://www.facebook.com/WikiListenInstagram @WikiListenTwitter @Wiki_ListenYoutubeGet bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
The Pizza Connection case was one of the most significant and expansive criminal enterprises ever uncovered, involving the Sicilian Mafia and American La Cosa Nostra in a global heroin trafficking operation that spanned decades. Using pizza parlors as fronts, the Mafia smuggled heroin from Turkey, processed it in Sicily, and distributed it across U.S. cities through an intricate network. The operation generated billions of dollars, which were laundered through international banking systems, including Swiss banks. Law enforcement eventually cracked the case through wiretaps, surveillance, and informants, leading to the arrest of key figures, including mastermind Gaetano Badalamenti. The subsequent trial, lasting nearly two years, exposed the inner workings of the Mafia and resulted in multiple convictions, severely disrupting the Mafia's grip on the heroin trade. The case left a lasting legacy, shaping modern law enforcement strategies in combating organized crime while highlighting the Mafia's ability to adapt to new illicit markets.(commercial at 9:52)to contact me:bobbycapucci@protonmail.com
The Pizza Connection case was one of the most significant and expansive criminal enterprises ever uncovered, involving the Sicilian Mafia and American La Cosa Nostra in a global heroin trafficking operation that spanned decades. Using pizza parlors as fronts, the Mafia smuggled heroin from Turkey, processed it in Sicily, and distributed it across U.S. cities through an intricate network. The operation generated billions of dollars, which were laundered through international banking systems, including Swiss banks. Law enforcement eventually cracked the case through wiretaps, surveillance, and informants, leading to the arrest of key figures, including mastermind Gaetano Badalamenti. The subsequent trial, lasting nearly two years, exposed the inner workings of the Mafia and resulted in multiple convictions, severely disrupting the Mafia's grip on the heroin trade. The case left a lasting legacy, shaping modern law enforcement strategies in combating organized crime while highlighting the Mafia's ability to adapt to new illicit markets.(commercial at 9:52)to contact me:bobbycapucci@protonmail.comBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-epstein-chronicles--5003294/support.
Die Strategen präsentieren: Folge 29 - „Espresso Tycoon“ Diesmal als Monolog aber im DeepDive Format besprechen wir ein für Konsolen frisch erschienenes Management Spiel in guter alter Manier. Es geht um Rezepte, Personalmanagement, Restauranteinrichtungen und vor allem um die Kunden... Nein die Rede ist nicht schon wieder von Pizza Tycoon sondern von einer frischeren Version im Kaffee-Gewandt. Was hat das Spiel zu bieten, hält der Trailer was er verspricht? Was ist gut und eher ausbaufähig? Kann das Spiel empfohlen werden und wer steckt dahinter? Das alles und noch viel mehr in der heutigen Podcastfolge der Strategen! Folgt den Strategen auf Social Media und besucht unsere Community auf unserem Discord Server, um mit uns über diese Episode zu diskutieren und keine News mehr zu verpassen! Wie hat euch die Folge gefallen? Gibt es andere Spielethemen, die ihr gerne in zukünftigen Folgen behandelt sehen würdet? Wir freuen uns auf eure Ideen und Fragen. Kontakt: Strategen-Links: https://linktr.ee/diestrategen Stefan: https://www.threads.net/@cheekyboinc Dominik: https://twitter.com/DerNik79 Kontakt: diestrategen.podcast at gmail.com Bis zum nächsten Mal, Strategen!
Spieleveteranen-Episode #371 (28-2024) Besetzung: Heinrich Lenhardt und Jörg Langer Aufnahmedatum: 03.07.2024 Laufzeit: 1:43:06 Stunden (0:00:15 News & Smalltalk – 0:39:28 Zeitschriften-Zeitreise) Was man nicht so alles beim Blättern in alten Fachzeitschriften findet: Erinnerungen an Redaktionsbegebnisse, vergangene Fußballturniere und natürlich jede Menge Spiele. Unsere Abstecher führen 10, 20, 30 und sogar 40 Jahre in die Vergangenheit, denn beim Bonus-Segment für Unterstützer schmökern wir in der sportlichen Happy-Computer 8/1984. In den anderen Jahrzehnten erwarten uns wagemutig belegte Pizzas (1994), obskure Soldaten (2004) und ein sündhaft gutes Rollenspiel (2014). Neben den Hits und Geheimtipps von gestern beschäftigen uns zu Beginn der Sendung auch Branchenmeldungen von heute, abgerundet von aktuellen Spielberichten und anregender Hörerpost. Unterstützt die Spieleveteranen und hört das volle Programm: https://www.patreon.com/spieleveteranen 0:00:15 News & Smalltalk 0:04:03 Gemischte News: Dead-Rising-Remaster angekündigt (aber nicht für Deutschland), auch Star Wars: Bounty Hunter kriegt sein Remaster-Fett ab, Atari- und Technos-Modelle des Super Pocket angekündigt, Wert aller ungespielten Steam-Spiele hochgerechnet. 0:21:14 Was haben wir zuletzt gespielt? Super Mario RPG (Remake), Kunitsu-Gami: Path of the Goddess (Demo), Ultimate General: American Revolution. 0:33:22 Hörerpost von Andreas Wanda und Thomas Kabs. 0:39:28 Zeitschriften-Zeitreise: Juli 2014, 2004, 1994 0:41:04 GamersGlobal und GameStar 8/2014, u.a. mit Shovel Knight, Divinity: Original Sin und The Wolf Among Us. 0:58:46 GameStar 8/2004, u.a. mit Söldner, Soldiers und Obscure. 1:12:36 PC Player 8/1994, u.a. mit Pizza Connection, DSA: Sternenschweif und Shanghai II: Dragon's Eye. 1:40:40 Abspann.
Narcotics trafficking is a global problem. Agents who are sent to fight it can find themselves deep undercover on foreign soil. In this episode, hosts Dutch McAlpin and Giovanni Rocco sit down with retired Drug Enforcement Administration agent Frank Panessa. Frank was at the center of the case known as the “Pizza Connection," during which he infiltrated the Mafia. As former undercover agents themselves, Giovanni and Dutch are able to ask Frank all the right questions. Frank talks about his start in the DEA, going undercover as a made man, how he got his nickname “The Chameleon” and so much more. About Frank Panessa: Frank Panessa worked as an undercover DEA agent for 28 years with multiple deep cover identities. After working investigations around the world, including in the U.S., Europe, Asia and Central America, Panessa retired in 1995 as the Assistant Special Agent in Charge of the Philadelphia Division, where he supervised more than 300 law enforcement personnel. During his DEA tenure, he proudly served as the Italian U.S. Embassy's chief liaison to Italian police agencies on narcotics and organized crime. Season One of Inside the Life is presented by Levy Online and Levy Production Group. To watch episodes of this podcast, visit YouTube For behind-the-scenes photos, merchandise and exclusive content, visit insidethelife.org For more on the Museum visit themobmuseum.org
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Lo hanno chiamato "boss dei due mondi", ma lui era solo un soldato. Gli amici si riferivano a lui col diminutivo di Masino, altri poi lo avrebbero definito traditore. Solo un termine però dava davvero fastidio a Tommaso Buscetta: "Non sono un pentito", diceva, riaffermando la volontà di voler far luce sulle deviazioni di Cosa Nostra senza rinnegare il proprio passato criminale. Cosmopolita, amante delle belle donne, interlocutore privilegiato di Giovanni Falcone, Buscetta ha attraversato la storia della malavita e della società italiana lasciando segni indelebili. Soprattutto nei processi che l'hanno visto come testimone, dalla Pizza Connection al delitto Pecorelli.Il nostro canale Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC1vziHBEp0gc9gAhR740fCwSostieni DENTRO LA STORIA su Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/dentrolastoriaAbbonati al canale: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC1vziHBEp0gc9gAhR740fCw/joinSostienici su PayPal: https://paypal.me/infinitybeatDentro La Storia lo trovi anche qui: https://linktr.ee/dentrolastoriaDiventa un supporter di questo podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/racconti-di-storia-podcast--5561307/support.
On Episode 54, We delve into the history of the Giannini Crew, a mob farm team closely connected to the Bonnano family that ran the streets of Queens throughout the 70's, 80's, and to a lesser extent, the 90's, they were a group of young, rough and tumble, Sicilian American youths, most of whom were the sons and nephews of older mobsters who made their name through heroin trafficking, namely that connected to the Pizza Connection case, and in step with that, the group was founded by a heavyweight mobster of a similar ilk, named Baldassare Amato, who became prolific for his role in the murder of Carmine Galante, and eventually turned the Giannini Crew into one of the most feared groups in the New York mob scene at the time, I hope everyone enjoys today's show and tunes back in next week for Episode 55PLEASE follow us on our socials-Instagram and Twitter: @theblackhandpodSources:Background Music:Music: Dark Flashes by Shane Ivers - https://www.silvermansound.comIntro Music:Music: Void Glider by Shane Ivers - https://www.silvermansound.comIntro audio sources:Lufthansa clip belongs to The Fox Corporation“New York City is a warzone” clip belongs to CBS Broadcasting Inc.Joey Gallo and “Leave by violence” clip belongs to the American Broadcasting CompanySupport the show
In the early '80s, undercover DEA Agent Frank Panessa posed successfully as a made member of the Sicilian mafia in order to combat an international $1.6B heroin smuggling ring that operated through pizza parlors across the U.S, and from various global locales in Europe, Asia, and Latin America. Frank takes us inside the colorful and highly successful operation, describing the unique mafia culture he encountered in his guise as a mafioso, including the surprising divide between the Sicilian and the American mafia families who worked with each other 'at arms length.' His undercover work and his team's stellar efforts ultimately resulted in over 19 arrests and 18 convictions after a 17-month trial completed in 1987. This case was one of the first "super-indictments," seeking to simultaneously impact a whole criminal organization, not just a handful of perpetrators, and it sent shockwaves through international crime circles.Heroes Behind HeadlinesExecutive Producer Ralph PezzulloProduced & Engineered by Mike DawsonMusic provided by ExtremeMusic.com
On Episode 45, we delve into the story of the Pizza Connection, one of the biggest drug trafficking rings to ever hit the US, but it would really touch almost every part of the globe, it would see Asian morphine processed into heroin in Italian labs, by French scientists, before being smuggled into the US, while Colombian cocaine was also brought in as part of the connection, and in the end, it would result in around 1,600 pounds of heroin being shipped into the US in just a 5 year period, netting around 2 billion dollars, while supplying nearly the entire Northeast US heroin market in the process. I hope everyone enjoys today's episode, and tunes back in next week for Episode 46PLEASE follow us on our socials-Instagram and Twitter: @theblackhandpodSources:Background Music:Music: Dark Flashes by Shane Ivers - https://www.silvermansound.comIntro Music:Music: Void Glider by Shane Ivers - https://www.silvermansound.comIntro audio sources:Lufthansa clip belongs to The Fox Corporation“New York City is a warzone” clip belongs to CBS Broadcasting Inc.Joey Gallo and “Leave by violence” clip belongs to the American Broadcasting CompanySupport the show
Die Strategen präsentieren: Folge 2 - "Pizza Connection 3: Dominiks Lieblingsspiel" Dominik: https://twitter.com/DerNik79 Stefan: https://twitter.com/CheekyBoinc Kontakt: diestrategen.podcast at gmail.com Willkommen zurück bei "Die Strategen"! Nach unserer Einführung in der ersten Folge freuen wir uns, mit euch in die Tiefe zu gehen und unser erstes Spiel zu besprechen: "Pizza Connection 3", ein persönlicher Favorit von Dominik. In dieser Folge erwartet euch: Eine ausführliche Analyse von "Pizza Connection 3", einschließlich der Spielmechaniken, Grafiken und der übergeordneten Strategie, die man zum Sieg benötigt Persönliche Geschichten und Erfahrungen von Dominik in Bezug auf das Spiel und warum es sein Lieblingsspiel ist Ein Blick auf die Geschichte und den Einfluss von "Pizza Connection" auf das Genre Diskussion über die Vor- und Nachteile des Spiels und wie es sich gegen andere Spiele im Genre behauptet Tipps und Tricks für "Pizza Connection 3", die auf Dominiks persönlicher Erfahrung basieren und Neulingen und Veteranen gleichermaßen helfen können, ihre Strategien zu verbessern und es gibt auch ein Gewinnspiel! Folgt uns auf Twitter, um keine Neuigkeiten zu verpassen, und zögert nicht, uns eure Meinungen zu "Pizza Connection 3" zu senden. Habt ihr es schon einmal gespielt? Was sind eure Lieblingsstrategien und warum? Gibt es andere Spiele, die ihr gerne in zukünftigen Episoden besprochen haben möchtet? Wir freuen uns auf eure Gedanken und Fragen. Bis zum nächsten Mal, Strategen! Willkommen in der Welt von "Pizza Connection 3".
La pizza es la comida rápida más consumida en todo EU y el alimenta más buscado en NY y la culpa de esto es de la Mafia. Escucha la historia de como sucedió esto.
We examine Detroit's Italian Mafia and the global narcotics trade. It's an intriguing web that involves Jimmy Hoffa and infamous drug networks like the French Connection and Pizza Connection. We also discuss poll results from our You Tube channel.
We examine Detroit's Italian Mafia and the global narcotics trade. It's an intriguing web that involves Jimmy Hoffa and infamous drug networks like the French Connection and Pizza Connection. We also discuss poll results from our You Tube channel.
Frank Fiordillino, ex Bonanno associate discusses the Sicilian Mafia Heroin pipeline. Get your Armchair MBA Merch here: http://ArmChairMBAStore.com
•Krimikomödie• Task Force Hamm Spezial 2: Ein Polizist, der hart arbeitet, muss auch hart entspannen. Lenz kann kaum glauben, was das für Folgen haben kann. Und schon wartet wieder Arbeit. // Von Dirk Schmidt / Regie: Claudia Leist / WDR 2022 // Der ARD Radio Tatort: www.ardaudiothek.de/sendung/95422134 Von Dirk Schmidt.
www.patreon.com/accidentaldads for bonus content and to support the show AND The Save The Music Foundation! Top police stings A sting operation is a deceitful operation used by law enforcement to apprehend criminals in the act of trying to commit a crime. In order to obtain proof of a suspect's misconduct, a typical sting involves an undercover law enforcement officer, investigator, or cooperative member of the public acting as a criminal partner or prospective victim and cooperating with a suspect's activities. Journalists for the mass media occasionally use sting operations to film and disseminate footage of illegal conduct. Sting procedures are prevalent in many nations, including the United States, but are prohibited in others, like Sweden and France. Certain sting operations are prohibited, such as those carried out in the Philippines where it is against the law for police enforcement to act as drug traffickers in order to catch purchasers of illegal substances. Examples Offering free sports or airline tickets to lure fugitives out of hiding. Deploying a bait car (also called a honey trap) to catch a car thief Setting up a seemingly vulnerable honeypot computer to lure and gain information about hackers Arranging for someone under the legal drinking age to ask an adult to buy an alcoholic beverage or tobacco products for them Passing off weapons or explosives (whether fake or real), to a would-be terrorist Posing as: someone who is seeking illegal drugs, contraband, or child pornography, to catch a supplier (or as a supplier to catch a customer) a child in a chat room to identify a potential online child predator a potential customer of illegal prostitution, or as a prostitute to catch a would-be customer a hitman to catch customers and solicitors of murder-for-hire; or as a customer to catch a hitman a spectator of an illegal dogfighting ring a documentary film crew to lure a pirate to the country where a crime was committed. Whether sting operations constitute entrapment raises ethical questions. Law enforcement might have to be careful not to incite someone who wouldn't have otherwise committed a crime to do so. Additionally, while conducting such operations, the police frequently commit the same crimes, like purchasing or selling narcotics, enticing prostitutes, etc. The defendant may raise the entrapment defense in common law jurisdictions. Contrary to common belief, however, laws against entrapment do not forbid undercover police personnel from pretending to be criminals or deny that they are police officers. Entrapment is normally only a defense when suspects are coerced into confessing to a crime they probably would not have otherwise committed. However, the legal meaning of this coercion differs widely from jurisdiction to jurisdiction. Entrapment might be used as a defense, for instance, if undercover agents forced a possible suspect to manufacture illicit narcotics in order to sell them. Entrapment has often not taken place if a suspect is already producing narcotics and authorities pretend as purchasers to apprehend them. Operation Entebbe The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) commandos successfully carried out Operation Entebbe or Operation Thunderbolt, a counterterrorism hostage-rescue mission, at Entebbe Airport in Uganda on July 4, 1976. A week earlier, on June 27, two members of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine - External Operations (PFLP-EO) (who had previously split from the PFLP of George Habash) and two members of the German Revolutionary Cells hijacked an Air France Airbus A300 jet airliner carrying 248 passengers. The declared goal of the hijackers was to trade the hostages for the release of 13 detainees in four other countries and the release of 40 Palestinian terrorists and related prisoners who were detained in Israel. The flight, which had left Tel Aviv for Paris, was rerouted after a stopover in Athens through Benghazi to Entebbe, the country of Uganda's principal airport. The ruler Idi Amin, who had been made aware of the hijacking from the start[10], encouraged the hijackers and personally greeted them. The hijackers confined all Israelis and a few non-Israeli Jews into a separate room after transferring all captives from the plane to a deserted airport facility. 148 captives who were not Israelis were freed and taken to Paris over the course of the next two days. Ninety-four passengers—mostly Israelis—and the 12-person Air France crew were held captive and threatened with execution. Based on information from the Israeli intelligence service Mossad, the IDF took action. If the demands for the release of the prisoners were not granted, the hijackers threatened to murder the hostages. The preparation of the rescue effort was prompted by this threat. These strategies included getting ready for armed opposition from the Uganda Army. It was a nighttime operation. For the rescue mission, Israeli transport planes flew 100 commandos to Uganda over a distance of 4,000 kilometers (2,500 miles). The operation took 90 minutes to complete after a week of planning. Out of the 106 captives still held, 102 were freed, and three were murdered. In a hospital, the second captive was later slain. Lt. Col. Yonatan Netanyahu, the unit leader, was one of the five injured Israeli commandos. Netanyahu was Benjamin Netanyahu's elder sibling and the future Israeli prime minister. Eleven Soviet-built MiG-17s and MiG-21s of the Ugandan air force were destroyed, and all five hijackers and forty-five Ugandan troops were killed. Idi Amin gave the command to attack and kill Kenyans living in Uganda after the operation because Kenyan sources supported Israel. 245 Kenyans in Uganda were killed as a consequence, and 3,000 left the nation. In honor of Yonatan Netanyahu, the commander of the force, Operation Entebbe, which had the military codename Operation Thunderbolt, is occasionally referred to retroactively as Operation Jonathan. Operation Valkyrie Senior Nazi military officers and Adolf Hitler convened in the Wolf's Lair in Rastenburg, Eastern Prussia, on July 20, 1944. Hitler's body was discovered scattered across the table as the Nazi military chiefs sat down to plan troop deployments on the Eastern Front when an explosion burst through the steamy meeting room. With the Führer's death, the Nazi threat to Europe could have been lifted. or so it seems at first. Claus von Stauffenberg and his accomplices believed they had turned the course of World War II and maybe saved thousands of extra lives for a brief period of time in history. The July Plot, also known as Operation Valkyrie, was the most famous attempt to have Hitler killed, although it was ultimately unsuccessful for a variety of reasons, some of which are still unknown to this day. The July Plot Is Hatched Many Germans, including some of the country's top military figures, had begun to lose faith in Germany's ability to win the war by the summer of 1944. Hitler was widely held responsible for ruining Germany. The Wolfsschanze was one of Hitler's military headquarters. A number of prominent politicians and senior military figures devised a plan to murder the Führer by detonating a bomb at a conference there in order to spark political unification and a coup. Operation Valkyrie was the name of the strategy. The plan was that after Hitler's death, the military would assert that the murder was the result of a Nazi Party coup attempt, and the Reserve Army would take significant buildings in Berlin and detain senior Nazi figures. Carl Friedrich Goerdeler would become Germany's new chancellor, and Ludwig Beck would become its first president. The new administration wanted to negotiate a peaceful conclusion to the war, ideally with benefits for Germany. The main conspirators' motives varied, according to Philipp Freiherr Von Boeselager, one of the last remaining participants in the July Plot. Many of them only saw it as a means of avoiding military defeat, while others hoped to at least partially restore some of the nation's morals. They chose Claus von Stauffenberg, a young colonel in the German army, to carry out the assassination. Despite not being a member of the Nazi party in the traditional sense, Stauffenberg was a devoted German patriot. In the end, he came to think that if Germany was to be saved, it was his patriotic duty to expel Adolf Hitler. Hitler, though, had experienced assassination attempts before. Assassination attempts against Hitler had been more frequent since his spectacular ascent to the top of Germany's political scene in the late 1930s. Hitler, who was becoming more and more paranoid, frequently altered his plans without warning and at the last minute. What Went Wrong Stauffenberg entered the bunker at Wolfsschanze on July 20, 1944. The conference was planned to take place in a concrete, windowless subterranean bunker that was closed off by a large steel door. By making sure it happened within one of these facilities, the detonation would be confined and anyone nearby the explosive device would die quickly from the shrapnel. The conference was moved to an above-ground wooden bunker with better air circulation on July 20 due to the oppressively hot weather, according to Pierre Galante's Operation Valkyrie: The German Generals' Plot Against Hitler. Numerous windows, a wooden table, and other beautiful furniture were all present in the area, which meant that the potential explosion would be much diminished since the energy of the blast would be absorbed and diffused. Stauffenberg was aware that this was the case, but he nonetheless proceeded, assuming that two explosives would be sufficient to destroy the room and kill everyone within. Stauffenberg excused himself when he arrived, saying that he needed to change his clothing, and went to a private room. The two explosives needed to be armed and primed. However, he only had time to arm one of the two devices due to an unexpected phone call and a quick knock at his door. Thus, the possibility of a greater blast was cut in half. Stauffenberg realized that in order to cause any kind of harm, the explosive device needed to be placed as near to Hitler as possible. He was able to get a seat as near to Hitler as possible with only one other person between them by claiming that his hearing was impaired due to his wounds. Placing the bag as near to Hitler as possible, Stauffenberg then left the room pretending to take a personal call. The briefcase was accidentally shifted to the opposite side of a large wooden leg that was supporting the meeting room table as another official was taking a seat. The Aftermath Panic broke out after the device exploded at precisely 12:42 pm. Twenty individuals were hurt, including three cops who subsequently died from their injuries, and a stenographer was instantaneously murdered. Stauffenberg and his assistant Werner von Haeften leapt into a staff car and bluffed their way past three different military checkpoints to flee the mayhem at the Wolfsschanze complex because they believed that Hitler was indeed dead. Hitler, however, along with everyone else who was protected by the large wooden table leg, only suffered a few minor cuts and an eardrum perforation. He had fully torn-up pants, and the Nazi leadership would subsequently utilize pictures of them in a propaganda effort. Ian Kershaw, a historian, claims that during the explosion, contradictory news concerning Hitler's fate came. In spite of the disarray, the Reserve Army started detaining senior Nazi officials in Berlin. The entire scheme, however, was eventually thwarted by delays, unclear communication, and the announcement that Hitler was still alive. The conspirators were all given the death penalty in a hastily called court martial the same evening by General Friedrich Fromm. In the courtyard of the Bendlerblock, a makeshift firing squad murdered Stauffenberg, von Haeften, Olbricht, and another officer, Albrecht Mertz von Quirnheim, while Ludwig Beck committed himself. At Berlin's Plötzensee jail, Berthold Stauffenberg was gently strangled while the incident was being recorded for Hitler to see. Hitler's life was ultimately saved that day by a number of interrelated reasons, but the conspirators were right that Germany was headed for disaster. Less than a year later, the Nazi leader and his closest advisers committed suicide. Operation Iceman Ever wonder what its like working undercover with an alleged murderer? Well, let's just say it's not hard to get a stuffy nose around this case… In fact, serial killer Richard Kuklinski's preferred method of murder involved using a nasal spray bottle to spritz cyanide into the faces of his victims. As a result, undercover agent Dominick Polifrone was never more on guard than during the 18 months he spent building a case against the so-called Iceman. “No matter where I went with him, I wore this leather jacket with a pocket sewn inside containing a small-caliber weapon,” recalls Polifrone, who gained his target's confidence and taped dozens of their conversations. “I knew that I was somewhere on his hit list. If he'd pulled out that nasal spray, I'd have to protect myself.” The streetwise New Jersey officer acquired enough proof before Kuklinski had suspicions, preventing that situation from occurring. Finally, the enormous 6-foot-4 gangland killer was apprehended thanks to his evidence. “I've met hundreds of bad guys, but Kuklinski was a totally different type of individual,” he tells The Post. “He was coldhearted — ice-cold like the devil. He had no remorse about anything.” Kuklinski was captured by Polifrone in a combined operation between the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms and the office of the New Jersey attorney general. The criminal, who was a leading suspect in the murder of a mobster whose body was found two years after his disappearance, was posing as a respectable businessman residing in suburban Dumont, New Jersey. The reason the medical examiners discovered ice in the muscle tissue was because Kuklinski, who earned his notoriety for frequently freezing the bodies of his victims and then defrosting them, erred that time. Police made an indirect connection between the deceased man and Kuklinski, who was charged with a number of previous homicides. “We had to get something nobody knew,” recalls Polifrone. The sting only appears briefly on screen in the film. In order to gain Kuklinski's trust, Polifrone, a resident of Hackensack, New Jersey, pretended to be a "bad person" for a whole year and a half. They met in parks and rest areas along highways and discussed the horrific killings Kuklinski had carried out, including a Mafia hit in Detroit for which he was paid $65,000. Additionally, there were "statement killings." To put a dead canary in the mouth of a victim as a warning to other victims, one mafia leader paid him extra. Another occasion, Kuklinski made light of the fact that he saw a gang member consume an entire cheeseburger laced with cyanide before passing away while joking with Polifrone. Recalls the cop: “He told me that cyanide normally works real quick and easy, but that ‘this guy has the constitution of a God damn ox, and is just eating and eating. “He said he almost ate the whole burger and then, bam, he's down!” Polifrone knew exactly how to play his role. “I laughed, of course,” he shrugs. “That's what bad guys do.” Paradoxically, Kuklinski was a committed family man. He led a Jekyll-and-Hyde existence. “He never socialized, gambled or messed around with other women,” adds Polifrone. “He lived for his wife and kids.” One minute he'd be repairing his daughters' toys, the next, dismembering a body with a chain saw and stuffing it into an oil drum. “He would come home and completely shut off this murderous component and seek security and love from his family,” says “Iceman” director Vromen. “He fulfilled the need to provide for them by killing.” Polifrone finally nailed Kuklinski after tricking him into buying what he thought was pure cyanide. A team of feds and ATF officers arrested him in December 1986. Twenty-eight years later, he reflects on the man who died, apparently of natural causes, in Trenton Prison in 2006 at age 70. Eyebrows were raised because he was due to appear as a witness at the trial of a Gambino family underboss. “I hope he died a slow death because of what he did to families and individuals,” concludes Polifrone. “He had no mercy. And if it was foul play, that's OK with me.” So let's talk about some controversial sting operations you may or may not have heard of. ACORN Sting Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now is known as ACORN. ACORN was a group of neighborhood-based organizations in the US that supported low- and middle-income families. They also offered details on affordable housing and voter registration. James O'Keefe and Hannah Giles, two young conservative activists, published recordings that had been edited with care in 2009. The two pretended to be a pimp and a prostitute before using a hidden camera to get unflattering answers from ACORN workers that seemed to give them advice on how to hide their prostitution business and avoid paying taxes.The plea for assistance in obtaining funding for a brothel didn't appear to deter the ACORN employees either. This sparked a national debate and led to a reduction in financing from public and private sources. ACORN declared on March 22, 2010, that it was disbanding and shutting all of its connected state chapters as a result of declining funding. Interesting fact: On January 25, 2010, James O'Keefe and three other people were detained on felony charges for allegedly tampering with the phones at Democratic Senator Mary Landrieu's office in New Orleans. O'Keefe stated that he was looking into claims that Landrieu's staff had dismissed constituent phone calls over the health care issue. O'Keefe recorded the action as they pretended to be telephone repairmen.In the end, they were accused with breaking into a government building under false pretenses, a misdemeanor. Following his admission of guilt, O'Keefe received a three-year probationary period, 100 hours of community service, and a $1,500 fine. Operation West End The largest undercover news story in Indian journalism has been described like this. In order to expose the alleged culture of bribery inside the Indian Ministry of Defense, a well-known newspaper from India by the name of Tehelka—which translates as "sensation" in Hindi—started its first significant undercover operation, "Operation West End" in 2001. Two reporters from the publication pretended to be London-based armaments dealers from a fake firm. In the undercover film, numerous politicians and defense officials are shown discussing and accepting bribes in exchange for assisting them in obtaining government contracts, including Bangaru Laxman, secretary of the ruling BJP party. Laxman and Military Minister George Fernandes (shown above) resigned following the release of the tapes, and a number of other defense ministry employees were placed on administrative leave. Interesting Fact: Instead of initially acting on the evidence from the sting operation, the Indian government accused the newspaper of fabricating the allegations. The main financial backers of Tehelka were made targets of investigations, and the newspaper company was almost ruined. In 2003, Tehelka was re-launched as a weekly newspaper, and was funded by faithful subscribers and other well-wishers. In 2007, Tehelka shifted to a regular magazine format. Senator Larry Craig On June 11, 2007, an undercover police officer conducting a sting operation targeting males cruising for sex at the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport detained Idaho Senator Larry Craig. Sgt. Dave Karsnia, the arresting officer, claimed that just after noon, the suspect entered a restroom and shut the door. Craig then moved into the stall next to him and propped his suitcase up against the stall door's front. By obscuring the front view, this is frequently done in an effort to hide sexual activity. Several minutes later, the officer claimed to have noticed Craig looking into his stall through a gap, tapping his right foot repeatedly, then moving it till it brushed Karsnia's. Craig then passed his hand under the stall divider into Karsnia's stall with his palm up and guided it along the divider toward the front of the stall three times. Karsnia then waved his badge back, to which the senator responded, “No!” The senator pleaded guilty to disorderly conduct and paid a fine, but changed his mind after word of his arrest later became public. Craig claimed he just had a “wide stance”, and he only pleaded guilty to avoid a spectacle.An appeals court rejected his request to change his mind about entering a guilty plea. Craig completed his time in the Senate but was unable to have his case dismissed by the Senate Ethics Committee. Craig departed office on January 3, 2009, having not to run for reelection in 2008. Fascinating Fact: Soon after Craig was arrested, the men's room started to resemble a tourist destination, with people coming to seek directions and take photographs. Even restroom tissue may be purchased on eBay. Listen to the conversation between Senator Craig and Sgt. Karsnia immediately following the arrest here. 7 Sarah Ferguson was victimized by Mazher Mahmood, a reporter for the tabloid daily "News of the World," in May 2010. In order to set up a meeting with Ferguson, Mahmood pretended to be a wealthy international businessman. The Duchess, who was discreetly recorded throughout the encounter, offered to connect the "tycoon" with Prince Andrew's influential inner circle. "500,000 pounds when you can, to me, open doors," Sarah Ferguson is heard saying on the video. She may also be seen removing a briefcase that is holding $40,000 in cash. After the event was reported, Ferguson's spokesman claimed she was both "devastated" and "regretful." She said that she had been drinking before asking for the money and was "in the gutter at that point" in an interview with Oprah Winfrey. Mazher Mahmood, the guy who pretended to be the tycoon, is referred to as the "Fake Sheikh" and has conned several famous people. No one is certain if that is his true name or what his real history is since he likes to make things as mysterious as possible. The journalist denies ever allowing his face to appear in any of his pieces and claims to have received several death threats. He also avoids public appearances. Bait Cars The Minneapolis Police Department employed the first bait cars in the 1990s. The largest bait car fleet in North America is now situated in Surrey, British Columbia, which is widely regarded as the continent's "auto theft capital." The cars are carefully modified, equipped with GPS tracking equipment, audio/video surveillance, and an engine-disabling remote control. It has helped to lower car theft by 47% when it was introduced in Surrey, British Columbia, in 2004. In one of the more contentious bait vehicle stings, a lady was murdered nearly instantaneously after a robber driving a bait car drove into her in Dallas, Texas, in 2008. To resolve the litigation, $245,000 was given to the victim's family. Fact: The key to determining whether police are utilizing a bait car improperly and would result in entrapment is if they left it in a way that would tempt someone who would not ordinarily commit a crime. Here, you can view one of the more eye-catching (to put it mildly) bait vehicle stings. Many others will undoubtedly have the same thoughts as I had. “Where the heck was the kill switch?” Marion Barry A well-known politician and former mayor of Washington, D.C., Marion Barry. Police were going to conduct an undercover narcotics transaction with former Virgin Islands official Charles Lewis on December 22, 1988, but they were turned back when they discovered Mayor Marion Barry was in Lewis's hotel room. This prompted a grand jury inquiry into potential mayor meddling in the narcotics probe. Barry testified for three hours in front of the grand jury before telling reporters he had done nothing wrong. Then, on January 18, 1990, Barry was arrested in a Washington, D.C. hotel after using crack cocaine in a room with his former girlfriend, who had turned informant for the FBI. This was the result of a sting operation put up by the FBI and D.C. Police. Barry said the now-famous phrase, "Bitch set me up," which has come to be linked with him. Following his arrest and subsequent trial, Barry made the decision not to run for mayor again. He was charged with 14 charges by a grand jury, including suspected grand jury perjury. The mayor could have spent 26 years in prison if found guilty on all 14 counts. Barry was only given a six-month prison term after the jury found him guilty of using cocaine. Barry campaigned for municipal council after being let out of prison. He garnered 70% of the vote due to his widespread popularity and the perception held by many that Marion Barry was the target of a political witch hunt by the government. Then, in 1995, Barry won a fourth term as mayor of Washington, D.C. Barry is currently back in his position on the D.C. city council. Regardless of your opinion on Marion Barry, you have to respect his perseverance and drive to help the people of Washington, D.C. The aforementioned occurrence is only a small portion of his remarkable life. A documentary titled "The Nine Lives of Marion Barry" was produced by HBO. Joran Van der Sloot Dutch national Joran Van der Sloot is a key suspect in the case of Natalee Holloway, who vanished on May 30, 2005, while traveling to Aruba to celebrate her high school graduation. On March 29, 2010, Van der Sloot got in touch with Beth Twitty Holloway's mother's attorney John Q. Kelly, reviving the case. Van der Sloot promised to provide details about Holloway's demise and the whereabouts of her remains in exchange for a total of $250,000 with a $25,000 down payment. After Kelly and Twitty made contact with Alabama law enforcement, the FBI launched a sting operation. On May 10, Van der Sloot accepted a wire transfer of $15,000 to his Dutch bank account along with an additional cash payment of $10,000. He drove Kelly to the location of Holloway's remains in exchange for the cash. He indicated a home, saying that his father had assisted in burying the body in the foundation. The home had not yet been constructed when Holloway vanished, therefore this turned out to be untrue. Later, Van der Sloot informed Kelly through email that the entire incident was a fraud. At this point, police might have detained Van der Sloot for wire fraud and extortion, but they chose to wait while they worked to establish a case of murder against him. Van der Sloot was not only let free, he was also given permission to depart Aruba and travel to Bogotá, Colombia, and then Lima, Peru, with the money he had made from the operation. He met Stephany Flores Ramirez, a 21-year-old University of Lima business student, in a casino hotel in the city. Ramirez and Van der Sloot are seen entering a hotel room together on security footage, but only Van der Sloot is seen exiting. On June 2, Ramirez was discovered dead in the hotel room that Van der Sloot had booked, her neck broken and she had been battered to death. On May 30, 2010, precisely five years after Natalee Holloway vanished, Ramirez passed away. A person arrested Van der Sloot He admitted to the murder on June 3 and June 7. Fascinating fact: Van der Sloot is presently detained at Peru's Miguel Castro jail, where murder charges have been brought. He apparently now claims that if he is permitted to move to a jail in Aruba, he would tell the whereabouts of Natalee Holloway's remains. Perverted Justice Stings Perverted-Justice is a group that uses volunteers to masquerade as juveniles online, often between the ages of 10-15, and wait for an adult to message or email the decoy back. If the topic becomes sexual, they won't actively reject it or support it. Then, in order to set up a meeting, they will attempt to identify the males by acquiring their phone numbers and other information. The group then provides law enforcement with the information. Additionally, Perverted-Justice has worked with the American reality show "To Catch a Predator." In Murphy, Texas, one of the more contentious instances took place in 2006. Louis Conradt (seen above), a district attorney in Texas, pretended to be a 19-year-old college student and had sexually explicit internet conversations with a person he thought was a 13-year-old kid. They hired an actress to portray the youngster on the phone when Conradt demanded images of the boy's genitalia. Conradt stopped returning phone calls and instant messages, so police and the reality program decided to conduct a search warrant operation at his residence. A gunshot was heard as the police entered the scene to make an arrest. Conradt was inside with a self-inflicted wound when they arrived, and he eventually passed away at a hospital. 23 people were taken into custody for online solicitation of minors as a consequence of the sting operation in Murphy, Texas. Due to inadequate evidence, none of the 23 instances were prosecuted as of June 2007. Conradt's family launched a $105 million lawsuit against Dateline's To Catch a Predator series. The dispute was ultimately resolved outside of court. All next episodes' development was halted by the network in 2008. Rachel Hoffman On February 22, 2007, a traffic stop in Tallahassee, Florida, resulted in Rachel Hoffman being found in possession of 25 grams of marijuana. Then, on April 17, 2008, police searched her flat and found 4 ecstasy tablets and 151.7 grams of marijuana. Police allegedly threatened to put her in jail unless she worked as an undercover informant for them, according to her account. She was then dispatched untrained to an undercover gathering to purchase a weapon and a significant quantity of narcotics from two alleged drug traffickers. The suspects relocated the drug purchase while she was there. When she departed the buy place in the car with the two suspects, the police officers who were keeping an eye on the sting lost sight of her. The identical gun she was intended to purchase was used to kill her by the two suspects while they were in motion. Two days later, her corpse was discovered close to Perry, Florida. One of the murder suspects was convicted of first-degree murder and given a life sentence without the possibility of parole on December 17, 2009, which would have been Rachel Hoffman's 25th birthday. Trial for the second murder suspect is set for October 2010. Interesting Fact: On May 7, 2009, a law called “Rachel's Law” was passed by the Florida State Senate. Rachel's Law requires law enforcement agencies to (a) provide special training for officers who recruit confidential informants, (b) instruct informants that reduced sentences may not be provided in exchange for their work, and (c) permit informants to request a lawyer if they want one. Mr. Big The Royal Canadian Mounted Police created Mr. Big, sometimes known as "the Canadian method," in the early 1990s in response to unsolved killings. It is employed in Canada and Australia, but many other nations, like the United States and England, view it as entrapment. The technique works something like this: An undercover police unit poses as members of a fictitious gang, into which the suspect is inducted. The suspect is invited to participate in a series of criminal activities (all faked by the police). In addition, the “gang members” build a personal relationship with the suspect, by drinking together and other social activities. After some time, the gang boss, Mr. Big, is presented to him. The police have a fresh interest in the first crime, and the suspect is instructed to provide the gang with further information. They clarify that Mr. Big might be able to affect the course of the police investigation, but only if he confesses to the full extent of the crime. He is also warned that if he conceals any other previous offenses, the gang could decide against working with him in the future since he would be a burden. The Royal Canadian Mounted Police are shown in the picture above carrying the hats of the four officers who were killed in Edmonton, Canada, in 2005 at a memorial service. Two of the men serving prison sentences for the murders made confessions to Mr. Big operatives.Interesting Fact: In British Columbia, the technique has been used over 180 times, and, in 80% of the cases, it resulted in either a confession or the elimination of the suspect from suspicion. However, cases of false confessions and wrongful convictions have recently come to the public's attention, and many are starting to question the controversial technique. In 2007, a documentary was made, called Mr. Big, that was very critical of the procedure. You can't talk about undercover operations without talking about the mob. Here are five badasses who infiltrated the mob. In law enforcement, working as an undercover officer carries the high risk of discovery by criminal suspects, leading to violence, torture and death. But the rewards can be huge, with wire recordings and eyewitness testimony that can result in arrests and convictions. A trained officer knows how to strategize, win the confidence of their targets and get them to reveal what's needed to build a case to take to trial. It requires an unusual kind of person, able to work under stress, stay focused, pull off the character he or she is playing and be prepared to tell many lies. What follows here is a list of five remarkable individuals whose undercover operations, despite real dangers, resulted in the convictions of leaders and associates of organized crime, over almost a century. This list leaves out many other famous undercover officers, whom we would like to recognize in the future. Perhaps because of the gravity of the investigations, and the financial resources required, all of these undercover officers worked for agencies of the U.S. government. MICHAEL MALONE Mike Malone worked undercover for the Treasury Department's Intelligence Unit. In the late 1920s, he infiltrated Al Capone's Chicago Outfit and helped convict the crime boss of tax evasion. Michael Malone had all the makings of an undercover agent who would successfully infiltrate Al Capone's Chicago gang for nearly two years. Malone, whose parents came over from Ireland, grew up in New Jersey and meshed well with its European immigrants, eventually learning to speak Gaelic, Italian, Yiddish and Greek. With his “black Irish” dark hair and skin, he resembled someone from southern Europe. After finessing his way into Capone's inner circle in 1929, Malone proved invaluable to his superiors in the Treasury Department pursuing a tax evasion case against the Chicago crime boss. Despite the danger, Malone kept an iron will. Blowing his cover would have proved fatal. But given his skills, it didn't happen. While Malone kept up the charade, he delivered information that proved incriminating not only for Capone, but for his top enforcer, Frank Nitti (aka Nitto). Malone remained disguised within Capone's bootlegging band even for a time after the feds filed tax charges against Capone, Nitti and Capone's brother, Ralph, in 1931. When Capone's jury trial commenced, and the Treasury Department removed Malone from his undercover job, the agent gained a bit of respect from the embarrassed gang chief himself. In the Chicago courthouse, Malone happened to enter an elevator where Capone stood with his defense lawyers. “The only thing that fooled me was your looks,” Capone is said as to have remarked to Malone. “You look like a Wop. You took your chances, and I took mine. I lost.” From 1929 to 1931, Malone fed intelligence about Capone that would culminate in the historic conviction of the nation's most notorious Mob boss. His fascinating story began after his service in World War I. With law enforcement his career goal, Malone joined the Treasury Department's Intelligence Unit later known as the “T-Men.” Early on, in the 1920s, Malone appreciated how donning disguises brought him closer to the suspects. He posed in everyman roles such as garbage man and shoe shiner. Elmer Irey, chief of the Intelligence Unit, had worked with undercover agent Malone on Prohibition cases. Once, Irey enlisted Malone to smash a West Coast version of “Rum Row,” rumrunners selling contraband Canadian liquor from ships off the coast of San Francisco. Malone posed as gangster from Chicago in hiding, with money to invest in illegal booze. He devised a nighttime sting operation. Agents posing as bootleggers drove speedboats out to the booze-laden mother ship and, after money changed hands, Malone fired off a flare, signaling the U.S. Coast Guard, which boarded the mother ship and arrested the astonished bootleggers. President Herbert Hoover entered office in March 1929, a few weeks following the infamous St. Valentine's Day Massacre in Chicago, where seven men associated with Capone's bitter rival in bootlegging, George “Bugs” Moran, died in gunfire. Hoover conferred with Irey and urged him to compile a team of special agents to “get Capone” on tax charges. Meanwhile, another team of Prohibition Unit agents in Chicago, headed by Eliot Ness, would attack Capone on violations of federal liquor laws under the Volstead Act. Irey appointed Special Agent Frank Wilson, Malone and several others to the get Capone team. Meanwhile, a group of wealthy business executives in Chicago, called the Secret Six, donated large sums of money for expenses to assist the feds in getting Capone. Malone used their largess to purchase some expensive clothing to look the part of a well-heeled hoodlum that Capone would envy. Malone set about infiltrating Capone's underworld at its core – the Lexington Hotel, where the boss and his men lived. Wearing a fancy suit, purple shirt and white hat, Malone sat in the lobby, reading newspapers for days on end. He spoke in an Italian accent, introduced himself as “Mike Lepito,” met Capone men playing craps and played the part of a mobster. He mailed letters to friends in Philadelphia, who wrote back. Capone's guys broke into his room, noted his pricey checkered suits and silk underwear. They opened his mail from Philadelphia, read the letters written, impressively, in underworld lingo they understood. They informed Capone. Finally, Capone sent a cohort down to the lobby to ask “Lepito” about his business in town. “Keeping quiet,” Malone replied in his Italian inflection. In the coming days, over drinks, Malone told the guy he was on the lam for burglary in Philadelphia. That got Malone invitations to play poker and trade gossip with the gang, then dinner at their hangout, the New Florence, and then to attend the birthday party Capone planned for Frank Nitti at the Lexington. Malone met Capone at Nitti's party. The secret agent's new acquaintances included big-shot hoods Nitti, “Machine Gun” Jack McGurn, Jake “Greasy Thumb” Guzik, Paul “The Waiter” Ricca, Murray “The Camel” Humphreys and Sam “Golf Bag” Hunt. Malone was in. He discreetly phoned Wilson about what he'd overheard within the gang. Wilson and his aides traced signatures on bank checks while pursuing tax evasion cases against Nitti and Guzik. A federal court in Chicago convicted Guzik, who got a five-year sentence. But Nitti skipped town. Malone, assigned to find him, followed Nitti's wife to an apartment building in Berwyn, Illinois. There, the cops nabbed Nitti, later sentenced to 18 months in prison for tax evasion. Then the police pinched Al himself following his 1931 indictment on tax charges. “Mike Lepito” was there at the Lexington when Al Capone arrived back, triumphant about his release on $50,000 bail. Malone listened and reported to Wilson about Capone's scheme to bribe and fix the jury in his favor. The feds moved quickly and a judge created a new list of jurors. Malone then reported Capone's plot to hire five gunman from New York to kill four federal officials in Chicago – including Wilson. With safety measures in place, Capone ordered the gunmen to leave town. Capone's trial, after a judge refused to plea bargain with the Mob boss, started in October 1931. Four days afterward, Malone finally gave up the act. The news spread fast to Capone and his men. Malone had heard that Phil D'Andrea, Capone's bodyguard, planned to bring a concealed gun into the courthouse. Malone and another agent frisked and disarmed D'Andrea, and had him arrested. A jury Capone could not fix found the boss guilty on 22 criminal counts. The judge gave him 11 years in the federal pen and a $50,000 fine, plus court costs. Months later, in early 1932, the Intelligence Unit had Malone, Irey, Wilson and Special Agent A. P. Madden probe the kidnapping of aviator Charles Lindbergh's son. The team's persistence paid off within two years, with the capture (and conviction) of suspect Bruno Hauptman, who still had some of the marked currency the agents convinced Lindbergh to use as ransom money. Malone had other notable cases. In 1933, Irey assigned him to find fugitive New York gangster Waxey Gordon, wanted for tax evasion. Malone located Gordon in a remote cottage in the Catskill Mountains. Special Prosecutor Thomas Dewey took the case, and the court put Waxey away for 10 years. A year later, Malone infiltrated Louisiana Governor Huey “Kingfish” Long's crooked crew. After Long's assassination, the IRS won a tax fraud conviction against Malone's target, Long's close aide, Seymour Weiss. In his last undercover operation before his death, the Intelligence Unit gave Malone a large amount of cash and a Cadillac to use in Miami Beach, disguised as a rich syndicate man. He found and reported what the agency wanted – details of a coast-to-coast illegal abortion ring. After Malone's death in 1960, Wilson described him to a news reporter as “the best undercover agent we ever had.” JOSEPH PISTONE Joe Pistone is one of the FBI's most celebrated undercover agents. Using the name Donnie Brasco, he infiltrated the New York Mafia and helped produce 200 indictments. Courtesy of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. In New York City during the mid-1970s, the FBI investigated a rash of truck hijackings happening each day. The agency assigned agent Joseph “Joe” Pistone to go undercover for six months to find out where the Mob-connected thieves took the stolen cargo. His adopted name was “Donnie Brasco.” He was so effective as a wiseguy that the FBI let him keep it up. No one knew how far the investigation would lead, or what it would mean for Pistone, who started as an agent in 1969. His experience would eventually prompt the mobsters in New York to put out a $500,000 contract for his murder, but it never happened. In the end, the evidence and trial testimony he provided in the 1980s produced 200 indictments of Mob associates and more than 100 convictions. His work decimated the Bonannos, one of New York's five major crime families. Pistone's journey while undercover, impersonating a mobbed-up jewel thief, would last an incredible five years, from 1976 to 1981, during which he penetrated the upper levels of the Bonnano organization. No FBI agent had made it inside the Mob like that. The agency beforehand had to rely on informants. Pistone took a class to learn about jewelry to make his affectation believable. In Brooklyn and Manhattan, he roamed bars and restaurants frequented by Mob types. He communicated using the street smarts he absorbed growing up as a working-class Italian-American kid in Paterson, New Jersey, where he went to Italian social clubs and encountered local hoods. Years in, he had the Bonanno circle so convinced that it moved to have him a “made” man shortly before the FBI ended his assignment. At first he befriended low-level mobsters. He wore a wire to record conversations, and committed to memory names and license plates since taking notes would obviously raise red flags. By 1976, he'd won the trust of important Bonnano members, notably family soldier Benjamin “Lefty Guns” Ruggiero, said to have killed 26 people, and capo Dominick “Sonny Black” Napolitano. Ruggerio recommended him so that he could join the clan. Pistone's Mob activities centered in New York and Florida, taking him away from his wife and young daughters for extended times. Pistone even had to vacation with his demanding cohorts. He moved his family members out of state for their protection. As “Donnie Brasco,” Pistone helped Ruggerio transfer stolen goods and sell guns. He engaged in loansharking, extortion and illegal gambling. Once, while pretending to be an expert in burglar alarms, angry Mob associates intent on committing burglaries demanded he reveal the name of a mobster who would vouch for him. The FBI used an informant to quell their suspicions. In the 1997 film Donnie Brasco, undercover agent Joe Pistone is played by Johnny Depp, left. Al Pacino, right, plays Benjamin “Lefty” Ruggiero. In 1981, the situation intensified again when the crime family commanded him to kill an adversary. The FBI pulled him out of the sting. It was time to start making cases, and for him to testify in open court as himself. Starting in 1982, Pistone's testimony over the next several years in racketeering cases sent more than 100 mobsters to long prison terms. Prosecutors considered him crucial to convicting 21 defendants in the “Pizza Connection” case of pizzerias used to traffic in heroin and launder money for the Sicilian Mafia. Pistone went into hiding and later retired from the FBI, unscathed, in 1986. In the 1990s, Salvatore “Sammy the Bull” Gravano, former underboss for the Gambino family who turned FBI informant, said the embarrassment from the “Brasco” case drove bosses in New York's crime families to suspend the Bonanno group from its board of directors. But Pistone couldn't stay retired. In 1992, at age 53, he requested reinstatement with the FBI, which agreed only if he would enter the agency's strict training class, lasting 16 weeks at its base in Quantico, Virginia. Pistone endured the rigorous course alongside recruits in their 20s. He passed and the FBI rehired him, at least until the mandatory retirement age of 57. Pistone's 1988 book on his undercover experiences, Donnie Brasco: My Undercover Life in the Mafia, was a bestseller. Based on the book, actor Johnny Depp portrayed Pistone in the 1997 feature film Donnie Brasco, with Al Pacino as Ruggerio. JACK GARCIA Jack Garcia was an FBI undercover agent of Cuban descent who convinced members of the Italian-American Mafia that he was Italian. He took part in more than 100 undercover investigations over a 26-year career. Before he succeeded in infiltrating New York's Gambino crime family, FBI agent Joaquin “Jack” Garcia had to go school. That is, the FBI's “mob school,” where he received an education in how to hit the ground running with veteran mobsters. His teacher was special agent Nat Parisi. First off, Parisi said, do not carry a wallet – wiseguys carry wads of currency, often bound by the kind of rubber band grocery stores use to keep broccoli together. Also, correctly pronouncing Italian food matters – as Tony Soprano might say, those long pasta shells are not “manicotti,” but “manicote.” Another valuable lesson he learned is that his Mob brethren loved compliments – his favorite one: “Where did you get those nice threads? You look like a million dollars.” In his 26-year career as an FBI agent, Garcia took part in more than 100 undercover investigations, from Miami to New York, Atlantic City and Los Angeles, targeting mobsters, drug traffickers and corrupt politicians and cops. He participated in the highest number of undercover cases in FBI history. In many of his capers, he impersonated a mobster, using the name “Jack Falcone” (in honor of the Italian judge Giovanni Falcone, killed by the Sicilian Mafia in the 1990s). As a backstory, he told his Mob marks about having a Sicilian pedigree (actually he's a native of Havana and grew up in the Bronx) with an expertise in stealing and fencing stolen goods, with jewelry as his specialty. Sometimes, he had to run several undercover roles at once. He took advantage of his fluency in Spanish and Italian, being careful not to mix things up when the phone rang. In the early 2000s, the FBI chose Garcia for what would be the most fruitful infiltration of an organized crime family since Joe Pistone's in the 1970s. While undercover as “Jack Falcone” with the Gambino's family's chapter in Westchester County, New York, for two years, he flashed cash, Rolex watches, diamond rings, flat-screen TVs and other supposed stolen property (items seized in other FBI cases). Much of the cash he held went to pay for expensive dinners – mobsters, he said, are notoriously cheap when the check comes. He gained 80 pounds over the two years. One mobster in particular who liked his money and goods, and would become his almost daily companion, was Gambino capo Gregory DePalma. An “old school” hood who in 2003 finished serving 70 months for racketeering, DePalma right away threatened violence and extorted owners of Westchester-area construction firms, strip joints, restaurants and other businesses. Garcia said he witnessed DePalma commit a crime almost every day. The FBI had Garcia pose as a wiseguy seeking to invest in a topless bar in the Bronx. Garcia's inquiries led him to meet DePalma in 2003. By providing stolen property for DePalma to sell for cash, Garcia convinced him that “Jack Falcone” was an experienced jewelry thief and fencer from Miami. When Garcia hung out with DePalma over the two-year period, he wore a body wire, and the FBI planted bugging devices at DePalma's hangouts. Garcia gave DePalma a cell phone that the talkative mob capo used prodigiously, not knowing the FBI had bugged it. The operation yielded 5,000 hours of recorded conversations used to implicate DePalma and other Gambino men in racketeering. In 2005, DePalma planned to honor “Falcone” by rendering him “made” within the Gambino family. In a recorded conversation, Garcia as “Falcone” replied to DePalma, “I'm honored for that,” he said, in the tape later used in court. “I will never let you down either.” But it wasn't to be. After Garcia witnessed a Gambino soldier beat another member with a crystal candlestick, the FBI shut down the undercover operation. (Garcia and Pistone are the only law enforcement officers ever nominated to be “made.”) Garcia's efforts inside the Gambino crew paid off big time. The evidence he delivered for the FBI resulted in the arrest of 32 Gambino members and associates, including DePalma, Gambino boss Arnold “Zeke” Squitieri and underboss Anthony “The Genius” Megale. DePalma went to trial in 2006. Garcia, who retired from the FBI two months before the trial started, agreed to testify in federal court in Manhattan. The jury found DePalma guilty on 27 counts, and the judge gave the 74-year-old a 12-year prison term. Like Pistone, Garcia's undercover career is chronicled in a memoir, Making Jack Falcone: An Undercover FBI Agent Takes Down a Mafia Family. KIKI CAMARENA Kiki Camarena was an undercover agent for the Drug Enforcement Administration in Mexico. After contributing information that led to major drug busts, he was tortured and murdered by drug cartel bosses in 1985. Enrique “Kiki” Camarena, the late Drug Enforcement Administration agent assigned to investigate drug trafficking in Guadalajara, Mexico, in the 1980s, is famous as one of the most heroic DEA agents ever. But he is more well-known in death than in life. His torture-murder in Mexico in 1985 took place at the hands of drug cartel bosses with the complicity of high-level Mexican government officials, law enforcement and, allegedly, the CIA. At the time, the Reagan administration was secretly training and supplying Central American guerilla fighters, known as the “Contras,” against the leftist Sandinista government in Nicaragua. The U.S. government allegedly granted the cartel bosses free rein to traffic drugs – to the point of using CIA-recruited American pilots to fly cocaine into the United States to sell for cash so the cartel could make donations to buy more weaponry for the Contras. Camarena, born in Mexicali, Mexico, in 1947, moved with his impoverished family to Calexico, California. He served as a firefighter in Calexico, and with a strong desire for police work, joined the Imperial County Sheriff's Department, moving up to its narcotics task force. The experience led to his career in the DEA starting in 1975. Assigned to the DEA office in the “narco paradise” of Guadalajara in 1980, Camarena was a convincing undercover officer with his appearance and ability to speak Spanish and barrio “street” language to fit in with the drug underworld. His target was the powerful Guadalajara drug cartel (which later evolved into the Sinaloa cartel). In the early 1980s, in what he called “Operation Padrino,” Camarena arranged for U.S. agents to seize international bank accounts held by wealthy cartel drug lords. He developed evidence of major marijuana plantations in the Mexican state of Zacatecas, based on informants and overflights in a plane flown by his DEA pilot, Alfredo Zavala Avelar. In November 1984, from his background work, Mexican federal police and the DEA raided enormous pot-growing operations on a ranch in Zacatecas that employed thousands of field hands. The task force confiscated 20 tons of marijuana, burned the crop and made 177 arrests. The bust cost cartel figure Rafael Caro Quintero about $50 million. Caro Quintero believed his operation had the protection of the Mexican army, and the CIA, since he owned a farm used to train the U.S.-backed Contras. He vowed revenge against Camarena. Meanwhile, a DEA force organized by Camarena seized a large cache of cocaine shipped by cartel boss Miguel Felix Gallardo's operation to New Mexico and Texas. Gallardo also believed he had CIA and Mexican official protection. During the fall of 1984, Quintero held meetings with top cartel traffickers Gallardo, Ernesto “Don Neto” Fonseco Carrillo and Ruben Zuno Arce. Also present, thanks to rampant corruption bought by the Guadalajara cartel, were Mexico's minister of domestic affairs and DFA chief Manuel Bartlett Diaz, plus Mexico's defense minister, the head of Mexico's Interpol office and the governor of the state of Jalisco. The agenda was to kidnap Camarena and get him to reveal his informants and other information. Zuno Arce gave the order. Fonseca only intended to scare and release him, but Quintero wanted to kill the DEA man. On February 7, 1985, Quintero and Gallardo directed their henchmen to kidnap Camarena off a street in Guadalajara. As the agent walked from the U.S. consulate to meet his wife for lunch, they forced him at gunpoint into a car and drove him to a residence used for cartel rendezvous. They bound and blindfolded him, turned on a tape recorder and questioned him, during which he was severely beaten and tortured. The lead interrogator was the crooked head of the secret police in Guadalajara, Sergio Espino Verdin. The cartel men wanted to know what Camarena knew about them, their dealings with Mexican officials and the CIA's involvement in drug trafficking. The gangsters also brought in and beat up Zavala, Camarena's pilot. Both men died about two days later, angering Fonseco, who told Quintero not to kill Camarena. Camarena's wife reported him missing and Washington launched what would be the largest manhunt in the history of the DEA. The cartel had the two men's bodies buried, then dug up and relocated to a farm in another state, where Mexican police found them in early March. During his funeral a week later, Camarena's family interred his ashes in Calexico. His slaying triggered an international incident. U.S. officials ordered all cars from Mexico at the border searched, effectively closing it. The investigation revealed the CIA connection, leading to bitter clashes between CIA and DEA agents. A federal court in Los Angeles charged 22 defendants in the murders of Camarena and Zavala. Under pressure, Mexican authorities acted, arresting 13 men. Mexican courts convicted Fonseco, Quintero and Espino, and sentenced each to 40 years, although Quintero won early release on a technicality in 2013. U.S. officials are still seeking Quintero to face federal charges. Mexican police arrested Gallardo in 1989, and he received 40 years. A court in Los Angeles found Zuno Arce guilty in the murders in 1990, sentenced him to two life terms in prison, where he died in 2012. In Camarena's honor, in 1985 the National Family Partnership started the National Red Ribbon Campaign, a volunteer anti-drug use and education effort that urges youths to recite a pledge to refrain from drugs, and celebrates “Red Ribbon Week” on drug awareness each October. Camarena's is featured as a character, played by actor Michael Pena, in a chapter of the Netflix series Narcos: Mexico, about on his actions with the DEA. JAY DOBYNS Jay Dobyns went undercover with the Hells Angels outlaw motorcycle gang for 20 months in Arizona on behalf of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. His work led to 16 arrests. For Jay Dobyns, fitting in with the infamous biker gang the Hells Angels for almost two years meant adhering to his undercover alter ego, Jay “Bird” Davis, to the point of obsession. To maintain his cover, he had to divert his mind away from his wife and kids. And it all would be worth it – at least that's what he thought at the time. Dobyns had hit on his best clandestine ruse yet while in Arizona in 2001, after 15 years of service as an undercover special agent with the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. While working undercover cases in the late 1980s for the ATF, he'd been injured twice – from a gunshot wound to the back from a suspect in Tucson and when gunrunners hit him with a car during an attempted getaway in Chicago. He took part in investigations of the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing and the 9/11 terrorist attacks. Other undercover roles of his ended in the arrests of a Mexican drug boss and members of the Aryan Brotherhood gang. Altogether, he served in more than 500 undercover operations disguised as a hitman and Mob debt collector. He infiltrated organized crime groups and gangs engaged in drug and arms smuggling. In 2001, to gather intelligence as “Davis” for the ATF in northern Arizona, Dobyns worked in the Bullhead City area, posing as a gun seller and an enforcer for a nonexistent collections agency. But his operation was interrupted in 2002 with the now-famous riot and shootout among members of the Angels and a competing biker gang, the Mongols, at the Harrah's casino in nearby Laughlin, Nevada, during the annual River Run motorcycle rally. Two Angels and one Mongol died and dozens of people were injured. The ATF brass soon redirected him to penetrate the dangerous Hells Angels club. Dobyns certainly had the physical part down with his beard and six-foot, one-inch frame he used as an all-conference football player for the University of Arizona. Later, an Angels member would apply tattoos covering his upper arms. Dobyns teamed with another ATF agent, two other undercover officers and a pair of paid informants. The idea was to create a fake biker gang with the aid of one of the informants who once served in a motorcycle gang based in Tijuana, Mexico. The gangster informant and Dobyns would run the gang, called the Solo Angeles, promote it as a pro-Hells Angels crew and request to join the Angels as a “nomad” chapter. The ATF named the setup “Operation Black Biscuit.” As a convincer, Dobyns and his fellow agent feigned an execution of a Mongol member, tying up an agent, placing cow's brains and bloody Mongol clothing on him and taking a photo. Based on the picture, the Angels took the bait and let them hang out and ride with them. They trusted him so much they offered to make him a member of the Angels' Skull Valley Chapter. He was the first law enforcement officer to infiltrate the Angels. His undercover penetration of the Angels lasted more than 20 months, one of the longest ever for the ATF. His work ended with 16 arrests from the Angels gang. But the criminal case, amid problems between the ATF and Justice Department lawyers, fell through in federal court. Federal prosecutors blamed the ATF, saying the agency did not reveal evidence from informants. In 2006, the feds dropped racketeering enterprise charges – the most serious — against all but four of 42 Angels charged in the Laughlin riot. Dobyns' battle with his own employer, the ATF, soon began. He filed suit in federal court against the agency alleging it did not protect him while he was on duty. He won a $373,000 settlement in 2007. The next year, Dobyns's wife and two kids barely escaped after someone firebombed the family home in Tucson. The ATF investigated Dobyns himself as a suspect in the arson. Investigators cleared him. In 2014, the year he retired after 27 years with the ATF, he filed another suit, for $17.2 million, saying the ATF failed to safeguard his family amid death threats. A judge awarded him $173,000. During an appeal, the judge voided the monetary judgment, but recommended discipline for ATF personnel and barred seven Justice Department attorneys from the case. He ordered a special master to investigate government actions in the case, and possible misconduct by the feds in the arson investigation. But the judge died of cancer. The special master in a report said that the first case was fair enough and required no further probe into the federal government. A new judge accepted the recommendation. Dobyns has authored two books, one on his undercover experiences, another on his travails with the ATF. These days, he delivers lectures on his life to audiences at universities and law enforcement associations nationwide. And now some of our infamous quick hitters: Donald Duck decoy Police in Fort Lee, New Jersey used a Donald Duck costume as a decoy to catch drivers who failed to yield to pedestrians. Drivers who didn't stop for the cartoon duck were ticketed. One woman, Karen Haigh, fought her $230 ticket. "They told me that I was getting a ticket for not stopping for a duck," she told Eyewitness News. "But it scared me. I'm a woman. This huge duck scared me." Coco the Clown These old clips from the show COPS show a strange undercover police sting, and proves the adage that clowns are usually scary or just creepy. One cop dressed up as Coco the Clown, an outfit that kind of resembles John Wayne Gacy, to catch women working as sex workers. Spoiler: he pretty much sprays all of them with silly string and the whole thing is sad to watch. Amish woman At least one cop from the Pulaski Township Police Department in Pennsylvania dressed up as an Amish woman in an attempt to catch a sexual predator. Sgt. Chad Adams of the Pulaski Township Police Department wandered the streets for two months in 2014 after police were tipped off that a predator was masturbating in front of children, according to the Associated Press. He posted on the department's Facebook page, “Hey friends, sometimes being a police officer means going undercover and doing what you have to do to catch the bad guy. Now that our investigation is complete I'll share with you this photo! Back in January we had an individual preying on Amish children walking home from school. The male individual was pulling up to the children and getting out of his car and masturbating in front of them. Although we did not apprehend the individual we believe he was caught in another county. I wanted to share with you that we will use all means available to try and protect our children. That includes dressing up as an Amish woman to attempt to apprehend a pervert! Thanks goes out to the Neshannock police and New Wilmington police in assistance with the investigation! Sincerely, Sergeant Chad Adams.” Sadly, the sting didn't work, but police believe it is because the culprit moved into another county. DVD Prize sting Police in Phoenix, Arizona set up a sting to catch people with outstanding warrants, mostly DUIs, in 2002. The people were told they won a DVD player. People thought they were showing up to pick up their prize. Instead, they walked right into their own arrest. Watch as these suspects went from excited to shocked to sad. Panhandling trick In 2015, undercover cops in California posed as panhandlers to ticket distracted drivers. They stood on the side of the road, posed as panhandlers and holding signs that identified them as police officers. The pieces of cardboard they were holding also stated that they were looking for seatbelt and cellphone violations. For those drivers who weren't paying attention
Er war Ministerpräsident von Nordrhein-Westfalen und Kanzlerkandidat der CDU: Armin Laschet ist zu Gast bei "Alles gesagt?", dem unendlichen Podcast von ZEIT ONLINE und ZEITmagazin. Er erzählt von seinen angeblichen und tatsächlichen Missgeschicken im Wahlkampf, von seinen Anfängen als Bundestagsabgeordneter, als er zur Pizza-Connection gehörte, von seinen politischen Gegnern und Vorbildern, von seinem Glauben und von seinen Begegnungen mit dem Papst – und von seiner besonderen Beziehung zu Angela Merkel. Schließlich analysiert er die "dilettantischen" Fehlern der vergangenen Bundesregierung und den Kanzler Olaf Scholz. Geboren wurde Armin Laschet 1961 in Aachen, seine Arbeit in der Kirche führte ihn in die Junge Union und damit in die CDU. Er hat seine Jugendliebe Susanne geheiratet, die beiden haben drei Kinder, einer davon ist der Mode-Influencer Joe Laschet. Nach zwei Stunden und 44 Minuten beendet Armin Laschet das Gespräch, indem er das selbstgewählte Schlusswort sagt: "Markus Söder."
This week we are diving into the story of how the mafia used pizza to control New York City. The pizza connection between Sicily and New York was one of the largest drug busts in American history. We also tell the story of how the Mafia came to be in New York and how Al Capone was the originator of the Agro Mafia Lets Talk About Chef is written by Brian Clarke You can write into the show by sending everything to letstalkaboutchef@gmail.com or you can follow Brian on Instagram @chefbrianclarke If you would like to support the show you can donate directly to us by going to buymeacoffee.com/ltac This week all donations will be sent to help those in Ukraine
In today's episode, Shavon and I talk about a mob case involving.......... pizza?HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!! For 2022 I have some big plans for the podcast.
Baerbock, Scholz und Lindner rauchen einen Joint und Caro und Jacob fragen sich, ob die Ampelkoalition eigentlich eine Pizza-Connection ist und wer welche Interessen an einer Marihuanna-Legalisierung hätten und wer aktiv dagegen ist und warum. Zum Schluss gibt Caro wiedermal einen Serientipp - Viel Spaß!
Guest Info/Bio: This week I welcome Ralph Blumenthal. Ralph Blumenthal is a respected name in the world of journalism. He's a distinguished lecturer at Baruch College of the City University of New York, and summer journalism instructor at Phillips Exeter Academy. He was an award-wining reporter for the New York Times from 1964-2009 and over that time he's written 7 books on organized crime and cultural history. He led the Times metro team that won the Pulitzer Prize for breaking news coverage of the 1993 truck bombing of the World Trade Center. in 2001, he was named a Fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation to research the progressive career and penal reforms of Warden Lewis E. Lawes, “the man who made Sing Sing sing.” Guest (Select) Published Works: Last Days of the Sicilians: At War with the Mafia: The FBI Assault on the Pizza Connection; Miracle at Sing Sing: How One Man Transformed the Lives of America's Most Dangerous Prisoners; The Believer: Alien Encounters, Hard Science, and the Passion of John Mack. Guest Website/Social Media:www.ralphblumenthal.comTwitter: @ralphbluStay on top of all the latest by following the show at:Instagram: @thefromthevoidpodastFacebook: @thefromthevoidpodcastTwitter: @thefromthevoidpodcast The From the Void Podcast is written, edited, mixed, and produced by John Williamson.
Gaetano Badalamenti è scappato in Brasile, lo ha fatto per sfuggire alla condanna a morte di Riina.Dal Brasile continua a gestire i suoi traffici ed arriva a distribuire la merce tramite i ristoranti: è la "Pizza Connection".#italiamistero #gaetanobadalamenti #mafiaMusica:Hitman by Kevin MacLeodLink: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3880-hitmanLicense: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Modern Jazz Samba by Kevin MacLeodLink: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4063-modern-jazz-sambaLicense: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Roderich Kiesewetter ist CDU-Bundestagsabgeordneter für den Wahlkreis Aalen-Heidenheim. Im Podcast mit SP/GT-Chefredakteur Lars Reckermann spricht er über bundespolitische Ambitionen, seinen Verzicht auf eine Bürgermeisterkandidatur, Gespräche mit den Grünen, über die Gaspipeline North Stream2, und die US-Warnung vor Reisen in die Bundesrepublik. Dabei trinkt er ... einfach reinhören.
A comienzos de la década de 1970 Estados Unidos es un país devastado por las drogas. Nixon declara la guerra a esta epidemia. En la lucha contra el narcotráfico, el FBI pone en marcha la Operación Pizza Connection y en Sicilia, en 1986 empieza el macroproceso contra la mafia siciliana en el que 475 mafiosos son condenados.
Frank Panessa was a Drug Enforcement Administration agent for 28 years. He had numerous undercover roles in the United States, Europe, Asia and Central America. He infiltrated the Sicilian Mafia in the infamous “Pizza Connection” case that resulted in the conviction of high-level Sicilian wholesale distributors of heroin.Panessa also discusses his role in the investigation of Detroit's Giacalone family See omnystudio.com/policies/listener for privacy information.
The Bonanno Family and drug smuggling In 1972, the Bonanno War is over, Joe and Bill Bonanno are out in Arizona. The Commission appoints Phil “Rusty”Rastelli the new boss of the Bonano crime family. Carmine... The post Pizza Connection Episode 4 – the Investigation appeared first on Gangland Wire.
Agent Leon Flosi and Giovanni Falcone In this third episode of the Pizza Connection story, I interviewed retired FBI agent Leon Flosi about Judge Giovanni Falcone and the Sicilian mafia. Agent Flosi was originally assigned... The post Pizza Connection Episode 3 – FBI Retired Agent Leon Flosi appeared first on Gangland Wire.
Tommaso Buscetta documentary Welcome Wiretappers to episode 2 of this Pizza Connection series. In this episode, Cam and I take a look at the famous Sicilian mafia boss Tommaso Buscetta. He is the subject of... The post Pizza Connection Episode 2 – Tommaso Bruscetta appeared first on Gangland Wire.
Pizza Connection: the biggest case against the mafia Welcome Wiretappers, Cam and I welcome you to the first of a 4-part series on the famous Pizza Connection investigation. Because this case was so intertwined with... The post Pizza Connection Episode 1 – The Beginning appeared first on Gangland Wire.
Don Tano var maffiaboss i sin hemstad på Sicilien och över den sicilianska maffians kommission och blev en stor heroinsmugglare. Narkotikahärvan gick smidigt i nästan 10 år och fick det kända namnet Pizza Connection, där dom hade massvis av pizzerior runt om i New York som sålde heroin och kokain. Pengarna skickades givetvis till sina partners i Schweiz och maffian drog in över 1,6 miljarder dollar under dessa år. Rättegången blev historisk både i USA och Italien där massvis av maffiamedlemmar fängslades och mycket tack vare FBI infiltratören Donnie Brasco och flera andra häpnadsväckande vittnesmål under den historiska rättegången Pizza Connection. Glöm inte att följa maffiapodden på facebook och instagram. För er som lyssnar via Apple podcast gå gärna in och betygsätt oss! Tusen tack Läs mer på vår hemsida Maffiapodden.se Var med och stötta oss på https://pod.fan/maffiapoddenSå vi kan fortsätta skapa denna maffiga podcast!
Nach einer kurzen vorsommerlichen Pause, meldet sich DashFM mit der 51. Folge zurück, die dennoch ziemlich regulär ausfällt. Aufgrund der schon länger bestehenden Spielebbe, hat sich nicht viel angesammelt, was YetiVin und Rainer jedoch nicht davon abgehalten hat über 4 Stunden lang den neusten Shit der Gaminglandschaft zu besprechen. Wie gewohnt befinden sich unter den vielen Themen einige Kontroversen und Kracher! Viel Spaß! Inhaltsverzeichnis 0:00:00 Intro 0:02:38 Kryptische Klappentexte 0:10:00 Wir holen "Yakuza Kiwami" nach 0:23:39 Rainer spielt endlich Zelda-Spiele 0:30:06 Die spontanen 3: Die besten Zelda-Teile 0:40:20 Spotify, Patreon, Gamescom und E3 Die News der Woche by YetiVin 1:13:46 Die Switch wurde gehacked 1:16:03 PETA beklagt Angeln in "Far Cry 5" 1:18:29 Tim Sweeney vermisst Cross-Platform-Multiplayer 1:28:06 Nintendo-Jugendschutz wird von JMStV anerkannt Nachgeholt 1:34:04 OPUS: The Day We Found Earth Was hast du gespielt? 1:45:10 Super Seducer 2:15:08 Marie's Room 2:24:30 Pizza Connection 3* 2:43:15 Inked 2:58:02 Nintendo Labo 3:29:19 God Of War* 4:30:59 Schlusswort Inhaltsverzeichnis enthält Affiliate-Links *Rezensionsmuster erhalten Die Vorgeschichte zu "God Of War" Link zum Text-Adventure Kontakt Mail Blog Twitter Facebook Instagram Discord Support Amazon Paypal Patreon Weitere Projekte YetiVin (YouTube) Rainer (YouTube) Gamepad Addict Lootopic Pixel Pals (Youtube)
Habt ihr die letzte Folge „Random Backup“ bereits gehört? Perfekt, dann haben wir hier unsere erste April-Ausgabe für euch parat, in der es unter anderem gruselig und amerikanisch wird und ganz schön nach nicht fertig gebackener Pizza riecht. Viel Spaß! Natürlich haben wir auch eine Timeline für die Skipper und unseren RSS-Feed für Eure Podcast-App parat: Aktuelle Spiele 00:49 – Pizza Connection 3 20:00 – Far Cry 5 51:00 – Yakuza 6: The Song of Life 59:52 – Meisterdetektiv Pikachu 01:10:42 – Outlast 2 (Switch) 01:19:50 – A Way Out 01:30:15 – Double Kick Heroes Nachgeholt 01:40:02 – Claire Alle genannten Spiele aus dem Podcast und noch mehr kannst Du selbstverständlich über unsere Partnerlinks kaufen und uns damit ein klein wenig unterstützen… coole Sache! Danke an Ronny Sarne für die Bereitstellung der Intromusik: @ronny-sarne -Unterstütze uns- Amazon-Partnerlink: www.amzn.to/2vGmVEW Patreon: http://bit.ly/2CPDwxe -PWRUP im Netz- Website: www.pwrup.de Facebook: www.facebook.de/pwrupde Twitter: www.twitter.com/pwrup_de Instagram: www.instagram.com/pwrupde Steam-Gruppe: http://bit.ly/2j1kxY7 -Verweise- Website von Headbang Club (Double Kick Heroes): http://headbang.club/ Controller Madness by Frau Zimmy: https://bit.ly/2JGrbfk
Bis 08:35 - Star Citizen Alpha 3.1 bis 12:40 – Happy Peters Kolumne bis 18:00 – Gaming-Industrie Aprilscherze bis 27:40 – Pizza Connection 3: Test verschoben bis 31:00 – Iron Harvest: Kickstarter weiterhin erfolgreich bis 34 :15 – Battletech hat Releasetermin bis 48:25 - Sea of Thieves bis Ende – Schwacher Launch, starker Support
Ucieczka z więzienia to nie rurki z kremem. Pilnikiem bardzo ciężko jest odkręcić śrubki trzymające muszlę klozetową, a jeszcze trudniej jest przecisnąć się przez dziurę w ścianie, kiedy jest się gabarytów Kuldana lub Preza. Na szczęście uciekał też Adek, który wychował się w kopalni węgla i nie boi się niczego! Emocji nie brakowało również podczas przedzierania się przez zastępy Skavenów i rycerzy Chaosu, którch Razer dzielnie ciął dwuręcznym mieczem. W chwilach wolnych od rzezi, gładził on swój epicki wąs i spoglądał ze zdumieniem na widoki zapierające dech w piersi. Wąsa gładził również Kazz, który na horyzont co prawda nie spoglądał, ale miał za to całkiem niezły widok na Księżniczkę Piczę. Reszta to już legenda. Walka z szaloną sektą, radziecki satelita, pizza z ananasem, czy wreszcie wielki pojedynek Tesli z Lovecraftem! Podczas słuchania pamiętajcie o przegrzewających się segmentach - nie chcemy, żebyście się spalili za wcześnie, bo na samym końcu czeka na Was bonusowe outro! Także tego... Miłego słuchania! GRY: Far Cry 5, A Way Out, Warhammer: Vermintide 2, Rainbow Six Siege: Outbreak, Assassin's Creed Origins: The Curse Of The Pharaohs, Mario + Rabbids: Kingdom Battle, The Darwin Project, Tesla vs Lovecraft, Hellmut: The Badass from Hell, World of Tanks 1.0, Pizza Connection 3, Slay the Spire, Burnout Paradise Remastered, Skyrim
Ucieczka z więzienia to nie rurki z kremem. Pilnikiem bardzo ciężko jest odkręcić śrubki trzymające muszlę klozetową, a jeszcze trudniej jest przecisnąć się przez dziurę w ścianie, kiedy jest się gabarytów Kuldana lub Preza. Na szczęście uciekał też Adek, który wychował się w kopalni węgla i nie boi się niczego! Emocji nie brakowało również podczas przedzierania się przez zastępy Skavenów i rycerzy Chaosu, którch Razer dzielnie ciął dwuręcznym mieczem. W chwilach wolnych od rzezi, gładził on swój epicki wąs i spoglądał ze zdumieniem na widoki zapierające dech w piersi. Wąsa gładził również Kazz, który na horyzont co prawda nie spoglądał, ale miał za to całkiem niezły widok na Księżniczkę Piczę. Reszta to już legenda. Walka z szaloną sektą, radziecki satelita, pizza z ananasem, czy wreszcie wielki pojedynek Tesli z Lovecraftem! Podczas słuchania pamiętajcie o przegrzewających się segmentach - nie chcemy, żebyście się spalili za wcześnie, bo na samym końcu czeka na Was bonusowe outro! Także tego... Miłego słuchania! GRY: Far Cry 5, A Way Out, Warhammer: Vermintide 2, Rainbow Six Siege: Outbreak, Assassin's Creed Origins: The Curse Of The Pharaohs, Mario + Rabbids: Kingdom Battle, The Darwin Project, Tesla vs Lovecraft, Hellmut: The Badass from Hell, World of Tanks 1.0, Pizza Connection 3, Slay the Spire, Burnout Paradise Remastered, Skyrim
Das Jahr 2017 hat wunderbar vorgelegt und einige Krachertitel für uns parat gehabt. Wie sieht es aber mit dem neuen Jahr aus, auf was freuen wir uns besonders und welche Ankündigungen würden wir uns noch wünschen? Darüber sprechen Lisa und Zimmy im neuen DLC. Natürlich haben wir auch eine Timeline für die Skipper parat: 01:48 - Detroit: Become Human 10:42 - The Inpatient 13:52 - A Way Out 17:12 - Pizza Connection 3 20:28 - Days Gone 25:20 - The Crew 2 26:59 - Mega Man 11 & X-Collection 29:55 - Attack on Titan 2 31:45 - Vampyr 35:47 - Yakuza 6 39:08 - Trüberbrook 44:48 - Soul Calibur 6 48:10 - Beyond Good and Evil 2 50:48 - Devil May Cry HD Collection 53:13 - Shenmue 3 57:15 - Bayonetta 3 01:00:09 - The Last of Us 2 01:04:01 - MediEvil Remastered 01:05:25 - Red Dead Redemption 2 01:09:49 - Kirby Star Allies 01:11:07 - Shadow of the Colossus Remake 01:14:28 - God of War (4) 01:16:26 - Far Cry 5 01:19:07 - Ni No Kuni 2 01:20:06 - Secret of Mana Remake 01:24:27 - Wolfenstein 2 & Dark Souls Remastered (Switch) 01:26:00 - Metro: Exodus 01:28:07 - Unsere Wünsche für das Jahr 2018 in der Spielebranche Alle genannten Spiele aus dem Podcast und noch mehr kannst Du selbstverständlich über unseren Partnerlink kaufen und uns damit ein klein wenig unterstützen... coole Sache! Vielen Dank! Dein Team PWRUP -Unterstütze uns- Amazon-Partnerlink: www.amzn.to/2vGmVEW Patreon: http://bit.ly/2CPDwxe -PWRUP im Netz- Website: www.pwrup.de Facebook: www.facebook.de/pwrupde Twitter: www.twitter.com/pwrup_de Instagram: www.instagram.com/pwrupde Steam-Gruppe: www.bit.ly/2j1kxY7 -Verweise- Trüberbrook-Bericht von Andreas Garbe: www.bit.ly/2DIlU7T
In dieser Ausgabe vom PWRUP Podcast berichten wir euch über die gamescom 2017. Zimmy, Lisa und Maren sprechen gemeinsam über die vorgestellten Videospiele und ihre Erlebnisse auf der diesjährigen gamescom. Natürlich haben wir auch eine Timeline für die Skipper parat: 00:01:31 Pizza Connection 3 00:07:46 Gwent – The Witcher Card Game 00:14:25 Skyrim (Nintendo Switch) 00:18:40 SNES Mini 00:22:43 Super Mario Odyssey 00:25:43 Metroid: Samus Return 00:28:08 Everspace 00:29:42 NIS America / Flashpoint Lineup 00:38:53 Sony PlayLink (Wissen ist Macht, Frantics, Hidden Agenda) 00:47:30 Gamescom-Partyeskapaden 00:50:44 Call of Cthulhu 00:56:01 1C Company Lineup 01:01:12 Last Day of June 01:05:43 Anno 1800 01:09:09 Ace Combat 7: Skies Unknown 01:16:01 Ni No Kuni ll 01:20:58 Battalion 1944 01:24:03 The Crew 2 01:30:16 Metal Gear Survive 01:36:05 Pro Evolution Soccer 2018 01:42:46 Maren in den Besucherhallen und im Cosplay Village 01:48:46 Wertschätzung vom Retrobereich 01:50:50 Monster Hunter: World 01:52:42 Marvel vs. Capcom: Infinite 01:58:10 Need for Speed: Payback 02:00:30 Die Sims 4 (Konsolenversion) 02:03:22 Star Wars: Battlefront ll 02:07:53 Dungeons 3 02:10:06 Tropico 6 02:11:55 Detroit: Become Human 02:14:26 Yakuza 6 02:15:26 Unsere Most Wanteds der gamescom 2017 Alle genannten Spiele aus dem Podcast und noch mehr kannst Du selbstverständlich über unsere Partnerlinks kaufen, bzw. vorbestellen und uns damit ein klein wenig unterstützen… coole Sache! Danke an Ronny Sarne für die Bereitstellung der Intromusik: @ronny-sarne
Wir sprechen über Services im Vergleich, PSPlus und Games with Gold im Juni 2017, Nintendo Switch Online, Xbox Game Pass, Playstation Now, Abwärtskompatibilität, Verkaufszahlen von Sony, PS4 in Gold und Silber, Entstehungsgeschichte von WipeOut, Nintendo Switch Headset, Pokemon Direct, Nintendo E3 Direct, Pizza Connection 3, Turrican Orchestral Selections, IO Interactive, Whats App Übernahme von Facebook, Bußgelder für Handy am Steuer, Apple WWDC 2017, Super Nintendo World Theme Park und Universal Studios, Studio Ghibli Theme Park, Animaniacs reboot von Steven Spielberg, David Lynch und Twin Peaks, Fire Emblem Echos, Mario Kart 8 Deluxe, Next App und die Zigarren Don Marco und Carlo Corado. Die kompletten Show notes mit allen Links zur Sendung gibt es auf unserer Webseite: https://www.maennerquatsch.de/podcast/mq-03/ Übersicht: Männerquatsch#03 Genussmittel (0:40) Zigarren, Don Marco und Carlo Corado / Schwerpunktthema - Services im Vergleich (4:52) / Xbox One: Games with Gold im Juni / Playstation Plus Spiele im Juni / PS Plus / Xbox Live Gold / Nintendo Switch Online / Xbox Game Pass / Xbox One Abwärtskompatibilität / Playstation Now / News (30:13) / Abwärtskompatibilität, oft gewünscht, kaum genutzt / Verkaufszahlen von Sony / Playstation 4 in Gold und Silber / Die Entstehungsgeschichte der PlayStation-Kultreihe WipEout / Nintendo Switch Headset für Online Gaming / Nintendo Pokemon Direct / Nintendo E3 Direct / Pizza Connection 3 Teaser Trailer / Turrican Orchestral Selections auf Kickstarter / IO interactive soll verkauft werden / WhatsApp-Übernahme: Facebook muss 110 Millionen Euro Strafe an EU zahlen / Höhere Bußgelder für Elektronikgeräte (Handy) am Steuer / Apple WWDC 2017 / Universal Studios (USA, Japan) eröffnet "Super Nintendo World" / Pressekonferenz und Rendertrailer zur "Super Mario World" / Studio Ghibli Theme Park / Gerücht: Animaniacs Reebot von Steven Spielberg / Twin Peaks-Schöpfer David Lynch: "Trailer ruinieren Kino-Filme" / Was geht ab? (1:09:35) / Einkauf Björn: Fire Emblem: Shadows of Valentia - Echos Limited Edition (3DS) / Einkauf Björn: Mario Kart 8 Deluxe (Switch) / Picks (1:12:15) / Next (iOS, Android) Ein Podcast über klassische und aktuelle Videospiele, Apps, Filme, Serien, Veranstaltungen, Genussmittel und Gadgets. Kurz: Dinge die uns bewegen. Die wichtigsten Neuigkeiten und viele Hintergrundinformationen, schnell, einfach, unterhaltsam. Viel Spaß beim Zuhören. Wenn Ihr uns unterstützen wollt, dann schaut doch mal auf unserer Patreonseite vorbei: https://www.patreon.com/maennerquatsch. Oder nutzt für eure Einkäufe bei Amazon unseren affiliate-link: http://amzn.to/2uVop1y
In dieser Folge fehlt zwar Chicky, dafür ist Dennis mal wieder am Start und diskutiert mit Jens und Chris über The Crew 2 und Wild West Online. Außerdem wird ausführlich The Surge von Deck 13 besprochen und Jens hat in die Beta von Quake Champions hineingezockt. Und am Ende schweifen wir gerne mal von Gaming-Themen ab und lassen den Eurovision Song Contest Revue passieren. 00:00:00 Intro & Begrüßung 00:01:34 Ubisoft - Assassin's Creed, The Crew 2, Far Cry 5 & South Park 2 im Fiskaljahr 2018 00:32:51 Hitman - Rechte bleiben wohl bei IO Interactive 00:34:53 Wild West Online - Vermeintlicher "Red Dead Redemption 2"-Screenshot aus neuem MMO 00:48:21 Pizza Connection 3 - Offiziell angekündigt 00:52:37 Destiny 2 - Erstes Gameplay, viele Infos 01:03:27 The Surge 02:00:02 Was Dennis liebht Horizon: Zero Dawn 02:11:20 Quake Champions (Beta) 02:21:00 Eurovision Song Contest 2017 02:39:00 Ein fantastischer, noch nie gehörter Livehack von Jens 02:42:05 Verabschiedung & Outro Musik: Live at WFMU on Beastin' the Airwaves with Keili on July 17 2011 (Anamanaguchi) / CC BY-NC-ND 3.0
In dieser Folge fehlt zwar Chicky, dafür ist Dennis mal wieder am Start und diskutiert mit Jens und Chris über The Crew 2 und Wild West Online. Außerdem wird ausführlich The Surge von Deck 13 besprochen und Jens hat in die Beta von Quake Champions hineingezockt. Und am Ende schweifen wir gerne mal von Gaming-Themen ab und lassen den Eurovision Song Contest Revue passieren. 00:00:00 Intro & Begrüßung 00:01:34 Ubisoft - Assassin's Creed, The Crew 2, Far Cry 5 & South Park 2 im Fiskaljahr 2018 00:32:51 Hitman - Rechte bleiben wohl bei IO Interactive 00:34:53 Wild West Online - Vermeintlicher "Red Dead Redemption 2"-Screenshot aus neuem MMO 00:48:21 Pizza Connection 3 - Offiziell angekündigt 00:52:37 Destiny 2 - Erstes Gameplay, viele Infos 01:03:27 The Surge 02:00:02 Was Dennis liebht Horizon: Zero Dawn 02:11:20 Quake Champions (Beta) 02:21:00 Eurovision Song Contest 2017 02:39:00 Ein fantastischer, noch nie gehörter Livehack von Jens 02:42:05 Verabschiedung & Outro Musik: Live at WFMU on Beastin’ the Airwaves with Keili on July 17 2011 (Anamanaguchi) / CC BY-NC-ND 3.0
Die Herren sprechen über Pizza Connection von Software 2000. Auf Wunsch der Community!
Was für ein Tag, was für eine Woche! Luis erzählt eine Herzzerreißende "Pizza-Connection" Geschichte aus seiner Jugend, Johannes versucht die Türkei zu erklären und Paul hat früher schon Absolute Beginner gehört. Als Spezialgast haben wir uns den coolen Daniel eingeladen, der uns durch seine Deutschrap-Comback-Superwoche führt und uns mit einer vollen Ladung Trivia übergießt.
A Hidden Kitchens World Podcast Trifecta with Frances McDormand and The Kitchen Sisters. In this episode Salman Rushdie talks about his Hidden Kitchen. We travel to Sicily for The Pizza Connection—a story of fighting the mafia through food. And on to England for the seldom heard saga of a small dog bred to run in a wheel that turned a roasting spit in medieval kitchens—The Turnspit Dog: The Rise and Fall of the Vernepator Cur.
Wir sitzen satt und zufrieden wie nur eine Pizza machen kann in den Berliner Retrozirkel Studios und sinnieren über eine sehr ernste Angelegenheit, die sich nicht ernst nimmt: Pizza Connection, die Wirtschaftssimulation von Software 2000. Also von Michael Jackson einen Laden gemietet und bei Mister Spock Geld geliehen und schon kann es losgehen. Einrichten, planen und Pizzas mit ganzen Hummern (und sonst nichts!) belegen.
This belated episode features an enlightening story on Dissociative Identity Disorder as Marlee presents the life story of Juanita Maxwell and her other personalities. Lindsey gets right down to business with her special guest, Attorney Thomas Dean, aka "Dismissal Dean", as they discuss the Pizza Connection trials and elaborate on certain parts of the investigation and trial procedures.
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