Mafia

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Journey into the underworld of American organized crime and the stories behind the rise and fall of the most notorious mobsters in history. From Charles “Lucky” Luciano and John Gotti, to Donnie Brasco, “Bugsy” Siegel and Dutch Schultz–Mafia explores the lives of our greatest gangsters and the cops and attorneys who worked to bring them down.

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From Deep Cover: Who Was Bo...

01.24.2022

Deep Cover tells true stories of crime and corruption. Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Jake Halpern reveals dark underworlds most of us know nothing about. The new season, Mob Land, tells the true story of a high-rolling Chicago lawyer who fixed court ...

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01.24.2022 From Deep Cover: Who Was Bob Cooley? Deep Cover tells true stories of crime and corruption. Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Jake Halpern reveals dark underworlds most of us know nothing about. The new season, Mob Land, tells the true story of a high-rolling Chicago lawyer who fixed court ...
07.28.2021 S4 Ep12: Crossing Paths To the casual observer, organized crime is viewed as a singular entity, spearheaded by a powerful mafioso or crime family. In reality, it’s a multi-faceted network built on generations of blind loyalty, spawning corruption and ruthless violence. In this episode, ...
07.21.2021 S4 Ep11: Raymond Patriarca (Part 2) Following the retirement of Filippo Buccola in 1952, Raymond Patriarca was promoted to boss of the New England crime family. He became a dominant force in all illicit, political, and labor union activities. After years of trying to infiltrate the ...
07.14.2021 S4 Ep10: Raymond Patriarca (Part 1) Prior to Prohibition, two separate Mafia families emerged in New England, one based in Boston, Massachusetts and the other based in Providence, Rhode Island. By 1932, both families combined and became a force to be reckoned with. Over time, the ...
07.07.2021 S4 Ep9: Frank "The Enforcer" Nitti 1920's Chicago – the beginnings of the infamous Chicago Outfit. Frank Nitti, friend of notorious gangster Al Capone, went from struggling breadwinner to leading one of the country's most powerful organized crime groups. Diversifying the Outfit's portfolio by branching out ...
06.30.2021 S4 Ep8: Kirksey Nix It’s the early 1970's in Biloxi, Mississippi. Kirksey Nix, one of the leading members of the Dixie Mafia, had been convicted of murder and began a life sentence without the possibility of parole. Despite this, Nix would continue heading up ...
06.23.2021 S4 Ep7: Jimmy Fratianno (Part 2) Jimmy Fratianno had gained notoriety within the LA crime family as someone who was trustworthy, and willing to do whatever it takes to get the job done. But as the landscape of the LA crime family changed, so did Fratianno's ...
06.16.2021 S4 Ep6: Jimmy Fratianno (Part 1) In 1946, a young man by the name of Jimmy Fratianno moved from Cleveland, Ohio to Los Angeles, California. Fratianno had spent most of his life immersed in crime, crossing paths with several well known mobsters. Fratianno would soon become ...
06.14.2021 Mobbed Up: The Fight For Las Vegas, Season 2 From casino floors to count rooms to courtrooms, and from Washington, D.C., to Detroit to the neon glow of the Las Vegas Strip, Las Vegas Review-Journal investigative reporter Jeff German guides listeners through stories he covered as a young journalist ...
06.09.2021 S4 Ep5: Silvestro “Silver Dollar Sam” Carollo During the 1920s, The Big Easy was home to some of the most notorious members of the New Orleans Underworld, including Silvestro “Silver Dollar Sam” Carollo. A mafioso whose life is shrouded in legend and mystery. As a member of ...
06.02.2021 S4 Ep4: James "Whitey" Bulger (Part 2) In the mid-1990s, renowned Irish mobster Whitey Bulger was in hiding from local Massachusetts police, the FBI, and US Marshals. In this episode, we'll hear what was going on behind the scenes with those he trusted most, how Bulger got ...
05.26.2021 S4 Ep3: James "Whitey" Bulger (Part 1) In the mid-90s, South Boston based Irish mobster, James "Whitey" Bulger would go on the run after being tipped off about an indictment coming his way. After transforming the local criminal scene in the place he grew up through gambling, ...
05.19.2021 S4 Ep2: Stephanie St. Clair (Part 2) Stephanie St. Clair had become one of the most successful policy bankers in 1920’s New York City. She made a fortune running a Harlem based numbers racket, gaining notoriety along the way. Using her power, wealth, and influence, Stephanie St. ...
05.12.2021 S4 Ep1: Stephanie St. Clair (Part 1) In the 1920's, Stephanie St. Clair was known as "The Queen of the Policy Racket." She made a fortune running her Harlem numbers racket, gaining notoriety along the way. Known for her sharp wit and quick temper, St. Clair was ...
05.05.2021 S4: Season 4 Trailer Mafia returns Wednesday, May 12th! This Audioboom Original delves into the criminal underworld, exploring the lives and careers of America’s most infamous gangsters. This season, we’ll cover mafiosos from around the US; including New York City’s “Queen of the Policy ...
06.12.2020 Introducing: Truth vs Hollywood Introducing the newest Audioboom original podcast, Truth vs Hollywood. Join Film lovers David Chen and Joanna Robinson as they do a deep dive into well known films and discuss how similar they are to the actual story. The discussion also ...
05.26.2020 Introducing: Mobbed Up Mobbed Up chronicles the rise and fall of organized crime in Las Vegas through the eyes of those who lived it: ex-mobsters, law enforcement officials, politicians and journalists. From back alleys to bank vaults, dimly lit basements to the neon ...
01.29.2020 S3 Ep14: Bonus 06: The First Casino In Upstate New York, 200 miles from the bustling gang-run city, something new was born. As the rich headed upstate for summer vacations, a gangster had a vision of a gambling paradise, and turned Saratoga Springs into the casino hotspot ...
01.22.2020 S3 Ep13: Bonus 05: Inside the Safes Gangsters Walter Scheib and Frank Hoffman owned one of the most successful speakeasies during the prohibition. But Hoffman disappeared in the 1940s, leaving behind 2 iron safes . . . and what was inside would pull a local family into ...
01.15.2020 S3 Ep12: Joe Colombo (Part 2) Colombo was flooded with cash from his numerous rackets and enjoying the good life. Distress grew in the highest circles of the Mafia that law enforcement scrutiny would intensify because of Colombo’s actions. And he gained even more attention when ...
01.08.2020 S3 Ep11: Joe Colombo (Part 1) Joseph Colombo was a mid-ranking Mafioso in one of New York’s Five Families. But when Colombo decided to break one of the mob’s most important rules, his career began to skyrocket. The FBI took notice and Colombo, once again, made ...
12.18.2019 S3 Ep10: Joe Valachi (Part 2) Valachi took the stand and revealed some of the strangest Cosa Nostra secrets - but the Mafia wouldn't stand idly by while their rules were broken. And when he had served his purpose, even the FBI couldn't keep him safe ...
12.11.2019 S3 Ep9: Joe Valachi (Part 1) Joe Valachi had been in the Mafia for years, but hadn't risen much in the ranks. But when he was facing a life sentence, there was one group of people who thought he was high enough - for information. The ...
12.04.2019 S3 Ep8: Don Vito and the Prime Minister (Part 2) While Costello made his mafia money through gambling, Vito Genovese found something more lucrative: drugs. The brash and homicidal Don Vito was put in and out of exile from the United States - but when he returned at last, he ...
11.27.2019 S3 Ep7: Don Vito and the Prime Minister (Part 1) Vito Genovese had been biding his time for 4 years to take over the Luciano crime family. But when an old crime came back for him, the position was taken over by Frank Costello. Costello, the Prime Minister, had high-reaching ...
11.20.2019 S3 Ep6: Arnold Rothstein (Part 2) After gaining fortune and notoriety, Rothstein moved from bootlegging to drug smuggling to labor racketeering. With his connections and friendly demeanor, Rothstein was able to get out of any situation, and taught the likes of Charles Luciano, Meyer Lanksy, and ...
11.13.2019 S3 Ep5: Arnold Rothstein (Part 1) Before the Mafia existed, at the turn of the century, there was Arnold Rothstein, known as The Brain. Rothstein would teach an entire generation of gangsters how to organize, act like gentlemen, and interact with the upper crust. And Rothstein ...
11.06.2019 S3 Ep4: Roy DeMeo (Part 2) Three investigators try to put together the murder of Andrei Katz with the car thievery that the DeMeo crew has been doing for years without notice. And once the cops are on the case, it spells trouble for DeMeo. With ...
10.31.2019 Introducing: What Makes a Killer Listen to new episodes of What Makes a Killer for a look into the life and crimes of the world’s most infamous serial killers. Featuring interviews with family members, forensic experts, law enforcement, and witnesses. What Makes a Killer premieres ...
10.30.2019 S3 Ep3: Roy DeMeo (Part 1) From car thief to the operator of the Murder Machine, Roy DeMeo and his crew were possibly responsible for more than 200 murders in the 1970s. DeMeo made so much money for the Mafia that they would look the other ...
10.23.2019 S3 Ep2: Al Capone (Part 2) With his rivals wiped out, Capone had taken over the prohibition scene in Chicago. His love of the spotlight would soon get him in trouble with the law - and a new legal loophole. Our sponsors for this episode are: ...
10.16.2019 S3 Ep1: Al Capone (Part 1) At the height of Prohibition, Al Capone made a killing selling illegal alcohol and by making a spectacle of the gangster lifestyle. But with the booze running free and the money pouring in, his wasn't the only gang trying to ...
10.02.2019 S3: Season 3 Trailer Mafia is coming back October 16th, taking you inside the American mob from interviews with experts, law enforcement, and educators. Season 3 brings stories about the lives of Al Capone, Joe Colombo, Vito Genovese, and more. What happened at the ...
10.10.2018 S2 Ep16: Bonus 04 - Rats One of the unwritten rules of the Mafia was Omerta, the code of silence. No one was allowed to talk about the existence of the Mafia, reveal how it worked or who the main players were. The Mafia demanded loyalty ...
10.03.2018 S2 Ep15: Bonus 03: The Establishment There is a long list of people and organizations who were in one way or another in the Mafia’s pockets. In this bonus episode, we’ll look at the connection between the Mafia and the American establishment. From politicians, law enforcement, ...
09.26.2018 S2 Ep14: Bonus 02: The Crackdown For years, the mob was able to rule New York, Chicago, and many other cities, free to run gambling rackets, flood the street with drugs, and corrupt officials to their liking. Until the law enforcement got wise and turned up ...
09.19.2018 S2 Ep13: Bonus 01: The Jewish Connection Organized crime and street gangs were originally strongly divided along ethnic lines, but into the 1930s, those lines began to blur, especially between the Italian and Jewish gangsters. In this bonus episode, Mafia explores how this change came about, and ...
09.12.2018 S2 Ep12: Joe Massino (Part 2) In the 1980s and 1990s, four of the bosses of the five families had been taken down by the FBI. But one family, the Bonnanos, remained untouched. But after years of the FBI being unable to catch Joe Massino in ...
09.05.2018 S2 Ep11: Joe Massino (Part 1) Joseph Massino was the legendary godfather of the Bonnano crime family, known as ‘The Last Don’ of a generation. And he absolutely crushed anyone who went against the mafia code of silence or 'Omerta.' But when the family was infiltrated ...
08.29.2018 S2 Ep10: Tony Spilotro (Part 2) Tony Spilotro had gotten away with murder for a long time - too long. The Las Vegas PD was finally ready to turn around their corrupt ways and work hand in hand with the FBI to bring the man down. ...
08.22.2018 S2 Ep9: Tony Spilotro (Part 1) Tony Spilotro, known as the Las Vegas enforcer, was a feared man whose job it was to make sure the mob's law was kept – or else. But when he proved too rough for the job, and went back to ...
08.15.2018 S2 Ep8: Albert Anastasia (Part 2) The mob’s merchant of death and family man, Albert Anastasia, continues as head of Murder Inc. But when the Commission decides to shutdown this violent organization how does Albert adjust to his new role in the mob? What are the ...
08.08.2018 S2 Ep7: Albert Anastasia (Part 1) Albert Anastasia was chosen by Lucky Luciano to be the head of Murder, Inc. where he violently enforced the modern Mafia as the head of their killing squad. And the employees of Murder Inc. were not only good at their ...
08.01.2018 S2 Ep6: Santo Trafficante (Part 2) At the Warren Committee hearings, looking into the deaths of Fidel Castro and JFK, Santo Trafficante kept his lips sealed. And yet the connections kept coming up. Trafficante had every reason to want to kill the man who had shut ...
07.25.2018 S2 Ep5: Santo Trafficante (Part 1) Far from the big-name mob territories of New York and Chicago, the mafia scene in Tampa, Florida was of a smaller scale. That is, until Santo Trafficante used his influence and geographic advantage to turn Cuba in a gambling paradise. ...
07.18.2018 S2 Ep4: Allen Dorfman (Part 2) Allen Dorfman assumes control over the Teamsters’ Union vast pension fund with Jimmy Hoffa out of the picture. But it would be FBI surveillance and Dorfman’s carelessness in attempting to bribe a U.S. Senator that would lead to the end ...
07.11.2018 S2 Ep3: Allen Dorfman (Part 1) Allen Dorfman was a insurance agency owner and consultant to the International Brotherhood of Teamsters. He was also known in the criminal underworld of Chicago as the ‘Mafia’s Banker,’ one of the most powerful middlemen between prominent union figure Jimmy ...
06.27.2018 S2 Ep2: Carmine Galante (Part 2) Carmine Galante was released from prison on parole and immediately took over his mafia family and re-established his heroin empire. But greed and cruelty made him enemies and made him paranoid, and started a war between families that led to ...
06.20.2018 S2 Ep1: Carmine Galante (Part 1) Carmine Galante wanted to be the "Boss of All Bosses," the head of the mafia, and would stop at nothing to reach his goal. He was single-handedly responsible for trafficking enormous amounts of heroin into the United States, raking in ...
04.25.2018 S1 Ep12: Dutch Schultz (Part 2) Dutch Schultz continues his feud with Vincent "Mad Dog" Coll. The reign of violence puts the mafia in a delicate position when it gains the attention of an ambitious new prosecutor named Thomas Dewey. His friends dwindling as he betrays ...

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Mafia episodes:

From Deep Cover: Who Was Bob Cooley?

S4 Ep12: Crossing Paths

S4 Ep11: Raymond Patriarca (Part 2)

S4 Ep10: Raymond Patriarca (Part 1)

S4 Ep9: Frank "The Enforcer" Nitti

S4 Ep8: Kirksey Nix

S4 Ep7: Jimmy Fratianno (Part 2)

S4 Ep6: Jimmy Fratianno (Part 1)

Mobbed Up: The Fight For Las Vegas, Season 2

S4 Ep5: Silvestro “Silver Dollar Sam” Carollo

S4 Ep4: James "Whitey" Bulger (Part 2)

S4 Ep3: James "Whitey" Bulger (Part 1)

S4 Ep2: Stephanie St. Clair (Part 2)

S4 Ep1: Stephanie St. Clair (Part 1)

S4: Season 4 Trailer

Introducing: Truth vs Hollywood

Introducing: Mobbed Up

S3 Ep14: Bonus 06: The First Casino

S3 Ep13: Bonus 05: Inside the Safes

S3 Ep12: Joe Colombo (Part 2)

S3 Ep11: Joe Colombo (Part 1)

S3 Ep10: Joe Valachi (Part 2)

S3 Ep9: Joe Valachi (Part 1)

S3 Ep8: Don Vito and the Prime Minister (Part 2)

S3 Ep7: Don Vito and the Prime Minister (Part 1)

S3 Ep6: Arnold Rothstein (Part 2)

S3 Ep5: Arnold Rothstein (Part 1)

S3 Ep4: Roy DeMeo (Part 2)

Introducing: What Makes a Killer

S3 Ep3: Roy DeMeo (Part 1)

S3 Ep2: Al Capone (Part 2)

S3 Ep1: Al Capone (Part 1)

S3: Season 3 Trailer

S2 Ep16: Bonus 04 - Rats

S2 Ep15: Bonus 03: The Establishment

S2 Ep14: Bonus 02: The Crackdown

S2 Ep13: Bonus 01: The Jewish Connection

S2 Ep12: Joe Massino (Part 2)

S2 Ep11: Joe Massino (Part 1)

S2 Ep10: Tony Spilotro (Part 2)

S2 Ep9: Tony Spilotro (Part 1)

S2 Ep8: Albert Anastasia (Part 2)

S2 Ep7: Albert Anastasia (Part 1)

S2 Ep6: Santo Trafficante (Part 2)

S2 Ep5: Santo Trafficante (Part 1)

S2 Ep4: Allen Dorfman (Part 2)

S2 Ep3: Allen Dorfman (Part 1)

S2 Ep2: Carmine Galante (Part 2)

S2 Ep1: Carmine Galante (Part 1)

S1 Ep12: Dutch Schultz (Part 2)

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