On this episode of Original Gangsters, the hosts talk to Frank Scartozzi, a federal agent and key investigator in the Operation Motor City Mafia case that brought down the Black Mafia Family in October of 2005. It was the biggest bust of a domestic drug organization in American history. 

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Since 2010, Barry’s reporting has focused on Springfield organized crime and white-collar crime including the Genovese crime family.

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The mob connection to Tiger King revealed, plus now that you've seen the classics, what mob movies should you watch that are on the back burner?

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The Channel rock club was founded by Harry Booras in the spring of 1980. The mob, through a series of intimidation and suspected bankruptcy fraud, managed to get control of the Channel in early 1992. There would be threats, car fires, and at least one man would lose his life.

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Were pro football players fixing games for the mob? Did Owners cover it up? We talk to legendary investigative journalist Dan Moldea about the golden age of sports betting and the NFL.

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The ban on booze went into effect on Jaunuary 17, 1920 and changed the underworld forever. The OG podcast talk bootleggers, speakeasies, and the Purple Gang.

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On December 16, 1985, Gambino crime family boss Paul Castellano and his underboss, Thomas Bilotti, are killed outside a Manhattan steakhouse by an assassin led by John Gotti, who inherits leadership of the crime family. Scott Burnstein and James Buccellato take a look back at the most high profile assassination in mafia history.

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Now that we have all watched the movie multiple times, the experts Scott Burnstein and Dr. James Buccellato break down what actually happened as opposed to what you see in the film.

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Listen at your own risk. Spoiler alerts galore! Scott Burnstein caught a screening of the movie and gives us his honest review.

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Jack Goldsmith revered his stepfather, longtime Jimmy Hoffa associate Chuckie O’Brien. But as he grew older and pursued a career in law and government, he came to doubt and distance himself from the man long suspected by the FBI of perpetrating Hoffa’s disappearance on behalf of the mob.

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