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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Colombia had Pablo Escobar. America had George Jung.

Few American drug dealers have ever had the connections, charisma, and influence that George Jung had. Over the course of his life, Jung made a living by smuggling drugs into the United States in mass quantities. Eventually, he joined the Medellin cartel and with them became responsible for 85 percent of the cocaine smuggled into the United States during the late 1970s and early 1980s.

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Michael Franzese grew up as the son of the notorious Underboss of New York’s violent and feared Colombo crime family. At his most affluent, he generated an estimated $5 to $8 million per week from legal and illegal businesses. It was a life filled with power, luxury…and deadly violence. On this episode we talk John Gotti, Michael Jackson, Don King, Nick Saban, and more!

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George Christie spent nearly four decades as one of the most influential and controversial leaders of the Hells Angels Motorcycle Club. Christie founded the Ventura, California chapter of the Hells Angels in the 1970s, and was president for nearly four decades, surviving gang wars, multiple prosecutions and attempts on his life. He left the Hells Angels in 2011 and is now a writer and consultant.

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Anthony Arillotta was the leader of the Springfield, Massachusetts crew of New York’s Genovese crime family. He was arrested in 2010 and decided to turn on his Mafia pals and become a cooperating witness for the feds. 

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Greg Stejskal served as an FBI agent for 31 years and retired as resident agent in charge of the Ann Arbor office. Greg talks his role in the Hoffa case and other important surveillance of Detroit Organized Crime figures.

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Approaching the 44th anniversary of the disappearance of Jimmy Hoffa, we do a roundtable deep dive on the timeline of what really happened on that day. We are joined by former U.S. Prosecuting Attorney Keith Corbett, and retired Detroit FBI Agent Mike Carone.

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This week we are joined by film and television actor Robert Funaro, who played Eugene Pontecorvo on The Sopranos. We do a deep dive into his final episode on the show. We also talk about his role in the upcoming Martin Scorcese film The Irishman.

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This week we are joined by Detroit music luminaries DJ Godfather, DJ Salam Wreck (Dogg Pound, Warren G, D-12), and Detroit production and management insider Mikey Eckstein.

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On this week's episode of the OG Podcast, we talk with retired FBI agent Jack Garcia, who went undercover as "Jack Falcone," a self-described Sicilian jewel thief and drug dealer from Miami, Florida, who penetrated the Gambino crime family of the American Mafia in New York City for nearly three years. 

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