S2 Ep13: Bonus 01: The Jewish Connection

09/19/18 • 25 min

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 highlights the prolific Jews who ran the underground world: Arnold Rothstein, Meyer Lanksy, and Bugsy Siegel.
Our sponsor for this episode is Button Man by Andrew Gross from St. Martin's Press.
Mafia's theme is "Spellbound Hell" by Damiano Baldoni. Music in this episode is "Misery" and "Life" by Damiano Baldoni; "Low Horizon" by Kai Engel; "Ma Gee Katadai" and "Diya Kinduriya" by HR Jothipala; "She Wolf in My Heart" by Sergey Cheremisinov; "Unanswered Questions", "Backed Vibes Clean," and "Night at the Docks," by Kevin MacLeod; and "сеанс" by Kosta T. Sound Effects by RTB45 from freesound.org. Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License

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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 anything, they had finally bagged his right-hand man, Sal Vitale. And finally were given the edge they had been looking for.

Our sponsors for this episode are LightStream, Hims and Indochino CODE: MAFIA.

Mafia's theme is "Spellbound Hell" by Damiano Baldoni. Music in this episode is "Misery" by Damiano Baldoni; “There Are Many Different Kinds of Love” and “The Theatrical Poster for Poltergeist III” by Chris Zabriskie; “I'm Not Dreaming (Instrumental Version)” by Josh Woodward; “Gagool” by Kevin MacLeod.

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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 the heat. How Thomas Dewey, RICO, and undercover operations finally took a stand against the mob and ultimately worked to bring it down.

Our sponsors for this episode are Button Man by Andrew Gross from St. Martin's Press and RobinHood.

Mafia's theme is "Spellbound Hell" by Damiano Baldoni. Music in this episode is "Misery" and "Life" by Damiano Baldoni; "Universe in Hands", "visium", and "Scenery" by Kai Engel; "She Wolf in My Heart" by Sergey Cheremisinov; "Dances and Dames", "Unanswered Questions," and "Cool Vibes" by Kevin MacLeod.

Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License.