Hells Angels: Sonny Barger and Mom Boucher

07/26/22 • 63 min

We're examining the lives and legacies of legendary Hells Angels Sonny Barger and Mom Boucher. Both men were street legends and incredibly influential within the specific world of outlaw bikers as well as underworld in general.

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Black Organized Crime and the Italian Mafia: the Heroin Years

We start the episode by discussing iconic Harlem drug kingpins of the 1970s, such as Melvin Combs (P-Diddy's father), Frank Matthews, Nicky Barnes, and Frank Lucas. Legendary DEA undercover agent Frank Panessa joins us and explains how the African American crime bosses and Italian Mafia worked together as a global heroin network.

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