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Crooked City: Dixon, IL

14. The Farm

Crooked City: Dixon, IL

Sony Music

Society & Culture, Documentary, History, True Crime

4.51.7K Ratings

🗓️ 17 October 2022

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

After the fall of the mob in Youngstown, the feds gather information to go after corrupt officials. Will they go after Congressman Traficant? Subscribe to The Binge to get all episodes of Crooked City: Youngstown, OH ad-free right now. Click ‘try free’ at the top of the Crooked City: Youngstown, OH show page on Apple Podcasts to start your free trial or visit GetTheBinge.com to get access wherever you get your podcasts. A truth.media & Sony Music Entertainment production. Find more great podcasts from Sony Music Entertainment at sonymusic.com/podcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

It's a warm August afternoon on Congressman Jim Traffkin's farm just outside of Youngstown.

0:13.5

A man has arrived to have a conversation with Traffkin's farmhand, a guy named Clarence

0:17.7

Broad. They seem to be talking about a price for a job the Traffkin needs done.

0:23.5

On that other problem you know I was like seven sound. I'll just let him know.

0:30.0

All right you let him know and I do need half a front. This is a reenactment based on a

0:37.8

transcript of their conversation. Let me find out. Let me talk to the man about it.

0:43.9

Okay all right well you you just tell him. Oh I'll tell him. I'll see what he's got to say and

0:49.6

I'll tell him the price I'll tell him. You just tell him that wherever the funds come from I don't

0:54.5

want it traced you know. Oh you ain't got to worry. He pays cash. He's a cash man. He's a cash man.

1:03.3

A huge political corruption investigation had just wrapped up in Youngstown. Nearly 80 public officials

1:09.0

were indicted and Clarence Broad is worried that his boss Jim Traffkin might be next.

1:19.4

And there's someone on the farm that Clarence Broad is most worried about. Her name is Sandy

1:24.2

Ferranti. She's lived and worked there for 17 years as a caretaker and horse trainer.

1:29.5

And she and Traffkin are close. Maybe too close. There were rumors that they were lovers.

1:35.9

She can take him down. She can take him down with no problem.

1:40.7

Lately Jim and Sandy had a falling out and in a fit of anger Sandy had slashed the tires on Jim's truck.

1:47.6

She could take him down for his wife could take him down. And that's the key. The key is to this whole

1:54.0

problem right here. I understand that. Broad in this guy agree on a price to take care of this problem.

2:05.6

So 3500 up front guy. 3500 up front half down. What do you think? Are you guys

2:12.8

want this to go down? What's your idea? The big needs to suffer. To me she just needs to suffer.

2:28.4

It turned out that the man Broad was hiring to take care of Sandy Ferranti was wearing a wire

2:33.5

for the FBI. The FBI had been taking a close look at Traffkin's farm and no one knew more about

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