1989 Year of the Stool Pigeon Vincent Rizza
Gangland Wire
Gary Jenkins
4.6 • 647 Ratings
🗓️ 18 October 2021
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
Vincent Rizza was a former Chicago cop who was a tipster to Outfit members, a gambler, a sports bookie, and a cocaine addict. His claim to fame later in life is that his daughter Pia Rizza was on a Mob Housewives TV show.
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| 0:00.0 | You are listening to Gangland Wire, hosted by former Kansas City Police Intelligence Unit Detective Gary Jenkins. |
| 0:19.0 | Hey guys, all you wiretappers out there. |
| 0:21.8 | This is one of the series of short episodes about the Chicago outfit in 1989. |
| 0:31.5 | I'm recording this with my friend Cam Robinson, Camueless Robinson, and Paul Whitcomb, |
| 0:38.8 | my other friend, both these guys are experts on the Chicago outfit. Now, looking back at 1989, the Covey is won first place in the |
| 0:45.1 | National League East, but the Giants beat them in the National League playoffs, if you remember that. |
| 0:50.0 | The Royals, since I'm from Kansas City, we finished second near American League West, |
| 0:54.8 | kind of on our way back downhill from our great wind and the World Series in 1985. |
| 1:00.9 | Richard J. Daly had been the mayor for a long time in Chicago, and Richard M. Daly, |
| 1:06.2 | little Ritchie, became the mayor in 1989. |
| 1:10.0 | Now you're going to notice that the sound is just a little off. |
| 1:13.3 | I had to take the sound from a Zoom call because my recorder developed a problem during |
| 1:18.1 | the taping and I didn't notice until we were about, God, I've been about an hour or so into it |
| 1:23.7 | and none of us wanted to go back over this again. |
| 1:26.1 | It's like catching lightning |
| 1:28.3 | in a bottle doing a show. I felt like we'd done something really good and just, we just can't, |
| 1:34.4 | sometimes you just can't do it again. So, but I think it's a cool show, a cool series of episodes |
| 1:39.6 | about stool pigeons in 1989. Now, 1989, the Chicago outfit had a bad year, as you'll see. |
| 1:47.7 | Everybody came in and started talking. |
| 1:49.9 | So settle back and listen to this particular episode. |
| 1:53.6 | I don't remember which is which. |
| 1:55.2 | Now, don't forget to hit me up on my Venmo, bite me a shot in a beer, |
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