1989 Year of the Stool Pigeon William Jahoda

Gangland Wire

Gary Jenkins: Mafia Detective

True Crime, Documentary, Society & Culture, History

4.6 • 623 Ratings

🗓️ 21 October 2021

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

William Jahoda William Jahoda was an Outfit gambler connected to Rocco Infelise, the ruthless consigliere of the Chicago mob. He and others run the most profitable gambling house in Chicago. The entire operation is dubbed the Good Ship Lollipop. At first, under Solly DeLaurentis, the Lake County crew are making money and not making any waves. This operation turns into a mess of greed, jealousy, and murder. After William Jahoda is forced to lure a couple of men to their deaths, he becomes disillusioned. Then he falls in love with a girl who recently dated his crew’s boss Solly DeLaurentis and he knows this could mean death for him. He decided to become a government witness. He contacts Thomas Moriarty of the IRS Intelligence unit because he has heard that Infeliise has a federal agent on his payroll. Moriarty is well now to be a straight incorruptible agent. Jahoda will meet with Moriarity and wear a wire on his Outfit bosses. Show notes by Gary Jenkins To go to the store or make a donation click here To rent Brothers against Brothers, the documentary, click here. To rent Gangland Wire, the documentary, click here To buy my Kindle book, Leaving Vegas: The True Story of How FBI Wiretaps Ended Mob Domination of Las Vegas Casinos. To subscribe on iTunes click here, please give me a review and help others find the podcast.

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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,
0:40.5	my other friend, both of these guys are experts on the Chicago outfit.
0:49.9	Now, looking back at 1989, the Cubby has won first place in the National League East, but the Giants beat them in the National League playoffs, if you remember that.
0:54.3	The Royals, since I'm from Kansas City, we finished second near American League West,
0:59.8	kind of on our way back downhill from our great wind and the World Series in 1985.
1:06.1	Richard J. Daly had been the mayor for a long time in Chicago, and Richard M. Daly,
1:09.1	little Ritchie, became the mayor in 1989.
1:12.7	Now you're going to notice that the sound is just a little off.
1:18.1	I had to take the sound from a Zoom call because my recorder developed a problem during 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 in a
1:28.7	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,
1:58.5	or help me buy a new recorder, which I'm going to do,
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