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Best Case Worst Case

216 | So You Want To Be A Mobster? Part 2

Best Case Worst Case

X-G Productions

True Crime, Documentary, Society & Culture

4.23.1K Ratings

🗓️ 12 February 2021

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Jim “Fitz” Fitzgerald has lots of experience dealing with mobsters.  But this case was a wild one, hear the finale of this compelling case!

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0:00.0

We had lots of wires up, lots of phyzo warrants. We were being as much of a pain in the

0:08.8

neck to every one of the crime families to try to get them to give them up to us.

0:16.4

What does he decide to do in that Sunday morning of his own volition without telling anyone

0:21.0

else he knocks on the door of John Gotti.

0:24.7

He's got not only the FBI after him, but he's got the mob after him. That couldn't have been comfortable.

0:37.0

Hello and welcome to the best case worst case. It's Jim Clementi, retired FBI profiler

0:40.5

former New York City prosecutor, right? Reduce sort of CBS's criminal minds. With me today is.

0:45.1

Hi everybody. It's francey hates former state and federal prosecutor. Jim, I'm very excited.

0:51.1

We were in the middle of a cliffhanger and in the middle of a really interesting case

0:56.8

that involves the New York mob, Sammy the Bull, Gravano with one of our very favorite guests.

1:03.8

And he is James R Fitz Fitzgerald, great to be back guys.

1:08.5

Thank you so much for coming back Fitz. I just know that all our listeners have been

1:13.5

texting and emailing this week aggravated that we've once again taken one of your cases

1:19.3

and split it in half so they have to wait a week to get this one. So let's just jump

1:24.3

right back in. Jim was just talking about something that you guys had experienced early

1:29.7

on in the case. Jim, remind us what that was.

1:31.8

Yeah, this is when we were on a surveillance of Gus Farachi's grandmother's house, which

1:36.9

was in this sort of secluded neighborhood on Staten Island. We were sitting there on

1:42.9

that house overnight waiting to see if anybody came or left to see if possibly Farachi went

1:50.2

there to hide or came there for help. And as the sun was rising up, we could tell that

1:58.2

in the second story window of the house that was parallel to where we were parked, we

2:04.5

could see the silhouette of a man looking out at us. And it was very chilling because

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