393: Joaquin "Jack" Garcia | Undercover in the Mafia Part Two
The Jordan Harbinger Show
Jordan Harbinger
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🗓️ 19 August 2020
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
Joaquin "Jack" Garcia is the former undercover FBI agent who infiltrated the Gambino crime family of Cosa Nostra in New York for nearly three years, resulting in the arrest and conviction of 35 mobsters -- as revealed in his book Making Jack Falcone: An Undercover FBI Agent Takes Down a Mafia Family. This is part two of a two-part episode; listen to part one here!
What We Discuss with Joaquin "Jack" Garcia:- How Jack got a mob boss to carry around a mobile phone that was bugged by the FBI.
- What Jack did to avoid violating his FBI oath without arousing suspicion while undercover.
- How much weight Jack gained during three years of hanging out with gangsters in the best Italian restaurants New York has to offer.
- What Jack misses most about being in the mafia.
- The biggest organized crime threats to the United States today.
- And much more...
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| 0:00.0 | coming up on the jordan harbanger show |
| 0:03.4 | i understand why the mob is romanticized by holly |
| 0:07.6 | i mean if you look at all the criminal organizations |
| 0:11.0 | ms-13 the crypts the floods and all of that |
| 0:13.7 | the mob is really the only group that's been able to infiltrate |
| 0:18.2 | our society |
| 0:19.7 | in places like labor unions |
| 0:21.8 | police department |
| 0:23.3 | judges |
| 0:24.3 | all of those things that's a tremendous power |
| 0:27.2 | that they have |
| 0:28.7 | and |
| 0:32.4 | welcome to the show i'm jordan harbinger |
| 0:34.5 | on the jordan harbinger show we decode the stories secrets and skills of the |
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| 0:56.0 | today this is part two with walkin jack garcia this guy man |
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