4. The Pied Piper

Crooked City: Dixon, IL

Sony Music

Society & Culture, Documentary, History, True Crime

4.5 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 8 August 2022

⏱️ 31 minutes

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FBI agent Bob Kroner tangles with Jim Traficant in a game of cat-and-mouse…and a battle for the hearts and minds of Youngstown. 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	This must be insane, you're listening to these tapes.
0:17.9	In our last episode, FBI agent Bob Kroner had discovered a cache of audio tapes in a kitchen
0:23.2	drawer bread box of a dead mafia hitman.
0:29.0	The Kroner could hear the voices of two of Youngstown's biggest mob bosses for the Cleveland
0:39.8	faction, orally and charlie carabia.
0:43.5	People were afraid of charlie because charlie had a bad temper, and then it was orally.
1:03.0	On the tapes, the carabies are meeting with a third guy.
1:06.0	They're going to do that with me as the sheriff.
1:09.0	A guy by the name of Jimmy.
1:10.9	I'm just in your mind, Jimmy.
1:12.9	You're the fucking sheriff.
1:15.1	How long did it take for you to go?
1:17.1	That's Jim Travis.
1:18.6	I mean, it's just a voice out of tape.
1:21.0	A little bit, but they're referring to him as Jim, and they're talking about the
1:29.6	outrunning for sheriff.
1:38.0	Jim Traffkin wasn't the sheriff yet, but he was the favorite in the upcoming election.
1:43.0	The carabies are meeting with him because they've already made a healthy contribution to
1:47.5	his campaign, more than $100,000, and now Traffkin assures them that they're going to get
1:53.1	their monies worth.
1:54.1	But there was a problem.
2:01.9	Traffkin had also taken money from the carabia's sworn enemy, Pittsburgh underboss Little
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