A Piece of Work

Up Against The Mob

Vox Media Podcast Network

Society & Culture, Documentary, True Crime

4.9 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 8 March 2023

⏱️ 27 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Rising Mafia star Anthony Arillotta is asked to perform the ultimate test of loyalty: murder. For more untold stories from the Springfield Mafia and exclusive interviews that explore how law enforcement fights organized crime, head to cafe.com/mob and become a member of CAFE Insider for 40% off the initial annual membership price. You’ll learn about RICO, forensics, trial strategy and more from the people who’ve done it. For show notes and a transcript of the episode head to: https://cafe.com/up-against-the-mob/a-piece-of-work/ To attend a live taping with Preet Bharara and Elie Honig on Tuesday, March 21 at 6:00pm ET, RSVP here: cafe.com/live Email us your questions, comments, and reactions to [email protected]. Up Against the Mob is brought to you by CAFE and the Vox Media Podcast Network. Hosted by @eliehonig. Follow us on Twitter. Check out other CAFE podcasts: Now & Then and Stay Tuned with Preet. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	Just a quick note before we begin, this episode features adult language and descriptions of violence
0:05.0	that you'd expect to hear in a podcast about the mafia.
0:08.2	So if you have kids in the room, you may want to listen with headphones. You've probably heard the phrase,
0:16.5	there's no such thing as a stupid question.
0:19.0	Well, in the mafia, that's not true,
0:21.8	as Anthony Arilada will tell you.
0:24.0	You know what you're signed up for when you're part of that life.
0:29.0	You can't ask questions, especially like you, with these old timers.
0:33.0	And Ardy Nigrow, the boss of the Genovese crime family, he was an old timer.
0:38.0	And Ardy was old school type brought up by the old ways. If you ask questions, they'd probably end up
0:46.4	shooting you. So one morning when the Genovese boss asked Arilada to drive down to
0:51.7	New York, Arilada didn't ask why, but he soon found out.
0:56.4	Nygrove's right-hand man, John Bologna, had a message for him.
1:00.8	John Bologna told me that, I already want you to do a piece of work.
1:04.0	A piece of work, meaning to do something violent.
1:07.0	And he gave me a piece of paper with the guy's name on it.
1:10.0	Just the name?
1:11.0	Yeah.
1:12.0	No address. And if you looked at the name, it. No address or any.
1:12.6	And if you looked at the name, it sounded like Dabidu.
1:14.8	Erelato didn't know it at the time, but the guy's name was Frank D'Aboeau.
1:20.3	He was a shop steward in the cement masons union in New York City, a union that was under the thumb of Artie
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Vox Media Podcast Network, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Vox Media Podcast Network and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.