Babysitting Sammy the Bull

Up Against The Mob

Vox Media Podcast Network

Society & Culture, Documentary, True Crime

4.9 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 29 September 2021

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

James Gagliano was fresh out of the FBI Academy when he drew a bizarre assignment: safeguarding Sammy “The Bull” Gravano, a former Gambino mob boss who had recently flipped, becoming one of the government’s most important, and endangered, cooperating witnesses. Gagliano reveals details from those first few months when he lived with and protected Sammy the Bull, getting to know the most important mob cooperator in American history. In the bonus episode for CAFE Insiders, Elie Honig and Safeena Mecklai take listeners behind the scenes of the fourth episode of Up Against the Mob. Become an Insider at cafe.com/Insider and enter code MOB for 50% off the annual membership price. Up Against the Mob is produced by CAFE Studios and the Vox Media Podcast Network. New episodes drop every Wednesday. Subscribe wherever you listen. Executive Producer: Tamara Sepper; Senior Editorial Producer: Adam Waller; Technical Director: David Tatasciore; Audio Producers: Matthew Billy; Composer: Nat Weiner; Editorial Producers: Noa Azulai, David Kurlander, Sam Ozer-Staton, Jake Kaplan. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:48.0	From Cafe and the Vox Media Podcast Network. I'm Ellie Honeg and this is up against the mob. It was
0:59.4	about 9 o'clock AM and already the cooperating's mother-in-law was in the kitchen
1:05.1	frying up the eggplant. It was a Saturday morning and I had driven out to a
1:09.9	safe house to spend the day along with an FBI special agent meeting with one of our key
1:14.9	cooperating witnesses prepping him for a trial that started the next week. I won't say the
1:20.0	cooperators name here or his family members names or the location of the
1:23.9	safe house I'll just say that it was in one of New York City's outer burrows
1:27.8	anyway back to the eggplant I don't remember what happened first if I smelled it first or heard it
1:33.6	sizzling, but immediately when the cooperator greeted us at the front door and
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