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Gangland Wire

Big Apple Mafia: Stories From the Five Families

Gangland Wire

Gary Jenkins

Documentary, Society & Culture, True Crime, History

4.6647 Ratings

🗓️ 6 February 2025

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

Gary Jenkins tells about how the FBI recruited the man known as "The Grim Reaper." Scarpa's earliest arrests found him informing to the FBI.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Well, hey, all your wiretappers out there, Gary Jenkins, Ken City Police Intelligence Unit Detective in the past.

0:06.3

I have been at it again.

0:08.9

I have written my second book based on my podcast episodes.

0:13.3

My second book is called Big Apple Mafia Stories from the Five Families.

0:17.5

Now, I'm going to tell many mob stories from a podcast.

0:20.7

Big Apple Mafia is going to be a little

0:22.1

bit longer than Wendy City Mafia, the Chicago outfit. He got 160 pages. So my best stories,

0:27.8

I really love a lot of these stories, like the one about Gotti's Mole, the New York City policeman

0:33.6

who was feeding him information all the time and that investigation now they uncovered

0:37.7

that guy and really everything from the overview and the early days abrellas the canary that could

0:44.9

sing but couldn't fly and all those old stories so this new book is only 299 as a kindle and and remember

0:52.9

the reason i'm doing this is for Amazon to put that book out

0:58.0

on other people. When you go to Amazon, then if you're a mob book reader, then we want this book

1:09.9

to be put in front of all those mob book readers, whether

1:12.5

they're podcast listeners or not, of course. And if you want to help me that, I kind of game the

1:16.9

algorithms. It seems to work a little bit. They monitor the purchases or the pages read and the

1:22.4

reviews, so give me a review also, and this helped out immensely with my Chicago book. So once again, I'm asking

1:28.3

you for basically a small $2.99 donation and you'll get the book and return, the Kendall book,

1:35.4

or it's a little more for the, I can't remember how much it is for the paperback. And so anyhow,

1:43.2

don't forget to give me a review.

1:44.8

And as a reward for listening to this little sales pitch,

1:47.0

here's a great story about Greg Scarpa Sr., aka the Grim Reaper.

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