Bobby Luisi

Gangland Wire

Gary Jenkins: Mafia Detective

True Crime, Documentary, Society & Culture, History

4.6 • 623 Ratings

🗓️ 16 August 2021

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Boston Bob Luisi Bobby Luisi was a mafia legacy growing up in the North End of Boston. His father and other relatives worked for the Boston capo Jerry Angiulo. As a young man, Bobby got into home construction and was doing week until the market crash in the 1990s. Bobby Lusi drifted back to his roots, the La Cosa Nostra. He had a good name and he organized some young drug dealers, opened up a loansharking business, and got into some gambling action. The Boston Family had a lot of internal conflict after the death of Raymond Patriarca. Bobby tells how he was under a lot of heart from the various federal agencies and the State Patrol when he had a problem with a Boston Capo under Patriarca. Boston Bob goes to Philadelphia Bobby Luisi tells how he was good friends with Gerald “Jerry’ Oumette from Providence Rhode Island and he negotiated for Luisi to join a Gambino faction. When that fell through, he migrated south to Philadelphia. Here he was connected to Joe “Skinny Joe” Merlino and George Borgesi who welcomed him into their organization. As he got set up with his own crew, a Philadelphia turncoat mobster named Ron Previte recruited him and introduced him to an FBI undercover officer. This introduction will end his career in the Mafia. Bobby Luisi becomes Pastor Alonso Esposito The FBI Undercover and informant Ron Previte set up Bobby Luisi and he was convicted of drug dealing. During his prison time, he agreed to testify against a Boston mobster and he was released in 2o12. But, he never testified and ended up working construction in Memphis Tennessee under the name Alonso Esposito. It was here that he had a change of heart and started a Christian ministry and became pastor Alonso Esposito. At the present time, he has returned to his original name Bobby Luisi and he is working on a book about his life in the mob. bobby Luisi has a Youtube Channell called the Bobby Lusi Show where he interviews other former mobsters about life in the mob. Show notes by Gary Jenkins To go to the store or make a donation click here To rent Brothers against Brothers, the documentary, click here. To rent Gangland Wire, the documentary, click here To subscribe on iTunes click here, please give me a review and help others find the podcast.

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0:00.0	You are listening to Gangland Wire, hosted by former Kansas City Police Intelligence Unit Detective, Gary Jenkins.
0:17.4	Welcome all you wiretappers out there, back here in the Gangland Wire Studio in the spring of
0:23.9	2021 the COVID is about over I've got both of my shots and as some of you know I even had a
0:30.4	not too bad a case but I had a case of it over the winter so I figure I've got triple immunity
0:34.9	I got two shots and the antibodies from having COVID.
0:38.2	So, hey, God, I got through that. Gave it to my poor wife, too. That's a bummer. She was not happy with me.
0:43.6	I think I got it at a golf course. At least that's what I'm saying. But we have here today a real deal,
0:50.4	made guy who is now out of the life and into a whole other life and we're going to hear about
0:55.4	his life and his change into this new life. I think it's important to see people redeem themselves
1:01.0	from their past lives. It was a little bit, shall we say a little half a bubble off a plum,
1:05.9	as we say out in Missouri, a little bit off kilter from the general, although it is a hugely interesting
1:12.8	story.
1:13.4	And it's hugely interesting life, this life in the La Cosa Nostra Mafia.
1:17.9	What I find interesting about it, I think, is that there's this whole subculture of that life
1:23.4	with people who were bright, could have been, you know, CEOs of corporations, a lot of them,
1:28.8	and been middle managers, good mental managers, but they chose that other life for a variety of
1:34.1	different reasons. And guys have families at home and they go to a little league baseball game
1:38.6	and they go to church and have this whole two separate lives. I've often said it's working
1:43.9	the mob in Kansas City as a cop. I had two different lives. I've often said as working the mob in Kansas City as a
1:45.6	cop. I had two different lives. I was at home in the suburbs during the evening and sometimes during
1:52.1	the day and then work the evenings. I come over to the city and I live this life as almost like a
1:56.9	pseudo-gangster kind of trying to fit in with mob guys, hang out in the bars, drinking a lot.
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