Well, hey, all you wiretappers out there.

It's a little special bonus edition of gangland wire.

Just stumbled across a story.

I was just doing a, I did an interview with a man, James Emluck, who attended the family

secrets trial.

So we went all through that.

And, you know, ever a lot of people went to jail, especially out of that Grand Avenue crew, which were some of the battered dudes in the outfit,

Lombardo went to jail. So, well, I thought, I wonder what happened after that. And I'm just kind of

noodling around. And I found a case on a guy who, who was, he was not full Italian. He was a peckerwood, but he was a brother-in-law

to Albert Vina, Alby the Falcon, I think they called him, who became the new boss of this

group. That was Charles Chucky Russell now. Sometimes they call him Chuckie the electrician. He must

have had some, uh, some burglar alarm skills. You know, that's, that's how those guys do.

Oh, by the way, don't forget to, uh, hit me up on Venmo, uh, or, uh, at Gangland Wire.

They got that, we got that buy me a cup of coffee. Thanks. So support the podcast. Anyhow, continuing right along, I forgot to say

that early on. He was, he was bragging to a federal informant about planning a home invasion

robbery that he said would lead to a happy holiday for both of them. These guys, you got to love them.

And Vena, I imagine he was part of this.

Albert Vena had some problem with the new outfit underboss, Anthony Little Tony Zizo, and he

disappeared. So I wouldn't be surprised for buddy Chuckie Russell wasn't involved in that.

But he told this informant, he said, I kind of strayed there, but he told this informant,

said, it'll be a great Christmas, I'm telling you, you're going to love this.

So nothing gets my juices flowing like putting a gun to somebody's head and taking their stuff

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