Claim to Fame | S1E3

Mobbed Up: The Fight for Las Vegas

Las Vegas Review-Journal | The Mob Museum

Documentary, History, Society & Culture, True Crime

4.8 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 2 June 2020

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

"It supersedes family." Tony Spilotro always dreamed of becoming a ‘made’ man—a full-fledged member of the Chicago Outfit—according to his childhood friend Frank Cullotta. In the spring of 1962, as Cullotta recalls, an unauthorized triple murder on mob turf would give Tony an opportunity to make that dream a reality and cement his claim to fame. For more information on this episode, visit www.reviewjournal.com/mobbedup. To learn about The Mob Museum, visit www.themobmuseum.org.

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0:00.0	A heads up before we get started. Mobbed up contains explicit content such as adult
0:05.8	language and depictions of violence including murder. Please be advised that this
0:10.2	podcast might not be suitable for all audiences. If you've visited Chicago in the past couple decades,s are you've probably dragged someone or been dragged to a sculpture called Cloudgate.
0:37.0	If that name doesn't ring a bell, that's probably because everybody just calls it the bean.
0:42.0	You know, it's the sculpture that looks like a giant shell. because everybody just calls it the bean.
0:42.7	You know, it's the sculpture that looks like a giant shiny bean.
0:46.4	It's smack dab in the middle of downtown Chicago.
0:49.2	And just a couple hundred feet away is Jewelers Row, a stretch of Wabash Avenue that's packed with jewelry stores.
0:56.4	Of course that means it's long been on the radar of guys like Frank Kalata.
1:01.6	In 1961, I just did a year, nine months in the correctional, not a jail.
1:10.7	And I get out.
1:11.7	Remember Frank?
1:14.0	Well, by the time he was in his early 20s, Frank had made a name for himself as a thief in Chicago.
1:20.1	And in 1961, he had his eyes set on the crown jewel of the city's diamond district.
1:26.3	And the billings called the molar billing. Once you got power a lot of power, you don't care about the money.
1:47.0	For the Las Vegas Review Journal, in partnership with the Mob Museum.
1:53.9	I'm Reed Redmond.
1:55.5	He's one of you, you kill him.
1:57.8	You're listening to Mobbed Up.
2:01.1	A true story about money.
2:03.0	You're not supposed to have a profile like that, especially in Vegas.
2:07.0	Crime.
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