Crooked City: Youngstown Part 2

Gangland Wire

Gary Jenkins: Mafia Detective

True Crime, Documentary, Society & Culture, History

4.6 • 623 Ratings

🗓️ 26 September 2022

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Retired Intelligence Detective Gary Jenkins interviews Johnny Chechitelli, one of the producers of a new limited series podcast called Crooked City: Youngstown. This Ohio Rust Belt City was one of the most corrupt mobbed-up towns in the area. Located an hour from Pittsburgh and an hour from Cleveland, members of both organized crime families staked claims. In this episode, we learn about Jim Traficant, one of the most corrupt politicians in the country. Click here to go to the Podcast Support the Podcast Hit me up on Venmo for a cup of coffee or a shot and a beer @ganglandwireClick here to “buy me a cup of coffee” To go to the store or make a donation or rent Ballot Theft: Burglary, Murder, Coverup click here To rent Brothers against Brothers, the documentary, click here. To rent Gangland Wire, the documentary, click here To buy my Kindle book, Leaving Vegas: The True Story of How FBI Wiretaps Ended Mob Domination of Las Vegas Casinos. To subscribe on iTunes click here, please give me a review and help others find the podcast.

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0:00.0	Welcome all you wiretappers out there back here in studio Gangline Wire for part two,
0:05.5	part two of Crooked City, Youngstown, Ohio with Johnny Chickatelli. Welcome, Johnny.
0:11.2	Thank you, Gary. Thanks for having me back.
0:13.0	Well, I'm really glad you got hold of me about this because I think I've mentioned before.
0:17.3	I wanted to do something on Youngstown for a long time, and I just,
0:27.1	I don't just get distracted by John Gotti half the time, as we all do. And so I'm really glad you guys did this podcast, because I've learned a lot by listening to it. And Crooked City,
0:32.1	Youngstown, Ohio, it's a great podcast, guys. You know, when you're not listening to Gangland
0:36.5	Wire, and I know everybody listens to way more than one podcast, I sure do.
0:41.5	So,
0:42.0	so check that crooked,
0:43.5	crooked city,
0:44.6	Youngstown,
0:45.2	Ohio out.
0:46.8	And we have one of the producers here on it who was involved in the making
0:51.1	of it and knows is from Youngstown,
0:53.9	Ohio, correct, Johnny? Yeah, and knows the knows is from Youngstown, Ohio, correct, Johnny?
0:55.9	And knows the mob history of Youngstown, Ohio.
0:59.5	Like I know the mob history of Kansas City, probably even better if he's going back to
1:04.0	the olden days.
1:04.8	Because, you know, in the last episode, we talked about the olden days or pre the 70s, say when Youngstown started going downhill,
1:15.3	when it became the poster child for the rest belt cities as unemployment skyrocketed and the steel mills
1:23.3	shut down and the steel mills were about the industry, the only jobs, decent jobs they had in
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