You are listening to Gangland Wire, hosted by former Kansas City Police Intelligence Unit Detective Gary Jenkins.

Well, welcome all you wiretappers out there.

Tonight we're going to take a look at a series of articles by a Chicago Tribune author named Bob Wanderich.

There was a total of nine of these articles published under the title Portrait of a Hitman,

and there were interviews with a man

named Charles Chucky Cromaldi. Quick commercial, don't forget to support your podcast, use

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Chucky Cromaldi was a hitman and an enforcer worked with Mad Sam

Di Stefano and Anthony Spilatro during the early 70s. He had come up through the ranks.

The FBI turned him in the early 70s and the first case and was going to be the Primo case

in which they were going to take down Mad Sam

Di Stefano, which had been a burr under the saddle of the FBI for a long time, and at that time,

Tony Spilatro wasn't really all that much, and he was more like just an underling to Mad Sam.

But Chuck E. Cromaldi had set up another loan shark named Leo Foreman.

Mad Sam, go back and listen to my, I think it was a two-part series on Mad Sam Disifano.

He was crazy.

He was totally crazy.

And he got angry at Leo Foreman, who was another loan shark. I don't know, was some kind of a business thing, probably who knows, with Mad Sam.

Chuckie Comaldi and Tony Splattro set him up where they could get him alone in Mad Sam DeSafino's brothers Mario DeStefano's basement.

As a matter of fact, that's how they made him when they turned Chuckie Cromaldi

and he told him about this murder, they knew there were some paint chips and some other physical

evidence taken off of Leo Foreman's clothes that he was wearing whenever they found him.

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