Day to Day life of a Hitman Part 3

Gangland Wire

Gary Jenkins

Documentary, Society & Culture, True Crime, History

4.6 • 647 Ratings

🗓️ 12 July 2021

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

Crimaldi tells about the day-to-day life of working for a maniac like Mad Sam DeStefano. He tells how DeStefano got himself placed in a hospital while incarcerated. He paid off the guards to leave the room while he conducted his loan shark business.
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0:00.0	You are listening to Gangland Wire, hosted by former Kansas City Police Intelligence Unit Detective Gary Jenkins.
0:19.3	Well, welcome all you wiretappers out there.
0:22.6	Tonight we're going to take a look at a series of articles by a Chicago Tribune author named Bob Wanderich.
0:32.1	There was a total of nine of these articles published under the title Portrait of a Hitman,
0:37.1	and there were interviews with a man
0:38.9	named Charles Chucky Cromaldi. Quick commercial, don't forget to support your podcast, use
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0:51.6	Chucky Cromaldi was a hitman and an enforcer worked with Mad Sam
0:57.2	Di Stefano and Anthony Spilatro during the early 70s. He had come up through the ranks.
1:05.0	The FBI turned him in the early 70s and the first case and was going to be the Primo case
1:10.7	in which they were going to take down Mad Sam
1:12.9	Di Stefano, which had been a burr under the saddle of the FBI for a long time, and at that time,
1:20.8	Tony Spilatro wasn't really all that much, and he was more like just an underling to Mad Sam.
1:26.3	But Chuck E. Cromaldi had set up another loan shark named Leo Foreman.
1:34.0	Mad Sam, go back and listen to my, I think it was a two-part series on Mad Sam Disifano.
1:41.1	He was crazy.
1:42.5	He was totally crazy.
1:47.8	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.
1:53.5	Chuckie Comaldi and Tony Splattro set him up where they could get him alone in Mad Sam DeSafino's brothers Mario DeStefano's basement.
2:04.4	As a matter of fact, that's how they made him when they turned Chuckie Cromaldi
2:08.2	and he told him about this murder, they knew there were some paint chips and some other physical
2:13.9	evidence taken off of Leo Foreman's clothes that he was wearing whenever they found him.
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