Deep Cover: Mob Land

Gangland Wire

Gary Jenkins: Mafia Detective

History, Documentary, Society & Culture, True Crime

4.6 • 645 Ratings

🗓️ 21 February 2022

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Venmo me @ganglandwire or Click 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 Gary interviews Jake Halpern about his interviews with Ned Timmons and Bob Cooley. Jake hosts Deep Cover: Mob Land which is a new podcast in its second season. Deep Cover takes a single subject and situation and develops it out to its conclusion. For example, in the first season, Jake starts interviewing a retired FBI agent named Ned Timmons as he tells how he was assigned to work undercover on a Motorcycle Gang. By the end of the first season, Jake has interviewed other agents, several convicted marijuana smugglers as the listener hear how the first simple undercover assignment ended with Ned Timmons helping to make a case on General Manuel Noriega. In the second season just released, Jake interviews Bob Cooley who was a corrupt Chicago Mob lawyer. Jake discusses how Cooley bribed Judge Frank Wilson to bring back a “not guilty” verdict in the murder trial of the infamous Chicago Outfit hitman Harry Aleman. He was able to get interviews with an Outfit man who knew Colley as a “fixer,” Franke Forliano (Aleman’s daughter), and several FBI agents who worked this case. Show notes by Gary Jenkins Venmo me @ganglandwire Click 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	You are listening to Gangland Wire, hosted by former Kansas City Police Intelligence Unit Detective, Gary Jenkins.
0:19.2	Well, welcome all you wiretappers out there, the gangland wire.
0:23.1	I'm back here in the studio.
0:24.3	I have on Zoom call for you guys on YouTube, Jake Halper.
0:30.3	Now, let me tell you just a little bit about Jake and what he means.
0:34.7	Now, I know he's, this is not Jimmy Friday.iano we got on here or a mob guy, but he's pretty
0:42.4	important mob historian in my opinion.
0:44.9	I first, he has a podcast, he's a podcast host and this, you know by now I have promoted
0:50.2	this podcast a little bit.
0:51.9	And I personally will promote this podcast. I personally would
0:55.4	recommend that you listen to this called Deep Cover Mob Land. And they're in their second season.
1:00.7	The first season was about an FBI agent named Ned Timmons who started out kind of working
1:05.8	undercover on a motorcycle gang and just doing small deals as all big investigations started out with was a small deal.
1:15.2	And he ended up taking in some really big time, huge marijuana distributors.
1:22.6	And then they actually helped and taken down Manuel Noriegan.
1:25.9	And they really do a good job. It's a first
1:28.4	class. It's brought to you by Pushkin Industries, which is if you know about Malcolm Gladwell,
1:33.9	he has like a podcast network, I think. So welcome, Jake. It's really a pleasure for me and an honor
1:39.9	to have you on my show. Oh, thanks for having me, Gary. So you guys got hold of me and wanted to offer to exchange promos for the podcast,
1:49.9	and you had this new one coming up, and I was very happy to do that.
1:54.4	I may have even already said something about your show.
1:56.8	I don't know.
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