Hey everyone, Reed here.

As always, I want to give you a quick warning before we get going that this podcast might not

be suitable for all audiences.

Specifically, I want to let you know that this episode contains a brief discussion of suicide.

If that's something you'd like to skip over, it'll be around the 15 minute mark of the episode.

And please take care while listening. Monday, May 24th, 1982.

It's about 8 and a half months after the members of the Whole and the Wall Gang were arrested in Las Vegas,

following the burglary attempt you heard about a couple episodes ago.

One of the members of the Whole and the Wall Gang, Larry Newman, is appearing in U.S. District Court

for a sentencing hearing following a conviction in a separate case.

He'd been found guilty of being an ex-felon, illegally in possession of a gun.

Newman's attorneys have been arguing that their client should be released on bond, pending an appeal of his weapons conviction.

Organized Crime Strike Force prosecutor Stan Hunterton is arguing that he should be denied bond because he's proven himself to be a menace to society and a threat to the community.

And we knew that if Newman got out on bail after being convicted, he'd disappear, he'd kill people. He'd already killed three people that we knew of.

I spent a couple hours with Stan, talking about his time working with the strike force.

And in those couple hours he repeatedly pointed out that taking down the mob in real life

wasn't anything like its portrayed in the movies, at least on the legal side of things.

Being a strike force prosecutor meant spending long hours on painstaking, often tedious work.

But as he recalls, this particular day in court was an exception.

I've spent a lot of time saying this is real life, this is law enforcement, it's not the movies.

This was like the movies.

This was like the movies.

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