Does The American Mafia Still Exist? A Real Life Wise Guy Reveals The Truth | The Connect

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Johnny Mitchell

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🗓️ 23 September 2023

⏱️ 113 minutes

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David "Chicky" Cicchetelli was a young man in Springfield, Massachusetts when joined a mafia boss from the infamous Genovese Crime Family. What started as petty loan sharking quickly turned into a multimillion dollar illegal bookie business for Chicky. Years after doing time for that, he ended up getting rolled up in the biggest indictment in East Coast history... Follow Chicky! Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/chickycecchetelli_/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/people/Chicky-Cecchetelli/pfbid02AG6oPPw2cim9VecbiAA7p32Ya1M3oRRChi2hw3jATmttUpjMzRkFUZFmYbNZ83x4l/ Support Our Sponsors! FUM: https://tryfum.com/ Pomo Code: CONNECT HelloFresh: https://hellofresh.com/50connect Promo Code: 50CONNECT Join The Patreon For Bonus Content! https://www.patreon.com/theconnectshow Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	What I've dedicated my life to is revenge.
0:04.0	A brand new drama based on the best-selling novel.
0:07.0	They think they're better than us.
0:08.0	Who do you think you are?
0:09.0	I'm going to prove to them that they're wrong.
0:11.0	She's punishing me.
0:13.0	You destroyed my family.
0:14.0	I will not rest until I've destroyed yours.
0:17.0	A woman of substance on Channel 4 starts tonight at 9.
0:20.0	You guys, I am coming on the road to do stand-up this fall.
0:23.7	Check it out.
0:24.4	On October 12th, I'm going to be in Toledo, Ohio.
0:27.3	October 15th, Cleveland, Ohio.
0:29.5	November 5th, I'm going to be back here in New York City for the New York Comedy Festival.
0:34.5	November 15th, Dallas, Texas.
0:37.3	November 16th, Austin, Texas. December 14th, San Diego, December 25th, Chicago. More dates to come. You guys can go over to Johnny Mitchell.Biz right now and get your tickets. Come see me on the road doing stand-up.
0:53.0	The older guy that owned the bar, Baba, was the boss at the time, stands up and he goes,
0:56.7	hey, you guys want to be wise guys, you're gangsters, right? You want to be gangsters? I'm going to show how gangsters get treated that don't listen. And his voice keeps going up, and I'm like, you know, we got problems. They start bang, bang. Today's guest is Chicky, a former mob associate and bookmaker for the Genovese crime family
1:12.9	based out of Springfield, Massachusetts. Chicky is the real deal, okay? He came up in a mob culture
1:20.7	surrounded by a lot of Italian Americans, many of whom were either gangsters or related to
1:26.4	gangsters. He started out young doing small-time loan sharking and eventually opened up a sports betting business
1:32.8	who he ran with the boss of Springfield.
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