Episode 16: Tony Accardo

The Sit Down: A Crime History Podcast

Jeff Nadu

True Crime, Society & Culture, History

4.5 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 21 July 2021

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Summary

On the 16th episode of the Sit Down, Jeff and BlackJack get into the life of Chicago Outfit heavyweight Tony Accardo. Tony ultimately lived one of the most successful lifes in the history of organized crime. He could say something that no one else could, listen to find out. We also delve into how he took the Outfit from a gang to an organization after Capone, going into Vegas, his ability to avoid prison and his famous great grandsons. A legendary episode. As always thanks for listening and if you enjoy the show, please give us a deserved rating and leave us a comment! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Sit Down, a Mafia History Podcast.
0:16.9	Here's your host, Jeff Nado.
0:21.1	What's up everybody and welcome into another edition of The Sit Down, a crime in Mafia
0:25.8	Podcast.
0:26.8	Hope you're all having a great day.
0:27.8	This is always for joining us, another week, another show.
0:31.4	We got a huge show today.
0:33.2	We're going to talk about Tony, a cardo, head of the outfit for about 30 years.
0:39.6	I think you can make the case.
0:41.6	And I've said this before we started recording, really I'd say a change again to you, probably
0:45.7	my favorite mobster.
0:46.7	I think Tony a cardo did everything right.
0:50.8	I don't think there's one thing he didn't do right.
0:53.5	He's a fascinating life.
0:55.3	Probably an interesting connection to the NFL today, which is interesting enough.
1:00.5	We're going to start though the show with kind of a little bit different of a segment.
1:04.4	We're going to get the audience involved a little bit.
1:06.2	I've been wanting to do a Q&A.
1:07.8	I get questions all the time about the Mafia and we're going to ice crime and I kind of
1:12.2	through the proverbial, hey, throughout questions, we'll answer.
1:16.3	Now I got a lot of questions through DM and through the link.
1:20.5	So I don't know if we'll be able to get to everyone.
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