Episode 181: George Borgesi

The Sit Down: A Crime History Podcast

Jeff Nadu

True Crime, Society & Culture, History

4.5 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 23 October 2024

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

In this week's episode we delve into the life of alleged Philly mob boss George Borgesi, a longtime friend of Joey Merlino. Before the biography I update you on a little Mafia news regarding a hot headed soldier in the Bonanno Crime Family who was found guilty of extorting a federal witness last week.

Jeff Nadu is an American Mafia researcher, podcaster and content creator. He has worked at Barstool Sports and was hired personally by Dave Portnoy. His podcast "The Sitdown" with Jeff Nadu has put out hundreds of biographies on various mobsters, gangsters and criminals. He's also personally interviewed mobsters like Sammy "The Bull" Gravano, Dom Cicale, Anthony Ruggiano Jr, Gene Borrello and others as well as US Prosecutor John Gleeson and FBI Agent Joaquin "Jack" Garcia. He has been personally endorsed by former Gambino mob captain Michael "Mikey Scars" DiLeonardo and esteemed author RJ Roger.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Sit Down, a mafia history podcast.
0:16.0	Here's your host, Jeff Naidu.
0:20.0	What's up everybody and welcome in to another edition of the Sit Down as always if you
0:27.6	enjoy this audio recording please make sure you leave us a detailed review and a five star rating.
0:34.4	Welcome in to episode 181.
0:36.7	I am your host Jeff Naydu.
0:39.0	I hope everybody's having a good week.
0:40.7	As always, we are almost to Halloween next week I'm going to probably do
0:46.2	some sort of spooky type of show so I'll have to wait and see for that last week.
0:53.1	Nice to kind of get into some historical stuff.
0:56.4	We've had a couple of good episodes lately.
0:58.2	Today, we've got more of a current one.
1:01.5	Obviously last week, we go pretty deep. We went back into the
1:05.1	tens and the 20s and the 30s. This week we're going to talk about who many people will
1:10.4	tell you is the current boss of Philadelphia. We're going to get into the life of
1:14.0	George Borghese, a man who maybe you've heard of a guy you know, we know he's close to Joe and Molino. We're going to talk about his life his exploits what he's been up to and where is that now
1:29.0	Before we do that though as always I want to get into a little news anytime there's news in the world of the
1:34.8	mafia we obviously want to talk about it and last week John Regano who is a reputed
1:42.4	soldier in the Bonano crime family, one of the more violent people in the mafia today, was found guilty of extorting a federal witness.
1:52.0	And this really went back to February of 2021.
1:56.6	Now understand, Rogano was currently in prison on a separate case.
2:00.6	He was indicted with the Colombo Crime Family several years ago and he is doing nearly 60 months already for another case.
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