Episode 187: Craig Carlino

The Sit Down: A Crime History Podcast

Jeff Nadu

True Crime, Society & Culture, History

4.5 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 4 December 2024

⏱️ 83 minutes

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Summary

The Mafia in New York has always had an interest in the world of strip clubs. Today we talk to Gambino associate and former general manager Craig Carlino who ran one of the most popular gentlemen's clubs in Manhattan, Scores. He discusses his life as a restaurant owner who started managing strip clubs and turning Scores in a business that was bringing in tens of millions of dollars a year. He discusses the infiltration of the Gambino Crime Family into the club and the unlikely mobsters who attempted to help him when an old timer attempted to leech onto him.

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 Nadeo.
0:21.7	What's up, everybody, and welcome in to another edition of The Sitdown.
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0:43.3	If you knew around here, you just haven't done it yet. We're living on a rock and seeing this
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0:52.2	button below now. So you never miss another sit down video. What's up, everybody? Welcome in. This is episode 187 of the sit down. And I'm your host, Jeff Nadeau. I hope you all had a great Thanksgiving. We've got another great show plan for today as always. And one thing that I've talked about at times on here, in fact, we talk about it weekly,
1:11.8	is the many rackets the mafia has and have had in New York for a long period of time.
1:18.4	One of the more interesting and lucrative rackets that we still see today involving the
1:22.6	mafia, whether it's extortion or even owning them is strip clubs.
1:32.0	They're a seedy underbelly, dens of iniquity, if we want to call them that.
1:37.2	But they're places that mobsters can make a bunch of money from if they do it the right way.
1:41.8	One of the most interesting stories that I've heard involving strip clubs and the Gambino crime family and Genevice crime families,
1:51.2	is their attempted and successful takeover of scores, which at one point was one of the most popular gentlemen's clubs in New York City. In fact, it was so popular that the height of Howard
1:57.2	Stern, Stern would mention scores regularly on his show.
2:02.2	Now, I've delved into this topic over the years.
2:04.8	I've done a show you can see here on a person called Michael Bluettrek, who essentially
2:09.7	owned scores.
2:11.4	Today we're going to talk to another person that was involved in scores on a day-to-day basis.
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