Episode 194: Anthony Comello

The Sit Down: A Crime History Podcast

Jeff Nadu

True Crime, Society & Culture, History

4.5 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 22 January 2025

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

In 2019, Gambino mobster and family heavyweight Francesco "Franky Boy" Cali was killed in front of his upscale home in Staten Island. People in mob circles, aficionados, Mafia experts and law enforcement were curious about the surprising murder. Was a mob war unfolding in New York City? In the end, a person was arrested and it was an unknown 20 something from nearby named Anthony Comello. Who was Anthony Comello and why did he do this? Over the last month, I went to the scene of the crime and spoke to people that knew Comello best. Some of the info in this video came from first hand accounts of people who knew Anthony Comello personally and grew up with 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.
0:16.4	Here's your host, Jeff Nadeo.
0:21.9	What's up, everybody, and welcome in to another edition of The Sit Down.
0:26.5	As always, if you enjoy this audio recording and podcast,
0:30.2	please make sure you leave us a detailed review and a five-star rating.
0:34.1	I hope you're enjoying this show wherever you're listening,
0:36.9	whether it's on iTunes, Spotify,
0:38.1	or any other podcast platform.
0:39.8	I'm your host, Jeff Ney doing this is episode 194 of the show.
0:45.6	A couple of things here before we get started today.
0:48.3	I wanted to thank everybody for the kind reviews about last week's show with Xavier Ebilly, the son of Tommy Ryan
0:57.7	Ebilly.
0:59.1	I got a lot of messages and emails about kind of the history aspect of it.
1:05.1	And, you know, that's what we kind of proud ourselves on here.
1:07.5	And, you know, Xavier is a guy who has such a keen mind still. He's been through
1:12.9	a long life and has so much to share. And it's always great when you can get connected with people
1:19.5	like that. Xavier is a wealth of info. And you can see that, you know, he really likes talking
1:26.9	about this sort of thing.
1:27.9	And I urge everybody, as I said, to go check out his book, The Boss in the Shadows,
1:32.4	The Life and Death of Tommy Ryan Ebelie, a man that, you know, really knows the subject best.
1:39.6	I mean, this was his son in the end.
1:41.5	So I really appreciate him coming on.
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