Episode 250: Tokyo Joe

Criminal

Vox Media Podcast Network

True Crime, Society & Culture, Documentary

4.7 • 38.4K Ratings

🗓️ 5 January 2024

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Ken Eto worked for the Chicago Outfit for 30 years. He was known as the mob’s bolita expert, bringing in millions of dollars a year for them. But in 1983, they turned on him. Dan O’Sullivan wrote about Ken Eto for Chicago Magazine and Epic Magazine - you can read his piece here. Criminal is going on tour in February! We’ll be telling brand new stories, live on stage. You can even get meet and greet tickets to come and say hi before the show. Tickets are on sale now at thisiscriminal.com/live. Say hello on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Sign up for our occasional newsletter, The Accomplice. Follow the show and review us on Apple Podcasts: iTunes.com/CriminalShow. Sign up for Criminal Plus to get behind-the-scenes bonus episodes of Criminal, ad-free listening of all of our shows, members-only merch, and more. Learn more and sign up here. Listen back through our archives at youtube.com/criminalpodcast. We also make This is Love and Phoebe Reads a Mystery. Artwork by Julienne Alexander. Check out our online shop. Episode transcripts are posted on our website. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	In December 2020, a Latino couple was falsely accused by a white mom
0:04.9	influencer of attempting to kidnap her children. The Karen phenomenon where white
0:09.6	women falsely accused people of color of crimes usually fixates on the
0:13.5	accuser the so-called Karen. But for this series we focus on the
0:17.2	innocent couple at the heart of this story. I just want the public to know
0:21.9	what she did was wrong.
0:24.0	In Perfect Paradise People versus Karen,
0:26.4	available now wherever you get your podcasts.
0:32.3	Hi, it's Phoebe. This February, we're celebrating 10 years of criminal with a live tour.
0:38.0	If you've never been to one of our live shows, we pack the night with brand new stories, plus video and photos of the people
0:45.9	you're hearing about and original animations.
0:48.9	You'll learn how to be a pickpocket, I'll be wearing a tuxedo. Just kidding. Well, maybe. We're planning a very special
0:57.0	anniversary evening. We'll be in Seattle, San Francisco, L.A. St. Paul, Chicago, Boston, Toronto, New York, Philadelphia, D.C. Raleigh, Dublin, and London.
1:08.0	Tickets are on sale now at This is Criminal.com slash live.
1:12.3	We can't wait to see you there. criminal. It was the organized crime family which controlled the Chicago underworld for most of the 20th century.
1:28.5	The most famous boss of it that you're going to be aware of is you know someone like Al Capone but after
1:36.8	Al Capone went away to prison finally for the tax evasion charges famously
1:40.8	it became a lot less high profile and a lot more powerful.
1:45.2	This is Dan O'Sullivan.
1:47.2	He's a journalist who writes about the mafia, an organized crime.
1:52.7	After World War II, Dan says the outfit was run like a massive corporate conglomerate.
1:59.9	It acquired businesses, both legal and illegal, across the Midwest and West Coast.
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