Episode 252- 5 HUGE Mafia Moneymakers
The Sit Down: A Crime History Podcast
Jeff Nadu
4.5 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 4 March 2026
⏱️ 36 minutes
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If you enjoy our show, please hit the like button and make sure if you're new around here you subscribe as well! GO CHECK OUT PROPHET X AND GET INVOLVED- https://t.co/hnCEZoj1Sd USE REFERRAL CODE- JEFFNADU Jeff Nadu is an American Mafia and organized crime 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, Junior Pagan, Anthony Ruggiano Jr, Gene Borrello and others as well as US Prosecutor John Gleeson and FBI Agents Joaquin "Jack" Garcia and Michael Campi. He has been personally endorsed by former Gambino mob captain Michael "Mikey Scars" DiLeonardo, esteemed author RJ Roger, and former Colombo Crime Family captain Michael Franzese.
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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. |
| 0:21.1 | What's up, everybody, and welcome in to another edition of The Sit Down. |
| 0:26.4 | I am your host, Jeff Nadeu. |
| 0:27.9 | This is episode 252 of the podcast. |
| 0:32.2 | As always, if you're out there listening, |
| 0:33.8 | please make sure you leave this a detailed review and a five-star rating. |
| 0:37.9 | If you ever have a topic you want me to discuss involving the mafia or other organized |
| 0:42.1 | crime, feel free to send me an email the sit down 777.7.7.com. As always, make sure you go |
| 0:50.3 | checking us out on all the different socials out there, whether it be Facebook, TikTok, |
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| 0:59.3 | I got another nice show playing for you today. As always, today money is on our mind. |
| 1:02.1 | We're going to talk about some of the biggest moneymakers in mafia history. |
| 1:06.3 | So please make sure you sit back, relax, hopefully enjoy the show. |
| 1:10.2 | Before we get into that, though, do want to talk about little news here. |
| 1:13.9 | I always want to get into news and we have news to talk about. |
| 1:18.5 | Sadly, for Teddy Persko, he is headed back to prison. |
| 1:23.0 | In fact, he's already back in prison. |
| 1:25.6 | Persco recently was sentenced to nine months in federal prison for violating |
| 1:30.4 | his supervised release. So have to kind of remain in there over the summer. He won't get out |
| 1:37.8 | until the end of the year, which, you know, this is the sad reality for a lot of mobsters, right, |
| 1:43.5 | particularly at the age that Teddy is. |
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