Episode 34: Frank Costello

The Sit Down: A Crime History Podcast

Jeff Nadu

True Crime, Society & Culture, History

4.5 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 24 November 2021

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Summary

On Episode 34 of the Sit Down, Jeff and special guest: author and mob historian from Black Handprint Mafia, RJ Roger discuss the life and times of Genovese heavyweight Frank Costello. Frank was the most politically connected, regal gangster of all time, using his connections to make a vast amount of money and to bolster the family. He led the family through after boss of all bosses Lucky Luciano went away and his friendships would allow to spend virtually no time in prison and die free. A truly legendary figure. . Check out RJ Rogers terrific YouTube Channel: Black Handprint Mafia: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCf2mXSK_0GKNp4mf5JToXhw ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- FOLLOW US ON YOUTUBE: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCMYV0eyKQFhNZwLXpx7I0Ng FOLLOW US ON TWITTER: @thesitdown7 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Sit Down, a Mafia History Podcast.
0:16.9	Here's your host, Jeff Nado.
0:20.6	What's up everybody and welcome into another edition of The Sit Down, a Mafia History
0:25.0	Podcast.
0:26.0	Hope you're all having a great week wherever you are.
0:28.2	Have obviously happy Thanksgiving, hope you all have a great Thanksgiving.
0:32.8	But before the holiday, we have another episode of the show and we're happy to be back.
0:37.6	As always, as always, you can check us out on Twitter, at the Sit Down 7, check us out
0:42.1	on YouTube as well.
0:43.1	I'll do a lot of great content on YouTube.
0:45.2	We got a big show today, obviously we had a very interesting episode last week talking
0:49.5	about, according to the government, the alleged boss, the Genevasi Crime Family Barney
0:54.2	Belomo.
0:55.4	But today we're going to talk about a guy that was involved with the same family.
0:59.3	About many years earlier, we're going to get into Frank Costello.
1:03.6	We're going to talk about Frank's real rise from a little village in Italy, all the way
1:09.1	to America, coming up with the likes of Marlanski and Lucky Luciano, and eventually becoming
1:15.2	one of the most politically affiliated mobsters of all time.
1:18.8	There's connections that he had into the depths of not only in Hollywood, but in government
1:24.7	and really just the success that he had.
1:27.6	We'll go through an interesting hearing he had in the Caffava hearings and more along
1:32.3	the way.
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