Episode 7: Jimmy Burke and The Real "Goodfellas"

The Sit Down: A Crime History Podcast

Jeff Nadu

True Crime, Society & Culture, History

4.5 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 19 May 2021

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Summary

On the 7th episode of the Sitdown, Jeff and Blackjack discuss one of the most successful and brutal non Italian gangsters in the history of the mob, Jimmy Burke. We also get into the main characters of the movie Goodfellas and their connection to Burke. From the Lufthansa heist to the BC college basketball point shaving scheme, the legend of the "Jimmy The Gent" Burke. We also tell you what was real, what was wrong about the film as well. PRESENTED BY STABLE DUEL: A Horse Racing Fantasy App 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.
0:22.4	What's up everybody?
0:23.4	Welcome into another edition of The Sit Down, a crime in Mafia History Podcast.
0:28.7	I'm host Jeff Nado, joined as always by our constant area, our legal expert, our partner
0:33.9	in crime, our co-hosts, Black Jack Pledge, and Black Jack What's Happening.
0:37.1	How are you?
0:38.1	Always good to talk to you, another week, another Sit Down, how are you?
0:42.1	Yeah, I'm doing great brother, so looking forward to getting into today's topic.
0:45.6	I think this is one that a lot of people will have some familiarity with, but we'll be
0:52.4	interested to learn some of the details of.
0:55.3	Yeah, and you know, Black Jack kind of alluded to it.
0:59.1	We're going to get right to the show because we got a great one today.
1:01.9	We're going to talk about Jimmy Burke, and I think one thing needs to be said right out
1:07.3	of the gate about Jimmy Burke, you can make the case, and I don't even know if there's
1:11.2	a case to make on anyone else, Jimmy Burke is the most successful non-italian mobster
1:18.4	of all time.
1:19.4	It's that simple.
1:21.5	Not only did he amass the kind of wealth, but he amass the ton of power, he amass the
1:25.7	ton of respect.
1:26.7	He was a crude, he was a cold, calculated individual who killed.
1:33.1	And again, we relate this to the movie good folks, obviously if you know anything about
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