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Gangland Wire

Family Secrets Part 1

Gangland Wire

Gary Jenkins

Documentary, Society & Culture, True Crime, History

4.6647 Ratings

🗓️ 6 June 2022

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Chicago Outfit Historian J. Cosenza attended the entire Chicago Outfit Family Secrets trial, the most important Chicago mob prosecution in recent history. He gives a riveting description of a son, Frank Calabrese Jr., testifying against Frank Calabrese Sr., his hitman father

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0:00.0

Welcome all you wiretappers out there back here in the studio of Gangland Wire. As you can tell, a nice warm spring day. It might be even warmer by the time I get this out. But it's beautiful. Today, I think it's going to be maybe 75 here in Kansas City. Played golf yesterday and getting ready to start back into the golf season. We play at least once during the weekend every Sunday.

0:22.9

Today I have an interesting show. I got to talking to a man I met on I see post a lot and

0:31.6

make comments and seems to know a lot about the outfit in up in Chicago on the Facebook pages up there on Mike Burns,

0:40.0

uh, Chicago outfit new and recent articles or something. I could never remember the name of that.

0:46.7

I would joke with Mike that, you know, you need to have a shorter name for your,

0:49.9

your Facebook page. And the other ones, the Chicago outfit, old and new, I believe.

0:57.6

And then there's another one just about the Chicago outfit.

1:00.2

I tell you guys in Chicago, you've got a lot of Facebook action going more than any other city, I think.

1:05.8

And it's really, everybody's a lot of active people on people know a lot about the outfit people that were

1:11.7

involved with the outfit in some peripheral manner at least and so they're they're great

1:18.0

Facebook pages but you know James got hold of me and he's told me that did I say your name

1:24.7

James Emlich welcome Welcome, James.

1:28.9

Welcome, thank you.

1:30.2

Okay.

1:33.7

Good to have you on the show.

1:39.1

And I appreciate you getting hold of me and tell me about all those trials you've been to.

1:42.4

Now, James goes to a lot of the different trials.

1:45.1

And so we were discussing different ones they went to about maybe doing a show on it, give a, you know, a fly on the wall kind of view of what happens at some of

1:51.1

those big mob trials and they've gone to the family secrets trial. And of course, that being the

1:55.4

biggest one, I'm going to lead off with the biggest one. We've got some others that will probably

1:59.2

be coming up in the future.

2:08.4

But the family secrets trial was huge and it pretty much it was a sea change and it was a watershed moment in really Midwest mob history because Chicago affects so many other people

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