Frank Costello and Huey P. Long

Gangland Wire

Gary Jenkins

Documentary, Society & Culture, True Crime, History

4.6 • 647 Ratings

🗓️ 20 April 2020

⏱️ 47 minutes

🔗️ Recording | Apple Podcasts | RSS

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Summary

Frank Costello goes South
In this episode, Casey McBride, Frank Costello historian, discusses how a well known New York mobster formed a relationship with the flamboyant Huey P. Long, Louisiana's governor, and then-Senator during the 1920-1930s. Frank Costello and Phil "Dandy Phil" Kastel set up the slot machine business in New York City. They disguised them as candy machine and the slots would dispense a mint on a losing pull and money on a winning pull. He soon had around 25,000 machines running in the northeast part of the United States. In 1933, Fiorello LaGuardia ran for the mayor of New York City on a clean government platform. After the voters elected him, he declared war on mob corruption of city officials and this meant a war on the slot machine business because it was a significant provider of graft. Frank quickly adapted and made a move south to Louisiana after making a deal with Huey P. long who ran the entire state like a dictatorship.

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0:00.0	Wiretappers keep listening to this episode all the way to the end, and at the end, there's going to be an original song recording by Casey McBride called Three Can Keep a Secret.
0:11.7	Thank you. And now on with the show.
0:18.6	You are listening to Gangland Wire, hosted by former Kansas City Police Intelligence Unit Detective, Gary Jenkins.
0:32.9	Welcome all your wiretappers out there.
0:35.1	I'm back here in the studio.
0:37.4	I'm on the Skype with my good friend and Frank Costello expert, Casey McBride. And you know, Casey McBride, he's a guy that's provided a lot of music for the podcast, the ending, the opening and the ending. And then he gave me a whole bunch of clips for the movie, Brothers Against Brothers.
0:58.5	And I tell you what, all I did was I sent him some little clips of something I liked,
1:01.8	and then he retooled him a little bit, and gave me some great music.
1:05.0	So, Casey, I really appreciate what you've done for me there.
1:05.4	Welcome.
1:07.2	Oh, thanks for having me.
1:08.5	That's my pleasure to do it.
1:11.7	It's funny when you emailed me if I would be interested in talking about Frank Costello today. I'm like, is that ever a question? I knew that. I knew that.
1:17.3	I was just being polite. You know, I'm kind of a southerner at heart. We're kind of extra
1:23.1	polite. Though it's my pleasure. I always like doing this. It's great. I know you do. Well, we're here in the
1:30.3	middle of this COVID-19 virus. I'm stuck at home. You're still able to go to work because you're in
1:36.3	the medical profession. And like my social media marketer, a guy that helps me a lot with, you know,
1:42.8	different posts on the, made him an administrator for me and he puts out a lot of, a guy that helps me a lot with, you know, different post on the, made him an
1:44.7	administrator for me and he puts out a lot of, he's great with putting out pictures of mob
1:50.1	guys and things like that. Basel Tarabiche, he, I emailed him the other day or text him and we
1:56.3	were going to do a podcast and he was going to review a kind of a little known mob movie called,
2:03.8	what was that?
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