Frank Costello with Casey McBride

Gangland Wire

Gary Jenkins: Mafia Detective

True Crime, Documentary, Society & Culture, History

4.6 • 623 Ratings

🗓️ 10 February 2020

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Host Gary Jenkins interviews fellow mob historian and expert on the life of Frank Costello, the Prime Minister of the Underworld. Casey is also a musician and he had created several original music compositions to be used in the podcast and the recently released mob documentary film, Brothers against Brothers” The Civella Spero War. In this episode, Casey and Gary discuss the use of Frank Costello in the recent Starz series, The Godfather of Harlem with Forrest Whitaker. Casey will get back to true crime as he continues telling the listeners about the life of Frank Costello as he got older and how he was able to become a senior statesman for the New York Mafia. To go to the store or make a donation click here To rent Brothers against Brothers, the documentary, click here. To rent Gangland Wire, the documentary, click here To subscribe on iTunes click here, please give me a review and help others find the podcast.

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0:00.0	You are listening to Gangland Wire, hosted by former Kansas City Police Intelligence Unit
0:10.0	Detective Gary Jenkins.
0:19.2	Well, welcome all you wiretappers out there.
0:21.5	I'm back here in the studio of Gangland Wire.
0:23.9	I've got my good friend and a guy who was immense help to me making my Brothers Against
0:30.2	Brothers Movie recently.
0:32.1	Casey McBride.
0:33.0	Welcome, Casey.
0:34.7	Hey, thanks for having me.
0:36.1	I finally made it to Gangland Wire.
0:38.3	You finally made it. You know, Casey and I go back to my earliest days with doing this mob stuff
0:43.4	all the way back to, I went out to Las Vegas to the Clark County Library and did a mob program
0:49.5	about, you know, about using my movie or my book, one of the two or maybe a little bit of both,
0:56.6	about the skimming from Las Vegas.
0:58.2	So Casey lives in Portland and he came down.
1:00.9	And then was that when we met, what's our friend's name from Perump?
1:05.8	Bill Friedman.
1:06.8	I think he came down that day too.
1:09.3	He did, yeah.
1:09.9	It's nice to, you know, you work with these people and you see people over the Internet
1:13.8	and you never meet them in person.
1:15.6	And Casey was kind enough to come down.
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