How to Turn an Informant!

Gangland Wire

Gary Jenkins

Documentary, Society & Culture, True Crime, History

4.6 • 647 Ratings

🗓️ 26 May 2022

⏱️ 31 minutes

🔗️ Recording | Apple Podcasts | RSS

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Summary

In this bonus episode, Gary tells about when he developed his first long-term organized crime informant. Turning a mob associate into an informant is a nuanced and delicate process. Gary began by merely revisiting the guy many times at his business as they developed a friendship and trust. He knew the guy had something to hide, but the prize goes to the guy who waits and watches. Finally, the new friend confessed his crime. As usual, it was not near as bad as the guy thought, and Gary was able to make sure he could avoid prosecution easily. This is when the real work starts. Venmo me @ganglandwire Click here to “buy me a cup of coffee” To go to the store or make a donation or rent Ballot Theft: Burglary, Murder, Coverup click here To rent Brothers against Brothers, the documentary, click here. To rent Gangland Wire, the documentary, click here To buy my Kindle book, Leaving Vegas: The True Story of How FBI Wiretaps Ended Mob Domination of Las Vegas Casinos. To subscribe on iTunes click here, please give me a review and help others find the podcast.

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0:30.1	Well, hey, all you wiretappers out there, there's another kind of a short story. This is going to be
0:34.4	actually from my own career. You know, making these for YouTube,
0:37.9	how that keeps more content going in YouTube and build up the channel, as well as help build
0:43.9	up my audio channel. So, you know, I've got a lot more content on my audio channel if you guys
0:51.1	are just on YouTube. This is just this is just to get more content out
0:55.7	there. I don't know. I'm kind of, I guess I'm at, uh, I'm not doing so much right now other than
1:02.2	the podcast and I thought I put some more content out. And I've been one to tell some of the
1:07.1	stories from my career. Now, this story I'm going to tell you today is actually in my movie,
1:12.3	Brothers Against Brothers, the Savella Spiro War.
1:14.8	So if you've seen that way, you can, you may not want to listen to it again,
1:19.4	although it's always a good one, I think.
1:21.3	And it's kind of, it will, I will tell you how I got started my first few weeks in
1:27.1	the intelligence unit.
1:28.3	You know, I came out of a small detective unit out of the station.
1:33.3	My good friend that I grew up with, Bobby Arnold, had gotten himself into the intelligence unit.
1:39.3	And the intelligence unit of any big police department usually only takes guys that are really
1:46.1	vetted and in a small town like Kansas City, you know, compared to New York or Chicago, it's easy
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