Introducing Up Against The Mob

Up Against The Mob

Vox Media Podcast Network

Society & Culture, Documentary, True Crime

4.9 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 20 August 2021

⏱️ 2 minutes

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Summary

Up Against the Mob is a new podcast from CAFE hosted by former prosecutor Elie Honig. Each week, he sits down with cops, undercover agents, defense lawyers, mobsters-turned-cooperators and more to tell the stories of what it’s like to take on the world’s most secretive criminal organization. New episodes drop every Wednesday starting September 8th. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	People sometimes ask me if prosecuting the mob is like the movies.
0:04.4	Well there is violence.
0:06.4	So I took a fork and I was going to put it in his neck.
0:09.6	I said I'm going to kill him.
0:11.6	There are hits.
0:14.0	So it wasn't just permission to take a map,
0:17.0	but permission to take out his own nephew.
0:19.0	And he went down there with a 45 Magnum,
0:22.0	a very powerful, powerful gun.
0:25.0	And of course, there are crooners and crooked unions.
0:29.0	There's a beef over tickets to a Tony Bennett concert and no-show jobs in a union.
0:34.0	But after taking down over 100 mobsters, I can tell you this.
0:39.0	The real thing is better. I'm Ellie Honing.
0:47.0	I'm a former federal prosecutor for the Southern District of New York.
0:50.0	Southern District is the New York Yankees.
0:52.0	I mean, come on. My boss, Preet Marara, publicly called me
0:55.2	organized crimes worst nightmare. The Gotti family called me Hot Shot Honig.
1:00.3	The best summation I have ever seen by a prosecutor with you and you got up there and kicked
1:06.2	ass.
1:07.2	I'm the host of a new podcast, Up Against the Mob.
1:11.0	This podcast will lift the veil on the world's most secretive criminal organization
1:15.6	La Cosa Nostra, the mafia. We'll talk to undercover agents. These guys that I am laughing with would also kill me in a heartbeat.
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