Hey guys, I was recently asked to be a guest on another podcast titled Mafia.

The producer emailed me and said she liked my podcast episode on Jimmy the Weasel Fradiano.

That's Aladena Fraudiano.

I went back and gave it a listen and edited all the extraneous chit-chat out,

and so here is a encore version of me telling about Jimmy the Weasel Fradiano

and the murder of the two Tonys in Los Angeles, California during the 1950s. Enjoy.

You are listening to Gangland Wire, hosted by former Kansas City Police Intelligence Unit Detective, Gary Jenkins.

Los Angeles was kind of a subset of Chicago and Cleveland, the Midwest mobs.

The New York mobs didn't really, they sent some people out there, but the Midwest

mobs kind of felt like they controlled things out on the West Coast because they were

closer.

And they had sent people out there, and we're going to talk about two people that got killed

that were from Kansas City that were out there, and they also were killed in this movie.

If you remember in this movie, there was Russell Crowe portrayed a guy who was kind of obsessed

with spousal abusers. He beat the crap out of one of the guys

early in the movie. And that's when the kind of evil lieutenant of this small squad recruited

him in because they want to do some strongarm work. And I started to say about Molaghan Falls

and there's been some other depictions of this the the LAPD

kind of a special squad maybe it was their kind of like their intelligence unit and when mobsters

would come to town they would take them up on Mulholland drive and at the Mulholland falls and

throw them off and maybe they lived and maybe they't, and they told them not to come back to

town. I did that plenty of people, but I think probably some money went out as the mob guys came

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