Jimmy the Weasel Fratianno

Gangland Wire

Gary Jenkins: Mafia Detective

True Crime, Documentary, Society & Culture, History

4.6 • 623 Ratings

🗓️ 18 February 2019

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, we taped an interview with Jimmy Fratianno expert George Custer at the MobWorld Summit in our Las Vegas hotel room. We learn that Jimmy the Weasel started as a Cleveland mobster, then passed through the Chicago outfit and ended up in southern California by the 1950s. He made his bones by killing two Kansas City mobsters in Los Angeles. this murder was made famous in the popular Hollywood film, Kansas City Confidential as the Killing of the Two Tonys. Fratianno had a long career as a good earner for the mob and would rise to be a co-boss of the Los Angeles family. He knew how to play the angles and was an informant for the FBI all along to keep the heat off of himself and onto his rivals. In the end, the Bureau forced him into the Witness protection program and he spent the next several years and the last years of his life as a government witness. Don’t forget to listen to Aaron on the Big Dumb Fun Show. To go to the store or make a donation 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	The weather. Tomorrow, expect a biting cold front. Hmm, how naughty. I wonder what I'll be
0:06.8	wearing or taking off. The night will be wild and untamed. Expect heavy, lashing rain
0:13.0	that'll soak you to the skin. By Monday, temperatures will rise slowly but surely reaching
0:18.7	their peak in the afternoon.
0:21.6	Not in the mood for miserable weather?
0:23.6	Fly cheaply to Turkey with Sun Express.
0:26.6	Sun Express, nonstop sunshine.
0:29.6	There's a gun and a sword crossing one another.
0:34.6	The boss says something in Italian.
0:39.8	We all hold hands.
0:42.4	Manatakat.
0:45.1	That means you're tying each other's hands.
0:50.9	They prick your finger with a sword or with a pin to draw blood.
0:56.2	And you go around and meet everybody and you kiss him on a cheek.
0:58.6	Now you're a maid member.
1:16.2	You are listening to Gangland Wire, hosted by former Kansas City Police Intelligence Unit Detective Gary Jenkins. Hello, all you wiretappers out there.
1:19.3	I'm here with my good friend and co-host, Aaron.
1:21.8	Say hello, Aaron.
1:22.7	Hello, Aaron.
1:23.8	We are in the 22nd floor of the Plaza Hotel in beautiful downtown Las Vegas right at the end of Fremont Strip.
1:32.2	And don't think you're going to go to sleep in one of these hotel rooms before about 1030 or 11 o'clock at night because right off of Fremont Street, they have live bands playing all the evening.
1:41.4	Did you hear that last night?
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