Kenji Gallo: The Man who put Theodore “Teddy” Persico away

Gangland Wire

Gary Jenkins: Mafia Detective

True Crime, Documentary, Society & Culture, History

4.6 • 623 Ratings

🗓️ 16 November 2022

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

Intelligence Detective Gary Jenkins talks with former Colombo associate and California strip club owner Kenji Gallo. In the second of a three-part series of interviews about the Christain conversion experiences of mobsters, we learn that Kenji Gallo had been a successful mob associate in southern California and made connections back east with Teddie Persico. He was recruited by the FBI to work as an informant, but he refused to incriminate his old California friends. He went to the New York City area and was accepted into the Colombo family as an associate. After a series of events that caused him to go into witness protection, he dropped out of sight. In his early days in Wit Sec, Kenji Gallo meets some good Christian people, and he is attracted to this life. Kenji has since changed his life and runs a successful gym and personal training business. Support the Podcast Hit me up on Venmo for a cup of coffee or a shot and a beer @ganglandwireClick 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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0:00.0	Well, welcome all you wiretappers out here back here in the studio of Gangland Wire.
0:04.8	I'm going to have a show.
0:06.9	It might be a little bit different.
0:08.2	This is part of a series of shows.
0:09.9	I'm going to do more than one about mob guys who had a religious, Christian, an awakening, an experience, a spiritual experience, if you will, and change their lives around.
0:23.0	There's a lot of you guys out there, and I've got one of them on here today who was on the show
0:28.4	before. If you want to know a whole lot more about his life, his criminal life, go back to my
0:34.3	interview of Kenji Gallo. Welcome, Kenji. Thank you for having me, Gary. Thank you.
0:41.2	Now, Kenji, you've got a book. Tell us, tell my wiretappers out there what the name of your book is and how you find that.
0:47.6	My book is called Breakshot, A Life in the 21st Century American Mafia. And Brickshaw was my FBI code name when I wore a wire for the FBI.
0:57.4	So, and you've got a website, too.
0:59.0	You used to blog.
0:59.8	I didn't say I was looking at looking at it.
1:02.1	It doesn't look like you've been blogging so much in the last year or two.
1:05.0	No, I saw that probably about four or five years ago.
1:08.4	I quit blogging. Yeah, I just, I got to the point where I just
1:11.8	didn't have any more to say and the same people, I'm writing about the same people doing the same
1:16.2	thing. Yeah. They get out and get in trouble and I was just, I got bored with that and my life
1:21.3	moved on and I just didn't feel like writing about them anymore, but it's still up there and people, I mean, like a million people visited last year. So it's still, they still look at it. There's a lot of good stories in there.
1:32.2	It's a break shot, just Google breakshot, and you'll find it. I'll put links to his book and
1:37.6	where you can buy his book and how to find his blog in the show notes, folks. So today we're
1:43.4	going to talk about his, he had a spiritual,
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