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Gangland Wire

Michael DiLeonardo Bonus

Gangland Wire

Gary Jenkins: Mafia Detective

True Crime, Documentary, Society & Culture, History

4.6 • 623 Ratings

🗓️ 5 September 2021

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

In this short episode, Michael DiLeonardo tells how he was inducted into the Gambino crime family by Sammy the Bull Gravano. He was inducted with John Gotti Jr. and John Gotti asked Gravano to conduct the ceremony because it did not look good for him to induct his own son. Show notes by Gary Jenkins To go to the store or make a donation 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.

Transcript

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0:00.0

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

0:19.2

Welcome all you wiretappers out there, back here in the studio of Gangland Wire, as you can tell, if you're on YouTube.

0:27.0

I am doing some clips from the Michael D. Leonardo interview because it was so interesting, and I feel like this would be worthwhile to put up some bonus episodes every once in a while in case you forgot about it.

0:40.8

You never really got around to listening to the entire show.

0:45.9

He was the most interesting guy.

0:47.5

He was a Gambino soldier made by Sammy the Bull Gravano in the what became the Godi family.

0:56.7

So this is just a little short clip that I've got.

0:59.6

And he tells the blow by blow description of the night that he got made by Sammy

1:05.0

the Bull and why Sammy the Bull was the one who presided over the ceremony is just really interesting.

1:11.1

So thanks a lot for listening and supporting the podcast.

1:14.5

Don't forget to hit me up on Venmo and on PayPal.

1:18.5

I always hate asking for money, but, you know, I mean, I put a lot of work into this.

1:22.9

I'm just kidding.

1:24.3

I got some out-of-pocket expenses.

1:26.9

And so buy me a shot in a beer every once in a while on Venmo.

1:30.7

I appreciate it at Gangland Wire or my website, Gangland Wire has a PayPal donate button.

1:37.6

And I've got, I don't know, two or three hundred back episodes. I need to take some more of those out.

1:42.9

I'm getting so many of them in there.

1:45.2

I don't have advertisements on my podcast. You might notice. I do have advertisements

1:50.3

on YouTube, although that didn't really amount to anything until you get million downloads,

1:56.1

and then you can start making some money. Enjoy it, folks.

2:00.4

They've seen the bright star, the shining star, and John Gotti at that time.

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