Michael Marcello Social Security Scam

Gangland Wire

Gary Jenkins: Mafia Detective

True Crime, Documentary, Society & Culture, History

4.6 • 623 Ratings

🗓️ 9 December 2022

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

Intelligence Detective Gary Jenkins looks into the recent conviction of Michael Marcello for scamming Social Security. Michael Marcello is the brother of former Chicago outfit Boss James Marcello. He used to run all the Video Poker business for the Outfit. Michaele Marcello got into his first big trouble during the Family Secrets trial in 2007. He was meeting in a bugged visiting room with his brother Jimmy. The FBI overheard him taking orders and carrying out Outfit business. For example, he was directed to give Nick Calabrese’s family $4,000 monthly to keep him quiet. he helped gather tips from a corrupt US marshall about the location of a government witness, Nick Calabrese. 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, hey, all you wiretappers out there is a little bonus episode.
0:03.1	You know, earlier this week, I had one about Ross Priio and Tony O'Cardo.
0:08.1	Well, here's a little more modern.
0:10.5	I just saw this in the news about Michael Marcello, or Mickey, I guess they called him,
0:17.9	it was Jimmy Marcello's brother.
0:20.4	If you remember, Jimmy Marcello was the office, I guess they called him. It was Jimmy Marcello's brother. If you remember Jimmy Marcello was the
0:23.1	boss, I guess, actually he was the boss who went to jail at the family secrets trial. And Michael
0:32.9	was trying to run everything, visiting his brother Jimmy Jimmy in jail, and trying to run everything.
0:40.8	He'd already been in charge of all of his poker machine operation, which is a huge amount of
0:47.3	money that was mainly in the western suburbs. And so he was, you know, he was not a, he wasn't a killer, but he was not a small-time guy.
0:59.2	He was part of the upper echelon, really.
1:02.6	He was part of the upper echelon, really.
1:06.2	He was at that point in time during the family secret trial, Mickey Marcello was the guy that the outfit designated to take a $4,000 monthly payment to Nick Calabrese or to his family to try to buy his silence,
1:19.5	which it didn't really work.
1:21.6	But they wired up the prison cell where Michael Marcello was visiting his brother, little Jimmy Marcello,
1:33.1	and they owe her some really interesting stuff, which led to a couple more cases for sure
1:39.0	and led to a case on Michael about a couple of different things.
1:43.5	And another, you know, kind of addition that I don't
1:46.3	know if he actually caught a case on this if Jimmy caught a case for this but it also put a
1:53.2	U.S. Marshal in jail a guy named Ambrose. I did a whole show on that if you can go back and
1:59.9	look for the U.S. Marshal was a Chuck Ambr Ambrose, I think, or Charles Ambrose, but then the AMBROS.E and just search for that on my website and you'll find it.
2:11.7	He was, Ambrose was charged with leaking details about where they were hiding Nick Calabrese.
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