Michael McGowan – The guy who made the case on Bobby Luisi

Gangland Wire

Gary Jenkins: Mafia Detective

True Crime, Documentary, Society & Culture, History

4.6 • 623 Ratings

🗓️ 31 January 2022

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Venmo me @ganglandwire Click 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 Gary interviews retired FBI agent Michael McGowan about working long-term undercover projects in the New England and Philadelphia area during the 1990s. In his book Ghost: My 30 Years as an Undercover Agent, Michael McGowan takes the reader on a thrilling ride through the Boston, Philadelphia, and Rhode Island crime families. In his first story, listeners learn how Agent McGowan used the infamous Philadelphia informant Ron Previtte to get an introduction to Boston Bobby Luisi. Of interest is the fact that Gangland Wire had Bobby Luisi on the show during the last year, so to hear the other side of this story I suggest you go back and relisten. During this investigation, Agent McGowan was able to tape a phone call with Bobby Luisi and Philadelphia mob boss Joey Merlino and participate in a conversation about bringing in several kilos of cocaine. This was just the beginning of Agent Mcgowan’s thrilling stories. Venmo me @ganglandwire Click here to “buy me a cup of coffee” Show notes by Gary Jenkins 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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0:35.0	is a true story of a high-rolling Chicago lawyer named Robert Cooley,
0:38.6	who helped the outfit fix cases from traffic tickets to murder. Then he went undercover to take
0:43.5	them down. You guys are probably familiar with the murder case he fixed for outfit hitman
0:48.2	Harry Aileman. This resulted in Aileman walking from the murder of Billy Logan. After Cooley
0:53.2	turned, he testified that he
0:54.7	had bribed the judge in Aileman's first trial. The next judge ordered a new trial, he convicted
0:59.6	alement of murder. Like the feds, Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Jake Halpern got Cooley to talk,
1:05.9	and they take listeners on a wild journey into a world of corruption, murder, and mayhem in Chicago.
1:11.2	You can listen to Deep Cover Mob Land wherever you get your podcast.
1:15.5	And on a personal note, I love this podcast, man.
1:18.6	I had already listened to their first season about an FBI agent who started working a Midwest motorcycle gang drug case,
1:24.8	and he ended up following a string that took down Manuel Noriega.
1:34.5	You are listening to Gangland Wire hosted by former Kansas City Police Intelligence Unit Detective Gary Jenkins.
1:49.0	Thank you. Unit Detective Gary Jenkins. Well, welcome all you wiretappers out there.
1:51.0	Here in the studio of Gangland wire.
1:53.0	I've got on the Zoom call and
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