Mobsters in Leavenworth

Gangland Wire

Gary Jenkins: Mafia Detective

True Crime, Documentary, Society & Culture, History

4.6 • 623 Ratings

🗓️ 2 May 2022

⏱️ 77 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 Leavenworth Correctional Officer Ken Lemaster. We hear great stories like the time he asked Bufalino, “Hey what did you do with Hoffa’s body?” How about the time the Kansas City Underboss Carl “Tuffy” DeLuna was watching the Defenbaugh trash company pick up the dumpsters and he told Ken, “I’m glad to see a company I have stock in has a big government contract.” He has a bunch more like these. 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	You are listening to Gangland Wire, hosted by former Kansas City Police Intelligence Unit Detective, Gary Jenkins.
0:13.5	Hey, all you wiretappers out there, welcome to another show. I really appreciate y'all tuning in.
0:20.1	I have a special show for you today from,
0:23.3	we always talk about the mouths of the men that did it. So, you know, we talked to,
0:28.6	we talked to Ken before about a book he did, a great escape of 1931. Well,
0:35.0	we'll ask him exactly what the title that is, and I'll have a link to it.
0:38.2	It's a pretty interesting story.
0:41.1	But he was also a correctional officer up at Leavenworth when every mob guy practically
0:49.2	United States went through there at one time or another, and he has some great story.
0:53.0	So, Ken, welcome to the show.
0:55.3	Glad to be here. Folks, this is Ken Lamaster. And how many years did you spend at Leavenworth?
1:04.9	I actually did 32 total years of corrections. Started out with a military prison, worked at the Kansas State
1:11.7	Penitentiary for a year, and then did 27 years with the U.S. Penitentiary at Leavenworth.
1:20.7	So we talked before about your book. Tell the guys here what you're, I know you have three books. So tell
1:29.8	them a little bit about your three books. I started out with a pictorial history in 2008
1:37.3	of the United States Penitentiary carrying the history through in photographs. The second book was on Fort Leavenworth.
1:46.0	The third book was about the city of Leavenworth.
1:49.1	They were all pictorial histories.
1:51.3	And then the story that's inside of the book, Leavenworth 7,
1:55.5	The Deadly 1931 Prison Escape,
1:58.1	all centers around Frank Nash and the group of individuals that were sent to
2:04.4	Leavenworth with Frank Nash that was that, that did the last armed train robbery in Oklahoma
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