Pizza Connection Episode 2 – Tommaso Bruscetta

Gangland Wire

Gary Jenkins: Mafia Detective

True Crime, Documentary, Society & Culture, History

4.6 • 623 Ratings

🗓️ 30 March 2020

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Tommaso Buscetta documentary Welcome Wiretappers to episode 2 of this Pizza Connection series. In this episode, Cam and I take a look at the famous Sicilian mafia boss Tommaso Buscetta. He is the subject of a documentary available on Amazon Prime called Our Godfather and I inserted the trailer for this film below. He is also the subject of a recently released narrative film titled the Traitor and the preview is inserted below. Buscetta and smuggling Tommaso Buscetta was a flamboyant mafia kingpin who graduated from being a Sicilian mafia soldier smuggling cigarettes around the Mediterranean Sea to a most-wanted transnational criminal and drug smuggler. Buscetta becomes involved in transnational heroin smuggling with Gaetano Bladalmenti from South America. Both had ended up on the strong end of a mafia war in Sicily when a clan led by Salvatore Riina murdered many of their associates and even non-involved relatives. Judge Falcone turns Tommasso Buscetta into a witness We learned that when he was arrested and extradited back to Italy from Brazil, his fellow Mafia bosses in Sicily killed his two sons and other family members to ensure that he would not talk. They calculated wrong and he did talk and he testified. He became the first Sicilian mafia boss to come in and be a witness and he helped convict over 400 Sicilian mafia members at the largest trial ever conducted in Italy. Our Godfather Documentary The Traitor To rent Brothers against Brothers, the documentary, click here. 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 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.
0:19.0	Welcome all your wiretappers out there to this second installment of the Pizza Connection story.
0:25.7	I'm here on the Skype and telephone with my good friend Cam Robinson from Munster, Indiana.
0:35.2	Cam is a screenwriter, a mob historian.
0:38.0	It's been an immense help.
0:39.1	I didn't give you much credit last time, Cam, about all the help you've done been to me on
0:44.3	finding mob history, but you're a good researcher too bad, I'll tell you what.
0:53.5	I think we compliment each other well.
0:55.9	I admire your research skills.
0:57.2	Everybody can't do that.
0:58.3	I know.
0:59.6	It takes a lot of patience and ingenuity and just keep looking and keep looking and find those unusual things.
1:09.2	Were you the one that found the New Yorker article by Pledgey on, who was that on?
1:14.9	That was you.
1:16.8	Cantalupo.
1:17.3	We got to do that story on Catalupo.
1:21.0	Did I send you the video of him talking with his, that accent of this one?
1:24.8	He's just telling those damn stories, just laughing.
1:28.3	He's a good one.
1:31.1	He's supposed to be.
1:32.1	He's still around somewhere.
1:33.1	He's still breathing somewhere.
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