Ron Fino – Mr. Undercover

Gangland Wire

Gary Jenkins

Documentary, Society & Culture, True Crime, History

4.6 • 647 Ratings

🗓️ 20 August 2018

⏱️ 87 minutes

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Summary

When Aaron and I were at the MobWorld Summit 2018, we had the opportunity to interview Ron Fino. I met him at the previous Las Vegas Mob Con when we were co-presenters in 2104. Ron Fino was born into a Buffalo mob family, the son of a Mafia Capo, Joe Fino. As an adult, Ron would see how the mob boss Stefano Magaddino, corrupted unions and government officials. Ron joined the corrupt Laborers' Local 210, controlled by Magaddino. he stood up for his union members and was elected business manager on a platform to clean up the union. After an overly successful election, he found that powerful members of the Buffalo Mafia got all the good jobs and were corrupting the labor/management relationship. Ron Fino made the decision to become a contract employee for the FBI. He would report to his control agent about the Buffalo mafia's activites for the nest 17 years. His cover was eventually blown and the FBI assigned him to work undercover in Russia, the Middle East and Belarus. He found himself in the middle of international arms negotiations and he was involved in a peace deal to bring peace in Gambia after a coup ousted their president.
He had to drop out of the undercover life and he now works as a private detective in the Washington DC area. A major film company is exploring a project on his life with Robert DeNiro and a documentary film, titled Mr. Undercover is scheduled for release next year.

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0:00.0	All right, this is Emily Sweeney of the Boston Globe.
0:04.3	I'm author of the new book, Gangland Boston, and you're listening to Gangland Waya.
0:14.8	Former Kansas City Police Department Intelligence Detective and now attorney Gary Jenkins, produced four documentary
0:24.5	films, most recently Gangland Wire, creator of smartphone app entitled Kansas City Mob Tours.
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0:45.2	Gangland Wire True Crime Stories is produced at the Big Dumb Fun Show Studio 4.
0:52.5	And now here's Gary Jenkins.
0:58.0	Hello, all you wiretappers out there.
1:01.0	We're not in the big dumb fun show studio in the classic old ice house building in Kansas City.
1:07.0	We're out in Las Vegas in the Plaza Hotel because we're at the Mob World Summit,
1:13.0	20,000. It's 20,000. It should be 2018, shouldn't it, Aaron? I think you, I was actually
1:22.0	jotting notes down there right before we went into the episode and make sure that Gary remembered
1:26.4	to say, well, hello, Aaron.
1:28.0	Say hello, Aaron. That's our little stick, isn't it? Well, we didn't even know it was a stick
1:34.7	until we did another remote over at Stanford's where we talked with Craig Glazier,
1:40.6	or the King of Sting. Yeah. And one of the fans of the gangland ware podcast walked up and
1:46.8	said to gary you didn't say say hello aaron at the beginning and sometimes when we do these
1:52.2	kind of remotes and stuff gary gets excited and he dives right into things and well we're not in the
1:57.3	big dumb fun show studio in the classic old ice house building my son was making fun to be for saying that but we're not in the big dumb fun show studio in the classic old ice house now and then much more my son was making fun of me for saying that but that
2:03.9	when not there i kind of lose my track uh trade of thought but we're we're here in the
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