S2 Ep1: Carmine Galante (Part 1)

Mafia

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🗓️ 20 June 2018

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Carmine Galante wanted to be the "Boss of All Bosses," the head of the mafia, and would stop at nothing to reach his goal. He was single-handedly responsible for trafficking enormous amounts of heroin into the United States, raking in millions for himself and leaving streets of addicts in his wake. Until he was nabbed by the new narcotics laws. But even from jail . . . he ruled the streets.

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0:00.0	Carmine Blanting was especially cunning, not simply a predator himself, but a
0:05.8	home leader of predators. He was known as the boss of all bosses. He was feared by
0:12.0	everybody. He was afraid of him. He went from mob underboss to become one of the
0:18.3	most prolific drug traffickers in America and came back from jail with even more
0:23.8	power. Power that made him enemies probably was stepping up into a position
0:29.8	that they didn't want him in. In this audiobook original series we explore America's
0:35.2	criminal underworld to reveal the lives and careers of its greatest gangsters.
0:41.2	This series has been extensively researched and produced in consultation with experts,
0:46.0	authors, and the people who were actually there. Carmine the cigar galante was a mobster who
0:53.7	frightened the other mafia man and one of the most dangerous and notorious heroin traffickers
1:00.2	in American history. Immediately he was in and he took over and there was such an upsurge of
1:09.7	heroin coming into the United States. He wanted that control and that was his downfall.
1:17.6	This is mafia season two.
1:24.4	In 1957 a gathering was held in Palermo, Sicily. It was an honor of a very special guest from America.
1:36.0	Joe Bonanno, the powerful boss of the Bonanno clan, one of the five major crime families in New York.
1:44.4	Former narcotics agent Frank Panessa. He was if you liken him to the
1:52.9	the godfather movies. He was like Don Corleone when he went to Sicily. He was honored. It was like
1:59.0	you know the king has returned and they showed the greatest respect for Joseph Bonanno when he was
2:06.5	there. I mean the Sicilian mafia really treated him like royalty. Traveling with him was his
2:15.4	trusted underbox. Carmine Galante. He was a known assassin and so he carried a lot of weight
2:23.6	in a business where weight counted him off a lot. Galante and Bonanno were meeting with the Sicilian
2:30.3	mafia to discuss the possibility of trafficking heroin into the United States. There it was decided
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