S2 Ep2: Carmine Galante (Part 2)

Mafia

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True Crime, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 27 June 2018

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Carmine Galante was released from prison on parole and immediately took over his mafia family and re-established his heroin empire. But greed and cruelty made him enemies and made him paranoid, and started a war between families that led to a photographic end.

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0:00.0	If you wanted to describe him, come and go and let these face.
0:04.3	Go to a hardware store and buy a can of nails.
0:07.2	Look in the can that's his face.
0:10.0	From his position as the underboss and the powerful Bonanno family to the head of a lucrative heroin
0:15.4	trafficking ring, Carmine Galante was determined to make his way to the top.
0:21.6	A ruthless, low life, evil, evil individual.
0:27.5	The other people around him were absolutely petrified.
0:30.2	He was a narcotics dealer and they weren't.
0:33.0	That was his trade.
0:34.6	By the time Galante was 60, his career seemed finished.
0:39.3	He was serving a 20-year sentence on a narcotics conviction.
0:43.7	Yet even behind bars, he kept his finger on the pulse and continued to flood New York
0:50.0	streets with heroin.
0:52.2	And Galante had bigger dreams.
0:55.4	One's that he planned to see come to fruition.
0:59.0	There's certain kinds of intelligence that help you get through Harvard.
1:03.6	And there are certain kinds of intelligence that help you run a mob in New York City.
1:08.8	And for man can become a mob leader in New York City.
1:12.0	He's got that kind of intelligence.
1:14.8	In this audiobook original series, we explore America's criminal underworld
1:19.7	to reveal the lives and careers of its greatest gangsters.
1:24.4	This series has been extensively researched and produced in consultation with experts,
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