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Mafia

S4 Ep9: Frank "The Enforcer" Nitti

Mafia

Audioboom Studios

True Crime, Society & Culture

4.43.2K Ratings

🗓️ 7 July 2021

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

1920's Chicago – the beginnings of the infamous Chicago Outfit. Frank Nitti, friend of notorious gangster Al Capone, went from struggling breadwinner to leading one of the country's most powerful organized crime groups. Diversifying the Outfit's portfolio by branching out into new and lucrative forms of crime, and even inventing a new way to kill someone that would be widely adopted by the mob.

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Special thanks to Geoff Schumacher and the Mob Museum.

Music by Damiano Baldoni, Sergey Cheremisinov, and Kai Engel. Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License.

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The successor to the infamous Al Capone,

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and the man that led the Chicago outfit to branch out

1:03.0

and to diversify their dealings in order to bring in even more money than before.

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One thing that Nitty brought to the job was he was not as high profile of an individual.

1:14.0

The second thing that he did was he really worked to diversify the outfits,

1:20.0

crime portfolio, and before they were pretty much focused on vice,

1:24.0

liquor, gambling, and prostitution.

1:27.0

Nitty got involved, got the outfit involved in extortion, labor racketeering,

1:33.0

dog racing tracks.

1:35.0

Despite his acquired infamy, people referred to him by the wrong name throughout his entire career.

1:41.0

People know this famous sort of infamous mobster as Frank Nitty,

1:46.0

but in fact his name was Frank Nitto,

1:49.0

and everybody who knew him called him Frank Nitto.

1:52.0

But for whatever reason, once he started reaching the pages of the newspapers

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