Sal “Sally Ubatz” Polisi Talks Gotti and Other Subjects

Gangland Wire

Gary Jenkins: Mafia Detective

True Crime, Documentary, Society & Culture, History

4.6 • 623 Ratings

🗓️ 15 November 2022

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Retired Intelligence Detective Gary Jenkins interviews former Gotti associate Sal Polisi about his life from the mean streets of new york, to prison, to witness protection, and his post-mafia life. Gary has a candid conversation with Sal Polisi about his life in the mafia, how he turned and testified against John Gotti, and his post-mafia life. Sal Polisi started life as a New York street kid, was a drug dealer and mob associate, a protected witness, and ended as an author, a screenwriter, and a filmmaker, who now lives peacefully in the desert. Look for him next year in Fear City 2, a Netflix series that looks at the 5 Families through the eyes of mafia members. He has written his life story called The Sinatra Club. Support the Podcast Hit me up on Venmo for a cup of coffee or a shot and a beer @ganglandwireClick here to “buy me a cup of coffee” To go to the store or make a donation or rent Ballot Theft: Burglary, Murder, Coverup click here To rent Brothers against Brothers, the documentary, click here. To rent Gangland Wire, the documentary, click here To buy my Kindle book, Leaving Vegas: The True Story of How FBI Wiretaps Ended Mob Domination of Las Vegas Casinos. To subscribe on iTunes click here, please give me a review and help others find the podcast.

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0:00.0	Nah, not quite.
0:01.7	What's up?
0:02.3	Sell my car on Carvana.
0:03.8	It's just not quite the right time.
0:05.8	Crazy coincidence. I just sold my car to Carvana.
0:08.6	What? I told you about it two days ago.
0:10.7	When you know, you know. You know? I'm even dropping it off at one of those sweet car vending machines and getting paid today.
0:17.1	That's a good deal.
0:18.1	Oh, great deal. Come on. What's your heart saying?
0:22.4	You're right. When you know, you know.
0:26.4	Sold. Whether you're looking to sell your car right now or just whenever feels right,
0:29.8	go to Carvana.com and sell your car the convenient way. Terms and conditions apply.
0:39.2	Well, welcome all you wiretappers out there back here in the studio of Gangland Wire. and I have a really interesting guy that a lot of you I know on YouTube and I don't think on any audio podcast have heard from. He was involved with the Grady Crew and Gambino family
0:46.9	growing up and as a young man went in a witness protection program. Sal Polisi, Sal Palisi,
0:52.8	welcome to the podcast. Thanks, Gary. All right, so I went,
0:58.4	did a little research on you. I don't even know how I found out about you. I don't,
1:02.7	you're not like all over the place like Francizzi or Sammy the Bull is. So I happened to
1:09.2	stumble across you and I started researching. I thought, well,
1:11.5	this is an interesting guy that nobody's ever heard from for a long time. And so I looked up on
1:17.9	your IMDB. You've done a lot of things in the entertainment industry. I mean, a ton of them.
1:24.9	But most importantly, back in the 80s, in 1986, you were in the mob and you went in a witness
1:31.5	protection program and you testified a few times.
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