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Gangland Wire

Sammy the Bull Gravano Part 2

Gangland Wire

Gary Jenkins: Mafia Detective

True Crime, Documentary, Society & Culture, History

4.6623 Ratings

🗓️ 19 December 2022

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

In Part 2 of this story, retired Intelligence Detective Gary Jenkins continues looking into the drug investigation and conviction of Sammy Gravano. The listener learns how local drug dealer Michael Papa befriends Gravano’s son, Gerard Gravano. The Phoenix narcotics squad is picking up rumors about a new gang selling ecstasy, muscling other street-level dealers, and claiming to be under the protection of the famous Gambino hitman, Sammy Gravano. The local cops still do not believe this to be true, but they continue investigating. The U.S. Customs arrested an Ecstasy courier at the border and turn him into an informant. They learn he has been supplying a friend of the Gravano family named Michael Papa. This is the final piece that allows the police to bring in the DEA and go up on a wiretap of Papa. They quickly learn that Papa and Gerard Gravano used poorly coded conversations about selling drugs. From this, they spin off into more wiretaps, some of which are on Sammy Gravano and his family’s phones. These taps lead them to the final conversation they use to file charges against the Gravano family. Gerard Gravano calls his mother and tells her his Dad said it was ok to send 70 to give to Mike. Sammy Gravano’s daughter transported the money to Sammy Gravano. he calls his wife and complains the delivery was short $5,000. Sammy Gravano and his wife argue, and later Gravano admitted he miscounted. 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.

Transcript

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0:00.0

The weather. Tomorrow, expect a biting cold front. Hmm, how naughty. I wonder what I'll be

0:06.9

wearing or taking off. The night will be wild and untamed. Expect heavy, lashing rain that'll soak

0:13.6

you to the skin. By Monday, temperatures will rise slowly but surely reaching their peak in the

0:20.2

afternoon. Not in the afternoon.

0:23.0

Not in the mood for miserable weather.

0:25.6

Fly cheaply to Turkey with Sun Express.

0:28.7

Sun Express, nonstop sunshine.

0:32.1

Hey, all you wiretappers back here in the studio with the second part of the two-part story

0:35.5

of Sammy the Bull Gravano and his arrest for dealing ecstasy

0:40.9

out in Phoenix, Arizona. Trying to get to the bottom of this, was he really doing this to make money?

0:47.7

Was he just covered up for his son and daughter and wife, all of whom were arrested as part of this conspiracy, or, you know,

0:55.7

what was the deal?

0:57.6

If you search, if you did scratch deep enough, you'll find quite a little bit about this.

1:01.5

Now, at this point in time, after we left off last week, Samuel the Bull Garbano and his son Gerard,

1:07.8

his daughter Karen, her boyfriend, David Seabrook, and his now my now ex-wife, Deborah,

1:13.7

are living in the Phoenix area. She lives in a great big house, and he lives in a little apartment.

1:20.1

He owns and operates marathon construction and created pools. He goes in there every day,

1:25.9

doing business. His neighbor across the street, I believe it was

1:30.2

apartment or maybe across, I think it was across the street from his wife's house because he does

1:35.2

some kind of construction business, maybe builds him a pool. They have an argument in some kind.

1:40.2

But that guy is recognized who he is. And many others in the area have recognized him.

1:46.3

He didn't have that much plastic surgery done.

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