Sidney Heard – The Unorganized Gangster

Gangland Wire

Gary Jenkins: Mafia Detective

True Crime, Documentary, Society & Culture, History

4.6 • 623 Ratings

🗓️ 23 April 2020

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Sidney Heard and the Kuggerrand Fraud In this episode, I interview Synova Cantrell about her book, Unorganized Crime: You Don’t Have to be Italian To Be a Wiseguy. Synova formed a friendship with a professional criminal named Sidney Heard and chronicled his flamboyant life in Unorganized Crime. Synova Cantrel is a prolific author who has written seven true crime books (click here to see them) and one on how to write and sell your book. In addition, she conducts a series of classes on how to write and sell your book and is available for consultation to new authors. The Unorganized Gangster Sidney Heard grew up in Chicago and learned the ways of the Outfit at an early age. he will move south to Amarillo Texas where he did not have to compete with an established organized crime ring. He became a well-known arsonist and con artist. His most significant crime came after he read about a large theft of South African Krugerrands. He seized the opportunity and counterfeited thousands of dollars worth of Krugerrands. He started moving them into the market by giving the impression he was selling the counterfeits at a big discount because they were part of the recent theft. He even used them to trade with Mexican drug dealers for cocaine. This gold scandal grossed him over a quarter of a million dollars. He will eventually work as a federal informant and be part of the most famous Supreme Court decision ever decided in criminal law, Gideon v. Wainwright. DonateTo go to the store or make a donation click here To rent Brothers against Brothers, the documentary, click here. To rent Gangland Wire, the documentary, click here To subscribe on iTunes click here, please give me a review and help others find the podcast

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0:00.0	You are listening to Gangland Wire, hosted by former Kansas City Police Intelligence Unit
0:10.0	Detective Gary Jenkins.
0:18.5	Welcome all you wiretappers out there.
0:21.0	Another episode of Gangland Wire right here in the Gang Land Wire studio.
0:26.5	We have a friend of ours from the true crime fiction world, but maybe not particularly
0:34.9	the mafia true crime.
0:36.2	And it's going to be a little bit different story.
0:37.8	All this guy does connect back to the outfit in Chicago for you outfit people in Chicago, and
0:43.4	we have Sinova can't, I edit this, we have Sinova.
0:48.2	We have Sinova Cantrell on the Skype, which will go up on YouTube and then on the podcast.
0:55.5	So welcome, Sinova. It's really great to have you here. Thank you for having me. Okay, Sinova, tell the folks a little bit
1:00.5	about you because most of my fans, most of the, we call them wiretappers, most of the wiretappers
1:05.7	out there, mainly read nonfiction books about the mafia, whether it be the five families in New York or
1:12.7	the Kansas City Crime Family or the outfit in Chicago. They may not be too familiar with your work.
1:18.6	And the reason I got onto you, you know, is because you wrote a nonfiction book about a guy who
1:23.4	grew up in and around the Chicago outfit, and I saw that, and I thought this would be a good fit
1:28.0	for the wiretappers out there. So tell the folks a little bit about your history here.
1:34.2	Well, I've been a writer for decades. I started out as a journalist, as a freelance journalist,
1:42.1	and I was published in magazines and newspapers, and then I started
1:46.5	writing fiction. And then while I was the president of a local Writers Guild, I was approached by a guy
1:55.1	that wanted someone to write his biography, and he was an ex-gangster from Chicago, and nobody wanted to touch him. So they sent
2:04.3	him up to me, and I said, okay, I'll meet with you. And he spent four hours at this restaurant
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