The Aiuppa Bribery Case

Gangland Wire

Gary Jenkins: Mafia Detective

Society & Culture, Documentary, True Crime, History

4.6 • 644 Ratings

🗓️ 26 August 2019

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

In the 1960s, the Chicago Outfit owned practically all the local government officials and a lot of cops. In this podcast we tell about a failed bribery attempt. An incorruptible Cook County Deputy named Donald Shaw refused this bribery attempt, even though an older and higher ranking officer named Dutch Bergbrieter encouraged him to meet with “Joey Doves” Aiuppa and to take the offered bribe. It seems that Officer Shaw had raided a tavern for illegal gambling and when the proprietor offered a bribe, Officer Shaw arrested him for attempted bribery. As the case got close to trial, Outfit gambling boss Joey Aiuppa asked Officer Shaw if he couldn’t forget the exact details of this interaction. This game was protected by the Outfit and this is their promise of protection from competition and law enforcement. Officer Shaw went to Cook County sheriff Richard Ogilvie. The sheriff organized a sting operation where he got Chicago PD officers “wire up” Officer Shaw who in turn approached Cook County Deputy Lt. Dutch Bergbrieter to set up a meeting with Aiuppa. In this podcast we use the actual words spoken by Aiuppa, Bergbrieter and Donald Shaw because the transcript was given to the Chicago Tribune who reported in detail on this story. Aiuppa’s words show the guile and cleverness of a good Outfit fixer and a man who will rise to become the boss by the end of career. To go to the store or make a donation click here To rent Gangland Wire, the documentary, click 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.
0:18.2	Well, good evening, all you wiretappers out there.
0:21.4	Tonight, we're going to talk about a bribery attempt of a Chicago police officer.
0:26.6	I recently had somebody, one of our fans, one of the wiretappers out there,
0:30.4	asked me if I'd ever been offered a serious bribe.
0:32.7	And I have to say, you know, Kansas City, we didn't really have that tradition of bribery by the time
0:40.9	I came on in 1971. Now, the 1950s, they did up into the 60s. And when we got Clarence Kelly,
0:48.2	who was a former FBI agent as our chief of police, he really rooted out a lot of the commanders and sideline them,
0:55.7	and they retired when they realized that there was a new sheriff in town, shall we say.
1:02.2	So that kind of that smaller time bribery did not exist.
1:08.3	And the bigger time bribery, I don't know.
1:11.3	Kelly is the one that formed the intelligence unit where I worked at most of the time.
1:15.5	And so he started off with two incorruptible guys, Ray Kinney and Jimmy Doolin.
1:21.9	And like a lot of us, they were country guys.
1:24.4	They were from, one was from Stockton to the other one.
1:27.2	Now, Jimmy Dillon actually was from upton or the other one. Now, Jimmy Dealing
1:27.9	actually was from up by where I come from in northwest Missouri and from a rural area. And it was
1:33.6	kind of like, I don't know, we didn't really have that tradition. We didn't grow up with that
1:38.2	tradition of people being able to bribe policemen. So we didn't take bribes. Now, there were
1:44.1	some people that did. We had our share of criminalsbe policemen, so we didn't take bribes. Now, there were some people that
1:44.9	did, and we had our share of criminals or policemen who were criminals all along, and they'd get
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