The Cooperator

Up Against The Mob

Vox Media Podcast Network

Society & Culture, Documentary, True Crime

4.9 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 8 September 2021

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

Once a rising star in the Genovese crime family, Michael Visconti decided to leave the mafia and become a cooperating government witness. Visconti opens up to Elie Honig about his life and rise in the mob — how he first got mixed up with the mafia, the violent crimes he committed, and his decision to flip against his mob “family.” In the bonus episode for CAFE Insiders, Elie Honig and Safeena Mecklai take listeners behind the scenes of the first episode of Up Against the Mob. Become an Insider at cafe.com/Insider and enter code MOB for 50% off the annual membership price. Up Against the Mob is produced by CAFE Studios and the Vox Media Podcast Network. New episodes drop every Wednesday. Subscribe wherever you listen. Executive Producer: Tamara Sepper; Senior Editorial Producer: Adam Waller; Technical Director: David Tatasciore; Audio Producers: Matthew Billy, Nat Weiner; Editorial Producers: Noa Azulai, David Kurlander, Sam Ozer-Staton, Jake Kaplan. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:01.0	Thanks. From Cafe Cafe and the Vox Media Podcast Network. I'm Ellie Honeg and this is
1:09.8	up against the mob. There's nothing about me that any mobster would ever fear. I'm not big,
1:18.8	five foot nine on a good day, slim build, no tattoos, never had a real fist fight probably wouldn't fare very well.
1:26.1	I got a little bit of a mouth, but I've never berated somebody or threatened to kill them.
1:30.2	Never held a gun. I'm not from the neighborhood as the mobsters put it unless you count the leafy suburbs of New Jersey as the neighborhood which they don't
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