Up Against The Mob: It’s Shangri-La Up There

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🗓️ 8 March 2023

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Springfield, Massachusetts, 2003. Mob boss Alfonso “Big Al'' Bruno is shot dead in a parking lot, shocking the community. How does an “untouchable” man get killed? This is Up Against The Mob: The Springfield Crew. Host Elie Honig takes you inside the notorious Genovese crime family and the U.S. Attorney's Office in Manhattan where prosecutors are hard at work, trying to dismantle organized crime. New episodes drop every Wednesday starting March 1st. Head to the Up Against The Mob feed now to listen to episode 2. Up Against the Mob is brought to you by CAFE and the Vox Media Podcast Network. Hosted by @eliehonig. Follow us on Twitter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey folks, pre- here. Last week, Cafe launched Season 2 of Up Against the Mob hosted by Ellie
0:06.2	Honeg. It's a seven episode narrative series that pulls back the curtain on prosecuting the real
0:11.8	life modern-day mafia. Ellie, who is the head of the organized crime unit at SDNY,
0:17.2	takes you inside the Springfield faction of the Genovese crime family. It's a riveting tale of
0:22.2	turf wars, escalating violence, and betrayal. Today, I'm excited to share the first episode of
0:28.0	Up Against the Mob, the Springfield crew, with listeners of Stay Tuned. New episodes drop on Wednesday
0:33.8	mornings. To hear episode 2 and future episodes, search for and follow Up Against the Mob for free
0:40.6	wherever you get your podcasts. Just a quick note before we begin. This episode features
0:47.7	adult language and descriptions of violence that you'd expect to hear in a podcast about the mafia.
0:53.0	If you have kids in the room, you may want to listen with headphones.
1:04.9	November 23rd, 2003. Springfield, Massachusetts. It was a Sunday night. A police detective named
1:12.9	Maurice Kearney heard the dispatcher's voice over the police radio. The college just came in that
1:18.3	we had shooting down on Winthrop Street. We need a fast ambulance because the guy was in tough shape.
1:25.2	A homicide detective named Thomas Meliti also heard the dispatch.
1:30.0	El Bruno just took about eight to the body at the Italian club on Winthrop Street. I'm like,
1:34.2	oh Jesus. Kearney and Meliti raced over. El Bruno was still there on the ground. He wasn't
1:40.5	moving or anything. Another officer rolled Bruno onto his back and started doing chest compressions
1:46.1	to try to revive him. You made eye contact with me. Looked right at me and he just shook his
1:50.5	head like, oh, he's dead. He's gone. They took a shirt off and you'd see the holes in his chest.
1:56.2	Blood was coming out of him from just about everywhere. He just was laying back flat when he still
2:01.6	had the cigar in his hand. The dead man holding the cigar was no ordinary murder victim. He was the
2:09.4	boss of Springfield's Italian mafia, Adolfo Bruno, known as Big Al. Just two years prior,
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