Up Against the Mob, Season 2: The Springfield Crew — Trailer

Up Against The Mob

Vox Media Podcast Network

Society & Culture, Documentary, True Crime

4.9 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 24 February 2023

⏱️ 3 minutes

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Summary

This season follows the rise and fall of a faction of the famed Genovese crime family. Set in Springfield, Massachusetts, it’s a riveting tale of turf wars, escalating violence, and betrayal, culminating in the shocking murder of Springfield mob boss Al Bruno. The killer's identity was a complete mystery, but for law enforcement, also a huge opportunity. Solving the case was the investigators’ best chance at taking down the Springfield mafia — once and for all. New episodes drop every Wednesday starting March 1st. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	The Italian mafia is a family. Those blood ties, ring kisses, and vows of loyalty aren't just lore.
0:12.0	If we ask you to kill for us, would you kill?
0:16.0	Would you use a gun and the knife that are on this table?
0:18.0	Yes.
0:20.0	That oath, the oath of Omerta, it's real.
0:24.0	When someone officially joins the mafia and becomes a made man,
0:29.0	they pledge their life to the family.
0:31.0	He told me to repeat after him that I'm becoming a brother, part of the family, if I ever betray
0:38.6	this, I'll be killed. A maid man is supposed to be untouchable.
0:47.0	Al Bruno just took about eight to the body at the Italian club on one thread street I'm like oh Jesus. But sometimes the oath gets
0:56.0	broken. Blood was coming out of him from just about everywhere. He just was laying back
1:00.6	flat and he still had the cigar in his hand.
1:04.0	Big Al Bruno ran the mob in Springfield, Massachusetts.
1:08.2	He was as made as it gets.
1:10.5	So his murder was big news, not just to the criminals in town, but to the cops, the
1:15.8	FBI, and to my former employer, the United States Department of Justice.
1:21.0	Bruno's murder would become our best shot at taking down the Springfield
1:25.2	mafia once and for all. I'm Ellie Honeg, host of Up Against the Mob, the Springfield crew.
1:41.0	I was a federal prosecutor in Manhattan where I took down over 100 mobsters.
1:45.6	I've seen it all. The conspiracies, the murders, the battles for power.
1:51.1	And out of all my cases, nothing was as wild
1:55.1	as what went down in Springfield.
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