Zoom Call with Dennis Griffin

Gangland Wire

Gary Jenkins: Mafia Detective

True Crime, Documentary, Society & Culture, History

4.6 • 623 Ratings

🗓️ 28 September 2020

⏱️ 79 minutes

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Summary

Frank Cullotta RIP December 14, 1938- August 20, 2020 In this episode, Gary hosts a Zoom call with podcast supporters who have either donated money or time to keep the podcast going. Since Frank Cullotta died recently, I have true crime author Dennis Griffin as a special guest. Dennis tells many stories about his life helping Frank Cullotta compose, edit and publish the three books on his life. In addition, Dennis Griffin has written several other true crime books like Surviving the Mob: A Street Soldier’s Life inside the Gambino Crime Family with Andrew DiDonato, The Battle for Las Vegas, A Family Business: The Life and times of Joey “The Fixer” Silvestri, Wrong Number: Call Girls, Hackers and the Mob in Las Vegas, Survival: From Childhood Sexual Abuse Victim to World Boxing Champion, Rogue Town. Just click on his name to see all those books. Frank Culotta’s Las Vegas Tour Podcast listener Berry Parks of Kansas City took Frank’s tour of mob sites and Casino the movie spots recently. He was able to tell many stories from that tour. Berry said that since the pizza place was closed where Frank usually took guests and he was not hungry, they just sat in the car and Frank told stories and answered questions for about an hour. Show Notes by Gary Jenkins Support the Podcast Hit me up on Venmo for a cup of coffee or a shot and a beer @ganglandwire To 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 Detective, Gary Jenkins.
0:17.1	Hello, all you wiretappers out there.
0:20.0	This is a special episode. It's actually the audio from a Zoom call, so you wiretappers out there. This is a special episode.
0:21.6	It's actually the audio from a Zoom call,
0:23.7	so you'll notice that the sound is not up to snuff that I usually try to put out.
0:29.1	I started a new program that if you've ever supported the podcast,
0:32.6	if you've given me any money, made any donations,
0:35.9	if you have helped by posting things on my Facebook pages,
0:39.5	or like in one case, Casey McBride, has been a huge help in getting music for my movie and
0:45.5	for my podcast. I just have to give him an idea about what kind of music I want, and he'll compose it
0:50.9	and then record it. He'll play it and record it. So, Casey, thank you, which I say at the end of the podcast all the time.
0:58.2	Well, this was a special tribute to Frank Kulata.
1:01.3	I do this about once a month, so if you want to get on that list, send me a donation,
1:05.7	and I'll put you on the list, and I'll send you a Zoom link,
1:08.7	usually about the third or the fourth week in the month.
1:11.9	I'm not going to try to pin myself down to a particular schedule.
1:15.1	We had a special guest on this one, Denny Griffin.
1:17.6	Now, Denny Griffin wrote, I believe, three books with Frank Kulata.
1:23.1	I imagine Denny wrote, did all the writing.
1:26.0	Denny was able to chronicle all of Frank's life with Tony Splattro and the hole in the wall gang
1:31.7	and his life before he came to Las Vegas.
1:35.1	And they're really interesting books.
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