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Frank Sinatra Pt 2: New Evidence, Secret Favors, and Three Dead Men. This is Frank Sinatra — Connected, Compromised, and Cornered · DISGRACELAND

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  Speaker 1: Disgraceland is a production of Double Elvis. This is a
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  Speaker 1: story about the Voice, the Weasel, about the Boot and
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  Speaker 1: guy's name Lucky Momo and Handsome Johnny. This is a
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  Speaker 1: story about the Mafia and about one musician's position in
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  Speaker 1: the mafia. This is not a story you've likely heard before.
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  Speaker 1: This is not just a story about a singer who
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  Speaker 1: needed the mob's help. It's about a pop star who
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  Speaker 1: was expected to deliver for the Mob over and over again,
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  Speaker 1: and in a way that only made Mafia members were
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  Speaker 1: expected to deliver. This story is based on recent research
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  Speaker 1: from a newish book that pulls from a trove of
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  Speaker 1: previously unreleased secret files from Los Angeles police intelligence and
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  Speaker 1: FBI documents. This is a story, of course, about Frank Sinatra,
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  Speaker 1: a story that puts him not just up close and
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  Speaker 1: personal with the Mafia, but in the mafia, running illegal errands,
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  Speaker 1: entering into illegal businesses, and relying on illegal favors, one
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  Speaker 1: of which resulted in not one, but three murders. And
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  Speaker 1: this being a story about Frank the Voice Sinatra, means
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  Speaker 1: that it's also a story about great music. Unlike that
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  Speaker 1: music I played for you at the top of the
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  Speaker 1: show that wasn't great music. That was a preset loop
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  Speaker 1: from my melotron called Cowboy Gonna Bleed MK one. I
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  Speaker 1: played you that loop because I can't afford the rights
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  Speaker 1: to Dominique by the Singing Nun. And why would I
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  Speaker 1: play you that specific slice of convent cheese? Could I
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  Speaker 1: afford it? Because that was the number one song in
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  Speaker 1: America on December eighth, nineteen sixty three, And that was
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  Speaker 1: the day Frank Sinatra's son was kidnapped and a phone
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  Speaker 1: call was made that resulted in the torture and death
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  Speaker 1: of three men at the hands of a mafia enforcer.
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  Speaker 1: On this episode, new Research, Secret Files, illegal Favors, torture, murder,
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  Speaker 1: and Frank Sinatra. I'm Jake Brennan in this this Disgraceland.
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  Speaker 1: Once upon a time back during the earlier part of
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  Speaker 1: the twentieth century, just after Prohibition and throughout the nineteen
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  Speaker 1: forties and fifties, the American mafia consolidated its immense power,
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  Speaker 1: and your mafia bosses, your Lucky Luciano's, your Vito Genovies
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  Speaker 1: types created empires. These gangsters, the bosses picture Don Corleone
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  Speaker 1: from The Godfather. They gave orders and stayed above the fray.
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  Speaker 1: Below them, there were the captains, the guys who ran
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  Speaker 1: the crews, guys like Rugerio Richie, the boot Boyardo from
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  Speaker 1: New Jersey, who wasn't afraid to get his hands dirty.
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  Speaker 1: He was said to bury his enemies in his backyard.
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  Speaker 1: And then there was Angelo gip de Carlo, who ran
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  Speaker 1: the Jersey labor unions and controlled the nightclub business, and
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  Speaker 1: who was also known to make enemies disappear. These were
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  Speaker 1: more your Tessio, your fat Clemenza types. Below these guys,
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  Speaker 1: you had your soldiers, men like Willy Moretti, a New
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  Speaker 1: Jersey member of the Genovese family. Moretti once invited a
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  Speaker 1: man who owed him money to dinner to work out
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  Speaker 1: his debt. The deadbeat, of course, didn't have the money,
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  Speaker 1: and Moretti shot the man in the leg in front
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  Speaker 1: of a restaurant full of witnesses, and then finished his
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  Speaker 1: meal as if nothing had happened. Moretti himself was shot
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  Speaker 1: in the face in nineteen fifty one, ironically in a
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  Speaker 1: Jersey restaurant while eating a boll of spaghetti. If you
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  Speaker 1: want a comparable character from the Godfather for Willy Moretti
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  Speaker 1: to continue our analogy, look no further than Vito's muscle
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  Speaker 1: Luca Brazzi, or better yet, Michael's bodyguard al Neary. These
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  Speaker 1: mafiosi were a so called made members of the Italian
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  Speaker 1: mafia in America, which meant they took blood oaths, swearing
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  Speaker 1: allegiance to their mob families, swearing to live by the
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  Speaker 1: code of omerta or silence. Made members of the mafia
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  Speaker 1: are protected as long as they played by the rules,
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  Speaker 1: their bosses and their families are there for them to
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  Speaker 1: keep other gangsters out of their territories, to bail them
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  Speaker 1: out of jail, to provide for their families when they
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  Speaker 1: get sent to jail, and generally speaking, to help made
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  Speaker 1: men sort out whatever problems they might encounter so that
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  Speaker 1: they can continue to earn money for their families and
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  Speaker 1: for themselves. Being made was and still is one of
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  Speaker 1: the highest honors a gangster can receive in the mafia,
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  Speaker 1: and only Italians can be made. But being made doesn't
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  Speaker 1: make you a boss or even a captain. Mixed in
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  Speaker 1: among the made soldiers were gangsters who never became made men,
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  Speaker 1: but who are nevertheless indispensable to their crime families. Men
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  Speaker 1: like Frank cheech Levorsi from the Genevese family who ran
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  Speaker 1: New Jersey's gambling in numbers operation, and Ben Buggsy Siegel,
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  Speaker 1: who wasn't even Italian and who literally built Las Vegas
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  Speaker 1: for the American mafia. The godfathers on made men of
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  Speaker 1: influence are, of course Tom Hagen and Moe Green. Lots
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  Speaker 1: of mafiosi are not made men. They're simply connected guys.
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  Speaker 1: But that doesn't mean they're not gangsters. They are, and
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  Speaker 1: their fortunes rise and fall with the fortunes of their families.
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  Speaker 1: And this is the point. Not only their fortunes, but
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  Speaker 1: their lives depend on their own ability to earn money
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  Speaker 1: for their bosses. With that, gangsters win and lose at life. Accordingly,
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  Speaker 1: nobody likes a loser. Frank Sinatra especially didn't like losers.
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  Speaker 1: Mafia bosses like losers. Even less Frank Sinatra was a winner,
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  Speaker 1: a winning bet. The mafia bet big on Frank at
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  Speaker 1: the beginning of his career. The mob was in early
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  Speaker 1: on Sinatra, grooming him for stardom, before anyone would give
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  Speaker 1: the poor son of a broken down boxer and illegal
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  Speaker 1: abortionist a chance. When it mattered most, the mafia used
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  Speaker 1: violence to clear the way for Frank and to cash
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  Speaker 1: in for themselves. There is a popular myth in our
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  Speaker 1: culture because Frank Sinatra's parents owned a bar in Hoboken,
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  Speaker 1: New Jersey, where known members of the Jersey and New
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  Speaker 1: York Mob hung out, that Frank made friends with some
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  Speaker 1: unsavory characters back in the day, and that this experience
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  Speaker 1: rubbed off on young Frank, and that's where Frank got
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  Speaker 1: his wanta be tough guy attitude. It's an attitude that
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  Speaker 1: many in Hollywood would joke about, an attitude that those
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  Speaker 1: who knew Frank best excused because of his immense fame,
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  Speaker 1: an attitude that has been reported to be nothing more
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  Speaker 1: than that, just an attitude. Frank flew off the handle sometimes.
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  Speaker 2: Sure, but that's just Frank.
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  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, Frank's got some tough guy friends. But hey,
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  Speaker 1: the night club business is a tough business.
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  Speaker 2: What do you expect.
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  Speaker 1: The entertainment world was run by the mob. Most entertainers
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  Speaker 1: came in contact with gangsters. Frank's okay, Frank fancies himself
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  Speaker 1: a tough guy, like the tough guys he grew up with. Sure,
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  Speaker 1: but Frank's just to wanna be. However, the reality was
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  Speaker 1: Frank Sinatra wasn't just to wannabe. Frank Sinatra, without being
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  Speaker 1: an official made man, was not just friends with some
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  Speaker 1: tough guys from back in the neighborhood. Frank Sinatra was
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  Speaker 1: himself very much a gangster. Frank Sinatra held the woman
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  Speaker 1: by the neck up against the wall. He was so
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  Speaker 1: angry he didn't realize he had her feet off the floor.
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  Speaker 1: His rage was blinding at this moment. He didn't even
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  Speaker 1: remember what she had done. But all that Jack Daniels,
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  Speaker 1: Frank couldn't not get what he wanted. He was Frank
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  Speaker 1: the Voice Sinatra. Charlie Lucky Luciano never had to wait,
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  Speaker 1: and I never said no to Richie the Bupboyardo. Why
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  Speaker 1: did this half assed showgirl think she could disrespect him?
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  Speaker 1: Through the plateglass window she went, and Frank didn't care
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  Speaker 1: who saw it, didn't care even if the President of
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  Speaker 1: the United States, his brother in law, the actor Peter Lawford,
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  Speaker 1: husband of Patricia Kennedy, saw it. Peter later went on
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  Speaker 1: record with this story about Frank and the working girl
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  Speaker 1: in the plate glass window and fuck Peter and fuck
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  Speaker 1: his wife too, which Frank figured he would likely do
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  Speaker 1: again at some point. Sleeping with the President's sister only
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  Speaker 1: further embedded Frank inside Camelot, which was a relationship Frank
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  Speaker 1: Sinatra cared about almost as much as his relationship with
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  Speaker 1: the mov or the Boys as he called him. Peter
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  Speaker 1: Lawford wasn't the only one flapping his gums. Sammy Davis
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  Speaker 1: Junior talked to a Chicago radio station in the sixties
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  Speaker 1: and had the nerve to tell a DJ that quote,
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  Speaker 1: I love Frank, but talent is not an excuse for
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  Speaker 1: bad manners. I don't care if you are the most
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  Speaker 1: talented person in the world. It does not give you
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  Speaker 1: the right to step on people and treat them rotten.
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  Speaker 1: This is what he does occasionally end quote in Chicago.
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  Speaker 1: Sammy said this on a Chicago radio station in sam
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  Speaker 1: Momo g and Cona's town. Frank couldn't have this. Frank
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  Speaker 1: was just as indebted to g and Coana now in
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  Speaker 1: the early nineteen sixties as he'd been indebted back in
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  Speaker 1: nineteen forty six to Gi and Conna's then boss Tonyacardo,
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  Speaker 1: the former bodyguard for al Capone.
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  Speaker 2: But back in.
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  Speaker 1: Nineteen forty six, al Capone was dying of syphlis in Miami,
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  Speaker 1: just two hundred miles away from Cuba, where Capone Chicago
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  Speaker 1: was being represented by his cousins Rocco and Charles Facchetti.
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  Speaker 1: At this moment in nineteen forty six, those two gentlemen
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  Speaker 1: were on a plane seated next to Frank Sinatra, who
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  Speaker 1: had a bag at his feet that was stuffed with
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  Speaker 1: cash and a thirty two revolver. All the boys knew
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  Speaker 1: the Facchetti cousins, and everyone knew Frank Sinatra big star,
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  Speaker 1: that he was back in forty six, and that was
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  Speaker 1: the genius of using Frank as the bagman. No one
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  Speaker 1: was going to search Frank Sinatra upon landing at Rancho
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  Speaker 1: Boiro's airport that December weekend among a flood of American mobs,
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  Speaker 1: soldiers and bosses, Vito Genoviz, Frank Costello, Albert Anastasia, Joe Bonano,
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  Speaker 1: Santo Trafficante Senior, and Carlos Marcello among them. The so
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  Speaker 1: called Havana Conference was set up in part to pay
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  Speaker 1: tribute to Charlie Luciano. Thus, the Bag of Money and
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  Speaker 1: the Havana Conference was set up so Luciano and his
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  Speaker 1: partner Mayer Lanski could entice other crime bosses to invest
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  Speaker 1: in Havana's casinos. Cuban leadership, particularly the former president and
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  Speaker 1: military dictator Flagencio Battista, was beyond corrupt and they had
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  Speaker 1: sold the country out to American mob interests. Havana was
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  Speaker 1: one hundred percent owned by Luciano and Lanski, and now
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  Speaker 1: Luciano and Lanski were opening it up for business. That weekend.
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  Speaker 1: There would be all manner of entertainment for the US gangsters, showgirls, prostitutes,
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  Speaker 1: floor shows, depraved acts of beastiality, whatever they desired, and
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  Speaker 1: of course a private performance by the biggest star on
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  Speaker 1: the planet at the time, their own Frank Sinatra. After
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  Speaker 1: his performance, the very much married Frank Sinatra settled into
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  Speaker 1: his suite at the Hotel Nacional with his girlfriend for
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  Speaker 1: the weekend, a Laura Gooding. When A Laura awoke after
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  Speaker 1: they had sex, she heard a loud banging outside. Out
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  Speaker 1: the window. From beyond the terrace, she saw two guards
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  Speaker 1: sprinting straight for the room. What would they carrying, Frank,
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  Speaker 1: get up, they have guns. They're coming to kill us.
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  Speaker 1: Frank sprung out of bed and went for his thirty two.
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  Speaker 1: The guards were now at the door, yelling in Spanish,
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  Speaker 1: and A Laura grabbed the rifle they had in the
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  Speaker 1: room for extra protection, and there was more yelling and
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  Speaker 1: in a language A Laura did not understand. A Laura
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  Speaker 1: pointed the rifle and fired. One guard fell dead on
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  Speaker 1: the spot. Then another shot, this one from behind the guards,
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  Speaker 1: This one from the pistol of a hotel security man
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  Speaker 1: sprinting toward the clusterfuck in Frank sinatra suite. A clusterfuck
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  Speaker 1: just made worse due to the fact that the second
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  Speaker 1: shot killed the other guard at the door. It all
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  Speaker 1: happened before Frank's eyes had time to focus. He turned
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  Speaker 1: to his date, You killed that guy, A Laura protested,
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  Speaker 1: they were coming to kill us. They had guns. Frank
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  Speaker 1: looked down at the bloody mess and the door. Those
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  Speaker 1: weren't guns. Those were walkie talkies. The event was not
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  Speaker 1: sorted out by local lawmen, attorneys, or judges. Justice was
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  Speaker 1: not sought or served. Frank never called the cops or
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  Speaker 1: his lawyer back in New York. Instead, Frank's gangster buddy
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  Speaker 1: sent a Lord Gooding home quietly to the States. While
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  Speaker 1: mafia controlled Cuban soldiers cleaned up the mess. Frank Sinatra
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  Speaker 1: went about his business that weekend, reveling in the festivities,
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  Speaker 1: secure in the fact that the mafia wasn't going to
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  Speaker 1: let anything. Is insignificant as a couple of dead Cubans
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  Speaker 1: submarine their investment in Havana, or in their investment in
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  Speaker 1: one of their top earners, him Frank the Voice Sinatra.
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  Speaker 1: They say that in the mafia, you're only as good
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  Speaker 1: as your next envelope, meaning you're valued only by how
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  Speaker 1: much money you earn for your boss. Mafia's soldiers don't
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  Speaker 1: earn salaries. They make their money criminally, and they pay
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  Speaker 1: a portion of that money regularly to their bosses as tribute.
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  Speaker 1: In return, the boss protects them from other violent mobsters
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  Speaker 1: and provides resources to help them commit their crimes. That's
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  Speaker 1: the deal. It's that simple. Frank Sinatra was a special case.
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  Speaker 1: He wasn't good with a gun. He wasn't a hit man,
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  Speaker 1: wasn't a safecracker or a second story man. Wasn't an arsonist,
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  Speaker 1: extortionist or bookmaker, all standard mafia occupations. Frank Sinatra was
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  Speaker 1: none of these things. Frank was a song and dance man.
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  Speaker 1: But just because Frank Sinatra's talent wasn't inherently criminal, it
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  Speaker 1: didn't mean Frank Sinatra didn't make money for the mob.
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  Speaker 1: He did. Frank Sinatra didn't just make money for the
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  Speaker 1: mob because they were frends he knew from back in
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  Speaker 1: the old neighborhood, guys who may or may not have
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  Speaker 1: exploited him to act out of some sense of a
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  Speaker 1: childhood loyalty or otherwise. No, Frank Sinatra did favors for
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  Speaker 1: the mob, and he earned for the mob because, for
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  Speaker 1: all intents and purposes, Frank Sinatra was in the Mob.
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  Speaker 1: I realize how ridiculous this sounds, but hear me out.
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  Speaker 1: Mafia soldiers unmade men. They don't create a resume and
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  Speaker 1: sit down for job interviews with prospective mob families to
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  Speaker 1: obtain their jobs. Instead, they come up through the ranks
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  Speaker 1: in their respective neighborhoods organically. Maybe a connected guide does
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  Speaker 1: a favor for a made guy, and the rising hoodlum
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  Speaker 1: pays him back with a favor of his own, and
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  Speaker 1: thus a bond is created. Further crimes are committed, and
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  Speaker 1: naturally the rising hood is given more opportunity until he
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  Speaker 1: finds himself in the actual employ of the mob, providing
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  Speaker 1: and collecting favors and now protection and in return earning
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  Speaker 1: regularly for himself and for his new boss. It's a
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  Speaker 1: documented fact that the Mafia financed Frank Sinatra's early career.
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  Speaker 1: They gave him cash for headshots, new suits, even walking
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  Speaker 1: around money. And in exchange for these favors, Frank Sinatra
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  Speaker 1: performed for the Mafiosi, first in his parents Hoboken saloon
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  Speaker 1: where they hung out, and eventually in their nightclubs and
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  Speaker 1: on their touring circuits. And it is widely accepted as fact,
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  Speaker 1: basically admitted by Sinatra himself, that in nineteen forty two,
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  Speaker 1: the mob sent William Aready to pay a visit to
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  Speaker 1: band leader Tommy Dorsey's home because Dorsey was preventing Frank
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  Speaker 1: Sinatra from making money. Dorsey had signed Sinatra to a
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  Speaker 1: bad contract, a contract that granted the band leader the
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  Speaker 1: rights to one third of all of Frank's earnings for
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  Speaker 1: the rest of his life. William already put a gun
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  Speaker 1: too Dorsey's head, and if you believe the dramatization of
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  Speaker 1: the story, and the Godfather said to Dorsey, either your
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  Speaker 1: brains or your signature is going to be on that contract.
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  Speaker 1: Dorsey of course signed, releasing Frank Sinatra from his contract.
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  Speaker 1: As far as severed horseheads and the beds of movie moguls.
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  Speaker 1: That's a bigger blurrier dramatization. But again, as it pertains
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  Speaker 1: to Frank Sinatra's gangster bona fides, the outline of the
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  Speaker 1: story is true. But despite such protection, by the late
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  Speaker 1: nineteen forties, Frank's career was in serious jeopardy. Hollywood wanted
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  Speaker 1: nothing to do with him. He damaged his voice, he
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  Speaker 1: lost his recording contract, his relationship with actress Ava Gardner
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  Speaker 1: was a tabloid nightmare, and he was suddenly considered a
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  Speaker 1: has been. So once again, Willie Moretti stepped in to
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  Speaker 1: protect the mafia's investment. Frank wanted the role of Private
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  Speaker 1: Maggio in the new film in production at Columbia Pictures
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  Speaker 1: From Here to Eternity, and Moretti made sure Columbia studio
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  Speaker 1: boss Harry Cohne gave.
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  Speaker 2: It to him.
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  Speaker 1: We cover the specifics of this crime in our part
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  Speaker 1: one episode on Frank Sinatra. Needless to say, Frank got
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  Speaker 1: his way. The film was a hit, Sinatra won an
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  Speaker 1: Oscar for Best Supporting Actor, and just like that, his
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  Speaker 1: career was back in business. Now did Frank Sinatra pay
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  Speaker 1: a weekly tribute to the mob like other Mafia soldiers. No,
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  Speaker 1: there's no evidence of them. But part of the deal
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  Speaker 1: when you're in the mafia is answering when your boss's
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  Speaker 1: call and going to work when they tell you to.
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  Speaker 1: And there's plenty of evidence suggesting that the Mafia had
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  Speaker 1: Frank Sinatra on speed dial, and that when the boys
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  Speaker 1: said jump, Frank gassed to the moon or higher. You
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  Speaker 1: tell me, we'll be right back after this. We're we're, we're.
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  Speaker 1: Given the volatile political situation in Cuba, the Mafia hedged
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  Speaker 1: their bets by building a second gambling empire, this one
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  Speaker 1: in Las Vegas, Nevada. They invested millions at a time
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  Speaker 1: when that really meant something. Frank Sinatra was asked to
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  Speaker 1: use his star power to attract other entertainers and thus gamblers,
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  Speaker 1: to the mob's new playground in Las Vegas, and Frank
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  Speaker 1: did just that. Once Cuba fell to Castro in nineteen
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  Speaker 1: fifty nine and the Mafia lost their Havana casinos, Las
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  Speaker 1: Vegas became even more important to the mob's interests. Years before,
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  Speaker 1: Frank Sinatra had been asked to become a partner in
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  Speaker 1: a mob run establishment, a star like Frank with an
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  Speaker 1: ownership stake in a Vegas hotel and casino guaranteed big
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  Speaker 1: bucks for the bosses and somehow, despite being in major
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  Speaker 1: debt to the irs. In the early nineteen fifties, Frank
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  Speaker 1: Sinatra was allowed by the Nevada State Gaming Board to
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  Speaker 1: invest in the Sands Hotel and Casino and retain a
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  Speaker 1: seven and a half percent ownership piece. Mob boss Frank
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  Speaker 1: Costello was the majority owner and Mayer Lansky, Joe Adonis,
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  Speaker 1: and Tonyakardo from Chicago. Sam g and Kanna's boss at
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  Speaker 1: the time also owned stakes. In October nineteen fifty three,
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  Speaker 1: Sinatra performed at the opening of the Sands and he
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  Speaker 1: packed him in. The casino. Hotel was off the ground
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  Speaker 1: and running, and Sinatra was thus earning for the mob
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  Speaker 1: big time.
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  Speaker 2: The Mob called.
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  Speaker 1: Upon Frank again, this time in nineteen sixty and Frank
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  Speaker 1: won once again came running. They wanted Frank to be
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  Speaker 1: part of another hotel and casino ownership group. This one
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  Speaker 1: was on the California Nevada state line, in existing but
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: financially failing establishment called the cal Neva. Frank's celebrity could
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: infuse new life into the joint. Along with Frank, Sam
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: G and Katta who by then was the Boss of
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: Chicago and one of the most prominent mafia leaders in
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: the country, owned a massive stake in the hotel. The
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: cow Nev was a big hit on opening night. In
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: attendance were not only Sinatra and g and Kanna, but
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: also the former United States Ambassador to the United Kingdom
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: and one time mob bootlegger Joseph P. Kennedy and his son,
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: the US Senator and presidential candidate John F. Kennedy, along
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  Speaker 1: with his date, the most famous woman in the world
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: at the time, Marilyn Monroe. Handsome Johnny Rosselli was there too,
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: of course, as were the FBI surveillance agents assembling what
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: would become, over the US years, the biggest FBI file
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: on any entertainer in history, and that entertainer was, of course,
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  Speaker 1: Frank Sinatra. Just take a minute to appreciate this astonishing scene.
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  Speaker 1: You have one of the richest men in the world,
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: Joseph P. Kennedy, a former ambassador, who by the way,
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: was there with a date, not his wife. At the
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: same party, you have his son, a senator, and a
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: man who at that time had a massive national profile
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: because he was running to become the next president and
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: he's married, and he's there at the same party with
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: his dad, who's with his mistress, and he JFK is
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: there with a date even though he's married too, and
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: his date is literally the most recognizable woman on the planet,
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: Marilyn fucking Monroe. And the room is stacked full of
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: known gangsters. Sam g and Kanta, by that point, was
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: such a notorious criminal that he wasn't allowed to enter
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: any casino throughout the state of Nevada. Wile Neva was
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: built on the state line and the structure straddled both states.
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: Giancanna was forced to stay on the California side. Only
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: this was not a secret. The gangsters, the corrupt former ambassador,
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: the adulterous and brazen senator, the glamorous movie star mistress
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: with Frank Sinatra at the center of it all, and
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: the FBI listening and snapping picks. Sinatra's friend, the ruthless killer.
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: Sam g and Kanna had something else in common with
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: Senator Kennedy. They shared a girlfriend knowing me with a
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: woman named Judith Exner. Sam g and kanno wileye mafiosa
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: that he was knew that he would one day be
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: able to leverage exner against jfk A man Giancanna was
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: going to make the president of the United States with
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: the help of Frank Sinatra. Just like the story of
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: the mafia freeing Sinatra from Tommy Dorsey's contract by making
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: the band leader an offer he couldn't refuse. We've come
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: to accept fact that Joseph P. Kennedy cheated his son's
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: way into the White House by using Frank Sinatra as
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: an intermediary between the Kennedy campaign and the Mafia, and
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: the g and Kanna fraudulently impacted the vote to help
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: the Kennedys, first in the Democratic primary in West Virginia
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: and then in the general election in Illinois. We look
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: upon this story now as both a fact and as
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: acute sly little historical anecdote. No serious historian disputes it.
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: Yet today any mention of electoral fraud sends people on
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: both sides of the political spectrum into online hysterics. But again,
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: we take it as gospel that the Democratic nominee used
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: the mafia to cheat his way into the White House
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: with the help of our man, Frank Sinatra. We accept
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: it because it's demonstrably true. Because that's how much power
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: the mafia had. Back in nineteen sixty, John F. Kennedy
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: became president and Sam g and Kanna and Frank Sinatra
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: put him in the White House. Yet the president's brother,
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: who is now the Attorney General, Robert F. Kennedy, the
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: most powerful law enforcement officer in the country, would not
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: stop his crusade to destroy Giancanna and the mafia. And
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: RFK wouldn't stop because the FBI's j Edgar Hoover played
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: RFK a recorded phone conversation between his brother, the married president,
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: and his girlfriend, who was also sam g and Kanna's girlfriend.
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: That conversation was recorded on a phone call that Judith
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: Exner made to JFK from sam g and Kanna's house.
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: As far as Bobby Kennedy was concerned, sam g and
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: Kanna had to go. It was jail or bust, and
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: Frank Sinatra he was out as well.
• 26:52
  Speaker 2: The President was, per his.
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: Brother's instructions, under no circumstances, allowed to carry on his
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: friendship with Frank Sinatra. Frank Sinatra was too close to
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: sam Gy and Kanna. Frank was two gangster, but Frank
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: wouldn't be denied. Frank couldn't be denied. Frank needed his
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: relationship with the President so that he could remain in
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: place as a conduit between the President and the mafia
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: and thus remain in good standing with Sam G and Kanna.
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: You're only as good as your next envelope. But again,
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: Bobby Kennedy wasn't having it. Bobby Kennedy increased his pressure
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: on the mob. More surveillance, more subpoenas, more arrests, more
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: deportations of mob bosses. Sam G and Kanna wanted to
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: know where the Kennedy kids got their balls. Gi and
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: Kanna got them elected, and now they betrayed him. The Kennedys,
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: once elected, were supposed to put the mob back into Havana,
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: not into prison, which is what RFK was coming dangerously
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: close to doing. Sinatra was Gi and Kanna's only hope.
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: The mafia had given Frank so much, and now the
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: mafia really needed something from Frank. They needed Sinatra to
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: get the Kennedys to back off. Frank tried, but Frank
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: was out. So Frank threw a hail Mary. Frank invited
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: President Kennedy to his Palm Springs home for some much
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: needed R and R. JFK loved Frank's Palm Springs pat
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: It was private and filled with beautiful women. It's where
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: JFK first slept with Marilyn Monroe. JFK said, yes, he
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: was coming to Frank's and Frank was going to save
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: the day. He talked to Jack, get Jack to talk
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: to Bobby to back off Sam and the boys. Frank
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: built new quarters on his property for the Secret Service.
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: Frank had a helipad installed. Frank spared no expense, and
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: then Frank got ghosted by the President at the last minute.
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: Bobby had prevailed, making matters worse. JFK still went to
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: Palm Springs, but he stayed at Bing Crosby's place. Bing
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: was Frank's rival on the charts and worse a Republican.
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: The humiliation, Frank Sinatra was out and Sam g and
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: Kanna was pissed. Frank had no juice, Bobby Kennedy was
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: on a war path. Sam and the rest of the
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: boys had no choice, and John F. Kennedy was now dead.
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: From Washington government sources say that President Kennedy is dead.
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: Sixteen days after the mafia conspired with the CIA to
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: murder Frank Sinatra's friend, The sitting president of the United States.
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: Frank sat in his Palm Springs home, racked with grief
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: and fearing that because he'd outlived his usefulness, that the
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: mafia was going to kill him. Next that when the
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: unthinkable happened, Frank's son, Frank Sinatra Junior, was kidnapped. The
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: kidnappers weren't fucking around either. They wanted two hundred and
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: fifty thousand dollars in cash or Little Frank was about
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: to become dead. Little Frank Frank knew that in moments
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: of crisis, when you really need something taking care of
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: the right way, like that mess back in Havana with
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: the dead Cubans, when the chips are fully stacked against you,
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: your first call is your most important call. Sinatra picked
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: up the phone, and before he called his wife, before
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: we called the cops or the FBI, he dialed the
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: number of the one man he believed could help him
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: get his son home safely. Mob boss sam g and Kanna.
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: Sam g and Kanna had his ways of making men talk.
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: Most of them included Sam Mad sam Di Stefano, a
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: sadistic enforcer. But this wanna be Nevada cowboy wouldn't talk
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: the boys from the cow nev pegged him as someone
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: with info on the kidnappers. Frank Sinatra Junior, just nineteen
• 31:30
  Speaker 1: years old at that point in time, launching his own
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: career as a performer, was booked to perform at Hara's
• 31:37
  Speaker 1: Lake Tahoe Casino, about twelve miles from the CaAl Neva,
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: but instead room service. Frank Sinatra Junior opened the door
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: to his hotel room and found himself staring down the
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: barrel of a gun in his face on the fucking ground.
• 31:55
  Speaker 1: Within seconds, two intruders had Frank Junior blindfolded and bound.
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: They escorted him out of the hotel at gunpoint, remarkably
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: without any other hotel guests noticing, and whisked him away
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: in their Chevy and Paula. In Chicago, sam Gy and
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: Kanna dispatched Jimmy the Weasel Fratiano to get to the
• 32:17
  Speaker 1: bottom of where Frank the Voice Sinatra's kid was being held.
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: The weasel turned up this cowboy, and now mad sam
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: de Stefano wanted to know if the cowboy preferred the
• 32:27
  Speaker 1: ice pick or the blowtorch. The cowboy cowboyed up the blowtorch.
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: It was the cowboys screamed in agony. Back in Palm Springs,
• 32:40
  Speaker 1: Frank Sinatra was understandably getting antsy. It had been nearly
• 32:43
  Speaker 1: eighteen hours since Junior had been kidnapped, The local authorities
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: hadn't turned up any leads, and g and Conna's boys
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: weren't doing much better. The cowboy felt the ice pick
• 32:55
  Speaker 1: Pierce's skin above his kneecap, and he screamed in horror. Still,
• 33:00
  Speaker 1: he didn't give anything up. By this time, Franken decided
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: to fly out to Reno himself to help in search.
• 33:07
  Speaker 1: Frank needed further assurance that his son was going to
• 33:09
  Speaker 1: be returned safely. Frank hedged his bet, and when Frank landed,
• 33:14
  Speaker 1: he immediately went to the FBI to their makeshift command
• 33:18
  Speaker 1: center to help the FEDS in their efforts. Frank felt
• 33:21
  Speaker 1: he couldn't count entirely on Sam g and Conna. Mad
• 33:27
  Speaker 1: Sam de Stefano switched from the ice pick to something
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: more convincing. He laid the beaten cowboy down on the
• 33:34
  Speaker 1: table and put his head in the vice, And while
• 33:36
  Speaker 1: the cowboy urinated all over himself in fear, one of
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: Mad Sam's musclemen swung a sledgehammer at his ankle and
• 33:43
  Speaker 1: sent his foot into an ungodly forty five degree angle.
• 33:47
  Speaker 1: This time, there was no scream. This time, the pain
• 33:52
  Speaker 1: was so brutal the cowboy can only hop out short
• 33:54
  Speaker 1: breaths of air and uncontrolled bursts. Meanwhile, over in Reno,
• 34:01
  Speaker 1: the kidnappers had made contact. They demanded a quarter million
• 34:05
  Speaker 1: in cash in Palm Springs. Frank's instincts kicked him. Ever,
• 34:10
  Speaker 1: the gangster Frank called on his bag man experience and
• 34:13
  Speaker 1: brought a bundle of cash with him. On the FBI's recommendation,
• 34:17
  Speaker 1: Frank put two hundred and fifty thousand dollars in a suitcase.
• 34:21
  Speaker 1: Frank was understandably anxious, as was Mad Sam. The cowboy
• 34:26
  Speaker 1: wouldn't talk. The cowboy wouldn't give up the whereabouts of
• 34:29
  Speaker 1: Sam g and Kana's friend, Frank Sinatra's kid. The cowboy
• 34:33
  Speaker 1: wants to be a fucking cowboy. Time then for the
• 34:37
  Speaker 1: cattle prod. Mad Sam had his own portable prod customized
• 34:44
  Speaker 1: for occasions just like this. The voltage was calibrated for
• 34:48
  Speaker 1: maximum pain, but not enough to kill. First, he placed
• 34:53
  Speaker 1: the PROD on the cowboys eyelids. The cowboys defiance was impressive.
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: Then the inner thigh. The cowboy pleaded for Mad Sam
• 35:04
  Speaker 1: to stop. He knew what the next stop on the
• 35:06
  Speaker 1: torture trail was, the genitals, but still he gave Mad
• 35:11
  Speaker 1: Sam nothing other than pleading in defiance. So Sam had
• 35:17
  Speaker 1: no choice. The Proude hit the cowboys testicles with five
• 35:22
  Speaker 1: millilamps of current and two thousand watts, and still the
• 35:26
  Speaker 1: near dead motherfucker gave up nothing. When Frank Sinatra hit
• 35:35
  Speaker 1: the location for the drop back in Reno, everything went hooey.
• 35:40
  Speaker 1: The kidnappers got antsy and split with Frank Sinatra Junior
• 35:43
  Speaker 1: down to La. Frank knew Giancana had nothing, and Frank
• 35:48
  Speaker 1: began to suspect that Giancana himself was behind the kidnapping.
• 35:52
  Speaker 1: A warning to Frank to keep his mouth shut about
• 35:54
  Speaker 1: the Kennedy assassination, Frank had no choice. He needed to
• 35:59
  Speaker 1: call in the big gun. To do so, he first
• 36:03
  Speaker 1: called Peter Lawford. Frank knew he couldn't call Peter's wife,
• 36:07
  Speaker 1: Patricia Kennedy directly, he was still persona non grato with
• 36:11
  Speaker 1: the Kennedys, but he knew he could get his friend
• 36:14
  Speaker 1: Peter Lawford to get a word in with his wife,
• 36:17
  Speaker 1: and he knew that there was a chance that Peter's
• 36:19
  Speaker 1: wife would think of Frank Fondley after the time they'd
• 36:21
  Speaker 1: spent together, and thus there was a chance that she
• 36:24
  Speaker 1: would call her brother, the Attorney General of the United States,
• 36:28
  Speaker 1: the man who controlled the FBI, Sam g and Kanna's
• 36:32
  Speaker 1: mortal enemy, Robert F. Kennedy. That's exactly what happened, and
• 36:38
  Speaker 1: despite whatever animists Bobby had toward Frank, Bobby pledged to
• 36:43
  Speaker 1: use his power to help Frank get his son back.
• 36:46
  Speaker 1: The message came back to Sinatra from RFK through Patricia
• 36:49
  Speaker 1: and then through Peter Lawford, and it was this, I
• 36:53
  Speaker 1: know how Frank feels about me, but please tell him
• 36:56
  Speaker 1: everything is being done and we'll get his boy back
• 36:58
  Speaker 1: as soon as possible. While g and Conna's man finished
• 37:05
  Speaker 1: off the cowboy by impaneling him with a meathook through
• 37:07
  Speaker 1: the rectum, and while g and Conna's other men tortured
• 37:11
  Speaker 1: and killed two more street Tufts that they incorrectly suspected
• 37:15
  Speaker 1: had information on the whereabouts of Frank Sinatra, Junior Bobby
• 37:20
  Speaker 1: Kennedy flooded Reno in Los Angeles with more FBI agents.
• 37:24
  Speaker 1: He ordered roadblocks at the borders of the state and
• 37:27
  Speaker 1: random police checkpoints throughout California and Nevada. Bobby put the
• 37:32
  Speaker 1: word out no one was going home until Frank Sinatra
• 37:36
  Speaker 1: got his son back. While the search continued, Bobby eventually
• 37:41
  Speaker 1: called Frank himself to further assure him everything would be okay,
• 37:46
  Speaker 1: and he was right. Three dipshits, two of whom were
• 37:50
  Speaker 1: former high school classmates of Frank's daughter Nancy, eventually arrived
• 37:54
  Speaker 1: at a separate drop point, this one in La to
• 37:57
  Speaker 1: pick up the rantsom money. This time, the money was
• 38:00
  Speaker 1: delivered by Bobby Kennedy's g men, not by Frank Sinatra
• 38:04
  Speaker 1: the bag man. With the money in hand, the kidnappers
• 38:09
  Speaker 1: freed Frank Sinatra Junior. Within forty eight hours, all three
• 38:13
  Speaker 1: kidnappers were arrested. Frank Sinatra did something that a lot
• 38:20
  Speaker 1: of gangsters do when they're cornered, when their mafia families
• 38:23
  Speaker 1: can't help them. He went to the FEDS for help.
• 38:28
  Speaker 1: When sam Gy and Kanna came up with Bupkis, Frank
• 38:31
  Speaker 1: cooperated with the government. Sure he didn't rat anyone out,
• 38:36
  Speaker 1: but he did do with some MAFIOSI would consider unthinkable,
• 38:40
  Speaker 1: something that many many gangsters have been forced to do
• 38:43
  Speaker 1: or otherwise face unthinkable truths, life in prison, the death penalty,
• 38:50
  Speaker 1: two fates almost as bad as losing a child. It's
• 38:54
  Speaker 1: hard to blame Frank, but then again, you and I
• 38:58
  Speaker 1: aren't gangsters. Justice wasn't doled out by Sam Giancanna, but
• 39:03
  Speaker 1: by the US court system. Barry Keenan, the ringleader of
• 39:08
  Speaker 1: the kidnapping caper, got life in prison. He served four
• 39:12
  Speaker 1: and a half years. Joe Amsler, the dumber of Barry's accomplices,
• 39:17
  Speaker 1: caught a seventy five year sentence. He served three and
• 39:20
  Speaker 1: a half years. John Irwin, the most cooperative of the three,
• 39:24
  Speaker 1: got sixteen years. Ultimately he served less than two. But
• 39:30
  Speaker 1: three other men who had absolutely nothing to do with
• 39:33
  Speaker 1: the kidnapping were tortured and killed by Sam Momo g
• 39:37
  Speaker 1: and Coana on behalf of his friend Frank the Voice Sinatra.
• 39:42
  Speaker 1: No doubt, Giancanna shook this off as no big deal.
• 39:46
  Speaker 1: It was amongst the Italians. He was helping out a friend,
• 39:51
  Speaker 1: helping out a fellow gangster, which was, without a doubt,
• 39:56
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