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May 2024
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Episode 160: Frank Morano - Mafia Journ...

Jeff Nadu
About this episode
On this podcast our goal has always been to bring you interviews from the world of organized crime. Today we do that again, we welcome on radio host and Mafia journalist Frank Morano, who hosts a terrific show called "The Racket Report." We discussed many things about his start as a journalist coming up in Staten Island, the RICO act. his relationship with the Gotti family and his interviewing both John Jr Gotti and Victoria Gotti, John Gotti's wife. 

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