Pittsburgh Mob Stories - Episode 266
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- Опубликовано: 10 сен 2024
- Retired Intelligence Detective Gary Jenkins brings you the best in mob history with his unique perception of the mafia. Gary interviews Paul Hodos, author of Steel City Mafia: Blood Betrayal and Pittsburgh's Last Don. Starting with the bombing of mob associate Paul Hankish, this is a story of Mafia life in Steel City. #mafia #mobster #gangster
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Superb conversation. One of your most interesting guests.
@@Avital4414 thank you.
Thank you Gary! Another wonderful interview.
This is the second interview I have seen with Paul Hodos and I am looking forward to purchasing his book and reading it. I find these small OC family histories so interesting.
It’s a good book.
Lefty Ruggiero made a great joke in prison calling hankish.. "not a stand up guy" lol...
What a terrific show with Paul Hodos that touched on your previous podcasts as well as discussing important names for the location & era. Thank you so much guys! I will spend this weekend running down the links associated with the names, Casey
Thanks Casey, this was an interesting story about a little known family
They had a lot of mod families in steubenville ohio too
Great guest and show.
From Pittsburgh n still here..very interesting. Gna order the book
Thanks Bruno!
It ended up being a small family in the end, but interestingly enough, around the end of Prohibition, when the family absorbed all of the different factions in the area, they were around 70 made members. There's a lot of nuance around the family.
The Mob Archeologists just released a 4 hr discussion about the Camorra from Naples and Calabria and their influence in the American mob, very interesting, before the ndrangheta, there was camorra society in Calabria, I recommend everyone who is interested in the Genealogy of the American Mob to watch the Mob Archeologists.
@@randythesavage1105 Jason does have a lot of good and accurate information.
Wheeling had the biggest red light district in the usa til the late 60 when the town got bsted and cleaned up there act
West Virginia hillbilly? Have you ever been to Wheeling? It's a shell of itself now, but it was a Rust Belt steel town like Youngstown, Ohio or Johnstown, Pennsylvania. The base population was German and Irish, not Scots-Irish and Scottish hillbilly stock. Chester, WV is actually north of Pittsburgh.
Paul's book is first rate, though.
Car dealerships in Westmoreland county distributed 🫡
When is Steve st John coming back on the show Gary!?
Well I will ask him. He travels a lot. But I will ask.
He would be a fascinating guy to meet
Do you have any stories or any contacts with stories about the IRA? You know the IRA were getting so much support from Americans in the 70s 80s and 90s and I've always wondered specifically who and how. I know Whitey Bulger and people around Boston but I would imagine they had to had support from other people all over the country.
Another interesting story. I’ll have to see if anything is available for research.
@@GaryJenkinsMafiaDetective I was telling one of the other commenters. You don't really hear much about Irish gangsters except for Whitey Bulger Boston and the Westies New York. There has to be so many more all over the country you just don't hear about them.
@@caseyaylward8853 I would think so, but we don't see much except about the Westies. In KC, our Irish were closely connected to our first political boss, Tom Pendergast. In St. Louis, I noticed there was a gang called Egans Rats. I need to look and see if I can do a story on them. Some of them contracted out to Al Capone, and a guy named Killer Burke was found in possession of one of the machine guns used in the St. Valentine's Day Massacre. Of course, they had a famous bootlegger in Chicago named Dion O'Banion, but the Italians killed him pretty early. Interestingly, one of the early KC political families connected to Pendergast was the Alyward family. I remember a judge named Alyward when I was a cop.
Who are the O'Donalds from Ireland? Never heard of them. That might be a cool story
I’ll take a look. Not sure.
Gary was just using that as a general example when the guest was explaining that Michael and Vito Genovese were not related. Not all Irish people with the same last name are related either. Could have been any common Irish last name.
@@ebtyler Haha Im an idiot. Watched it over and your absolutely right. You never really hear much about Irish gangsters except Bulger and the Westies. I know there has to be good stories from all over the country.
@@caseyaylward8853 it happens to the best of us!😂
Definitely some Irish in Chicago and then the Westies in NY too. Interesting topic.
I just bought this book. I can't wait to read it. Was it a coincidence that Chuck was his by a garbage truck after he got out?
I don’t know but an unusual coincidence
@@GaryJenkinsMafiaDetective interesting fun fact about CP is that while he was in McKean the NY guys said he was an informant. They never produced any docs. A couple of well known guys were "hard checked" over it. It turns out they were right. Thier lack of paperwork saved CP
@@michaelmarchese that is interesting Saved by the Lack of Paper Verification?
@@GaryJenkinsMafiaDetective yes had there been more than the word of someone then he would have been handled I mean he went to trial and was doing 28. Who could call him a informant without documentation without more than the word of some snotty NYOC guy the only one to get punished would be the the accuser. CP was older and in bad health so he would not be the one to do the work.
I got the book and it was ok. It highlighted most of the known stuff in newspapers. Basically covered the Porter underboss Era. The assessment that the PennHills Italians weren't loyal is laid out pretty good. Penn Hills is the area that Italians from Larimer wanted to move to. It was a sign of making it. The next level is across the river to fox chapel or a move to the South Hills where Tony Grosso lived in Mt. Lebanon. I asked about the death of MG younger brother, which is in the book, and the kid who shot him. Yes he was a little nutty, but wanted to be a gangster. The teasing he got wasn't that he was a punk or anything like that. He wasn't being bullied. He wanted in and he would always ask what had to be done to get in and he was told that you had to kill someone, so he did. In his mind he was getting made. When I asked about NTB being holed up in his house he didn't remember that but wasn't surprised because he couldn't fight and frankly he was shocked to hear that Nick rose through the ranks the way he did as he was not a legit tough guy. His brother was said to be good with his hands. Side note about Nick. He did things his way. For better or worse and took the consequences for it. Like him or not he did his time day for day. He was first person sentenced under the new law where you do 85% of 28years. Nick did his time and died shortly after release.
Who is the "Pittsburgh guy" Henry Hill referred to in GoodfellaS
"Nick the Blade "Eugene Guesuille. East Liberty, Pittsburgh PA
The camp in Tionesta. Charlies Roost. I have pics
On the cover of steel city mafia book who is the tall white hair guy in the back?
Wango Capizzi with LaRocca.
@@GaryJenkinsMafiaDetective No!! The guys in handcuffs! Who is the tall white hair guy with the mustach
@@1cugine359 Anthony W. Durish, was convicted with Raucci and Porter for racketeering, conspiracy, and cocaine distribution. He was once charged with possessing over a million dollars of antique guns.
I was locked up with Chucky 00-01. He was a friend of ours and a stand up cat, tales to the contrary notwithstanding. 🦊
@@XKAHAN1 chucky was a rat. GTFOH