Milwaukee Mafia

In this episode we discuss Gus Marzullo, a character who ran a dry cleaning business that was heavily controlled by the Mafia, How deep did his mafia ties go? -- Join the Milwaukee Mafia Newsletter and get updates about the Mafia and Gavin https://milwaukeemafia.com/join-the-mailing-list/ Got a question about this episode? Email Gavin and Eric at milwaukeemafia@gmail.com Explore the Milwaukee Mafi...

In this episode we learn about some mortgage scams that the Milwaukee Mafia got involved in. -- Join the Milwaukee Mafia Newsletter and get updates about the Mafia and Gavin https://milwaukeemafia.com/join-the-mailing-list/ Got a question about this episode? Email Gavin and Eric at milwaukeemafia@gmail.com Explore the Milwaukee Mafia Wiki: https://milwaukeemafia.com/ Become part of the Family: htt...

In this episode, we touch on one of the stories that is the focal point of Gavin's book shallow Grave. A Kenosha Murder with an unsuspecting victom is murdered and dumped in a shallow grave. -- Join the Milwaukee Mafia Newsletter and get updates about the Mafia and Gavin https://milwaukeemafia.com/join-the-mailing-list/ Got a question about this episode? Email Gavin and Eric at milwaukeemafia@gmai...

In this episode we discuss the bizarre family connections between the Milwaukee and Kansas City Mafia -- Join the Milwaukee Mafia Newsletter and get updates about the Mafia and Gavin https://milwaukeemafia.com/join-the-mailing-list/ Got a question about this episode? Email Gavin and Eric at milwaukeemafia@gmail.com Explore the Milwaukee Mafia Wiki: https://milwaukeemafia.com/ Become part of the Fa...

In this episode we start coverage of the lengthy IRS/FBI Tax case against Mob Boss Frank Balistrieri. -- Join the Milwaukee Mafia Newsletter and get updates about the Mafia and Gavin https://milwaukeemafia.com/join-the-mailing-list/ Got a question about this episode? Email Gavin and Eric at milwaukeemafia@gmail.com Explore the Milwaukee Mafia Wiki: https://milwaukeemafia.com/ Become part of the Fa...

In this episode we explore the Mafias experiment with manufacturing and selling counterfeit toys. A failed experiment that could have pushed the Mafia to a new level had they suceeded -- Join the Milwaukee Mafia Newsletter and get updates about the Mafia and Gavin https://milwaukeemafia.com/join-the-mailing-list/ Got a question about this episode? Email Gavin and Eric at milwaukeemafia@gmail.com E...

In this episode we cover one of the first major bookies for the Mafia Sam Librizzi and learn about what made him different from some of the gambling characters that came before him -- Join the Milwaukee Mafia Newsletter and get updates about the Mafia and Gavin https://milwaukeemafia.com/join-the-mailing-list/ Got a question about this episode? Email Gavin and Eric at milwaukeemafia@gmail.com Expl...

To vote for Gavin and vote his book for the Rondo Awards, please email taraco@aol.com and you can learn more about Rondo Awards at the below link https://rondoaward.com/rondoaward.com/blog/ Thanks everyone for the support -- Join the Milwaukee Mafia Newsletter and get updates about the Mafia and Gavin https://milwaukeemafia.com/join-the-mailing-list/ Got a question about this episode? Email Gavin...

We conclude and see how to honored police chief of Kenosha has his career demise after his wife is checks out of the hospital. Join the Milwaukee Mafia Newsletter and get updates about the Mafia and Gavin https://milwaukeemafia.com/join-the-mailing-list/ Got a question about this episode? Email Gavin and Eric at milwaukeemafia@gmail.com Explore the Milwaukee Mafia Wiki: https://milwaukeemafia.com/...

In this episode we here the story a Police Chief of Kenosha Stanley Haukedah. Here about his rise to police chief and all his successes. Part of 2 part series in the next episode you can hear the downfall of this decorated hero. -- Got a question about this episode? Email Gavin and Eric at milwaukeemafia@gmail.com Explore the Milwaukee Mafia Wiki: https://milwaukeemafia.com/ Become part of the Fam...

I this podcast we go back to prohibition error and talk about Jack Zuta a brothel owner in northern Illinious who gets himself in some trouble and has to hide out in the Milwaukee area. But will he make it in Wisconsin or will his past catch up to him? -- Got a question about this episode? Email Gavin and Eric at milwaukeemafia@gmail.com Explore the Milwaukee Mafia Wiki: https://milwaukeemafia.com...

We complete the end of the gambling crime series dirty slots, complete with one of our characters being murdered. -- Got a question about this episode? Email Gavin and Eric at milwaukeemafia@gmail.com Explore the Milwaukee Mafia Wiki: https://milwaukeemafia.com/ Become part of the Family: https://www.patreon.com/Milwaukeemafia -- Gavin Schmitt is the leading historical expert on the mafia in Wisco...

In this session of Dirty Slots we learn about importing slot machines across, state lines and a dirty politician that looks the other way as Herman Pastuer sells the slots in states that slot machines are illegal. -- Got a question about this episode? Email Gavin and Eric at milwaukeemafia@gmail.com Explore the Milwaukee Mafia Wiki: https://milwaukeemafia.com/ Become part of the Family: https://ww...

Part 1 of a four part series where we follow some slot machine dealers from Minneapolis all the way to Cuba as the use Mafia ties to deal in the sale of jukeboxes and illegal slot machines.\ -- Got a question about this episode? Email Gavin and Eric at milwaukeemafia@gmail.com Explore the Milwaukee Mafia Wiki: https://milwaukeemafia.com/ Become part of the Family: https://www.patreon.com/Milwaukee...

In this episode, Gavin and Eric discuss a Sicilian gambler who is rumored connections with the Mob. The FBI spends extensive time investigating him to find that mob connection that most likely does not exist. -- Got a question about this episode? Email Gavin and Eric at milwaukeemafia@gmail.com Explore the Milwaukee Mafia Wiki: https://milwaukeemafia.com/ Become part of the Family: https://ww...

Gavin takes us through what we have covered so far on the timeline and where we are headed this next year. We also discuss some exciting projects that Gavin has in the works for the coming year. -- Got a question about this episode? Email Gavin and Eric at milwaukeemafia@gmail.com Explore the Milwaukee Mafia Wiki: https://milwaukeemafia.com/ Become part of the Family: https://www.patreon.com/Milwa...

In this episode we discuss a Chicago Heights Mafia Member who comes to south Milwaukee and robs a Store. We follow him back to Chicago Heights until his eventual death. -- Got a question about this episode? Email Gavin and Eric at milwaukeemafia@gmail.com Explore the Milwaukee Mafia Wiki: https://milwaukeemafia.com/ Become part of the Family: https://www.patreon.com/Milwaukeemafia -- Gavin Schmitt...

Gavin and Eric discuss how local Milwaukee Business owners assist in keeping a Mob Boss in New Orleans from being deported from the US with the help of Frank Ballisteria. -- Got a question about this episode? Email Gavin and Eric at milwaukeemafia@gmail.com Explore the Milwaukee Mafia Wiki: https://milwaukeemafia.com/ Become part of the Family: https://www.patreon.com/Milwaukeemafia -- Gavin Schmi...

In this weeks episode we jump back into our normal timeline and are introduced to a new character: John Rizzo! Rizzo was the Milwaukee Mafia's primary contact for most of the gambling operations they were running out of Racine. -- Got a question about this episode? Email Gavin and Eric at milwaukeemafia@gmail.com Explore the Milwaukee Mafia Wiki: https://milwaukeemafia.com/ Become part of the Fami...

Gavin breaks all the rules jumps back to 1932 to tells the story of the murder of Robert Wilson in Kenosha, WI. Thanks to our listener for asking about him! -- Got a question about this episode? Email Gavin and Eric at milwaukeemafia@gmail.com Explore the Milwaukee Mafia Wiki: https://milwaukeemafia.com/ Become part of the Family: https://www.patreon.com/Milwaukeemafia -- Gavin Schmitt is the lead...

In this episode, Gavin and Eric cover some of the backstory of Frank Balisterieri and his family. From stories of Frank's childhood to his parents and uncles who were probably all tied to the Mafia. It's a family business after all. -- Got a question about this episode? Email Gavin and Eric at milwaukeemafia@gmail.com Explore the Milwaukee Mafia Wiki: https://milwaukeemafia.com/ Become part of the...

In part two of the story, we return to the strip club where Christina worked in Milwaukee. The owner of the club is murdered, his body dumped in a rural community just north of Milwaukee. Is this just a random murder? Or is somehow connected to Christina's death? -- Got a question about this episode? Email Gavin and Eric at milwaukeemafia@gmail.com Explore the Milwaukee Mafia Wiki: https://milwauk...

We begin the story of a stripper Christina Calligaro from Peoria, IL. A wayward soul, she finds her way from Peoria to Milwaukee, and then to Hurley WI, only to return home to Peoria to be murdered. This is her story. The forthcoming second part returns to Milwaukee where someone close to her will be murdered. -- Got a question about this episode? Email Gavin and Eric at milwaukeemafia@gmail.com E...

Rocco Ditello is determined to clean up the corruption in the Local 200 Teamsters union. But when he is mysteriously shot in a hunting accident, you have to ask... Was it an accident? Or murder? -- Got a question about this episode? Email Gavin and Eric at milwaukeemafia@gmail.com Explore the Milwaukee Mafia Wiki: https://milwaukeemafia.com/ Become part of the Family: https://www.patreon.com/Milwa...

In this episode, Gavin and Eric discuss Fox Head Brewing, a brewery located in Waukesha that gets entangled with the Mafia. -- Got a question about this episode? Email Gavin and Eric at milwaukeemafia@gmail.com Explore the Milwaukee Mafia Wiki: https://milwaukeemafia.com/ Become part of the Family: https://www.patreon.com/Milwaukeemafia -- Gavin Schmitt is the leading historical expert on the mafi...