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Inside the Chicago Outfit
Inside the Chicago Outfit is the original series launching on the all video podcast channel: The VPOD Network. Each week, co-creators and hosts, James Enzo Forni and Joe Seifert, authors and “mobologists” take on unsolved murders, legendary gangsters and political schemes in the town known for crime: Chicago. Special guests include mob associates, victims of mob crime and family members married to the mob.
Where to Watch
Over the Air - Channel 59.3 Chicago and Channel 59.3 Peoria
On Roku - Under VPOD TELEVISION
On YouTube - VPOD TV https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC7Y1vIRKqFcqpdrJFXhhj5g
Check out the Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/vpodtv
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Ep 1: Sam “Momo” Giancana: A legend is born. Legendary mobster Sam Giancana’s humble beginnings in a Chicago slum and his training as a young hoodlum and wheel man for Al Capone.
Ep 2: Sam “Momo” Giancana: A Titan Rises. Giancana rises from driver to the top of the Chicago Outfit.
Ep 3: Sam Giancana: From Fame to Fall. Giancana lives life in the limelight as America’s favorite Mob Boss as he dates singer Phyllis McGuire and pals around with Sinatra’s Rat Pack in his final days as Boss.
Ep 4: Willie Bioff and the Hollywood Skim: The Outfit takes over Hollywood and the movie industry.
Ep 5: Willie Bioff and Brown Mob Take down: The top tier of the Outfit is ensnared in the Hollywood Extortion Scandal and the bosses go to prison.
Ep 6: Samuel Teets Battaglia: The story of the Outfit’s most successful juice loan man and his rise from the 42 Gang to the top of the Outfit
Ep. 7: Anthony “Joe Batters” Accardo, Part I: The early years of the world’s most successful criminal. Tony Accardo’s early years as a gunman and bodyguard for Al “Scarface” Capone
Ep 8: Felix Alderisio: The early years of Felix “Milwaukee Phil” Alderisio, the Outfit’s most feared assassin.
Ep 9: Alderisio & Special Guest Nick Seifert: “Milwaukee Phil” as told by someone who called him “Uncle Phil”
Ep 10: Murder of a Chicago Alderman: Special Guest; Mick Dumke. Episode 1 of 2 reveals the sinister influences surrounding the unsolved murder of Chicago’s first Black Alderman, rising star and Daley protégé Ben Lewis.
Ep. 11: Murder of a Chicago Alderman, Part 2: Special Guest Mick Dumke. Tantalizing clues implicate both the Chicago Police and Outfit Lawndale Boss Lenny Patrick in the cold blooded murder of Chicago’s first black alderman, Ben Lewis.
Ep 12: Married to the Mob and Other Misadventures: Special Guest Lisa Swan: Cam Robinson and Lynn Swan discuss their forthcoming book: Married to the Mob and Other Misadventures about her marriage to Mob Associate Frank Calabrese, Jr. and her struggles with her father-in-law, notorious Outfit hitman Frank “Frankie Breeze” Calabrese.
Ep 13: Bobby “Gabeat” Bellavia: Special Guest. Bobby Bellavia. Released from Federal prison after serving 28 1/2 years, Bobby takes us Inside the Chicago Outfit as only a true insider can and asks, “who is the bigger criminal, the Mob or the government?”