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On our paid podcast, often times we play out historical events, especially those that offer us a rare chance to play out history a little different. As you all know, mob history is one of those things where a murder here, a murder there, could change the entire trajectory of one family.
Vito Genovese, was quite the Machiavellian guy. He helped Lucky Luciano dismantle both Salvatore Marazano and Joe Masseria during the Castellammarese War. As you know, Vito who was in the hierarchy of the Luciano crime family, would flee New York City in 1937 out of fear of being indicted in a murder. He took a trunk of money and disappeared to Naples.
While he was away, Frank Costello would take over the reins of the family flanked by Willie Moretti. Once Vito return, he wants to take over, and he addresses Luciano in Cuba, about this specific issue. He suggests that Luciano retire, and Luciano nearly had Genovese beat to death in Cuba. It was then Vito wanted blood.
Vito through channels would inform the United States that Luciano was based in Cuba, and the United States would threaten Cuba that if they didn’t expel Luciano from Cuba, they would stop sending desperately needed medical supplies. Cuba having no choice, throws Luciano out of Cuba. It’s then that Vito wants to move on Costello and he needs an ally. He finds one in Carlo Gambino who goes along with the plan to assassinate both Costello and Albert Anastasia. As we know, Costello survives the hit, but retires. Anastasia gets wiped off the map in 1957. The one thing Vito never considered was that Carlo Gambino was more machiavellian than the rest, and would secretly plot Genovese’s demise. Along with Costello and Luciano, Gambino pays off a Puerto Rican drug dealer named Nelson Cantellops, who sets Vito up for a bad drug pinch.
Vito would pass away in a medical prison facility in Missouri in 1969, however, he was about a year shy of getting out of prison, however it didn’t stop Vito from killing anyone he thought was involved, and bodies dropped like flies back in New York for several years. Had Vito gotten out, what would he have done? Would he have gone after Carlo Gambino? Did Gambino have enough power to fend him off? There was a lot of trouble in the organized crime world at the time, so we play it out, in the only way MOB TALK RADIO CAN. This is part history lesson, and street lesson, which no other mob content creator can provide.
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