All posts tagged: Gambino Crime Family

Crime Wire: Talking to the MOB!

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  You can hear Crime Wire Investigates Tuesdays at 9 p.m. Eastern. Please visit our Crime Wire Website. Together we can make a difference. LISTEN LIVE:http://www.blogtalkradio.com/insidelenz   It’s a Mob takeover on Crime Wire! Join host, Dennis Griffin, and a couple of his friends and former mobsters for an hour of discussion about their life of crime within the Mob.  Andrew DiDonato began his criminal career in Brooklyn in 1979 at the age of 14. In 1982 he became an associate of the Nicky Corozzo crew of the Gambino family and for the next 15 years his crimes ranged from larceny and robbery to credit card fraud, bank robbery and attempted murder. In 1997 he was on the lam from law enforcement and under a death sentence from his own crew and another organized crime family. The law caught him first and he eventually became a cooperating government witness. DiDonato is the subject of the popular book, Surviving the Mob by Crime Wire host, Dennis Griffin. After a lengthy criminal career in the Windy City with the Chicago Outfit, Frank Cullotta joined his boyhood …

Crime Wire Looks at the Life of Henry Hill, the “Goodfella”

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You can hear Crime Wire Investigates beginning at 9 p.m. Eastern. Please visit our Crime Wire Website. Together we can make a difference. LISTEN LIVE:http://www.blogtalkradio.com/insidelenz Organized crime was in the news last week with the passing of former Lucchesi crime family associate Henry Hill. The hit 1990 movie Goodfellas was based on Henry’s life. Crime Wire will be talking about Henry, and government witnesses in general, the federal Witness Protection Program, and other mob-related topics with two guests with organized crime expertise. Joining Host, Dennis Griffin, are former FBI undercover agent Jack Garcia, whose book Making Jack Falcone was a New York Times bestseller, and former Gambino crime family associate and author of Surviving The Mob, Andrew DiDonato.

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The Roth Show Hosts Author Dennis Griffin

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 Listen LIVE: http://therothshow.com Join Dr. Laurie Roth and Susan Murphy Milano each Wednesday BROADCASTING AT A NEW TIME!  8-9 Pacific, 11-12am Eastern Denny Griffin is a man who wears many hats, a former officer of the law turned author, radio host, and crime investigator, he has turned his retirement into the busiest time of his life! Denny has written several books on the history of the Las Vegas Mob, interviewing and befriending several former mobsters including Henry Hill and Frank Cullotta, the subject of his book Cullotta:The Life of a Chicago Criminal, Las Vegas Mobster, and Government Witness and Andrew DiDonato, whose story of life in the Gambino family is told in Surviving the Mob. His latest venture is something new and different. Griffin has been contracted to write the story of Don Hill, the noted saxaphonist of The Treniers. Titled House Party Tonight, the book is scheduled for a November, 2012 release to celebrate Don Hill’s 91st birthday. As the managing partner of Bear Media, Inc., Denny participates in Real Wiseguys, an event planning entity which revolves around …

Denny Griffin Events! MOBSTERTHON on Coast to Coast Radio and Book Signing

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Mobsterthon! on Coast to Coast Radio From Coast to Coast Radio, George Knapp is hosting the MOBSTERTHON with an array of former, real-life mobsters.  Joining him for the whole 4 hour broadcast is true crime author and mob historian, Dennis Griffin, Sunday, April 29, from 10 pm until 2 am Pacific. George Knapp is a 14-time Emmy Award-winning journalist whose reporting on Nevada’s infamous Area 51 military base was selected by UPI as Best Individual Achievement by a Reporter (1989). Other awards include the Associated Press’s Mark Twain Award for news writing and the Edward R. Murrow Award for Investigative Reporting. George is an anchor and reporter for the CBS affiliate KLAS-TV in Las Vegas and he also writes a weekly column for a Las Vegas newspaper. Dennis Griffin, former New York law enforcement officer turned author, has written several books on the true stories of the Las Vegas mob and the era in which they reigned. He has participated widely in the opening of the new Las Vegas attraction, the Mob Museum which features him regularly. …

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Shattered Lives: Dennis and Faith Griffin: How Life Changes in an Instant

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SHATTERED LIVES with Donna R. Gore, “LadyJustice” Examining the effects of those who have survived violent crime and how it has impacted their lives. Real people, real tragedy, real help. Saturdays at 5pm ET Listen LIVE:  CLICK HERE True crime author and former NY officer, Dennis Griffin, and his right arm and inspiration, wife Faith, are the guests for the hour on Shattered Lives. In 1986 their lives were shattered when their vibrant daughter, Kim, was suddenly killed in a car accident. A bright 18 year old, Kim had just graduated from high school in June and was scheduled to enter college in September. On August 5 she went swimming with three other friends at a popular spot about 40 miles from home. On the way home from a day in the sun and fun, the accident happened as they neared the top of a hill. An elderly driver was coming in the opposite direction at a high rate of speed, panicked, and his car slammed into the car that Kim and her friends were riding in, …