The Black Hand: An Organized Crime History Podcast
A podcast that delves into the lives and history of some of the most powerful people and organizations in the history of organized crime, we talk about the history and members of the Italian-American Mafia, Cartels, or street gangs, and everyone/everything in between
Episodes
On Part 9 of Episode 57, we finish up our look into deputy gangs in the L.A. County Sheriff's Department. Last week, we talked about the complete history of the Compton Executioners. But on today's show we'll be talking about a couple different things. We'll talk about some lesser known groups in the LASD that I haven't touched on so far, due to the fact that there's not a ton of informat...
On Part 8 of Episode 57, we continue our look into deputy gangs in the L.A. County Sheriff's Department. Last week, we finished up our look into the Banditos, which is likely the most pervasive deputy gang still active today. But on today's show, we'll talk about the complete history of the Compton Executioners, which is one of, if not the biggest deputy gang still operating on the streets today. And ea...
On Part 7 of Episode 57, we continue our look into deputy gangs in the L.A. County Sheriff's Department. Last week, we talked about the rise of the Banditos in the East L.A. Station , their take over of the station, and how it allowed them to abuse their co-workers. But on today's show, we'll talk about their reign of terror over the communities of East Los Angeles, as well as their continued control ov...
On Part 6 of Episode 57, we continue our look into deputy gangs in the L.A. County Sheriff's Department. Last time, we talked about the run of 2 incredibly violent gangs, in the Spartans and Jump Out Boys. But on today's show, we once again have to go back to the East Los Angeles Station, the home of the Banditos, the most recent gang to operate out of the station, and easily one of the gangs most closely re...
On Part 5 of Episode 57, we continue our look into deputy gangs in the L.A. County Sheriff's Department, last time, we talked about the takeover of Deputy Gangs within the L.A. County jail system by the 2000 and 3000 Boys. But on today's show, we'll be talking about what i like to call the 3rd generation of deputy gangs, that would succeed the 2nd generation gangs, like the Century Station Regulators an...
On Episode 58, I Interview Aiden Gabor, a former associate of the New Jersey Based DeCavalcante Crime Family, police officer, and informant for the Department of Justice, who would bring down numerous corrupt public officials, including a head of detectives, a police commissioner, and even a mayor, but more then that, his story is one of redemption thats incredibly unique. and while we'll talk about a lot of his ...
On Part 4 of Episode 57, we continue or look into deputy gangs in the L.A. County Sheriff's Department, last week we talked about the rise of the Century Station Regulators, and how they led a new generation of deputy gangs that preceded the fist generation gangs, like the Lynwood Vikings. But on today's show, we're gonna be talking about an entirely different breed of deputy gang altogether, those tha...
On Part 3 of Episode 57, we continue our look into the history of deputy gangs in the L.A. County Sheriff's Department, last week we talked about Franky Carrillo's fight for justice against the Lynwood Vikings, as well as their deep deeded corruption, that allowed them to abuse and harass department members all the way up and down the chain of command, But this week, we'll be talking about one of the ne...
On Part 2 of Episode 57, we continue our look into the history of Deputy gangs in the L.A. County Sheriff's Department, last week we talked about the rise of the first deputy gangs in the department, the culture that this created in the department, and how the Lynwood Vikings rose to prominence and carried it on, leading to a multi million dollar lawsuit being filed by the victims, but on today's show, we&ap...
On Part 1 of Episode 57, we delve into the formation and early history of deputy gangs in the L.A County Sheriff's Department, including the culture within the Sheriff's department that allowed the formation of these groups to start, the very first deputy gangs to form up in the 1970's, like the Little Devils and Cavemen, who crafted the idea of what a deputy gang was, and finally, the rise of the Lynwo...
On Episode 56, we delve into the story of gangland involvement in the lives and murders of both Tupac Shakur and the Notorious B.I.G., we'll talk about their backgrounds, and how they both were put in a position to headline the most notorious rap feud of all time, their rise to the top, that would see Tupac turn into somewhat of a wannabe gangster, catching charges left and right, while hanging with well known Ne...
On Episode 55, we delve into the life of infamous Colombian drug lord, Griselda Blanco, she came up hard on the streets of Medellin, running away from home and allegedly committing her first murder at just 11 years old, eventually moving to Queens New York, where she started building her drug empire, currying favor in what would eventually become the Medellin Cartel, but following an attempted DEA takedown, and short ...
On Episode 54, We delve into the history of the Giannini Crew, a mob farm team closely connected to the Bonnano family that ran the streets of Queens throughout the 70's, 80's, and to a lesser extent, the 90's, they were a group of young, rough and tumble, Sicilian American youths, most of whom were the sons and nephews of older mobsters who made their name through heroin trafficking, namely that connec...
On Episode 53, we delve into the complete true story behind The Wire, one of the greatest TV shows of all time, let alone in the crime genre, we'll be covering the real life inspiration behind not only the shows famed drug dealers, but also those of the police, the politicians, and one very famous stick up boy, more then that, we'll also talk about how the show came to be in the first place, and the general ...
On Part 2 of Episode 52, we finish up our look into the Latin Kings, last week we talked about the formation of the gang, how it came to prominence, and how it evolved under new leadership, but this week, we talk about the spread of the Latin Kings across the United States, as well as their evolution to a transnational organization, attempted law enforcement crackdowns on the gang, and how the Kings have made it thou...
On Part 1 of Episode 52, we delve into the history of the Latin Kings, one of the largest Latino and Caribbean street gangs in the world, and today we'll be talking about the formation of the gang, including how a group of youth gangs came together in the mid 1950's to create the Kings, how they spread into almost every area of Chicago under their founder Ramon Santos, and how the gang evolved once it was ta...
On Episode 51, we delve into the story of Agha Hasan Abedi and The Bank Of Credit and Commerce International, which has been described as one of the biggest banking scandals in history, including fraud and money laundering. at it's height, BCCI collected more than $20 billion dollars in deposits, and a good case can be made, that in effect, all of that money was collected fraudulently, more than that, BCCI was a ...
On Episode 50, We delve into the History of the Genovese Family's New Jersey faction, a sub-group within the family that would go on to include some of their most powerful members, they were deeply embedded in the family's history from the beginning, getting their start under early boss Joe Masseria, but it was members like Willie Moretti, Richie Boiardo, and Gerardo Catena, that showed that the faction rea...
On Episode 49, we delve into the life of Raymond "Shrimp Boy" Chow, one of the most notorious Chinese gangsters in US history, who ran San Francisco's Chinatown, he came up as a member of a juvenile Chinatown gang known as the Hop Sing Boys, evantually becoming a higher up, giving him the platform to become the second in command of the Wo Hop To Triad, and after he served a stretch following a takedown ...
On Episode 48, we delve into the life of Manuel Noriega, a former Panamanian dictator, politician, and military officer, who served as the de facto ruler of Panama from 1983 to 1989, more than that however, Noriega would amass a personal fortune through his drug trafficking operations, and even traded arms on behalf of the United States during the Iran-Contra affair, granting him longstanding ties to the United States...
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