Episode 216: Smalltime: A Story of My Family and the Mob
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Was the Mob in Johnstown a Network?
The federal government spent most of the 1950s trying to deny the fact that there was this national structure. The mob in its heyday, I mean, it was ethnic. Mostly, we think of it as Italian, but there were Irish mobs and Jewish mobs or things. It's so strange to think that the people that I talked to who were telling me stories about back then, they kind of start to whisper when they're talking about this stuff.
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