2. The United California Bank Heist

Crooked City: Dixon, IL

Sony Music

Society & Culture, Documentary, History, True Crime

4.5 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 25 July 2022

⏱️ 34 minutes

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The Cleveland mob has a tip for Youngstown bank burglar Amil Dinsio: there’s a vault in California, full of President Richard Nixon’s dirty money. Subscribe to The Binge to get all episodes of Crooked City: Youngstown, OH ad-free right now. Click ‘try free’ at the top of the Crooked City: Youngstown, OH show page on Apple Podcasts to start your free trial or visit GetTheBinge.com to get access wherever you get your podcasts. A truth.media & Sony Music Entertainment production. Find more great podcasts from Sony Music Entertainment at sonymusic.com/podcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Youngstown has a bad history, no question about it, lots of murders, bombings, you name it.
0:11.2	Some of them guys that got killed, I knew, but that's the way it is.
0:19.1	My producer Catherine and I are sitting with Amel Dinsier, the bank robber from the
0:23.0	last episode, in a restaurant just outside of Youngstown.
0:27.0	At one time, this restaurant was a bank.
0:29.0	Did you rob this bank?
0:31.0	Oh no, there won't be enough money here.
0:34.0	Amel seems to know everybody here.
0:37.2	He got us a table inside the bank's vault, so we could talk out of earshot.
0:41.4	Certain things I can't say, things about, you know what I'm trying to say, because I don't
0:45.8	spread business around anyhow.
0:48.3	I'm hoping to get Amel to talk about a bank job he did back in 1972, a heist that made
0:54.3	him world famous.
0:55.5	I want to talk about Lagoon.
0:57.5	Lagoon and I gal, bankburgery?
0:59.5	Yeah.
1:00.5	The Lagoon and I gal bank heist was one of the largest and most daring burglaries in
1:04.7	American history.
1:06.0	The perfect heist is called, okay?
1:08.6	And when the heist was over, Amel told reporters that there was an amazing story behind it,
1:13.3	an unbelievable story that he would tell someday.
1:16.1	The story is a big story, if you knew it all.
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