Episode 160: Frank Morano - Mafia Journalist And Radio Host

The Sit Down: A Crime History Podcast

Jeff Nadu

True Crime, Society & Culture, History

4.5 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 22 May 2024

⏱️ 76 minutes

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Summary

On this podcast our goal has always been to bring you interviews from the world of organized crime. Today we do that again, we welcome on radio host and Mafia journalist Frank Morano, who hosts a terrific show called "The Racket Report." We discussed many things about his start as a journalist coming up in Staten Island, the RICO act. his relationship with the Gotti family and his interviewing both John Jr Gotti and Victoria Gotti, John Gotti's wife.

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0:00.0	You're going to be. What's up everybody?
0:23.6	Welcome into another condition of the sit down.
0:26.6	I'm your host Jeff Nader.
0:28.0	We are back here another week on the other sit down.
0:31.2	Episode 160 is here and we get another great episode plan for you
0:36.3	today as always we enter again into the world of organized crime as we do here on this show and last week I hope you enjoyed the interview with
0:45.9	former Bonano Capo Peter Lovaglio he was the first of his kind really to speak as far as that era of the Bonato family.
0:58.0	Peter's never spoken anybody, so I hope you enjoyed it.
1:01.0	Maybe we'll get him on again really soon. Today we've got
1:05.1	another great interview plan for you and as you know on the show we've talked
1:09.9	to law enforcement, we've talked to mob guys, we've talked to judges even, guys like John Gleason,
1:16.9	but we've never really talked to newspaper reporters and author. What is it like interviewing people in this world? Today we're
1:25.9	going to speak to a man who has really also like myself interviewed people
1:30.2	that no one's interviewed before. Today's guest is Frank Marano.
1:34.0	He has a great podcast called The Racquet Report.
1:38.0	You can also find him nightly on W-A-B-C in New York City.
1:42.0	He's a journalist.
1:42.8	He's been around for many years.
1:44.0	We're going to talk about him, his time covering organized crime
1:47.5	and politics and things of that nature.
1:50.1	But most of our discussion focused around the Gotti's.
1:53.7	Frank has interviewed John Gotti Jr.
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