Episode 50: Interview with Frank Fiordilino (Bonanno Associate)

The Sit Down: A Crime History Podcast

Jeff Nadu

True Crime, Society & Culture, History

4.5 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 23 March 2022

⏱️ 88 minutes

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Summary

On Episode 50 of the Sit Down, Jeff delivers a special interview with an individual named Francesco "Frank" Fiordilino who for years was a Bonanno Family associate. Frank was born in Sicily and came to America as a young child. He grew up in Queens and came up under his uncle, a Bonnano capo. He ultimately started running around with a group called the Giannini Crew and in the end faced major decisions that he now has to live with. He tells some interesting stories as well about people like Nicky Santora, Joe Massino, Jackie DeRoss and more. Check it out. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- PLEASE give us a follow on socials! FOLLOW US ON YOUTUBE: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCMYV0eyKQFhNZwLXpx7I0Ng FOLLOW US ON TWITTER: @thesitdown7 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Sit Down, a Mafia History Podcast.
0:15.9	Here's your host, Jeff Nado.
0:20.1	What's up everybody and welcome in to another edition of The Sit Down, a Mafia History
0:26.3	Podcast.
0:27.3	I am your host, Jeff Nado and we got to get right into it.
0:30.7	I want to say thank you to everybody out there listening as always.
0:34.4	This is our 50th episode and it's been about a year since we started this show.
0:39.9	I remember we started it in April of 2021 and I never thought we'd get to 50, you know,
0:46.2	I got to be honest.
0:47.2	I didn't know how well-recepted this show would be, but it's been everything I've asked
0:51.6	for and wanted and weighed my mood more.
0:54.3	So I want you to enjoy this episode.
0:57.4	We thought about, let's do a biography, we've got so many biographies to do.
1:01.8	This is a weekly show, but I felt like this week, I wanted to share an interview I did
1:06.0	recently.
1:07.0	I pulled everyone on Twitter about this and a lot of people were excited and wanted to
1:11.5	hear the individual story that we're going to have on today.
1:15.6	I did an interview with a person called Frank Fierdalino.
1:19.0	Frank was a associate in the Banano crime family.
1:22.1	He grew up in Queens and really was around the mob since his inception.
1:27.9	He was born in Sicily.
1:29.7	He came over at a very young age and his uncles, his cousins, even his own brothers were
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