Episode 55: Andrew "Mush" Russo

The Sit Down: A Crime History Podcast

Jeff Nadu

True Crime, Society & Culture, History

4.5 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 27 April 2022

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

On Episode 55, Jeff delves into the life of Colombo boss Andrew "Mush" Russo. Late last week, Russo passed away at the age of 87. Mush had a famous cousin Carmine Persico and they would both go to the upper echelons of the family. Russo spent many years in prison and year after year to attempt to continue the golden years of the mob, in the end though, the old mob was gone and late last year he faced yet another indictment. He died free though, check it out as we delve into his life. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- PLEASE give us a follow on socials! FOLLOW US ON YOUTUBE and please subscribe: 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.
0:16.9	Here's your host, Jeff Nado.
0:21.1	What's up everybody and welcome into another edition of The Sit Down, a Mafia History
0:26.0	Podcast.
0:27.0	Here's your host, Jeff Nado, back and better than ever and I want to start right off
0:31.2	at the top and let you know that we got a huge episode today.
0:34.2	As always, before we do that, I want to talk a little bit about Blackjack Fletcher.
0:38.3	Blackjack is going to return next week, had a couple of people ask me about it.
0:43.2	As I've said time and time again, Blackjack has a day job, he'll be back next week, we've
0:47.4	already kind of talked about it, we've got some great episodes planned over the next couple
0:50.9	of weeks, we're going to get into some real heavy hitters, we're going to do a traffic
0:54.4	camp, the episode, Carlos Marcello, got some Westy stuff I want to do, I got a lot
0:59.4	of really great episodes still coming on the show and I want to thank everybody for checking
1:03.5	out the show each week, I always get some great messages from all of you and I'm really
1:07.6	happy at how this show continues to grow.
1:09.7	So if you're new out there and you're listening, make sure you subscribe, make sure you check
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1:17.9	it on YouTube channel and yes it continues to grow so I urge you to check out The Sit Down
1:22.5	on YouTube as well, just search The Sit Down, I'm off the history pocket, so the next
1:27.0	couple weeks are going to be some really good shows and we get our boy Blackjack flutcher
1:31.3	back, I know a lot of people have missed Blackjack, it's kind of sucked doing the show without
1:36.0	it, and I can always push through and I can always do the show on my own, but it's always
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