Episode 76: Johnny Roselli

The Sit Down: A Crime History Podcast

Jeff Nadu

True Crime, Society & Culture, History

4.5 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 5 October 2022

⏱️ 86 minutes

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Summary

Jeff and special co-host Barstool Chief delve into the life of mysterious Chicago Outfit member Johnny Roselli. Roselli came up under Al Capone and Johnny Torrio as a bootlegger and enforcer before moving to LA and overseeing big time rackets ans getting involved with the motion picture business. Along the way, he made connections as a fixer and would ultimately be called on by the CIA in a big piece of work and is suspected of being involved possibly with the JFK assassination. A fascinating person... enjoy. We hope you enjoy the show, please leave us a deserving rating and review! FOLLOW US ON YOUTUBE and please subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCMYV0eyKQFhNZwLXpx7I0Ng FOLLOW US ON TWITTER: @sitdowncrimepod Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Sit Down, a crime history podcast presented by more school sports.
0:17.9	Here's your host, Jeff Naden.
0:22.2	What's up everybody and welcome in to another edition of the Sit Down, a crime history
0:27.3	podcast.
0:28.3	Welcome to your host, Jeff Naden.
0:29.3	We are back and better than ever.
0:31.3	We have another great episode planned for you tonight.
0:33.9	We got special guests.
0:35.0	We got a great episode.
0:36.3	We get everything and anything tonight on the show.
0:39.4	As always, I want to welcome everybody in.
0:41.3	I hope you had a great week.
0:43.0	It's that time for another Sit Down and, as always, I want to tell you, go follow us on
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0:50.0	We as always are presented by bar school sports.
0:52.9	It's great to say that as we've been saying over the last couple of weeks.
0:56.4	I want to welcome in our guest today, tonight, whenever you're listening.
1:01.4	It's one of, in my opinion, one of the more interesting people at Barstow and I say that
1:05.8	because him and I are interested in a lot of the same shit.
1:09.2	I always see him doing different pods or mobsters and gangsters and other interesting people.
1:15.0	So I thought you know what, we're going to do an interesting show today, why not bring
1:18.2	them on.
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