June 27, 2025 • 11 mins
In this gripping episode of Mobstercast Chronicles, we dive into the life and legacy of Charles “Beeps” Stango—a ruthless yet disciplined mob capo from the DeCavalcante crime family, often called the "real-life Sopranos." From the gritty streets of New Jersey to the neon glow of Las Vegas, Stango’s story blends traditional Mafia values with the stark realities of the modern underworld. Discover how he plotted a mob hit from across the country, why he believed the mob had lost its edge, and how his own son got pulled into the life. This is a tale of loyalty, old-school codes, and the FBI takedown that brought it all crashing down.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome to the deep dive. We're here to plunge into
a stack of sources and really pull out those key
nuggets of knowledge for you. That's the goal. And today, Wow,
we've got a story that honestly feels like it's ripped
straight from a movie script, but it actually played out
just a few years back. We're talking about Charles Beeps Stango,
(00:20):
a figure who, well, he feels like an echo from
a more violent, much more secretive time. Definitely, even operating
in the twenty tens, he was clinging really fiercely to
those old school mobster ways while the world was just
radically changing all around him. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
Absolutely. Stanko was a high ranking guy in the Dicavalcante
crime family, you know, the ones people often say were
the real life inspiration for HBO's The Sopranos. Sopranos exactly,
and his story, especially how it all came crashing down
in that big twenty fifteen FBI bust, It really highlights
this tension, doesn't it, between how persistent organized crime is
(00:56):
but also how it's forced to evolve.
Speaker 1 (00:58):
It really does. It's like a snapshot of the twilight
of a very specific kind of American.
Speaker 2 (01:02):
Gangster, a dying breed perhaps.
Speaker 1 (01:04):
So our mission today is clear. Let's unpack the life
of Deep Stango. We'll dig into our research find the
most important insights about his world, what he valued, and
what ultimately led to his downfall. Sounds good, Get ready,
because there are some genuinely surprising facts in here. This
deep dive, I think is going to reveal just how
long that particular brand of gangster managed to hold on.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
Okay, So to really get Stango's story, you need a
little context on the Dicavocante family itself. They're one of
the lesser known New Jersey family.
Speaker 1 (01:36):
Right, not as famous as the New York Five.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
Families, exactly, operating kind of parallel to their bigger cousins
across the river. But don't let the lower profile fool you.
They had deep roots in New Jersey. We're talking state politics,
the economy, and.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
Their operations were pretty standard mom stuff.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
Oh yeah, classic racketeering, loan sharking, and they were heavily
involved in infiltrating labor unions, a big one for them.
Speaker 1 (02:01):
And like you said, the family often seen as the
blueprint for the Sopranos, which is fascinating in itself.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
It is, and by the late nineties early two thousands,
this family was facing immense heat from law enforcement, really
intense pressure.
Speaker 1 (02:14):
Hit hard right, definitely.
Speaker 2 (02:15):
Battered, but crucially not entirely wiped out. And what's really
interesting is that it was during this turbulent time, when
you think they'd be laying low, that Charles Beeps Stango
actually started making his name rising through the ranks.
Speaker 1 (02:29):
How did he manage that when everyone else was feeling.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
The pressure, Well, I think it speaks to his particular style.
While others were maybe getting flashy or careless, Stango seemed
to double down on being disciplined, almost invisible in a way.
Speaker 1 (02:45):
Not your typical flamboyant mobster them not at all.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
His reputation inside the family was as a reliable and
ruthless soldier. And it's striking how few details we actually
have about his early years.
Speaker 1 (02:55):
Which says a lot in itself.
Speaker 2 (02:57):
It really does. It's a testament to his discretion keeping
that low profile. He wasn't like some guys who craved
the spotlight. Stango worked his way up quietly, loyalty, discipline,
and yeah, a willingness to use violence when he felt
it was needed.
Speaker 1 (03:10):
And this led him pretty high up.
Speaker 2 (03:12):
Oh yeah. By the early two thousands, he'd become a capo,
a captain, a powerful position within the family, running his
crew out of Elizabeth, New Jersey, which was, you know,
a traditional de cavalcante stronghold.
Speaker 1 (03:24):
That discretion. That must have been a huge asset in
that world operating in the shadows, while maybe others weren't. Definitely,
But what really makes Stango stand out, what makes this
story so compelling, is how fiercely he stuck to those
traditional mafia codes like olmartas the code of silence, even
(03:45):
when those values were basically collapsing all around him in
the modern underworld.
Speaker 2 (03:49):
And that's the core of it, isn't it. His almost
fanatical loyalty to these old codes and his real contempt
for the younger, modern guys he saw, as you know, reckless.
That became his downfall.
Speaker 1 (04:01):
He didn't trust the new generation, not at all.
Speaker 2 (04:03):
He saw them as undisciplined, unreliable. We actually have FBI
recordings where you can hear him just lamenting this, complaining
about how the criminal culture was decaying, like they quote,
yeah exactly. You hear the raw frustration when he says, uh,
nobody gets killed no more. That's the fucking problem. He
was disgusted by the young guys talking too much, doing
too many drugs, lacking that discipline he believed was essential.
Speaker 1 (04:26):
The irony is just incredible.
Speaker 2 (04:27):
It's huge because the very conversations where he's complaining about
the decline of Omerta and discipline, those were being recorded
by the Feds. His refusal or maybe inability to adapt
made him incredibly vulnerable.
Speaker 1 (04:43):
Hearing that quote, it really paints a picture. It's like
you can feel his whole world just crumbling around him
in his own mind. Yeah, but this wasn't just about
his beliefs or his frustrations. The real shocker in the
twenty fifteen case, the thing they caught everyone's attention was
this alleged murder for higher.
Speaker 2 (04:59):
Plot right the core of the indictment.
Speaker 1 (05:01):
The target was a guy named Luigi Oliveri, another associate.
Apparently he disrespected the organization somehow, and our sources details
Stango allegedly being willing to shell out fifty thousand dollars
for the hit, quoting him directly, the guy gotta go.
This is no good, right, just chillingly matter of fact.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
And what makes this plot almost surreal really is where
the planning was happening. Stanga wasn't even on the East
Coast at the time.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
Where was he?
Speaker 2 (05:24):
He was living out in Las Vegas, Henderson, Nevada to
be specific.
Speaker 1 (05:27):
Oh way, Yeah.
Speaker 2 (05:28):
The idea was he'd have the murder carried out back
east in Jersey or New York while he stayed safely
across the country, managing mob hits remotely pretty much. And
that attempt, you know, it really highlights the massive shifts
in how these things operated, or how they tried to operate.
We're moving from like smoky backroom meetings to burner phones,
(05:49):
text messages and critically federal surveillance that doesn't care about state.
Speaker 1 (05:53):
Lines, and choosing Vegas specifically Henderson. I mean, Vegas has
that whole history with the mob, right yeah, playground h
o oh.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
Absolutely a long and storied history.
Speaker 1 (06:02):
So maybe he thought that gave him some cover, a
false sense of security.
Speaker 2 (06:06):
Could be It's certainly possible he felt insulated out there,
but orchestrating that kind of violence from across the country,
it just shows the stubborn persistence the reach of the mafia,
even in its later years.
Speaker 1 (06:18):
It's like that old school mindset, desperately trying and failing
to operate in a completely new school technological environment.
Speaker 2 (06:26):
Precisely, and the FBI, well, they had been watching the
de Cavalcanti's for a long long time, but this twenty
fifteen bust it really was a master stroke for them.
Speaker 1 (06:36):
How did they pull it off so effectively?
Speaker 2 (06:38):
It came down to multiple undercover agents and crucially, a
network of cooperating witnesses. They built the case very carefully,
brick by brick.
Speaker 1 (06:48):
And there was one key player, right an informant.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
Yeah, a confidential informant, someone who managed to get close
to Stango, gain his trust, and most importantly, record their conversations.
Speaker 1 (06:59):
Those recording must have been gold.
Speaker 2 (07:01):
Absolutely damning audio hours of it. And it wasn't just
about the murder plot, though that was central. The tapes
peeled back the layers on the whole family, their structure,
who reported to, who, even what they were planning for
the future.
Speaker 1 (07:14):
It must be incredibly tough to get an informant that
deep into such a closed off world.
Speaker 2 (07:18):
It takes extraordinary skill, patience, and no small amount of luck.
The FEDS saw this as their moment for a.
Speaker 1 (07:24):
Big sweep, so it wasn't just Stango they arrested, No.
Speaker 2 (07:27):
No, it was a large scale operation. Stango plus nine
other individuals were rounded up in that bust, including and
this adds another layer his own son.
Speaker 1 (07:38):
Wow, it brings this sort of tragic element to it all.
Charles's son, Anthony Stango. Was he deeply involved like his father.
Speaker 2 (07:47):
Not quite to the same level, it seems. Anthony was
described as more of a peripheral player, not a hardened
made guy like his dad.
Speaker 1 (07:56):
So what was his role? What did they get him on?
Speaker 2 (07:58):
Anthony's involvement seemed to be more in schemes like laundering
drug money and also organizing prostitution through a fake escort
website they'd set up. And the evidence suggested that Charles
the father actually coached Anthony on how to be discreet,
how to keep their illicit businesses under the radar.
Speaker 1 (08:14):
So it really felt like a family business in a
very dark way.
Speaker 2 (08:17):
Yeah, like a criminal dynasty, illustrating that unfortunate multi generational
poll that organized crime can sometimes have.
Speaker 1 (08:23):
So with all that evidence, the recordings, the informant, what happened? Leally,
what was the outcome?
Speaker 2 (08:29):
Well, in March twenty sixteen, Charles Beeps Stango took a
plead deal. He pleaded guilty to using interstate facilities, phones, travel,
and the commission of murder for hire. In the sentence,
he got ten years in federal prism. Now, prosecutors probably
considered his age. He was in his early seventies by then,
and the crucial fact that the murder itself never actually.
Speaker 1 (08:49):
Happened, right, was stopped and the sun Anthony.
Speaker 2 (08:52):
Anthony Stango also plead and guilty. He received a reduced sentence,
reflecting his lesser role in the overall conspiracy.
Speaker 1 (08:59):
Even after sentences, Stango himself had things to say, didn't
he from prison?
Speaker 2 (09:03):
Yeah, what's really telling are some of the things that
came out later through rare letters or conversations reported from prison.
He apparently just kept expressing this deep frustration.
Speaker 1 (09:13):
Still complaining about the state of the mafia.
Speaker 2 (09:15):
Exactly, still saw it as a decaying mafia culture. He
genuinely seemed to view himself as a man of tradition,
a throwback, someone who believed in loyalty consequences, Which raises.
Speaker 1 (09:26):
That big question for you listening right now, is that
delusion or is it some kind of twisted dedication?
Speaker 2 (09:33):
Right? Do you see him as just a dangerous criminal
clinging to the past. Or is he, in some strange way,
the last embodiment of a bygone era, an era where
the mafia had this rigid, violent code.
Speaker 1 (09:46):
It's a really compelling way to think about it. So
let's talk legacy. What is the lasting legacy of Charles
beep Stango. He wasn't a household name, right, not Gotti,
not Capone. Many of you probably hadn't heard of him
before today.
Speaker 2 (09:57):
No, definitely not that level of notoriety. He didn't command
that kind of empire.
Speaker 1 (10:01):
But I think his significance is still pretty profound.
Speaker 2 (10:04):
Would we say I would if we zoom out look
at the bigger picture, he really represents maybe the last
gasp of a dying breed. How So, he was a
mafia figure who fiercely, stubbornly clung to hierarchy, discipline, brutality,
the old ways, even as the world and the underworld
transformed completely around him. So his story is a reminder,
(10:24):
the powerful reminder. I think that organized crime didn't just evaporate,
It adapted, It shape shifted into new forms, often less visible.
The old school mob might not dominate headlines anymore, but
its influence it lingers in the shadows and courtrooms.
Speaker 1 (10:39):
Like we saw here, and guys like Stango are just
becoming rarer and.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
Rare, increasingly rare.
Speaker 1 (10:45):
Absolutely, it's strange, isn't it. In a world now focused
on cybercrime, crypto scams, massive corporate fraud, the idea of
a mob capo planning hits from a Vegas suburb almost feels.
Speaker 2 (10:58):
Well, coin isn't the right word, but anachronistic.
Speaker 1 (11:01):
Yeah, anachronistic, and yet it was completely real, happened just
a few years ago. So turning it over to you listening,
what does Stango's story tell you about power, about loyalty,
about crime today?
Speaker 2 (11:13):
And maybe a final thought to chew on as organized
crime keeps evolving, do those old codes, those old structures,
do they just fade away or do they morph into
something else, something maybe even harder to track, more elusive. Yeah,
this deep dive into deep Stango, It's not just about
one guy's crimes. It's really about the evolution, maybe even
the end, of a certain kind of American gangster, A
(11:34):
story
Speaker 1 (11:34):
That definitely reminds us that even when the main spotlight
moves on those invisible threads of influence, they can still persist,
something to think about,
Welcome to the deep dive. We're here to plunge into
a stack of sources and really pull out those key
nuggets of knowledge for you. That's the goal. And today, Wow,
we've got a story that honestly feels like it's ripped
straight from a movie script, but it actually played out
just a few years back. We're talking about Charles Beeps Stango,
(00:20):
a figure who, well, he feels like an echo from
a more violent, much more secretive time. Definitely, even operating
in the twenty tens, he was clinging really fiercely to
those old school mobster ways while the world was just
radically changing all around him. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
Absolutely. Stanko was a high ranking guy in the Dicavalcante
crime family, you know, the ones people often say were
the real life inspiration for HBO's The Sopranos. Sopranos exactly,
and his story, especially how it all came crashing down
in that big twenty fifteen FBI bust, It really highlights
this tension, doesn't it, between how persistent organized crime is
(00:56):
but also how it's forced to evolve.
Speaker 1 (00:58):
It really does. It's like a snapshot of the twilight
of a very specific kind of American.
Speaker 2 (01:02):
Gangster, a dying breed perhaps.
Speaker 1 (01:04):
So our mission today is clear. Let's unpack the life
of Deep Stango. We'll dig into our research find the
most important insights about his world, what he valued, and
what ultimately led to his downfall. Sounds good, Get ready,
because there are some genuinely surprising facts in here. This
deep dive, I think is going to reveal just how
long that particular brand of gangster managed to hold on.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
Okay, So to really get Stango's story, you need a
little context on the Dicavocante family itself. They're one of
the lesser known New Jersey family.
Speaker 1 (01:36):
Right, not as famous as the New York Five.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
Families, exactly, operating kind of parallel to their bigger cousins
across the river. But don't let the lower profile fool you.
They had deep roots in New Jersey. We're talking state politics,
the economy, and.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
Their operations were pretty standard mom stuff.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
Oh yeah, classic racketeering, loan sharking, and they were heavily
involved in infiltrating labor unions, a big one for them.
Speaker 1 (02:01):
And like you said, the family often seen as the
blueprint for the Sopranos, which is fascinating in itself.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
It is, and by the late nineties early two thousands,
this family was facing immense heat from law enforcement, really
intense pressure.
Speaker 1 (02:14):
Hit hard right, definitely.
Speaker 2 (02:15):
Battered, but crucially not entirely wiped out. And what's really
interesting is that it was during this turbulent time, when
you think they'd be laying low, that Charles Beeps Stango
actually started making his name rising through the ranks.
Speaker 1 (02:29):
How did he manage that when everyone else was feeling.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
The pressure, Well, I think it speaks to his particular style.
While others were maybe getting flashy or careless, Stango seemed
to double down on being disciplined, almost invisible in a way.
Speaker 1 (02:45):
Not your typical flamboyant mobster them not at all.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
His reputation inside the family was as a reliable and
ruthless soldier. And it's striking how few details we actually
have about his early years.
Speaker 1 (02:55):
Which says a lot in itself.
Speaker 2 (02:57):
It really does. It's a testament to his discretion keeping
that low profile. He wasn't like some guys who craved
the spotlight. Stango worked his way up quietly, loyalty, discipline,
and yeah, a willingness to use violence when he felt
it was needed.
Speaker 1 (03:10):
And this led him pretty high up.
Speaker 2 (03:12):
Oh yeah. By the early two thousands, he'd become a capo,
a captain, a powerful position within the family, running his
crew out of Elizabeth, New Jersey, which was, you know,
a traditional de cavalcante stronghold.
Speaker 1 (03:24):
That discretion. That must have been a huge asset in
that world operating in the shadows, while maybe others weren't. Definitely,
But what really makes Stango stand out, what makes this
story so compelling, is how fiercely he stuck to those
traditional mafia codes like olmartas the code of silence, even
(03:45):
when those values were basically collapsing all around him in
the modern underworld.
Speaker 2 (03:49):
And that's the core of it, isn't it. His almost
fanatical loyalty to these old codes and his real contempt
for the younger, modern guys he saw, as you know, reckless.
That became his downfall.
Speaker 1 (04:01):
He didn't trust the new generation, not at all.
Speaker 2 (04:03):
He saw them as undisciplined, unreliable. We actually have FBI
recordings where you can hear him just lamenting this, complaining
about how the criminal culture was decaying, like they quote,
yeah exactly. You hear the raw frustration when he says, uh,
nobody gets killed no more. That's the fucking problem. He
was disgusted by the young guys talking too much, doing
too many drugs, lacking that discipline he believed was essential.
Speaker 1 (04:26):
The irony is just incredible.
Speaker 2 (04:27):
It's huge because the very conversations where he's complaining about
the decline of Omerta and discipline, those were being recorded
by the Feds. His refusal or maybe inability to adapt
made him incredibly vulnerable.
Speaker 1 (04:43):
Hearing that quote, it really paints a picture. It's like
you can feel his whole world just crumbling around him
in his own mind. Yeah, but this wasn't just about
his beliefs or his frustrations. The real shocker in the
twenty fifteen case, the thing they caught everyone's attention was
this alleged murder for higher.
Speaker 2 (04:59):
Plot right the core of the indictment.
Speaker 1 (05:01):
The target was a guy named Luigi Oliveri, another associate.
Apparently he disrespected the organization somehow, and our sources details
Stango allegedly being willing to shell out fifty thousand dollars
for the hit, quoting him directly, the guy gotta go.
This is no good, right, just chillingly matter of fact.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
And what makes this plot almost surreal really is where
the planning was happening. Stanga wasn't even on the East
Coast at the time.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
Where was he?
Speaker 2 (05:24):
He was living out in Las Vegas, Henderson, Nevada to
be specific.
Speaker 1 (05:27):
Oh way, Yeah.
Speaker 2 (05:28):
The idea was he'd have the murder carried out back
east in Jersey or New York while he stayed safely
across the country, managing mob hits remotely pretty much. And
that attempt, you know, it really highlights the massive shifts
in how these things operated, or how they tried to operate.
We're moving from like smoky backroom meetings to burner phones,
(05:49):
text messages and critically federal surveillance that doesn't care about state.
Speaker 1 (05:53):
Lines, and choosing Vegas specifically Henderson. I mean, Vegas has
that whole history with the mob, right yeah, playground h
o oh.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
Absolutely a long and storied history.
Speaker 1 (06:02):
So maybe he thought that gave him some cover, a
false sense of security.
Speaker 2 (06:06):
Could be It's certainly possible he felt insulated out there,
but orchestrating that kind of violence from across the country,
it just shows the stubborn persistence the reach of the mafia,
even in its later years.
Speaker 1 (06:18):
It's like that old school mindset, desperately trying and failing
to operate in a completely new school technological environment.
Speaker 2 (06:26):
Precisely, and the FBI, well, they had been watching the
de Cavalcanti's for a long long time, but this twenty
fifteen bust it really was a master stroke for them.
Speaker 1 (06:36):
How did they pull it off so effectively?
Speaker 2 (06:38):
It came down to multiple undercover agents and crucially, a
network of cooperating witnesses. They built the case very carefully,
brick by brick.
Speaker 1 (06:48):
And there was one key player, right an informant.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
Yeah, a confidential informant, someone who managed to get close
to Stango, gain his trust, and most importantly, record their conversations.
Speaker 1 (06:59):
Those recording must have been gold.
Speaker 2 (07:01):
Absolutely damning audio hours of it. And it wasn't just
about the murder plot, though that was central. The tapes
peeled back the layers on the whole family, their structure,
who reported to, who, even what they were planning for
the future.
Speaker 1 (07:14):
It must be incredibly tough to get an informant that
deep into such a closed off world.
Speaker 2 (07:18):
It takes extraordinary skill, patience, and no small amount of luck.
The FEDS saw this as their moment for a.
Speaker 1 (07:24):
Big sweep, so it wasn't just Stango they arrested, No.
Speaker 2 (07:27):
No, it was a large scale operation. Stango plus nine
other individuals were rounded up in that bust, including and
this adds another layer his own son.
Speaker 1 (07:38):
Wow, it brings this sort of tragic element to it all.
Charles's son, Anthony Stango. Was he deeply involved like his father.
Speaker 2 (07:47):
Not quite to the same level, it seems. Anthony was
described as more of a peripheral player, not a hardened
made guy like his dad.
Speaker 1 (07:56):
So what was his role? What did they get him on?
Speaker 2 (07:58):
Anthony's involvement seemed to be more in schemes like laundering
drug money and also organizing prostitution through a fake escort
website they'd set up. And the evidence suggested that Charles
the father actually coached Anthony on how to be discreet,
how to keep their illicit businesses under the radar.
Speaker 1 (08:14):
So it really felt like a family business in a
very dark way.
Speaker 2 (08:17):
Yeah, like a criminal dynasty, illustrating that unfortunate multi generational
poll that organized crime can sometimes have.
Speaker 1 (08:23):
So with all that evidence, the recordings, the informant, what happened? Leally,
what was the outcome?
Speaker 2 (08:29):
Well, in March twenty sixteen, Charles Beeps Stango took a
plead deal. He pleaded guilty to using interstate facilities, phones, travel,
and the commission of murder for hire. In the sentence,
he got ten years in federal prism. Now, prosecutors probably
considered his age. He was in his early seventies by then,
and the crucial fact that the murder itself never actually.
Speaker 1 (08:49):
Happened, right, was stopped and the sun Anthony.
Speaker 2 (08:52):
Anthony Stango also plead and guilty. He received a reduced sentence,
reflecting his lesser role in the overall conspiracy.
Speaker 1 (08:59):
Even after sentences, Stango himself had things to say, didn't
he from prison?
Speaker 2 (09:03):
Yeah, what's really telling are some of the things that
came out later through rare letters or conversations reported from prison.
He apparently just kept expressing this deep frustration.
Speaker 1 (09:13):
Still complaining about the state of the mafia.
Speaker 2 (09:15):
Exactly, still saw it as a decaying mafia culture. He
genuinely seemed to view himself as a man of tradition,
a throwback, someone who believed in loyalty consequences, Which raises.
Speaker 1 (09:26):
That big question for you listening right now, is that
delusion or is it some kind of twisted dedication?
Speaker 2 (09:33):
Right? Do you see him as just a dangerous criminal
clinging to the past. Or is he, in some strange way,
the last embodiment of a bygone era, an era where
the mafia had this rigid, violent code.
Speaker 1 (09:46):
It's a really compelling way to think about it. So
let's talk legacy. What is the lasting legacy of Charles
beep Stango. He wasn't a household name, right, not Gotti,
not Capone. Many of you probably hadn't heard of him
before today.
Speaker 2 (09:57):
No, definitely not that level of notoriety. He didn't command
that kind of empire.
Speaker 1 (10:01):
But I think his significance is still pretty profound.
Speaker 2 (10:04):
Would we say I would if we zoom out look
at the bigger picture, he really represents maybe the last
gasp of a dying breed. How So, he was a
mafia figure who fiercely, stubbornly clung to hierarchy, discipline, brutality,
the old ways, even as the world and the underworld
transformed completely around him. So his story is a reminder,
(10:24):
the powerful reminder. I think that organized crime didn't just evaporate,
It adapted, It shape shifted into new forms, often less visible.
The old school mob might not dominate headlines anymore, but
its influence it lingers in the shadows and courtrooms.
Speaker 1 (10:39):
Like we saw here, and guys like Stango are just
becoming rarer and.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
Rare, increasingly rare.
Speaker 1 (10:45):
Absolutely, it's strange, isn't it. In a world now focused
on cybercrime, crypto scams, massive corporate fraud, the idea of
a mob capo planning hits from a Vegas suburb almost feels.
Speaker 2 (10:58):
Well, coin isn't the right word, but anachronistic.
Speaker 1 (11:01):
Yeah, anachronistic, and yet it was completely real, happened just
a few years ago. So turning it over to you listening,
what does Stango's story tell you about power, about loyalty,
about crime today?
Speaker 2 (11:13):
And maybe a final thought to chew on as organized
crime keeps evolving, do those old codes, those old structures,
do they just fade away or do they morph into
something else, something maybe even harder to track, more elusive. Yeah,
this deep dive into deep Stango, It's not just about
one guy's crimes. It's really about the evolution, maybe even
the end, of a certain kind of American gangster, A
(11:34):
story
Speaker 1 (11:34):
That definitely reminds us that even when the main spotlight
moves on those invisible threads of influence, they can still persist,
something to think about,
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I’m Jay Shetty host of On Purpose the worlds #1 Mental Health podcast and I’m so grateful you found us. I started this podcast 5 years ago to invite you into conversations and workshops that are designed to help make you happier, healthier and more healed. I believe that when you (yes you) feel seen, heard and understood you’re able to deal with relationship struggles, work challenges and life’s ups and downs with more ease and grace. I interview experts, celebrities, thought leaders and athletes so that we can grow our mindset, build better habits and uncover a side of them we’ve never seen before. New episodes every Monday and Friday. Your support means the world to me and I don’t take it for granted — click the follow button and leave a review to help us spread the love with On Purpose. I can’t wait for you to listen to your first or 500th episode!