Crooked City: Youngstown, OH
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From Marc Smerling, the creator of Crimetown and The Jinx, welcome to CROOKED CITY. The Saturday Evening Post dubbed Youngstown, Ohio “Crimetown U.S.A.” It was a mob town. Illegal gambling was so lucrative that a mob war raged for decades, and bodies piled up. Then, Jim Traficant ran for sheriff, riding into office as the city’s steel industry fell on hard times. Traficant battles the local newspaper, then the FBI, the IRS and finally his own demons as an eight-term, twice-indicted congressman. Crooked City: Youngstown, OH is part of The Binge - subscribe to listen to all episodes, all at once, ad-free right now. From serial killer nurses to psychic scammers – The Binge is your home for true crime stories that pull you in and never let go. Follow The Binge Crimes and The Binge Cases whenever you get your podcasts to get new stories on the first of the month, every month. Hit ‘Subscribe’ at the top of the Crooked City: Youngstown, OH show page on Apple Podcasts or visit GetTheBinge.com. The Binge – feed your true crime obsession. A truth.media & Sony Music Entertainment production. Find out more about The Binge and other podcasts from Sony Music Entertainment at sonymusic.com/podcasts.
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Back to my roots
Oct 29
This podcast is excellent! My family and I are hooked on it! I’m Italian/Lebanese from Youngstown, but am raising my kids in Atlanta. This is everything I remember Youngstown to be, including the characters and places, so having my kids join in is even better. I know some of the people involved and their families, and can’t get enough. The layout of the stories, voices, interviews, timelines, music, sound…. It’s all done very well. I am impressed! Thank you for doing this!!
Late getting here, but glad I found it!
Sep 29
Glad this was available to binge, because binge I did! The storytelling, the people, the circumstances and the interviews are riveting. The music is the perfect soundtrack to put a bow on a timeless true story about corruption.
Top shelf
Jul 25
I consume a lot of content on this platform and “Crooked City” is about as great of a podcast as I’ve ever heard. Fantastic!
Fantastic!
Jun 26
Wow, this is so compelling. I'm an Ohio native and rust belt refugee. I had no idea about the mob's influence in a place like Youngstown. I knew it was one of the worst hit rust belt towns because of the quick collapse of the old school steel mills, but not much more. The Trafficant part of this podcast is fantastic (all I knew of him previously is that he was a crackpot). He's definitely that! But it's the story telling about organized crime that was truly next level. The sources the producers got to cooperate for this, plus the archive audio . . . wow, wow, wow. Highly recommended!
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