Mobsters and More at MOB-CON!

Gangsters and G-Men, Good Guys and Bad Guys, Mobsters and those who write about them, all aboard in Vegas for the first MOB-CON!

Join the show with host, Kim Kolton as she talks with Dennis Griffin, Robert Allen and Frank Cullotta all about Mob-Con 2013.

Learn first hand about what’s in store for visitors of the first ever Mob Convention!

You’ll meet real “Wise Guys, Goodfellas and Goombas.” Hear their incredible fascinating and true stories of secrecy, murder and mayhem. Former ”Made Men” who lived “the life” and now are willing to share its good and bad sides with you. You learn what it was like living among the underworld. 

You’ll also meet the good guys who brought them down and put ’em away. Hear the stories of the dedicated law enforcement officers who chased the bad guys and put them out of business. These former FBI, Metro Police and Sheriffs are the ones who relentlessly pursued these criminals until they were locked up or put out of commission…….Mob-Con 2013

Dennis Griffin, former host of Crime Wire, is the premier author of books surrounding the Mob and its presence in Las Vegas, both past and present. Griffin is a consultant to the “Vegas Mob Tour” and owner of Bear Media Consultants which helps match producers of true crime productions with those who can serve as technical consultants and speakers.  A former NY law enforcement officer, Dennis Griffin retired once, then began writing about crime with an emphasis on the Mob. He’s the author of Cullotta,Surviving the Mob, and his latest book, Bella Capo’s true story, La Bella Mafia.

Frank Cullotta, the mob’s top man in Las Vegas during the 70′s and 80′s turned government witness, is but one of the former mobsters involved in Mob-Con 2013.  Cullotta’s testimony put a huge crimp in the Chicago Outfit’s hold on Las Vegas when several mobsters were put behind bars. With a contract out on his life, Cullotta survived his time in prison, as well as in the witness protection program, and is now a free man!

Robert George Allen is the Producer/Dirctor of the Haunted Vegas Tours, The Vegas Mob Tours and the Goodsprings Ghost Hunt! He is the host of his own radio show on BlogTalk Radio. Robert George Allen recently penned his new book called “Adventures of a Ghost Stalker” which is set to be released in 2013.

Mob-Con 2013 will be held at Palace Station Hotel & Casino September 7 and 8, 2013 along with a “Meet & Greet Cocktail Party at the “Mob Attraction” on September 6th,” located in the Tropicana.

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It's a Mob takeover on Crime Wire!

Join host, Dennis Griffin, and a couple of his friends and former mobsters for an hour of discussion about their life of crime within the Mob.

 Andrew DiDonato began his criminal career in Brooklyn in 1979 at the age of 14. In 1982 he became an associate of the Nicky Corozzo crew of the Gambino family and for the next 15 years his crimes ranged from larceny and robbery to credit card fraud, bank robbery and attempted murder. In 1997 he was on the lam from law enforcement and under a death sentence from his own crew and another organized crime family. The law
caught him first and he eventually became a cooperating government witness. DiDonato is the subject of the popular book, Surviving the Mob by Crime Wire host, Dennis Griffin.

After a lengthy criminal career in the Windy City with the Chicago Outfit, Frank Cullotta joined his boyhood friend and feared enforcer Tony Spilotro in Las Vegas. In 1982 Spilotro and Frank had a falling out and
the Outfit authorized a contract on Frank. Facing life behind bars or death at the hands of Outfit killers, Frank flipped and became a government witness.

In the 1995 hit movie Casino, actor Joe Pesci played a character based on Spilotro. Frank served as a technical consultant to the film and played a hit man in several murder scenes. His “Frankie” character was played by Frank Vincent.

The complete story of Frank Cullotta can be found in the book by Dennis Griffin, Cullotta.

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Denny Griffin Events! MOBSTERTHON on Coast to Coast Radio and Book Signing

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Mobsterthon! on Coast to Coast Radio

From Coast to Coast Radio, George Knapp is hosting the MOBSTERTHON with an array of former, real-life mobsters.  Joining him for the whole 4 hour broadcast is true crime author and mob historian, Dennis Griffin, Sunday, April 29, from 10 pm until 2 am Pacific.

George Knapp is a 14-time Emmy Award-winning journalist whose reporting on Nevada’s infamous Area 51 military base was selected by UPI as Best Individual Achievement by a Reporter (1989).

Other awards include the Associated Press’s Mark Twain Award for news writing and the Edward R. Murrow Award for Investigative Reporting. George is an anchor and reporter for the CBS affiliate KLAS-TV in Las Vegas and he also writes a weekly column for a Las Vegas newspaper.

Dennis Griffin, former New York law enforcement officer turned author, has written several books on the true stories of the Las Vegas mob and the era in which they reigned. He has participated widely in the opening of the new Las Vegas attraction, the Mob Museum which features him regularly.  Griffin is host of the radio shows Real Wiseguys every third Wednesday, and the weekly radio show, Crime Wire on Tuesdays.

MOBSTERTHON LINEUP

10 to 11 pm – Henry Hill, the original “Goodfella”

11 to midnight – Andrew DiDonato, former Gambino family member, and Billy Cutolo, Jr., son of “Wild Bill” Cutolo, the number two guy in the Colombo crime family

Midnight until 2 am – Frank Cullotta, of the Hole in the Wall Gang,  consultant and starring in “Casino”

10 pm until 2 am – Denny Griffin, True Crime author and Mob Historian

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Book Signing by Dennis Griffin

Date: Friday, May 11

Location: the Mob Museum, 300 Stewart Avenue, Las Vegas, Nevada

Time: 1 to 5 pm

Featured Books: The Battle for Las Vegas, CULLOTTA, and Surviving The Mob

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MOB TALK RADIO with Dennis Griffin Welcomes Ex-Mobster, Frank Cullotta

MOB TALK on Crime Wire Radio

On Wednesday, October 12, 9pm ET, co-hosts Andrew DiDonato and Denny Griffin will welcome former Chicago and Las Vegas mobsterFrank Cullotta to MOB TALK on Crime Wire Radio.

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Frank Cullotta was born in Chicago in 1938. He began his decades-long criminal career as a teenager, graduating from petty theft to burglary, armed robbery, arson and murder. While growing up he met another young tough on the streets of the Windy City: Tony Spilotro. The two boys became friends and criminal allies.

As they grew older Frank preferred to operate independent of the Mob. But Tony went on to become a made man and feared enforcer of the Chicago Outfit. And in 1971 the Outfit bosses sent him to Las Vegas to keep an eye on their casino interests.

Returning to Chicago after being released from prison in 1974, Frank was invited to join Tony in Sin City. It was an offer he initially declined. But by 1979 Frank was under intense pressure from law enforcement in Chicago and agreed to join Tony in Vegas. His role was to watch Tony’s back and apply muscle as necessary. To accomplish that, Frank formed and ran a crew of burglars, robbers, arsonists, and killers that became known as the Hole in the Wall Gang.

However, Frank and Tony had a falling out in 1982; and at Tony’s request the Chicago bosses approved a contract to have Frank killed. Facing either life in prison for his myriad crimes or death at the hands of Outfit hit men, Frank rolled and became a government witness. His subsequent testimony resulted in the convictions of several of his former associates. He was preparing to testify against Tony Spilotro in June 1986, but Spilotro himself was murdered by the Outfit just prior to the trial getting underway.

In 1995 Frank was contacted by screenwriter Nicholas Pileggi regarding the Martin Scorsese film Casino.  He was hired as a technical consultant to the movie in which actor Joe Pesci played a character based on Tony Spilotro; and Frank Vincent played “Frankie,” a character based on Cullotta. In the film Frank appeared in several scenes as a killer, including one that was a fictionalized version of a murder he actually committed in Las Vegas in 1979.

Today, armed with a new government issued identity, Frank is out of the federal Witness Protection Program. He currently appears in organized crime documentaries and occasionally makes public appearances. In 2007 he wrote his biography titled CULLOTTA – The Life of a Chicago Criminal, Las Vegas Mobster, and Government Witness. 

MOB TALK co-hosts, Andrew DiDonato and Dennis Griffin

Listeners can interact with the hosts and guest through the show’s chat room or by telephone call in.

Mob Talk is presented by BEAR Media Consultants, LLC

You’ll be able to hear the show at Crime Wire Radio beginning at 9 p.m. Eastern.

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