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Robert Kubecka: Garbage & The Mob

Robert Kubecka: Garbage & The Mob

The Outfit · Headgum

December 4, 202556m 20sExplicit

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Show Notes

This week, Dan travels back to the land of his birth--Long Island, New York--for a fragrant stroll past one of the Mafia's biggest moneymakers: garbage. As he and Alana find out, the garbage industry was a critical source of money to New York's Five Families, the cost passed on to everyone else. Until one honest garbage hauler--Robert Kubecka--decided to do something about this stranglehold, in a saga which would dominate Long Island news for years.


Sources

"Garbage, Dentists, and Mobsters – Resource Capital Group’s LCN Connections," Mafia Book Reviews, 2022.


Alan A. Block, Space, Time, and Organized Crime.


Alan A. Block & Frank R. Scarpitti, Poison for Profit: The Mafia and Toxic Waste in America.


New York NewsdayNew York Daily News, New York Post, The New York Times.

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Executive Produced by Dan O’Sullivan and Alana Hope Levinson

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