A Top NYPD Officer, The Mob, and An Investment Opportunity

The Leonard Lopate Show | Mar 13, 2017

WNYC’s George Polk Award-winning reporter Robert Lewis joins us to discuss the latest installment of his series, “NYPD Inc.” It follows an NYPD assistant chief and a series of real-estate transactions that connect him and high-level members of the Bonanno crime family. The chief now owns a house in the Bronx where the Bonanno crime family held their induction ceremonies, when they swore in new members of the mob.

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