On your iPhone or iPad: Click on the Podcast app on Android, use the Play Music app. Check out for the podcast, photos and extras, including archival video. "Buddy" Cianci Jr., and the New England Mafia. On your computer: Go to /crimetown for the podcast, slideshows and more stories about former Providence Mayor Vincent A. The "Crimetown" podcast is an audio documentary that can be downloaded over your computer, tablet, smartphone and portable music player. If you're new to podcasts, here's what you need to know to listen to "Crimetown": The city's illustrious mayor would end up in handcuffs and eventually resign from office. This legendary night nearly 34 years ago was a snapshot of the era of Cianci. 1 spot on iTunes after its debut.Ī "Divine Providence" billboard, with the Crimetown logo, now welcomes motorists entering the city on Route 95 north. There's apparently a national appetite for the Ocean State's mobsters and crooked politicians - Crimetown spent weeks in the No. The podcast, produced in partnership with Gimlet Media, is spending its first season exploring decades of crime and corruption in Providence and Rhode Island. And Providence patrolman James Hassett, the driver for the mayor, whose armed presence discouraged DeLeo from escaping.Ĭrimetown's producers Marc Smerling and Zac Stuart-Pontier have obtained the recordings of grand jury testimony, and in a darkly humorous seventh episode, they let Cianci, DeLeo and the others describe what happened. Two of Cianci's friends - former attorney general Herbert DeSimone and Joseph DiSanto, the head of the city's public works department - who tried to talk him down. There was the mayor and the accused man, Raymond DeLeo, a Bristol contractor. Only a handful of people know what happened that night in Cianci's home at 33 Power St. ![]() This Sunday's episode of the Crimetown podcast delves into that night in March 1983, a seedy and criminal moment that ended Cianci's first administration - but may have temporarily saved him from an ongoing federal corruption investigation that took down other city workers. There has always been speculation about what really went down between Cianci and the friend he accused of sleeping with his newly ex-wife. A lit cigarette, a fireplace log and a fist - few stories about Providence politics are as classic as this one, about one night in the life of then-Mayor Vincent A.
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