Sam Manninaros Big Score

Published: Oct. 23, 2023, 9 a.m.

Retired Intelligence Detective Gary Jenkins brings you the best in mob history with his unique perception of the mafia. Gary interviews David Rabinovitch, an EMMY-winning investigative journalist and filmmaker, about his uncle Wolf Rabin and his association with Pittsburgh mafia member Sam Mannarino. David wrote a book titled Jukebox Empire: The Mob and the Darkside of the American Dream and told several stories from his book. Sam Mannarino was a prominent La Cosa Nostra figure in Western Pennsylvania when he went into business with Wolf Rabin. Mannarino and his brother, Gabriel \u201cKelly\u201d Mannarino, controlled gambling and related activities in New Kensington for the Pittsburgh Crime Family. Of interest is that Sam Mannarino also had an interest in the Sans Souci casino in Cuba in the 1950s. This Cuban connection will be instrumental in the laundering of stolen bonds. David tells a story of international crime that stretches from the US to Canada to Cuba and Switzerland. David’s uncle, Wolf Rabin, got into the Jukebox business in the 1930s and developed many organized crime connections.
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\nTranscript
\nSPEAKERS
\nGARY JENKINS, David Rabinovitch
\nGARY JENKINS 00:00
\nWell welcome all you Wiretappers out there. It’s good to be back here in studio gangland wire. I have a really interesting story. I didn’t remember how I got onto this somewhere on the internet of course. And it was about a man named Wolf Rabin now what a cool name Wolf Rabin. And he got involved with Sam Mannarino, who was a many of you all know is a big time Pittsburgh mafia member and they did a international kind of a crime and then I found there’s a book on it, you know, and then it’s by I believe a relative of south of not Sam Manariono but of Wolf Rabin, and so I have that man here, David Rabinovitch. Thanks a lot for coming on, David.
\nDavid Rabinovitch 00:41
\nNice. Thank you for inviting me Gary was one thing in my family we pronounce to Rabin.
\nGARY JENKINS 00:48
\nRabbit work. Okay. All right, a little more Russian, Russian. My grandpa used to say those Russians,
\nDavid Rabinovitch 00:57
\nMy grandfather left Ukraine
\nGARY JENKINS 01:04
\nin hell really interesting. David is an Emmy winning documentary filmmaker and has a bunch of stuff out there.