‘The Jinx’s Marc Smerling Explores Crime & Corruption In Youngstown, Ohio In ‘Crooked City’ Podcast
deadline.comEXCLUSIVE: Marc Smerling, who produced and shot HBO’s classic true crime series The Jinx, is to explore a the complicated history of a Rust Belt town where car bombs and mob murders in a new podcast series.Smerling and his Truth.Media company have teamed up with Sony Music Entertainment for Crooked City: Youngstown, OH.The series is the follow up to Smerling’s Crimetown, which has previously covered stories in Providence and Detroit .It comes after Smerling’s latest docuseries, Mind Over Murder, which is a partnership with director Nanfu Wang and Vox Media, aired on HBO.
Subscribers to Sony’s The Binge can listen to all 15 episodes on July 25.It will investigate a time when thousands of steel workers crossed the Mahoning River every day to toil in the hot and dirty steel mills of Youngstown, Ohio, then blew off steam Friday nights in mob-run gambling halls, brothels and bars.
Illegal gambling was so lucrative that Cleveland and Pittsburgh Mafia families killed to control it. Every part of the government was corrupt.
Then, local football hero Jim Traficant ran for sheriff on a promise to clean up the city.Crooked City recounts Traficant’s story and impact, exposing his corrupt deals with the mob, his run for Congress and his time in Washington D.C.
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