Made On long Island: The true story of how Little League baseball players met John Gotti through massive fireworks sales and became Cosa Nostra members that killed Boss of all Bosses Carmine Galante.

As featured on Gary Jenkins' Gangland Wire podcast

“There’s a lot here that people haven’t heard before.” — Gary Jenkins, Gangland Wire

For decades, the story of who killed Carmine Galante has been treated as settled.

It isn’t.

In July 1979, one of the most powerful bosses in American organised crime was shot dead in a Brooklyn restaurant. The official version of events has been repeated ever since — in books, documentaries, and courtrooms.

Recent events have allowed the author to come forward with new, first-hand testimony that directly challenges the accepted account.

Made on Long Island presents an insider account of the Galante killing, based on direct knowledge and first-hand testimony from those connected to the events.

It begins in an unexpected place:

Long Island.
Little League Baseball.
Teenagers selling illegal fireworks.

What follows brings them into contact with figures operating at the highest levels of organised crime — during the rise of John Gotti and a critical shift in power across New York’s Five Families.

This is a world where:

• ordinary conversations carried hidden meaning
• simple signals could determine outcomes in an instant
• and plans could change without warning

Including the moment when what was meant to be a rehearsal… became something else entirely.

Drawing on first-hand accounts, Made on Long Island re-examines the Galante case and challenges the accepted narrative — including what really happened in the aftermath of the hit, and what the Ravenite Social Club footage does (and does not) show.

As renewed attention turns to the case, the question remains:

What really happened that day — and why has the full story never been told?