In this episode of Zone 7, Crime Scene Investigator, Sheryl McCollum, talks with Andrea Giovino, author of Divorce from the Mob, podcaster, and former member of the Mob. Andrea discusses life growing up in a large Brooklyn family entrenched in crime to becoming a loan shark in the mob and ultimately facing a RICO indictment. She opens up about her past, her relationship with John Gotti, life after crime, and her mission to help women break free from toxic relationships.

Andrea Giovino is a former mob member and loan shark, author of Divorce from the Mob, and host of the Andrea Giovino Podcast. Once deeply entrenched in organized crime, she was indicted under RICO but refused witness protection, later transforming her life through faith and advocacy.

Listeners can learn more about Andrea on IG @andreagiovino, andher podcast on YouTube @AndreaGiovino

Show Notes:

• (0:00) Welcome back to Zone 7 with Crime Scene Investigator, Sheryl McCollum  
• (0:10) Sheryl introduces Andrea Giovino to the listeners
• (1:00) Andrea gives a brief background of her upbringing and first crime
• (2:30) Life in the Mob
• (4:15) Facing RICO charges
• (5:00) The culture of being in a mob - loyalty and brotherhood
• (10:00) Transition and transformation post mob life
• (10:40) “ I had to dig deep down like emotional surgery to understand who, who I was and why I chose the men I chose and why I chose the things I had chosen.”
• (13:30) Reflecting on relationships
• (20:00) Public validation from Mark Ryder
• (23:30) Bar fight with John Gotti
• (24:00) Reflecting on life’s journey 
• (25:00) Writing Divorced From Mob 
• (31:45) The real John Gotti
• (36:30) Launching the podcast
• (42:30)  ”Everybody's a gangster until a gangster walks in the room.” - J.G.
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Sheryl “Mac” McCollum is an Emmy Award winning CSI, a writer for CrimeOnLine, Forensic and Crime Scene Expert for Crime Stories with Nancy Grace, and a CSI for a metro Atlanta Police Department. She is the co-author of the textbook., Cold Case: Pathways to Justice. Sheryl is also the founder and director of the Cold Case Investigative Research Institute, a collaboration between universities and colleges that brings researchers, practitioners, students and the criminal justice community together to advance techniques in solving cold cases and assist families and law enforcement with solvability factors for unsolved homicides, missing persons, and kidnapping cases.  

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