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| nick caramandi: Blood and Honor George Anastasia, 2004 Traces the rise and fall of the Scarfo family, one of the most violent Mafia families in America. |
| nick caramandi: Breaking the Mob Francis Friel, John Guinther, 2000 Between 1981 and 1989, Nicodemo Little Nicky Scarfo was boss of one of the most violent gangs in the history of organized crime, the Philadelphia-Atlantic City mob. Friel describes Scarfo's rise to power, his bloody feud with his arch rival, and the rise and fall of Scarfo's Young Executioners, who used the streets of Philadelphia as their murder playground. Friel also tells of his efforts to save an innocent man convicted of two mob murders from the electric air. |
| nick caramandi: Bringing Down the Mob Thomas Reppetto, 2006-10-31 The sequel to American Mafia chronicles the fifty-year attack by the federal government that virtually extinguished the nation’s most powerful crime syndicate. In the critically acclaimed American Mafia, Thomas Reppetto narrated the ferocious ascendancy of organized crime in America. In this fascinating sequel, he follows the mob from its peak into a shadowy period of decline as the government, no longer able to deny its existence, made subduing the Mafia a matter of national priority. Reppetto draws on a lifetime of field experience to tell the stories of the Mafia’s twentieth-century leadership, showing how men such as Sam Giancana and John Gotti became household names. Crusaders like Robert Kennedy led concerted—if sometimes sporadic—attacks against organized crime. As the battles between the feds and the Mafia moved from the streets to the courtrooms, Reppetto describes how it came to resemble a conflict between sovereign powers. In direct, shoot-from-the-hip prose, Reppetto chronicles a turning point in American Mafia history, and offers the provocative theory that, given the right formula of connections and shrewd business, a new generation of multinational criminals may be poised to take up the Mafia’s mantle. “Reppetto . . . is one of the rare commentators on the contemporary Mafia who has been able to view the Mob’s power grabs and struggles from the inside . . . [an] exhaustive and fascinating study.” —Booklist |
| nick caramandi: Organized Crime United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Governmental Affairs. Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, 1988 |
| nick caramandi: Russian Mafia in America James O. Finckenauer, Elin J. Waring, 1998 An examination of Russian organized crime at home and in the U.S. |
| nick caramandi: Ultimate Book of Gangster Movies George Anastasia, Glen Macnow, 2011-09-27 The gangster movie is one of the most popular genres in film. From the Italian, Irish, and Russian families in America to similarly sinister groups in Europe, Japan, and beyond, the cinema has never shied away from portraying the evil exploits of these brutal outfits. In this highly entertaining and informative book, two accomplished and apropos authors put the genre in perspective like no other author or documentarian has done before. The Ultimate Book of Gangster Movies provides extensive reviews of the Top 100 gangster films of all time, including sidebars like Reality Check, Hit and Miss, I Know That Guy, Body Count, and other fun and informative features. Also included are over a dozen stand-alone chapters such as Sleeper Hits, Fugazi Flops, Guilty Pleasures, Lost Treasures, Q&A Interviews with top actors and directors (including Chazz Palinteri, Michael Madsen, Joe Mantagna, and more), plus over 50 compelling photographs. Foreword by Joe Pistone, the FBI agent and mob infiltrator who wrote the bestselling book and acclaimed movie, Donnie Brasco. |
| nick caramandi: Hidden Power James Cockayne, 2017-10-01 What should we make of the outsized role organized crime plays in conflict and crisis, from drug wars in Mexico to human smuggling in North Africa, from the struggle in Crimea to scandals in Kabul? How can we deal with the convergence of politics and crime in so-called 'mafia states' such as Guinea-Bissau, North Korea or, as some argue, Russia? Drawing on unpublished government documents and mafia memoirs, James Cockayne discovers the strategic logic of organized crime, hidden in a century of forgotten political--criminal collaboration in New York, Sicily and the Caribbean. He reveals states and mafias competing - and collaborating -- in a competition for governmental power. He discovers mafias influencing elections, changing constitutions, organizing domestic insurgencies and transnational terrorism, negotiating peace deals, and forming governmental joint ventures with ruling groups. And he sees mafias working with the US government to spy on American citizens, catch Nazis, try to assassinate Fidel Castro, invade and govern Sicily, and playing unappreciated roles in the Bay of Pigs fiasco and the Cuban Missile Crisis. |
| nick caramandi: The Last Mouthpiece Robert F. Simone, 2001 |
| nick caramandi: Mafia Informants Larry J. Hausner, Ron Haggett, 2024-05-23 For many years, the FBI, led by J. Edgar Hoover, ignored organized crime, as the Bureau regarded local law enforcement as best equipped to handle it. That changed when Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy (in the 1960s) and New York City's Rudy Giuliani (in the 1980s) pursued eradication of the Mafia.. In this book, readers are introduced to several characters in the American Mafia, known as rats in the criminal world, whose cooperation with law enforcement resulted in the arrest of Mafia members across the country. Short biographies of each informant detail their crimes and deals made to stay alive or reduce lengthy prison sentences. FBI and CIA records released in 2017, and books written by the criminals themselves, reveal why previously loyal Mafia members and associates became informants. Most of the criminals written about are dead; a few are presumed to be alive and in the witness protection program. |
| nick caramandi: The Godsons Carl Palmieri, 2007-10-22 Tracing 37 years in the life of one powerful Sicilian-American organized crime family, THE GODSONS is a story that cries out to be heard. A decade in the making and based on years of painstaking research and historically-documented accounts, this novel gives the reader insight into the greatest power shift in the history of our nation; a shift that has affected virtually every state in the union. While many of the characters in the book are fictional, much of the story is based on real events that have occurred, and continue to occur, in our country and around the world every day. Appealing to readers interested in learning more about the secretive inner-workings of the U.S. government, THE GODSONS exposes the corruption of government at all levels and explains how, through one unholy alliance, a single family is able to tear down centuries of laws and traditions and dominate U.S. policy to the White House and beyond. |
| nick caramandi: Soul, Self, and Society Edward L. Rubin, 2015 Morality is not declining in the modern world. Instead, a new morality is replacing the previous one. Centered on individual self-fulfillment, and linked to administrative government, it permits things the old morality forbid, like sex for pleasure, but forbids things the old morality allowed, like intolerance and equality of opportunity. |
| nick caramandi: I ONLY SPIT IN BROOKLYN Ronn Costabile, 2018 A personal, powerful and shocking testimony of life as a heroin addict in Brooklyn in the 1970s and ‘80s. In this gritty, soul-bearing and honest account, Ronn Costabile takes you into a world of addiction and despair. Ronn tells his story with gripping detail and emotion-jerking reality. There is hope, however, for everyone who believes. After 25 years battling a paralyzing heroin and cocaine addiction, state prison time, and 15 years of organized crime, Ronn experienced a powerful conversion at the hand of God in 1987 while incarcerated. As his life was slowly being restored, he connected with Brooklyn Teen Challenge, a faith-based Drug Rehabilitation Center, where he then began as a volunteer in 1990. Six years later he became intake coordinator and soon afterwards director of the Brooklyn Men’s program. |
| nick caramandi: Notorious New Jersey Jon Blackwell, 2007-10-29 Notorious New Jersey is the definitive guide to murder, mayhem, the mob, and corruption in the Garden State. With tabloid punch, Jon Blackwell tells riveting accounts of Alexander Hamilton falling mortally wounded on the dueling grounds of Weehawken; Dutch Schultz getting pumped full of lead in the men’s room of the Palace Chop House in Newark; and a gang of Islamic terrorists in Jersey City mixing the witch’s brew of explosives that became the first bomb to rock the World Trade Center. Along with these dramatic stories are tales of lesser-known oddities, such as the nineteenth-century murderer whose skin was turned into leather souvenirs, and the state senator from Jersey City who faked his death in a scuba accident in the 1970s in an effort to avoid prison. Blackwell also sheds light on some historical whodunits—was Bruno Hauptmann really guilty of kidnapping the Lindbergh baby? Who was behind the anthrax attacks of 2001? Not forgotten either are notorious characters who may actually be innocent, including Rubin “Hurricane” Carter, and those who have never been convicted of wrongdoing although they left office in scandal, including Robert Torricelli and James McGreevey. Through 100 historic true-crime tales that span over 300 years of history, Blackwell shows readers a side of New Jersey that would make even the Sopranos shudder. |
| nick caramandi: Summary of George Anastasia's Blood and Honor Everest Media,, 2022-05-24T22:59:00Z Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Sample Book Insights: #1 Ocean City, Maryland, is a seashore town three hours south of Philadelphia. It is a summer getaway for the middle class, a city that bulges with tourists in May and September. In the summer of 1988, Ocean City was the hiding spot for mobster turned informant Nicholas Caramandi. #2 Caramandi was a mob associate who had been working with the FBI for several years. He was charming and entertaining as he described the scams and swindles that had propelled his early life. He was formally initiated into the most violent Mafia family in America in 1984. #3 Nick Caramandi was a member of the Philadelphia family, and he was tasked with protecting the organization. But he began to take them down, and as a result, he became a target of their paranoia. #4 On the night of March 21, 1980, a maroon Chevrolet Caprice Classic pulled up to the curb in front of a two-story brownstone in South Philadelphia. John Stanfa, a Sicilian immigrant and owner of a small construction company, was behind the wheel. Angelo Bruno, the longtime boss of the Philadelphia mob, was in the passenger seat. |
| nick caramandi: Mobfiles George Anastasia, 2008 A compilation of some of Philadelphia Inquirer reporter George Anastasia's best work, told from street level and often based on insights provided by investigators, prosecutors, and the mobsters themselves. |
| nick caramandi: Big Shots Adam Shand, 2011-05-24 In 2003, Adam Shand naively set out to unravel Melbourne's bloody gangland wars. A few months' research, a guaranteed cover story. But his foray into the underworld took him deeper than that. He became embroiled in a complex world where feuds raged between rival families, and where a new generation was clashing with the criminal Establishment. Before long, he found himself counted as a friend by those who sometimes ended friendships with a hail of bullets. In this fully updated edition, taking in the events of 2010, including the murder of Carl Williams, Big Shots takes the reader into the heart of the city's multibillion-dollar 'disorganised crime' scene, as Shand meets the key figures and suspects, including Carl and Roberta Williams, Mick Gatto and many others. He discovers the human drama behind the brutal slayings that were splashed across the front pages, and in the process comes to questions his objectivity. |
| nick caramandi: New York Magazine , 1992-03-16 New York magazine was born in 1968 after a run as an insert of the New York Herald Tribune and quickly made a place for itself as the trusted resource for readers across the country. With award-winning writing and photography covering everything from politics and food to theater and fashion, the magazine's consistent mission has been to reflect back to its audience the energy and excitement of the city itself, while celebrating New York as both a place and an idea. |
| nick caramandi: Mafia Wipeout Donald Cox, 1992 After years of terror, extortion, murder and graft, the greedy Scarfo organized-crime family fell to a determined FBI and Mafia turncoat witnesses--the first time since Elliot Ness and The Untouchables that the government has convicted an entire mob family. Includes a new section on the ongoing John Gotti case. Photographs. |
| nick caramandi: Organized Crime: Oxford Bibliographies Online Research Guide Jay S. Albanese, 2010-05 This ebook is a selective guide designed to help scholars and students of criminology find reliable sources of information by directing them to the best available scholarly materials in whatever form or format they appear from books, chapters, and journal articles to online archives, electronic data sets, and blogs. Written by a leading international authority on the subject, the ebook provides bibliographic information supported by direct recommendations about which sources to consult and editorial commentary to make it clear how the cited sources are interrelated related. A reader will discover, for instance, the most reliable introductions and overviews to the topic, and the most important publications on various areas of scholarly interest within this topic. In criminology, as in other disciplines, researchers at all levels are drowning in potentially useful scholarly information, and this guide has been created as a tool for cutting through that material to find the exact source you need. This ebook is a static version of an article from Oxford Bibliographies Online: Criminology, a dynamic, continuously updated, online resource designed to provide authoritative guidance through scholarship and other materials relevant to the study and practice of criminology. Oxford Bibliographies Online covers most subject disciplines within the social science and humanities, for more information visit www.aboutobo.com. |
| nick caramandi: Mafia Organizations Maurizio Catino, 2019-02-07 How do mafias work? How do they recruit people, control members, conduct legal and illegal business, and use violence? Why do they establish such a complex mix of rituals, rules, and codes of conduct? And how do they differ? Why do some mafias commit many more murders than others? This book makes sense of mafias as organizations, via a collative analysis of historical accounts, official data, investigative sources, and interviews. Catino presents a comparative study of seven mafias around the world, from three Italian mafias to the American Cosa Nostra, Japanese Yakuza, Chinese Triads, and Russian mafia. He identifies the organizational architecture that characterizes these criminal groups, and relates different organizational models to the use of violence. Furthermore, he advances a theory on the specific functionality of mafia rules and discusses the major organizational dilemmas that mafias face. This book shows that understanding the organizational logic of mafias is an indispensable step in confronting them. |
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| nick caramandi: Garden State Gangland Scott M. Deitche, 2017-12-08 Scott M. Deitche provides a historical examination of the rise of the mob in New Jersey, and the influence it had not only on the Garden State and New York metro region but the country as a whole. |
| nick caramandi: Shadows Over the White House Thomas A. Reppetto, 2014-10-20 How did the American Mafia and corrupt politicians assert so much power over the nation's affairs that the Mob's influence actually reached into the White House? Harry Truman had been one of three key lieutenants of Kansas City boss Tom Pendergast. Truman controlled the county government, while another lieutenant, Mafia Boss Johnny Lazia, carried out murders and other crimes as required to keep the machine in power. Truman himself was never accused of corruption. Once elected to the Senate in 1934, he became known in Washington as Pendergast's errand boy. When Pendergast himself eventually ended up in federal prison for evading taxes on bribe money, Truman remained loyal to him. With the fall of Pendergast, Truman appeared likely to be defeated for reelection to the Senate in 1940. However, Bob Hannegan, who ran St. Louis in conjunction with Mayor Bernie Dykman, came to Truman's aid and provided the senator's margin of victory. Harry Truman eventually became president upon FDR's death, opening a period of tolerance for the Mob throughout the country. The need for margins in tight elections in certain key moments, such as John F. Kennedy's in 1960, increased Mafia influence. More connections are clearly documented during the Nixon and Reagan presidencies, when the Mob played a role in securing key voting blocs. Thomas A. Reppetto was commander of detectives in Chicago and dean of John Jay College CUNY. He is the author of American Police, American Mafia, and countless op-ed pieces in major daily newspapers. |
| nick caramandi: Organized Crime Patrick J. Ryan, 1995 The latest in ABC-CLIO's series of background information for discussions or writing about contemporary issues. Ryan (criminal justice, Long Island U.) examines the Mafia and other organized crime groups, and efforts to control it. Included are a chronology from 1850 to 1995, biographical sketches of cops and robbers, documents and quotations from a wide variety of sources, a directory of resource institutions, and lists of selected print and non-print resources, and a glossary without pronunciation. The treatment is structured around ethnic minorities. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR |
| nick caramandi: Report Pennsylvania Crime Commission, 1987 |
| nick caramandi: Library Journal , 1991 Includes, beginning Sept. 15, 1954 (and on the 15th of each month, Sept.-May) a special section: School library journal, ISSN 0000-0035, (called Junior libraries, 1954-May 1961). Also issued separately. |
| nick caramandi: Current Publications in Legal and Related Fields , 1991 |
| nick caramandi: Canadian Periodical Index , 1965 |
| nick caramandi: Understanding Organized Crime in Global Perspective Patrick J. Ryan, George E. Rush, 1997-09-09 Long encouraged by the International Association for the Study of Organized Crime, the current research on this broad and intriguing topic is systematically brought together in this exemplary reader. Understanding Organized Crime presents a rich collection of articles by outstanding researchers in the field who examine empirical research examples, salient issues and their explication, and provide a theoretical foundation to serve as a guide into further explorations. Skillfully edited, this accessible and timely volume focuses on areas and trends such as: the nature of organized crime; theoretical perspectives; organized crime in Russia, Eastern Europe and Hong Kong, with predictions for the next century; the diversity of activities |
| nick caramandi: Pennsylvania Crime Commission DIANE Publishing Company, 1997-12 |
| nick caramandi: Journal of Contemporary Criminal Justice , 1993 |
| nick caramandi: The Origin of Organized Crime in America David Critchley, 2008-09-15 Introduction -- Black hand, Calabrians, and the Mafia -- First family of the New York Mafia -- The Mafia and the Baff murder -- The neapolitan challenge -- New York City in the 1920s -- Castellammare war and La Cosa Nostra -- Americanization and the families -- Localism, tradition, and innovation. |
| nick caramandi: Divorati dalla mafia Jean-François Gayraud, 2010-04-23T00:00:00+02:00 “Signor Presidente, l’Italia sta per essere divorata dalla mafia”, così scriveva profeticamente nel 1980 Pio La Torre in una lettera indirizzata al presidente del Consiglio Spadolini. Oggi, a trent’anni di distanza, possiamo prendere atto che quella previsione si è purtroppo avverata non soltanto in Italia ma anche in buona parte del resto del mondo. Nonostante le leggi sempre più severe, gli investimenti economici a livello governativo, l’impegno massiccio delle forze dell’ordine e il sacrificio di tante vite, le organizzazioni mafiose non soltanto sono ancora vive e ben radicate nel territorio, ma hanno acquisito un enorme potere sia a livello politico, in grado di condizionare le scelte dei governi, che economico, con un volume d’affari superiore al PIL di molti paesi occidentali. Come questore della Polizia francese, Jean-François Gayraud ha svolto per molti anni un lavoro di analisi delle strutture organizzative mafiose e della loro espansione mondiale. In questo libro è riuscito nell’arduo compito di tracciare una geopolitica delle nove organizzazioni più importanti – Cosa Nostra, ’Ndrangheta, Camorra, Sacra Corona Unita, Triadi cinesi, Yakuza, la mafia in Albania e in Kosovo, la maffya turca e Cosa Nostra italo-americana – a partire dalle loro origini fino ai nostri giorni. Secondo l’autore, la criminalità organizzata mafiosa è una questione che va affrontata a livello internazionale, con la stessa urgenza con cui viene combattuto il terrorismo e con strumenti intellettuali diversi da quelli applicati finora. Le mafie, infatti, hanno ormai ampiamente superato i confini nazionali, stanno imponendo una nuova geografia dei poteri e partecipano attivamente alla disgregazione del mondo contemporaneo. Divorati dalla mafia è un viaggio nelle profondità delle organizzazioni mafiose, che descrive le origini, i cerimoniali, il modo occulto con cui vengono condotte le operazioni di corruzione, intimidazione e assassinio, le alleanze, le lotte interne, la funzione e la credibilità dei pentiti, l’infiltrazione nel mondo della politica e il loro immenso potere economico. Un’opera necessaria per comprendere fino in fondo la pericolosa ascesa di una mafia sempre più “in giacca e cravatta” in una società dai tratti sempre più mafiosi. |
| nick caramandi: Being Oscar Oscar Goodman, 2013-05-21 In Being Oscar,one of America’s most celebrated criminal defense attorneys recounts the stories and cases of his epic life. The Mafia’s go-to defender, he has tried an estimated 300 criminal cases, and won most of them. His roster of clients reads like a history of organized crime: Meyer Lansky, Nicky Scarfo, and “Lefty” Rosenthal, as well as Mike Tyson and boxing promoter Don King, along with a midget, a dentist, and a federal judge. After thirty-five years as a defender, he ran for mayor of Las Vegas, and America’s greatest Mob lawyer became the mayor of its sexiest city. He was so popular his image appeared on the 5, 25, and 100 chips. While mayor of Vegas, he starred on the screen in Rush Hour 2 and CSI. He is as large a character in the history of organized crime as any of his clients and as legendary a figure in the history of Las Vegas as the entrepreneurs (his friends and clients) who built the city. This is his astonishing story—the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth. |
| nick caramandi: Criminal Conspiracies Margaret E. Beare, 1996 |
| nick caramandi: DIE AMERIKANISCHE COSA NOSTRA. Eine Untersuchung struktureller und kultureller Aspekte unter Berücksichtigung ausgewählter Memoiren ehemaliger Mafiosi. Eduard Drahomeretski, 2006-01-13 Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2005 im Fachbereich Soziologie - Recht und Kriminalität, Note: 1,0, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz (Insitut für Soziologie), Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Diese Arbeit beschreibt schwerpunktmäßig strukturelle und kulturelle Aspekte der italoamerikanischen Mafia, mit starker Einbeziehung von „Tatsachenberichten“ ehemaliger Mafiosi. In den USA gibt es mittlerweile eine ganze Reihe (Auto-)Biografien einstiger Mafiamitglieder. In der vorliegenden Arbeit finden insbesondere drei Memoiren Eingang: Erstens, die von PETER MAAS verfaßte Lebensgeschichte des Mafioso SALVATORE „SAMMYTHEBULL“ GRAVANO, der in der GAMBINO Familie bis zum Underboss aufstieg, bis er 1990 verhaftet wurde und als Kronzeuge vor Gericht gegen die Mafia aussagte [Maas: 342 ff.]. Zweitens, der „Tatsachenbericht“ von JOSEPH DONALD PISTONE, einem ehemaligen FBI- Geheimagenten, der unter dem Decknamen DONNIE BRASCO die BONANNO Familie infiltrierte und so Beweise sammelte, die zu über hundert Verurteilungen führten [Pistone: 10]. Und drittens, die im Jahr 2004 publizierte Lebensgeschichte von FRANK SAGGIO, einem Ex-Mafia assoziierten, der für alle fünf New Yorker Familien arbeitete. Jedoch kann man zu Recht den Erkenntnisgewinn aus diesen Memoiren anzweifeln. „Es gilt als sicher, dass jeder der Aussteiger übertreibt bzw. diejenigen Dinge verschweigt, die gegen die Gewährleistung von Immunität sprechen könnten“ [Neumahr: 33] oder, wie in PISTONES Fall, dem Ansehen seiner Person und des FBI generell schaden könnten. Selbst was die wissenschaftliche Literatur bezüglich der Cosa Nostra angeht, bleiben Zweifel über die Verlässlichkeit der Informationen. „Vieles was eigentlich nur vermutet wird, ist so formuliert, als habe es sich erwiesen. Während ein Autor den anderen zitiert, (...) entsteht der Eindruck, bestimmte Annahmen hätten sich im Laufe der Zeit bestätigt“ [Neumahr: 35]. Auch ALMOG, der sich mit der Geschichte jüdischer Krimineller in den USA auseinandersetzte, merkt dazu an: “Die Schwierigkeit bei der Rekonstruktion der Geschichte der jüdischen Gangster in den USA liegt vor allem in dem Mangel an nachweisbaren, exakt dokumentierten Ereignissen. |
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| nick caramandi: Making Jack Falcone Joaquin 'Jack' Garcia, 2012-12-11 At 6'4 and 375 pounds, Jack Garcia looked the part of a mobster, and he played his part so perfectly that his Mafia bosses never suspected he was an undercover agent for the FBI. 'Big Jack Falcone', as he was known inside La Cosa Nostra, learned all the inside dirt about the Gambino organized crime syndicate and its illegal activities - from extortion and loan-sharking to assault and murder. The result was a string of busts and a quarter of a million dollar contract put out on his life. A fascinating inside look at the struggle between law enforcement and organized crime, MAKING JACK FALCONE sheds new light on two organizational cultures that continue to exert an unparalled grip on our imagination. |
| nick caramandi: Justice on Fire J. Patrick O'Connor, 2018-08-21 On the night of November 29, 1988, near the impoverished Marlborough neighborhood in south Kansas City, an explosion at a construction site killed six of the city’s firefighters. It was a clear case of arson, and five people from Marlborough were duly convicted of the crime. But for veteran crime writer and crusading editor J. Patrick O’Connor, the facts—or a lack of them—didn’t add up. Justice on Fire is O’Connor’s detailed account of the terrible explosion that led to the firefighters’ deaths and the terrible injustice that followed. Justice on Fire describes a misguided eight-year investigation propelled by an overzealous Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) agent keen to retire; a mistake-riddled case conducted by a combative assistant US attorney willing to use compromised “snitch” witnesses and unwilling to admit contrary evidence; and a sentence of life without parole pronounced by a prosecution-favoring judge. In short, an abuse of government power and a travesty of justice. O’Connor’s own investigation, which uncovered evidence of witness tampering, intimidation, and prosecutorial misconduct, helped give rise to a front-page series of articles in the Kansas City Star—only to prompt a whitewashing inquiry by the Department of Justice that exonerated the lead ATF agent and named other possible perpetrators who remain unidentified and unindicted. O’Connor extends his scrutiny to this cover-up and arrives at a startling conclusion suggesting that the case of the Marlborough Five is far from closed. Journalists are not supposed to make the news. But faced with a gross injustice, and seeing no other remedy, O’Connor felt he must step in. Justice on Fire is such an intervention. |
| nick caramandi: Mob Boss Jerry Capeci, Tom Robbins, 2013-10-01 “[A] fascinating new book about mafia boss Alfonso D’Arco, who became the federal government’s most successful cooperator.” —The Village Voice Alfonso “Little Al” D’Arco, the former acting boss of the Luchese organized crime family, was the highest-ranking mobster to ever turn government witness when he flipped in 1991. His decision to flip prompted many others to make the same choice, including John Gotti’s top aide, Salvatore “Sammy the Bull” Gravano, and his testimony sent more than fifty mobsters to prison. In Mob Boss, award-winning news reporters Jerry Capeci and Tom Robbins team up for this unparalleled account of D’Arco’s life and the New York mob scene that he embraced for four decades. Until the day he switched sides, D’Arco lived and breathed the old-school gangster lessons he learned growing up in Brooklyn and fine-tuned on the mean streets of Little Italy. But when he learned he was marked to be whacked, D’Arco quit the mob. His defection decimated his crime family and opened a window on mob secrets going back a hundred years. After speaking with D’Arco, the authors reveal unprecedented insights, exposing shocking secrets and troublesome truths about a city where a famous pizza parlor doubled as a Mafia center for multi-million-dollar heroin deals, where hit men carried out murders dressed as women, and where kidnapping a celebrity newsman’s son was deemed appropriate revenge for the father’s satirical novel. Capeci and Robbins spent hundreds of hours in conversation with D’Arco, and exhausted many hours more fleshing out his stories in this riveting narrative that takes readers behind the famous witness testimony for a comprehensive look at the Mafia in New York City. |
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