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Author: Dr. Bruno Caporrimo Publisher: AuthorHouse ISBN: 1467827282 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 228
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Young Carlo Bruno Caporrimo, after the tragic loss of his families fortune as a result of the carnage and massive destruction of his native Sicily during WWII, and the subsequent death of both his mother and father shortly after immigrating to America, is persuaded by a bewilderingly glamorous and glittery underworld of top New York City Mafioso to conduct nefarious family deeds. By taking the wrong road Carlo becomes engulfed in a Manhattan night life of organized crime, gambling, sex and bribery. Proclaimed by the government as a marked jewel thief and finally ordered out of New York City by the District Attorney, he sets out west to begin a new life. It is here that he finds his redemption in Calvarys Cross and his spiritual destiny fulfilled. Travel the world with Dr. Bruno Caporrimo as he proclaims the message of faith, restoration and new life in Christ Jesus. Experience his first hand accounts as a Minister of the Gospel to the nations and read of the impact that his far-reaching ministry has had on lives. Journey with him in his autobiography from mafia boss to the cross!
Author: Dr. Bruno Caporrimo Publisher: AuthorHouse ISBN: 1467827282 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 228
Book Description
Young Carlo Bruno Caporrimo, after the tragic loss of his families fortune as a result of the carnage and massive destruction of his native Sicily during WWII, and the subsequent death of both his mother and father shortly after immigrating to America, is persuaded by a bewilderingly glamorous and glittery underworld of top New York City Mafioso to conduct nefarious family deeds. By taking the wrong road Carlo becomes engulfed in a Manhattan night life of organized crime, gambling, sex and bribery. Proclaimed by the government as a marked jewel thief and finally ordered out of New York City by the District Attorney, he sets out west to begin a new life. It is here that he finds his redemption in Calvarys Cross and his spiritual destiny fulfilled. Travel the world with Dr. Bruno Caporrimo as he proclaims the message of faith, restoration and new life in Christ Jesus. Experience his first hand accounts as a Minister of the Gospel to the nations and read of the impact that his far-reaching ministry has had on lives. Journey with him in his autobiography from mafia boss to the cross!
Author: Sam Giancana Publisher: Simon and Schuster ISBN: 1510711252 Category : True Crime Languages : en Pages : 498
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One of the most feared Chicago mobsters Sam Giancana clawed his way to the top of the Mafia hierarchy by starting as a hit man for Al Capone. He was known as one of the best vehicle escape artists, a tenacious business man, and a ruthless killer. He partied with major stars such as Frank Sinatra and Marilyn Monroe and did business with agents ranging from the CIA to the Vatican to the shah of Iran. When politician Joe Kennedy gave Giancana the chance to use mob muscle to get his son John elected, Giancana jumped at the task. But the Kennedy brothers double-crossed him, waging full-out war on organized crime throughout the United States. And Giancana went after them. Written with suspense and conviction, we learn about how the CIA asked Giancana to assassinate Fidel Castro. The book includes Giancana's testimony about the truth of his involvement in the deaths of Monroe and others, among others. Chuck Giancana, Sam's brother, contributes a unique perspective of the mobs relationship with the Bay of Pigs and many other pivotal events of the 60's and beyond. Double Cross is an eye-opening account of the interworking of the government and the mob and how this relationship has impacted American history.
Author: Nicole Fox Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 274
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An innocent girl like her... sold to a beast like me.NikitaAs the boss of the Bratva, I live my life by a code: Always stay in control.But I broke my own rule on the night I bought Annie.She was so delicate and desperate up on that stage.I'd pay any price it took to own her.She says she can't be bought.But she doesn't know how this game is played.In my world, everything has its price.And like it or not, she's mine now - my property, my possession.I'll claim her. I'll break her. And I'll protect her until the end...Even if it costs me everything.An innocent college student is dragged into the city's underworld when she is taken and sold to the boss of the Russian Bratva mob in this standalone, bad boy mafia romance from author Nicole Fox. Nikita will go to war to safeguard his fragile prize... but when the tables are turned, he discovers that there is far more to Annie than meets the eye.Find out more in Sold to the Mob Boss.
Author: S. J. Peddie Publisher: Citadel Press ISBN: 0806541628 Category : True Crime Languages : en Pages : 365
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“Couldn’t put it down.” —Nicholas Pileggi, author of Wiseguy (Goodfellas) and Casino The extraordinary life and times of a legendary crime boss who refused to squeal—but who finally agreed to talk to an award-winning New York Newsday reporter shortly before his death at age 103 . . . John “Sonny” Franzese reportedly committed his first murder at the age of fourteen. As a “made man” for the Colombo crime family, he operated out of his Long Island home specializing in racketeering, fraud, loansharking, and other illicit deeds he would deny to his dying day. His career in organized crime spanned over eight decades—and he was sentenced to fifty years in prison for robbery charges. But even behind bars, Sonny Franzese never stopped doing business . . . This is the true story of an old-school mafioso as it’s never been told before. Newsday reporter S. J. Peddie interviewed Franzese in prison—and uncovered a lifetime of shocking secrets from the legend himself: * Why FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover had a very personal interest in Sonny. * How Sonny managed to juggle numerous affairs with women, including a famous model. * How Sonny spent a third of his life in prison—and still managed to earn untold millions for the mob. * How Sonny accidentally revealed some of his worst crimes—to a “friend” wearing a wire. Through it all, Franzese refused to break the Mafia’s code of silence. Authorities believe he may have murdered, or ordered the murders of, forty to fifty people. Yet he earned a grudging respect from law enforcement and an absolute reverence from his fellow gangsters. Eventually he managed to outlive them all—until his death in 2020 of natural causes, a rare event in the Mafia. Thanks to a series of exclusive firsthand interviews, the astonishing life story of John “Sonny” Franzese can be told in all its bold, brutal, and blood-spattered glory. This is a must-read for anyone fascinated with Mafia history—and a rare look inside a criminal mind that has become the stuff of legend.
Author: Jerry Capeci Publisher: Macmillan ISBN: 1250037433 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 483
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Reminiscent of Wiseguy, Mob Boss is a compelling biography from two prominent mob experts recounting the life and times of the first acting boss of an American Mafia family to turn government witness 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.
Author: Frank Dimatteo Publisher: Citadel Press ISBN: 080653883X Category : True Crime Languages : en Pages : 320
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This true crime biography by a Mafia insider chronicles the hair-raising life of the notorious Colombo crime family boss. In the golden age of organized crime, Carmine “The Snake” Persico was the King of the Streets. The defacto boss of the Colombo Mafia family since the 1970s, he oversaw major rackets and legendary gang wars. Suspected of committing scores of murders and ordering hundreds more, he was sentenced to 139 years in federal prison. Yet even behind bars he continued to exert power over a vast criminal empire with the help of his brother, Alphonse "Allie Boy" Persico. In this blistering street-level account, “Mafia survivor” Frank Dimatteo teams up with veteran true-crime author Michael Benson to reveal the inside story of Carmine’s criminal career. Growing up on the mean streets of Brooklyn, Carmine got an early start as the leader of the fearsome Garfield Boys. He was recruited into the Profaci and Colombo crime families before his bloody betrayal of the Gallo brothers. This volume captures all the drama of Carmine’s infamous exploits—including his role in the ambush-slaying of Albert Anastasia—and the many courtroom trials where witnesses against him came down with sudden cases of amnesia.
Author: Philip Carlo Publisher: Harper Collins ISBN: 0061429848 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 374
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For the first time, a Mafia boss--Anthony Gaspipe Casso--reveals the shocking details behind his family's headline-making crimes to the "New York Times"-bestselling author of "The Night Stalker" and "The Ice Man." 8-page b&w photo insert.
Author: Thomas Maier Publisher: Simon and Schuster ISBN: 1510741720 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 558
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From the Bestselling Author and Television Producer of MASTERS OF SEX, a True Story of Espionage and Mobsters, Based on the Never-Before-Released JFK Files, and Optioned by Warner Bros. Mafia Spies is the definitive account of America’s most remarkable espionage plots ever—with CIA agents, mob hitmen, “kompromat” sex, presidential indiscretion, and James Bond-like killing devices together in a top-secret mystery full of surprise twists and deadly intrigue. In the early 1960s, two top gangsters, Johnny Roselli and Sam Giancana, were hired by the CIA to kill Cuba’s Communist leader, Fidel Castro, only to wind up murdered themselves amidst Congressional hearings and a national debate about the JFK assassination. Mafia Spies revolves around the outlaw friendship of these two mob buddies and their fascinating world of CIA spies, fellow Mafioso in Chicago, Cuban exile commandos in Miami, beautiful Hollywood women, famous entertainers like Frank Sinatra’s Rat Pack in Las Vegas, Castro’s own spies in Havana and his double agents hidden in Florida, J. Edgar Hoover’s FBI snooping, and the Kennedy administration’s “Get Castro” obsession in Washington. Thomas Maier is among the first to take full advantage of the National Archives’ 2017–18 release of the long-suppressed JFK files, many of which deal with the CIA’s top secret anti-Castro operation in Florida and Cuba. With several new investigative findings, Mafia Spies is a spy exposé, murder mystery, and shocking true story that recounts America’s first foray into the assassination business, a tale with profound impact for today’s Trump era. Who killed Johnny and Sam—and why wasn’t Castro assassinated despite the CIA’s many clandestine efforts?
Author: William Donati Publisher: McFarland ISBN: 0786493437 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 305
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Charley "Lucky" Luciano was instrumental to the development of the American Mafia and supervised the attempt to dominate prostitution in New York City. Not surprisingly, he has been the subject of numerous biographies, exposes, and various works of urban folklore since his death in 1962. This book takes scholarship on Luciano to a new level, using fresh research on the investigation, arrest, and conviction of Lucky Luciano to delve deep into the sexual and criminal underworld of New York City. Topics include the complex structure of the New York City bordellos and the takeover that resulted in Luciano's 1936 arrest; his considerable role in the expansion of the international heroin trade; and the shocking attempt to sexually frame a member of prosecutor Thomas E. Dewey's staff in a desperate bid to overturn Luciano's conviction.
Author: Dr. Bruno Caporrimo
Author: Dr. Bruno Caporrimo
Author: Sam Giancana
Author: Nicole Fox
Author: S. J. Peddie
Author: Jerry Capeci
Author: Frank Dimatteo
Author: Michael Franzese
Author: Philip Carlo
Author: Thomas Maier
Author: William Donati