Just Brought.



£1.98 inc postage on Ebay

I Have this it's ok it covers pretty much everything you will know already,at the start it's very interesting taking about Frankie Yale and the troubles he had with the Irish mob

Thats what i thought, ive put off buying for about 5 years but it was so cheap. But hope its ok, i read the intro and had too laugh.

Just brought

I want that as well,how much was it?

£4.20 on Amazon..

I think i may purchase this

from what i read in brotherhods he sounds likes a interesting charecter but a nut case.

As recommended numerous times by Turnbull (he's a good man), I've started reading Selwyn Raab's FIVE FAMILIES. At almost 800 pages, it'll be quite an undertaking. But so far, so good.

Has anybody read this at all, thinking of getting on ebay..

Get it... its a good book and easy read.

Thanks, im ganna go ahead and get it.

Just brought this on ebay..



£2.00 bargin

I cant see what it is mate?????


must be going blind


what is it?

A book about

THE ST VALENTINES DAY MASSACRE 1929

Sound


i just couldnt see the pic properly


Who is the author?

don't know but here sthe info about the book.

THE ST VALENTINES DAY MASACRE 1929

UNCOVERD EDITIONS

ON 14 FEBRUAY 1929, THE BODIES OF SEVEN MEMBERS OF THE BUGS MORAN GANG WERE FOUND RIDDLED WITH BULLETS INSIDE A GARAGE IN NORTH CHICAGO. THEY HAD BEEN LINED UP AGAINST A WALL , THIER BACKS TO THIER KILLERS, AND SHOT WITHOUT ANY SIGN OF A FIGHT. THE EVENT WAS TO GO DOWN IN HISTORY AS THE ST VALENTINES DAY MASSACRE.

THE EXTRACTS PRESENTED IN THIS UNCOVERED EDITION ARE OF THE SELECTED FILES TAKEN FROM THE FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION (FBI). THE INVESTIGATION WAS CONDUCTED BY THE CHICAGO POLICE DEPARTMENT, NOT THE FBI, AS NO VIOLATION OF FEDERAL LAW HAD OCCURRED WHICH WOULD PERMIT THE FBI TO INVESTIGATE. NO ONE WAS EVER ARRESTED OR PROSECUTED FOR THE CRIME.

UNCOVERED EDITIONS ARE HISTORIC OFFICIAL PAPERS WHICH HAVE NOT PREVIOUSLY BEEN AVAILABLE IN APOPULAR FORM.

Chopper posted an article over in the Organized Crime News topic about undercover agent Jack Garcia, and after reading it I've learned that a book about his infiltrating the mob and stuff will be coming out soon. You can pre-order it by clicking on the Amazon Books link that is on this website.



Making Jack Falcone: An Undercover FBI Agent Takes Down a Mafia Family
Joaquin "Jack" Garcia
Michael Levin

It's the story about an agent named Jack Garcia, who went undercover using the name Jack Falcone. He became close with Gambino capo Greg DePalma and was eventually proposed for mebership in to the Gambino crime family.

Sounds a lot like Donnie Brasco, which I enjoyed reading. This should be a really interesting book. I'm looking forward to it.

Thanks DC im ganna check this one out.

It's due out in September.

Product details

Hardcover: 304 pages
Publisher: Touchstone Books (16 Sep 2008)
Language English
ISBN-10: 1416551638
ISBN-13: 978-1416551638

when is it release in the US, September in the UK.

This was a decent read, not sure what to believe in the book though..

I couldnt belive he admitted there was a commision,in theory he should have been wacked for that.

just brought these..

Ive read killing pablo it's a great book

i picked it up today from woolworths 2.99

Definetly worth 3 quid mate,you got yourself a bargain

thats what i thought.

ive got like 5 new books to read..

Veteran political writers Bob Ingle and Sandy McClure do: In "The Soprano State" (St. Martin's Press), their tough-minded new book about New Jersey's culture of corruption, we meet Michael Taccetta on page 229: "Taccetta," described by law enforcement as a capo (mob lingo for a captain), "was sentenced (in 1991) to 25 years. Court TV's online Crime Library describes the 5-foot-7, 215-pound Taccetta as the real-life Tony Soprano."

Taccetta, capo of the New Jersey organized crime Lucchese family, popped right out when Garden State native David Chase was writing "The Sopranos," the long-running, much acclaimed HBO TV series about New Jersey's mobsters that concluded its run last year.

As viewers know, "The Sopranos" could be titillating, and it could be a downer. You have a similar see-saw feeling reading this exhaustive new book by Ingle, the Trenton bureau chief for Gannett's New Jersey newspapers, and McClure, a political reporter who previously wrote "Christie Whitman: A Political Biography."

But mobsters are not the writers' primary target: Elected officials from small towns to the highest office in the state, employees on the public payroll and political "bosses" are the object of the writers' damning scalpel.

"No matter who gets elected, it doesn't make a difference," they muse with regret as they begin their sorry tale of what's ailing New Jersey. Ingle and McClure dedicate their book "for taxpayers everywhere."

Ingle and McClure spell out how the heavily burdened New Jersey taxpayer pays for the political favoritism and corruption that leads to rip-offs in pension systems, bond repayments, hiring practices, noncompetitive bidding contracts and inflated employee rosters.

They cull their stories from their own and other staffers' previously published reporting in Gannett newspapers, which include the Courier-Post, Asbury Park Press, Courier News and Home News Tribune, as well as the Record of Hackensack, The Star-Ledger, the Trentonian and The New York Times.

Ten briskly written chapters, laced with appropriately acerbic humor, have such titles as "Lots of Power, Less Common Sense," "All Aboard the Gravy Train," "On the Boardwalk: Sand, Sea, Sun, and Scandal" and, my favorite, "The Soviet Socialist Republic of Jersey."

Ingle and McClure tell us that the leading corrupt local government is in Monmouth County. With the fourth largest population, it has the second largest government payroll and "many employees got there the old-fashioned way -- their political connections."

Bribery in high places

Citing the 2005 "Club Monmouth" series that ran in the Asbury Park Press, they write that "Decades of single party control by the GOP (Republican Party), (and a) windfall of tax dollars from soaring property values have produced a culture of perks, patronage and fiscal excess."

But this particular tale, which includes bribery in high places (a developer, a mayor) isn't unique: Similar incidents occur statewide, Ingle and McClure say.

In dozens of examples, the authors lay the blame at a political system ripe for financial exploiting, including 566 municipalities, each requiring its own judge, police chief and staffs, all receiving generous pensions and health coverage for life; 616 school districts, with suburban taxpayers supporting less prosperous urban districts, thus hiking their own property taxes to make up the difference at their districts; and 50 state authorities floating billions of dollars in bonds with no supervision or public vote.

The authors say there are 81 government workers per square mile in New Jersey, versus the national average of six. Your tax dollars also are high because of "tacking," whereby public employees string jobs together in the public sector to enlarge their pension.

There are no-bid contracts, a powerful political boss receiving kickbacks, state legislators with too many other jobs to spend much time legislating with acumen and even an attorney general who was fined by the state ethics committee, the first time that had happened in its history.

As the writers say, "You can't make this stuff up."

Ingle and McClure provide countless stories of chicanery in high and low places. Frankly, it's depressing. Don't read "The Soprano State" at one sitting -- it's too disheartening.

Yet there are heroes among the dreck -- "prosecutors like U. S. Attorney (Chris) Christie who keep pursuing the crooks, and the efforts of whistleblowers" who speak out for what's right.

In their last chapter, Ingle and McClure offer some well-reasoned advice about how New Jersey can climb out of the sewer of corruption. Their suggestions include eliminating "senatorial courtesy," whereby a senator can block anything he wants for any reason; better and quicker disclosure of the origin of campaign money; banning handing out no-bid contracts to campaign contributors; requiring the attorney general be elected rather than be appointed by the governor; eliminating pensions and health care for part-time government employees, including elected positions; replacing overly generous public pensions with 401(k) plans; and banning carrying over of unused sick leave and vacations.

Again and again, Ingle and McClure say brazenly corrupt New Jersey is the butt of snide quips and is

http://www.courierpostonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080217/LIFE11/802170311/1006

Reading this now, very interesting.

Whitey Bulger is definitely an interesting character.