Yup, according to Gotti Jr, and other Gambinos caught up in that case, the guy was a child molester.

It blows my mind that the FBI would go to bed with a child molester just to make a case. So while he's working for the Feds who is making sure he's not molesting children?

My 2 cents hes openly gay lawyer/biznes guy. Admits in the book to sleeping with kelvin cline models. Rips off a ton of people in some finicial scam in florida but the mob in nyc try to bleed him dry like they fo every strip club in the northeast. He kicked up 1000$ bucks a week to john gottis kid or wife je didnt deliver it from 91- 97. Not bad some other mob guys got the valet parking and another mob guy got the coatroom thats the whole gist of the book. I heard the child perv shit on here its probaly not true or maybe but they guy is a creep male model guy.

The molester stuff comes from the Gambinos, if I'm not mistaken. The mob has dealt with openly gay criminals before, ie. Vito Arena & his lover Joey Scorney, they were both members of the DeMeo crew.

Mobfather by George Anastasia, about Tommy Del's wife and kids. Even after reading plenty about the Scarfo era, this one still provided some interesting information I hadn't heard before. It was also good to hear from the perspective of a wiseguy's family. Plus it takes a stance against the deals the government cuts with these guys.

Also have been reading Joe Valachi's The Real Thing. So many interesting little bits of information.
http://mafiahistory.us/a023/therealthing.htm

A necessary evil, is it not?

It all depends on the frequency of recidivism I guess but it makes sense to me.

You can't bring down the hierarchies of criminal organization without informants.

It's intrinsic and integral.

Valachi's The Real Thing is quite an amazing read if you can get past the spelling eras and missing pages. This was Valachis initial, self-written autobiography of sorts, prior to the Justice Department fucking him over and throwing away his book deal over some bs. The Valachi Papers are Peter Maas revisioning of Valachi's self-written papers, a lot of stuff Maas chose to leave out, things that he felt weren't very exciting and some things he left out to assure his version will continue to meet the approved upon demands.

I totally agree. Informants are an important way of bringing down organized crime groups and they need incentives to cooperate. But letting them get away with multiple murders? I could understand if they got to serve a long prison sentence in protective custody, but let them get away with it?

"spelling ERRORS"..lol

Holy shit, I totally didn't even realize that.

If anyone's interested I found this podcast, about Joe Colombo. It's a 2 parter.

A book by his son( I think) Anthony. Anyone read it? I can't tell if this is an old or new podcast


I'm listening to Joseph Colombo ////// 72 - 11/01/2017 on True Crime Garage with TuneIn. #NowPlaying http://tun.in/thJD6S

Hoffa Wars by Dan E. Moldea. Meh. First and last chapters deals with an interesting run down of a "north vs. south" war going on between Marcello, Trafficante and co. (with Bonnano as ally) against some NY bosses, but in between that, just a painstakingly detailed account of Hoffa's corruption. I don't question the information, but it's mostly detailed information that only confirms what everyone already knew about Hoffa. The book really comes off as being "by and for teamsters". Moldea himself was once a trucker. As far as "I Heard You Paint Houses" goes, I want to see the Scorsese movie before I read the book.

slight interest maybe for the UK guys.


Its just come out and I've borrowed a copy from the library.
THE SHEPHERDS BUSH MURDERS

The 1966 killing of 3 policemen next to Scrubs prison. ( its really Acton, though).

The main killer/guy HARRY ROBERTS has become a bit of a cult hero with some saddos. And yet he ( and the other 2), were really minor league villains, if that. There's nothing interesting in the book about there criminal exploits.
Still, it's readable. ( I wouldn't buy it).

You might be waiting a while! I heard De Niro and Scorsese were making a new movie based on the book "I Heard You Paint Houses" back in 2010 so went and got it. Movie still hasn't come out!

Good book. I don't believe some of his tales but Sheeran was still involved with some major guys so it was interesting to hear what he has to say.

"In a related development, Pent- house magazine reported in its December 1998 issue that Blutrich is a longtime pedophile who avoided prosecution by using political connections and religious connections and hush money paid to victims to stay out of jail on a 1994 arrest.

The seven-page article by John Connolly quotes former associates, police and victims. It said Blutrich's new identity will enable him to avoid being disclosed in various states as a sexual offender."
http://articles.orlandosentinel.com/1998-11-13/business/9811120794_1_pfeffer-gotti-mob

This is also very disturbing behavior by Blutrich and the FBI as reported by Capeci:

FBI DEMOTES SHREDDER

WILLIAM K.
RASHBAUM JERRY
CAPECI
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
Sunday, August 8, 1999, 12:00 AM
A top Mafia investigator for the FBI has been demoted to street agent for shredding notes he took during numerous interviews of a controversial FBI informer in the John A. (Junior) Gotti case, the Daily News has learned. Law enforcement sources said FBI agent John (Jack) Karst destroyed handwritten notes of statements he took from Michael Blutrich, a lawyer who owned the topless bar Scores in secret partnership with the mob. Karst, the subject of an internal probe, had been a supervisor for about three months. "It's a serious matter in the FBI, but there do not seem to be any adverse legal ramifications," said one federal law enforcement source. Sources say the FBI has located copies of some original notes that Karst destroyed but concede that the bureau will never know for sure whether Karst destroyed notes of which no copies were made. New York FBI boss Lewis Schiliro demoted Karst several weeks ago when Karst told a superior he had shredded notes he made during the undercover phase of the probe into the upper East Side strip joint, sources said. Law enforcement sources say Karst destroyed the notes to spare further embarrassment to himself and Blutrich, who allegedly downloaded child porn from the Internet while an undercover operative for Karst in 1996. During the Gotti investigation, federal prosecutors and state Organized Crime Task Force investigators feuded with the FBI over its use of Blutrich as an informer. Other sources, noting that the FBI would not have known about the notes if Karst hadn't mentioned them, contend that Karst's actions were stupid but not venal. "It's difficult to believe he would do something on purpose to subvert justice," one source said. Karst and FBI spokesman Jim Margolin declined to comment.
http://www.nydailynews.com/archives/news/fbi-demotes-shredder-article-1.853076

Green Felt Jungle is on the way from Amazon. Ghost written in the '60's by a Vegas insider who used the pen name Ed Reid. Co written by Ovin Demaris (Frattiano's book). Read the first chapter at amazon and the writing was catchy enough to make me want more. Interesting to see see how much info he had (or was willing to share) on the NY families that owned the strip then. As long as it has a few entertaining stories it will be worth the $5 plus shipping.

Just got White Shotgun & Boss Of The Bosses: The Life Of The Infamous Toto Riina; Dreaded Head Of The Sicilian Mafia. Both books by Attilio Bolzoni, Giuseppe D'Avanzo co-authors the Toto Riina book. Just began reading White Shotgun, which is entirely made up of court transcripts, introductions from court trials, informant testimony, and just words from the horses mouth and so far so good.

I have read them both,and found both to be ok,but just updated from previous books really.

Well when it comes to Pentito testimony and books written about the matter, often these things are repeated in different books. Like The John Dickie book has captions thats shown up in other books related on the matter, Sicilian Mafia that is. Both books are critically acclaimed and have been cited by researchers. Bolzoni's books I mean.

“Kennedy Babylon Vol. 1,” a new book by Herald columnist and WRKO talk show host Howie Carr, explores the dark side of the Kennedy legacy, warts and all ... and then some. In today’s installment, we find old Joe Kennedy, the clan’s patriarch, worrying about two of the men who played key roles in his son John F. Kennedy’s 1960 election victory.

Joe Kennedy didn’t believe in making enemies needlessly — especially if they were cops or gangsters. There was just no upside to it, or at least not enough to justify the risks.

There were two ruthless, powerful men who likewise assumed that they did have something coming to them from the Kennedys. They expected to be taken care of, or at least treated with kid gloves, by the new administration.

One was a cop, FBI director J. Edgar Hoover. The other was a gangster from Chicago, Sam “Momo” Giancana. Even if his sons didn’t, Joe Kennedy understood what the Kennedys owed Hoover and Giancana.

Hoover had two sets of audiotapes of JFK engaging in scandalous extramarital sex — one from 1941, with suspected Nazi spy Inga Arvad in Room 132 of the Fort Sumter Hotel in Charleston, S.C., and the other with his 23-year-old Jackie-lookalike Senate aide, Pamela Turnure, in 1958.

Hoover had a reprieve (when JFK reappointed him), but he understood his continuing vulnerability. The problem for Hoover wasn’t so much Jack as his brother, Bobby, who as attorney general would now be the Director’s boss, at least nominally.

“You have to get along with the old man,” JFK told Bobby. The larger problem between Hoover and RFK may have been the Director’s homosexuality. RFK had a lifelong aversion to gay men.

Mobsters would be picked up on bugs or wiretaps discussing Hoover. In Philadelphia, one gangster accurately told boss Angelo Bruno why RFK was trying to get rid of the Director:

“He wants Edgar Hoover out of the FBI because he is a (expletive). I heard this before ... ”

Whatever his reasons, Hoover had next to no interest in going after organized crime until the Apalachin Mafia conference in 1957. That was a gathering of dozens of Mafia leaders from around the country in upstate New York.

(But) Bobby had always detested the Mafia. In the 1950s, when he had told Joe about his plans as a Senate investigator to take on both corrupt unions and the Mob, his father was apoplectic. He knew JFK would need union support when he ran for president in 1960. Joe also understood that any investigations of corrupt union leaders would inevitably lead back to the Mob.

Bobby didn’t care. First, he subpoenaed gangsters to testify in Washington, then he humiliated them at the hearings. RFK was particularly disdainful of the boss of the Chicago Outfit, Sam “Momo” Giancana.

RFK: Would you tell us anything about your operations or will you just giggle every time I ask you a question?

Giancana: I decline to answer.

RFK: I thought only little girls giggled, Mr. Giancana.

Still, in 1960, at the behest of his good friend Frank Sinatra, Giancana made his peace with the Kennedys. He delivered Chicago to the Democrats, and JFK carried Illinois.

Judith Campbell, the girlfriend of Giancana, Sinatra and JFK, later claimed the Mafia leader told her, “Listen, honey, if it wasn’t for me, your boyfriend wouldn’t even be in the White House.”

In return, Giancana expected a good leaving alone from the Kennedys. When JFK became president in 1961, both Hoover and Giancana were determined to get along with him.

Despite the Mob’s assistance ... as well as in the anti-Castro plots the Kennedys had inherited from the Eisenhower administration, RFK was still determined to bring the underworld to heel. He directed Hoover to turn the FBI loose on the Mafia.

By mid-1961, (Tampa Mafia boss Santo) Trafficante was complaining to whoever would listen about the “honesty” of the Kennedys.

But the angriest mobster of all may have been Giancana. He had done more for the Kennedys than anyone else in the underworld and now he was under close FBI surveillance wherever he went.

On July 12, 1961, he flew back to Chicago from Phoenix with his girlfriend, the singer Phyllis McGuire. Local FBI agents grabbed them at O’Hare Airport.

William J. Roemer Jr., a high-ranking Chicago G-man, separated them and then got Giancana in a room by himself. What happened next has been recounted many times.

According to Roemer in his first book, “Roemer: Man Against the Mob,” Giancana began screaming about Hoover and RFK and then said to the agent, “Bleep your super, super boss!”

Roemer, bemused, asked Giancana who his “super, super boss” was.

JFK, the enraged mobster replied. Roemer said he doubted the president cared about Momo Giancana.

“(Expletive) John Kennedy!” Giancana shouted. “Listen, Roemer, I know all about the Kennedys, and Phyllis knows more about the Kennedys and one of these days we’re going to tell all.”

According to Roemer, Giancana then said something else the FBI agents didn’t understand at the time.

“The (expletive) United States government is not as smart as it thinks it is, is it? You made a deal with Castro to overthrow Batista if he would kick us out of Cuba and now that deal has backfired on you, hasn’t it?”

Bobby and his aides repeated all the old jokes about Hoover and (FBI associate director and his alleged lover Clyde) Tolson. They called the Director “J. Edna,” and later, “Gay Edgar Hoover.”

One day it was brought up at a Justice meeting that Tolson was having minor surgery.

“For what,” Bobby asked, “a hysterectomy?”

On Dec. 11, 1961, Hoover sent Bobby a transcript of another bugged conversation between Giancana and (fellow Chicago mobster John) Roselli.

They were discussing what they had expected when Sinatra had brought them the offer of a hands-off administration if they came through for JFK in the 1960 campaign.

Roselli: Sinatra’s got it in his head that they (the Kennedys) are going to be faithful to him. (By which he meant organized crime.)

Giancana: In other words, the donation that was made ...

Roselli: That’s what I was talking about.

Giancana: In other words, if I ever get a speeding ticket, none of these (expletives) would know me?

Roselli: You told that right, buddy.

But the Kennedys had reneged on their pledge. Hoover must have been ecstatic when he read the transcript. The smoking-gun word was “donation.” The Mafia had “donated” to JFK’s campaign.

With the transcript, Hoover included for Bobby his own taunting description of what he now had Giancana saying on tape:

“He made a donation to the campaign of President Kennedy but was not getting his money’s worth.”

It will never be known what the Kennedy brothers did next, but a week later, on Dec. 18, their father suffered a massive stroke while playing golf in Palm Beach.

Joe survived, but he was totally incapacitated. He would never speak again.

Within three months, Sinatra himself would be totally cast out of Camelot, after Hoover told JFK what he knew about his girlfriend Judith Campbell and her ties to Sinatra and Giancana.

Giancana’s associates were as livid about the Kennedys’ double-cross as their boss. Johnny Formosa was one of the Outfit’s front men in Las Vegas. He knew what should be done to Sinatra.

“Let’s hit him!” he told Giancana.

Then, Formosa continued, he would personally exterminate the Rat Pack.

“Let’s show ’em. Let’s show those (expletive) Hollywood (expletives) they can’t get away with it as if nothing happened ... I could whack out a couple of those guys, (actor and Kennedy brother-in-law Peter) Lawford, that (Dean) Martin (expletive), and I could take (Sammy Davis Jr.) and put his other eye out.”

The overlords of organized crime were coming to a consensus. Yes, Bobby was a problem, but ultimately the source of his power was the president of the United States.

Within a month, the rumblings of retaliation by the underworld against both brothers were becoming even more ominous.

In September 1962, (New Orleans mob boss) Carlos Marcello was drinking with two of his underworld associates.

One of the hoodlums commiserated with the Mafia boss about the problems Bobby was giving him.

“Don’t worry about that little Bobby (expletive). He’s going to be taken care of.”

None of his men would be directly involved, Marcello continued. The job would be done by “a nut.” But, he added, it wasn’t Bobby who was going to be hit. It would be his brother, the president of the United States.

Coming tomorrow, Marilyn Monroe and her not-so clandestine romantic relationships with JFK and RFK.

Order Howie’s new book, “Kennedy Babylon,” at his website, howiecarrshow.com.

Just giving my opinion of them..I would say Bolzoni took a lot of words from Dickie and others.One mans good read is another's pile of shit.

So wanna give my 2cents about abook by larry mazza fake colombo soldier who lies about it n his book like were all dummys. He should have just kept it real. But i book the book for 10 bicks on amazon fire kindle whatever. I hope bronxs reads this his input would be fun. Were to start. Ok so he meets linda scarpas side chick who has 2 his kids in 1980. Basically linda way younger then greg an greg got alot of side chicks. She starts fucking the paper boy slash grocery kid. Hes a jerk for talking about this in his book about linda sucking his dick all types of weird soft plrn shit. No respect. Bronx there no way in hell anyone but greg n linda new she was banging the paper boy no way. That wimpy boys social club crww was a sick bunch of killers noway. And greg used the kid for all types of shit. Gregs sirial killer son greg jr goes to jail 88 . So all them years larry says hes banging linda i dont believe it happend after a year or 2. Just a weird book. You cant belive any of the rats book coming out today i swore i wouldnt buy one unless they were a made guy. Larry says somebullshit they meet n a dinner but didnt do the guns blood n saint thing but there made. And a offical ceromy will happen later. Nope lies. Then 400 pages of just fluffing your ego. Dude ya kids can read this book linda grandkids or kids just weird.

Vouch that! excellent, detailed book.

Looking for a good book about Joe Gallo and his crew.

I read the book by Tommy Del's kids and wife and was pleasantly surprised how good it was. It was a little before it's time giving the family's perspective before all the dumb shows came out. The kid was a bit of a screw up himself, I think he shot or killed a guy in Baltimore, and his friend got most of the time. I wonder how the kids turned out.

Yep, an awesome book, very detailed. It filled in these little bits of information that weren't know to the public. It's a must read for anyone interested in the life.

I was close to buying the Kindle edition this past weekend, some of the ratings scared me off, now seeing your take I'm glad I past on it.

Its bad gerry. But i really believe he thought greg was a good in his ticket to a made man status. But he even contridicts himself in the book he says at some dinner some capo burned a napkin on a plate and said him n hes best friend are made hut theyll have there official ceromony after allie boy comes home just abunch of bs. I also read gregs daughters book which hay atleast its a real edited book never mentions him other then gregs flunky. Heres what i think linda saduces the groceroy boy to get back at greg for fucking abunch of chicks he thinks to himself i cant kill this 19 20 old kid cause my crazy side chick is fucking him him. And it comes to a quick stop. Around 89 when gregs son n crew is locked up he recruits this young kid larry. There hasnt been a good well written mob book since little als book and crazy phils. Maybe this guy writting the goodfellas vinny asoro book will be good which i think will.

Just got done "Gaspipe" by Philip Carlo..mehhh..now I'm halfway through "The Quiet Don" about Russel Buffalino..very suprised,not bad at all..never thought as much about the northern penna. mafia ties & how much it was a significant part of every other family..intricate details,,Hoffa,Bruno,Sheeran,JFK etc..good read so far.