The Valachi PapersThe First Inside Account of the Mafia In the 1960s a disgruntled soldier in New York's Genovese Crime Family decided to spill his guts. His name was Joseph Valachi. Daring to break the Mob's code of silence for the first time, Valachi detailed the organization of organized crimefrom the capos, or bosses, of every Family, to the hit men who "clipped" rivals and turncoats. With a phenomenal memory for names, dates, addresses, phone numbers -- and where the bodies were buried -- Joe Valachi provided the chilling facts that led to the arrest and conviction of America's major crime figures. The rest is history. Never again would the Mob be protected by secrecy. For the Mafia, Valachi's name would become synonymous with betrayal. But his stunning exposÉ . broke the back of America's Cosa Nostra and stands I today as the classic about America's Mob, a fascinat ing tale of power and terror, big money, crime ... and murder. |
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Not only did he dominate newspapers, magazines, and television after some of the bizarre tidbits of what life was like with Vito, Joe Bananas, and Buster from Chicago were revealed, but he achieved true status when comics began cracking ...
Not only did he dominate newspapers, magazines, and television after some of the bizarre tidbits of what life was like with Vito, Joe Bananas, and Buster from Chicago were revealed, but he achieved true status when comics began cracking ...
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In the Depression years when Valachi began , nickel - and - dime bets were more the rule ; even so , the numbers bank controlled by Dutch Schultz had an average daily play of $ 80,000 . Valachi's own operation , with the infusion of ...
In the Depression years when Valachi began , nickel - and - dime bets were more the rule ; even so , the numbers bank controlled by Dutch Schultz had an average daily play of $ 80,000 . Valachi's own operation , with the infusion of ...
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Then the government , refusing to let Schultz settle up his back taxes , began preparing another indictment against him . A New York City grand jury also began looking into his connection with the numbers racket , and an up - andcoming ...
Then the government , refusing to let Schultz settle up his back taxes , began preparing another indictment against him . A New York City grand jury also began looking into his connection with the numbers racket , and an up - andcoming ...
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| Title | The Valachi Papers Bantam books |
| Author | Peter Maas |
| Edition | 9, revised |
| Publisher | Putnam, 1968 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 9 Jan 2007 |
| ISBN | 067163173X, 9780671631734 |
| Length | 285 pages |
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