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Page 131
Finally Valachi and Bobby Doyle asked Vito Genovese for permission to enter the already well - established numbers racket . The policy game , as it is sometimes called , is perhaps the simplest form of mass gambling ever devised .
Finally Valachi and Bobby Doyle asked Vito Genovese for permission to enter the already well - established numbers racket . The policy game , as it is sometimes called , is perhaps the simplest form of mass gambling ever devised .
Page 134
Then , when the bets come in the next day , Willie calls and asks for a couple of our bad numbers - the ones with the biggest play on them . You see , he is going to try to lay them off for us so we don't get hit too hard and help pay ...
Then , when the bets come in the next day , Willie calls and asks for a couple of our bad numbers - the ones with the biggest play on them . You see , he is going to try to lay them off for us so we don't get hit too hard and help pay ...
Page 188
This left Valachi with his numbers , his loan - shark racket , and his dress factory . Of these , only the factory , which had shifted production from its normal line to fill military orders , profited from the war .
This left Valachi with his numbers , his loan - shark racket , and his dress factory . Of these , only the factory , which had shifted production from its normal line to fill military orders , profited from the war .
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| Title | The Valachi Papers Bantam books |
| Author | Peter Maas |
| Edition | 9 |
| Publisher | Putnam, 1968 |
| ISBN | 0399108327, 9780399108327 |
| Length | 285 pages |
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