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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I went about ten yards , when they turned and started to run away , so I ran back
to the guy on the ground . With all the blood , who could tell who the hell he was
now ? I gave him two more shots with the pipe . The three of them from the ...
I went about ten yards , when they turned and started to run away , so I ran back
to the guy on the ground . With all the blood , who could tell who the hell he was
now ? I gave him two more shots with the pipe . The three of them from the ...
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Finally two of Masseria's most trusted sidekicks , Charley Lucky Luciano and Vito
Genovese , secretly turned against him . In return for their promise to have
Masseria killed , Maranzano agreed to halt the war . Masseria literally never
knew ...
Finally two of Masseria's most trusted sidekicks , Charley Lucky Luciano and Vito
Genovese , secretly turned against him . In return for their promise to have
Masseria killed , Maranzano agreed to halt the war . Masseria literally never
knew ...
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He had been aware for some time that he was under periodic surveillance and
taken extreme care in visiting her . Operating out of there , he did his best to
salvage his shylock loans and turned over the supervision of his jukeboxes to
Joseph ...
He had been aware for some time that he was under periodic surveillance and
taken extreme care in visiting her . Operating out of there , he did his best to
salvage his shylock loans and turned over the supervision of his jukeboxes to
Joseph ...
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