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December 30, 2014
Best Selling author Joe Bruno has 7 of the top 19 Best Sellers on Amazon/UK in the category “True Accounts of Hoaxes & Deceptions.”
“MOB RATS – JIMMY ‘THE WEASEL’ FRATIANNO” is ranked highest at #3.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/bestsellers/digital-text/5435504031/ref=pd_zg_hrsr_kinc_1_5_last
December 29, 2014
2014 in review
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2014 annual report for this blog.
Here’s an excerpt:
The Louvre Museum has 8.5 million visitors per year. This blog was viewed about 89,000 times in 2014. If it were an exhibit at the Louvre Museum, it would take about 4 days for that many people to see it.
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December 27, 2014
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December 25, 2014
Best Selling author Joe Bruno’s “Whitey Bulger – The Biggest Rat” is on sale the entire week of Christmas for only $2.99.
“Whitey Bulger – The Biggest Rat” is presently ranked #2 on Amazon.com in the category “Best Sellers in Biographies of Law Enforcement, and #4 in the category “Biographies of Hoaxes & Deceptions.”
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Whitey Bulger – The Biggest Rat
December 22, 2014
Best Selling author Joe Bruno’s “Mob Rats – Joe Valachi” is FREE today on Amazon.com.
To grab your FREE copy, click the link below.
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“Mob Rats – Joe Valachi” has been ranked:
AMAZON NO.1 BEST SELLER IN “HOT NEW RELEASES LAW ENFORCEMENT BIOGRAPHIES & MEMOIRS”
AMAZON NO. 5 BEST SELLER IN “HOT NEW RELEASES HOAXES & DECEPTIONS”
AMAZON NO. 13 BEST SELLER IN “LAW ENFORCEMENT BIOGRAPHIES & MEMOIRS”
AMAZON TOP 25 BEST SELLER IN “HOAXES & DECEPTIONS”
AMAZON/UK TOP 30 BEST SELLER IN “POLICE BIOGRAPHIES”
AMAZON/UK TOP 50 IN “TRUE ACCOUNTS OF HOAXES & DECEPTIONS”
AMAZON/UK TOP 70 IN “LAW ENFORCEMENT BIOGRAPHIES”
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Joe Valachi was a small-time thief, who, because of his participation with the winning side in the Castellammarese War between Joe “The Boss” Masseria and Salvatore Maranzano, became a made man in the Mafia, under Maranzano, the new “Capi di Tutti Capi,” or “Boss of all Bosses.”
Valachi was not a good earner, and despite the fact he had his “button,” by the mid-1950s Valachi was practically broke. So, Valachi got involved in one of the Sacred Society’s few forbidden acts; he sold drugs.
Arrested, tried and convicted, Valachi found himself in the same Sing Sing Prison jail cell as his boss, Vito Genovese, who was also stewing in the can as a result of a drug conviction. For some reason, Genovese thought Valachi was a rat (he was not at the time). So, he kissed Valachi on both cheeks – the proverbial Kiss of Death.
Valachi now knew he was marked for extermination.
One day in the prison yard, Valachi saw a man who looked like a notorious Mafia hit man. Figuring it was either kill or be killed, Valachi grabbed an iron pipe and beat the man to death.
Unfortunately, the man was nothing but a low-level burglar.
Now facing the death penalty, Valachi tuned up his vocal cords, and he began singing a sweet song to the feds concerning the criminal acts of numerous fellow Mafiosi. As a result, dozens of mobsters, were tried, convicted and sentenced to significant prison time.
Valachi was the first known Mafia member to turn state’s evidence. His name will forever be associated with detested terminologies; such as informer, squealer, snitch, stool pigeon, fink, canary, and double-crossing rat.
And rightfully so.
Joe Valachi – Mob Rats – Volume 1
