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October 12, 2014
Best Selling Author Joe Bruno’s “Mob Molls – Beautiful Broads with Brass Balls – Volume 2″ was released last evening on Amazon.com, and it’s already ranked No. 2 in “Hot New Releases – Law Enforcement – Biographies and Memoirs.”
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In bed with every mobster is his wife or his goomara and sometimes even both. Sometimes the mobster’s sex partner is in business with him all the way; even if it means her breaking a few laws in the process.
“Mob Molls – Beautiful Broads with Brass Balls – Volume 2″ features “Mob Molls” Andrea Giovino and Lynda Milito. Both were women who helped run their husband’s criminal enterprises in New York City. Their stories are the same, yet so different.
Andrea Giovino reveled in her mob life. She loved hanging out in the company of men like John Gotti. Andrea got so involved in the rush that comes with being in “The Life” she resorted to running her husband John Fogarty’s shylocking business while he was in the can facing a life sentence for murder.
Lynda Milito fell in love with a hairdresser named Louie Milito. She didn’t know her lover was neck deep in the Mafia and one of its most proficient killers until it was too late; she was madly in love. Caught in the vice of passion, Lynda helped Louie run a stolen car ring, and even sank so low as to serve as a lookout while Louie went on a mad rampage for short money; stealing the coins out of every pay phone he could get his hands on.
And then things got worse for Lynda Milito, and much more bloody.
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*****
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In bed with every mobster is his wife or his goomara and often even both.
Sometimes the mobster’s sex partner was in business with him all the way; even if it means her breaking a few laws in the process.
“Mob Molls – Beautiful Broads with Brass Balls – Volume 1″ first features Mob Moll, Arlyne Weiss Brinkman, who spent more time on her back serving mobsters than Michelangelo did painting the Sistine Chapel.
FBI agent, Oliver Halle, Arlyne’s FBI handler, once said of Arlyne, “Arlyne was unintimidated when talking to mob guys. She was not afraid to ask the tough questions. Arlyne was one of a kind. She stands out in a class by herself. Nobody can even come close. ”
However, several mobsters did get too close to Arlyne, and they paid for their sexual escapades with severe jail time, which, to some, amounted to a life sentence.
Arlyne Weiss Brinkman was beautiful and racy alright. But, as many mobsters discovered to their dismay, Arlyne had brass balls bigger than most wise guys twice her size.
The second Mob Moll covered here is Texas Guinan – The Queen of the Prohibition Night Clubs.
Guinan started out as a singing female cowboy in Hollywood in the second decade of the Twentieth Century. But on January 17, 1920, after the Eighteenth Amendment (Amendment XVIII) of the United States Constitution effectively established the prohibition of alcoholic beverages in the United States by declaring illegal the production, transport and sale of alcohol (though not the consumption or private possession), the blond, beautiful, and voluptuous Guinan segued into the land of the speakeasy nightclub, where she became the most popular club owner on the East Coast of America
Of course, where there’s money to be made, and Prohibition was a cash cow for the mob, gangsters from various ethnic groups, including Owney “The Killer” Madden and Lucky Luciano, got their claws into Guinan. And, to keep her nightclubs packed and productive, Guinan played ball with the bad guys, and she abided by all the rules.
Unlike Arlyne Weiss Brinkman, Guinan never became a rat. And when she died unexpectedly from a sudden illness, the New York Mob gave Guinan a sendoff funeral worthy of the biggest mobsters of her time.
October 11, 2014
Another 5-star review for Best Selling author Joe Bruno’s “New York City’s Five Points: The Most Dangerous and Decadent Neighborhood Ever!”
Five Stars!!
By vickyon October 10, 2014
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Great book as usual. Easy and interesting stories.
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The Five Points is personal to me. In 1914, my mother was born at 104 Bayard Street, the youngest of 12 children. I grew up around the corner at 134 White Street, corner of Baxter. During my youth, the area was called Little Italy. But at the time of my mother’s birth, it was still called the Five Points
The term the “Five Points” was derived in the early part of the Nineteenth Century because its Ground Zero was a five-point intersection formed by Orange Street (now Baxter Street), Cross Street (First Park and now Mosco Street – Frank Mosco was my Little League coach), Anthony Street (Now Worth), Little Water Street (which no longer exists), and Mulberry Street.
Across the street from the front entrance to my tenement building and close enough to touch with three or four leaping bounds, was the ominous-looking city prison called the Tombs. The dark and dreary structure was the third incarnation of this monstrosity; the first two being located one block to the west on Centre Street. The Tombs played an integral part of the Five Points sordid history. Hundreds of dastardly individuals were hung at the Tombs, and hundreds of thousands more had the Tombs as their mailing address, some permanently.
In 1896, at the prodding of journalist Jacob Riis, the hideous Mulberry Bend was demolished by the city, and Columbus Park was built in its stead. Before then, the Five Points was predominantly Irish, and it is estimated that 10,000 – 15,000 people, mostly Irish, lived in horrendous squalor in the four square blocks that comprised “The Bend.” When The Bend’s buildings were razed, the Irish were displaced. Most moved north to Hell’s Kitchen, the area bounded by 42nd Street and 59th Streets, and 7th to 12th Avenues.
After the demolition of Mulberry Bend, the Five Points became the domain of Italian Immigrants sprinkled with a few hundred Chinese, who claimed parts of Mott, Pell, and Doyers Streets as their turf. In fact, over the first two decades of the Twentieth Century, the Five Points district evolved into two intertwining neighborhoods: Little Italy and Chinatown.
It wasn’t until the mid-1920s that the term “Five Points” started to fade from the vocabulary of the area’s residents. In fact, as a child growing up, when I spoke to my aunts and uncles, the term “Five Points” came up quite often and never in favorable terms.
Most remnants of the original Five Points have long been gone. But the names of its former inhabitants still flicker across the lips of many New Yorkers, never in a flattering context.
In this book, the history of the Five Points is detailed in alphabetical order; not in chronological order, which I found overlapped to such a degree to make it unwieldy.
So, fire up your Kindle and read about some of the most distasteful creatures ever to roam the face of the earth. They all inhabited my old Five Points neighborhood in times gone by.
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October 10, 2014
Joe Bruno’s new book “Mob Molls – Beautiful Broads with Brass Balls – Volume One” was released only two days ago, but it’s already ranked No. 1 on Amazon.com in the category “Hot New Releases Law Enforcement Biographies & Memoirs.”
Plus, it’s reached the rankings in three other categories.
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AMAZON TOP 15 BEST SELLERS IN “LAW ENFORCEMENT BIOGRAPHIES & MEMOIRS”
AMAZON TOP 30 BEST SELLER IN “HOAXES & DECEPTIONS”
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In bed with every mobster is his wife or his goomara and often even both.
Sometimes the mobster’s sex partner was in business with him all the way; even if it means her breaking a few laws in the process.
“Mob Molls – Beautiful Broads with Brass Balls – Volume 1″ first features Mob Moll, Arlyne Weiss Brinkman, who spent more time on her back serving mobsters than Michelangelo did painting the Sistine Chapel. FBI agent, Oliver Halle, Arlyne’s FBI handler, once said of Arlyne, “Arlyne was unintimidated when talking to mob guys. She was not afraid to ask the tough questions. Arlyne was one of a kind. She stands out in a class by herself. Nobody can even come close. ”
However, several mobsters did get too close to Arlyne, and they paid for their sexual escapades with severe jail time, which, to some, amounted to a life sentence.
Arlyne Weiss Brinkman was beautiful and racy alright. But, as many mobsters discovered to their dismay, Arlyne had brass balls bigger than most wise guys twice her size.
The second Mob Moll covered here is Texas Guinan – The Queen of the Prohibition Night Clubs.
Guinan started out as a singing female cowboy in Hollywood in the second decade of the Twentieth Century. But on January 17, 1920, after the Eighteenth Amendment (Amendment XVIII) of the United States Constitution effectively established the prohibition of alcoholic beverages in the United States by declaring illegal the production, transport and sale of alcohol (though not the consumption or private possession), the blond, beautiful, and voluptuous Guinan segued into the land of the speakeasy nightclub, where she became the most popular club owner on the East Coast of America.
Of course, where there’s money to be made, and Prohibition was a cash cow for the mob, gangsters from various ethnic groups, including Owney “The Killer” Madden and Lucky Luciano, got their claws into Guinan. And, to keep her nightclubs packed and productive, Guinan played ball with the bad guys, and she abided by all the rules.
Unlike Arlyne Weiss Brinkman, Guinan never became a rat. And when she died unexpectedly from a sudden illness, the New York Mob gave Guinan a sendoff funeral worthy of the biggest mobsters of her time.
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October 9, 2014
Best selling author Joe Bruno has 18 of the top 100 ranked books on Amazon.com in the category “Amazon Best Sellers: Best Law Enforcement Biographies & Memoirs.”
Bruno also has 16 of the top 100 books on Amazon.com in the category “Amazon Best Seller in Hoaxes and Deception.”
As a matter of comparison, top selling crime Author, Anne Rule, has 14 books in the top 100 on Amazon in “Hoaxes and Deceptions.” And some of those books are the same book three times; one for the Kindle, one for the paperback, and one for hardcover.
All Bruno’s best sellers are in ebook form for Amazon Kindle.
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October 8, 2014
A 5-star review for Best Selling author Joe Bruno’s “JULIUS AND ETHEL ROSENBERG – SPIES OR SCAPEGOATS?: YOU MAKE THE CALL.”
5.0 out of 5 stars Great, concise read on a subject I always wondered about.
October 6, 2014
By Tony A
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“Once I started, I couldn’t stop reading. I grew up on the LES and Joe’s book explained how it all went down for the Rosenbergs, right in my back yard. Great job Joe.”
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October 7, 2014
Best Selling author Joe Bruno’s Kindle book “JULIUS AND ETHEL ROSENBERG – SPIES OR SCAPEGOATS?: YOU MAKE THE CALL” is on sale today for only 99 cents. That’s 67 % off the normal price of $2.99.
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Author’s note:
I lived in Knickerbocker Village from 1964-1996, the same Lower East Side housing project where the Rosenbergs resided when they were arrested in 1950.
During the time of the Rosenbergs, Knickerbocker Village housed over 1500 families; most of them of Jewish, Italian, or Irish descent. But, by the time I moved to Knickerbocker Village the demographics had changed significantly. Following the Rosenbergs’ arrests, many Jewish families, for whatever reason, moved out of the neighborhood, and they were replaced mostly by Italian/Americans. Now, Knickerbocker Village, due to the recent increase in New York City’s Chinese population and the close proximity of Chinatown, is predominantly Chinese.
Over the years, I’ve heard people, who lived in Knickerbocker Village at the same time as the Rosenbergs, talk about the Rosenbergs and not always in a kind way. People generally spoke favorably about Ethel . But, as far as I can determine, Julius was disliked by practically everyone.
The $64,000 question is – were both Rosenbergs Soviet spies? Or, was being the faithful wife of Julius Rosenberg Ethel’s biggest crime?
The truth, as we shall see, is somewhere in the middle.
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October 6, 2014
Best Selling author Joe Bruno’s “Mob Rats – Gangsters Who Squeal – Volume 2 – The Cleveland Canaries” is on sale today at Amazon.com for only 99 cents. That’s an 80% discount from the regular price of $4.97
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AMAZON #3 BEST SELLER IN “LAW ENFORCEMENT BIOGRAPHIES & MEMOIRS”
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What Makes a Rat, a Rat?
Mathew J. Mari – New York City Criminal Attorney for 37 years
Contrary to popular opinion, rats are born and not made.
People think law enforcement ‘turns’ people into rats by persuading them to ‘turn state’s evidence,’ as the old saying goes. There is a difference between the verb ‘rat,’ which is what a lot of people do, and the noun ‘rat,’ which is what a lot of people are.
Real men don’t rat because they still have to look at themselves in the mirror. The reason they don’t rat is not because of some oath of silence (omerta), or because they are afraid of being killed, but because they simply ARE NOT RATS. The people who rat (the verb) do it because they ARE RATS (the noun). The people who rat were born rats and simply do what they were born to do when the circumstances benefit them.
It’s really that simple.”
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WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING ABOUT JOE BRUNO’S BOOKS.
5.0 out of 5 stars
GREAT BOOK FOR A TRUE CRIME FIX!
MOBSTERS, GANGS, CROOKS, AND OTHER CREEPS by Joe Bruno is packed with crimes and criminal stories that took place in NYC.
This author captured some of the bigger names in criminal history. The book is well-written and for over 200 pages, it’s worth a lot more than 99 cents. If you’re a true crime reader, you will enjoy the stories of mobsters, gangs, outlaws, creeps, crimes and criminals. This is a brilliant book to add to my collection.
RJ Parker, author of 7 true crime books
5.0 out of 5 stars!
Mobology 101
I absolutely loved this book. In fact, I could not put it down. As the title describes, when I finished it, I really felt as if I just took an introductory course about this subject. Mr. Bruno’ explanations and descriptions are quite detailed. As you get through the book, his narrative is very consistent. I really didn’t find any contradictions. I am a medical researcher and don’t know why I find this material so fascinating. The book is also written in both a serious and comedic manner. I am already on the second volume. Joe is quite the master. His stories are very accurate and consistent with other books I have read. Great work, Joe! – EPONYM
5.0 out of 5 stars
Another Great Book from Bruno!
Lots of research, hours of work, produced a great read about those not so great years way back then. If you like history, you will love this book, go for it. – Dexter
5.0 out of 5 stars
I love this book!
I’ve learned so much more about these types of people. I love the fact that the author of this book took the time to investigate and give factual information rather than hearsay or speculation. I can’t wait for your next masterpiece. – Silvia Garcia
Another 5-start review for Best Selling Author Joe Bruno’s “New York City’s Five Points: The Most Dangerous and Decadent Neighborhood Ever!”
*****
The Rotten Core of the Big Apple September 24, 2014
By Silver Screen Videos
Format:Kindle Edition
For the better part of a century, from the early 1800s to the early 1900s, New York’s Five Points was one of the most poverty and crime ridden parts of the city and the entire United States. Most people today know it, if at all, as the setting for Martin Scorsese’s “Gangs of New York.” But Joe Bruno knows the area better than most people since it’s where he hails from and he’s taken the stories he grew up with, added to them the results of a lot of painstaking research, and has come up with a new book, “New York City’s Five Points,” which contains a number of entertaining stories about the area and its most infamous residents and events.
“Five Points” is organized into a series of short chapters, usually two to ten pages in length, each devoted to a particular person, group, or incident, and Bruno’s chapters, for the most part, are arranged in alphabetical order, so they skip around a lot. Readers looking for a comprehensive history of the area will be disappointed, but those looking for fascinating, colorful tales will love this book. Since Bruno is far better at telling colorful anecdotes than organizing a formal history text, his approach, even though it skips around a great deal, is actually fairly effective. In many cases, Bruno probably had little historical information available (some of his chapters deal with events from the 1820s and 30s), so a short chapter provided ample space to tell the story.
The stories are indeed fascinating, starting out with the Chinatown murder of a well known comic that is accomplished by lowering the assassins down the side of a building, in a story that resembles a classic locked room tale but is actually true. I also enjoyed the chapter on Chuck Connors (not the actor, but the unofficial “mayor” of Chinatown), who specialized in taking leading celebrities of the day such as Sir Thomas Lipton on tours of the area, complete with a trip to an “opium den” that was a complete hoax designed to give his upper class guests some cheap thrills. There’s even a far more bizarre story later in the book about a con artist who victimized bunches of people by claiming that the southern end of Manhattan was in danger of falling into the Hudson River due to all the tall buildings that had been built there and that he could “save” the area by cutting off part of it and rearranging the rest.
I should point out that Joe Bruno’s books are not written in conformance with any style book I’ve ever seen. There’s a good bit of colorful slang (boxers “duke it out mano a mano”), and he includes conversations between characters that may or may not have actually occurred. However, I’ve read several of Bruno’s other books and, in this one, he seems to have toned down the language a bit so that it supports his stories rather than distracts from them. Further, since the book is organized in a number of short chapters that read like the telling of a story, Bruno’s colorful language is not nearly as distracting as it might have been in a longer, more formal text on the same subject.
There is some repetition in “Five Points,” as certain events and characters are described in different manners in different chapters, but it’s fairly minimal. However, those who have read some of Bruno’s other books should be aware that some of the material has appeared in what seems to be substantially the same form in some of his earlier work. Nonetheless, there seemed to me to be a good bit of fresh material, including a bonus chapter that really hit close to home, as Bruno talks at length about his Italian-American uncle by marriage who actually was elected mayor of Chinatown in the 1920s and later went to Hollywood. Uncle Johnny’s story is as colorful as those of the considerably seamier characters Bruno discusses in the earlier part of his book.
There’s a lot of fascinating material in almost every chapter of “Five Points.” Further, because most of the stories in the book take place before the days of Prohibition and “big name” gangsters like Al Capone and Lucky Luciano, they will be completely new and refreshing to many readers. After reading “Five Points,” readers will be well aware that organized crime in New York didn’t begin after World War I; it was well established and just as dangerous for a number of decades prior to the Great War. “Five Points” is a good complement to Bruno’s other books on crime in the Big Apple.
New York City's Five Points: The Most Dangerous and Decadent Neighborhood Ever!
