Joseph Bruno's Blog, page 53
October 25, 2012
Book Description – Murder and Mayhem in the Big Apple – From the Black Hand to Murder Incorporated – By Joe Bruno
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When it comes to murder and mayhem, there has never been a more fertile backdrop than the mean streets of New York City. Whether it was murder for profit, or a contract hit ordered by mob bosses, or maybe just a simple hit because the killer didn’t like the victim’s face (this happens more often than you think), there have been more dead bodies deposited in the gutters of New York City than on the streets of any other city in the world. This is in addition to the thousands of murder victims whose bodies “did a Houdini”; or in other words – disappeared.
Whether they would admit, most people enjoy reading about a gruesome murder – the bloodier the better. Besides the casual civilian reveling in the miseries of others, certain killers also enjoy reading about their achievements in the press. Other killers couldn’t care less about the notoriety, but instead view the publicity as a method of convincing potential victims if they don’t cough up the cash requested, or do the right thing in other matters; their mutilated bodies might wind up on the front page of the newspapers, too.
Then there is the psyche of the killer himself. Usually, the killer’s first hit makes little psychological impact on him. He doesn’t enjoy it too much, but he figures if this is to be his business of choice, he had better get used to the blood and gore, or slide into another line of work.
However, certain killers enjoy the act of killing so much, they have no qualms about carving up some poor soul’s throat and torso (or maybe both), then celebrating the hit by devouring a rare roast beef sandwich, minutes after slicing his victim into the hereafter.
In highlighting the most prolific killers in the history of New York City, if not the world, this book starts with the bloody Black Hand and then pitches forward a decade later to the Boys from Brownsville, who morphed into the greatest death machine in the history of America: Murder Incorporated, better known as Murder Inc.
So fire up your Kindle, pour yourself a glass of your favorite beverage, and enjoy the most vicious killers ever to prowl the streets of New York City.
However – a word of caution. While reading, stay away from rare roast beef sandwiches, dripping in blood.
Book Description – The Wrong Man: Who Ordered the Murder of Gambler Herman Rosenthal and Why – By Joe Bruno
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2012 is the 100-year anniversary of the murder of small-time gambler Herman Rosenthal – the most celebrated murder of its time. Make no mistake, there are no good guys here; no innocent victims. The fact is Bald Jack Rose, a well-known New York City criminal, framed crooked New York City police lieutenant – Charles Becker – for the killing of stool pigeon Herman Rosenthal.
People in the underworld cheered the death of Rosenthal; he was disliked that much. But that doesn’t negate the fact that the wrong man sat in Sing Sing’s electric chair for ordering Rosenthal’s murder, while the man who framed Becker – and orchestrated the murder of Rosenthal himself – walked away a free man.
“The Wrong Man” explains how this all happened, and who benefited from Becker’s conviction and execution.
You’d be shocked, surprised, and sickened at how easily an innocent man, albeit a crooked cop, could be framed.
If it could happen to Lieut. Charles Becker, it could happen to any one of us.
A sobering thought, indeed.
Book Description Mobsters, Gangs, Crooks, and Other Creeps – Volume 3 – New York City – By Joe Bruno
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Like The Don said, “Forget the cannoli; but buy this book, or I’ll make you an offer you can’t refuse.”
As were Volumes 1 & 2, “Mobsters, Gangs, Crooks, and Other Creeps – Volume 3- New York City” is filled with delightful vignettes on some of the worse creatures God has ever created.
The most decadent article is the piece on The Old Brewery, located in the Five Points section of Lower Manhattan, where murder and debauchery, including incest, were an everyday occurrence. Close behind is Satan’s Circus, a section of New York City in Midtown Manhattan which displayed a brothel every few feet, and a gambling house on every street corner.
Disasters are covered here too; in the essays on the Brooklyn Theater Fire of 1876, and the General Slocum Paddleboat Fire of 1904. And if you are a fan of the Mafia, you won’t be disappointed in the bios on Carlo Gambino, Vito Genovese, Paul Castellano, and Carmine Galente, the last two of whom died in a hail of gunfire in public places; their gruesome death photos splattered on the front pages of the New York City daily newspapers.
Female reprobates are also featured. Like Sadie the Goat, who made a fine living rolling drunks on the Lower East Side docks, before she made the big-time as a riverboat pirate, plundering and pillaging along the Hudson River all the way to upstate New York. And let’s not forget Evelyn Mittelman, called “The Kiss of Death,” because several of her boyfriends were murdered by her next boyfriend in line.
This book is not for the faint of heart. But if you like reading about murderers, crooks, disasters, and degenerates, you’ve come to the right place.
So flip on your Kindle, press the right buttons, and enjoy. At only 99 cents, you’ll definitely get bang for your buck (minus a penny).
October 24, 2012
Joe Bruno on the Mob – A–List Celebs Fawn over Disgraced Former NYPD Chief Bernie Kerik.
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What is it about jailbird and former New York City Police Commissioner Bernie Kerik that has people of prominence falling all over themselves to visit Kerik in prison?
Kerik, who went from One Police Plaza to the Federal pen, was convicted in 2009 of tax fraud and lying to investigators when he was being vetted to become the head of America’s Homeland Security. Has had a steady stream of tony visitors, including Sylvester Stallone, former New York stock-exchange head Dick Grasso, and even Fox News’ Geraldo Rivera, who has gone as far as chartering a private plane for Kerik’s wife Hala and her two children to visit Kerik at his Maryland prison.
Grasso – I don’t understand. But Stallone, ever the entrepreneur, might have a future movie about Kerick’s life in the back of his head. As for Rivera, an exclusive interview with Kerik after he’s released from jail in 2013 after serving his 48-month sentence would score big brownie points with his bosses over at Fox.
There could be other reasons, like maybe Bernie is a real swell guy, but at the moment I can’t think of any.
New York Post, October 16, 2012
Sly Stallone, other A-listers visit Kerik in clink
It is back to push-ups in a cell and prison chow for disgraced ex-NYPD Commissioner Bernie Kerik, but he won’t be lonely.
Kerik, who testified in The Bronx last week in the perjury trial of construction execs Frank and Peter DiTommaso, gets a steady stream of visitors and mail at his federal penitentiary home in rural Maryland, friends say.
His visitors include Sylvester Stallone, former stock-exchange chief Dick Grasso, retired cops, correction officers and even a congressman.
“Bernie is the kind of guy, if there was ever a problem, I would want to be in a foxhole with him,” said caterer Albert Manzo, who appears on the “Real Housewives of New Jersey” with his wife, Caroline.
Manzo, who visits Kerik regularly, said they became friends years ago in Franklin Lakes, NJ, where they both have homes.
Kerik has a year to go on his 48-month sentence for tax fraud and lying to investigators when he was being vetted to become Homeland Security chief.
Longtime pal Stallone has been on Kerik’s list of approved e-mail contacts and they’ve exchanged messages, sources said.
A rep for Stallone said she couldn’t confirm their communication.
Grasso, whom sources identified as a visitor, didn’t return a call for comment.
Every weekend, Kerik’s wife, Hala, makes the five-hour drive with their two young daughters.
Sometimes, the family hitches a ride with Kerik’s friends — in cars, private planes and helicopters.
“The real interesting thing . . . is his list of loyal friends. He has a long list and they visit him on a regular basis,” said Byron Pitts, the chief national correspondent for CBS News, who befriended Kerik in Iraq.
Rep. Peter King (R-LI) has visited Kerik four times. “Bernie spends his time making you feel good,” King said, adding, “He provided a great service to New York.’’
Fox reporter Geraldo Rivera, another of Kerik’s friends, has chartered aircraft to make it easier for Mala to visit.
“They could not have put him in a more inconvenient facility,” said Rivera, who has made several visits to Kerik himself.
October 22, 2012
Joe Bruno- Disgraced New York City Cop Given 15 1/2 years in the Slammer
The beat goes on. And this time I’m talking about the New York City cop on the beat.
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In another display of New York City police corruption, disgraced East Village cop Nicholas Mina was sentence to 15 ½ years in the can for stealing four 9 mm guns from his co-workers’ police lockers and selling them to drug dealers. This is after several NY City cops were arrested and are awaiting trial for “flaking,” or planting drugs on innocent people. In addition, a few months back, other member of the New York City Police Department were arrested for being part of a “gun running operation.”
The question that begs to be asked is “How does New York City Police Commissioner Ray Kelly still have a job?”
The plain truth is that the buck stops at the top and Kelly has been a miserable failure for allowing a renegade culture to exist in the New York City Police Department. And Kelly’s boss Mayor Bloomberg is equally at blame for not getting rid of Kelly sooner.
I wonder if all Bloomberg’s money will buy him a fourth term as New York City Mayor.
How Bloomberg became Mayor for the third time, despite this being against city rules, has still not been properly explained.
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/ma...
A disgraced East Village cop is going to prison for 15 and a half years after admitting today that he paid for his pain killer addiction by swiping four 9 mm guns from his co-workers’ police lockers and selling them to a drug ring.
Nicholas Mina, 31, has been held without bail since his July arrest, and he remained rear-cuffed in his orange jump suit as he admitted to the drug-fueled betrayals of his fellow officers.
In addition to three Glocks and a Smith & Wesson he’d taken from lockers this spring at the Ninth Precinct, Mina admitted to selling his own, private-use Glock.
Steven Hirsch
Ex-cop Nicholas Mina, 31, pleaded guilty today to swiping four 9 mm guns from his co-workers’ police lockers and selling them to a drug ring to pay for his pain killer addiction.
Authorities have called the crime “shocking– ” and had caught Mina on wiretaps talking about taking and selling still more guns.
“It shocks the conscience that the [NYPD] Firearms Investigation Unit under covers had to put their lives in danger in order to spot another officer from putting [police] guns out on the street,” assistant district attorney Chris Prevost had said at Mina’s arraignment.
Mina sold all five guns to Woodhaven Queens-based kingpin Ivan Chavez, who fingered Mina in open court for selling him the five guns when he pleaded guilty in September. Chavez has ben promised 20 years prison for conspiracy and firearms sales.
Mina, a cop for four and a half years, was so desperate for pain killers, he sometimes called Chavez while he was at the precinct.
Chavez had already heavily defaced the serial numbers on all five transferred guns when they were recovered from his apartment. The numbers were later restored in the police ballistics lab.
“Did you sell those four pistols plus an additional pistol that belonged to you?” Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Edward McLaughlin asked Mina in court today. The ex-cop nodded and said “Yes” in a soft voice.
Mina pleaded guilty to nine felonies, the top count of which was conspiracy for working with Chavez. The ninth plea was for selling methadone shortly before the arrest.
The Chavez conspiracy has also embroiled a dot-com millionaires, Jennifer Sultan, 38, who allegedly sold Chavez some 60,000 pain pills also recovered in his apartment.
Mina’s sentencing was set for Nov. 7.
“As a New York City police officer, Nicholas Mina had the duty to protect citizens, but instead, he put their lives, and the lives of his fellow officers, at risk,” Manhattan DA Cyrus Vance, Jr. said afterward in a written statement. “Despite the continued serious problem of gun violence in our city, this defendant gave criminals easy access to dangerous weapons.”
Vance credited Mina’s arrest to NYPD’s Internal Affairs Bureau and Firearms Investigation Unit, along with the DA’s own Violent Criminal Enterprises Unit.
Joe Bruno on the Mob – Renee Graziano in Rehab
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When I first heard read in the New York Post that Renee Graziano, star of “Mob Wives,” was going into drug and alcohol rehab, I had my doubts about whether this was nothing more than a publicity stunt to garner more viewers for the show.
Combine the fact that she is bring a camera crew with her into rehab, with the fact that her people say “she was clean when she went into rehab” causes me to believe my first instincts were on the mark.
All I have to say is this: If Renee Graziano, who was married to that rat Hector “Junior” Pagan, is truly dependent on either drugs or alcohol and is going into rehab to rid herself of her demons, then she has my heartfelt sympathy, and I wish her the best. But if this is just a gag to trick more fools into watching that horrid show, Renee, and the producers of “Mob Wives” (her sister Jennifer) have nothing but my contempt.
From the Huffington Post
Renee Graziano, star of the VH1 reality show “Mob Wives” and daughter of imprisoned mafia man Anthony “TG” Graziano, entered rehab Monday, according to the New York Post.
Graziano was reportedly abusing pills, though she “was clean when she went in on Monday.”
The reality star’s rep went on to tell Page Six that, “Although Renee Graziano has been admitted to a rehabilitation center, it is not for any current drug or alcohol use of any kind. Her choice to enter rehab was made entirely on her own. She has made this decision for the betterment of her son AJ [Pagan]’s life, as well as to improve her physical, mental and spiritual health.”
“I remember the day I gave up drinking because that was the day that my father was arrested,” she told The Huffington Post in February.
Graziano has had a difficult year after her ex-husband gave information to authorities that landed her father in prison.
The 41-year-old is currently in treatment at Miami’s Transitions drug and alcohol rehab center. But Graziano isn’t alone in her journey. She is reportedly taking a camera crew along for the ride.
September 27, 2012
Joe Bruno on the Mob — Renee Graziano Had a Miscarriage – Not a Panic Attack
It’s hard to tell what’s fantasy and what’s fact when it comes to the drama queens on “Mob Wives.”
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B009CGA74M
Last January I wrote a blog here that Renee Graziano was rushed to the hospital with a panic attack because she had just found out her father, Anthony Graziano, has been arrested due to her rat ex-husband, Hector “Junior” Pagan’s treachery. Pagan wore a wire while talking to Graziano about collecting a usurious debt, and the FBI was listening, prompting the arrest of Graziano and five of Graziano’s pals who were also taped by Pagan.
Now it turns out Renee’s panic attack was a lie, and the truth was Renee had a miscarriage and the baby would have been Pagan’s.
I look at this with a mix of anger and disgust. Anger because the public was intentionally lied to, and disgust because Renee would even think about having another baby with a piece-of-crap like Pagan.
Read the article below and either weep, or puke; whichever you prefer.
44-year-old Mob Wives star Renee Graziano revealed a bombshell tonight on the Season 2 reunion: she actually miscarried her ex husband Hector Pagan Jr.’s baby this January when she was hospitalized after her father was arrested (because of evidence Junior gathered for the F.B.I. while wearing a wire. That’s some heavy stuff!
The original reason given to the media was a panic attack over her father’s arrest.
“Because of all of this (Junior informing on her father, and her father going back to prison,) I miscarried in Janaury, and that’s actually why I ended up in the hospital.”
Renee says she knows she couldn’t have carried a child with her age and circumstances, and puts a lot of the blame on Junior for creating all the stress that possibly helped cause the miscarriage. She hasn’t spoken to him since she found out he informed on her father, and says he didn’t qualify for the Witness Protection Program because he lied to the government. He’s currently in a Queen’s detention center.
September 22, 2012
Joe Bruno on the Mob – Donnie Brasco Surfaces Again
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Donnie Brasco is like Jason in the Halloween movies. Just when you think Donnie Brasco – real name Joe Pistone – FBI agents extraordinaire, is dead and buried as a professional witness, he returns to testify in another trial.
Read the article below, and if you are a member of the Canadian mob, read the article and weep.
PS – Donnie Brasco spent several years in my neighborhood in the Lower East Side’s 4th Ward in the mid-late 1970’s and early 1980’s. I ran into him a few times here and there.
I didn’t like him then, and I certainly don’t like him now.
Donnie Brasco’ to testify at Quebec’s corruption inquiry
http://www.torontosun.com/2012/09/13/donnie-brasco-to-testify-at-quebecs-corruption-inquiry
MONTREAL — New York Mob infiltrator Joe Pistone, a.k.a. Donnie Brasco, will be the next star witness at Quebec’s corruption inquiry, QMI Agency has learned.
The man who helped bring down the Bonanno crime syndicate and lived to tell about it will testify, face uncovered, about the Mafia’s role in public contracting.
He is scheduled to take the stand Monday at commission headquarters in downtown Montreal, sources tell QMI Agency.
The event will be televised live and the 72-year-old is expected to answer questions for at least a half day.
Judge France Charbonneau is examining the role organized crime plays in public infrastructure projects and political party financing.
Quebec’s former anti-corruption czar, Jacques Duchesneau, told the legislature last year that the Mafia launders cash at construction sites across Quebec.
He later told the inquiry about firms that conspire to inflate the value of public contracts before funnelling cash to political parties.
The former Montreal police chief also testified that dirty money accounted for a whopping 70% of political donations in the province.
The scandals were a factor in Quebecers’ decision to kick Jean Charest out of office last week.
Joe Pistone gained firsthand knowledge of Mob activities from 1976 to 1981 when he penetrated deeper into organized crime than any FBI agent in history.
Using the alias Donnie Brasco, Pistone posed as a mid-level foot soldier in the Bonanno crime family.
He gained the confidence of top mob leaders before turning his information over to his FBI bosses.
Prosecutors built an iron-clad case that resulted in stiff jail sentences for top Mob leaders in the 1980s.
New York subsequently formed a permanent anti-corruption unit that premier Charest duplicated in Quebec as he tried to dodge allegations that dirty money made its way into his Liberal party.
Pistone’s story was adapted for the big screen in the film Donnie Brasco, starring Johnny Depp and Al Pacino.
Source: torontosun.com
What goods will “Donnie Brasco” dish out at Quebec corruption probe?
WNBC-TV – Ida Libby Dengrove
MONTREAL – So how much light can “Donnie Brasco” really shed on modern-day corruption in Quebec?
The man who decades ago infiltrated the New York Mafia in an operation immortalized in a 1997 Hollywood film will testify next week at Quebec’s corruption inquiry, according to a report.
It wouldn’t be the first time on a high-profile witness stand for Joseph Pistone, the retired cop who assumed the Brasco identity during his undercover days and who is still hiding from the Mafia all these years later as a result of his old career.
One crime expert says Pistone remains an authority on the Italian Mafia and may be able to provide a broader picture of how the organization works.
But given that his expertise was gathered in another era, in another country, he might not have relevant specifics to share at Quebec’s inquiry, the expert said.
“He’s very knowledgeable, he’s very intelligent,” said Antonio Nicaso, an author and expert on the Mafia in Canada.
“But I don’t know what he can add about the Canadian side (of the Mafia).”
The French-language arm of the CBC reports that Pistone will testify on Monday — which happens to be his 73rd birthday. Spokespeople for the inquiry have not confirmed or denied the report.
Quebec’s Charbonneau commission is looking into criminal corruption in the construction industry and its ties to organized crime and political parties. Hearings are scheduled to begin again Monday after a nearly three-month summer pause.
Pistone is no stranger to testifying.
After infiltrating the infamous Bonanno crime family, and to a lesser extent the Colombo family, between 1976 to 1981, he spent the years that followed testifying in several trials that led to more than 100 federal convictions.
The Bonannos are alleged to have links to Montreal’s Rizzuto clan. In fact, Vito Rizzuto has spent the last several years in a U.S. prison in connection with 1981 murders that were referenced in the “Donnie Brasco” movie featuring Al Pacino and Johnny Depp.
Rizzuto is slated for release from a U.S. prison early next month.
Nicaso doubts that Pistone knows much about the Mafia in Canada or is up to date on current events. Montreal’s Mafia has been torn apart by a bloody power struggle since Rizzuto was extradited in 2006.
But Pistone is aware of just how the Mob functions — whether in Quebec or elsewhere — and might provide the commission with valuable insight.
“The Mafia is an organization that was capable of remaining in business for so long only because of its capacity to build relationships with politicians, businessmen, bankers,” Nicaso said.
“If they were only violent criminals, they wouldn’t have survived this long.”
Nicaso says that relationship with politics, legitimate business and the financial world is the key to understanding the Mafia’s reach.
Pistone noted in 1988, during testimony before a United States senate sub-committee, that organized crime was already undergoing a culture shift in that country.
“I think it has changed in that with the younger members coming up, they are not as dedicated to the society as the older individuals,” Pistone testified then, noting that the new generation was less tied to tradition.
“On the other hand, they have changed by diversifying more in their illegal activities. They are putting more of their illegal proceeds into legal businesses, legitimate businesses.”
Charbonneau commission spokesman Richard Bourdon said Thursday that he would not confirm Pistone’s presence next week. Witnesses to the commission are made public 24 to 48 hours in advance.
Pistone, who retired from the FBI in 1986, has worked as a consultant to law-enforcement agencies and as an FBI trainer since then. He has also authored several books and worked in film and television.
But the police legend leads a very secretive life.
He reportedly has a $500,000 bounty on his head and, even after three decades and an FBI warning for mobsters to leave him alone, Pistone still treads carefully.
In a 2005 interview with National Geographic about a documentary on the Mafia, Pistone indicated he was still taking precautions and travelling under an assumed name and in disguise.
In a 2008 interview with a journalist in Las Vegas, he changed the location of the interview at the last minute and when they finally met he was accompanied by bodyguards.
Source: vancouversun.com
September 18, 2012
Book Description – “Joe Bruno’s Mobsters – Six Volume Set” Now Available on Amazon.com – Just $2.99
Bargain – everyone loves a bargain, and Joe Bruno’s Mobsters – Six Volume Set is a bargain that’s hard to beat.
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B009CGA74M
This boxed set, consisting of six books by mob writer Joe Bruno, starts with Mobsters, Gangs, Crooks and Other Creeps – Volumes 1, 2, and 3 – New York City. All three books were once ranked No. 1 in the now-defunct Amazon book category “Gangs,” and all three are consistently ranked in the top 100 in Amazon’s “Organized Crime.”
According to New York City criminal attorney Mathew J. Mari, Mobsters, Gangs, Crooks and Other Creeps is “a composite of characters and events that entwines the denizens of New York City’s underworld with the rich history of New York City from the early 1800’s through the early 1900’s.”
The Wrong Man: Who Ordered the Murder of Gambler Herman Rosenthal and Why describes the events surrounding the sensational 1912 murder of stool-pigeon/gambler Herman Rosenthal, including the two trials and subsequent execution of New York City Police Lieut. Charles Becker. Becker was undoubtedly a corrupt cop of the highest order, but Becker did not order Rosenthal’s murder, and it was, in fact, to Becker’s advantage to keep Rosenthal very much alive.
Murder and Mayhem in the Big Apple – From the Black Hand to Murder Incorporated details the progression of New York City murder machines from 1900-1940. It starts with the Italian Black Hand, and cruises through the Boys from Brooklyn, which later became part of the most deadly American alliance ever: Murder Incorporated.
Finally, to cap off this six-book boxed set there’s Mob Wives – Fuhgeddaboudit! – a clever critique of the VH1 TV program Mob Wives. As L.L. McKenna said in her Amazon book review – The Real of Reality TV, “What a pleasure Mob Wives – Fuhgeddaboudit! is to read! Mr. Bruno not only provides insight to the ‘reality show’ but includes his blogs and responses. While scripted or not, the only truth is the paycheck that the “characters” cash while exposing themselves to the viewers.”
In summation: you get six Joe Bruno books for less than the price of a Starbuck’s cup of Joe.
Who says people can’t find a bargain these days?
“Joe Bruno’s Mobsters – Six Volume Set” Now Available on Amazon.com – Just $2.99
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B009CGA74M
Bargain – everyone loves a bargain, and Joe Bruno’s Mobsters – Six Volume Set is a bargain that’s hard to beat.
This boxed set, consisting of six books by mob writer Joe Bruno, starts with Mobsters, Gangs, Crooks and Other Creeps – Volumes 1, 2, and 3 – New York City. All three books were once ranked No. 1 in the now-defunct Amazon book category “Gangs,” and all three are consistently ranked in the top 100 in Amazon’s “Organized Crime.”
According to New York City criminal attorney Mathew J. Mari, Mobsters, Gangs, Crooks and Other Creeps is “a composite of characters and events that entwines the denizens of New York City’s underworld with the rich history of New York City from the early 1800’s through the early 1900’s.”
The Wrong Man: Who Ordered the Murder of Gambler Herman Rosenthal and Why describes the events surrounding the sensational 1912 murder of stool-pigeon/gambler Herman Rosenthal, including the two trials and subsequent execution of New York City Police Lieut. Charles Becker. Becker was undoubtedly a corrupt cop of the highest order, but Becker did not order Rosenthal’s murder, and it was, in fact, to Becker’s advantage to keep Rosenthal very much alive.
Murder and Mayhem in the Big Apple – From the Black Hand to Murder Incorporated details the progression of New York City murder machines from 1900-1940. It starts with the Italian Black Hand, and cruises through the Boys from Brooklyn, which later became part of the most deadly American alliance ever: Murder Incorporated.
Finally, to cap off this six-book boxed set there’s Mob Wives – Fuhgeddaboudit! – a clever critique of the VH1 TV program Mob Wives. As L.L. McKenna said in her Amazon book review – The Real of Reality TV, “What a pleasure Mob Wives – Fuhgeddaboudit! is to read! Mr. Bruno not only provides insight to the ‘reality show’ but includes his blogs and responses. While scripted or not, the only truth is the paycheck that the “characters” cash while exposing themselves to the viewers.”
In summation: you get six Joe Bruno books for less than the price of a Starbuck’s cup of Joe.
Who says people can’t find a bargain these days?
