Anthony M. DeStefano
Author
Publisher
Citadel Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Presents the rise and fall of Vito Genovese in this first comprehensive biography of the legendary mafioso--from his childhood in Naples, Italy, and the beginnings of his bullet-ridden criminal career on lower Manhattan's mean streets, through his self-exile in the mid-1930s back to his homeland where he ran a black market operation under the fascist regime of Benito Mussolini, and his return to New York where Genovese made a fortune as the head of...
Author
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
A vain man of good looks but no family ties to the Mob, Vincent "Vinny Gorgeous" Basciano worked his way up to acting boss of the Bonanno crime family, becoming its leader when official boss Joseph Massino went to prison in 2003. When the Mafia was crawling with secret operatives and informants caving to government pressure to flip, Basciano steadfastly obeyed the code of La Cosa Nostra. "I got faith in one guy," he said during a secretly taped meeting....
Author
Publisher
Kensington Publishing Corporation
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"The definitive book on one of the most notorious murders in Jazz Age New York history, that of Vivian Gordon, the high-end escort, con artist, and blackmailer connected to gangsters like "Legs" Diamond and Arnold Rothstein, whose death exposed the dark underbelly of police corruption throughout the city--from the Pulitzer Prize and Emmy Award-winning investigative journalist who is one of the foremost Mafia experts writing today. Like so many other...
Author
Publisher
LP
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Starring the organized crime dens and murder scenes of the Rotten Apple, this book details New York's underworld through the places where mobsters lived, worked, ate, played, and died. From the Bowery Boys and the Five Points Gang through the Italian Mafia, New York City's mobsters have always lurked just around the corner.
Author
Publisher
Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"The definitive book on the ultimate mob boss--featuring new FBI revelations, rare family photos, and never-before-published material . . . The press nicknamed him "The Prime Minister of the Underworld." The U.S. Treasury's Bureau of Narcotics described him as "one of the most powerful and influential Mafia leaders in the U.S." But to friends and associates, he was simply "Uncle Frank." Who was Frank Costello really? That's the question Pulitzer Prize-winning...
Author
Publisher
Citadel Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
The crime that inspired the movie Goodfellas.
The rest of the story that couldn't be told-until now.
One of the biggest scores in Mafia history, the Lufthansa Airlines heist of 1978 has become the stuff of mafia legend-and a decades-long investigation that continues to this day. Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Anthony DeStefano sheds new light on this legendary unsolved case using recent evidence from the 2015 trial of eighty-year-old mafioso Vincent...