This is an excerpt from George Hassett's just released (Link to Amazon)Gangsters of Boston, which is published by Strategic Media Books - George Hassett
From Mob Lawyer to Mayor of Las Vegas - Only in America
Oscar Goodman spent more than 30 years defending some of the most notorious mobsters in America. Now he's written a book - Being Oscar - in which he talks about all that and more, much more.
- George Anastasia
The story Luna Park is a true story about a kid named Benny Iacampo that crossed the pond to the “Land of Opportunity” from Campobasso, Italy in 1914 with his father Carmen, searching for the same thing that all of the other immigrants were looking for; a better life. - Martin Iacampo, Sr.
In an apartment in the Boston suburb of Waltham, three young men, Brendan Mess, 25 years old, Erik Weissman, also 25, and Raphael Teken, 37, were brutally murdered, their throats having been cut with either a knife or an ice pick. - J. R. de Szigethy,
A true docudrama of the life of New York City narcotics detective Michael Palermo. Detective Palermo built his career on his unique ability to inhabit two worlds at once: the world of law enforcement and the underworld of New York¡¯s crime family organizations. - Richard Stanley Cagan
Jamaican criminal gangs in the United States have taken on the word "posse" after the very popular old Western films viewed widely in Jamaica. - Mike La Sorte, Professor Emeritus
Please note that Rick Porrello is NOT a national or
international organized crime or Mafia expert or historian. He does not maintain
contacts with mobsters, is unable to assist with family history research and is
unable to provide assitance with locating photographs. If you believe you are
the victim of organized crime, some of the agencies that may be able to help you
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Gangsters of Boston
From 1991 to 2004
