Book Description
Ragano worked as a lawyer for various mob bosses for thirty years.
Author : Frank Ragano
Publisher : Scribner Book Company
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 45,25 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :
Ragano worked as a lawyer for various mob bosses for thirty years.
Author : Oscar Goodman
Publisher : Hachette Books
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 42,83 MB
Release : 2013-05-21
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1602861897
In Being Oscar,one of America’s most celebrated criminal defense attorneys recounts the stories and cases of his epic life. The Mafia’s go-to defender, he has tried an estimated 300 criminal cases, and won most of them. His roster of clients reads like a history of organized crime: Meyer Lansky, Nicky Scarfo, and “Lefty” Rosenthal, as well as Mike Tyson and boxing promoter Don King, along with a midget, a dentist, and a federal judge. After thirty-five years as a defender, he ran for mayor of Las Vegas, and America’s greatest Mob lawyer became the mayor of its sexiest city. He was so popular his image appeared on the 5, 25, and 100 chips. While mayor of Vegas, he starred on the screen in Rush Hour 2 and CSI. He is as large a character in the history of organized crime as any of his clients and as legendary a figure in the history of Las Vegas as the entrepreneurs (his friends and clients) who built the city. This is his astonishing story—the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth.
Author : Frank Ragano
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 27,35 MB
Release : 2017-08-08
Category :
ISBN : 9780997210002
First paperback edition of the groundbreaking account by the Mafia's key lawyer. Inside account of the Mafia at the top level.
Author : Jay Bergen
Publisher :
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 23,6 MB
Release : 2022-03
Category :
ISBN : 9781942531425
The story of John Lennon's lawsuit with Morris Levy, the Mafia-connected owner of Roulette Records.
Author : Gus Russo
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 642 pages
File Size : 36,6 MB
Release : 2008-12-12
Category : History
ISBN : 1596918985
This is investigative reporter Gus Russo's most explosive book yet, the remarkable story of the "Supermob"-a cadre of men who, over the course of decades, secretly influenced nearly every aspect of American society. Presenting startling revelations about such famous members as Jules Stein, Joe Glaser, Ronald Reagan, Lew Wasserman, and John Jacob Factor-as well as infamous, low-profile members-Russo pulls the lid off of a half-century of criminal infiltration into American business, politics, and society. At the heart of it all is Sidney "The Fixer" Korshak, who from the 1940s until his death in the 1990s was not only the most powerful lawyer in the world, according to the FBI, but the enigmatic player behind countless twentieth-century power mergers, political deals, and organized crime chicaneries.
Author : Michael A. Lamson
Publisher : Dorrance Publishing
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 46,79 MB
Release : 2023-02-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
Texas Mob Lawyer: A Novel By: Michael A. Lamson Sean, a criminal defense lawyer in Houston, represents major organized crime figures. As the attorney for a member of the Kansas City Mafia, he is placed in the crosshairs of a feud within the mafia. Told from Sean’s point of view, readers see the operation of the criminal justice system, along with the obligations and dangers of being a defense lawyer.
Author : Ruth Carter (Lawyer)
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 11,63 MB
Release : 2013
Category : Flash mobs
ISBN : 9781614389569
As flash mobs gain increasing prevalence there is a great need for organizers and participants alike to be aware of the various legal issues they may encounter. This new book is the first book of its kind to discuss the legal side of flash mobs and presents the reader with everything he or she needs to know about where the law stands on all issues related to the planning and execution of flash mobs.
Author : James M. LaRossa Jr.
Publisher : Bancroft Press
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 22,24 MB
Release : 2019-09-10
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1610882423
He was a titan, standing taller than the Empire State Building. He was voted one of the “100 Smartest New Yorkers” and deemed by People Magazine and his peers one of the top half-dozen defense attorneys in the country. His was a household name, so when he died in 2014, the world’s leading newspapers ran lengthy obituaries of him. As an attorney, he was a warrior, a Roman gladiator, feared by prosecutors, respected by judges. He represented clients as notorious as mobsters Paul Castellano and Carlo Gambino, and as diverse as Ross Perot, Studio 54, Keith Hernandez, the New York Jets, MGM, Def Jam Records, and Columbian drug lords. He argued before the Supreme Court, and several times remade criminal law in ways that remain to this day. Of nearly 1000 cases he tried, he won more than 80 percent. He was described as a combination of Bob Hope and Darth Vader. He was superhuman, brilliant, charming, and unforgettable. He was trial lawyer Jimmy LaRossa, and they’ll never be another American lawyer quite like him. This is his story, Last of the Gladiators: A Memoir of Love, Redemption, and the Mob by his son, James LaRossa Jr.
Author : James Higdon
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 425 pages
File Size : 45,57 MB
Release : 2019-05-01
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 1493038508
In the summer of 1987, Johnny Boone set out to grow and harvest one of the greatest outdoor marijuana crops in modern times. In doing so, he set into motion a series of events that defined him and his associates as the largest homegrown marijuana syndicate in American history, also known as the Cornbread Mafia. Author James Higdon—whose relationship with Johnny Boone, currently a federal fugitive, made him the first journalist subpoenaed under the Obama administration—takes readers back to the 1970s and ’80s and the clash between federal and local law enforcement and a band of Kentucky farmers with moonshine and pride in their bloodlines. By 1989 the task force assigned to take down men like Johnny Boone had arrested sixty-nine men and one woman from busts on twenty-nine farms in ten states, and seized two hundred tons of pot. Of the seventy individuals arrested, zero talked. How it all went down is a tale of Mafia-style storylines emanating from the Bluegrass State, and populated by Vietnam veterans and weed-loving characters caught up in Tarantino-level violence and heart-breaking altruism. Accompanied by a soundtrack of rock-and-roll and rhythm-and-blues, this work of dogged investigative journalism and history is told by Higdon in action-packed, colorful and riveting detail.
Author : James B. Jacobs
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 16,38 MB
Release : 1996-10
Category : Law
ISBN : 0814742300
She may have had a soap opera private life, which included a very public marriage and breakup with George Jones, among other things, but Tammy Wynette still managed to turn out 17 number one singles during the late '60s and early '70s, the classics "Stand by Your Man," "D-I-V-O-R-C-E," and "Bedtime Story" being just three of them, each of which is compiled in this two-disc set of essential tracks. ~ Steve Leggett