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Book Gangland  The Lawyers

Download or read book Gangland The Lawyers written by James Morton and published by Random House. This book was released on 2012-10-31 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While many lawyers are honest, for Gangland figures, the best lawyer is often corrupt – a ‘shyster’ – who will act as a go between with the police, provide false alibis, bribe and intimidate witnesses, jurors and judges and occasionally organise robberies and burglaries. Sometimes these lawyers even kill or may be killed themselves. Gangland: The Lawyers brings us such lawyers as Frank Ragan, who acted for three mob leaders, and James Sawyer, the barrister and forger involved in the first Great train Robbery. From the amazing story of Gambino crime boss John Gotti (the ‘Teflon Don’) and his attorney Bruce Cutler, to the American judge Joseph Peel, who had his co-judge killed, James Morton presents a worldwide history of these shady individuals and their seedy but compelling stories.

Book Gangland

    Book Details:
  • Author : J. Morton
  • Publisher : Virgin Books Limited
  • Release : 2002-04-04
  • ISBN : 9780753506233
  • Pages : 352 pages

Download or read book Gangland written by J. Morton and published by Virgin Books Limited. This book was released on 2002-04-04 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gangland figures cannot function without their lawyers - their mouthpieces - who speak for them in court, obtain bail, throw doubt on the evidence and, if all that fails, try to obtain a reduced sentence. However, in the Underworld, this is only half the job. Although many lawyers are honest, possibly the best type of lawyer for Gangland figures is dishonest - a shyster - who will act as a go-between with the police, provide false alibis, bribe and intimidate witnesses, jurors and judges and, from time to time, finance and set up robberies and burglaries. Occasionally these lawyers - who may by then have even become judges - will kill on their own or their clients behalf, or may be killed themselves.

Book Lawyer X

    Book Details:
  • Author : Anthony Dowsley
  • Publisher : HarperCollins
  • Release : 2020-09-01
  • ISBN : 1460711831
  • Pages : 316 pages

Download or read book Lawyer X written by Anthony Dowsley and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2020-09-01 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Underbelly meets Molly's Game - the true crime investigation that rewrote the story of Melbourne's infamous gangland war and triggered a royal commission. Melbourne's gangland war was an era dominated by murders, stings, hits, drug busts, corruption and greed - inspiring bestselling books and even a popular TV series, Underbelly. It took the police a decade to curtail the violence and bring down criminal kingpins Carl Williams, Tony Mokbel and their accomplices. When the police finally closed the case file, just how they really won the war, with the help of an unlikely police informer, would become a closely guarded secret and its exposure, the biggest legal scandal of our time. Lawyer X is the scandalous, true story of how a promising defence barrister from a privileged background broke all the rules - becoming both police informer and her client's lover - sharing their secrets and shaping the gangland war that led to sensational arrests and convictions. The story of how Nicola Gobbo became Lawyer X, and why, is a compelling study in desperation and determination. Lawyer X is the definitive story of Melbourne's gangland wars and its most glamorous and compelling central character, based on the ground-breaking work of investigative journalists Anthony Dowsley and Patrick Carlyon, who broke the story for the Herald Sun in 2014, and their five-year struggle to reveal the truth about the identity of Lawyer X.

Book Gangland Australia

Download or read book Gangland Australia written by James Morton and published by Victory Books. This book was released on 2010 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gangland Australia details the exploits of an unforgettable cast of villains, crooks and mobsters who have made up the criminal and gangland scene in Australia for over two centuries. In this fully updated and bestselling book, Britain's top true crime author James Morton and barrister and legal broadcaster Susanna Lobez track the rise and fall of Australia's talented contract killers, brothel keepers, club owners, robbers, bikers, standover men, conmen and drug dealers, and also examine the role of police, politicians and lawyers who have helped and hindered the growth of criminal empires. Vivid and explosive, Gangland Australia is compulsive reading.

Book Prison Writing

Download or read book Prison Writing written by Julian Broadhead and published by Waterside Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reviews of the previous edition: 'A remarkable anthology wich will interest everyone concerned with the fate of prisoners and anxious to see their conditions improved': Michael McMullan, Justice of the Peace. 'This fascinating and very readable collection of fact, fiction and verse is the fifteenth issue edited and produced by two probation officers from Sheffield. We are fortunate that they have found a new publisher in Waterside Press to continue giving prisoners (and others), an opportunity to do something wich all writers crave - find an audience to communicate their feelings and experiences... The contributors give deeply personal insights into the nature of their world and prove that imagination and talent are incapable of being destroyed if people are ready to develop them... This anthology deserves to be read... by everyone who is interested in new writers experimenting with the development of their talent. Each piece is different and compelling: David Underhill, The Magistrate. This 16th edition is an entirely new collection of writings by prisoners and other people connected with prisons, from the United Kingdom and beyond.

Book Jerry Capeci s Gang Land

    Book Details:
  • Author : Jerry Capeci
  • Publisher : Penguin
  • Release : 2003-11-04
  • ISBN : 1440625786
  • Pages : 364 pages

Download or read book Jerry Capeci s Gang Land written by Jerry Capeci and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2003-11-04 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1987, seasoned journalist Jerry Capeci was hired by the New York Daily News to cover the crime beat. His reporting on the Mafia proved so popular that he was given a weekly column, which was tagged "Jerry Capeci's Gangland." "Gangland" was an immediate hit with New Yorkers and continued for almost seven years. Capeci wrote on the everyday trials and tribulations of La Cosa Nostra, putting the mob under a microscope and laying bare the inner workings and day-to-day operations of both mob bosses and low-level street soldiers alike. He reported on such major mob events as John Gotti's murder conviction and Sammy "the Bull"Gravano's testimony that put Gotti behind bars.

Book Mob Lawyer

Download or read book Mob Lawyer written by Frank Ragano and published by Scribner Book Company. This book was released on 1994 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ragano worked as a lawyer for various mob bosses for thirty years.

Book Kings Of Stings

    Book Details:
  • Author : James Morton
  • Publisher : Victory Books
  • Release : 2011-03-01
  • ISBN : 0522860192
  • Pages : 418 pages

Download or read book Kings Of Stings written by James Morton and published by Victory Books. This book was released on 2011-03-01 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do you want to...Help distribute money to the poor and be given a fee to do so? Share in Al Qaeda's hidden gold? Help a young girl orphaned in the tsunami? In their highly entertaining and often shocking new book James Morton and Susanna Lobez follow up their bestselling Gangland Australia by delving into the world of Australian con artists such as Mario Condello, Helen Demidenko, Christopher Skase, Brenton Jarrett, Peter Foster, Lola Montez and Fairlie Arrow. Here are highly talented men and women and their tricks: changing paper into banknotes, selling other people's property, faking deaths, and forging paintings; promising miracle cures and impersonating aristocracy, preachers, military gents, lawyers and doctors. In fact, whatever it takes to separate the unwary from their money. Read about the scams and think twice about that offer that seems almost too good to be true.

Book The Family Lawyer

    Book Details:
  • Author : James Patterson
  • Publisher : Grand Central Publishing
  • Release : 2017-09-05
  • ISBN : 1538711346
  • Pages : 306 pages

Download or read book The Family Lawyer written by James Patterson and published by Grand Central Publishing. This book was released on 2017-09-05 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of three thrilling James Patterson stories: a criminal defense attorney investigating a bullying accusation, the NYPD's most brilliant detective facing her darkest fears to prevent a string of crimes, and a woman investigating the murder of her brother-in-law. The Family Lawyer with Robert Rotstein: Matthew Hovanes is living a parent's worst nightmare: his young daughter is accused of bullying another girl into suicide. But this loving father is also a skilled criminal defense attorney. And something here doesn't add up . . . Night Sniper with Christopher Charles: Cheryl Mabern is the NYPD's most brilliant and troubled detective. Now she must confront her darkest fears to stop a calculating killer committing random murders. The Good Sister with Rachel Howzell Hall: Her beloved sister's cheating husband has been found dead. Now, Dani Lawrence must decide if she will help the investigation that could put her sister away . . . or obstruct it by any means necessary.

Book Jimmy Two Guns

    Book Details:
  • Author : James J McIntyre
  • Publisher : Black & White Publishing
  • Release : 2023-05-25
  • ISBN : 1785304569
  • Pages : 345 pages

Download or read book Jimmy Two Guns written by James J McIntyre and published by Black & White Publishing. This book was released on 2023-05-25 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The astonishing true story of Glasgow gangland confidant James McIntyre, aka Jimmy Two Guns James 'Jimmy Two Guns' McIntyre was Glasgow's go-to gangland lawyer and consigliere to one of Scotland's foremost crime families. His maverick approach to the law and a client list that included some of the most feared gangland figures of the time - including the McGoverns and Paul Ferris - ensured that he was always in demand but under the constant scrutiny of the authorities. Now Jimmy Two Guns recounts the cases he handled, the strokes he pulled, plus his arrests, a high-speed car chase with the drug squad, his time in 'the cooler' for allegedly attempting to murder a cop and much more. He tells how he bounced back after being the target of a near-fatal underworld hit, before being arrested by an armed response unit for possession of two pistols, and reveals with wit and a sharp pen what it's really like being a lawyer for the underdog. Whatever you thought you knew about crime and justice, think again - because for Jimmy Two Guns, the truth has always been stranger than fiction. 'Crooked judges, bent cops and hypocrites in high places - the most truthful legal memoir you'll ever read. Superb.' Matthew Hall, bestselling novelist and BAFTA-winning screenwriter of Keeping Faith 'James McIntyre was a legal barracuda swimming both sides of the line; this memoir is his modus operandi.' G.F. Newman, creator of Law & Order and Judge John Deed

Book Parker and Evans s Inside Lawyers  Ethics

Download or read book Parker and Evans s Inside Lawyers Ethics written by Vivien Holmes and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2023-01-10 with total page 399 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Parker and Evans's Inside Lawyers' Ethics provides a practical and engaging introduction to ethical decision-making in legal practice in Australia. Underpinned by four theoretical concepts – adversarial advocacy, responsible lawyering, moral activism and ethics of care – this text analyses legal and professional frameworks, highlighting relevant parts of the Australian Solicitors' Conduct Rules. Case studies and discussion questions offer contemporary, practical examples of the application of ethics. The book also addresses the challenge of ethical action and offers techniques to deal with ethical conflicts.This edition has been comprehensively updated and discusses the implications of advances in legal technology, mental ill-health in the profession and the complexities of government legal practice. A new chapter covers lawyers' ethical obligation to address the legal challenges posed by climate change. Written by an expert author team, Parker and Evans's Inside Lawyers' Ethics empowers readers to identify ethical challenges and resolve them through good decision-making practices.

Book Gangland Sydney

    Book Details:
  • Author : James Morton
  • Publisher : Melbourne Univ. Publishing
  • Release : 2011-07-01
  • ISBN : 0522860397
  • Pages : 274 pages

Download or read book Gangland Sydney written by James Morton and published by Melbourne Univ. Publishing. This book was released on 2011-07-01 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gangland Sydney details the exploits of an unforgettable cast of villains, crooks and mobsters who have defined the criminal and gangland scene in Sydney from the mid-1800s to the present day.In this compelling book, Britain’s top true crime author James Morton and barrister and legal broadcaster Susanna Lobez track the rise and fall of Sydney’s standover men, contract killers, robbers, brothel keepers, biker gangs and drug dealers, and also examine the role of police, politicians and lawyers who have helped and hindered the growth of these criminal empires.Vivid and explosive, Gangland Sydney is compulsive reading.

Book Gangland s Decree

    Book Details:
  • Author : G. H. Teed
  • Publisher : Lulu.com
  • Release : 2019-08-19
  • ISBN : 1988304857
  • Pages : 94 pages

Download or read book Gangland s Decree written by G. H. Teed and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2019-08-19 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sexton Blake fights New York's gangs on their own ground in his great campaign to rescue Mademoiselle Roxane. A nerve-tingling tale of drama and thrill?COMPLETE. Gangland decreed that Mademoiselle Roxane should die. Sexton Blake decided otherwise. He has got her out of some tight corners before this, but never out of anything so difficult as an unknown hiding-place, or so desperate as the clutches of Cluck Snyder.

Book Cops  Drugs  Lawyer X and Me

Download or read book Cops Drugs Lawyer X and Me written by Paul Dale and published by Hachette Australia. This book was released on 2020-02-25 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'How did a kid from the country who dreamed of joining the Victoria Police, end up on the wrong side of the bars? There are a lot of reasons, and I hope this story will help clarify some of them, not only for you, the reader, but for me too, because a lot of the time I am left shaking my head, wondering how things went so wrong.' Paul Dale knows he is tainted. After almost fifteen years as a cop, working in Homicide and rising to the rank of Detective Sergeant in the Victorian Drug Squad, he saw the worst of what people can do. But when he was accused and jailed firstly for drug offences and then for murder, Dale realised the murky world he was navigating was going to take him under too. Dale dealt with crims like Carl Williams, Terry Hodson and Tommy Ivanovic on the Melbourne streets. But when a burglary ended in Hodson's arrest, Dale's life started to unravel. He turned to Nicola Gobbo, a lawyer and friend he thought could help: the lawyer who became known as Lawyer X. Eventually exonerated of any crimes, Paul Dale's story reveals the shocking deals done at the highest levels of the Victorian Police Force and the damage wrought by Victoria Police's use of Lawyer X.

Book The New Law Journal

Download or read book The New Law Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 912 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Lawyers in Your Living Room

    Book Details:
  • Author : Michael Asimow
  • Publisher : American Bar Association
  • Release : 2009
  • ISBN : 9781604423280
  • Pages : 484 pages

Download or read book Lawyers in Your Living Room written by Michael Asimow and published by American Bar Association. This book was released on 2009 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Perry Mason and The Defenders in the 1960s to L.A. Law in the 80s, The Practice and Ally McBeal in the 90s, to Boston Legal, Shark and Law & Order today, the television industry has generated an endless stream of dramatic series involving law and lawyers. This new guide examines television series from the past and present, domestic and foreign, that are devoted to the law.

Book Gangland Oz

    Book Details:
  • Author : James Morton
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2018-02-08
  • ISBN : 9780369310170
  • Pages : 724 pages

Download or read book Gangland Oz written by James Morton and published by . This book was released on 2018-02-08 with total page 724 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Devious, daring, cunning ... but ultimately too greedy, too cocky. Gangland Oz: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow exposes the country's pantheon of crooks and criminals since the first convicts stepped ashore and got to work. Ten years on from the original bestselling Gangland Australia, top true-crime writer James Morton and barrister and broadcaster Susanna Lobez conspire again to track the rise and fall of Australia's talented contract killers, brothel keepers, robbers, bikers, standover merchants, conmen and drug dealers. They examine the role of police, politicians and lawyers who have aided and busted criminal empires and look at the recent rise of youth gangs, cyber crime, identity theft and sexploitation scams. Vivid and explosive, Gangland Oz: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow is compulsive reading.