Download or read book The Accidental Gangster From Insurance Salesman to Mob Boss of Hollywood written by Ori Spado and published by Wildblue Press. This book was released on 2019-11-12 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Author Orlando (Ori) Spado honestly recants his humble beginnings from the small town of Rome in upstate New York, to becoming known as "The Mob Boss of Hollywood." A candid account documenting his fall from a well-known Hollywood fixer mixing with A list celebrities to serving 62 months in Federal prison, and ultimately making a determined comeback. "For nearly forty years Orlando 'Ori' Spado was a friend and associate of John 'Sonny' Franzese, underboss of the Colombo organized crime family. His relationship with Sonny brought him to the attention of the FBI, and eventually led to his being indicted with Sonny on federal RICO charges, and imprisoned. In The Accidental Gangster Ori provides the details of his time in 'the life' and his long battle with the FBI--whose overwhelming resources made it a fight that was impossible to win."- Nick Pileggi, Author & Screenwriter "Orlando 'Ori' Spado had been a thorn in the side of the Los Angeles field office of the FBI for almost two decades before they finally took him down. Accidentally or not, Ori was a quintessential Mob character, complete with a pinkie ring and a slow, steady deliberate voice whether speaking with friends or foes. But like so many other 'Good Fellas, ' he was set up by a friend's son. You will have to read the book to find out who set him up. Enjoy!"- John Connolly, author of the NY Times bestselling true crime book, FILTHY RICH

Download or read book Running the Books written by Avi Steinberg and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2011-10-04 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Avi Steinberg is stumped. After defecting from yeshiva to attend Harvard, he has nothing but a senior thesis on Bugs Bunny to show for himself. While his friends and classmates advance in the world, Steinberg remains stuck at a crossroads, his “romantic” existence as a freelance obituary writer no longer cutting it. Seeking direction (and dental insurance) Steinberg takes a job running the library counter at a Boston prison. He is quickly drawn into the community of outcasts that forms among his bookshelves—an assortment of quirky regulars, including con men, pimps, minor prophets, even ghosts—all searching for the perfect book and a connection to the outside world. Steinberg recounts their daily dramas with heartbreak and humor in this one-of-a-kind memoir—a piercing exploration of prison culture and an entertaining tale of one young man’s earnest attempt to find his place in the world.

Download or read book The Accidental Gangster written by David J Keogh and published by Asys Publishing. This book was released on 2015-10-26 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Already a No1 Amazon bestseller and hailed a "masterpiece of British crime writing" and featured on BBC, ITV and national media. The Krays are the new lords of the 60s London underworld but they need to expand. They set their greedy eyes on Birmingham where underdog Eddie Fewtrell and his seven brothers have already marked their territory...

Download or read book The Accidental Victim written by James Reston, Jr. and published by Zola Books. This book was released on 2013-09-09 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Was the assassination of one of America’s most beloved presidents an accident? That is the shocking argument put forth by acclaimed historian James Reston, Jr. Based on years of research and interviews, this revelatory new book makes the case that Texas Governor John Connally, not President John F. Kennedy, was the intended target of Lee Harvey Oswald. Oswald's motive was personal, not political. After he attempted to defect to the Soviet Union, his military discharge was changed from honorable to dishonorable. The proud ex-Marine protested directly to fellow Texan Connally, then Secretary of the Navy, and received a classic bureaucratic brush-off. From that day on, Oswald began nursing a deep, even murderous grudge. Reston masterfully charts the path Oswald took toward that fated moment in Dallas, his hatred of the governor driving him to purchase a mail-order rifle, position himself in the Texas School Book Depository building, and attempt to settle his score with Connally. There was no conspiracy. There was Lee Harvey Oswald, a mail-order gun, and a missed shot. Marshaling all the available evidence – some of it never before seen – Reston will change the way we understand this epochal event: In one of American history’s most tragic ironies, President John F. Kennedy was as an accidental victim on November 22, 1963. With nearly 30 photos, the book may take a few minutes to download over 3G or slower connections.

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Download or read book The Kosher Capones written by Joe Kraus and published by Northern Illinois University Press. This book was released on 2019-10-15 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Kosher Capones tells the fascinating story of Chicago's Jewish gangsters from Prohibition into the 1980s. Author Joe Kraus traces these gangsters through the lives, criminal careers, and conflicts of Benjamin "Zuckie the Bookie" Zuckerman, last of the independent West Side Jewish bosses, and Lenny Patrick, eventual head of the Syndicate's "Jewish wing." These two men linked the early Jewish gangsters of the neighborhoods of Maxwell Street and Lawndale to the notorious Chicago Outfit that emerged from Al Capone's criminal confederation. Focusing on the murder of Zuckerman by Patrick, Kraus introduces us to the different models of organized crime they represented, a raft of largely forgotten Jewish gangsters, and the changing nature of Chicago's political corruption. Hard-to-believe anecdotes of corrupt politicians, seasoned killers, and in-over-their-heads criminal operators spotlight the magnitude and importance of Jewish gangsters to the story of Windy City mob rule. With an eye for the dramatic, The Kosher Capones takes us deep inside a hidden society and offers glimpses of the men who ran the Jewish criminal community in Chicago for more than sixty years.

Download or read book The Accidental Gangster written by David J Keogh and published by Asys Publishing. This book was released on 2016-11-11 with total page 562 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the late 1950s as the dust was still settling from the destruction caused by World War II. The only way for a young man to get ahead was to bend the rules on both sides of the law and never back down to anyone or anything. A young man such as this emerged from the poverty-stricken streets of the industrial heartland, a man that would change the face of Birmingham forever. Eddie Fewtrell controls Birmingham's nightlife with an iron glove. But his path to success isn't an easy one. Deadly, gangland confrontations, family betrayals, and assassination attempts by two of the country's most infamous gangsters, the Kray twins, all threaten to topple the crown from the head of the self-proclaimed, King of Clubs, in this desperate battle for power over Great Britain's second city. The most controversial books ever to be written about Birmingham's history, and for the first time under one cover, parts one to three of the Accidental Gangster covering the 1960s to the 1980s including a special factual section and photographs covering the background to the stories and legends are here in this limited edition, trilogy hardback.

Download or read book The Accidental Gangster written by David J Keogh and published by Asys Publishing. This book was released on 2016-10-19 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cash, cars, bars and stars: Generation 'Del Boy' has come to town. Seeds planted by the eight Fewtrell brothers back in the poverty-stricken days of the 1960s have finally grown into towering money trees and Eddie Fewtrell has the greenest fingers of them all. Twenty years of underworld in-fighting are finally over, and the road to riches lies before him. All he has to do is walk the straight and narrow, but the road is littered with debris from his past. Mistakes, betrayal and revenge, lay like man traps along the road to success ready to snap their metal jaws shut and crush his dreams for the future. The 1980s; greed is good, racial tensions high and violent, football hooliganism fills the TV screens of Great Britain. A time when Eddie Fewtrell attempts to leave his gangster past behind him and finally flourish in to the businessman he always knew he should be. Declaring himself King of Clubs, his crown sits precariously on his head, will this be the decade it finally falls?

Download or read book Gangster to Guru a Memoir written by Nyame Selassie and published by . This book was released on 2016-10-06 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Child... mother... gangster... guru: a unique autobiography. "Gangster to Guru" is the true story of one woman's sojourn. It takes the reader on a compelling ride from her gun blasting days as a member of the Black Mafia in the 60's and 70's to her unpredictable and surreal transformation into a Lotus Chakra Meditation Yogini Guru. The memoir is presented with the epic excitement of a classic American gangster story, but is distinctly rooted in the reality of a Black woman's experience, as she makes her rite of passage into metaphysical oneness.

Download or read book The Accidental Gangster written by Ori Spado and published by WildBlue Press. This book was released on 2019-11-12 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The true story of a Hollywood fixer who wound up in the sights of the FBI. In this memoir, Orlando (Ori) Spado honestly recounts his humble beginnings from the small town of Rome in upstate New York, and his journey to becoming known as “The Mob Boss of Hollywood.” It is a candid account documenting his fall from a well-known Hollywood fixer mixing with A-list celebrities to serving 62 months in Federal prison, and ultimately making a determined comeback. “For nearly forty years Orlando ‘Ori’ Spado was a friend and associate of John ‘Sonny’ Franzese, underboss of the Colombo organized crime family. His relationship with Sonny brought him to the attention of the FBI, and eventually led to his being indicted with Sonny on federal RICO charges, and imprisoned. In The Accidental Gangster Ori provides the details of his time in ‘the life’ and his long battle with the FBI—whose overwhelming resources made it a fight that was impossible to win.”—Nick Pileggi, author of Wiseguy “Orlando ‘Ori’ Spado had been a thorn in the side of the Los Angeles field office of the FBI for almost two decades before they finally took him down. Accidentally or not, Ori was a quintessential Mob character, complete with a pinkie ring and a slow, steady deliberate voice whether speaking with friends or foes. But like so many other ‘Good Fellas,’ he was set up by a friend’s son. You will have to read the book to find out who set him up. Enjoy!”—John Connolly, New York Times-bestselling author of Filthy Rich

Download or read book The Accidental Gangster written by Ori Spado and published by . This book was released on 2022-09-30 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Who am I? My name is Orlando "Ori" Spado and they call me "The Mob Boss of Hollywood."In my forty plus years in Hollywood I have met a lot of people, many of whom I've forgotten and many more who are long gone. Imagine a boy from a small town in upstate New York watching television as a youngster and then meeting those actors and actresses in person as an adult. I knew Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Jerry Lewis, Don Rickles, Red Skelton, Connie Stevens and many more. I ended up doing favors for some of them and sometimes spoke to other people on their behalf.I sometimes ask myself why I can't just be a normal person and live a normal life. But at the end of the day I know I would not trade my life. I am what I was born to be.

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Download or read book Mafia Boss written by Khardine Gray and published by Accidental Mafia Queen. This book was released on 2019-01-25 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Better to be at the right hand of the devil than in his path... When you come from a crime family, you have a name to live up to. My enemies know I'm a bastard who shows no mercy-exactly the cold-hearted don my father would want me to be. Except we're not the ones in charge. Yet... The Boss wants me to take over his billion dollar business, and the only way that's happening is if I can win the heart of his cop daughter. I planned to treat her just like all the other women who meant nothing to me, but everything about her is tempting. Her beauty, her body, her soul. Money and Power. That was all this was supposed to be about... Falling in love wasn't part of the plan. Neither was finding out that her father has a hidden agenda, and I'm just a pawn in his game. MAFIA BOSS is The Godfather and The Sopranos with the sexy edge of a drool-worthy Alpha male. Scroll up and one click to start this sizzling hot mafia romance today!

Download or read book An Accidental Affair written by Eric Jerome Dickey and published by Dutton. This book was released on 2013-04-02 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes a preview of the author's novel 'Decadence.'

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Download or read book White Devil written by Bob Halloran and published by BenBella Books, Inc.. This book was released on 2016-01-12 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The amazing true story of the only white man to rise to the top of the Chinese mafia. In August 2013, "Bac Guai" John Willis, also known as the "White Devil" because of his notorious ferocity, was sentenced to 20 years for drug trafficking and money laundering. Willis, according to prosecutors, was "the kingpin, organizer and leader of a vast conspiracy," all within the legendarily insular and vicious Chinese mafia. It started when John Willis was 16 years old . . . his life seemed hopeless. His father had abandoned his family years earlier, his older brother had just died of a heart attack, and his mother was dying. John was alone, sleeping on the floor of his deceased brother's home. Desperate, John reached out to Woping, a young Chinese man Willis had rescued from a bar fight weeks before. Woping literally picks him up off the street, taking him home to live among his own brothers and sisters. Soon, Willis is accompanying Woping to meet his Chinese mobster friends, and starts working for them. Journalist Bob Halloran tells the tale of John Willis, aka White Devil, the only white man to ever rise through the ranks in the Chinese mafia. Willis began as an enforcer, riding around with other gang members to "encourage" people to pay their debts. He soon graduated to even more dangerous work as a full-fledged gang member, barely escaping with his life on several occasions. As a white man navigating an otherwise exclusively Asian world, Willis was at first an interesting anomaly, but his ruthless devotion to his adopted culture eventually led to him emerging as a leader. He organized his own gang of co-conspirators and began an extremely lucrative criminal venture selling tens of thousands of oxycodone pills. A year-long FBI investigation brought him down, and John pleaded guilty to save the love of his life from prosecution. He has no regrets. White Devil explores the workings of the Chinese mafia, and he speaks frankly about his relationships with other gang members, the crimes he committed, and why he'll never rat out any of his brothers to the cops. Told to Halloran from Willis's prison cell, White Devil is a shocking portrait of a man who was allowed access into a secret world, and who is paying the price for his hardened life.

Download or read book The Accidental Gangster written by Bela Csidei and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "I don't know whether I found trouble or trouble found me. Whatever the case, trouble and I have been lifelong companions..."Frank Sinatra, Sir Peter Abeles, Jimmy "the Weasel" Fratianno... big celebrities, big business, big mobsters and big politicians, from the famous to the infamous, the cast of characters almost defies the imagination.Looking back on his tumultuous life, Bela Csidei, the "accidental gangster", recalls a story that takes him from a childhood spent "fishing" with explosives and a little freelance arms dealing to holding a promissory note for $250 million dollars. From his survival of war-torn Europe to two contracts on his life, Bela emerges as a genuinely colourful character and an optimistic, loveable rogue. In spite of multi-million dollar business deals gone wrong, a drug bust, a stint as a diplomat and an espionage agent for foreign governments, an explorer for minerals, a banker, a womaniser, a shark hunter and a Mafia conduit for Australian big business, Bela has lived to spin a great yarn. As he says, "With this book a few less people will die wondering..."