“Time magazine reported in June 1975, a week before the assassination of Sam “Momo” Giancana in Chicago and a month before the… — Charles Brandt Copy Share Image
“Russell Bufalino’s penetrating good eye stayed on mine. I moved back up in my seat. I couldn’t show anything in my face.… — Charles Brandt Copy Share Image
“Now I understood why Russell would ask me to drive him to different places and wait for him in the car while… — Charles Brandt Copy Share Image
“The Sicilian people were very friendly. Once we drove the Germans out I got to see Catania, where every house had homemade… — Charles Brandt Copy Share Image
“For better or for worse, meeting Russell Bufalino and being seen in his company put me deeper into the downtown culture than… — Charles Brandt Copy Share Image
“Russell Bufalino had secret interests in Las Vegas casinos and not-so secret connections to the Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista, whom Fidel Castro… — Charles Brandt Copy Share Image
“The next day this meeting at Apalachin is the biggest thing to ever happen to Italian gangsters in America. All of a… — Charles Brandt Copy Share Image
“You fat fuck,” I said and jumped up and decked him. I broke his jaw, and they expelled me permanently on the spot. Naturally,” — Charles Brandt Copy Share Image
“Hoffa and Brennan formed a trucking company called Test Fleet. The “brains” and his partner put that company in their wives’ maiden names. Test… — Charles Brandt Copy Share Image
“People in those days didn’t display affection like they do today. I’m still learning how to be affectionate to my grandchildren. I don’t ever… — Charles Brandt Copy Share Image
“Whispers was one of these short Italian guys in his early thirties that you’d see all around South Philly, just trying to get by… — Charles Brandt Copy Share Image
“And under the contract, management couldn’t fire a Teamster unless they had certain grounds. They had none. Stealing was grounds only if they could… — Charles Brandt Copy Share Image
“But back then we had to amuse ourselves, and fighting seemed to be all we had. Looking back, it was good for us. You… — Charles Brandt Copy Share Image
“Mary liked to arrange picnics with the kids, and we’d take them to the Willow Grove Amusement Park. I wasn’t always running. When they… — Charles Brandt Copy Share Image
“And on the other side of the ledger, unions like the Teamsters often employed their own muscle, their own reigns of terror, including bombings,… — Charles Brandt Copy Share Image
“Only in the movies or comic books do people say they want you to go and hit somebody. All they ever say is that… — Charles Brandt Copy Share Image
“As I learned the ropes I learned that for many good and sound reasons the bosses and the captains sent a guy to whack… — Charles Brandt Copy Share Image
“Russell had taken me with him to Cuba just when Castro was starting to kick everybody out and confiscate their casinos and racetracks and… — Charles Brandt Copy Share Image
“You didn’t know who to trust, but you kept taking cabbies aside and persuading them to sign a card. For some reason there were… — Charles Brandt Copy Share Image
“they wanted the guy left right there on the sidewalk as a message to those who needed to know the guy did not get… — Charles Brandt Copy Share Image
“Carlos Marcello and the war orphans did cross my mind during the drive, and I sat the whole way facing the driver. He was… — Charles Brandt Copy Share Image
