Charles Brandt

“You fat fuck,” I said and jumped up and decked him. I broke his jaw, and they expelled me permanently on the…

— Charles Brandt

“Hoffa and Brennan formed a trucking company called Test Fleet. The “brains” and his partner put that company in their wives’ maiden…

— Charles Brandt

“People in those days didn’t display affection like they do today. I’m still learning how to be affectionate to my grandchildren. I…

— Charles Brandt

“Whispers was one of these short Italian guys in his early thirties that you’d see all around South Philly, just trying to…

— Charles Brandt

“And under the contract, management couldn’t fire a Teamster unless they had certain grounds. They had none. Stealing was grounds only if…

— Charles Brandt

“But back then we had to amuse ourselves, and fighting seemed to be all we had. Looking back, it was good for…

— Charles Brandt

“Mary liked to arrange picnics with the kids, and we’d take them to the Willow Grove Amusement Park. I wasn’t always running.…

— Charles Brandt

“And on the other side of the ledger, unions like the Teamsters often employed their own muscle, their own reigns of terror,…

— Charles Brandt

“Only in the movies or comic books do people say they want you to go and hit somebody. All they ever say…

— Charles Brandt

“As I learned the ropes I learned that for many good and sound reasons the bosses and the captains sent a guy…

— Charles Brandt

“Russell had taken me with him to Cuba just when Castro was starting to kick everybody out and confiscate their casinos and…

— Charles Brandt

“You didn’t know who to trust, but you kept taking cabbies aside and persuading them to sign a card. For some reason…

— Charles Brandt

“Russ quit smoking on a bet with Jimmy Blue Eyes,”

— Charles Brandt

“they wanted the guy left right there on the sidewalk as a message to those who needed to know the guy did…

— Charles Brandt

“Carlos Marcello and the war orphans did cross my mind during the drive, and I sat the whole way facing the driver.…

— Charles Brandt

“Later that same year John F. Kennedy was elected president by a thin margin. The first thing he did was appoint his…

— Charles Brandt

“In Detroit I was assigned to Bill Isabel and Sam Portwine. They worked as a team, doing public relations, but actually Sam…

— Charles Brandt

“In Alsace-Lorraine I saw Pope stick his leg out from behind a tree to get a million-dollar wound so he’d be sent…

— Charles Brandt

“What kind of a big shot has the nickname of Skinny Razor? John got the name Skinny Razor because he used to…

— Charles Brandt

“Bobby Kennedy chose the members of the squad himself. He gave the squad a very limited job to do and gave the…

— Charles Brandt

“and Russell told me that he comes down to Philly a lot to pick up prosciutto bread. That’s bread made with prosciutto…

— Charles Brandt

“Once in a while Giancana would have a guy with him named Jack Ruby from Dallas. I met Jack Ruby a few…

— Charles Brandt

“impatient. I had to do things the Army’s way: hurry up and wait.”

— Charles Brandt

“It was different in the sixties when I married my second wife, Irene, and I had my fourth daughter, Connie. By then…

— Charles Brandt

“Sometime in the fifties I remember seeing On the Waterfront in the movies with Mary and thinking that I’m at least as…

— Charles Brandt