Charles Brandt

“Many a time Russ reached up and pinched my cheek and said, “You should’ve been Italian.” He’s the one named me “The…

— Charles Brandt

“Pushing money was a natural for me, because I was already pushing football lottery tickets in the White Tower hamburger joints on…

— Charles Brandt

“Can you start tomorrow in Detroit?” “Sure.” “Come to Local 299 and report to Bill Isabel and Sam Portwine. They’re in charge…

— Charles Brandt

“We finally drove the Germans back and we entered the Alsace-Lorraine region, which is part French and part German.”

— Charles Brandt

“On the other hand, in his book, The Enemy Within, Bobby Kennedy wrote about his experiences and observations as chief counsel for…

— Charles Brandt

“Our goal was Munich in Bavaria in southern Germany, the town where Hitler had gotten his start in a beer hall. But…

— Charles Brandt

“Jimmy Hoffa had two philosophies that guided his actions. One way or another he expressed them daily and often through word or…

— Charles Brandt

“I got a hold of Whispers and told him where to meet me later that night to talk about the thing. The…

— Charles Brandt

“Sheridan wrote in his 1972 book, The Fall and Rise of Jimmy Hoffa: “He went about this by arranging for one of…

— Charles Brandt

“When he got work my father worked as a steel worker, high up on tall buildings, walking on beams like those Mohawk…

— Charles Brandt

“At the time of the Frank Sheeran job interview by long-distance phone call, Jimmy Hoffa was coming off a period full of…

— Charles Brandt

“Hoffa and his Strawberry Boys’ victory in 1932 was a rare labor victory in those days. In that same year a group…

— Charles Brandt

“We hung up and I thought, boy, he’s a speaker. For a minute there, I thought it was Patton.”

— Charles Brandt

“No doubt I was getting a reputation for being efficient, but also for being somebody you could trust.”

— Charles Brandt

“Riesel had been crusading against the criminal element in labor unions. The night of the radio broadcast, Riesel stepped out of the…

— Charles Brandt

“One of my earliest childhood memories is getting birdshot picked out of my backside by my mother, Mary. My mother would say,…

— Charles Brandt

“(It was a car they said I got under the table. When they were trying to get the eight of us Hoffa…

— Charles Brandt

“Red had a stepson named Allen Dorfman. Jimmy put Red and Allen in charge of union insurance policies, and then he put…

— Charles Brandt

“came out now with one eye on the kangaroo and one eye on the referee. I’m really steaming mad now, and I…

— Charles Brandt

“these years later and from stirring it up I started having dreams again about the combat, only the dreams were all mixed…

— Charles Brandt

“After the war, it just seemed natural to take what you could take wherever you could take it. There was only so…

— Charles Brandt

“The only thing is that Whispers had the worst breath known to man or beast. He suffered from halitosis so bad you’d…

— Charles Brandt

“When the bets were in Dusty would nod his head and I’d knock the guy out. I don’t know if you’ve ever…

— Charles Brandt

“You know, Jimmy’s got records stashed away in case something unnatural happens to him.” “Your friend made one threat too many in…

— Charles Brandt

“The Sicilian people were very friendly. Once we drove the Germans out I got to see Catania, where every house had homemade…

— Charles Brandt