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9780062009333 English 0062009338 As mob families go, the Philadelphia Mafia is the most dysfunctional family of all-with brother turning against brother, sons turning on their fathers. In 1993, an embittered legacy of rivalry and hatred exploded into a brutal, bloody battle between old world mobster and the young, flamboyant Joey Merlino. However, this would be warfare different from any other. This time, the FBI had it all down on tape. Among the mobsters caught on tape: John Stanfa, the violent, often irrational, paranoid old-school mob don battling a new generation of savage young turks. Rosario Bellocchi , the young Sicilian-born hitman in love with his boss's daughter, who would do anything to get ahead-even kill his best friend. John Veasey, the two-hundred-pound mad dog hitman who once had to postpone a hit-in order to visit his parole officer. Drawing on four years of investigative work, and more than two thousand taped conversations, veteran true crime journalist George Anastasia takes readers inside the world of mobsters at war, and FBI agents so close on their heels that t hey even watched one hit unfold live through a surveillance camera., Goodfella Tapes by George Anastasia is the true story of how the FBI recorded a mob war and brought down a mafia don. A riveting, eye-opening true crime masterwork in the vein ofWiseguy, Underboss, Havana Nocturne, The Valachi Papers , and other bestselling exposés of life in La Cosa Nostra, Goodfella Tapes is an astonishing story of the brutal acts and remarkable blunders of soldiers, capos, and kingpins of the Philadelphia mob and the ingenuity of government agents that, combined, help topple a powerful criminal enterprise.
9780062009333 English 0062009338 As mob families go, the Philadelphia Mafia is the most dysfunctional family of all-with brother turning against brother, sons turning on their fathers. In 1993, an embittered legacy of rivalry and hatred exploded into a brutal, bloody battle between old world mobster and the young, flamboyant Joey Merlino. However, this would be warfare different from any other. This time, the FBI had it all down on tape. Among the mobsters caught on tape: John Stanfa, the violent, often irrational, paranoid old-school mob don battling a new generation of savage young turks. Rosario Bellocchi , the young Sicilian-born hitman in love with his boss's daughter, who would do anything to get ahead-even kill his best friend. John Veasey, the two-hundred-pound mad dog hitman who once had to postpone a hit-in order to visit his parole officer. Drawing on four years of investigative work, and more than two thousand taped conversations, veteran true crime journalist George Anastasia takes readers inside the world of mobsters at war, and FBI agents so close on their heels that t hey even watched one hit unfold live through a surveillance camera., Goodfella Tapes by George Anastasia is the true story of how the FBI recorded a mob war and brought down a mafia don. A riveting, eye-opening true crime masterwork in the vein ofWiseguy, Underboss, Havana Nocturne, The Valachi Papers , and other bestselling exposés of life in La Cosa Nostra, Goodfella Tapes is an astonishing story of the brutal acts and remarkable blunders of soldiers, capos, and kingpins of the Philadelphia mob and the ingenuity of government agents that, combined, help topple a powerful criminal enterprise.