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Category: Non-Fiction, Crime, True CrimeISBN: 0929712455 Publisher: Huntington Press Price: $13.57 US; paperback |
Book Description:Casino told part of the story — CULLOTTA tells the rest.From burglary to armed robbery and murder, infamous bad
guy Frank Cullotta not only did it all, in Cullotta he admits to
it—and in graphic detail. This no-holds-barred biography chronicles the life of a
career criminal who started out as a thug on the streets of Chicago and became a trusted lieutenant in Tony Spilotro’s gang of organized
lawbreakers in Las Vegas. Cullotta’s was a world of high-profile heists, street muscle, and
information—lots of it—about many of the FBI’s most wanted. In the
end, that information was his ticket out of crime, as he turned government
witness and became one of a handful of mob insiders to enter the Witness
Protection Program. “Frank Cullotta is the real thing,” says Nicholas Pileggi in the book’s Foreword, and in these pages, Cullotta sets the record straight on organized crime, witness protection, and life and death in mobbed-up Las Vegas.
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Reviews:"This is the best book written on the crime syndicate and I've read them all...It's the best book because its all first person, gloves off and very rough. Frank Cullotta was a very active...bomber, killer, master burglar, fence, and criminal confidant to the mob lords of and Las Vegas. He describes these roles and capers as they happened with lots of play-by-play details. Cullotta also describes real prison life and the Witness Protection Program...up close and personal. I read Cullotta in one afternoon and so will any true-crime fan. Its just a real-good read about very dangerous professional criminals." ~ Jim Agnew, On Crime "Mystery and nonfiction writer Griffin covered the Vegas reign of kingpin Tony "the Ant" Spilotro in The Battle for Las Vegas: The Law vs. the Mob. Digging deeper into mob history, he now focuses on Spilotro's lifelong pal, career criminal Cullotta, who appeared in Martin Scorsese's 1995 film, Casino, recreating an actual murder he committed in 1979...Together, Spilotro and Cullotta extorted illegal bookmakers and drug dealers throughout Vegas. But in the early 1980s, Cullotta became a government witness, bringing down the house. In addition to poring through newspaper archives, Griffin interviewed various sheriffs, attorneys, agents and detectives, while primarily relying on information from retired FBI agent Arnoldy and what Pileggi calls the "phenomenal" memory of Cullotta himself. Griffin's flat, unemotional yet potent writing makes the bloodletting, murders and mayhem chilling and unnerving throughout." ~ Publishers Weekly |
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