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Gaspipe confessions of a Mafia boss

Anthony "Gaspipe" Casso is currently serving thirteen consecutive life sentences plus 455 years at a federal prison in Colorado. Now, for the first time, the head of a mob family has granted total access to a journalist--the most intimate, personal look into the world of La Cosa Nostra eve...

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Main Author: Carlo, Philip.
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
Published: New York : William Morrow, c2008.
Edition: 1st ed.
Subjects:
Casso, Gaspipe, > 1942-
Mafia > New York (State) > New York > Case studies.
Gangsters > Biography.
Criminals > United States > Biography.
Organized crime > New York (State) > New York.
Summary: Anthony "Gaspipe" Casso is currently serving thirteen consecutive life sentences plus 455 years at a federal prison in Colorado. Now, for the first time, the head of a mob family has granted total access to a journalist--the most intimate, personal look into the world of La Cosa Nostra ever seen. Born into a Mafia family, Casso early proved his talent for "earning"--concocting ingenious schemes to hijack trucks, rob banks, and import vast quantities of drugs. He also had an uncanny ability to work with the other families, and forged strong ties with the Russian mob. By the time Casso took the reins of the Lucchese family, he was a seasoned boss, a very dangerous man. But when the law finally caught up with him in 1994, rather than stoically face the music, Casso turned state's evidence and helped put an end to an era.--From publisher description.
Physical Description: xxi, 346 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.
ISBN: 9780061429842
0061429848
Author Notes: Philip Carlo was born in Brooklyn, New York on April 18, 1949. He wrote novels and nonfiction accounts of serial killers and hit men including Stolen Flower, The Night Stalker: The Life and Crimes of Richard Ramirez, and The Iceman: Confessions of a Mafia Contract Killer. He also wrote a memoir about his struggle against amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) entitled The Killer Within: In the Company of Monsters. He died from a combination of ALS and cancer on November 8, 2010 at the age of 61.

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