International Best Selling author Joe Bruno has 11 of the top 20 ranked books on Amazon/United States in the category “Media and there Law.”

 

“Crazy Joe Gallo- The Mob’s Greatest Hits – Volume 2” is ranked highest at #2.

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International Best Selling author Joe Bruno’s new book “Crime Pays: Scoundrels and Their Crooked Schemes” is FREE today on Amazon Kindle.

 

It’s now ranked #1 on Amazon Kindle in the FREE category of “Legal History.”

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International Best Selling Author Joe Bruno’s new ebook “Crime Pays: Scoundrels and Their Schemes” is now available on Amazon Kindle.

 

“Crime Pays: Scoundrels and Their Schemes” is presently ranked:

#1 on Amazon Kindle in the category “Hot New Releases – Legal History,”

#5 in the category “Hot New releases – Law Enforcement.”

#13 in “Legal History,”
and

#23 in “Law Enforcement.”

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“Crime Pays: Scoundrels and Their Schemes” also includes TWO BONUS BOOKS!

“Virginia Hill – Mafia Molls – Beautiful Broads With Brass Balls: Volume 3”
AND

“MOB RATS – Bald Jack Rose – This Bald-Headed Bastard Would Rat Out His Mother To Save His Own Skin,” making it 3 BOOKS FOR THE PRICE OF ONE!!!

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Throughout the history of mankind, there has always been one constant creed among those scoundrels who inhabit the Underworld – crime pays.

Whether it be John Allen – “The Wickedest Man in New York City,” pimping off young girls in his Manhattan Lower East Side brothel/dance hall, or George Leonidas Leslie, “The King of the Bank Robbers,” knocking off a New York City bank, or Fredericka “Marm” Mandelbaum, all 250-pounds of her, fencing stolen good from her Clinton Street grocery store, making money in a life of crime was a fait accompli; that is, unless you get caught, which happens all too often.

Some pay back society with time in prison, other’s pay with their miserable lives, and some scoot away scot-free, never to answer for their wicked offenses against humanity.

Crime Pays: Scoundrels and Their Schemes will bring you on a seedy ride that slithers across the underbelly of American society, where every crook and criminal has their own unique gimmick to fill their greedy pockets with other people’s hard-earned cash.

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Virginia Hill was a knock-around broad who bedded down the biggest gangsters of her time. It was said Hill spent more time on her back than Michelangelo did painting the Sistine Chapel. The word on the Las Vegas streets was that she was the exclusive property of mobster Bugsy Siegel, and it was plain to everyone in the know that Bugsy was just crazy about Hill.

But was Virginia Hill really a Trojan horse in Siegel’s camp; put there by the Mafia to make sure Bugsy was giving them an honest count on their Las Vegas ventures?

The answer is not that cut and dried.

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Degenerate gambler and sportsman, Jacob (Bald Jack) Rose (Rosenzweig), due to a rare disease, had nary a hair on his entire body. But what Rose lacked in hair, he more than made up for with a diabolical criminal brilliance that put him “head and shoulders” (no pun intended) above the competition.

In the early 1900s, one of Rose’s competitors was fellow gambler Herman Rosenthal, a mean and snaky runt who had the reputation of being a stool pigeon, or as they say on the streets – a rat – for the New York City Police Department. Rose and Rosenthal both owned competing gambling joints in the seedy uptown area of Manhattan called the “Tenderloin,” or “Satan’s Circus.”

Rosenthal’s partner of sorts was corrupt New York City Police Lieutenant Charles Becker, who was not adverse to taking money with both hands (graft) from the Tenderloin’s gambling joints and houses of prostitution. Rose and Rosenthal both paid Becker handsomely, but then Rosenthal got the idea he was too big a man to continue to line Becker’s pockets with cash.

What happened next was called “The Crime of the Century.”

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International Best Selling Author Joe Bruno’s “Jimmy Hoffa The Mafia’s Greatest Hits: Volume Three” is now available on Amazon.com.

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Three of the biggest unsolved mysteries during the past half-a-century are “Who killed Jimmy Hoffa?”; “Why was Jimmy Hoffa killed?” and “Where is Jimmy Hoffa’s body buried?”

The answer to the first question is a no-brainer. The Mafia killed Jimmy Hoffa – plain and simple. But the “why” is much more complicated.

Jimmy Hoffa and his nefarious union activities were joined at the hip with the Mafia since the mid-1930s. Hoffa was their fair-haired boy who delivered for the Mafia in more ways than one. Even before he became President of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters (IBT), Hoffa used his influence with the IBT to provide several Mafia bosses, including Tampa’s Santo Trafficante, Louisiana’s Carlo Marcello, and Detroit’s Anthony “Tony Jack” Giacalone, hundreds of millions of dollar in unsecured loans from the Teamster Pension Fund. Those loans were used to fund numerous hotels/casinos and other businesses in various parts of North America including Cuba, the Dominican Republic, and in Las Vegas. In truth, half the hotels/casinos in Las Vegas would never have never been built without the financial support of Hoffa’s IBT.

Unfortunately for Hoffa, his brusque and dictatorial ways eventually made him unpalatable for the Mafia bosses, who were used to being treated with the utmost respect.

The Mafioso’s nickname for Hoffa was “Marteduzzo,” which is Sicilian for “The Little Hammer,” because he ruthlessly hammered away at anyone who displeased him, or got in his way on his rise to power.

But as Hoffa’s disrespect for the Mafia bosses increased, the “Little Hammer,” inevitably transformed himself into the lowly nail destined to be banged into oblivion.

To read about the rise, fall, and the murder of Jimmy Hoffa, scroll to the top of this page and hit the “BUY” button.

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International Best Selling author Joe Bruno’s “Crazy Joe Gallo – The Screenplay,” co written with Lawrence Venturato, is now on sale on Amazon Kindle for only 99 cents!

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This screenplay is adapted from the book, Crazy Joe Gallo, by Joe Bruno. A film based on this screenplay would take you deep into the world of organized crime, Italian-American style. It is action-packed from beginning to end. If Crazy Joe Gallo, a quintessential American mobster, didn’t exist, it would be hard to make him up.

Even though he was a vicious, cartoonish character straight out of a B-grade mobster movie, Crazy Joe Gallo’s murder made the front cover of Time Magazine. If Crazy Joe, all five-feet six-inches and 150 pounds of him, had not been killed in the early morning hours of April 7, 1972 inside Umberto’s Clam House in Manhattan’s Little Italy, the entire landscape of the Mafia in America might have changed, and not necessarily for the better.

Crazy Joe was born and raised in the Red Hook section of Brooklyn along with his elder brother, Larry, and his younger brother, Albert. Crazy Joe was instrumental in waging two Brooklyn gang wars against the Profaci/Colombo Crime families for control of the Brooklyn rackets. Mafia Boss, Joe Profaci, refused to give the Gallos the respect they thought they earned and deserved, so the Gallos decided they would take matters into their own hands and force their way up Brooklyn’s organized crime ladder. The main problem was the Profacis/Colombos had almost 500 strong on their side, and the Gallos had, at most, 30 loyalists, with another 200 or so mobsters, who either constantly changed sides or stayed completely out of the fray.

While doing a ten-year stretch in prison on an extortion conviction (1962-71), Crazy Joe recruited dangerous black convicts to join him in his quest to unseat Joe Colombo as boss of the Brooklyn mob (after Profaci’s death from natural causes, Colombo had replaced Profaci while Crazy Joe was in prison).

So, when Joe Colombo was shot to death by a black man, Jerome Johnson, at a June 1971 Italian-American Civil Rights League “Unity” rally at Columbus Circle in New York City, most mobsters and members of law enforcement pointed the finger at Crazy Joe Gallo.

The names of several characters have been changed in the screenplay in deference to their families.

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International Best Seller Joe Bruno’s Crazy Joe Gallo on sale on Amazon.com

Even though he was a vicious, cartoonish character straight out of a B-grade mobster movie, Crazy Joe Gallo’s murder made the front cover of Time Magazine. If Crazy Joe, all five-feet six-inches and 150 pounds of him, had not been iced in the early morning hours of April 7, 1972 inside Umberto’s Clam House in Manhattan’s Little Italy, the entire landscape of the Mafia in America might have changed, and not necessarily for the better.

Crazy Joe was born and raised in the Red Hook section of Brooklyn along with his older brother, Larry, and his younger brother, Albert. Crazy Joe was instrumental in waging two Brooklyn gang wars against the Profaci/Colombo Crime families for control of the Brooklyn rackets. Mafia Boss, Joe Profaci, refused to give the Gallos the respect they thought they earned and deserved, so the Gallos decided they would take matters into their own hands and force their way up Brooklyn’s organized crime ladder. The main problem was the Profacis/Colombos had almost 500 strong on their side, and the Gallos had, at most, 30 loyalists, with another 200 or so mobsters, who either constantly changed sides or stayed completely out of the fray.

While doing a ten-year stretch in prison on an extortion conviction (1962-71), Crazy Joe recruited dangerous and hungry black convicts to join him in his quest, after he was released from prison, to unseat Joe Colombo as boss of the Brooklyn mob (After Profaci’s death from natural causes, Colombo had replaced Profaci while Crazy Joe was in prison).

So, when Joe Colombo was shot to death by a black man, Jerome Johnson, at a June 1971 Italian-American Civil Rights League “Unity” rally at Columbus Circle in New York City, most mobsters and members of law enforcement pointed the finger at Crazy Joe Gallo.
But did Crazy Joe Gallo really orchestrate Colombo’s demise?
“Crazy Joe Gallo – The Mafia’s Greatest Hits – Volume Two” will present you with the possibilities and the factors that ultimately led to Crazy Joe’s brutal death.

Joe Bruno’s “Crazy Joe Gallo – The Mafia’s Greatest Hits – Volume 2” is a Best Seller on Amazon.com

 

International Best Selling author Joe Bruno’s “Crazy Joe Gallo – The Mafia’s Greatest Hits – Volume 2” is ranked #6 on Amazon Kindle in the category “True Crime – Hoaxes & Deceptions” and #7 in “Law Enforcement Biographies.”

#6 in Kindle Store > Kindle eBooks > Biographies & Memoirs > True Crime > Hoaxes & Deceptions
#7 in Kindle Store > Kindle eBooks > Biographies & Memoirs > Professionals & Academics > Law Enforcement

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Interview With Best-Selling Amazon Author Joe Bruno

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By Alice Wickham

Posted on September 7, 2015

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Alice Wickham

Posted on September 7, 2015

Tell us about growing up in NYC. Were you familiar with the kinds of characters you write about? Is that fair to say?

I grew up in New York City’s Lower East Side in the Little Italy/Chinatown area, where it’s been said there are more Mafia members per square inch than anywhere in the world, including Sicily. Some were friends, some were family, but the overwhelming majority was neither. I tried to stay away from any undue contact with the so-called gangsters, but since I owned Bruno’s Parking Lot in the heart of the Lower East Side from 1969-1996, and since most mobsters have cars, that was hardly possible. But whenever possible, I let them start their own cars.

In the 1820’s through the first decade of the 20th Century, the area I grew up in was known as the “Five Points.” It consisted primarily of poor Irish immigrants, but the neighborhood gradually transformed into Italian/Chinese. Now it’s 95 % Chinese – even Little Italy. Have you ever tried Egg Foo Yung Parmigiana?

My book “The Five Points – The Most Dangerous and Decadent Neighborhood Ever!” fills in the details.

In this book, I also write about my uncle (through marriage – he married my mother’s older sister, my Aunt Mary) Johnny Keyes, who was a boxer, boxing manager and promoter, restaurant owner, degenerate drinker and gambler, and the elected Mayor of Chinatown in the early-mid 1920’s. It was rumored he slightly stuffed the ballot boxes, but that rumor had never been confirmed. His close friend was writer/screenwriter Damon Runyon, and when Runyon wrote the screenplay for “Guys and Dolls,” he said he based the character “Harry the Horse” on Johnny Keyes.

In 1927, Johnny Keyes bet $10,000 (twice) on his friend, the heavyweight champion, Jack Dempsey, when Dempsey fought and lost to (twice) heavyweight champion Gene Tunney. Dempsey made millions for the two fights, and as a consolation prize, he bought Johnny Keyes a new Cadillac, which Keyes promptly sold to pay his gambling debts. He took a lot of cabs after that.

When I was born in 1947, Johnny Keyes was long gone, having divorced my Aunt Mary, and he moved to several cities in California (he owned tons of money to New York City Mafia bookies), where he opened several mob-controlled restaurants including “Spaghetti Joe’s,” Damon Runyon’s nickname for Keyes. Keyes also promoted boxing matches (also for the mob) and for a time he was actress Mae West’s bodyguard, which is slightly ridiculous since Keyes was maybe 5 feet 2 inches, and at the time he had ballooned to 230 pounds.

Keyes’s gambling problem continued, and he died in 1967 owing money to everyone including the undertaker. He had remarried at least three times, and whenever he lost a bundle at the track or at the fights, his motto was “It’s not your life, it’s not your wife; it’s only money.”

Yeah, mostly other people’s money

You spent some time working as a journalist, can you tell us about that?

I started out in the mid-1970’s as a sports columnist for the East Villager, an Alphabet City weekly newspaper owned by the Village Voice. In 1980, I was offered a full-time job as a sports columnist at the News World (later the New York Tribune, and then transformed into the Washington Times, which is presently the second largest newspaper in Washington D.C.) The News World was an NY City daily newspaper owned by the Unification Church headed by Reverend Sun Yun Moon. Half the staff were Moonies, and the other half were legitimate newspapermen like me.

One day a Moonie could be washing floors, and the next day he could be the editor. For six years, I stood out of the Moonies’ way, did my job, and collected my salary (including a padded expense account) In 1986, I moved to the Middletown Record in Middletown, New York until 1988. I was also an associate editor of Boxing Illustrated from 1980-87, and a frequent contributor to Ring Magazine, which were both owned by the legendary boxing historian and my close friend, Bert Randolph Sugar.

I was elected Vice President of the Boxing Writers of America from 1982-86, and the Vice President of the International Boxing Writers from 1981-88. I won several Best Boxing Writer Awards from several entities, most of which no longer exist, not even in my memory. One was Ring 8 (still around), and another was the National Association for the Improvement of Boxing (long gone).

I also wrote several boxing articles for Penthouse Magazine, and when I visited their offices on the West Side of Manhattan, all the women I met were over 50, and thankfully, they all kept their clothes on. The pay was crazy good – $1.50 a word in the early 1990’s. But written filibusters were not tolerated.

Your knowledge of your subject, American mobsters, is impressive. Tell us more.

This I cannot do. They all know where I live.

You have had amazing success on Amazon, do you have any writing/marketing tips for other writers?

The hardest part of writing is sitting down, or standing up, and performing your writing routine. You have to get into a daily routine, and you have to be disciplined. Talent is not all that necessary. Persistence is. You don’t have to be published to call yourself a writer. If you write, you’re a writer – period.

Amazon makes it easy for anyone, with even a rudimentary understanding of the written word, to become a published writer. But that doesn’t mean you can cut corners. Always hire a proofreader, and if you can afford it, hire a professional editor. Multiple typos are the kiss of death for a writer.

I used to pay for my covers, but now with Amazon Cover Creator, I create all my own covers. Of course, I need photos to do so. Some are public domain photos I get for free on the Internet, and others I purchased cheaply from several Internet photo sites.

AMAZON KINDLE COUNTDOWN DEAL!! International Best Selling author Joe Bruno’s “Crazy Joe Gallo – The Mafia’s Greatest Hits – Volume 2” is on a special KINDLE COUNTDOWN Sale!!

For a limited time only, the price for the best selling book is 99 cents. That’s right, folks, less than a buck for a book that is ranked #2 on Amazon/USA in the category “”Law Enforcement Biographies,” and #6 in “Organized Crime (The rankings change every hour).

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