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This is the Forward in Joe Bruno’s soon-to-be-released book, “The Mysterious Murder of Martha Moxley: Did the Political and Financial Power of the Kennedy/Skakel Families.”
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Foreword
It all started for me around the year 2000 at a “yard sale” in Sarasota, Fl.
Living amongst the tenements on the Lower East Side of Manhattan in New York City for 48 years, a yard sale was an oddity to me. But my wife figured she could pick up a valuable item or two for almost nothing, so we stopped at a yard sale which took place in someone’s driveway.
As my wife picked through the clothes, figurines, and appliance that were lined up on two long picnic tables, I fingered through a box of paperback books that was laying on the concrete floor. The one that caught my eye was a book featuring a pretty blond girl on the cover. Next to her face in red lettering was written, “WHO KILLED MARTHA MOXLEY?
The title of the book was Murder in Greenwich, and was written by Mark Fuhrman. I knew Fuhrman’s name from the infamous O.J. Simpson trial, but I didn’t know he had become an author. (Unbeknownst to me, Fuhrman had also written a previous book on the Simpson trial called Murder in Brentwood.)
I paid 50 cents for the book, took it home, and put it on a huge shelf of books that I planned to read before I perished.
Fast forward to November 2014 – 14 years later.
I don’t know why, but I picked up Murder in Greenwich and started reading it. At this point in time, I didn’t know that anyone in the Kennedy family was involved, and I thought a Skakel was a form of foreign currency. When I finished Murder in Greenwich the takeaway was that Fuhrman predicted that Michael Skakel, then 15 years old was the killer of 15-year-old Martha Moxley in Greenwich, Connecticut on October 30, 1975.
Soon after Murder in Greenwich was published, Skakel was indicted for Martha’s murder. Then in 2002, Skakel was convicted by a jury of his peers, and he was sentenced to 20 years-life in prison. In 2013, the guilty verdict was overturned by a judge who said that Michael Skakel’s attorney, Mickey Sherman, had not given him a proper defense.
Before I sat down and started my research for The Mysterious Murder of Martha Moxley: Did the Political and Financial Power of the Kennedy/Skakel Families, I knew nothing about the case except what I had read in Fuhrman’s book, in which the time period had ended in 1998.
On January 2, 2015, I began my research in earnest and continued it for one full year. On January 2, 2016, while still immersed in my research, I started writing this book in earnest.
I went into this project with no preconceived notions. With 40 years as a journalist in my back pocket, all my research for this book has been done by reading more than 10 books on the subject of either the Moxley murder, or the Kennedy family’s connection to the Skakels; in particular those concerning Ethel Skakel Kennedy, who married the former United States Attorney General, Robert F. Kennedy. I also pored over 200 magazine and newspaper articles available on the internet; especial the Samford Advocate and Greenwich Times, and the New York Times.
And like Nero Wolfe, I never left the comfort of my home.
I have not spoken to anyone connected with this case: none of the Moxleys, Skakels or Kennedys, and none of the detectives or law enforcement agencies involved. The only contact I had with anyone involved in the Moxley murder case was via email with Len Levitt, who wrote: Conviction: Solving the Moxley Murder in 2006. I asked Levitt a few questions, but he was not effusive in his answers.
In street terms, he gave me the cold shoulder.
Still, all the quotes I needed, and all the facts that are pertinent to this case were already available in print in one form or another. But it takes someone with years of experience to piece together all the facts into a coherent and plausible narrative. Without tooting my horn too loud, I have that experience.
After researching the Moxley Murder Case, and while writing the first draft, I changed my opinion on certain things several times. In fact, after I finished the first draft, I threw it out (deleted it in computer terms), and started again from scratch from a different perspective.
This book is my absolute honest opinion of what transpired in the “Martha Moxley Murder Case,” much like the conclusion Mark Fuhrman arrived at when he gave his final judgement in Murder in Greenwich.
Opinions are like noses; everyone has one. But I back mine up with facts, not other people’s opinions.
And more importantly, unlike other books which have recently been written by people connected to the case in one way or another, I have no horse in this race.
Of course, I feel compassion for the Moxley family. They, along with their daughter, Martha, are the real victims here. No matter what anyone with a vested interest in this case may say.
Martha Moxley (1960 – 1975) – may she rest in peace.
“Crime Pays: Scoundrels and Their Schemes” is presently ranked:
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#13 in “Legal History,”
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#23 in “Law Enforcement.”
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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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Another 5-star review for International Best Selling author Joe Bruno’s “Jimmy Hoffa – The Mafia’s Greatest Hits – Volume 3.”
This makes it eight 5-Star reviews out of eight reviews.
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5.0 out of 5 stars
Knockout!
By Peter
on March 3, 2016
Format: Kindle Edition
Being English I wasn’t really interested in the goings-on of the American Labour Unions or indeed the existence of Jimmy Hoffa. But I do know and love Joe Bruno’s works. But I do know of the existence of organised crime and the Mafia. I have read many of Joe’s books and cannot recall a single one that I failed to enjoy.
It is quite obvious to me that this work is very well researched and put together and certainly kept me totally enthralled.
Simply a great read!
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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.
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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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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.
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.”
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