From Publishers Weekly:
There were skeptics when “I Heard You Paint Houses” (Steerforth Press), Charles Brandt’s book about mob hit man Frank “The Irish” Sheeran, came out in 2004 with Sheeran’s claim he pulled the trigger on teamster boss Jimmy Hoffa. Two years later, when mafia honcho Billy D’Elia turned state’s evidence, the FBI asked him what happened to Hoffa. He told them to read Brandt’s book.
But wait, there’s more. Brandt held back information from that first edition because he feared for his life. He says, “I purposely left out people’s names—I didn’t even mention their names in passing—because they were difficult. When you’re dealing with people where murder is part of their arsenal, you don’t mess with them.”
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Now that those folks are no longer alive (or in the case of D’Elia, no longer a threat), Brandt included more information in an updated version of “I Heard You Paint Houses” published last June in anticipation of the movie, shooting this summer, based on the book.
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How did Brandt, a former homicide prosecutor and chief deputy attorney general of Delaware, get Sheeran to confess to not only the Hoffa murder but others as well? The FBI had put Sheeran in prison for labor law violations. Brandt explains, “They gave him 32 years of jail sentences. I got this call from the Philly mob. Frank was about 70. He had health issues and was in a wheelchair in jail. Would I get him out on an early medical release? It was pretty easy. I took him before the parole board and pleaded his case with his medical records and got him out.”
Link to the rest at Publishers Weekly
Sounds interesting. The book just dropped into my Kindle.