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Click image of book cover to purchase. James "Jimmy the Hat" Lanza , one of the most successful mob bosses you've never heard of, is brought to vivid life in Lanza's Mob: The Mafia and San Francisco, written by Christina Ann-Marie DiEdoardo, Esq., a criminal defense lawyer from the Bay Area originally from Queens, New York. Lanza's Mob, the first detailed biography  of Jimmy the Hat is a solid, well-researched addition to the Mafia library. The book, however, details much more than Lanza and his crime family. It provides an insightful history of San Francisco itself, as well its colorful, evolving underworld, initially populated by the Barbary Pirates . The book includes an overview of the formation of the Mafia in Sicily and in America, as well as how and when it first planted roots in the Bay City. Written in a wry, witty highly absorbing voice, the book is rock-solid in terms of its scholarship, which traces the Lanza family's r...

Preorder by clicking book cover. James "Jimmy the Hat" Lanza certainly earned his place among the pantheon of Cosa Nostra's wiliest bosses as will be revealed in Lanza's Mob by Christina Ann-Marie DiEdoardo, Esq., a criminal defense lawyer in San Francisco (who lived for years in Queens, New York). Available for pre-order now, the book will be released on July 31, 2016. Lanza truly knew the old-school ways of hiding in plain sight. While there's much evidence that he was one of the attendees of the doomed 1957 Apalachin summit, he successfully avoided arrest unlike so many others. "It would have been child’s play for Lanza to evade the New York state police, as he apparently did," as the author writes below. The book is based on extensive research by the author (who knows her stuff, folks!) and includes how major events such as the Castellammarese War impacted the Lanza crime family. The book details some lucrative and probably gener...

Frank Sinatra... "Old Blue Eyes" .... won a dozen Grammy Awards, three Academy Awards, and recorded 297 singles, most so well known we needn't name them here. Frank had a temper, sure, but who among us doesn't? Besides it was total B.S. what they did because of some liar nicknamed "The Animal." On  July 19 1972  Sinatra burst into the House Crime Committee and, while the flashbulbs popped, denounced its members for conducting a character assassination.