"I Heard You Paint Houses"

by BRANDT, CHARLES

• ISBN13: 9781586420895
• ISBN10: 1586420895
• Format: Trade Paper
• Copyright: 2005-05-24
• Publisher: Steerforth

Summary

This #1 true crime bestseller covers more than forty years of Mafia-Teamsters history through the eyes of Sheeran, a top-ranking mob boss and Teamsters official. Most notably it solves one of the most enduring mysteries in American history: the disappearance of Jimmy Hoffa. National author tour and Major TV publicity tied to the 30th anniversary of Hoffa's disappearance.

Author Biography

Born and raised in New York City, Charles Brandt is a former junior high English teacher, welfare investigator in East Harlem, homicide prosecutor and Chief Deputy Attorney General of the State of Delaware. In private practice since 1976, Brandt was elected president of the Delaware Trial Lawyers Association and Delaware Chapter of the American Board of Trial Advocates. He has been named by his peers as one of the "Best Lawyers in America" and one of the "Best Lawyers in Delaware." He is a frequent speaker on cross-examination and interrogation techniques for reluctant witnesses. Brandt is the author of a novel based on major crimes he solved through interrogation, The Right to Remain Silent (SMP 1988). He lives in Lewes, Delaware and Sun Valley, Idaho with his wife, Nancy, and has three grown children.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	ix
Prologue "Russ & Frank"	1	(6)
Chapter One "They Wouldn't Dare"	7	(12)
Chapter Two What It Is	19	(5)
Chapter Three Get Yourself Another Punching Bag	24	(6)
Chapter Four Little Egypt University	30	(7)
Chapter Five 411 Days	37	(8)
Chapter Six Doing What I Had to Do	45	(8)
Chapter Seven Waking Up in America	53	(10)
Chapter Eight Russell Bufalino	63	(4)
Chapter Nine Prosciutto Bread and Homemade Wine	67	(11)
Chapter Ten All the Way Downtown	78	(8)
Chapter Eleven Jimmy	86	(8)
Chapter Twelve "I Heard You Paint Houses"	94	(10)
Chapter Thirteen They Didn't Make a Parachute Big Enough	104	(9)
Chapter Fourteen The Gunman Had No Mask	113	(11)
Chapter Fifteen Respect with an Envelope	124	(10)
Chapter Sixteen Give Them a Little Message	134	(10)
Chapter Seventeen Nothing More Than a Mockery	144	(11)
Chapter Eighteen Just Another Lawyer Now	155	(11)
Chapter Nineteen Tampering with the Very Soul of the Nation	166	(9)
Chapter Twenty Hoffa's Comedy Troupe	175	(11)
Chapter Twenty-One All He Did for Me Was to Hang Up	186	(8)
Chapter Twenty-Two Pacing in His Cage	194	(9)
Chapter Twenty-Three Nothing Comes Cheap	203	(10)
Chapter Twenty-Four He Needed a Favor and That Was That	213	(13)
Chapter Twenty-Five That Wasn't Jimmys Way	226	(7)
Chapter Twenty-Six All Hell Will Break Loose	233	(11)
Chapter Twenty-Seven July 30, 1975	244	(4)
Chapter Twenty-Eight To Paint a House	248	(11)
Chapter Twenty-Nine Everybody Bleeds	259	(4)
Chapter Thirty "Those Responsible Have Not Gotten Off Scot-Free"	263	(8)
Chapter Thirty-One Under a Vow of Secrecy	271	(8)
Afterword	279	(14)
Epilogue	293	(15)
Sources	308