Chin: The Life and Crimes of Mafia Boss Vincent Gigante

Chin: The Life and Crimes of Mafia Boss Vincent Gigante

â€œFull of astonishment . . . a kind of dark wonder.â€
â€”Pete Hamill
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VINCENT â€œCHINâ€ GIGANTE
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He started out as a professional boxerâ€”until he found his true calling as a ruthless contract killer. Hand-picked by Vito Genovese to run the Genovese Family when Vito was sent to prison, Chin raked in more than $100 million for the Genovese family and routinely ordered the murders of mobsters who violated the Mafia codeâ€”including John Gotti. At the height of his power, he controlled an underworld empire of close to three hundred made men, making the Genovese Family the most powerful in the U.S.
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And yet Vincent â€œChinâ€ Gigante was, to all outside appearances, certifiably crazy.
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He wandered the streets of Greenwich Village in a ratty bathrobe and slippers. He urinated in public, played pinochle in storefronts, and hid a second family from his wife. On twenty-two occasions, he admitted himself to a mental hospitalâ€”evading criminal prosecution while insuring his continued reign as â€œThe Oddfather.â€ It took nearly thirty years of endless psychiatric evaluations by a parade of puzzled doctors for federal authorities to finally bring him down.
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â€œA tale for the ages . . . grabs you with the immediacy of a breaking news story and carries you along as if you were living it.â€â€”Michael Daly,Â The Daily Beast
Country USA
Brand Pinnacle Books
Manufacturer Pinnacle
Binding Mass Market Paperback
ReleaseDate 2016-11-29
EANs 9780786037049

Country	USA
Brand	Pinnacle Books
Manufacturer	Pinnacle
Binding	Mass Market Paperback
ReleaseDate	2016-11-29
EANs	9780786037049

Chin: The Life and Crimes of Mafia Boss Vincent Gigante

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