Boss of Bosses: The Fall of the Godfather — The FBI and Paul Castellano

By Joseph F. O'Brien, Andris Kurins

Categories: Biographies & Memoirs, History

Boss of Bosses: The Fall of the Godfather (1991) is Joseph F. O'Brien and Andris Kurins's firsthand account of the FBI wiretap of Gambino boss Paul Castellano. The agents describe planting a bug in Castellano's Staten Island mansion kitchen, the hundreds of hours of recordings that followed, and the prosecutions that helped unravel his hold on New York organized crime.

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