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New York author Anthony M. DeStefano will be appearing at Browseabout Books in Rehoboth at 5 p.m., Friday, Aug. 29, to discuss his new true crime paperback, “King of The Godfathers: Joseph Massino and The Fall of The Bonanno Crime Family.”
As a reporter for Newsday newspaper in New York, DeStefano covered the racketeering trial of Joseph Massino, which led to the crime boss’s conviction in July 2004.
As a result of his coverage, DeStefano wrote the definitive story on Massino. “King of the Godfathers” is the paperback edition of the hardcover “The Last Godfather” and is current through the end of 2007.
Massino, the mob boss of New York’s Bonanno crime family for more than 20 years, was betrayed by his closest friend, underboss and brother-in-law, Salvatore Vitale.
Based on interviews with Massino’s family and friends, as well as law enforcement officials and confidential sources, “King of The Godfathers” for the first time reveals the close relationship between Joseph Massino and John Gotti, how Massino set up the 1981 execution of three rival Bonanno crime family captains in a Brooklyn social club, the bloody mob war of 1980-81 that brought Massino to power and how, after the imprisonment of John Gotti and Vincent “Vinnie the Chin” Gigante, Massino emerged as the most powerful gangster in America.
The book also covers how Massino was involved in the murder of Sonny Black, an incident portrayed in the film “Donnie Brasco.”
Books will be available for purchase.
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