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Frank Matula was convicted of perjury in 1959. A Los Angeles Teamsters official, he was secretary-treasurer of LA Local 396. In 1957 Local 396 members disposed of $20 million of Los Angeles garbage annually. During his judicial ordeal Teamsters President Jimmy Hoffa appointed Matula to an important...

Charlie Yanowsky aka Charlie the Jew was boss of the Hoboken docks and an organizer of the International Longshoremen's Union (AFL). My ebook looks at Yanowsky's background from his youth in New Jersey. A New Jersey governor maintained close ties with Charlie before the gangster was ice...

Walter Gottlieb Groebli was a drifter who was originally from Atlanta, Georgia. His grandparents settled there after immigrating from Switzerland. The 18-year-old Walter was taken in by wealthy Percival Wilcox Whittlesey, who had a luxurious home in Nyack, NY. A disagreement occurred when the youth...

Robert "Big Bob" McCullough was a hit man for Al Capone's Chicago Outfit. Later he served as a policeman for several prominent race organizations. Specifically, these were the Miami Beach Kennel Club and the Sportsman's Park racetrack in Chicago. McCullough came under scrutiny following...

John Stoppelli was in trouble with the law from his teenage years when he stole carrier pigeons from a Long Island City coup. In 1938 he was questioned following the death of a beautiful dancer named Thelma Giroux. The woman leaped to her death from a fifth story window of the Lincoln Hotel in New...

Juana Bormann was one of the most tormenting and evil of the women who worked guarding female prisoners at Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen concentration camps. From camp survivors we know that Bormann used her Alsatian dog to rip the clothes and flesh from the unfortunate victims of her blind wrath. Age...

Duane Allman was far beyond his years as a unique talent playing his guitar. As a youth he purchased a guitar which he bought from selling the parts of a motorcycle that he wrecked. After playing backup guitar for numerous musicians of various genres, he organized the Allman Brothers Band. The group...

Dame Beryl Grey’s life is defined by her love of dance. As bombs fell on London, and aged only fourteen, she joined Ninette de Valois’s ballet Company, touring Britain during WWII. Despite the difficulties of wartime Britain, as a true artist Beryl quickly became one of the finest ballerinas...

Tom Poorman was a versatile baseball player. He was regularly a right fielder for several minor and major league teams from 1875-1889. A small man in stature, he also pitched throughout his career. He stole 88 bases as a major leaguer in 1887, with the Philadelphia Athletics, and 97 with Milwaukee,...

Don Cockell was ranked 5th in the world among heavyweight boxing contenders when he battled heavyweight champion Rocky Marciano for the title in May 1955. Cockell's record was an uneven one. There were some successes but there were also losses to middleweights, and 5 knockouts by merely average opponents....

Charles Sonny Liston was an ex-con who entered boxing in 1953 after serving a term in prison in Missouri. He learned to fight on the streets of St. Louis. The first two years of the 1960s decade were eventful for Sonny, not just because of speculation of a possible title shot with heavyweight champion...

Along the notorious Rogue River, gold seekers, crazed by the discovery of nuggets that made them rich overnight, are at war with one another. The river itself swarms with salmon, bringing along with them another kind of wealth and violent fighting between fishermen and the fish-packing monopoly. Into...

Joe Louis was the most marketable sports figure on earth at the beginning of 1937. On January 20, 1937 he fought an upstart Jewish boxer, Bob Pastor, at Yankee Stadium. The former New York University football player went the distance, 11 rounds, wounding Louis' ego in the process. This bout occurred...

Carmen Miranda was a sensational star of stage and film who was born in Portugal. She came to Rio de Janiero as a child, where she was raised by her parents. Carmen compensated for her mediocre voice with distinct and alluring movements of her hands. Her hands, she believed, were her most valuable...