For Joe Valachi, the twelve days of Christmas always turned up 13. “I believed in Santa Claus and hung up my stocking,” he solemnly attests in a recently completed 1,180-page autobiography. “But all I ...

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Sentenced to 15 years in prison, former mob "button man" Joe Valachi (Charles Bronson) turns informant when he learns top Mafia capo Vito Genovese (Lino Ventura) has put a $100,000 contract out on his ...

is pulp rather than a great film). The narrative is framed by scenes involving an older, imprisoned Valachi, we're yanked back in time to see his rise through the ranks as he earns the trust of older ...

When Joe Valachi (Charles Bronson) has a price put on his head by Don Vito Genovese (Lino Ventura), he must take desperate steps to protect himself while in prison. An unsuccessful attempt to slit his ...

I’ve been reading “The Valachi Papers,” about Joe Valachi, the mob soldier who ratted out the Cosa Nostra in the ’60s. It seems one of his steadiest and most lucrative operations from the ’30s through ...

Things started to go bad for the Mob in 1963 when Joseph “Joe Cargo” Valachi testified against the Mafia before the McClellan Committee. Valachi became the first Mafiosi to break the Mob’s Omerta ...