Items related to The Last Good Heist: The Inside Story of The Biggest...

The Last Good Heist: The Inside Story of The Biggest Single Payday in the Criminal History of the Northeast - Softcover

Worcester, Wayne; Richard, Randall; White, Tim

  • 3.72 out of 5 stars
    741 ratings by Goodreads
 
9781493009596: The Last Good Heist: The Inside Story of The Biggest Single Payday in the Criminal History of the Northeast
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1493009591 ISBN 13: 9781493009596
Publisher: Globe Pequot Publishing, 2016

Synopsis

On Aug. 14, 1975, eight daring thieves ransacked 148 massive safe-deposit boxes at a secret bank used by organized crime, La Cosa Nostra, and its associates in Providence, R.I. The crooks fled with duffle bags crammed full of cash, gold, silver, stamps, coins, jewels and high-end jewelry. The true value of the loot has always been kept secret, partly because it was ill-gotten to begin with, and partly because there was plenty of incentive to keep its true worth out of the limelight. It's one thing for authorities to admit they didn't find a trace of goods worth from $3 million to $4 million, and entirely another when what was at stake was more accurately valued at about $30 million, the equivalent of $120 million today. It was the biggest single payday in the criminal history of the Northeast. Nobody came close, not the infamous James "Whitey" Bulger, not John "The Dapper Don" Gotti, not even the Brinks or Wells Fargo robbers. The heist was bold enough and big enough to rock the underworld to its core, and it left La Cosa Nostra in the region awash in turmoil that still reverberates more than forty years later. Last Good Heist is the inside story of the robbery and its aftermath.

"synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.

About the Author

Tim White is an Emmy-winning investigative reporter for WPRI-TV, the CBS affiliate in Providence; Randall Richard is a former investigative reporter and international correspondent for the Providence Journal and national reporter at the Associated Press, and Wayne Worcester is a former reporter and editor at the Providence Journal, novelist, essayist and a professor emeritus in journalism at the University of Connecticut.

"About this title" may belong to another edition of this title.

Publisher
Globe Pequot Publishing
Publication date
2016
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1493009591
ISBN 13 
9781493009596
Binding
Paperback
Edition number
1
Number of pages
272
Rating
  • 3.72 out of 5 stars
    741 ratings by Goodreads