The Mobster and …The Lawyer

Harry Brooks

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BROOKS DOES IT AGAIN!
The Mobster and The Lawyer is the story of two boyhood friends who grew up on the streets of Chicago, each going their separate ways. Roberto Longo, is the son of Maria Longo, who had an affair with a well to do Jewish law student.
The night she was going to tell him she was pregnant, he told her he was transferring from the University of Chicago to Harvard Law School. She never told him. Roberto goes on to become a successful criminal defense attorney. His boyhood friend Tony Castellina’s father is a ‘mob-guy’ and Tony follows in his father’s footsteps.
When the state of Nevada decides to prosecute Tony for numerous illegal activities, Roberto goes to Las Vegas to defend him, and discovers the Attorney General for the state of Nevada is going to personally prosecute the case. What happens after that will keep the readers on the edge of their seat!

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• Lawyer
• Romance
• Fiction

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• Publié par: Xlibris US
• Date de parution: 23 août 2022
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781669843474
• Langue: English

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A FAMILY SECRET
ALL IN
EVERYBODY DOES BUSINESS
THE DEAL
THE MONEY, THE MOB, AND WALL STREET
NOTHING BEATS LUCK
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The Mobster and … the Lawyer
 
 
 
 
 
Harry Brooks
 
Copyright © 2022 by Harry Brooks.
 
Library of Congress Control Number:
2022915437
ISBN:
Hardcover
978-1-6698-4349-8

Softcover
978-1-6698-4348-1

eBook
978-1-6698-4347-4
 
 
All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the copyright owner.
 
This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to any actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.
 
King James Version (Authorized Version). First published in 1611. Quoted from the KJV Classic Reference Bible, Copyright © 1983 by The Zondervan Corporation.
 
Any people depicted in stock imagery provided by Getty Images are models, and such images are being used for illustrative purposes only.
Certain stock imagery © Getty Images.
 
 
 
Rev. date: 08/22/2022
 
 
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CONTENTS
Prologue
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
Chapter 17
Chapter 18
Chapter 19
Chapter 20
Chapter 21
Chapter 22
Chapter 23
Chapter 24
Chapter 25
Chapter 26
Chapter 27
Chapter 28
Chapter 29
Chapter 30
Chapter 31
Chapter 32
Chapter 33
Chapter 34
Chapter 35
Chapter 36
Chapter 37
Chapter 38
Chapter 39
Chapter 40
Chapter 41
Chapter 42
Chapter 43
Chapter 44
Chapter 45
Chapter 46
Chapter 47
Chapter 48
Chapter 49
Chapter 50
Chapter 51
Chapter 52
Chapter 53
Chapter 54
Chapter 55
Chapter 56
Chapter 57
Chapter 58
Chapter 59
Chapter 60
Chapter 61
Chapter 62
Chapter 63
Chapter 64
Chapter 65
Chapter 66
Chapter 67
Chapter 68
Chapter 69
Chapter 70
Chapter 71
Chapter 72
Chapter 73
Chapter 74
Chapter 75
Chapter 76
Chapter 77
Chapter 78
Chapter 79
Chapter 80
Chapter 81
Chapter 82
Chapter 83
Chapter 84
Chapter 85
Chapter 86
Chapter 87
Chapter 88
Chapter 89
Chapter 90
Chapter 91
Chapter 92
Chapter 93
Chapter 94
Chapter 95
Chapter 96
Chapter 97
Chapter 98
Chapter 99
Chapter 100
Chapter 101
Chapter 102
Chapter 103
Chapter 104
Chapter 105
Chapter 106
Chapter 107
Chapter 108
Chapter 109
Chapter 110
Chapter 111
Chapter 112
Chapter 113
Chapter 114
Chapter 115
Chapter 116
Chapter 117
Chapter 118
Chapter 119
Chapter 120
Chapter 121
Chapter 122
Chapter 123
Chapter 124
Chapter 125
Chapter 126
Chapter 127
Chapter 128
Chapter 129
Chapter 130
Chapter 131
Chapter 132
Chapter 133
Chapter 134
Chapter 135
Chapter 136
Chapter 137
Chapter 138
Chapter 139
Chapter 140
Chapter 141
Chapter 142
Chapter 143
Chapter 144
Chapter 145
Chapter 146
Chapter 147
Chapter 148
Chapter 149
Chapter 150
Chapter 151
Chapter 152
A Note from The Author
 
 
 
 
For Mimi.
Without her encouragement, this book would never have been written.
PROLOGUE
I N 1947, WHEN Maria Costello was ten years old, she traveled from Chicago with her mother to visit her aunt and uncle in Florida. She knew very little about them other than they helped support her and her mother after her father was killed by the police during an attempted robbery of a clothing warehouse. When they arrived in Florida, her uncle told them he and Maria’s aunt had to go to Havana where they had family business.
“You will come with us,” he told Maria’s mother. It will be a nice vacation.
Maria remembered that night very well. After they landed in Havana, they were met by a tall thin black man who said very little. He directed them to an old Mercedes he had parked not too far from where the plane had landed, opened the doors, and waited for them to get in the car. The tall thin black man whispered something to Maria’s uncle who simply nodded, after which the tall thin black man drove away from the airport.
They drove for several hours into areas that seemed increasingly remote. It was very late and very dark when they finally arrived at a stately-looking house. When they got out of the car, they were greeted by a woman who ushered them into the house where there was a dinner party in progress. Maria’s uncle and aunt were greeted by the guests who didn’t pay very much attention to Maria or her mother. Their host, wearing a white apron, who had been cooking pasta, emerged from the kitchen. When he saw Maria standing in the corner of the room by herself, he walked over to her, smiled, and said, “I am Charlie . . . and you are?”
“Maria. I am here with my uncle and aunt. That’s my mother over there speaking to some lady.”
Over dinner, Charley was charming. He personally brought out and served all the food. After appetizers came the pasta. Maria found herself looking down at a plate full of food she assumed was meant to be shared by everyone at the table.
With a big smile on his face, Charley said to her, “Mangiare . . . mangiare.” Eat, eat.
“I can never eat all this,” she said as she stared at the plate.”
“Ah, I bet you can,” Charley said and then proposed a wager. “I give you $10 if you-a-eat everything on your plate.”
The other guests laughed and encouraged her to take the challenge and also offered her money if she could finish all the food on her plate. And so Maria took the challenge and was rewarded with almost $30 for her efforts, more money than she ever had.
Several weeks later, after Maria and her mother had returned to Chicago, a photograph in a newspaper caught her eye. It showed a man who seemed intriguingly familiar. Above the picture was a headline about the infamous Charles “Lucky” Luciano. He’d been captured in Cuba and was being deported to Italy. When Maria questioned her mother about it, her mother told her it was not important that she know everything. What was important, however, was to remember the kindness that Charley Luciano showed her, and she should always remember that the family comes first. Maria was not quite sure she understood, but as the years went by, she came to understand what the family meant.
It is no surprise that family members paint idyllic pictures of their mobster ancestors. Every mobster was also a father, brother, uncle, or grandfather, and at least, theoretically, his villainy didn’t spill over into those roles.
And so Maria grew up being part of the family. When she was eighteen years old, she married Angelo Longo, who was a member of one of the Chicago crime families. A year later, she had a daughter, Gina. Maria and Angelo instilled in their daughter the importance of Italian family life. They taught her never to judge what the family did. “We do what we need to do to survive,” Gina’s father told her.
And so Gina never questioned the family tradition. She heard all kinds of stories that made her wonder, but she simply accepted her life in the family. However, in 1976, when she was eighteen, she violated the family tradition.
She wondered if she could ever redeem herself with the family. But just as important, if the time came, would she want to?
CHAPTER 1
T HE YEAR WAS 1975. Gina had just graduated high school and was out celebrating with two of her classmates. They had dinner at a local Italian restaurant, went to a movie, and were on their way home when fate intervened, and Gina met Robert Shaw.
The three girls stopped at a service station to get gas, and Gina decided to use the bathroom. As she got out of the car, she noticed another car at the pumps with three young people in it: two guys and a girl. The girl was another one of Gina’s classmates. “Hey, Gina!” the girl hollered from the car. “Come say hello to my friends.”
Gina smiled and reluctantly walked over to the car. Her classmate was sitting in the front with one of the guys, and sitting in the back was a handsome young man. He smiled at Gina, and for whatever reason, she felt embarrassed. The boys looked to be about her own age when, actually, they were in their early twenties.
The two young men were attending law school at the University of Chicago. They had picked up Gina’s classmate at a local bar and were looking to have a night of fun.
The young man sitting in the back of the car was Robert Shaw. He was destined to be a ladies’ man early on. Most young men his age were interested in pursuing girls, but none more than Robert. He had everything going for him. He was good-looking,