THE BLACK HAND FORUM

There are 2 books about this robbery (that I am aware of). The Man Who Robbed the Pierre: The Story of Bobby Comfort and the Biggest Hotel Robbery Ever by Ira Berkow (with Bobby Comfort, one of the masterminds of the heist) and The Pierre Hotel Affair by Daniel Simone (with Nick Sacco, one of the pa...

This is great, I am interested to read these. I've always had the feeling that the FBI used Valachi to get illegally gathered intel into the public record, by feeding him info gleaned from illegal bugs-essentially information laundering. Especially in regards to info about LCN outside of New York. H...