Confidence of The Mob: The IRS Agent Who Took Down the Mafia—Then Advised Them($16.99Value)

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Betrayed by the Government He Served, He Became the Mob’s Most Trusted Advisor. Boston, 1950s. Fred G. Pastore was one of the IRS ’s most feared investigators—a relentless enforcer tasked with dismantling the Patriarca crime family , tracking illegal gambling money, and exposing tax fraud at the highest levels of business and government. They called him " The Eliot Ness of Boston. " But when his investigations led him to the White House, he was given an impossible choice—by none other than Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy . The case? A high-profile tax scandal involving presidential aide Sherman Adams and textile tycoon Bernard Goldfine , now remembered as the infamous “ Vicuña Coat Affair. ” Fred’s investigations of mob figures like Jerry Angiulo and Raymond Patriarca earned him national headlines and powerful enemies. What followed shocked the city: instead of accepting a demotion to a lower position in Syracuse, New York, Fred faced his life's most pivotal moment and reinvented himself as a private tax advisor to the very mobsters he once pursued. Confidence of the Mob is a gripping true crime memoir told by Fred’s grandson, who received a sealed box of case files, press clippings, and handwritten memos decades after Fred’s death. Based on never-before-seen documents, firsthand interviews, and family archives, the book chronicles one man’s journey from government enforcer to trusted consigliere. Includes original press photos, internal IRS documents, and links to a companion podcast series featuring interviews with former distinguished attorneys, DAs, family members, and former clients—including some of the largest Las Vegas casino owners in history. "A really interesting book... I'd highly recommend you buy it." — Gary Jenkins, host of Gangland Wire and retired Kansas City Police Intelligence Unit detective "...his grandfather Fred G. Pastore's secret life as Boston's top mob-busting IRS agent." — Michelle Visco, Daily Times Chronicle (Woburn, MA) Fred G. Pastore's original documents and artifacts are being prepared for exhibit at The Mob Museum, Las Vegas. A story that intertwines organized crime, political scandal, and one family's sixty-year secret — told through the case files the government never knew survived. I was eight years old when my grandfather died. I knew him the way any kid knows a grandfather — the smile, the candy when no one was looking, the office in town where he and his employees pushed papers around desks. I thought accounting was boring. I had no idea whose accounts they were. About twelve years ago, my mother handed me an old Florida Citrus box from her attic and said, "These were your grandfather's. I don't know what's in them. They're yours now." The first document I pulled was an accounting ledger — exactly what I expected. I put the box on a shelf. When I finally went back to it, I found profiles of Raymond Patriarca and Jerry Angiulo. Raid maps. Case notes. Commendations. And a telegram to the White House — my grandfather telling President Kennedy and the Attorney General he needed to see them immediately about the Bernard Goldfine case. Nobody in my family knew the full story. It took me years, hundreds of documents, and dozens of interviews to piece together the timeline of a man who was the tip of the spear against the Boston mob — and what he did after the government he served turned on him. This book is that timeline. The photos and documents are real, and through the QR code inside, you can examine them yourself and hear the voices of the people who were there. If you knew Fred, or ever heard his name, I'd love to hear from you — you can reach me through the website. — Eddy Inserra III Boston, 1950s. The FBI wouldn't touch the rackets — J. Edgar Hoover wanted nothing to do with bookmaking. That left one weapon against organized crime: the Intelligence Division of the IRS, the same outfit that took down Al Capone. And in the Northeast, the tip of that spear was Fred G. Pastore. Born in East Boston in 1919 — the same year, and the same streets, as future Patriarca underboss Jerry Angiulo — Fred knew the players before they were players. He raided the pinball rackets, sent agents undercover as janitors to break a gambling syndicate operating inside defense contractor Raytheon at the height of the Cold War, and built the case that exposed the "Vicuña Coat Affair," the bribery scandal that brought down President Eisenhower's chief of staff. Then his investigation led somewhere no one wanted it to go. Protected by a confidential informant whose identity only three men in America knew, Fred followed the money toward the White House — and Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy demanded the one thing Fred would never give up: his source. Offered a demotion to Syracuse designed to silence him, Fred chose a third option. He called his own press conference in downtown Boston, resigned, and opened a tax fraud defense firm across the street from hi