Vincent Teresa
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Vincent "Fat Vinnie" Teresa (b. 1930) was an American mobster in the Boston branch of the Patriarca crime family and since retired, the author of My Life In The Mafia, a book that, as the title suggests, documents his life in the mafia, and the 1960s Boston Irish Gang Wars, a conflict between Irish-American mobsters in the Charlestown and Somerville areas of Massachusetts.
Vincent Teresa, is nowadays protected by the FBI in the Witness Protection Program, and lives somewhere under a false identity.
[edit] Further reading
- Clarke, Thurston and Tigue, John J. Jr. Dirty Money: Swiss Banks, the Mafia, Money Laundering, and White Collar Crime. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1975. ISBN 0-671-21965-0
- Davis, John H. Mafia Kingfish: Carlos Marcello and the Assassination of John F. Kennedy. New York: Signet, 1989. ISBN 0-451-16418-0
- Hinckle, Warren and Turner, William W. The Fish is Red: The Story of the Secret War Against Castro. New York: Harper & Row, 1981. ISBN 0-06-038003-9
- Kwitny, Jonathan. Vicious Circles: The Mafia in the Marketplace. New York: W.W. Norton, 1979. ISBN 0-393-01188-7
- Lacey, Robert. Little Man: Meyer Lansky and the Gangster Life. London: Century, 1991. ISBN 0-7126-2426-0
- Scheim, David E. Contract on America: The Mafia Murder of President John F. Kennedy. New York: Shapolsky Publishers, 1988. ISBN 0-933503-30-X
- Summers, Anthony. The Arrogance of Power: The Secret World of Richard Nixon. New York: Viking, 2000. ISBN 0-670-87151-6
