The Valachi Papers (book)
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The Valachi Papers is a 1968 biography written by Peter Maas, telling the story of former mafia member Joe Valachi, a low-ranking member of the New York–based Genovese crime family, who was the first
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Valachi hearings
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The Valachi hearings, also known as the McClellan hearings, investigated organized crime activities across the United States. The hearings were initiated by Arkansas Senator John L. McClellan in 1963.
The Valachi Papers (book)
…committee on organized crime, the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations of the U.S. Senate Committee on Government Operations. In the so-called Valachi hearings he gave the American public a firsthand account of Mafia activities in the United States. In 1964, the US Department of Justice urged Valachi to write…
Joseph Valachi testifying at the hearings with mafia organizational charts behind him