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''I Heard You Paint Houses'': Frank ''The Irishman'' Sheeran and the Inside Story of the Mafia, the Teamsters, and the Last Ride of Jimmy Hoffa.

Publication: Trial
Publication Date: 01-NOV-04 		Format: Online - approximately 962 words
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Full Article Title: ''I Heard You Paint Houses'': Frank ''The Irishman'' Sheeran and the Inside Story of the Mafia, the Teamsters, and the Last Ride of Jimmy Hoffa.(Book Review)

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'I Heard You Paint Houses': Frank 'The Irishman' Sheeran and the Inside Story of the Mafia, the Teamsters, and the Last Ride of Jimmy Hoffa

Charles Brandt Steerforth Press www.steerforth.com 304 pp., $25

To paint someone's house, in Mob-speak, is to kill them: The blood splatters on the walls. "I heard you paint houses" were the first words Jimmy Hoffa ever said to Frank "The Irishman" Sheeran. Charles Brandt, a former prosecutor and trial lawyer, spent five years interviewing Sheeran. These transcripts make up the lion's share of the book and include his "confession" to Hoffa's murder. Nearing the end of his life and after numerous requests by Hoffa's family to reveal all that he knew about his disappearance, Sheeran finally agreed to talk about these events in an effort to clear his conscience.

In post-World War II Philadelphia, Sheeran was a wise...

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