"I Heard You Paint Houses": Frank "The Irishman" Sheeran & Closing the Case on Jimmy Hoffa (55 page)

“I feel like we’ve lived under this black cloud forever. I want it to be over. My father is finally at peace now. I would like the same for Jimmy’s family. My father killed his friend and regretted it till the day he died. In my heart I always had my suspicions and I did not want them confirmed. Now that I have been forced to acknowledge the life my father lived, I have had to come to terms with it and with all the conflicting emotions the truth has evoked.”

And only the truth has made it into this book.

New York City
March 2005

 
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Detroit Free Press,
the
Philadelphia Inquirer,
the
Philadelphia Daily News,
the
Wilmington NewsJournal,
the
New York Times
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The Library of Congress has cataloged the hardcover edition as follows:

Brandt, Charles.
“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.—1st ed.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references.
eISBN: 978-1-58642-155-7
1. Gangsters—United States. 2. Mafia—United States. 3. Teamsters—United States. 4. Hoffa, James R. (James Riddle), 1913–5. Sheeran, Frank. I. Title.
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