When Hoodlum Joe Valachi appeared before Arkansas Senator John McClellan’s Permanent Investigations Subcommittee last week, he rasped out a 31-hour rhapsody of names, crimes and Cosa Nostra syndicate ...

For Joe Valachi, the twelve days of Christmas always turned up 13. “I believed in Santa Claus and hung up my stocking,” he solemnly attests in a recently completed 1,180-page autobiography. “But all I ...

Sentenced to 15 years in prison, former mob "button man" Joe Valachi (Charles Bronson) turns informant when he learns top Mafia capo Vito Genovese (Lino Ventura) has put a $100,000 contract out on his ...

I’ve been reading “The Valachi Papers,” about Joe Valachi, the mob soldier who ratted out the Cosa Nostra in the ’60s. It seems one of his steadiest and most lucrative operations from the ’30s through ...