THE G‑MAN AND THE HIT MAN

THE G‑MAN AND THE HIT MAN New Yorker, December 12, 1996 A REPORTER AT LARGE Gregory Scarpa, Sr., was a mafioso with a penchant for brutality, extortion, and murder. So what was he doing on the F.B.I.‘s payroll? _______________________ BY FREDRIC DANNEN IN 1991, the Colombo crime family in Brooklyn went to war with itself: a rebel […]
A COMPLICATED LIFE

A COMPLICATED LIFE New Yorker, March 11, 1996 ANNALS OF LAW F. Lee Bailey has been in trouble before, but this time he may be heading for jail—partly because of the testimony of Robert Shapiro._______________________ BY FREDRIC DANNEN AND IRA SILVERMAN ROBERT Shapiro was smirking at F. Lee Bailey. It was the morning of February 2nd […]
The Nine Lives of ‘Fat Cat’

The Nine Lives of ‘Fat Cat’ Vanity Fair, April 1991 One of New York’s most ruthless drug warlords, Lorenzo “Fat Cat” Nichols even called the shots from behind bars—ordering hits on a childhood buddy and the mother of his son. But a murder he didn’t commit finally destroyed his empire. Then the Cat turned canary. FREDRIC DANNEN […]