Hoodlum Lawyer: The Untold Story of Joseph Imburgio Bulger, The Secret Mafia Leader of the Chicago Outfit

You’ve probably never heard of Joseph Bulger. That’s by design. A shoeless dock hand from New Orleans, he worked mostly behind the scenes at the highest level of organized crime in Chicago. Behind the well-known Mafia guys like Giancana, Ricca, and Rosselli, my grandfather was somewhere in the shadows, calling the shots for the Chicago Outfit.Did he die in a tragic plane crash in Tennessee? Or was that a hoax like the second family that emerged to claim the body and the estate?Did he trick us all and flee to a life in South America? What happened to the cases of money on that small plane? The folks in Spring Hill, Tennessee, aren’t saying. But the surprising artifacts I found at the crash site decades later tell a different story.I’m the grandson of Joseph Bulger. My mother was his daughter. The Chicago family. Not the Miami family we discovered.We survived the scandals, the missing money, the links to LBJ and JFK and Cuba, the investments gone awry, the shady characters who visited our home to meet with my grandfather, a legal and financial wizard with a hidden life. A life that included the famous fan dancer Sally Rand.The FBI and CIA have thrown up roadblocks to my past, but I think I have stitched together a narrative that makes sense.As my grandfather might say, "Never believe what you see." Read more