scarpa sr. is featured in the wall look how he is among one of the dozens and dozens but as you can see what we get into the presentation today he was by far the most bloodthirsty he and vicious a hint coming mafioso one of the of the land of epic proportions in we will get in to him today as we will discuss today in "deal with the devil." but quickly i will tell you how i got into this story because when you see the book those of you who have bought it, it is 2 pounds we sell them by the pound you to use it to press your shirt. to wonder 10,000 words, 80 pages a documentary appendices, some pages there are three endnotes for one sentence would you do work for the fbi you have to be right or the irs will audit. [laughter] just kidding. [laughter] people say are you ever for a? -- afraid? i am afraid to we audited by the irs. but the first book was called 1,000 years of revenge and a fat book, the promise with the essence and documented with the relatively small al qaeda less than. [applause] peo

hoover sent gregory scarpa sr. down. i don't want to leave this light on for too long. he sent to scarpa down commanded the charlie kidnapped the mayor of the town it was a klan member and took into a cabin in the woods. an fbi agent outside you have knowledge. scarpa takes again and put it to his head and said, where the bodies? the guy gives them some of disinformation. the checks. in other words, the guy is more afraid of a planned in the is of this guy from bensonhurst, the guy in the beginning. he takes the gun and puts it in his mouth again and give some of disinformation. finally takes us tracer and starts to unbuckle the guys belt. that's when the guy gave him this awful scene. these three beautiful young men buried beneath 50 feet of clay under an earthen dam. two years later this is another fbi memo. asked for a special to get out to break the case. another wrote civil rights leader who was firebombed to death. these are really important moments in the history of the civil-rights movement. sure enough scarpa was -- first they went to the fontainebleau hotel in

he's very similar, ironically, to gregory scarpa sr. who's the principal of my book. he was a top everybochelon info and he was protected by the bureau because of this thought that he would give them information that would make him more valuable than being on the streets. he was vicious. his killing partner steve phlegmy admitted that he had killed his adopted daughter, deborah hussie, who he raised from the time she was three. he had sex with her since she was a teen. these are the kind of people we are dealing with. by the way, my opinion why the jury's been out so long, because the government, the pest they can do is to produce guys like flemmy, kevin weeks and john muldarano. they have to weigh their words and their checkered past against whitey who sat there silent bely in his sneakers and jeans and sweaters. he may have been glaring, but in fact they have to trust whether or not the government's witnesses who are equally as culpable should be believed. >> peter, there are a lot of people waiting two decades waiting to get whitey bulger into a court of law and fa