Public Enemies: The Mayor, The Mob, and the Crime That Was
By George Walsh
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By George Walsh
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Both William O'Dwyer, the 104th mayor of New York City, and Frank Costello, prime minister of the underworld, were immigrants, and there the similarity might have ended, except for the televised Kefauver hearings on organized crime in 1951 that linked them forever.
The smiling gregarious O'Dwyer, Irish to his toes, walked a policeman's beat while studying law and became the crusading district attorney who broke up Murder Inc.
Cotsello, the son of Calabrian peasants, turned early to crime in t...






















