WHEN THE POLICE GO AFTER A SENIOR CITIZEN MINORITY MALE WHO IS INVESTIGATING POLICE MISCONDUCT, YOU KNOW THAT THE DEPARTMENT IS AS GUILTY AS SIN.
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- Start DateStarted in 2014
- Release DateJune 7, 2014
- GenreTrue Crime
- Short DescriptionThe true story of Joey Bangs, the Massachusetts MDC policeman who became entangled in three of New England's biggest crimes—and survived to tell his tale.
- Long DescriptionOn a perfect autumn night in 1984, a retired policeman charged into his neighbor’s garage, hell-bent on collecting a long-overdue narcotics debt.
Instead, he met two shotgun blasts—one shredded his chest, and the other ripped a hole in his back as he tried to flee. A half hour later, he flatlined in the ambulance. But this cop wasn’t about to leave so easily.
The ensuing court trial released a flood of stunning revelations about three of the most extraordinary crimes in American history—
Examscam, the statewide black-market sale of stolen police entrance and promotional exams that destroyed Massachusetts' Metropolitan Police force.
A massive cocaine and marijuana distribution operation that moved a half billion dollars of drugs in less than two years.
And the daring robbery of the Depositors Trust Bank—at $30 million, one of the largest-ever heists in the world.
All involving one man—the shotgun victim, Joey Bangs.
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“America has given birth to the best and the worst. The entrepreneur and the killer supreme. People of high conscience and psychopaths. All of them live among us, side by side. This is a fascinating book about one of them.”
Gene Simmons ~ Entrepreneur, Publisher, Producer, Rock & Roll Hall-of-Famer, Bon Vivant
"One of the most outrageous and hilarious personalities I’ve ever encountered—in fiction or real life!"
Barry Levine ~ President, Radical Publishing and Studios / Producer (Oblivion, Hercules, Detroit Rock City)
"Bangs was a visionary—even if he was a vainglorious criminal. His life story is a cautionary tale about the destructive mixture of power, greed, and fearlessness."
Robert Katz ~ Producer (Gettysburg, Selena, Gods and Generals) - ISBN978-0-692-23552-2
- PublisherBella Productions, Inc.
