Confidence of The Mob

Betrayed by the Government He Served, He Became the Mob's Most Trusted Advisor. Boston, 1950s. Fred G. Pastore was one of the IRS's most feared investigators-a relentless enforcer tasked with dismantling the Patriarca crime family, tracking illegal gambling money, and exposing tax fraud at the highest levels of business and government. They called him "The Eliot Ness of Boston." But when his investigations led him to the White House, he was given a impossible choice-by none other than Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy. The case? A high-profile tax scandal involving presidential aide Sherman Adams and textile tycoon Bernard Goldfine, now remembered as the infamous "Vicuña Coat Affair." Fred's investigations of mob figures like Jerry Angiulo and Raymond Patriarca earned him national headlines and powerful enemies. What followed shocked the city: instead of accepting a demotion to a lower position in Syracuse, New York, Fred faced his life's most pivotal moment and reinvented himself as a private tax advisor to the very mobsters he once pursued. Confidence of the Mob is a gripping true crime memoir told by Fred's grandson, who received a sealed box of case files, press clippings, and handwritten memos decades after Fred's death. Based on never-before-seen documents, firsthand interviews, and family archives, the book chronicles one man's journey from government enforcer to trusted consigliere. Includes original press photos, internal IRS documents, and links to a companion podcast series featuring interviews with former distinguished attorneys, DAs, family members, and former clients-including some of the largest Las Vegas casino owners in history.