Lord High Executioner

Praise for Frank Dimatteo's THE PRESIDENT STREET BOYS: Growing Up Mafia Frankie D was born and raised in this life-and he's still alive and still free. They don't come any sharper then Frankie D. A real gangster story. Read this book! -Nicky Slick DiPietro, New York City I know Frankie D from when i was a kid living in South Brooklyn. It was hard reading about my father, Gennaro Chitoz Basciano, but I knew it was the truth. Frankie's book is dead on the money-I couldn't put it down. -Eddie Basciano, somewhere in Florida It's been forty years since I've been with Frankie D doing our thing on President Street. This book was like a flashback. Frankie D nails it from beginning to the end. Bravo, from one of the President Street Boys. -Anthony Goombadiel DeLuca, Brooklyn, New York As a neighborhood kid I grew up around President Street and know firsthand the lure of 'the life' as a police officer and as a kid that escaped the lure. I can tell you the blind loyalty that the crews had for their bosses-unbounded, limitless, and dangerous. As the Prince of President Street, Frank Dimatteo is representative of a lost generation of Italian Americans. If any of this crew had been given a fair shot at the beginning they would have been geniuses in their chosen field. -Joseph Giggy Gagliardo, Retired DEA Agent, New York City The President Street Boys takes me back as if it was a time machine. Its authenticity is compelling reading for those interested in what things were really like in those mob heydays; not some author's formulation without an inkling of what was going on behind the scenes. I loved the book because I was there, and know for sure readers will love it too. -Sonny Girard, author of Blood of Our Fathers and Sins of Our Sons