Born and raised in New York City, Charles Brandt is a former homicide prosecutor and Chief Deputy Attorney General of the State of Delaware. As a prosecutor, he handled more than 50 homicide proceedings, and he is the author of a novel based on cases he solved through interrogation, The Right to Remain Silent. In private practice since 1976, Brandt was a criminal defense attorney specializing in homicide for a decade, and has been president of the Delaware Trial Lawyers Association and the Delaware Chapter of the American Board of Trial Advocates. He has been named by his peers to both Best Lawyers in America and Best Lawyers in Delaware. He is also the co-author of Joe Pistone's Donnie Brasco: Unfinished Business and of Lin DeVecchio's We're Going to Win This Thing: The Shocking Frame-Up of a Mafia Crime Buster.
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“Sheeran’s confession that he killed Hoffa in the manner described
in the book is supported by the forensic evidence, is entirely
credible, and solves the Hoffa mystery.” — Michael Baden
M.D., former Chief Medical Examiner of the City of New York
“I’m fully convinced – now – that Sheeran was in fact the man who
did the deed. And I’m impressed, too, by the book’s readability and
by its factual accuracy in all areas on which I’m qualified to pass
judgment. Charles Brandt has solved the Hoffa
mystery.” —Professor Arthur Sloane, author of Hoffa
“Sometimes you can believe everything you read.” — William
“Big Billy” D’Elia, successor to Russell Bufalino as godfather of
the Bufalino crime family
“My source in the Bufalino family . . . read I Heard You Paint
Houses. All the Bufalino guys read it. This old-time Bufalino guy
told me he was shocked. He couldn’t believe Sheeran confessed all
that stuff to [Brandt]. It’s all true.” — New York Police
Department organized crime homicide detective Joseph Coffey
“If the made men Brandt rubbed up against during his five years
with Sheeran suspected what Sheeran was confessing to him on tape,
they’d both have been promptly whacked.” — Joe Pistone,
retired FBI deep undercover agent and the author of Donnie
Brasco
I Heard You Paint Houses “gives new meaning to the term
‘guilty pleasure.’ It promises to clear up the mystery of Hoffa’s
demise, and appears to do so. Sheeran not only admits he was in on
the hit, he says it was he who actually pulled the trigger — and
not just on Hoffa but on dozens of other victims, including many,
he alleges, dispatched on Hoffa’s orders. This last seems likely to
spur a reappraisal of Hoffa’s career. . . . Sheeran is Old School,
and his tale is admirably free of self-pity and
self-aggrandizement. Without getting all Oprah about it, he admits
he was an alcoholic and a lousy father. His business was killing
people, and . . . he did it with little muss, fuss or
introspection.’’ — Bryan Burrough, author of Public
Enemies, in The New York Times Book Review
“One of Sheeran’s virtues was his gift as a storyteller; one of his
flaws was his tendency to murder, in mobster jargon, ‘to paint
houses.’ . . . Although he professed his loyalty to Hoffa – he said
on one occasion, ‘I’ll be a Hoffa man ‘til they pat my face with a
shovel and steal my cufflinks’ − Sheeran acknowledged that he was
the one who killed the Teamsters boss. . . . On July 30, 1975,
Hoffa disappeared. Sheeran explains how he did it, in prose
reminiscent of the best gangster films.” — Associated
Press
“I Heard You Paint Houses is the best Mafia book I ever read,
and believe me, I read them all. It’s so authentic.” — Steven
Van Zandt, featured actor, “Silvio Dante,” in The
Sopranos and musician in Bruce Springsteen’s E Street
Band
“Told with such economy and chilling force as to make The Sopranos
suddenly seem overwrought and theatrical.” —New York Daily
News
“Is Sheeran believable? Very . . . and ‘I Heard You Paint Houses’
is a very enjoyable book.” —Trial Magazine
“A page-turning account of one man’s descent into the
mob.” —Delaware News Journal
“A terrific read.” —Kansas City Star
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