The Last Good Heist: The Inside Story of the Biggest Single Payday in the Criminal History of the Northeast

Wayne Worcester · Randall Richard · Tim White

Oct 2016 · Tantor Media Inc · Narrated by Eric Jason Martin

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On August 14, 1975, eight daring thieves ransacked 148 massive safe-deposit boxes at a secret bank used by organized crime, La Cosa Nostra, and its associates in Providence, Rhode Island. The crooks fled with duffel bags crammed full of cash, gold, silver, stamps, coins, jewels, and high-end jewelry. The true value of the loot has always been kept secret, partly because it was ill-gotten to begin with, and partly because there was plenty of incentive to keep its true worth out of the limelight. It's one thing for authorities to admit that they didn't find a trace of goods estimated to be worth between $3 million and $4 million, and entirely another when what was at stake was more accurately valued at about $30 million, the equivalent of $120 million today. It was the biggest single payday in the criminal history of the Northeast. Nobody came close, not the infamous James "Whitey" Bulger, not John "The Dapper Don" Gotti, not even the Brinks or Wells Fargo robbers. The heist was bold enough and big enough to rock the underworld to its core, and it left La Cosa Nostra in the region awash in turmoil. The Last Good Heist is the inside story of the robbery and its aftermath.

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Jamal Thompson

July 13, 2024

I absolutely love this a lot and so much with all of this money and wealth that I'm completely so obsessed with it like crazy & I just love money, cash and dollar bills so much in this picture that I want to have me stacks of cash, piles of cash, mountains of cash, thousands of dollars, millions of dollars and even billions of dollars one day in real life so I can be a thousandnaire, a millionaire and a billionaire in life living in luxury, paradise and financial freedom with all of this cash

About the author

Wayne Worcester, a former reporter and editor at the Providence Journal, is a novelist, essayist, and a professor emeritus in journalism at the University of Connecticut.

Randall Richard is a two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist, a former investigative reporter and international correspondent for the Providence Journal, and an award-winning former national reporter at the Associated Press.

Tim White is an Emmy Award-winning investigative reporter for WPRI-TV, the CBS affiliate in Providence, Rhode Island.

Eric Martin, the narrator of close to 100 audiobooks, is an AudioFile Earphones Award winner and Audie Award finalist. He has written and directed original comedy programming for Audible Channels and for the Howl network, including the series Brief Interviews with Hideous Monsters.

Wayne Worcester, a former reporter and editor at the Providence Journal, is a novelist, essayist, and a professor emeritus in journalism at the University of Connecticut. Randall Richard is a two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist, a former investigative reporter and international correspondent for the...

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