A Letter from Joe Conforte

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A Letter from Joe Conforte
For more than 50 years people
Now an ebook…
have been writing about me, in
newspapers, magazines, books and
even a movie, “Love Ranch”.
Now it’s my turn to tell the
whole story, in my own words my
own way, from a little boy in Sicily,
watching my mother in her outdoor
kitchen, fanning the fire beneath
the big cooking pot with a raven’s
wing, to now, in my penthouse
apartment in Rio De Janeiro with
the most beautiful girl in Brazil for
my companion.
I went from a street-smart runaway kid in New York City to owning the Mustang Ranch outside of
Reno, putting millions into a secret
Swiss bank account and thumbing
my nose at the IRS all the way. It
took breaks, brains and balls and if
I had a family crest that would be
its motto in great big letters.
Hardcover edition in May
Sex, Death and
a Whole Lot of Money!
Here’s some things you didn’t
know about me:
Nevada’s Mustang Ranch was the
biggest, brightest and most famous
I served three hitches in the
whorehouse in the USA, maybe the
Army. In fact,
world, and Joe tells the story behind
when I was a
it in the same bold way he lived it.
staff sergeant
It’s a fascinating tale of high advenon Guam I was
ture, almost a farce at some points,
responsible for
brutally serious at others, and it opens
the night time
a uniquely informative window on
security of
20th century Nevada history.
about 30,000
Army, Navy
and Air Corps
troops, the guy
with all the keys after midnight,
including to the 200 women behind
a barbed wire fence.
When I was in the federal penitentiary at McNeil Island I shared
a cell with Frankie Carbo of Murder
Incorporated, Dave Beck the Teamster boss and senile Alvin Karpis, the bank robber. We were big
shots, we had our own table.
I sued the San Francisco Chronicle and Herb Caen for libel and
won. Oh, and that Oscar Bonavena thing and
then the years in exile and on the run. . . .
It’s all in the book, and there’s
always a sample to read at
www.joeconforte.com.
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