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Upper Saddle River NJ, from time to time the Ridgewood blog does book reviews and we just finished the “King of Con ” by Thomas Giacomaro and Natasha Stoynoff published in 2018 . We received a copy from the author Tom Giacomaro , the “King of Con: himself through a mutual friend in early February and finally got to reading it this past weekend .
The book is an auto biography of Bergen County con man Thomas Giacomaro (the King of Con) . Giacomaro spent 12 years in jail for bilking investors out of $73 million (some say $80 million ) and the tell-all book is billed as , “How a Smooth-Talking Jersey Boy Made and Lost Billions, Baffled the FBI, Eluded the Mob, and Lived to Tell the Crooked Tale.”
Well its all true , he did and the book is a fun, fast ,non stop adventure of a brilliant con-man weaving his way through a local whos who of mob associates , politicians , industries ,law enforcement and Bergen history .
The New Jersey swindler who became a government informant and fleeced over 200 investors out of $73 million while he was under the “watchful eye” of the FBI. Including the bestselling whodunit author Mary Higgins Clark aka ,“The Queen of Suspense” . Higgins may have been bilked of as much as $20 million after she and her sons invested in Wellesley Services, a brokerage house linked to Giacomaro .
The author takes a cynical view of both the con and the conned reducing human nature down to nothing more than fear vs greed. Time lining, his life from a young boy growing up in North Jersey ,with an abusive father and alcoholic mother ,Giacomaro chronicles the choices he makes or dose not make , the lure of the “life” , family , crime, drugs , alcohol and the adrenaline rush of the score. All the time living a lavish lifestyle with luxury residences in Saddle River, and Delray Beach.
For anyone interested in colorful piece of New Jersey’s and Bergen’s down and dirty past , or what I like to call the “other side” of history this is a must read book !
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Thanks for the review!
As per book cover, the co-author is “Natasha” not “Nancy”… 🙂
Love to pick his brain.
I bet you this guy can run the village very well.
Let me tell you something from my experience, and what I’ve seen in the village, the village makes the mafia look like Boy Scouts. At times they slick, at times they just stupid. They are professional liars they cannot be trusted. And if any individual put a thumbs down, well, they must be one of them. not all of them but the ones that are dirty. They need to be pushed out a village hall. And guess what we will not stop until they are. I have more dirt on them than they know. I’m glad I’m clean as a whistle. So any time bring it on suckers.
No more stipends it’s over.