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I Heard You Paint Houses

by Charles Brandt · first published 2004

I Heard You Paint Houses: Frank "The Irishman" Sheeran and Closing the Case on Jimmy Hoffa is a 2004 work of narrative nonfiction written by former homicide prosecutor, investigator, and defense attorney Charles Brandt that chronicles the life of Frank Sheeran, an alleged mafia hitman who confesses the crimes he committed working for the Bufalino crime family. According to Sheeran, the title is the beginning of the first telephone conversation between him and labor leader Jimmy Hoffa, and was spoken by the latter. "Painting houses" is a mob code for carrying out contract killings, with the "paint" being the victim's blood that spatters on the walls from the gunshot. Sheeran replied that he also did his own "carpentry," meaning that he disposed of the bodies.

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