Flipping Capo: How the FBI Dismantled the Real Sopranos - Hardcover

Séamus McElearney joined the FBI in 1998 as a special agent initially assigned to investigate organized crime at the local, federal, and international levels. For the next fifteen years, his tactical and strategic decisions led to the takedown of the DeCavalcante, Bonanno, and Colombo crime families. In 2011, McElearney--then a supervisor--spearheaded the largest Mafia arrest in FBI history, comprising 127 defendants across the United States and Italy. The record holds to this day. McElearney is a subject matter expert for New York City reporters who write about La Cosa Nostra criminal activities in the northeast United States. In 2013, McElearney was invited to the White House as a Service to America Medal finalist for leading "lengthy undercover investigations that have severely disrupted two of New York's notorious and violent organized crime families." McElearney retired from the FBI in April 2019. He is now global head of corporate security at a major financial institution. Barbara Finkelstein is the author of Summer Long-a-Coming, a Harold U. Ribalow Book Prize nominee, and a feature writer and book reviewer for the New York Times, AARP: The Magazine, Newsday, the Philadelphia Inquirer, and many other media outlets. She has also worked as a corporate staff writer and as a longtime ghostwriter for the Michael Levin Writing Company.