THE FLORIDA CITRUS BOX
I thought my grandfather was just an accountant.
Then I opened The Box.
The IRS Agent Who Took Down the Mafia—Then Advised Them.
My mother found a dusty Florida orange crate full of my grandfather Fred Pastore's old papers. I expected boring ledgers. I found secret files, wiretap logs, and evidence he was a racket-busting IRS agent... and a target of the White House.
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"Powerful story"
"Very revealing look at early efforts of the IRS to take down criminal racketeers through tax evasion, when other legal avenues were less effective. Looks at high level government pressure and it's consequences."
"I don’t know how you did it but somehow you made being an IRS agent sound pretty f*cking cool."
"If you like true crime memoirs, you'll love it... Highly recommended!"
"...and for those of us with roots in the Northeastern U.S., it's even more fascinating."
The Full Story
Discover The Evidence
This story began with a box of dusty papers. It led to uncovering Fred Pastore's secret life as "The Elliot Ness of Boston," who successfully busted rackets until he was targeted. He paid the price by leaving the IRS... only to go to work on "the other side."
The podcast lays out the narrative, but the companion book provides the chilling evidence: the documents proving corruption that stretched from the streets of Boston to the White House.
