Rick Porrello
- Producer
- Writer
A suburban Cleveland, Ohio police chief, Rick Porrello is also an
author of three books about organized crime: The Rise and Fall of the
Cleveland Mafia (Barricade Books, 1995), To Kill the Irishman - The War
that Crippled the Mafia (Next Hat Press, 1998) and Superthief - A
Master Burglar, the Mafia and the Biggest Bank Heist in U.S. Next Hat
Press, 2006). He began writing his first book during research into the
murders of his grandfather and three uncles who were mob leaders killed
in Prohibition-era, bootleg violence. Also an accomplished jazz
drummer, Rick Porrello spent two-and-a-half years traveling worldwide
with the late Sammy Davis Jr.
