Charles Brandt

Charles Brandt, of Sun Valley, Idaho and Lewes, Delaware, is a former Chief Deputy Attorney General of Delaware and the author of four books including I Heard You Paint Houses, a biography based on five years of one-on-one interviews of his former client the chief suspect in the Jimmy Hoffa disappearance, Wilmington Teamsters official and Mafia hit man Frank Sheeran. The book is in development at Paramount for a 2011 feature film to be produced and directed by Martin Scorsese and starring his co-producer Robert De Niro.^[1]

Biography

Legal Career: Born March 13, 1942 and raised in New York City, Charles Brandt attended Stuyvesant High School in Manhattan, the University of Delaware and Brooklyn Law School. Brandt is a former Queens junior high English teacher; East Harlem welfare investigator; Delaware homicide investigator, prosecutor and Chief Deputy Attorney General of Delaware. Brandt is a past president of the Delaware Trial Lawyer's Association and Delaware Board of Trial Advocates. He was voted by his peers as one of the Best Lawyers in America and in Delaware.

Lecturer: Brandt is a frequent speaker on cross-examination and interrogation techniques for reluctant witnesses.

Upcoming Book: Brandt has co-authored a true crime book about the only FBI agent, SSA Lin DeVecchio, ever to be framed by the Mafia - for four counts of first-degree murder: We're Going To Win This Thing (Berkeley, publication date February 1, 2011.)

Family: Brandt and his wife and editorial assistant, Nancy, have three grown children, three grandchildren, and reside in Sun Valley, Idaho and Lewes, Delaware. Brandt refers to his writing career as their family farm.

Bibliography

Charles Brandt is the author of:

The New York Times true crime bestseller: I Heard You Paint Houses - Frank 'The Irishman' Sheeran and Closing the Case on Jimmy Hoffa (Steerforth Press 2004). In I Heard You Paint Houses Brandt demonstrates how as a result of five years of recorded interviews of the FBI's prime suspect, hit man Frank “The Irishman” Sheeran, Brandt solved the murder of Jimmy Hoffa.

Donnie Brasco: Unfinished Business (Running Press 2007) - a true crime Mafia book co-authored with former FBI agent Joe Pistone, who went undercover as "Donnie Brasco" (portrayed by Johnny Depp in the feature film).^[2]

The Right to Remain Silent (SMP 1988) - A novel based on major cases Brandt solved through interrogation during his years as a homicide investigator. Set in 1976, this "strong and vivid" (The New York Times) police procedural dramatizes the mischief caused by the Supreme Court's 1966 Miranda decision.

References

1. ^ Brandt, Charles (2004). "I Heard You Paint Houses": Frank "The Irishman" Sheeran and the Inside Story of the Mafia, the Teamsters, and the Last Ride of Jimmy Hoffa. Hanover, New Hampshire: Steerforth Press. ISBN 9781586420772. OCLC 54897800. 
2. ^ Postone, Joseph D.; Brandt, Charles (2007). Donnie Brasco : unfinished business : shocking declassified details from the FBI's greatest undercover operation and a bloody timeline of the fall of the Mafia. Philadelphia, PA: Running Press. ISBN 9780762427079. OCLC 73955748. 

External links

• Charles Brandt's blog
• Charles Brandt at the Internet Movie Database

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