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Gangster Redemption

Peter Golenbock

Growing up in the Bronx in the shadow of the Throgs Neck Bridge, Larry Lawton was an altar boy until the day he was sexually molested by a priest. Needing to prove his manhood, Lawton as a teen began a criminal career taking bets on football games. He hung out at local bars, was embraced by mobsters...

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The Jordan Harbinger Show

Larry Lawton's book, "Gangster Redemption," was mentioned as detailing his journey from jewel thief to honorary cop, including his experiences with crime and redemption.

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If you read the book that holds in there.

— Episode: 433: Larry Lawton | From Jewel Thief to...

Episode: 433: Larry Lawton | From Jewel Thief to Honorary C...

Larry Lawton's book, "Gangster Redemption," was mentioned as detailing his journey from jewel thief to honorary cop, including his experiences with crime and redemption.

"

If you read the book that holds in there.

we didn't talk about it in the show but he was abused by a priest in church as an altar boy when he was younger so he stopped going to church and started pocketing the money his parents gave him for the collection plate and he bought beer with it on Sundays instead of going to church because he was he's working through some stuff and obviously back then people didn't talk about that kind of thing it just was wasn't talked about.

he was loan sharking he talks in the book this is a fun book there's a lot of videos about this to talk about loan sharking and if people didn't pay what he would do is either steal their car or he would put a sternocan underneath the car so if you ever go to a buffet those little canisters that are on fire heating food for long periods of time that's sterno it's like a really pure alcohol I think and what it does is it burns pretty clean but they would like that put it under the car and it would light the car on fire or blow up the car.

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