theganjagodfather@gmail.com

The Ganja Godfather- The Untold Story Of NYC's Weed Kingpin
by Toby Rogers
Trine Day Press
ISBN-10: 193758495X
ISBN-13: 978-1937584955
March, 2015

Vanity Fair just put out a story about Brian Williams, but
the reality is they have there own embellishment issues
themselves.

http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2015/04/nbc-news-brian-williams-scandal-comcast?mbid=social_twitter

Last December Trine Day Press publisher Kris Milligen got a request
from Conde Nast about publishing an excerpt of my new book, The Ganja
Godfather- The Untold Story Of NYC's Weed Kingpin(Trine Day Press
2015). They asked for a copy ASAP and were planning on running it a
few issues from then.

Trine Day Fed-Ex'd a rough draft of my book, and I spoke to an editor
there several times, Lauren Christensen. She really liked it. I told
her there was an overlapping issue regarding what I wrote in my book
and what they published in 2009 about the same subject.

In the spring of 2009, Vanity Fair published a story by Mark Seal
about the Eboli crime family and their role in the making of the
Godfather in 1971.

http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2009/03/godfather-family200903

My new book, The Ganja Godfather- The Untold Story of NYC's Weed
Kingpin ) is about the history of the Eboli family, and -unlike Seal-
I was given an all access pass to the family business, their archives
and personal lives.

http://www.amazon.com/The-Ganja-Godfather-Untold-Kingpin/dp/193758495X

Of course I investigated the night that the Eboli crime family and
some members of the cast of The Godfather broke bread over in Fort
Lee, New Jersey in the spring of 1971.

"Patsy" Eboli, brother of Genovese family Boss Tommy Eboli, had just
married Al Lettieri's sister Jean, who was playing Virgil “The Turk”
Sollozzo in The Godfather. He arranged for members of the Godfather
cast to meet the Eboli's at Patsy's house for dinner in Fort Lee.

Several members of the Eboli family who were present that night told
me that Seal's sources embellished how many stars of the film were actually there.

Now according to the Eboli family I spoke to who were present the
night in question told me they would love to say that Marlon Brando
came to their house for dinner. But the truth is Brando was never
there.

" I was there that night and met everyone and Marlon Brando was
definitely not there that night," one Eboli insider told me. " I was
shocked that a magazine as respected as Vanity Fair could just publish
any old BS they feel like whether its true ore not," I was told.(Page
42 & 43 of The Ganja Godfather)

Seal wrote -oddly, almost in passing, that he had another source from
the Eboli family that Brando was in fact present the night in
question. This is how Vanity Fair and Seal rolled out source number
two.

"As I learned from the actor’s ex-wife, Lettieri brought Marlon Brando
to dinner at this relative’s house in New Jersey so that Brando, in
preparation for his role as Don Corleone, could 'get the flavor.',"
Vanity Fair published.

I pointed this discrepancy out to Lauren- naively in hindsight-
hoping that they would correct own error in house through my book
excerpt.

Instead they pulled my story and cut off all communication with Trine
Day and myself.

So when Vanity Fair publishes an in depth story investigating the
falsehoods of Brian Williams- for this 18 year veteran journalist and
author-  I read it "through the looking glass" that Conde Nast in fact
has their own Brian Williams problem of embellishing the truth.

Toby Rogers- Author of The Ganja Godfather, Trine Day Press.
theganjagodfather@gmail.com

BELOW VANITY FAIR EMAIL:

On Dec 4, 2014, at 11:10 AM, Christensen, Lauren
<Lauren_Christensen@condenast.com> wrote:

 Good afternoon,

We would very much like to consider coverage of Toby Rogers's The
Ganja Godfather: The Untold Story of NYC's Weed Kingpin. Could you
please send a copy my way by messenger as soon as possible?

Thank you so much,
Lauren

Lauren ChristensenVANITY  FAIR
4 Times Sq. | New York, NY  10036

http://www.frostillustrated.com/2015/was-jimmy-breslin-tipped-off-about-malcolm-xs-assassination-50-years-ago/

Was Jimmy Breslin tipped off about Malcolm X’s assassination 50 years ago?
Frost Editor | March 13, 2015

Malcolm X (Courtesy Photo)
Did NYPD, FBI have prior knowledge of the murder?

By Milton Allimadi and Colin Benjamin

Special to the NNPA from the New York Amsterdam News

Was the NYPD involved or did they merely know about the impending
murder of Malcolm X and allow it to happen 50 years ago? Were some
reporters, including famed scribe Jimmy Breslin, tipped off that
something was about to go down?

The official story has been that Malcolm X was killed Feb. 21, 1965,
at the Audubon Ballroom in Harlem because of a feud between him and
his former allies in the Nation of Islam. Malcolm had a falling out
with NOI leader and his former spiritual guide Elijah Muhammad, who
he’d accused of fathering several children with teenage secretaries.
The popular narrative was that Malcolm was killed by Muhammad
loyalists after he was expelled from the NOI.

But many people, especially in the black community, never believed
that version of events as being the complete story. While there had
been a clear rift between Malcolm and Muhammad, it was also a period
when the FBI was conducting its Counter Intelligence Program,
initially targeting suspected communists but later expanding it to
disrupt groups such as the Black Panthers and other black nationalist
organizations.

Indeed, records revealed after Malcolm’s death show that the FBI had
been actively monitoring him, as Malcolm’s files, available on the
FBI’s website, confirm. Therefore, it isn’t beyond reason that the
FBI, under the maniacal J. Edgar Hoover, could have played a role in
the assassination by either fomenting, participating or at least
turning a blind eye and allowing it to happen.

Could it be that the NYPD also came to know from the FBI, or from its
own investigations, that Malcolm would be killed by opponents on that
fateful February date? Could it be that the NYPD and the FBI worked
together to allow Malcolm to be killed by not warning him or by not
standing in the way? Could it be that both agencies even actively
aided Malcolm’s killers? These intriguing questions came into sharp
focus last week when Benjamin and I read the introduction of an
upcoming book by Toby Rogers, “The Ganja Godfather: The Untold Story
of NYC’s Weed Kingpin,” which chronicles the history of the mob in New
York City.

In the book’s introduction, Rogers writes that when he interviewed
Breslin 10 years ago on the 40th anniversary of the assassination of
Malcolm X, Breslin told him, “Well, I was supposed to receive a
journalism award in Syracuse that evening, but I got a tip [from the
NYPD] that I should go up to Harlem to see Malcolm X speak. I sat way
in the back smoking a Pall Mall cigarette.”

Last Friday, on the eve of the 50th anniversary of Malcolm X’s murder,
co-writer Benjamin and I interviewed Rogers separately about the
assertion in his forthcoming book.

According to Rogers, after Malcolm was killed, Breslin, who at the
time was a reporter for The New York Herald Tribune, wrote an article
that initially reported the arrest of two suspects by police in the
shooting. However, by the time the Herald Tribune’s second edition
appeared, no reference was made of a second suspect. Three suspects
were eventually tried and convicted of the killing of Malcolm X:
Talmadge Hayer, Thomas Johnson and Norman Butler. However, Hayer was
the only gunman officially arrested at the scene. Was there a second
gunman? Perhaps a police informant who was later released?