http://www.readersdiary.com/2008/07/the-good-rat/ Log of a Compulsive Reader Wed, 20 Jul 2011 02:43:11 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.readersdiary.com/2008/07/the-good-rat/comment-page-1/#comment-427 Israel Greenwald Thu, 17 Jul 2008 17:00:19 +0000 http://www.readersdiary.com/?p=475#comment-427 This book, while "well written", has some crucial mistakes. In particular the short paragraph descrtibing the circumstances of the murder of the mafia cops first victim Israel Greenwald. This tragic, horrendous cold-blooded act was on behest of Kaplan "the good rat" alone and was done so out of his own paranoia that Greenwald could possibly cooperate with the FBI and get Kaplan in trouble. Kaplan never met Israel Greenwald and the story behind how Israel even got involved at all is even more complicated. You can learn more at israelgreenwald.com. In a nutshell, Jimmy Breslin commited a huge injustice to the memory of Israel Greenwald who was an innocent victim in this whole sordid tale. And the "good rat" is really a murderer, as much as the aofia cops are. This book, while “well written”, has some crucial mistakes. In particular the short paragraph descrtibing the circumstances of the murder of the mafia cops first victim Israel Greenwald. This tragic, horrendous cold-blooded act was on behest of Kaplan “the good rat” alone and was done so out of his own paranoia that Greenwald could possibly cooperate with the FBI and get Kaplan in trouble. Kaplan never met Israel Greenwald and the story behind how Israel even got involved at all is even more complicated. You can learn more at israelgreenwald.com. In a nutshell, Jimmy Breslin commited a huge injustice to the memory of Israel Greenwald who was an innocent victim in this whole sordid tale. And the “good rat” is really a murderer, as much as the aofia cops are.

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