Charles Peter Brandt was an American investigator, lawyer, writer, and speaker.
Charles Peter Brandt was born in the Staten Island borough of New York City on March 13, 1942, and grew up there and in Queens. After attending Stuyvesant High School, I was educated at the University of Delaware as an undergraduate before going on to earn a law degree from Brooklyn Law School. During law school, he also worked as a welfare investigator in East Harlem, which he said was heavy with organized crime activity at the time. In 1969, he began his legal career in the office of the attorney general of Delaware, prosecuting homicides, before becoming a defense lawyer.[2]
He wrote the narrative non-fiction Frank Sheeran memoir I Heard You Paint Houses, the basis for the 2019 film The Irishman, directed by Martin Scorsese and starring Robert De Niro, Al Pacino, and Joe Pesci.
Books in order of publication:
The Right to Remain Silent – 1988
I Heard You Paint Houses: Frank “The Irishman” Sheeran & Closing the Case on Jimmy Hoffa – 2004
Donnie Brasco: Unfinished Business (Donnie Brasco # 2) – 2007
We’re Going to Win This Thing: The Shocking Frame-up of a Mafia Crime Buster – 2011
Suppressing the Truth in Dallas: Conspiracy, Cover-Up, and International Complications in the JFK Assassination Case – 2022
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