THE FLORIDA CITRUS BOX
I thought my grandfather was just an accountant.
Then I opened The Box.
My mother found a dusty Florida orange crate full of my grandfather Fred Pastore's old papers. I expected boring ledgers. I found secret files, wiretap logs, and evidence he was a racket-busting IRS agent... and a target of the White House.
The Full Story
The IRS Agent Who Took Down the Mafia—Then Advised Them
This story began with a box of dusty papers. It led to uncovering Fred Pastore's secret life as "The Elliot Ness of Boston," who successfully busted rackets until he was targeted. He paid the price by leaving the IRS... only to go to work on "the other side."
The podcast lays out the narrative, but the companion book provides the chilling evidence: the documents proving corruption that stretched from the streets of Boston to the White House.
