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EPISODE · Aug 31, 2026 · 42 MIN

Author Talk with Ed McDonald

from Author Talk · host Aimee Ravichandran

🎙️ Author Talk with Ed McDonald 🎬📚You’ve seen Goodfellas… but do you know the REAL stories behind it?This week on Author Talk, I sit down with former federal prosecutor Ed McDonald to talk about his upcoming memoir, Chasing Goodfellas: Lufthansa, Henry Hill, Point Shaving, and Making Movies.And when we say Ed had a front-row seat to mob history, we mean it.From taking on organized crime and prosecuting the infamous Lufthansa heist and Boston College point-shaving scandal, to his complicated relationship with Henry Hill—and somehow ending up playing himself in Martin Scorsese’s Goodfellas—Ed has stories you simply couldn’t make up.We talk about the cases, the characters, what Hollywood got right (and wrong!), and what it was really like to go head-to-head with some of the most notorious names in organized crime.If you love true crime, mob history, Goodfellas, or just an incredible “you had to be there” story, you’re going to LOVE this conversation.🎧 Catch our conversation on Author Talk!#AuthorTalk #EdMcDonald #ChasingGoodfellas #Goodfellas #TrueCrime #TrueCrimeBooks #MobHistory #OrganizedCrime #HenryHill #LufthansaHeist #AuthorInterview #BookPodcast #Memoir #BookCommunity

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