Hey everyone, Lauslle Montgomery here, still living. You're probably wondering what's up with

the dearth of episodes this year of the monkey. When I started the CHP, I was pumping these

podcasts out one a week.

Then came the apologizing that, you know, now it's a fortnightly show and now

more than 30 weeks into the year.

Only six podcasts to show for myself, seven including this special one today.

Well, special for me. And special to all you guys out there who harangued me the past few years to cover this

subject.

For about a year now I knew Scott Seligman was writing this book on the Tong Wars and I wanted

to wait until they got published so that I could use it as my official authoritative source to present this topic.

It's called Tong Wars, the untold story of Vice, Money and Murder in New York's Chinatown.

His new book on the Tong Wars is a pretty exhaustively research book with all kinds of helpful

lists, notes and addenda to help you keep track of who was who and which original sources were cited for every minute detail written about those Diaz violentos.

In this episode, I'm not going to describe every fall of the meat cleaver in the book,

but you'll have a pretty good idea about the extent of the violence that went on over a period of

about 30 years.

The other story is how these hoodlums, this very small minority of the total population of Chinese

living in Greater New York City, grabbed all the headlines.

Newspaper reporters couldn't sensationalize

and speculate enough on all the murders,

the mayhem, the gambling dens, the drugs, the skin trade. the

may have gambling dens, the drugs, the skin trade.

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