About the Author

The author, John Birges, Jr., and his brother James Birges, were recruited by their father and also involved in the Harvey's Resort Casino incident in 1980, eventually convicted of conspiracy to commit extortion, and given a sentence of three years felony probation. Their father, John Birges, Sr., was convicted and received a sentence of twenty years in prison - where he died in 1996 of liver failure at the age of seventy-four. The author resides in Southern California.