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This book reveals the never-before told thoughts of the head of the mob that ruled Newport, Kentucky and the Cincinnati Enquirer's role in freeing the city from mobster influence in the late 1950s. Dan Pinger, the Enquirer's lead reporter on the story, writes about "Sleepout" Louie, the gamblers, reformers, crooked public servants, look-the-other-way citizens, the drugging of a famous former football star, the dens of trickery and houses of love. It is a behind-the-scenes look at what was then one of the most followed news stories in the history of Midwest journalism.
About the author
Dan Pinger has played many roles in his long and eventful life. He raises horses. He served in the U.S. Army. He was a notably indifferent law school student. As a newspaper reporter he covered the wild and woolly days when the Mob ran Newport, Kentucky. Dan also spent some time in academia, working as an administrator at the University of Cincinnati. He founded the Dan Pinger Public Relations agency where he and the hundreds of "Pingerites" who worked with him offered communications counsel to clients across Cincinnati and the nation for more than 25 years. And of course, Dan has been a son, husband, father, grandfather and lover, living through all the joy and heartbreak those roles bring. Since beginning to write in his mid 80s, Dan has authored five books. He published his first book of his distinctive "stories in rhyme," Love, Laughter, Life and the Hereafter, in 2016 and his second, The Ripley Ridge Storyteller, in 2017. The Ripley Ridge Raconteur was completed in 2018. His first novel, Black Smoke and Blind Men, published in 2019, addresses global warming in a futuristic setting.
