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Charles Brandt ’69 (1942–2024)
Charles Brandt, who worked his way through Brooklyn Law School while serving as a welfare investigator in East Harlem, graduated in 1969 and began his career as a Delaware homicide prosecutor before turning to writing. His true-crime book I Heard You Paint Houses, based on extensive interviews with Frank Sheeran, who claimed to have killed Jimmy Hoffa, became a bestseller and inspired Martin Scorsese’s The Irishman. Brandt later wrote additional works on organized crime and the JFK assassination, drawing on his experience in criminal law and interrogation.