The expression "paint houses," implies you are an executioner

history channel documentary "I Heard You Paint House's - Closing the Case on Jimmy Hoffa," is the self-portrayal of mobster Frank "The Irishman" Sheehan, composed by previous manslaughter prosecutor and Chief Deputy Attorney General of the State of Delaware, Charles Brandt. The primary purpose of the book is that Sheehan, over 25 years after the vanishing of Teamsters union President Jimmy Hoffa, at long last confessed to putting two projectiles in Hoffa's mind. The book is sprinkled with Brant's written work, which are exact and entirely nitty gritty, and the transcripts of recordings Brant made with Sheehan in the mid 2000's. When of Sheehan's "admission," he was a delicate old man living in a helped living office.

The expression "paint houses," implies you are an executioner; the contemplation being, the point at which you shoot some person in a house, you "paint" the dividers with their blood. The 6-foot-4-inch Sheehan guaranteed the first occasion when he addressed Hoffa, at the command of crowd manager Russell Bufalino, the primary words Hoffa ever said to Sheehan on the telephone were, "I heard you paint houses," which is an inconspicuous method for Hoffa inquiring as to whether he could rely on upon him to slaughter whomever Hoffa said should have been executed. Furthermore, Sheehan killed for Hoffa, as indicated by Sheehan, ordinarily. In this book, Sheehan notice a few homicides he conferred for Hoffa and for other union authorities as well. However, he says no names of the casualties, aside from Hoffa and Crazy Joe Gallo, whom Sheehan additionally guarantees he executed.