Pop Goes......

As if we haven't had enough TV shows about mobsters (i.e. Sopranos, Goodfellas, etc) we now see that women are getting a piece of the action. (NYT 3/29/12 Styles) "Mob Wives" now in its second season. There was a time when the families kept their women out of the limelight. Reading this it brought back a time fifty plus years ago when a female member of my extended family had a brush with a real life mobster. She was eighteen and had just graduated high school when a classmate invited her to a week-end in Miami Beach chaperoned by the classmates parents. At a dinner party at a swank Miami hotel the young ladies were introduced to one Jimmy Frattiano (now deceased). In his line of work he was known as "Jimmy the Weasel" having boxed in the ring as Kid Weasel. The girls later said "he offered them funny looking cigarettes." He was not an imposing figure and having just spent 6-1/2 years in jail presume his prison pallor was in need of some Florida sunshine. But his resume in Wikipedia is as long as your arm and  will curl your hair. He was the real deal - and eventually cooperated with the Feds and went into the witness protection program, then came out, and wrote several books and died in his own time while some of his victims did not have that luxury. Oh, and the girls swear that they discarded the cigarettes.
tjs
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