The underworld was in the news last week:
-Tony Soprano took the early train as my brother used to say - he was only 51.
-Whitey Bulger's trial continues in Boston. A witness described - matter of factly - how and why he killed - he had a code of honor to uphold.
-Brooke Astor's son - though with clean hands - went to jail for embezzeling his mother's fortune - he is 89 and in a wheel chair. He had a home in Northeast Harbor, Maine which is a repository of old money.
-And finally we again query the fate of Jimmy Hoffa who hasn't been seen since he went out to lunch in 1975. The F.B.I. dug up a plot in Michigan last week with no results. Then a new informant came forth saying the Teamster boss had been chewed up in a wood chipping machine. Ouch! But I still cling to the rumor that he may have taken up residence in the New Jersey Meadowlands, perhaps under the Giants stadium although I think he was a Detroit Lions fan. Of course the END zone would have been a fitting location.
It all proves that truth is stranger than fiction.
tjs
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