re: #59 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie
they fell back on a scurrilous claim that I made my money running guns to the Mexican cartels. Their evidence was that I knew about guns and could speak Spanish. That’s it. It backfired on them, though, since they are now terrified that I will consign them to a gruesome cartel fate if they piss me off.
LOL - that’ll keep them in line.
Fun (or not so fun) fact: Part of my family on my dad’s side is in The Family (you know the one), though that’s all in the past - at least, I think it is. The last of the made men in my family passed away back in 1988 and he was pretty old by that time. He personally knew Jack Dragna, as did my father who was good friends with Jack’s son, Frank Dragna.
As an aside, my dad - oddly enough - was also on good terms with two mobsters some Lizards here might recognize:
Tony Spilotro and Frank Rosenthal.
As to how he knew those two….I don’t know. And probably better to say, I don’t think I really want to know.