What’s This World Coming To?
Howie Carr on the sorry state of rottenness in Boston. Don’t these corrupt pols know about bagmen? Boston Herald:
What designated drivers are to drunks, bagmen were to politicians - a way to avoid getting arrested by putting a little distance between themselves and the actual payoff. The bagman operated under the same ground rules as Peter Graves in “Mission: Impossible”: Should the bagman be apprehended, the pol would disavow any knowledge of his activities.
Some fools are trying to turn the arrests of Dianne Wilkerson and Chuck Turner into a racial issue. But this scandal is yet another example of the decline in American standards - in this case, the standard of stealing.
An effective leader must learn to delegate authority. This includes having someone else pick up the cash you have extorted.
Not so long ago, every hack worth his summer cottage on the Cape had at least one bagman. One state senator had two - he was a full-service thief, and he wanted his victims to be comfortable (socially, ethnically, etc.) with the guys he sent to rob them.
Sonny McDonough used to say that you should never use a cop as a bagman, because cops steal. Sonny hated it when a cop handed him $300, because he said he never knew if the cop had grabbed $200 or $700.
It helped if your bagman had a law degree, because then you could claim attorney-client privilege. That m.o. has long been popular in South Boston and the North End.
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Another basic lesson: Don’t put yourself in jeopardy for short money. Here is a verbatim quote from one of Turner’s staunch supporters outside the Worcester courthouse:
“I just know he would not take this small amount.”
War Crimes/Hungarina Porn Activist Busted
Busted! (Dianne caught suffed cash in the double DDs)
Posted by Jules Crittenden at 8:45 am on Sunday, November 23, 2008
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