Queer Joints, Wiseguys and G-Men

"United States House Speaker Nancy Pelosi often recounts learning about politics as a little girl during the 1950s when her father Thomas D'Alesandro ran the Democratic machine in Baltimore, Maryland. D'Alesandro was a Congressman for five terms from 1938 to 1947, and Baltimore mayor for three terms from 1947 to 1959. The Honorable D'Alesandro allegedly was a 'constant companion' of notorious mobster Benjamin 'Benny Trotta' Magliano and other underworld figures according to the FBI file on the old-school politician. The mob ties and other corruption allegations against Mayor D'Alesandro curiously have remained absent in the accounts by Speaker Pelosi about her political family."