I’ll never forget a young salesman named Arnold Schuster who spotted Willie Sutton, a wanted bank robber, on a Brooklyn street and ran to get a cop and claimed the reward. Mafia boss Albert “The Mad Hatter” Anastasia, famous for being killed in a hotel barber’s chair in 1957, was the godfather of what would come to be called the Gambino family. Willie Sutton had no relationship with the Mafia. But Anastasia was “not happy with” Arnold for taking credit on TV. He had Arnold shot to death in front of his house as a lesson for the youngsters of New York, including me.
