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April 15 - May 18, 2019
heard you paint houses.” The paint is the blood that supposedly gets on the wall or the floor when you shoot somebody. I told Jimmy, “I do my own carpentry work, too.” That refers to making coffins and means you get rid of the bodies yourself. After that conversation Jimmy
Four days before his appearance Giancana was taken care of in his kitchen in the back of the head and then under the chin six times, Sicilian style, to signify he was careless with his mouth.
said a lot of foxhole prayers, especially pinned down in a dugout in Anzio. And whatever anybody wants to say about my childhood, one thing my childhood did teach me was how to take care of myself, how to survive.
used to think a lot about dying when I got home. Everybody does. Then I thought, what are you worrying about? You have no control over it. I figured everybody is put here with two dates already determined for them; a date for when they’re born and a date for when they go. You don’t have any control over either one of those dates, so “what will be will be” became my motto. I got through the war, so what can happen to me? I didn’t care so much anymore about things. What will be will be.
Just a lot of drinking and a lot of ego. Both of them will kill you.
Jimmy Hoffa didn’t even say hello. He got right to the point. The next thing I heard were the first words Jimmy Hoffa ever spoke to me. “I heard you paint houses,” Jimmy said. “Y-Y-Yeah, and I d-do my own carpentry work, too.” I was embarrassed because I was stammering.
“That’s what I wanted to hear. I understand you’re a brother of mine.” “That’s right.” I was keeping my sentences short and my words few. “Local 107. Since 1947.”
told Bill Isabel to be careful what he says next time about some protester getting out of hand. It turns out the guy claimed God told him to go kill Jimmy Hoffa. Everybody’s got a boss, I guess. The
When in doubt have no doubt.
“You know sometimes if I had a barrel of apples, and one of these apples is touched…not all rotten but just a little touched…it has to be removed or it will touch all the rest of the apples.”
Can you imagine how much they wanted me when you think of who they used to get
me?
weaken. If you do it yourself you can only rat on yourself.
“I’ll be a Hoffa man ‘til the day they pat my face with a shovel and steal my cufflinks.”
“Thank you all from the bottom of my heart. I know I don’t deserve all of this tonight, but I have arthritis and I don’t deserve that either. See, Russ, I didn’t mess up my speech.”
He thought he was untouchable. Some people are like that. Like my father thought he was untouchable when he tossed me the boxing gloves. But everybody bleeds.
“I don’t even want to know a person like you.” That was twenty-eight years ago and she doesn’t want to have anything to do with me. I haven’t seen Peggy or talked to her since that day, August 3, 1975. She has a good job and lives outside of Philly. My daughter Peggy disappeared from my life that day.
Bugs was another case of when in doubt, have no doubt.
you could refresh my recollection on that matter I might be able to recall what you want me to recall, but at this particular time I do not recall the particulars of that particular matter.”
Whenever anybody says, “Did you…?” it’s time to pick up your check and leave.
The agent said they had me nailed solid for two murders, four attempted murders, and a long list of other felonies, and if I didn’t cooperate and let them protect me I’d end up dead from the mob or I’d die in jail. I said, “What will be will be.”
“I gave it eighty-three years of hell and I kicked a few asses; that’s what I did.”
We couldn’t go to him with a problem because of our fear of the horrible things he would do to fix it for us. He thought he was protecting us with the way he handled things, but it was just the opposite.
