One of the most famous threats against Michael had involved a defendant who’d hidden a razor blade in his rectum before a court appearance. The defendant had planned to pull it out and slash Michael’s throat in front of the jury during closing arguments, but he was foiled. Michael now keeps a framed X-ray of this man’s torso on the wall of his office. Whenever he has to berate one of his young associates for not giving their all, he lights up the X-ray, revealing the metal rectangle in this man’s body, and says, “That. That is commitment.”
