What kind of man makes a call like that…
Nowadays, young people, they don’t know who Jimmy Hoffa was. They don’t have a clue. I mean, maybe they know that he disappeared or something, but that’s about it. But back then, there wasn’t nobody in this country who didn’t know who Jimmy Hoffa was.
Whenever anybody says they’re a little concerned, they’re very concerned.
And when they say they’re more than a little concerned, they’re desperate.
When I was young, I thought house painters painted houses. What did I know? I was a working guy. A business agent for Teamster Local 107 out of South Philly.
One of a thousand working stiffs… until I wasn’t no more. And then I started painting houses… myself.
I thought maybe he owned the gas station. ‘Cause he owned something, you could tell. Yeah, it turns out he owned the whole road.
They talked about it all the time. She came from mob royalty, if you want to call it that. To them, it was like they came over on the… the Italian Mayflower.
Sometimes with something like this, you might want to go to the bathroom first. It gives you a chance to make sure no followed you in. It also gives you a chance to make sure nobody’s in the bathroom you have to worry about. It also gives you a chance to go to the bathroom.
Three people can keep a secret only when two of them are dead.
Russell had a piece of everything. He had this store in Pittston called Penn Drape & Curtains. And he ran everything out of there. Who knew what it all was? I mean, I’m sure the man had partners. They always have partners. Nobody keeps all the money. But everybody listened to Russ. That I can tell you. You wanted to bribe a judge, you asked Russell. You didn’t know how much to bribe him, Russell was gonna tell you. You wanna promote one of your guys, Russ would tell you you could or you could not. You wanna make somebody disappear, you gotta get Russell’s permission. You know, no two ways about it. And when you did something for Russ, you did it yourself. Like Russ used to say…
