A Legend In His Own Minefield

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Getting Mobbed Up - Part 2

Getting Mobbed Up - Part 2

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John Mendelssohn
Oct 12, 2010
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Getting Mobbed Up - Part 2
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I thought maybe it made more sense to try to get mobbed up via what I’d heard called the numbers game in some movies, and the policy racket in others. I headed down to one of Maine Street’s two most popular soul food restaurants, in front of which a little mob of unemployed middleaged persons of the sort I thought likely suspects could commonly be obser…

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