Millionaire Mobster: Power Play, April 12, 2012
[dcs_p]Drove up to Palm Beach this morning for a meeting with a big politician. If I told you his name, you’d know who he is. Suffice it to say, he’s a glad-handling pol with a respectable image. I happen to know that he likes to rendezvous with young men in the back of taxpayer funded limousines, but that’s another story. Twenty years ago I helped put this man on the path to success, but I haven’t heard from him in quite a while. But he asked for me, holding the meeting at a tony Palm Beach house that belongs to a rich benefactor. A British butler served us breakfast on the terrace.[/dcs_p][dcs_p]It turns out he’s in trouble. It’s all related to his propensity for young men, a brewing scandal. He wants me to broker a hit. Putting big money on the table for it too. “Times have changed,” I tell him. “I’m not in that business anymore.” He gives me a look, disbelieving. “Don’t bullshit me, Lou,” he says. “I know better.”[/dcs_p][dcs_p]
Patricia Bellomo is the author of the crime thrillers, Stella di Mare and Louie Morelli’s Daughter. She writes about mobsters and millionaires in South Florida, New Orleans, and Detroit. Millionaire Mobster: Power Play, April 12, 2012[/dcs_p]
