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fact: father of victim had an unusual relationship with known excon and used tax-avoiding and illegal means to pay off that same excon.....

That isn't a "fact", but mere speculation on your part. You are also missing the obvious i.e. that Ricci wanted the Jeep, or are you assuming that Ed searched high and low to find a laborer that would take the jeep off his hands?

How about your ignoring Ricci's extensive criminal record and M.O. which are also facts? Your attempt at moral equivalency between Ed "possibly" not paying social security taxes and Ricci who actually shot a police officer and robbed banks with a weapon is pathetic.

Is it Ed's percieved wealth and "huge" home that irritates you so much?

If, as is presumed by some, Ed was somehow compensating Ricci in a way which was under the IRS radar, shouldn't we also be asking whether Ricci reported ALL this "under the table" compensation to the income tax people?

"known excon "

those words don't need interpretation...

you keep insinuating that those that look at all the characters in this case including the Smarts have some kind of money envy....you don't have any idea who you are talking to but I would suggest that most here are pretty finacially stable...

maybe you aren't....and that is why you are making it an issue....