Posted on 03/19/2009 11:32:22 AM PDT by AtlasStalled
Congressman Barney Frank, originally from Bayonne, NJ, is profiled in a piece by Jeffrey Toobin in The New Yorker, and among the more interesting revelations is that Frank's father, Sam, was a Genovese crime family associate:
"Because Bayonne was such a sleazy place, nobody knew whether Barney was going to wind up in Congress or in jail" [said lawyer Alan Dershowitz]. According to Frank, his father was involved with the Mafia. "[Alfonse Frank] Funzi Tieri, a big-time gangster with the Genovese family, came to my brother David's bar mitzvah, when I was twenty-three," he said. Sam Frank died at the age of fifty-three, while Barney was an undergraduate at Harvard, and Barney took a year off to help resolve the family's tangled financial affairs. "The Mafia guys were very helpful to me at the time," he said.
(Excerpt) Read more at bitterqueen.typepad.com ...
Every pond has its scum. OH man....I am sorry...
I have a question: What’s the difference between the mafia and Congress?
Possible Answer: The mafia at least has a sense of honor. [/cynic]
Now that is very interesting . . .
wonder if they modeled the Soprano, leather chap wearing mafioso after Barney?
Why isn’t this surprising?
He ran a prostitution ring from his DC townhouse...I wonder where he ran is gambling action?
He even had his own Mob nickname—Barney Sweet Cheeks
Also in DC where he’s rolling the dice with our money. God what a loathsome creature.
The Gay Mafia.
That’s a scary thought.
Protect your buttholes!
Barney “The Fist” Frank?
when they make you an offer you can’t refuse they do not leave a horses head.
I bet the mob guys are sorry to see how he turned out.
But he was able to spin it right for his audience -- to say, I'm smart enough and rebellious enough not to have to care about the squares and their stupid rules (and so are you).
One of his posters early on had the caption, "Barney Frank: Neatness isn't Everything."
That worked alright for Barney with liberal Massachusetts voters for a long time.
But now that Barney's gotten old it's hard to miss his basic shabbiness -- moral and otherwise.
I wonder if he knows what the Mafia does to people like him.
Don Bruce says its stricly business, nothing personal.
“Barney “The Fist” Frank?
Actually, Barney “The Wrist” Frank
Barney the Rump Ranger Chutney Ferret Frank.
Reminds me of a joke that ends "I left my heart in Sam Frank's disco".
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.