[Liz]

Ed Jones and his brother George moved to Mexico and left the policy racket to Theodore “Teddy” Roe, their partner in the Maine-Idaho-Ohio wheel.

LOL......"moved" to Mexico?

According to Jacobs, who did not name names, Jones did not move to Mexico willingly. It took a lot of (ahem) muscle and gore for Giancana to oust Jones and take over the operation.

The Big Boys wanted Jones whacked but Sam saved his life. Jacobs quoting Giancana on his generosity in setting Jones up in a Mexican villa: "A lifetime of the s***s is still a lifetime."

[Liz]

Speaking of the mob, this is my very favorite mob story: The feds had the goods on the mob boss including audio and video tapes, witnesses, the works, and were prepared to put the guy away for life. So the mob hires this nothing lawyer just out of law school as the defense.

At trial, the Feds laid out the case and it was dynamite.

In his summation to the jury, the prosecutor got up and said: "This guy was involved in prostitution, gambling, murder, theft. But the worst thing this guy did was refuse to get up in this courtroom and defend himself."

The little nothing defense lawyer was up on his feet in a nanosecond calling for a mistrial b/c you cannot impute a motive when a defendant takes the Fifth.

The mob guy got off and the little lawyer was so proud of himself. It was only much later that the nothing lawyer figured out the mob had paid the prosecutor to make the statement.