Nicky Pockets shook down my dad and uncle when they were trying to open a business when he was mayor of Peabody when I was a little kid. My dad told me the story recently and I asked him what they did.He said they had no choice but to pay or it wasn’t gonna happen. Nicky P.can rot in hell....
Indeed....though I’ll bet many here on the North Shore “admire” him because he brought home the bacon/pork in terms
of business for the G.E. (Armed Services committee). As I may have mentioned further above, a college classmate of mine (who came orig. from Peabody) was doing a trivia show at a Lynn restaurant and one question, which I got right, was
“what was Mavroules’ nickname?”
“Nicky Pockets!” I yelled out.
Yup