Respect for Howie Carr. The man has talent!
And, the article says it all.
A likely case of humblebragging, and privately enjoying his Wild and Crazy Guy legacy.
They could have gone with "mob torpedo".
Lately I've gotten hooked on the old "Untouchables" TV series on YT - and now I know all the words. (Excellent series, BTW, with some surprising guest stars. Lee Marvin was particularly good as a mobster).
My father went to Boston College with Zip Connelly. Dad says he was an asshole then too.
Someone needs to ask Mueller who was the Federal Atty at the time— just what he agreed to allow Whitey and his pals to do, such that they were all part of a Fed operation, as informants and clearly much more- to rid Boston of the Italian mafia (which was marginally worse than the “loyal” Southie Irish Mob of Murderers who were “OK” to the Irish FBI led by a Kraut). Yeah, and also- how did he get the 80 plus year old Whitey transferred to a pithole WV fed prison to be murdered on the first day he was there (so he wouldn’t talk to media, and complete a book on the entire thing)== murdered by a lifer Italian hit man. The first day.
Convenient, and another example of the shining fen bee eye.
If he were a liberal, they would call him a “Mob activist.”