That’s two...Who was the one that died in his girl friend’s kitchen? Heart attack???? or something. Probably or something.
These dang girl friends!
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/columnists/chi-kass-05-jul05,0,1570658.column
Mob squeezed him; city squeezes widow
John Kass
July 5, 2009
Whether the name of Richie Urso ever makes it into the corruption trial of former Gov. Rod Blagojevich next June is anybody’s guess.
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“I’m getting ripped off by everybody. By everybody,” Joanne Urso said.
She told me Richie died of a heart attack on the kitchen floor of a girlfriend’s home, on April 15, 2003.
“You should call her,” she said.
So we did. The woman is Mary Ann Dinovo, who works in human resources for the county tax review board, which handles tax appeals for every parcel of real estate in the county.
“He said, ‘What do you got to eat?’ “ recalled Dinovo.
“I’d just made a big tuna salad. He said, ‘Can I have some?’ The TV was on in the kitchen. The fork dropped out of his hand. He said he felt sick and went to the bathroom.”
Minutes later, Richie Urso, his mouth full of tuna salad, was dead at age 61.
“It was karma that we met,” Dinovo said. “We loved to do things together, go to shows, go to Navy Pier. ... He’d always play like he was poor. ‘I’m just a poor truck driver,’ he’d say. Sometimes we’d drive by a piece of property and he’d ask me who owned it.”
Did you help him find out who owned it?
“Absolutely not,” said Dinovo, who said she has not been contacted by federal authorities.
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