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Mob Lawyer Frank Ragano Interview. Jack Newfield, Nicolas Pileggi, Selywn Raab, Charlie Rose. (1994) Mob Lawyer Frank Ragano - JFK, Hoffa, Carlos Marcello & Santo Trafficante Jr (1994) | 13:18 MOBFAX | 151K subscribers | 55,431 views | September 19, 2021Charlie Rose constantly interrupts.

WASHINGTON -- Oh, this vexatious season is almost over. How to greet my fellows Americans amid statues of Frosty the Snowman and Rudolph the Red-Nosed Rangifer tarandus? Merry Christmas? Happy Hanukkah? Something about Kwanzaa? Happy Holiday? Have A Good One? There are so many choices and so many possibilities of giving offense. Loath as I am to give offense (unintentionally!) I have been avoiding the whole subject. Then along came Charles Krauthammer who is surely the most sensible pundit in the land, as well as one of the best informed and most agreeable -- though the burden of good sense...

American Rebels By Jack Newfield, The Nation July 3, 2003 During much of the 1960s I kept an anti-war poster on my wall that featured a quotation from Albert Camus that read, "I would like to be able to love my country, and justice too." Some of my own defining experiences took place on those occasions where I felt most free to love justice and my country at the same time-when I planted myself in a tradition that stretches from Jefferson and Tom Paine through Lincoln, Whitman, Thoreau, to the founders of the labor unions, to Eugene Debs, to the...