June 25, 2025 • 10 mins
Adolfo “Big Al” Bruno was no ordinary mobster. Charismatic, well-dressed, and respected in his Springfield community, he balanced the life of a Mafia capo with the charm of a neighborhood gentleman. But behind the smile was a man caught in a deadly power struggle. In this episode of Mobstercast Chronicles, we explore Bruno’s rise in the Genovese crime family, his public persona, and the shocking betrayal that led to his murder in a parking lot. A story of loyalty, ambition, and the deadly cost of trust.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome to the deep dive. Today, we're looking into a
really paradoxical life Adolpho big Al Bruno. You have this
picture of a mafia coppo, right, but Bruno was known
for impeccable manners, being involved in the community, even smiling
for local newspaper photos.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
Yeah, it's quite the image.
Speaker 3 (00:17):
At the same time, though a deeply feared figure in
organized crime.
Speaker 4 (00:21):
A real contradiction, it really is, isn't it.
Speaker 3 (00:23):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (00:23):
So We've gathered a whole stack of sources about Bruno's life,
and our goal here is to pull out the key insights.
How did this gentleman gangster operate right there in plain
sight in Springfield, Massachusetts, and what ultimately led to his well,
his shocking end.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
Exactly.
Speaker 3 (00:39):
The mission today is to unpack that complex world Bruno
lived in. You know, how he rose up in the
Genevies crime family, which is a major player, and crucially
the betrayal that finished him off. Basically, we want to
give you a shortcut to understanding this pretty unique figure
in mafia history.
Speaker 1 (00:53):
And what a figure I mean. The sources really paint
this vivid picture of his public side. You mentioned the
man always impeccably dressed active in charity galas, shaking hands
with politicians, and those newspaper photos. That just wasn't typical
for a mob boss.
Speaker 2 (01:09):
No, it wasn't.
Speaker 3 (01:10):
And what's insightful, I think, is how he used that image.
It wasn't just about hiding. He was actually operating out
in the open. That friendly face, that approachable style.
Speaker 4 (01:20):
It was strategic.
Speaker 3 (01:21):
It let him build connections, avoids scrutiny in ways other
mobsters couldn't, even while he was quietly running his illicit businesses.
It's kind of a masterclass in image management, really, and
you can see why it fascinated the locals. They must
have sensed something right.
Speaker 1 (01:36):
Definitely, And it wasn't just him personally. His headquarters, this
social club in Springfield, South End, it looked legitimate, presented
that way, even though people kind of knew it was
the hub for shady dealings.
Speaker 3 (01:46):
Right.
Speaker 4 (01:46):
It perfectly sums up that whole contradiction.
Speaker 1 (01:49):
So it makes you wonder, how does someone like that
even get started. Let's rewind a bit, go back to
his roots, okay, So, Abdolfo Bruno born in Brasiliano, nineteen
forty five. His family immigrates like many others settles in Springfield, Massachusetts,
and Springfield back then industrial city, strong Italian American community,
it was a pretty fertile ground for mafia activity in
(02:11):
the mid twentieth century.
Speaker 3 (02:12):
Absolutely, and if you look at that context, the influence
of Southern Italian culture on him was will profound. These
deep seated values family, loyalty, honor, discretion, olmerta. You know,
these weren't just ideas, they were the code. He lived
by the bedrock of his underworld career, at least for
a long time.
Speaker 1 (02:30):
And he got involved pretty young.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
Seems like it.
Speaker 3 (02:32):
By his late teens early twenties, the sources say he's
already into gambling, loan sharking in Western mass.
Speaker 1 (02:39):
And getting a reputation.
Speaker 3 (02:40):
Oh yeah, smooth, calm, under pressure, very connected. Sounds like
he had a natural talent for it, you could say,
and he rose quickly. By the nineteen eighties, Bruno is
a made man in the Genevese crime family.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
That means fully initiated, sworn in, one.
Speaker 1 (02:54):
Of the New York's biggest families.
Speaker 3 (02:55):
Exactly one of the most powerful, and Bruno becomes their
main guy in Western mass parts of Connecticut too. He's
overseeing their rackets there, gambling, extortion, maybe some narcotics later
though he resisted that. Initially he was a real capo,
a captain running his own crew.
Speaker 1 (03:10):
And his style of operating, Uh, you called it a
quiet empire, not flashy, right, Yeah, didn't flaunt the wealth,
avoided blatant street violence where possible, ran things tight, almost
like a ceo.
Speaker 4 (03:22):
Yeah, very much so controlled.
Speaker 1 (03:24):
So what were the core operations the money makers for
this quiet empire?
Speaker 3 (03:28):
Well, the sources point to three main things. First, illegal gambling,
big time poker games, sportsbutting spanning Springfield, Hartford. Second, loan sharking,
lending cash at crazy high interest rates and the collection
method backed by threats sometimes violence, standard stuff really right.
And third protection rackets offering local businesses protection essentially protection
(03:50):
from problems he or his associates could cause.
Speaker 1 (03:52):
So it was diversified, insidious, like you said, all hidden
behind that respectable.
Speaker 2 (03:56):
Front, exactly built on fear but masked, and.
Speaker 1 (03:59):
His influence spread, didn't it? Local unions, politicians, maybe even
law enforcement.
Speaker 3 (04:04):
The sources suggest it was pretty extensive, which just reinforced
that old school image, the diplomat, the tactician, the guy
who didn't need to shout to be heard, very different
from some who came later.
Speaker 1 (04:17):
But that quiet approach didn't keep the law away forever.
By the nineties, the fed's FBI atf IRS, they were
really turning up the heat, aren't they targeting him for
tax evasion, money laundering, extortion, racketeering, the whole IRC playbook.
Speaker 3 (04:33):
Yeah, the pressure was definitely building. But what's striking is
Bruno's knack for avoiding serious prison time. He got arrested,
charged multiple times, but he often beat the charges or
got surprisingly light sentences, which.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
Probably just added to his reputation local.
Speaker 3 (04:48):
Oh absolutely, it built this mythos around him, like he
was untouchable, could navigate anything. It wasn't just luck, clearly.
Speaker 1 (04:54):
But inside the family, yeah, things weren't so smooth.
Speaker 3 (04:57):
No, it seems cracks were starting to show the Genevi's leadership.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
Some of them apparently started.
Speaker 1 (05:02):
To doubt him, doubted his loyalty.
Speaker 3 (05:03):
Yeah, there were whispers maybe he was getting too cozy
with law enforcement, or the ultimate fear, maybe he could turn.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
In Foreman, which in that world.
Speaker 2 (05:13):
Is a potential death sentence.
Speaker 3 (05:15):
Exactly So, even as his local empire seems strong, internally,
suspicion was growing.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
And this is where we start to see the seeds
of the trail. Right with the specific.
Speaker 3 (05:24):
Rival, we do enter Anthony Arolatta, younger guy, ambitious, also
from Springfield. He was actually close to Bruno, once saw
him as a mentor even but they fell out big
time over money, over control, perceived insults.
Speaker 4 (05:37):
You know how these things go.
Speaker 3 (05:38):
And a key point of friction, according to the sources
was drugs. Ari Lotta wanted to get deeper into drug trafficking,
expand that side of things. Bruno traditionally tried to steer
clear of it. That created a major rift.
Speaker 1 (05:50):
And then Ara Lotta gets made in two thousand and three.
Speaker 3 (05:53):
That's a big deal, huge It shifts the power dynamics significantly.
Ari Lotta is now officially part of the family hierarchy,
not just an associate.
Speaker 1 (06:01):
Making Bruno more vulnerable.
Speaker 2 (06:02):
Precisely, Bruno wouldn't step aside.
Speaker 3 (06:05):
He had these ongoing disputes, not just with aro Lotta,
but with the others in New York too.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
He became a target.
Speaker 3 (06:10):
It really shows you even a powerful cappo answers to
the bosses and if they decide you're.
Speaker 4 (06:14):
A problem, so Arolotta starts plotting secretly.
Speaker 3 (06:18):
Yes, and crucially, with approval from higher ups in the
Genevese family, they gave him the green light, which.
Speaker 1 (06:24):
Leads us to that brutal end. November twenty three, two
thousand and three, Bruno leaves a card game our lady
of Mount Carmel's Society Club in Springfield about six thirty pm,
walks to his car in the parking lot.
Speaker 3 (06:37):
And a gunman just emerges from the shadows, shoots him
multiple times close range, killed instantly. It was chillingly efficient.
Speaker 1 (06:43):
The execution itself must have sent shockways through Springfield, oh
immense shock.
Speaker 3 (06:47):
Bruno had ruled those streets in his way for decades.
His murder so public, so brazen, it was a huge signal.
It basically announced a shift in mafia politics, a message the.
Speaker 2 (06:57):
Old ways Bruno's ways were over, and.
Speaker 1 (06:59):
Then things He went quiet for a while until twenty ten.
The bombshell right.
Speaker 3 (07:05):
Anthony Airolatta, Bruno's protege turned rival, gets arrested, racketeering, murdered, churges,
He's looking at life in prison, and he flips. He
decides to cooperate with the government. This was, as our
sources put it, a seismic event for the Genevies family
cooperation on that level was devastating.
Speaker 1 (07:23):
What did he confess?
Speaker 3 (07:23):
He laid it all out, admitted orchestrating Bruno's murder, said
Bruno was seen as a liability, out of touch to
public and maybe just maybe potentially talking to law enforcement
that fear again. Wow, it shows the brutal.
Speaker 2 (07:38):
Pragmatism, doesn't it.
Speaker 3 (07:39):
Loyalty lasts only as long as you're useful or not
perceived as a threat, no matter how respected you once were.
Speaker 1 (07:45):
And his testimony brought down others.
Speaker 3 (07:47):
Oh yeah, a whole cascade of indictments. He fingered Frank
Roche as the actual shooter, implicated Felix tring Hez, another
longtime associate who also flipped and detailed the hit planning.
Speaker 1 (07:57):
So more cooperation.
Speaker 3 (07:59):
Exactly, plus other Genevies members associates involved in planning.
Speaker 2 (08:03):
The cover up.
Speaker 3 (08:04):
It blew the lid off the whole Springfield crew.
Speaker 1 (08:06):
These trials must have revealed a lot about their internal world.
Speaker 3 (08:10):
They really did painted a picture of intense paranoia, constant betrayal,
shifting loyalties. It became clear Bruno, the guy who ran
Springfield with this quiet authority, was taken out by the
very men he'd help bring up in the organization.
Speaker 1 (08:25):
A really stark example of that world.
Speaker 2 (08:27):
Absolutely cutthroat doesn't even begin.
Speaker 4 (08:29):
To cover it.
Speaker 1 (08:29):
So thinking about Bruno's legacy, his murder feels like more
than just one man's death. It feels symbolic.
Speaker 3 (08:39):
I think that's right mark the end of a certain
kind of gangster, maybe that reserved, calculating, almost genteel, old
Cosinustris style, the kind that tried to keep violence behind
closed doors, maintained some community respect, contrasted with with the
new generation, guys like Arie Lotta, more brazen, more openly
profit driven, less concerned with the old codes of loyalty,
(09:00):
qicker to embrace drug trafficking, quicker to expand, and maybe
most importantly, quicker to cooperate with the FEDS when backed
into a corner. Bruno's death really highlighted that shift, the
brutal evolution of the game.
Speaker 1 (09:11):
And what about organized crime is springfield today?
Speaker 3 (09:13):
It's really just a shadow of what it was that
Genevie's crew Bruno ran decimated informants, prosecutions and just changing times.
Speaker 1 (09:22):
Legalized gambling probably hurt too big.
Speaker 2 (09:24):
Time, brit up a lot of the traditional revenue streams.
It's a different world.
Speaker 1 (09:27):
Now, yeah Bruno himself. Does his name still resonate there?
Speaker 3 (09:32):
It does, actually, especially in the older Italian American neighborhoods
Our sources suggest some older residents still remember him almost
fondly as a man of stature dignity, despite knowing, you know,
how he made his money. It's that complex contradictory perception
again still lingering.
Speaker 1 (09:48):
It really is a compelling story. Adolpho Bruno shows you
that complex nature of the mafia, doesn't it, Where loyalty
and treachery live side by side, where even the most
respected figure can fall hard.
Speaker 3 (09:58):
Absolutely, his whole life was this tightrope walk, trying to
blend crime and business, ruthlessness and respectability, and the fact
that he was ultimately destroyed by the very organization he
served so loyally. It leaves you with the question, doesn't
it In a world like that, with shifting loyalties, changing times,
how do you even measure honor? What does it even
mean to be old school when the rules are always
(10:20):
changing under your feet?
Speaker 2 (10:21):
Something for you to think about,
Welcome to the deep dive. Today, we're looking into a
really paradoxical life Adolpho big Al Bruno. You have this
picture of a mafia coppo, right, but Bruno was known
for impeccable manners, being involved in the community, even smiling
for local newspaper photos.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
Yeah, it's quite the image.
Speaker 3 (00:17):
At the same time, though a deeply feared figure in
organized crime.
Speaker 4 (00:21):
A real contradiction, it really is, isn't it.
Speaker 3 (00:23):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (00:23):
So We've gathered a whole stack of sources about Bruno's life,
and our goal here is to pull out the key insights.
How did this gentleman gangster operate right there in plain
sight in Springfield, Massachusetts, and what ultimately led to his well,
his shocking end.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
Exactly.
Speaker 3 (00:39):
The mission today is to unpack that complex world Bruno
lived in. You know, how he rose up in the
Genevies crime family, which is a major player, and crucially
the betrayal that finished him off. Basically, we want to
give you a shortcut to understanding this pretty unique figure
in mafia history.
Speaker 1 (00:53):
And what a figure I mean. The sources really paint
this vivid picture of his public side. You mentioned the
man always impeccably dressed active in charity galas, shaking hands
with politicians, and those newspaper photos. That just wasn't typical
for a mob boss.
Speaker 2 (01:09):
No, it wasn't.
Speaker 3 (01:10):
And what's insightful, I think, is how he used that image.
It wasn't just about hiding. He was actually operating out
in the open. That friendly face, that approachable style.
Speaker 4 (01:20):
It was strategic.
Speaker 3 (01:21):
It let him build connections, avoids scrutiny in ways other
mobsters couldn't, even while he was quietly running his illicit businesses.
It's kind of a masterclass in image management, really, and
you can see why it fascinated the locals. They must
have sensed something right.
Speaker 1 (01:36):
Definitely, And it wasn't just him personally. His headquarters, this
social club in Springfield, South End, it looked legitimate, presented
that way, even though people kind of knew it was
the hub for shady dealings.
Speaker 3 (01:46):
Right.
Speaker 4 (01:46):
It perfectly sums up that whole contradiction.
Speaker 1 (01:49):
So it makes you wonder, how does someone like that
even get started. Let's rewind a bit, go back to
his roots, okay, So, Abdolfo Bruno born in Brasiliano, nineteen
forty five. His family immigrates like many others settles in Springfield, Massachusetts,
and Springfield back then industrial city, strong Italian American community,
it was a pretty fertile ground for mafia activity in
(02:11):
the mid twentieth century.
Speaker 3 (02:12):
Absolutely, and if you look at that context, the influence
of Southern Italian culture on him was will profound. These
deep seated values family, loyalty, honor, discretion, olmerta. You know,
these weren't just ideas, they were the code. He lived
by the bedrock of his underworld career, at least for
a long time.
Speaker 1 (02:30):
And he got involved pretty young.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
Seems like it.
Speaker 3 (02:32):
By his late teens early twenties, the sources say he's
already into gambling, loan sharking in Western mass.
Speaker 1 (02:39):
And getting a reputation.
Speaker 3 (02:40):
Oh yeah, smooth, calm, under pressure, very connected. Sounds like
he had a natural talent for it, you could say,
and he rose quickly. By the nineteen eighties, Bruno is
a made man in the Genevese crime family.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
That means fully initiated, sworn in, one.
Speaker 1 (02:54):
Of the New York's biggest families.
Speaker 3 (02:55):
Exactly one of the most powerful, and Bruno becomes their
main guy in Western mass parts of Connecticut too. He's
overseeing their rackets there, gambling, extortion, maybe some narcotics later
though he resisted that. Initially he was a real capo,
a captain running his own crew.
Speaker 1 (03:10):
And his style of operating, Uh, you called it a
quiet empire, not flashy, right, Yeah, didn't flaunt the wealth,
avoided blatant street violence where possible, ran things tight, almost
like a ceo.
Speaker 4 (03:22):
Yeah, very much so controlled.
Speaker 1 (03:24):
So what were the core operations the money makers for
this quiet empire?
Speaker 3 (03:28):
Well, the sources point to three main things. First, illegal gambling,
big time poker games, sportsbutting spanning Springfield, Hartford. Second, loan sharking,
lending cash at crazy high interest rates and the collection
method backed by threats sometimes violence, standard stuff really right.
And third protection rackets offering local businesses protection essentially protection
(03:50):
from problems he or his associates could cause.
Speaker 1 (03:52):
So it was diversified, insidious, like you said, all hidden
behind that respectable.
Speaker 2 (03:56):
Front, exactly built on fear but masked, and.
Speaker 1 (03:59):
His influence spread, didn't it? Local unions, politicians, maybe even
law enforcement.
Speaker 3 (04:04):
The sources suggest it was pretty extensive, which just reinforced
that old school image, the diplomat, the tactician, the guy
who didn't need to shout to be heard, very different
from some who came later.
Speaker 1 (04:17):
But that quiet approach didn't keep the law away forever.
By the nineties, the fed's FBI atf IRS, they were
really turning up the heat, aren't they targeting him for
tax evasion, money laundering, extortion, racketeering, the whole IRC playbook.
Speaker 3 (04:33):
Yeah, the pressure was definitely building. But what's striking is
Bruno's knack for avoiding serious prison time. He got arrested,
charged multiple times, but he often beat the charges or
got surprisingly light sentences, which.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
Probably just added to his reputation local.
Speaker 3 (04:48):
Oh absolutely, it built this mythos around him, like he
was untouchable, could navigate anything. It wasn't just luck, clearly.
Speaker 1 (04:54):
But inside the family, yeah, things weren't so smooth.
Speaker 3 (04:57):
No, it seems cracks were starting to show the Genevi's leadership.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
Some of them apparently started.
Speaker 1 (05:02):
To doubt him, doubted his loyalty.
Speaker 3 (05:03):
Yeah, there were whispers maybe he was getting too cozy
with law enforcement, or the ultimate fear, maybe he could turn.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
In Foreman, which in that world.
Speaker 2 (05:13):
Is a potential death sentence.
Speaker 3 (05:15):
Exactly So, even as his local empire seems strong, internally,
suspicion was growing.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
And this is where we start to see the seeds
of the trail. Right with the specific.
Speaker 3 (05:24):
Rival, we do enter Anthony Arolatta, younger guy, ambitious, also
from Springfield. He was actually close to Bruno, once saw
him as a mentor even but they fell out big
time over money, over control, perceived insults.
Speaker 4 (05:37):
You know how these things go.
Speaker 3 (05:38):
And a key point of friction, according to the sources
was drugs. Ari Lotta wanted to get deeper into drug trafficking,
expand that side of things. Bruno traditionally tried to steer
clear of it. That created a major rift.
Speaker 1 (05:50):
And then Ara Lotta gets made in two thousand and three.
Speaker 3 (05:53):
That's a big deal, huge It shifts the power dynamics significantly.
Ari Lotta is now officially part of the family hierarchy,
not just an associate.
Speaker 1 (06:01):
Making Bruno more vulnerable.
Speaker 2 (06:02):
Precisely, Bruno wouldn't step aside.
Speaker 3 (06:05):
He had these ongoing disputes, not just with aro Lotta,
but with the others in New York too.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
He became a target.
Speaker 3 (06:10):
It really shows you even a powerful cappo answers to
the bosses and if they decide you're.
Speaker 4 (06:14):
A problem, so Arolotta starts plotting secretly.
Speaker 3 (06:18):
Yes, and crucially, with approval from higher ups in the
Genevese family, they gave him the green light, which.
Speaker 1 (06:24):
Leads us to that brutal end. November twenty three, two
thousand and three, Bruno leaves a card game our lady
of Mount Carmel's Society Club in Springfield about six thirty pm,
walks to his car in the parking lot.
Speaker 3 (06:37):
And a gunman just emerges from the shadows, shoots him
multiple times close range, killed instantly. It was chillingly efficient.
Speaker 1 (06:43):
The execution itself must have sent shockways through Springfield, oh
immense shock.
Speaker 3 (06:47):
Bruno had ruled those streets in his way for decades.
His murder so public, so brazen, it was a huge signal.
It basically announced a shift in mafia politics, a message the.
Speaker 2 (06:57):
Old ways Bruno's ways were over, and.
Speaker 1 (06:59):
Then things He went quiet for a while until twenty ten.
The bombshell right.
Speaker 3 (07:05):
Anthony Airolatta, Bruno's protege turned rival, gets arrested, racketeering, murdered, churges,
He's looking at life in prison, and he flips. He
decides to cooperate with the government. This was, as our
sources put it, a seismic event for the Genevies family
cooperation on that level was devastating.
Speaker 1 (07:23):
What did he confess?
Speaker 3 (07:23):
He laid it all out, admitted orchestrating Bruno's murder, said
Bruno was seen as a liability, out of touch to
public and maybe just maybe potentially talking to law enforcement
that fear again. Wow, it shows the brutal.
Speaker 2 (07:38):
Pragmatism, doesn't it.
Speaker 3 (07:39):
Loyalty lasts only as long as you're useful or not
perceived as a threat, no matter how respected you once were.
Speaker 1 (07:45):
And his testimony brought down others.
Speaker 3 (07:47):
Oh yeah, a whole cascade of indictments. He fingered Frank
Roche as the actual shooter, implicated Felix tring Hez, another
longtime associate who also flipped and detailed the hit planning.
Speaker 1 (07:57):
So more cooperation.
Speaker 3 (07:59):
Exactly, plus other Genevies members associates involved in planning.
Speaker 2 (08:03):
The cover up.
Speaker 3 (08:04):
It blew the lid off the whole Springfield crew.
Speaker 1 (08:06):
These trials must have revealed a lot about their internal world.
Speaker 3 (08:10):
They really did painted a picture of intense paranoia, constant betrayal,
shifting loyalties. It became clear Bruno, the guy who ran
Springfield with this quiet authority, was taken out by the
very men he'd help bring up in the organization.
Speaker 1 (08:25):
A really stark example of that world.
Speaker 2 (08:27):
Absolutely cutthroat doesn't even begin.
Speaker 4 (08:29):
To cover it.
Speaker 1 (08:29):
So thinking about Bruno's legacy, his murder feels like more
than just one man's death. It feels symbolic.
Speaker 3 (08:39):
I think that's right mark the end of a certain
kind of gangster, maybe that reserved, calculating, almost genteel, old
Cosinustris style, the kind that tried to keep violence behind
closed doors, maintained some community respect, contrasted with with the
new generation, guys like Arie Lotta, more brazen, more openly
profit driven, less concerned with the old codes of loyalty,
(09:00):
qicker to embrace drug trafficking, quicker to expand, and maybe
most importantly, quicker to cooperate with the FEDS when backed
into a corner. Bruno's death really highlighted that shift, the
brutal evolution of the game.
Speaker 1 (09:11):
And what about organized crime is springfield today?
Speaker 3 (09:13):
It's really just a shadow of what it was that
Genevie's crew Bruno ran decimated informants, prosecutions and just changing times.
Speaker 1 (09:22):
Legalized gambling probably hurt too big.
Speaker 2 (09:24):
Time, brit up a lot of the traditional revenue streams.
It's a different world.
Speaker 1 (09:27):
Now, yeah Bruno himself. Does his name still resonate there?
Speaker 3 (09:32):
It does, actually, especially in the older Italian American neighborhoods
Our sources suggest some older residents still remember him almost
fondly as a man of stature dignity, despite knowing, you know,
how he made his money. It's that complex contradictory perception
again still lingering.
Speaker 1 (09:48):
It really is a compelling story. Adolpho Bruno shows you
that complex nature of the mafia, doesn't it, Where loyalty
and treachery live side by side, where even the most
respected figure can fall hard.
Speaker 3 (09:58):
Absolutely, his whole life was this tightrope walk, trying to
blend crime and business, ruthlessness and respectability, and the fact
that he was ultimately destroyed by the very organization he
served so loyally. It leaves you with the question, doesn't
it In a world like that, with shifting loyalties, changing times,
how do you even measure honor? What does it even
mean to be old school when the rules are always
(10:20):
changing under your feet?
Speaker 2 (10:21):
Something for you to think about,
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