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...fish got a real nice texture. Like dey just caught it, jus' pulled it floppin' off de hook. Everybody else try it and they smile and boivent la biere! Tres bon! Good and spicy...

Author: By Daniel Vilmure, | Title: OUT TO LUNCH | 2/26/1987 | See Source »

...sharks. The FBI intervened. Another FBI wiretap overheard Torello telling how he had hung William Jackson, a 350-lb. loan shark, on a meat hook and tortured him with an electric prod. "He was on that thing three days before he croaked," Torello said excitedly. "He was floppin' around...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: THE MAFIA Big, Bad and Booming | 5/16/1977 | See Source »

Torello (excitedly): He was floppin' around on that hook, Jackie! We tossed water on him to give the prod a better charge, and he's screamin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: THE CONGLOMERATE OF CRIME | 8/22/1969 | See Source »

...ashamed to say that he had buttered up Attorney General (now Supreme Court Justice) Tom Clark. On one occasion, Lamar took him hunting on the fabulous Vanderbilt family estate, Biltmore, outside Asheville. "Somethin' like 3,000 acres," mused Caudle. "Wild turkeys everywhere you looked. Just floppin' around every whichaway." Caudle and Clark were right close: one cold night at Clark's house, they sat huddled up together under one blanket for hours while working on a case. But was he to blame for carrying out Clark's orders...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INVESTIGATIONS: The Mess (Continued) | 10/6/1952 | See Source »

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