tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8659317614523439922.post6471713504863518213..comments2024-02-25T09:59:12.808-05:00Comments on The Writers of Wrongs: 1929: Capone meets City of Brotherly LoveThomas Hunthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09562045051995673935noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8659317614523439922.post-73934032409416306182021-07-08T00:54:27.748-04:002021-07-08T00:54:27.748-04:00PHILADELPHIA "LA NOSTRA COSA"���� ����.....PHILADELPHIA "LA NOSTRA COSA"���� ����..WAS HISTORY IN THE MAKING!...GOTTA LOVE IT!!troubleshooterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04440680149970237572noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8659317614523439922.post-14490130207686753392017-05-17T11:56:22.063-04:002017-05-17T11:56:22.063-04:00According to Gus Russo in "The Outfit," ...According to Gus Russo in "The Outfit," the whole thing was a scam. Capone got sideways with Johnny Torrio at the conference, when Torrio proposed that Capone turn over all his non-alkie rackets to him, and Capone told Torrio to find his own rackets. Capone decided the safest place to be was jail, and he set the whole thing up with Boo Boo Huff, his Philly counterpart. The two Philly dicks who arrested him had partied with him in Miami, and each got a $10,000 tip (nice money in 1929, or even today). No one seems to know or say what the judge got. <br />If you go to the Eastern State Penitentiary in Philadelphia, they have Capone's cell set up the way he had it, with rugs, a soft bed, and a big furniture-style radio. Russo claims that the warden offered to put in a ticker tape, but Capone said, "I don't gamble."Old 1811https://www.blogger.com/profile/09079719195789200332noreply@blogger.com