From the 1960s until the turn of the 21st century, New York City was the world's epicenter of organized and white-collar crime. The most feared Mafia chiefs, assassins, defrocked stockbrokers, Orthodox Jewish money-launderers, judges, and Arab bankers sought the counsel of one man: my father, Jimmy La Rossa. On January 30, 2009, I snuck my famous and mortally ill father from New York Presbyterian Hospital to a waiting Medevac jet, where we flew in secret to a place few people would look for two die-hard New Yorkers: a town ...
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From the 1960s until the turn of the 21st century, New York City was the world's epicenter of organized and white-collar crime. The most feared Mafia chiefs, assassins, defrocked stockbrokers, Orthodox Jewish money-launderers, judges, and Arab bankers sought the counsel of one man: my father, Jimmy La Rossa. On January 30, 2009, I snuck my famous and mortally ill father from New York Presbyterian Hospital to a waiting Medevac jet, where we flew in secret to a place few people would look for two die-hard New Yorkers: a town in Southern California aptly named Manhattan Beach. During our five years in exile, we made our mark as a most irreverent and unrivaled father/son duo, as he recounted his legendary courtroom exploits. Jimmy was, and always will be, my "true north."
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