Monday with Frank

My Monday Morning??  Not your typical Monday morning.  Nope, I spent mine with a mobster.  Not just any mobster, but our favorite one, Frank Cullotta.

Frank was in town to do a little business and he invited me to tag along as he did a radio interview on the ever-popular Heidi Harris morning talk show.  Ok, I asked to be his shadow as I have never met Heidi and thought it would be interesting.  It was…

A quick background.  Nevada Senator Harry Reid is running for reelection.  Harry is running a series of heart touching ads touting his roots. They are about a man who came from extreme poverty to become the hard working, respectable man that he is today.  Yea, ok…

Some of these ads claim that in his early days as a lawyer and Gaming Control Board member, the mob tried to take him out by rigging a car bomb to the family station wagon.  A wire was discovered that went from the distributor to the gas tank. Yea, a wire… how professional…

Heidi is catching flack because she doesn’t remember this “murder attempt” on Harry’s life.  Even though she has lived here all her life, this bit of earth shattering news escaped her some how.   So today she got to ask the one man who would know for sure if the mob ever tried to take ol’ Harry out.

Frank’s answer: “If we had done the job, he’d be gone.”  You gotta love a man who has a way with words.  Short, sweet and so full of truth you could feel it in the air.

Frank did go on to explain that the mob had no beef with Harry Reid. That the wire was found on the family car, not his personal vehicle.  The mob never targets the family, they’re innocent!

Ok, nice to know that….

The Lesson of the Day:
One thing Heidi did learn from the interview with Frank Cullotta: If you think you are a target for a mob hit…  Start your car with the driver’s door open.  That way when the bomb goes off, the blast should send you out of the car!