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[Geary is demanding a large bribe for a gaming license]

Senator Pat Geary: I want your answer and the money by noon tomorrow. And one more thing. Don't you contact me again, ever. From now on, you deal with Turnbull.

Michael Corleone: Senator? You can have my answer now, if you like. My final offer is this: nothing. Not even the fee for the gaming license, which I would appreciate if you would put up personally.

The Godfather, Part II [1974]

“Behind every great fortune there is a crime.”
- Honore de Balzac

organized crime

"In many ways, the men who made The Godfather—director Francis Ford Coppola, producer Al Ruddy, Paramount executives Robert Evans and Peter Bart, and Gulf & Western boss Charles Bluhdorn—were as ruthless as the gangsters in Mario Puzo’s blockbuster." Mark Seal's Vanity Fair piece here.

Earlier references to Puzo here and here. Evans here. Coppola here.

ciuco

Donkey image source here.

"He was known as 'ciuco'; the kid who could not earn a living and everyone else had to support."
- Dorothy Puzo reflecting upon her father Mario Puzo who authored The Godfather which was published when he was forty-nine.

An earlier reference to Mario Puzo on this blog here.