Barney's buddy at the wheel

REGURGE: More about Barney: “Barney was a famous person at sixteen,” Alan Dershowitz, the Harvard Law School professor, who dated a classmate of Frank’s at Bayonne High School, said. “He talked exactly like he talks now, and he was always talking, always involved in every kind of politics. Because Bayonne was such a sleazy place, nobody knew whether Barney was going to wind up in Congress or in jail.” According to Frank, his father was involved with the Mafia. “Funzi Tieri, a big-time gangster with the Genovese family, came to my brother David’s bar mitzvah, when I was twenty-three,” he said. Sam Frank died at the age of fifty-three, while Barney was an undergraduate at Harvard, and Barney took a year off to help resolve the family’s tangled financial affairs. “The Mafia guys were very helpful to me at the time,” he said.

BTW, AA and I were listening to Dershowitz the other day. Did he tell you about that?