A Jail Term He Can’t Refuse

The mugger thought it looked like an easy target: a 94-year-old woman accompanied by a priest, walking in New York’s Greenwich Village. He ran by and snatched her purse, and easily outran the reverend. A witness flagged down a police car, and the robber was caught. But that wasn’t the worst news for the arrestee that day. “You just robbed the mother of the biggest mob chieftain in New York,” the arresting officer told the suspect. The woman’s son, Vincent The Chin’ Gigante, is the reputed head of the Genovese crime family. (AP) ...To heck with a lawyer. He’s going to need that priest.