One of the late, unlamented Whitey Bulger's most notorious crimes was the seizure of a South Boston liquor store. From CBS News: (Rakes never saw full restitution. He was poisoned in 2013, in what prosecutors said was an unrelated episode.
A 72-year old man named William Camuti, who owed Rakes a substantial amount of money, was convicted of lacing Rakes' coffee with cyanide and sentenced to life.) The technique never changes. In its most recent iteration, it comes, not in a Southie liquor store, but from Mar-a-Lago, complete with rubbery shrimp. Alina Habba became famous as the official parking-lot spokeswoman for the defense during E.
Jean Carroll’s defamation lawsuit. The president then tried to muscle Habba into being a U.S. attorney in New Jersey. A federal appeals court removed her from the post, but she seems to have landed on her feet.
From The New York Times: Sweet deal, considering that Trump had been convicted at trial and that Habba was booted from a cushy seat on the federal nickel. Unfortunately, it seemed to engage the president's most primal appetite—namely, "Money? Me some too, yes?" From The New York Times: (Mildon is Habba's married name.
She married Turhan Mildon, a Turkish billionaire. Habba apparently stormed the Oval Office claiming that then-Kennedy Center president Ric Grenell failed to deposit a large donation that Mr. Mildon had sent to buy influen ... er ... help refurbish the Center.)
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