In order to keep his daughter from going to jail for insider trading, Mahoney had been
forced to meet with Castiglia and, for whatever reason, the two men actually liked each other. Maybe that was because there wasn’t that much difference between gangsters and politicians; they just belonged to different gangs.
Unfortunately, the proximity of art and history has little influence on those who govern.
I’m sorry to hear that,” DeMarco said, although he wasn’t sorry. As far as he was concerned Tony deserved to die alone.
It’s like Jack Kennedy,” DeMarco said to Emma. “All the rumors about Joe Kennedy being a bootlegger and having ties to the mob and getting rich on insider trading never really hurt Jack. It sounds like the same thing with Stephanie. By the time she jumped onto the political stage, her old man was dead, his money had been laundered clean, she had nothing to do with his past life.