{"id":766,"date":"2005-12-20T07:40:25","date_gmt":"2005-12-20T12:40:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/good-night-sweet-the-chin\/"},"modified":"2005-12-20T07:40:25","modified_gmt":"2005-12-20T12:40:25","slug":"good-night-sweet-the-chin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/good-night-sweet-the-chin","title":{"rendered":"Good Night, Sweet The Chin"},"content":{"rendered":"

World’s funniest mobster, Vincent “The Chin” Gigante, died in prison yesterday<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Yeah, he committed monstrous crimes, but he also wandered around his neighborhood in his bathrobe like a crazy person in order to build a “mental illness” defense to keep him out of prison.<\/p>\n

Eventually, he copped to faking it, which added three more years to his sentence.<\/p>\n

I guess there’s something admirable in working his way up from crime-boss-driver to crime-boss, if you can apply a Protestant work ethic to the overwhelmingly Catholic world of organized crime.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

World’s funniest mobster, Vincent “The Chin” Gigante, died in prison yesterday. Yeah, he committed monstrous crimes, but he also wandered around his neighborhood in his bathrobe like a crazy person in order to build a “mental illness” defense to keep him out of prison. Eventually, he copped to faking it, which added three more years … <\/p>\n

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