Mafia retirement benefits often include funeral, little else

Via the Associated Press/Minneapolis Star Tribune:

No pension, no medical benefits, no prescription plan. When you’re amob boss, retirement is more bronze casket than golden parachute.

Since the 1930s ascension of the Mafia, its leaders have departed “TheLife” almost exclusively through their deaths. Albert Anastasia,Carmine Galante and “Big Paul” Castellano were brutally (andmemorably) assassinated; Vito Genovese, John Gotti and “Fat Tony”Salerno died in prison.

A third, more palatable option emergedin recent years: The Witness Protection Program, for those who foundrelocation to Arizona preferable to interment in Queens.

Ed:  there’s more to this story, but I couldn’t resist the headline….