How Ol' Blue Eyes 'carried the mob's greenbacks'

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Dan Glaister in Los Angeles
Thursday May 5, 2005
The Guardian


Frank Sinatra worked as a mafia courier and was nearly caught carrying a suitcase stuffed with $3.5m, according to the entertainer Jerry Lewis.

In an interview for a new biography of Sinatra, Lewis is quoted as saying of the Rat Pack member: "He volunteered to be a messenger for them. And he almost got caught once ... in New York."

As he passed through customs, Lewis says, Sinatra was stopped by officials who started to open the suitcase he was carrying. Inside, says Lewis, were notes to the value of "three and a half million in 50s".

But the customs officers were distracted by the crowds of people trying to catch a glimpse of the singer and aborted their search.
Had they not, claims Lewis, "we would never have heard of him again".

http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,12271,1476786,00.html

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1. Sinatra mobbed up? I'm shocked, SHOCKED!

Anyone hear the Kitty Kelly story where Frank Jr. almost told her where Jimmy Hoffa was buried? She told it on a CSPAN talk last year.