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“But this is what history teaches us: Robin Hoods come with a beautiful promise, to escape into the deep forest where we can be free. They arrive in times of social turmoil, when the people are suffering and nothing makes sense anymore—in the time of fables, when we can be heroes or”
― John H. Richardson, Luigi: The Making and the Meaning

“To TJ, the prosecution had it wrong, wrong, wrong. On the street, Lewisbey had a reputation for being a warm guy with a large group of friends—from the underworld to sports to college. Anything you wanted to know about, from scholarships to business to fraud and drugs, he knew somebody that could help out. But guns and drugs weren’t his hustle. “Don’t get me wrong—he probably dipped and dabbed here and there,” TJ says. “But as far as the street perspective of it, I know for a fact that he wasn’t living that life.”
― John H. Richardson, The Gun King