Podcast Appearances
He had a friend that was... They were going to buy and sell yachts together.
So Frankie came down with the guy because he was going to try to... You know, dad wanted him to have a summer job.
And he introduced me to him.
And the guy's name was Sanford Harlan Perkoff.
Sandy...
If my dad taught me how right it was to be good, Sandy taught me how good it was to be bad.
He was an ex-aluminum siding salesman.
Have you ever seen the movie Tin Man?
Tommy Sikorsky, all these guys he introduced me to as a kid, those were the guys on trial for the Tin Man story.
And so he was a con man from day one.
He was married five times or four times at the time.
One of them was he remarried his ex-wife so she couldn't testify against him in court.
You know, I mean, this guy, and he looked like Paul Newman.
A poor man's Paul Newman, but girls loved him.
He was, as they say back in the day, pardon me, a coxswain.
You know, he always had a girl under his arm.
He always...
And he loved me because I was honest, smart, and he put me under his wing.
And I was his protege criminal.
And my mother actually confronted him and said, listen, what are you doing?