Pablo Torre

a car dealership whose owner was a memorable Las Vegas character in his own right.

Ah, it was Gerald Cutter.

Who is Gerald Cutter?

Gerald Cutter portrayed himself as a pillar of the community.

He was the president of the Chamber of Commerce in North Hollywood.

He backed a boys club at the North Hollywood YMCA.

He had come to Southern California in the late 60s, and he set up all these dealerships from Hermosa

to Van Nuys across the valley and then in Vegas, Prestige Motors.

And these were Rolls-Royce dealerships, Fiat Agency, Ford.

And, you know, he kind of discovered Vic Weiss and brought him in and he took him under his wing.

He recognized, you know, Vic was very charming.

He was very charismatic.

So he kind of recognized that this guy, you know, can hang with athletes, high rollers, celebrities, and he was involved in promotions.

And he even, you know, brought him in to, you know, present him as a general manager and give him a cut of all these dealerships.

The spinoff show about Vic Weiss is itself this insane text.

I'm imagining these scenes in which he apparently is bringing by Cutter Ford, Muhammad Ali, Reggie Jackson.

Like again, he's everyone's guy.

And it turns out that Jerry Cutter, to the surprise of perhaps nobody listening at this point in the story, had ties to another institution.

Yeah, this is from Leroy's police report.

It is rumored that Cutter is connected with organized crime and allegedly was while in St.