After a golden gangster life, cruel days - St. Petersburg Times: "This is Joe DeFede, a retired New York gangster who oversaw the rackets in the city's garment district in the 1990s. He once had a Cadillac, a driver and three horses stabled at Aqueduct.
These days, though, after a five-year prison stint, legal fees and the crushing costs of creating a new identity, the boss is almost broke. He and his second wife, Nancy, live on an annual income they said was not much more than $30,000: Social Security, a modest annuity and her pension from 20 years at a bank.
'That's the fear we got,' said DeFede, 76, known as Little Joe. 'We try to keep our payments up' — for the car, the house, a recent hip replacement — 'but sometimes we can't hack it.'
There's no gangster IRA, so the DeFedes live check to check (and under assumed names)."
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