Kill the Irishman Page #3

Well, we're gonna do a story on him, all right,

just not the kind he's going to like.

- Call this a heads up.

- Thank you.

(CLATTERING)

Danny, aren't you coming?

No.

I'm not going anywhere without you.

They don't want you, Billy.

Well, it was fun while it lasted.

(SIRENS WAILING)

(OFFICERS CHATTERING ON RADIO)

REPORTER ON TV:

A 12-count indictment has been returned

by a Cuyahoga County grand jury

against labour leader Daniel Patrick Greene.

Greene, arrested last Tuesday

is charged with multiple counts

of grand larceny, extortion

and labour racketeering.

(PEOPLE CHATTERING)

WOMAN:
All right.

Is it true?

All of it?

I paid the lawyer.

We don't have any money left.

Sell the house.

The house? Where are we gonna go?

We'll find somewhere next week.

We?

(SCOFFS) Excuse me. You're in jail.

No testifying?

No testifying. We drop the extortion

and labour racketeering charges.

It's 10 years.

You plead guilty to two counts

of falsifying financial records

and agree to a lifetime ban from the union.

That's what I get.

F*** you. What do you get?

Well, the Bureau knows very little

about organised crime in Northern Ohio.

So talk to us, say once a month.

Tell us what you hear.

I can do that.

Feds just released Danny Greene.

GIRL 1:
I win again.

GIRL 2:
I won again.

GIRL 1:
I won.

(MOTORBIKES APPROACHING)

(MEN WHOOPING)

I wanna ride.

We can't live here.

It'll have to do.

What are you gonna do for work?

It's America. Land of opportunity.

John Nardi, please.

Tell him it's Danny Greene.

He's got the best restaurant in town.

He runs the cleanest numbers.

Now everybody wants to play

Shondor's numbers. The Irish. Polacks.

Even the Shiser, Edie Stewart.

She doesn't discriminate.

Get yourself a job.

You like stroganoff?

(DANNY LAUGHS)

Danny, taste that.

Mmm.

More salt, I think.

I have to tell you how impressed I am

with how you handled your recent adversity.

I provide a unique financial service

to men who like to gamble.

Before your time,

gamblers borrowed money from casinos.

The problem was if a gambler skipped town,

the casino had no recourse.

So I started to offer a six-for-five, meaning

you borrow five, you owe six within a week.

If you don't pay,

you get charged 30% interest, figure-ish.

Now all this was perfectly legal.

And the best part,

I ran my own debt collection.

Then, in its wisdom, the federal government

labelled such practices "loan sharking",

which is (SCOFFS) a stupid term.

Come here, I wanna show you something.

Joey.

Honey, what happened?

The wife let you out of the doghouse finally.

Eat something. Enjoy.

(SOFTLY) Cuyahoga County DA.

Where was I?

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