From: ahk@chinet.com   
      
   Mark Shaw  wrote:   
   >Adam H. Kerman  wrote:   
   >>Mark Shaw  wrote:   
      
   >>>https://www.joblo.com/jerry-adler-dies/   
      
   >>>    Jerry Adler, best known for playing businessman and family   
   >>>    associate Herman "Hesh" Rabkin on The Sopranos, has passed   
   >>>    away. He was 96.   
      
   >>Hesh was a businessman? On his good days, perhaps. He was corrupt as   
   >>hell. Except for the restaurant owner, you don't become friends with   
   >>Tony if you're not a crook.   
      
   >Usury is a business, no?   
      
   It's been made a crime in some states, but Hesh, among other things, was   
   a loanshark. It's the threat of violence or death that makes it not a   
   business.   
      
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