Earlier this month the feds indicted reputed Lucchese mobster Nicodemo Scarfo Jr. and 12 others for their alleged roles in the extortionate takeover and systematic looting of the publicly-traded mortgage company FirstPlus Financial Group, Inc. which is based in Irving, TX, and in walking through the alleged scheme George Anastasia from The Philadelphia Inquirer aptly invokes the line from The Godfather that "a man with a briefcase can steal more than a man with a gun."
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