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Tortelicious: Senior Ex-Cons Still Got It (well, almost)

April 13th, 2010. By LucyC

Welcome to Totally Tortelicious—a review of some of the more bizarre legal stories making news. Goodness knows there’s no shortage of them.

In Search of a Higher Risk Retirement Portfolio? Try bank robbery…A trio of seniors was apprehended outside a suburban Chicago bank recently, for suspicious behavior. (No, not that kind). The three old boys, dressed all in black when they were arrested, were ‘casing the joint’, as the expression goes, in preparation for a robbery. But it turns out this was not some kind of a gag or attempt to break free from the old folks home. Although I would say it was a temporary lapse in sanity.

Joseph “Jerry” Scalise, 73, of Clarendon Hills, Ill., Arthur Rachel, 71, of Chicago and Robert “Bobby” Pullia, 69, of Plainfield, Ill., were all suspects in an earlier robbery in 2007 and were under investigation by the FBI. In fact they were under surveillance, unbeknownst to them, which is presumably how they were spotted hanging around the First National Bank in La Grange, IL, especially on the days that an armored car would make a visit.

It turns out these fellows have quite the criminal pedigree—well two of them at any rate. Scalise and Rachel were alleged Chicago mob figures, who reportedly were released from prisons in the UK in 1993, after spending 13 years behind bars for the theft of the 45-carat Marlborough Diamond and other gems from a London jewelry store. That payday was worth $2.6 million in total, and the gems were never recovered. And, Scalise was a technical adviser on “Public Enemies,” the movie about John Dillinger filmed in Chicago in 2008. They should have pooled their loot and hired a financial adviser.

No More Hangin’ Around the Beer Cooler and Gettin’ Paid for it…Dozens of workers walked off the job in Copenhagen last week, in protest of new rules that would restrict their drinking alcohol on the job to their lunch breaks, in the canteen. This could be a very sad thing for the whole country, not just the workers, as their employer is the Danish brewer Carlsberg. And, not only did about 1000 workers walk out on Wednesday/Thursday, the truck drivers went out in support as well—so the whole country could be facing a drought. Apparently there were interruptions to beer transports “in and around Copenhagen.”

The strike is in response to a “tightening” of rules on workplace drinking, and the removal of beer coolers from work sites. Okee dokee.

Before the rule went into place, workers could help themselves to beer throughout the day, Read the rest of this entry »

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