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the cool justice report the cool justice report the cool justice report exposes wrongdoing in the politically charged worlds of cops and courts it runs compelling stories of general interest and boxing literary and political items as well as selected poems and pieces of fiction email tntcomm82 cs com twitter cooljustice a 2nd collection of columns more cool justice http morecooljustice com followed law justice in everyday life saturday may 24 2025 new collected columns stories via substack andy thibault cool justice posted by the cool justice report at 3 51 am no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest tuesday may 23 2023 icymi post via the winsted citizen blog a word from el bardo the legend the assassin by leo connellan i am hidden within who you think i am we treat poets writers authors right the winsted citizen https winstedcitizen org our today s poets page is inspired by the late poet laureate of connecticut leo connellan aka el bardo the legend who published a column under that banner with the register citizen of torrington 1994 95 connellan modeled his offering after that of marcia lee masters poetry editor of the chicago tribune she was the daughter of spoon river anthology author edgar lee masters the trailblazing midwesterner who also shared a law office with clarence darrow let s run a poetry column like marcia lee masters connellan said we ll get lots of readers connellan compiled original works by acclaimed poets and new voices from throughout the nation the big hitters included new york quarterly editor william packard bollingen prize winner fred chappell negative capability editor sue walker and fulbright scholars david b axelrod and diana der hovanessian as well as connecticut s own marilyn nelson franz douskey vivian shipley and richard telford promising college and high school students also saw their works published by connellan the today s poets page in the winsted citizen has published works by franz douskey kate rushin jon andersen samuel john hazo ravi i don t play the sitar shankar elizabeth thomas steve straight victoria nordlund and sandra bishop ebner the june edition will feature poems by julia paul and john stanizzi also please check out our advertisements featuring authors enoy read subscribe advertise donate https winstedcitizen org posted by the cool justice report at 11 46 am no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest monday may 22 2023 icymi post via the winsted citizen blog june edition in production staff updates we re going digital in addition to print stay tuned if it s important to you it s important to us only those who attempt the absurd will achieve the impossible m c escher a note from the editor publisher dear readers advertisers donors thanks to you we not only still exist we are flourishing our june edition the fifth is in production and will hit the mail and the street june 2 as with many startups a major constant is change you are seeing new reporters and photographers in each edition our executive editor melanie ollett has been leading the charge in recent editions with strong support from contributing editor michelle manafy many readers know melanie works as a librarian and is looking forward to enjoying the summer with her children that is precisely what she will be doing as of july 1 while continuing to serve the paper on a limited basis as a contributing editor succeeding melanie as executive editor in july will be doug clement former senior editor at connecticut magazine and longtime editor of the litchfield county times few people know the region and its people especially the arts and culture scene better than doug doug will be leading the charge into the fall and next year litchfield county beyond yes we plan to be around for a while you might begin to think of us as connecticut s premiere newsmagazine that s part of our vision for 2024 we continue striving to earn your trust please continue to let us know how we re doing and what you want to see in our publication remember it s your paper we work for you andy thibault editor publisher may 12 2023 tntcomm82 cs com 860 690 0211 where to get the paper on the street https winstedcitizen org where to find the winsted citizen footnote we re going digital in addition to print stay tuned enoy read subscribe advertise donate https winstedcitizen org posted by the cool justice report at 3 38 am no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest sunday april 02 2023 las vegas publisher acquires rights to louis the coin memoir update https louisthecoinbook com pub date sometime in 2024 https histriabooks com the whole idea behind it was to be like a tax collector about louis louis the coin was a genius in metallurgy whose estimated haul from producing counterfeit slot tokens and chips easily exceeded 3 to 4 million from casinos around the country some casinos admitted it and many most of which were in nevada didn t he sat at the right hand of new england mob boss raymond patriarca one of the most powerful gangsters in u s history with direct access to his family members louis was a friend of theirs and talent not a made man louis was neither your average jeweler nor your average mob associate he began his criminal career as a teenager and went on to earn a business degree from providence college in the years before his death louis attended community college in rhode island because he loved learning his expertise ranged from making jewelry and fixing printing presses to orthotics and of course counterfeiting slot machine tokens and currency colavecchio could duplicate or create almost anything made out of precious metals or stones all he needed was a sample the samples were analyzed professionally for content weight and availability foxwoods had been booming for about five years when colavecchio set his sights on connecticut mohegan sun had just opened colavecchio never talked about his friends at least to police but one of the important numbers in his personal phone directory was for louis baby shacks manocchio then the reputed mafia boss of rhode island manocchio lived in providence s federal hill neighborhood where he once operated the café verdi restaurant he was convicted of a mob hit in 1968 but that was overturned by the rhode island supreme court in 2015 manocchio was released from federal prison to a halfway house after serving five years for his role in an extortion plot before colavecchio could move on the casinos he needed to do some homework he also needed some serious equipment colavecchio s expert analysis revealed he needed the following precious metals including copper zinc and nickel a 150 ton press from italy and laser cutting tools to cut shape and create dies to stamp out the coins the coins were tokens to be used in las vegas loughlin atlantic city and the tribal casinos in connecticut when state police brought a sample of colavecchio s product to foxwoods the experts did not believe it was counterfeit some called it a masterpiece state police advised the casino to keep track of inventory the token counts were bound to be off because of the surplus meanwhile the inventories at atlantic city casinos were multiplying like rabbits we know that he hit vegas hard an investigator said but since many of the directors of security there were former fbi agents they denied it the problem did not exist it never happened evidence mounted a surveillance team comprised of detectives from las vegas new jersey and connecticut waited for colavecchio to hit new jersey or connecticut again he chose new jersey this time he used only 100 tokens it was easy there were fewer machines to watch colavecchio was arrested in atlantic city in late december 1996 the pinch did not make the papers for about a week in his car colavecchio had 750 pounds of counterfeit tokens a fake police id disguises a handgun maps of casinos and various casino documents the fbi secret service three state police agencies and providence police took inventory at colavecchio s providence operation the government had to rent two storage facilities to store all the loot that was seized everyone took their turn arresting colavecchio he hired a former rhode island attorney general and a respected new london attorney as his lawyers foxwoods and mohegan sun acknowledged finding a total of at least 50 000 in fake tokens investigators borrowed microscopes from local high schools to inspect mounds of tokens it took them weeks just to determine that colavecchio hit one mohegan sun jackpot for 2 000 worked out by connecticut based detectives secret service and prosecutors colavecchio ended up in a conference room and getting vip treatment at mohegan sun his lawyers had worked out a deal colavecchio showed law enforcement how he did the job and promised to help the casino tribes and the state ward off any future raids they say he was a hero in providence as well colavecchio served a relatively short federal sentence at fort dix in new jersey and did not rat out any of his friends the new york times and providence journal also reported louis was hired by the u s mint upon his release from federal prison for the token scheme a couple decades ago that was because his dies in coins were of better quality than government production the u s government paid louis about 18 000 as a consultant louis died on july 6 2020 at his daughter s home in cranston ri he had gained a compassionate release from federal prison weeks earlier after serving time for counterfeiting 100 bills he was 78 as noted in his new york times obituary https www nytimes com 2020 07 13 us louis colavecchio dead html searchresultposition 1 he counted among his friends the detective who arrested him in connecticut the connecticut state police museum in cooperation with the mob museum in las vegas is developing a louis the coin exhibit did louis really louis the coin 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