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He should have taken the money

posted 12 years ago by starmarker
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Sorry Serpico. You should have taken the money. Hundreds of tax free dollars every month in the 1970s. Back when that basement apartment in SoHo was probably $200 a month. With a hot blond girlfriend. And a job where you get to smoke pot? Go with the flow, my man. Now, I'm not sayin' let the rapists go free. But gambling money? I mean, why not? Flash forward to 2013. Gambling is sanctioned by government all the time (casinos, lotteries). And as for criminality ... well lets just say the criminals who almost destroyed America are all still waking up in their Park Ave. condos every day and going to work at Goldman Sachs.

[–] mplo (2356) a year ago

Frankly, I think that Frank Serpico was/is to be admired for exposing the corruption that was really rife in NYC's police department, by refusing to take bribe money. It's too bad that he almost lost his life as a result, especially since it's rather obvious that he was set up by the NYC Police department, by taking him to carry out an extremely dangerous narcotics arrest in the hopes of getting Frank Serpico murdered, which, unfortunately, came rather close to happening.