Ken
Appearances
Crook County
8 | The Rear View Mirror
fractured my left hand fractured my right and left knee some damage to my face and skull and Had some surgeries got a lot of painkillers and you know, where the hell have you been my whole life? you know took a really liking to that took a really liking to painkillers and then That's when I started having problems with my addiction Was after
Crook County
8 | The Rear View Mirror
Getting those pain pills after those surgeries catalyzed my addiction and then fueled it after that, after it got catalyzed.
Crook County
8 | The Rear View Mirror
Because I think about it all the time, man. I regret every second of it.
Crook County
8 | The Rear View Mirror
I really wanted to get back into civilian life. I was ready for it.
Crook County
8 | The Rear View Mirror
Just when you think you're away from all this shit, I'm covering up fucking murders that these cops are doing.
Crook County
8 | The Rear View Mirror
And I always had that pendulum swinging over my fucking head that I could be called in at any time.
Crook County
8 | The Rear View Mirror
He's a soldier, but he's a higher-end soldier. I've had experiences with him in the past, and I never liked him, never appreciated him, never even wanted to recognize him as a human fucking being. And that was my mission, to snuff the fucking life out of this guy.
Crook County
8 | The Rear View Mirror
I can remember heading off to work with the fire department still. And I'm on the Eisenhower Expressway heading east. I see him. There's a lot of traffic in the morning. So there's stop and go, stop and go. So anyway, I managed to warm my way in and stop and go up to him. I was on his left. Rolled down the window with my electric windows. Even back then, hey, believe it or not.
Crook County
8 | The Rear View Mirror
So we did weaving in and out of traffic on the pull-off sections, right and left, and people actually getting out of the way. for two and a half miles with this hundred mile an hour fucking chase. So I led this son of a bitch right into a kill. We have these concrete embankments in Chicago that the left is the exit and the right is where you continue traveling. So I led this son of a bitch
Crook County
8 | The Rear View Mirror
because I knew he was raging. He wasn't even thinking properly. I knew it, so I led him right into the exit. I can't remember what street. I led him right into the embankment, and I made a quick chop left and kept going at about 70 miles per hour, but he wasn't fast enough. He hit that concrete embankment. and his fucking car exploded. I watched it in my rear view mirror.
Crook County
8 | The Rear View Mirror
So I knew nothing was gonna happen with this guy. He was just simply dead. So now you're gonna ask yourself, how does a guy working for a fire department go out and snuff out a fucking mobster in front of 300 people and go home the next morning and feel good about himself. Well, you gotta understand this, people, all you civilians out there. These people are evil garbage. They deserve to be dead.
Crook County
8 | The Rear View Mirror
The world is a better place without them. You have no idea. what these people are capable of doing and have done and will continue to fucking do, not unless their lives are snatched from them. And this particular incident, I knew this fuck. I knew his fucking history. And I knew I had to snatch the life out of this fuck. So, did I feel bad? No. Not one fucking bit.
Crook County
8 | The Rear View Mirror
I slept, woke up the next morning and did whatever I had to do without even thinking about it. It was just a normal fucking kill. That's all. In my mind at that time, that needed to be done. I actually feel okay about doing it because I really believe I did the world a favor. Because the only thing this man could have done was make things worse. That's it, people.
Crook County
8 | The Rear View Mirror
I don't know what else to fucking tell you. And if you can't live with that, then, I don't know, grow the fuck up. To the top of the porch, to the top of the wall, now dash away, dash away, dash away all.
Crook County
8 | The Rear View Mirror
So up to the housetop, the courses they flew with sleigh full of toys and Saint Nicholas too. Santa.
Crook County
8 | The Rear View Mirror
Santa. That's Saint Nicholas. Saint Nicholas and Santa are the same dude. Do you know that?
Crook County
8 | The Rear View Mirror
No? I don't think there's a Rudolph in this one. No, there's no Rudolph in this one.
Crook County
8 | The Rear View Mirror
Well, maybe they just forgot on this particular Christmas. That doesn't mean he's not going to be here tonight. I can almost guarantee he's going to be here tonight. He might have been out for this Christmas here, though. You know, maybe he had a cold. Who knows? What do you think?
Crook County
8 | The Rear View Mirror
I don't see it either. But we're not going to worry about that, right?
Crook County
8 | The Rear View Mirror
I heard him explain as he drove out of sight, Merry Christmas to all and to all a good night.
Crook County
4 | Keeper Of A House Of Prostitution
I'm running whorehouses. I'm not running them, but I'm a doorman. I ended up running them later, you know, 18, 19, 20, 20, you know, up till, what, 28, you know. So, but these girls, man, these, I mean, you know, we're talking lost, hardcore souls, you know, just lost. Some of them are angels, you know, just lost angels, you know, just lost and drug addicted.
Crook County
4 | Keeper Of A House Of Prostitution
She was our local dominatrix. She was our club dominatrix. She had all the gear, all the leather, all the outfits, and boy, she would raise hell on these guys. And they loved her, man. One of the chiefs in Cook County was one of her clients, and he'd come in every Tuesday or Thursday, that piece of shit. But man, she would wail on him. She would wail on him.
Crook County
4 | Keeper Of A House Of Prostitution
We had little peepholes in the doors where we could watch what was going on. She would let us know, watch what I have in store for this guy. Then we'd all run up to the door, be fighting for the peephole. Be three of us pushing each other out of the way, trying to get to the peephole while she wailed on these fucking guys. And these guys just loved it. Loved it. Oh, God.
Crook County
4 | Keeper Of A House Of Prostitution
Ming and Ling, these girls had their feet wrapped when they were young. Back in the day, it was a Chinese custom to wrap the feet of the girls, because they thought small feet was a beautiful thing in China. You guys can look this up. Go online and look it up. But they were strictly business, man. No drugs, no bullshit, no partying, no talking to anybody, just business.
Crook County
4 | Keeper Of A House Of Prostitution
And they had a plan, where all the other girls and guys never had plans. So I admired them. I admired those two. And a short blonde they called Marilyn. Marilyn because she looked like Marilyn Monroe. That's what we called her. I dated her for a while. Nymphomaniac. Purely sex, I guess our relationship was. Didn't really have a lot to talk about. She was a cokehead.
Crook County
4 | Keeper Of A House Of Prostitution
But hey, it was someone I was hanging out with for a while there. But she would have been your typical whore. And there were so many of them that came in and out throughout the years. So I would classify her as just a typical in-and-out girl. In for a while, working, and off to do something else. He goes on about a few more girls. Big, tall, blonde. Had a couple Hispanic girls there.
Crook County
4 | Keeper Of A House Of Prostitution
When I wasn't working at the clubs, when I wasn't working a shift, I went home. I went to my apartment and I was either dating your mother or if I wasn't dating your mother, I would completely detach myself from working in that environment where everybody else would hang around at the clubs and bullshit around, do coke and party, party, party, all this other crap. And I would just go home.
Crook County
4 | Keeper Of A House Of Prostitution
I'd do my shift and I would go home. But no, I kept myself completely separated, especially when I was with your mother. Yeah, I could do that. It wasn't a lifestyle. For me, it was a lifestyle. It was grease balls. It was a fucking lifestyle. That's the style they wanted to live. They wanted to live that way. I did not. I don't know if I can make that any fucking clearer.
Crook County
4 | Keeper Of A House Of Prostitution
I did not want to be them, all right? That wasn't my goal in life. So I kept myself completely detached from those people.
Crook County
4 | Keeper Of A House Of Prostitution
We would have to take bus every once in a while just so Cook County cops could, you know, show that they're making some progress here, okay? When half the motherfuckers were running their own hordes on the side out of our fucking clubs. Anyway, that's another fucking story.
Crook County
4 | Keeper Of A House Of Prostitution
So, you know, these motherfuckers were so crooked and we owned them. We owned them. But here's the deal. You know, they had to show numbers. So somebody had to catch a bust every once in a while. All right. So I caught two busts.
Crook County
4 | Keeper Of A House Of Prostitution
If you dig deep enough and it's there, the only thing you'll really see on me is two arrests, early 80s for a keeper of house of prostitution, late 70s, early 80s, keeper of house of prostitution. That's all that's going to pop on me. So, you know, we would arrange this. We're like, hey, okay, you're on tonight. You're taking one for the team.
Crook County
4 | Keeper Of A House Of Prostitution
Take the bus and give us a call afterwards and we'll come get you. So, so I took two of those and the girls would come with me and, you know, a little party, everybody would be laughing, having a good time and, you know, but had to take the bus. But here I am, Ken, young, not thinking, as smart as I was, as fucking dumb as I was, because I would use my name. Your real name. My real name.
Crook County
4 | Keeper Of A House Of Prostitution
And, you know, I don't know who came over me, but I would use my real name while I'm hearing all the girls, you know, using their club names. Mm-hmm. So now that shit's on your record forever. Yeah, so now it's on my fucking record, and I can't shake it. But at this point, it really doesn't make a difference. Not many people have Keeper of a House of Prostitution on their record.
Crook County
4 | Keeper Of A House Of Prostitution
You know, it was like an office, you know, hanging out around the water cooler, just bullshit, you know, that type of thing. We're not any different. It was just, you know, there's not, there's still human beings. They may be animals, some of them, and grease balls and narcissists and sociopaths, but they're still human beings, you know. There was Billy, the bartender.
Crook County
4 | Keeper Of A House Of Prostitution
Big old thick southern accent, cowboy hat, big old belt, big old belt buckle, jeans, cowboy boots. lanky, tall, lanky, and muscular. A guy you do not want to fuck with. I was afraid of this guy, and I was afraid of nobody. This guy worried me. Because those tall, lanky ones, boy, there's a lot of air time before that fist hits you. When he hits you in the right spot, that's it. You're done for.
Crook County
4 | Keeper Of A House Of Prostitution
So this guy kind of scared me. Plus, he was just strong. Just a strong, dumb hillbilly. But a great guy.
Crook County
4 | Keeper Of A House Of Prostitution
His brother was a good guy, you know. He didn't belong in the business. I did like him a lot. He wasn't like other y'all sociopaths, narcissistic maniacs that were in the mob. A little overweight, quiet, wanted to be like his brother, but knew he couldn't be like his brother. So that kind of bothered him. Things went bad at a club. He couldn't handle it.
Crook County
4 | Keeper Of A House Of Prostitution
I got recruited into the mob when I was 17 years old.
Crook County
4 | Keeper Of A House Of Prostitution
He just didn't belong in the business, but that's, you know, that's the way he was Jack's brother. And Danny, a low-level doorman. Dan was just a fat guy, loved to eat. Typical greaseball. Kind of unkept, though, for a greaseball. A jovial, nice guy, you know? Yeah, he was a door guy. Yeah, we were door guys. I would relieve him, and he would relieve me, you know?
Crook County
4 | Keeper Of A House Of Prostitution
Work a morning shift, I'd relieve him at night, or... I'd work a night shift, and he'd relieve me on a graveyard shift. You know, just something like that. We were relieving each other. So we'd stay and talk, you know, chat, just like any job. You stay and talk to your, you know. It was a job, you know, chat it up a little bit, mess around with the girls, you know, have fun with them a little.
Crook County
4 | Keeper Of A House Of Prostitution
He trusted me because I didn't steal money. I just did my job. It's hard to find an honest guy in the fucking outfit. He got a new boss. My crew boss was Jack. Jack, Jackie Lemon's Erickson. He ran the whorehouses. And Kenny got a new job, working the door at a brothel. A guy would come in. I'd introduce him to all the girls by name. They would negotiate a deal.
Crook County
4 | Keeper Of A House Of Prostitution
Not sexual fun, but just goof around, you know, just like an office.
Crook County
4 | Keeper Of A House Of Prostitution
Oh, fuck, he did him and somebody else. I can't remember who the other person was. While Danny was working, he had someone come in and rob the place while he was working. You know, so, of course, Dan's going to put up his arms, take the money, and leave. And that happened.
Crook County
4 | Keeper Of A House Of Prostitution
Because they were all greedy bastards, man. Listen. I was taught by Jack. Pigs get fat. Hogs get slaughtered. And that stuck with me. Meaning. If you're making a living, take the living. If you're making a good living, take that living. Don't be a hog. Don't. Get greedy. You know, be thankful for what you got because you're going to get slaughtered. All these guys wanted more. More broads.
Crook County
4 | Keeper Of A House Of Prostitution
More dope. More fucking money. More power. More greaseball. More mob. You know, they wanted more, more, more, more, more. Very ambitious people. I guess it's like in the private sector. Very ambitious people. But in our business, pigs get fat and hogs get slaughtered. And he got slaughtered.
Crook County
4 | Keeper Of A House Of Prostitution
I was there for the setup on the whack for Danny, all right? I think we, after a shift one night, we just waited for him out in the parking lot, and You know, we were all friends. He got in the car and was just one of those, you know, you're going to get whacked by your buddy type of thing, you know. So anyway, we got him, I got him. And it was, you know, when the guys trust you, it's easy.
Crook County
4 | Keeper Of A House Of Prostitution
Get in the car, let's go to Denny's, have some breakfast. Boom, next thing you know, he's getting his ass kicked. All right. And got him in the car and drove him to one of the chop shops in... drop them off there and whatever I did with them from there, I don't know. That was the only time I ever had any emotion in any hits.
Crook County
4 | Keeper Of A House Of Prostitution
Because everybody I hit was a fucking animal, a degenerate, psychopath, sadistic, narcissist, That didn't, we needed to get rid of that seed. That seed is not good for earth. That seed needed to be destroyed. That's how bad these people were. So I never had any remorse. The remorse I have now is that it's not my place.
Crook County
4 | Keeper Of A House Of Prostitution
She would hand me half the take, and then she would be on her way. And then one night, he met a girl. I think I was 19 when I met her. She was 20. Saw her sitting at the end of the bar. I fell in love with her pretty quick.
Crook County
4 | Keeper Of A House Of Prostitution
We would have to take bus every once in a while, just so Cook County cops could, you know, show that they're making some progress here. And those were all arranged bus. Okay, Ken, it's your turn. Oh, man. When half the motherfuckers were running their own hordes on the side out of our fucking clubs.
Crook County
4 | Keeper Of A House Of Prostitution
I mean, I could dance with you, but you know, you're not my dream girl or nothing like that.
Crook County
4 | Keeper Of A House Of Prostitution
Yeah, I was 19 years old. I was over at fucking a disco called Some Other Place. She was sitting at the bar. She was sitting at the end of the bar with her mother, of course. And I saw her, and I was just, whoa. Nice little redhead there, and I kind of dug her. And I walked up to her, just started talking. And that's how we met. That simple. In a bar. But that's how we met back then.
Crook County
4 | Keeper Of A House Of Prostitution
We didn't meet online like everybody meets online now. You actually had to go out and do something back in my day. I mean, you actually had to give it some effort. You actually had to walk and sit down and talk to somebody. Look them in their eyes and talk to them, you know. All right, close enough.
Crook County
4 | Keeper Of A House Of Prostitution
I was quite the schmoozer, yes. I was running a whorehouse. I was running a whorehouse. I was schmoozing with whores all day long. I was banging six at a time, for Christ's sake. But I liked your mom, though. I liked your mom. She wasn't, I didn't look at her as a whore. I looked at her as a woman that I liked, you know? A totally different thing. Totally different, totally different.
Crook County
7 | The Devil Won't Leave Me Alone
Ein Polizist würde jemanden verdammt töten. Ob durch einen Unfall oder aus Angst. Ich weiß es nicht. Du würdest einen Zivilen töten. Und hier ist der verrückte Witz, Mann. Ken muss als Paramediker kommen. Hören zu der Geschichte, die die Polizisten anziehen. Und dann muss ich die Schmerzen des toten Mannes anschauen. Und ihre Geschichte beurteilen, um die Schmerzen anzunehmen.
Crook County
7 | The Devil Won't Leave Me Alone
Und ich musste diese Scheiße dokumentieren. In einem Millionen fucking Jahren dachte ich nie, dass das passieren würde. Ich meine, wer denkt überhaupt so etwas?
Crook County
7 | The Devil Won't Leave Me Alone
Nein, nein, nein. Nein, das ist die Kultur. Das ist die Kultur. Das ist Teil meines Jobs. Das ist Teil meines Jobs.
Crook County
7 | The Devil Won't Leave Me Alone
Ken wird einen Tag sterben. Und jetzt muss Ken sitzen vor dem großen Mann und versuchen, seinen Weg aus diesem zu erklären. Wo ich jede fucking Möglichkeit in der Welt hatte, das Richtige zu tun. Aber ich habe mich nicht entschieden. Ich meine, es war nicht so viel eine Wahl, war es? Ich hatte eine Familie, Kyle.
Crook County
7 | The Devil Won't Leave Me Alone
Ich hatte eine Familie, die ich fucking erheben soll. Ich werde meine Familie nicht beschädigen.
Crook County
7 | The Devil Won't Leave Me Alone
Sie berichten heute Abend über den schlimmsten kommerziellen Luftflug in der Geschichte der USA. Ein tragischer Flugangriff gab Ken eine neue Richtung. Das ist, was ich entschieden habe. Ich wollte ein Paramediker sein, ein Feuerwehrer. Ich dachte, das ist meine Karriere, jetzt werde ich das tun. Und Ken fiel für eine Clubgirl namens Honey. Ich sah das große Lächeln an ihr. Alles ging weg.
Crook County
7 | The Devil Won't Leave Me Alone
Es gab einige Versuche, die Klubs zu übernehmen. Ja, es gab einen verdammten Schusskrieg, der brach aus. Und mitten in all dem Chaos machte Kenny seinen Ausflug. Ich wusste also, dass das mein Kurs war, und ich habe ihn genommen. Und ich war weg. Ich war weg.
Crook County
7 | The Devil Won't Leave Me Alone
I was working full time as a firefighter paramedic and raising my family, but I was still connected. And I always had that pendulum swinging over my fucking head that I could be called in at any time. And I was called in a couple of times. But I always had to keep that on the deal. I mean, no one could work, couldn't know, family couldn't know, nobody could know.
Crook County
7 | The Devil Won't Leave Me Alone
I can remember heading off to work with the fire department still. And I'm on the Eisenhower Expressway. I see him. That fucking guinea fuck. And I know who he is. He's a soldier, but he's a higher-end soldier. I've had experiences with him in the past. And I never liked him, never appreciated him, never even wanted to recognize him as a human fucking being. And that was my mission.
Crook County
7 | The Devil Won't Leave Me Alone
To snuff the fucking life out of this guy. Nächste Woche auf Crow County. Er hat mich gesehen, er hat sich aus der Kontrolle gespürt und die Rasse war auf. So einfach kann es sein, jemanden zu töten.
Crook County
7 | The Devil Won't Leave Me Alone
I really wanted to get back into civilian life. I was ready for it. I was ready for it, man. I wanted to get back into civilian life. You have to understand that. It's like anything. Thank God it's here. I got a job. I'm in a fire department. I got a job. I got a W-2. I gotta pay taxes. You're on the grid. Yeah, I'm on the grid, baby. I was all excited.
Crook County
7 | The Devil Won't Leave Me Alone
I didn't want to expose you guys to any of that shit, man. Keiner nahe auf dem Schiff. Es gab nichts. Ich bin einfach direkt rein. Es war natürlich. Ich bin mit meiner Mutter zusammengekommen. Wir haben zusammen gelebt und verheiratet. Ich habe gesagt, ich werde den Rest meines Lebens mit dieser Frau verbringen. Ich weiß, dass sie Kinder haben will, also lasst uns das einfach mit ihr beenden.
Crook County
7 | The Devil Won't Leave Me Alone
Ich werde älter. Ich bin jetzt mit den Departementen zusammen. Ich bin mit dem Feuerwehr-Departement zusammen. Und ich habe gesagt, lass uns ein Leben starten. Ein normales Leben starten.
Crook County
7 | The Devil Won't Leave Me Alone
Had you... And life went on for 18 years or 19 years, 20 years.
Crook County
7 | The Devil Won't Leave Me Alone
Du wolltest das von uns entfernen. Oh Gott, ja, das war primär. Ja. Und mein.
Crook County
7 | The Devil Won't Leave Me Alone
Was ist passiert? I got shot. I can't remember what that incident was. Fuck, what was that? I'm going to have to really think back on this. I got shot twice. I got shot in the left arm, I got shot in the right shoulder. I get them both mixed up, but let me think about this for a minute. That right there? Yeah. Came out somewhere over here. They were both small calipers.
Crook County
7 | The Devil Won't Leave Me Alone
This one went all the way through. That one was buried. One of my shoulders was buried. It had to be dug out.
Crook County
7 | The Devil Won't Leave Me Alone
Ich habe es sehr viel von meinen Jungs entfernt. Und als ich endlich auf die Feuerwehr kam, I was bound and determined to get out of it completely. Of course, that never happened. That never really happened.
Crook County
7 | The Devil Won't Leave Me Alone
So I'm working as a paramedic, a firefighter, and just when you think you're away from all this shit, alright, you're done, you're done with all this fucking shady lifestyle, I'm covering up fucking murders that these cops are doing. Sobald ich denke, dass ich aus diesem Scheiß rauskomme, stehe ich direkt wieder zurück. Es ist der Teufel. Er folgt mir, wo auch immer ich bin.
Crook County
7 | The Devil Won't Leave Me Alone
Ich kann mich nicht bewegen, ich bin ein Arschloch. Er wird mich nicht allein lassen.
Crook County
3 | Coming Clean
So these two come up on me. I'm sitting down. And I'm thinking to myself, ah, fuck, here we go. And I'm completely unprepared, completely. Came up on me, and the bigger guy goes, the older guy goes, is that him? And the kid goes, yeah, that's him. That's the guy that robbed me, Uncle . He ran a fucking crew. So he tells me, he goes, are you looking for a job? I go, yeah, I'm looking for a job.
Crook County
3 | Coming Clean
I'm fucking starving here. That's how I got into the fucking outfit. So he was impressed.
Crook County
3 | Coming Clean
They're all dead, man. You have to realize that I was really young. That's why they call me kid. Everybody was at least 10 years older than me. At least 10 years older than me. And if they're not dead of old age, they're dead from a hit, they're dead from an overdose, or like I said, dead from old age. I don't think there's anybody left. I doubt it very much.
Crook County
3 | Coming Clean
He was a powerful man, good guy, Businessman, well-dressed, well-kept, well-spoken, good-looking guy. Always took time to say hi to me. Always took time to little chat with me just a little bit. I never saw him do that with anybody else. Always took a couple minutes out to say hi to me. And I liked the way he behaved. He didn't act like a gangster, okay? He acted like a normal person.
Crook County
3 | Coming Clean
He wasn't a sociopath, narcissistic. You know, mobster guy. Those guys loved to play the part. Loved to play the part of gangster. I never could understand that greaseball bullshit. But he didn't do that, so I admired him.
Crook County
3 | Coming Clean
And he was, at that time, in Cook County, the king of the chop shops. They'd heist a car, they'd heist a truck with cars on it, and bring them back to his shops, chop the shit out of them, change the numbers, and ship them out. They shipped them out all over the world, you know, as far as Saudi Arabia. I mean, they were going all over the world, these cars. And it was a big, big, big moneymaker.
Crook County
3 | Coming Clean
I only saw him a couple times, kind of a gravelly old guy, if I can remember correctly. He looked like a typical fucking... Greasy gangster. I was to put real fucking greaseball, you know? But he was a very powerful man.
Crook County
3 | Coming Clean
I was an errand boy when I first started. Low level, very, very low level, dropping money off, collecting gambling money. No hits yet, but, you know, doing some beatings. But I always had somebody with me, so I was, like, assisting the person that was... doing the heavy work. So that's kind of where I learned how to do heavy work.
Crook County
3 | Coming Clean
I was selling dope for him on the side. I'd get a half a key, I'd break it up at a scale. Some of it I'd cook up for the Freebase clients and the rest of it I just ate balled up. And I can't remember how the Freebase sold. I really can't. I don't. That was, you smoked that shit. Boy, that stuff was insane. It was just...
Crook County
3 | Coming Clean
Just a rush of euphoria would just look like a tidal wave, just knock you over. And the problem was now you're chasing that shit all the time because you don't get that after that. You get that first hit, that's it. You're not going to find that. So, you know, you're always chasing that first blast. Anyway, all right, but he wasn't supposed to do that.
Crook County
3 | Coming Clean
That would have been bad for me, and that would have been very bad for him, because I was just taking an order, all right? I was just obeying orders. But you can't do that, man. You cannot do that.
Crook County
3 | Coming Clean
We could not sell dope, people. We could not sell dope. We were not allowed to sell dope. You got caught selling dope, you were in big-ass fucking trouble. Because that could bring heat on you. The whole thing, we don't want to bring any heat on any of us. So if you're going to do something stupid like sell dope, it's going to bring heat on you. People were coked up all the time.
Crook County
3 | Coming Clean
So you're dealing with people that were fucking high 24-7 on coke. So no one's in their really right mind. You know, no one's sober. Everybody's fucked up. And it dictated a lot of things. It got a lot of people killed.
Crook County
3 | Coming Clean
Listen, here's the deal, man. This was quick, fast money, all right? This was not my career. This is not what I chose to do with my life. I'm 17 years old, all right? I'm living in the backseat of my car. I'm hungry. I'm a survivalist, you know, and it's a job, and it's income. You know, I could start to get some security in my life, at least get an apartment, you know? So I'm taking this.
Crook County
3 | Coming Clean
My boss, my crew boss, was Jack. Jack, Jackie Lemons Erickson. Great guy. I loved Jack, man. I really admired him. He was a great guy. Well-kept. Still a gangster, but a well-kept gangster. You know, his jeans were even creased. You know, he was one of those guys. Everything was perfect on him. Clean, neat, nails done, manicure, pedicure. One of them guys, you know?
Crook County
3 | Coming Clean
Jack became sort of a father figure to young Kenny. Oh, he was a mentor. He trained me. He trained me. He just took me under his wing and he trained me. I was the young guy. You've got to remember, I was the absolute youngest guy there. These guys had 20 years on me. You know, I was the kid.
Crook County
3 | Coming Clean
So he just kind of took me under his wing and trained me, took care of me, you know, make sure I did everything good. You know, make sure I didn't get in trouble. Make sure he had my back, you know? I felt safe. I just felt safe when I went out to do bad work because I knew I had the, you know, the mob behind me. The outfit was on my back. You know, I had that always to fall back on.
Crook County
3 | Coming Clean
Yeah, he ran the whorehouses every night, just bouncing from whorehouse to whorehouse, checking on the bank, seeing how things were going, making sure nobody was selling dope, making sure the girls weren't too high, because they were always high. Making sure the guys weren't too high, because they were always high. You know, just kind of keeping things runnable, you know? Babysitting, basically.
Crook County
3 | Coming Clean
Kind of like what I do now for a living. Babysitting a bunch of drug addicts and alcoholics. That's kind of what he was doing back then. So that's what Jack did.
Crook County
3 | Coming Clean
He trusted me. He trusted me because I didn't steal money. I didn't do dope while I worked. I didn't sell dope while I worked. I just did my job and my count every night, right up there every night for years, man. It's hard to find an honest guy in the fucking outfit. I was an anomaly. I don't even want to say a rarity, an anomaly.
Crook County
3 | Coming Clean
So for the years I spent working in the whorehouses, the clubs, and they were scattered all over Cook County, DuPage County, and Kane County. We can only put them in the unincorporated areas because we had the county police pretty much taken care of.
Crook County
3 | Coming Clean
We'd rent a house, a single family home, and we'd get in there, gut it to an extent, put about six bedrooms in there, small rooms with little peepholes. They had a peephole in the door and a peephole in the walls. Not everyone could be peeped, but if we could peep them, we peeped them. The living room would stay as a living room. The kitchen would stay as a kitchen.
Crook County
3 | Coming Clean
We had a front area where they came in, a little foyer area there, where we would take their ID, look them up in the card catalog that we had. We actually gave them a fucking ID. Can you believe that shit? Match the ID with the picture, the picture with the face, and then we'd let them in. Now, how did they become members? They would come in. I want to be a member of this club.
Crook County
3 | Coming Clean
There's a million people out there that want to join whorehouses. Guys are horny bastards, okay? The people that frequent whorehouses know where whorehouses are. You don't have to advertise this shit. They just know where they are. They would come in and want to join the club. So we would put them through a process. We would make sure we'd check their employment, check their ID.
Crook County
3 | Coming Clean
We even had something with county. with the county vice guys, where we would have them run something by them. I don't know what it was, I can't remember. But we would run something with them, and then after we got him checked out, I didn't do the checkout process, that wasn't my job, so I can't really expound too much on this.
Crook County
3 | Coming Clean
So anyway, they became members through a process that we put them through, pictures and verification. Basically, we wanted to make sure they weren't vice, the honest vice, we wanted to make sure they weren't the honest vice.
Crook County
3 | Coming Clean
A guy would come in. Bring them in, introduce them. The girls would be sitting there. The girls would stand up. I'd introduce them to all the girls by name. Jane, Marilyn, Cindy. We did have drinks. It wasn't a bar, but they would go, you want a drink? They'd go back in the kitchen. They'd make the guy a drink. Mostly just beer, beer and wine. And then they would sit and talk to the girls.
Crook County
3 | Coming Clean
And it could go on anywhere from 10 minutes to two hours. Some guys just came in there and just partied with the girls. Sat and partied with them. We didn't mind. They were members. Plus, when somebody else came in, it made that person rush a little bit because there was someone else in there. That guy that's already in there was going to take the girl that this new guy came in.
Crook County
3 | Coming Clean
You know what I'm saying? So they'd maybe kick it up a little bit. They'd make their choice a little bit faster. So I'd come in, chat it up with the girls, decide who they like. The girl would take them back to one of the rooms, and they would negotiate a deal. So much for whatever sex they wanted. They'd seal the deal. The girl would leave the guy in the room.
Crook County
3 | Coming Clean
The girl would come out, come see me, and say, $100 for blow job and missionary sex. She would hand me 50, half the take, and then she would be on her way. That was the end of the operation. That was how it worked. Very simple.
Crook County
3 | Coming Clean
Oh, yeah, they got out of control. People would come in drunk or all coked out. But they got their asses beat bad. We would make a phone call, and there would be four muscle showing up within 15 minutes, and it was just... You know, they'd be... When we got them to their cars, we'd put them in their cars, and they'd be hanging half in, half out, and just...
Crook County
3 | Coming Clean
The county stopped by and they knew it was a whorehouse there. But we wanted to keep them on property. We'd get them out on the street in their cars. Yeah, they didn't last long. They got beat pretty bad. They got beat really bad.
Crook County
3 | Coming Clean
Just drunk assholes, yeah. Are these members? No, yeah, yeah. These are members, yeah. These are members or a guest of a member. or a guest of a member. A member could bring in one guest, all right? And, you know, alcohol and drugs turns people weird, man. People go stupid sometimes. I mean, 90% of the time it was fine, but that 10%, there was, you know, something would go wrong.
Crook County
3 | Coming Clean
That's just law of average, man. Something's bound to go wrong eventually. But we jumped on that quick.
Crook County
3 | Coming Clean
I hang out. I had friends. You know, some friends that I'd hang out with. Do normal guy stuff, you know. Watch football on Sundays. I was just a normal guy. Just a normal young guy. That's all. Go to bars with my friends. You know, pick up chicks.
Crook County
3 | Coming Clean
Met her at a club called SOP, some other place in Des Plaines, I think it is. Saw her sitting at the end of the bar. Beautiful redhead. Sexy. I fell in love with her pretty quick. So I just walked up to her. Just as a matter of course of time, we just ended up dating.
Crook County
3 | Coming Clean
I think I was 19 when I met her. She was 20. Yeah, listen, I had to work to get your mother, damn it. It wasn't easy. She wasn't like one of the whores. I could just say, hey, come on, let's go. I had to work for that. I had to work for your mom. That was a job. That was a job. That was a job, man. It was worth it, though. It was well worth it.
Crook County
3 | Coming Clean
We would have to take bus every once in a while just so Crook County cops could show that they're making some progress here. When half the motherfuckers were running their own horse on the side out of our fucking clubs.
Crook County
3 | Coming Clean
Listen, there are girls in and out of there for years and years and years and years and years, all right? Go in there, crack a deal with the client, come back to us, pay us our fucking portion, go to work, get out quick, and wait for the next guy. These girls were pure, pure business, and they made a ton of fucking money. This is my son, Kyle, Justin and Jesse. Bro. Hey.
Crook County
3 | Coming Clean
How are you? Hello. Gus. Kyle, good to meet you, buddy. Jesse. Very nice to meet you. What's going on, brother? Justin lives with me. Jesse's the... House manager.
Crook County
3 | Coming Clean
We know everybody's out of here. Five o'clock and then go, well, you know what? No, you can leave. Go.
Crook County
3 | Coming Clean
But that's okay, listen. Doesn't cost me a dime. This is marked with my pain in the ass.
Crook County
3 | Coming Clean
I'm going to ask you guys to leave while we do this interview because he needs quiet. I'm going to do comfortable yoga.
Crook County
3 | Coming Clean
Right at the very moment, I am the manager of a sober living area where we have four apartments that we have clients in that are far enough in their recovery, at least 60 days of recovery, but they live under my direction in these apartments here. Being a drug addict myself who has been sober for six years, I am working with those people.
Crook County
3 | Coming Clean
And we can hold up to six girls and 10 guys, all in separate apartments. And I run that, I'm in charge of that. I babysit, that's basically what I do, I babysit. I drug test, I breathalyze, I make sure they're on track, I make sure they're looking for work, I make sure there's not too much idle time with them. What my job is is to get them ready to go back out in the world
Crook County
3 | Coming Clean
that is what I chose to do. We are very, very sick people, and I am a firm believer in AA. It saved my life. While on the other hand, drugs ruined my life. It ruined everything. Ruined my family, ruined my homes, ruined my businesses, ruined everything. Because I was a raging addict, a raging heroin addict, believe it or not, at my age. So I came out here to California with my son.
Crook County
3 | Coming Clean
My son got me into treatment six years ago. I had a couple relapses, but they got me sober. And now, like I said, I've been sober for six years, and now I work with these people. And that is what I do now to... To thank God for not letting me be dead. Or something else would happen to my family. So that's my give back. That's what I do. I'm gonna help the people that need to help the most.
Crook County
3 | Coming Clean
Anybody that listened, guys, you guys got family members. that are drug addicts, alcoholics. There's someone in your family somewhere, a grandparent, an uncle, an aunt that's genetic and carries down that gene. Maybe your kids, maybe some of you kids listening to this. Go get help. You cannot control this. You cannot. It is the sniper, it is the devil.
Crook County
3 | Coming Clean
It lays in wait for you and it will take you out at your weakest moment. Go get help. It saved my fucking life. It saved my life, that's for sure.
Crook County
3 | Coming Clean
No. Are you kidding me? No one knows anything. Oh my God, they have their thing. You know, they know I'm from Chicago. They know I've got a little bit of an accent. They hear it in my, they hear wordies that I say, stuff that I say. I think they snicker behind my back that I'm a gangster, you know, from Chicago. But they don't know anything. I don't tell them any stories. I do not share.
Crook County
3 | Coming Clean
We do a thing in treatment, in AA, that's called sharing. We share our life story. you know, what got us into treatment. But I've never shared. That's the one thing I haven't done with AA is share because it's not something I really choose to share.
Crook County
6 | Fire In The Sky
Honey, Honey was my girl, you guys. Honey was the best, man. We just hit it off. I can't explain it.
Crook County
6 | Fire In The Sky
Just one of those people you could sit down and talk with and just have a conversation for hours without even having to think about what you're going to talk about, or you could just sit there and talk about nothing and feel just as comfortable, just as safe, just as peaceful as having a great conversation.
Crook County
6 | Fire In The Sky
She was just one of those people who I felt really, really comfortable with, and she felt very, very comfortable with me.
Crook County
6 | Fire In The Sky
We would date. I dated her. In fact, I'll be honest with you, I think I fell in love with her. I really do. I think I fell in love with that girl. I asked him what she looked like.
Crook County
6 | Fire In The Sky
yeah kind of short i don't know maybe five four little baby doll cuts you know short bangs you know down the sides of the cheeks back of the cheeks and then cropped up on the neck you know just i don't know what they call them baby dolls i used to call them baby doll cuts she wore red lipstick drove me insane red lipstick drives me insane She wore it all the time.
Crook County
6 | Fire In The Sky
And she had those sparkling, beautiful eyes. So you could swim in them. I could just dive. Go swimming in her eyes. And that smile, man, it got me every fucking time.
Crook County
6 | Fire In The Sky
She would, and I would come to work, you know, stressed out because I was in school a lot. And, you know, I knew I had to work a late shift and, you know, I was tired, but I'd walk in the door and she would be waiting for me, man. She was always so loyal and there. She would just, I'd see that big smile on her and it just, you know, just, everything went away. All the bad stuff went away.
Crook County
6 | Fire In The Sky
I was seeing Honey when I was dating your mother, Kyle. We weren't married, but we were dating, and we would, for quite a period there, just like all people when they first start dating, maybe not all people, but in our particular case, we would break up for a time, and then get back together, break up for a time, get back together. And for a couple years there, your mother and I broke up.
Crook County
6 | Fire In The Sky
And that's when I did a lot of this... mobster work. We did a lot of it when I was broken up with her.
Crook County
6 | Fire In The Sky
If we got married when we were engaged at 19 and 20, I would have been divorced at 22. But the relationship kept coming back, back and forth. It was like we would break up and he would see people and I would see people and we would be like in a bar at the same time. He was somebody and I was somebody. But it kept going on for eight years.
Crook County
6 | Fire In The Sky
She was one of a kind. I don't think I met anybody ever like her. Even your mother, who I got along with. I loved your mother. I still love your mom. But it was just, it was a difference. It was different. I think because we were both doing that stupid work. She was a whore. I was running a whorehouse. You know, I think we had that little thing in common.
Crook County
6 | Fire In The Sky
She was a soulmate, you know, almost like a soulmate, like a companion. We both escaped together, us together. Yeah, I was her escape and she was my escape. Absolutely, yeah.
Crook County
6 | Fire In The Sky
There was a couple attempts to take over the clubs. There was a Russian group of Russians, maybe Ukrainians, maybe Georgians, I don't know, Eastern European, and they were coming in to take over the clubs. Not just the club I was working, but the clubs in that whole area there. And, dude, I don't know what was going on here. I really don't. They just appeared.
Crook County
6 | Fire In The Sky
And, yeah, it was a fucking gun battle that broke out. I mean, I remember... I remember yanking my piece and coming right out of, right over the top of my desk and just unloading, just unloading on the mouth, the guy that was talking, doing all the talking. I just filled him up full of lead. His whole face was loaded up. And I don't think the guys were expecting that.
Crook County
6 | Fire In The Sky
So they pulled their pieces, but they left. They turned around and ran. They didn't stay. And I don't know why. They could have had me, because I only had a couple shots left. And then I had to make a phone call. We had to get him out of there. So some people came and wrapped him up in clear plastic. I don't know why clear plastic, but they used clear plastic for him.
Crook County
6 | Fire In The Sky
Cleaned up the mess and took him wherever they took him. Buried him in some foundation somewhere, because we had construction companies that we would pay to... uh, put our bodies into, um, foundations that they were working on. Nothing, no, um, no residential stuff, but all commercial stuff. And they were on the payroll. They only got paid. You know, it'd be a, it'd be a midnight pour.
Crook County
6 | Fire In The Sky
You know, they put the lights up and bring a truck out and midnight pour. They'd be pouring concrete at two o'clock in the morning and we'd be dropping bodies. So, yeah, I mean, everything was prearranged. You guys, you guys got to realize this is a business, man. It's a business. And a lot of people had their fingers in the pie. All right.
Crook County
6 | Fire In The Sky
so-called legit people and so-called not legit people, all right? Everybody had their fingers in the pie. Everybody was getting a piece, all right? And that's what kept the peace, because everybody was getting a piece.
Crook County
6 | Fire In The Sky
There was up-evil in the outfit at that time. The cubs were being taken over by different factions. The drugs, there was a big turf war for drugs. There was a lot of up-evil at that particular time.
Crook County
6 | Fire In The Sky
Eventually, Paul started taking a liking to Honey. And there wasn't a whole hell of a lot I could do, man. But, you know, she was a pro, so she did what she was supposed to do. He was hitting on her, physically abusing her. And, you know, we talked about it, but there was nothing I could do. And there was nothing she could do. He was, you know, he's a made guy. He was a boss.
Crook County
6 | Fire In The Sky
But he was out of line doing that. You're not supposed to do that in our business. You're not supposed to do stuff like that. So he was fucking up, made guy or not. He was fucking up, man. And eventually it was going to catch up to him.
Crook County
6 | Fire In The Sky
Then one day, Honey disappeared. She just disappeared off the map. She was there one day and gone the next. And I fucking knew that fucking fat greaseball bastard had something to do with it. I didn't give a fuck at that time. I was angry. I took care of that fat bastard myself.
Crook County
6 | Fire In The Sky
So not only working and running whorehouses, I'm doing occasional hits on the side. All right, ordered hits. And we met a new boss. Big fat Paulie. He always gave me my assignment.
Crook County
6 | Fire In The Sky
I had some heat on me for a while. But nothing ever happened with that. Nothing ever happened with that. They weren't worried about me at that time. There was a lot of changes going on. So I was able to backdoor out, and I knew that. So I backdoored out of that shift. Perfect timing for me.
Crook County
6 | Fire In The Sky
I don't know what happened to her. I miss her. You know? She was quite a girl, man.
Crook County
6 | Fire In The Sky
Tony Splatro came in, and I recognized him. I know who he was. In the movie Casino, Joe Pesci played him, just so he got an idea of who the guy is.
Crook County
6 | Fire In The Sky
I never talked to him before, and I never introduced him before, but I know who he was. He was a legend, basically. An asshole, but a legend.
Crook County
6 | Fire In The Sky
So he came in and wanted to take over the clubs. He was going to take over the clubs. He stuck a gun right in my fucking head. He says, I'm taking over these clubs. And I says, okay. These are your clubs, because I was just going to end up working for him anyway. I didn't care who ran the clubs.
Crook County
6 | Fire In The Sky
Just let me finish my job so I can finish school, get a job, and I don't care who I work for at that point.
Crook County
6 | Fire In The Sky
They found him and him and his brother, they found him in Indiana. All baseball battered up, buried in a shallow grave in Indiana.
Crook County
6 | Fire In The Sky
for better timing to get out of the outfit than what happened there with all the chaos that was going on. You know, I was already in for eight, nine years by then. So I knew that was my cue and I took it. And I was gone. I was gone.
Crook County
6 | Fire In The Sky
Just when I think I'm getting away from this shit, I'm covering up dirty fucking cops who are out there murdering fucking people. In a million fucking years did I ever think that was gonna happen. I mean, who even thinks of shit like that?
Crook County
6 | Fire In The Sky
There was up evil in the outfit at that time. The cubs were being taken over by different factions. The drugs, there was a big turf war for drugs. There was a lot of up evil at that particular time. So I was able to backdoor my shit out at that time.
Crook County
6 | Fire In The Sky
It's just like, it's all the fire trucks, the police, and everybody converging in on this. I'm like, man, that'd be a cool job, dude.
Crook County
6 | Fire In The Sky
So I just did a little bit of research, and back then, research, you had to go to a library, you know. So I did a little research, and I knew I did not want to be in the outfit my whole life. I just knew I didn't want to do that, even though I was a natural. But I just simply didn't want to do it.
Crook County
6 | Fire In The Sky
But I always knew, and this is kind of bizarre, but I always knew that the less I knew, the better chance I had of surviving. Now, we flip that coin. I'm doing hits, all right? You know, that's knowing too much. So I'm in the mode of, you know, don't get nosy, don't ask questions, do your job and go home.
Crook County
6 | Fire In The Sky
However, I guess the people that are attracted to that business and are in their business are not, there's no paper trail. And back then it was strictly paper. There's no computers, all right, strictly paper. And if you didn't have a paper trail, you didn't exist. These people were living, they were tangible, they ate, they breathed, they did bad things, but they didn't exist.
Crook County
6 | Fire In The Sky
Everything was done with cash. Like I said, you could walk into a goddamn car dealer in 1979 and buy a fucking Coupe Deville for $12,000 cash, because that's all they wanted was cash. And no one's asking any fucking questions. I don't give a fuck who this guy is. Here's your application. I mean, whatever you're filling out there, use whatever fucking name you want.
Crook County
6 | Fire In The Sky
I got that cash in my hand, baby. That shit's packed right there. So it's a cash world. No one's asking questions. Now that, you could never do that now. That's impossible. You just, you can't, you can't live like that now. And you can't get away with the stuff that we got away with now. It would be impossible.
Crook County
6 | Fire In The Sky
Yeah, the reason I was, the reason I remember that plane crash so much is because that's when I decided I wanted to be a paramedic firefighter. I didn't, you know, I figured that's my career now, I'm going to do this. Because I don't want to do what I'm doing. Everybody that worked in that business, that was their career. In their minds, that's what they were going to do forever.
Crook County
6 | Fire In The Sky
And I knew that that's just not going to happen. It just can't happen.
Crook County
6 | Fire In The Sky
I was young. I still had a chance to get out. And he just kind of liked me, and he knew that would not be a good life for me. So he kind of encouraged me on the side to just, you know, go ahead, get your education, all right? So he was like a mentor. Yeah, he was like a mentor. Like a weird fucking fucked-up mentor.
Crook County
6 | Fire In The Sky
Yeah, yeah, I mean, he was like, you know, I mean, I looked at him like a dad, you know?
Crook County
6 | Fire In The Sky
I start studying to be an EMT paramedic, all right? I get my EMT, I can take the fire department test. Anyway, so I go through that period. I am working in the outfit, and I'm studying to be an EMT because I want to get out of fire department. I want a career. I want to get out of this business.
Crook County
6 | Fire In The Sky
So I remember working the front door of the whorehouses and studying my EMT book while I was working the front door of the whorehouses. I distinctly remember that. They thought I was nuts. You know, what the fuck you want to do that for? Let's go out and party. You know, I just told them, listen, I got more important shit to do, okay? More important to me. So, and I think they respected that.
Crook County
6 | Fire In The Sky
So I think I impressed the bosses too. You know, cause I wasn't just, I wasn't doing what everybody was doing. I was trying to move on.
Crook County
2 | The Ties That Bind Us
The neighborhood was so new that none of the landscaping had been planted yet, so the entire yard was mud.
Crook County
2 | The Ties That Bind Us
It's right here. I'll relax, will ya? I have it in motion, forever in motion, all right? No more stills, baby. This is the 90s.
Crook County
2 | The Ties That Bind Us
I got recruited into the mob when I was 17 years old. Meet Kenny the Kid Tequila. I became a trusted member. I ran whorehouses and I did hits.
Crook County
2 | The Ties That Bind Us
I wanted him to know I meant fucking business here. So I beat him. Put the gun back up to his forehead. And three of my boys come in. He lived a secret double life for over 20 years. I had a wife and I had two children. Nobody knew anything. I didn't want anybody to know. I was kind of embarrassed and I wanted to keep them as far away from it as possible. I wanted them to have a good life.
Crook County
2 | The Ties That Bind Us
Listen, there are girls in and out of there for years and years and years and years and years, all right? Go in there, crack a deal with the client, go to work, get out quick, and wait for the next guy. These girls were pure, pure business, and they made a ton of fucking money.
Crook County
2 | The Ties That Bind Us
So my goal was to be a good provider, all right? So my kids had every opportunity in the world that I didn't have, and my wife could be a wife, to be a stay-at-home mom, to raise the family, okay? That was my goal, all right? I didn't want anybody to know. I was kind of embarrassed, and I wanted to keep them as far away from it as possible. I wanted them to have a good life, you know?
Crook County
2 | The Ties That Bind Us
Ladies and gentlemen, here is my son, Kyle. I want you boys to stand back and my wonderful family stand back. Let me look at your faces. My beautiful wife. My two beautiful boys. And look it. See all that candy and stuff there? That's their first load. We got part two coming up. I want you to think about this. You know what I got for Easter?
Crook County
2 | The Ties That Bind Us
My whole life was one basket with socks and underwear in it. That's all I ever got. Look at my kids. Happy Easter, you guys.
Crook County
1 | Give Me Your F**kin Money
Um... I just don't want to glorify this, because there's nothing, there's no glory here. I mean, I try to forget these stories, and I've been trying to forget these stories for years and years and years. My goal wasn't to run whorehouses and fucking kill people. I was doing what I had to do. to have a normal life and raise a normal family. Okay, that's all I was doing. I didn't have an education.
Crook County
1 | Give Me Your F**kin Money
I didn't have the opportunity for an education. I didn't go to college. I barely got out of fucking high school. You know, I just, survival mode, that's all. Just really that simple. And I survived.
Crook County
1 | Give Me Your F**kin Money
I got recruited into the mob when I was 17 years old. And completely unbeknownst to me, it was the last thing on my mind. And my parents got divorced. You know, I'm not going to go into the fucking woe is me. You know, I had a rough childhood bullshit. But I got tossed out. My parents got divorced. I wasn't happy about it. I got tossed out of my house at gunpoint by my mother. Go figure.
Crook County
1 | Give Me Your F**kin Money
So, I mean, that'll give you an idea of what kind of family, you know, I grew up in. God rest their souls, okay? All right? I love my mother dearly. And I love my father dearly, who's dead. But, you know, they just did the best...
Crook County
1 | Give Me Your F**kin Money
they could with what they had and the culture that they grew up in okay so i get tossed out 16 years old i'm living in the back seat of my 68 camaro for about three or four months I need money, all right?
Crook County
1 | Give Me Your F**kin Money
I know this fucking clown that's dealing dope, dealing fucking Mexican dirt weed, because back then it was, I don't know, the shit they got now is insane, but it was just straight Mexican dirt weed back then, and he was, I think he had Placidils and Quaaludes. So Placidils, Quaalude, cash, and Mexican fucking dirt weed. So I knew he hung out at the fucking Kmart. So I watched him for a while.
Crook County
1 | Give Me Your F**kin Money
I kind of figured out his pattern, you know? And I don't know why that it just made sense to me to just kind of sit back, scope him for a while. So when I hit him, it would be the best time or the best situation. Anyway, came up on him and robbed his fucking ass. I had a fucking pencil and came up kind of from the side. I was came because kind of walked on bottom on an angle.
Crook County
1 | Give Me Your F**kin Money
I was on the left side and came close enough where I didn't seem to be where it wasn't threatening, but close enough where I could pivot. and put the pencil in his back. He had a jacket on, so I used the rubber, you know, the eraser part. And believe it or not, if you stick that thing in there hard enough, you know, just have somebody do that to you when you're not expecting it.
Crook County
1 | Give Me Your F**kin Money
And, you know, being told that, I need your cash and I need your dope and I need it right now, all right? And I got a fucking knife stuck in your back. Reach into your pockets with your left hand and hand me back that shit. So I get the dope, I get the money. Push him forward, tell him not to fucking turn around, and we're on our way.
Crook County
1 | Give Me Your F**kin Money
He goes off in a sprint, I go off, do a round, and come back to my car. I never really saw him, except for two days later, when I did see him. But I saw him with someone else. And two other guys off in the background. So these two come up on me, and I'm sitting down, and I'm thinking to myself, ah, fuck, here we go. And I'm completely unprepared, completely.
Crook County
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Came up on me, and the bigger guy goes, the older guy goes, is that him? And the kid goes, yeah, that's him. That's the guy that robbed me, Uncle . He ran a fucking crew. He's a mob dude, all right? You know, we're talking syndicate here. Outfit guy, all right? So he tells me, he goes, are you looking for a job? I go, yeah, I'm looking for a job. I'm fucking starving here.
Crook County
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That's how I got into the fucking outfit. That's how I got in. He was impressed.
Crook County
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About 9 p.m. at night, I'm in an apartment complex in a neighborhood that I really don't know very well. And I'm listening to my song, the song that I always play before I do something sketchy like this, and that's Sympathy for the Devil.
Crook County
1 | Give Me Your F**kin Money
I don't know what it does. It's just part of my routine. I sit in my car and I do what I always do. I breathe. I make myself aware. I heighten my senses, my sight, my smell, my hearing. I don't know how I do it, but I do it. As I'm listening to the music, I feel my senses start to kick in. As they kick in, the moment arises. The moment always hits me.
Crook County
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Yeah, of course I had a family. Yeah, I had a wife and I had two children. And I wanted to keep them as far away from it as possible. I wanted them... to have every advantage in the world that I didn't have. So they had every opportunity to have a good life, you know, raise their own families. I wanted to be a good provider. I loved my family. I still do, you know, very much.
Crook County
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I mean, nobody knew anything. I didn't want anybody to know. I was kind of embarrassed. My wife, you know, she was purposefully bliss. You know, money was coming in and she had, you know, she was secure and she was raising her kids and, you know, she had a nice suburban life, you know. So, like all the wives of people that were involved in the outfit, they were, you know, blind by choice, okay.
Crook County
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I don't know how it hits me, but I know when I'm ready for the moment. Out of my car. Walk up to the apartment complex. Ring the buzzer. This asshole comes at a buzzer, announces his name. I said, this is Ken. I'm coming up for the coke. He says, fine, come on up. Buzzer hits. I walk up the stairs. I reach my right hand behind my belt on my back. Knock on the door with my left hand.
Crook County
1 | Give Me Your F**kin Money
I want to say his name, dude, but I can't. Will you edit his name out of here? Let's kick ass. Back it up to the bathroom. He didn't move fast enough, and I wanted him to know I meant fucking business here. So I beat him. I hit him twice, right cheek, left cheek. Backed off, put the gun back up to his forehead. Backed him up into the bathroom. Got to the bathroom. Get on your knees, .
Crook County
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He wouldn't have gotten on his knees fast enough, so I dropped him with my left foot. I got him right behind his right knee. That dropped him to his knees. Pushed him down towards the toilet. grabbed the cuffs that were in my left rear pocket and cuffed him right behind the base of the toilet. There he sat.
Crook County
1 | Give Me Your F**kin Money
I can't remember exactly what I said to him, but I was dead serious what I said, but I really can't remember. Anyway, I waited like I was asked to do. Knock at the door comes and three of my boys come in. Showed them to the bathroom. I backed out because it wasn't my hit. It was just my setup. It wasn't my hit. Went back into the living room, sat and waited.
Crook County
1 | Give Me Your F**kin Money
Heard some commotion, a muffled gunshot. I know that's the end of the story. The boys walk out. Where's the dope, Ken? Ransacked his bedroom, found the dope. Got about three or four ounces of what was called at the time... Yeah, it was pink cocaine. What the hell did they call it back then? Peruvian, I don't know. Anyway, it was coke. All right, because that's what everybody was doing back then.
Crook County
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Uncuffed them, brought them to the living room, started tearing up the carpet inside the living room, wrapped them up in there, and left them until tomorrow. What normally happens is, or what was already set up was, not by me, but it was already set up to have a carpeting company come in the next day, put in a new carpet, take him out, put in new carpeting, lay it, and then me leave.
Crook County
1 | Give Me Your F**kin Money
Spent the night, waited for the carpeting people in the morning. They arrived about nine o'clock. They took him out, wrapped up in the carpet, brought up a whole new carpeting and padding, laid that down. I left the door unlocked and I left. That was the end of him. That's it. Story's over.
Crook County
1 | Give Me Your F**kin Money
Just when I think I'm getting out of this shit, I'm right fucking back in it. It's the devil. It's following me wherever the fuck I go. I can't shake this son of a bitch. He won't fucking leave me alone.
Crook County
1 | Give Me Your F**kin Money
You're not going to put my voice on that thing, are you? Yeah. You're going to tell the story?
Crook County
1 | Give Me Your F**kin Money
I'm very confused on this, Kyle, and I'm just going to talk, okay? I'm just going to talk. I really kind of don't understand.
Crook County
1 | Give Me Your F**kin Money
This is... A story, well, a story, it's not a story. This is my story. Basically, the experiences I've had, most of them not by choice, that just ended up like I never thought I would end it. I'm surprised I'm sitting here. Technically, I shouldn't be sitting here. Historically, people don't make it. They just simply don't make it.
Crook County
1 | Give Me Your F**kin Money
But I think I was low level enough and I didn't want to make it a career. I didn't do the things that the other people did, trying to move up in the outfit, trying to get their own crews, trying to make more money. I did fly under the radar, and I really didn't want to know what the hell was going on, where I became a trusted member. We're not gonna worry about Kenny. Kenny does his job.
Crook County
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He keeps his fucking mouth shut. He doesn't steal any money. He doesn't do fucking drugs while he's working. He's not running whores on the side, our whores on the side. He does what he's supposed to do and he goes home.
Crook County
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Cook County and the Chicago area, okay? Chicago is actually in Cook County, and we worked in the unincorporated areas. Because the unincorporated areas are, you know, we owned, you know, we owned the judges, we owned the fucking cops, you know, we owned them, you know, so we can work freely, all right? And what did you do? I was a low-level. I ran whorehouses and I did hits.
Crook County
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I was just a low-level guy. And my crew, the money that we made on our crew, worked its way up the ladder to the big bosses. You're in the fucking trenches, man. This is low level in the streets, in the dirt, in your face, the backbone of the fucking outfit. That's where the money came from. It came from us and we pushed it up. All right. We're not the fucking
Crook County
1 | Give Me Your F**kin Money
sitting back while his troops were in the fucking trenches fighting it out fucking hand-to-hand, knife-to-knife, all right? We are the guys in the fucking trenches hand-to-hand, knife-to-knife, all right? That's where we are. That's how far down the ladder we were, all right? Fucking clipping people and running fucking whores.
Crook County
5 | Bully
While Danny was working, he had someone come in and rob the place. So, of course, Dan's going to put up his arms, take the money, and leave. Danny had to go, and Kenny was asked to step in. Got him in the car and drove him to one of the chop shops, dropped him off there, and whatever I did with him from there, I don't know.
Crook County
5 | Bully
Well, how do you think I could have done half the shit I did if I didn't have all that martial arts training?
Crook County
5 | Bully
Talk to mom about that. I had years of martial arts training. Years of martial arts training. I was a beast.
Crook County
5 | Bully
It was Kung Fu, it wasn't hard-form kata bullshit. Almost like a dance-like movement.
Crook County
5 | Bully
You would do a form for an hour, hour and a half. That's all you would do is a form. A form is just movement. So constant movement for an hour and a half.
Crook County
5 | Bully
I sit in my car and I do what I always do. I breathe. I make myself aware. I heighten my senses, my sight, my smell, my hearing. I don't know how I do it, but I do it. As I'm listening to the music, I feel my senses start to kick in. As they kick in, the moment arises. The moment always hits me. I don't know how it hits me, but I know when I'm ready for the moment.
Crook County
5 | Bully
But, you know, it taught you, you know, all the points, all the points that... Can maim, kill, temporarily put somebody out of business. I always had that advantage. I had no fear at all. And that really got me through a lot.
Crook County
5 | Bully
He was fucking up, made guy or not. He was fucking up, man. And eventually it was going to catch up to him. but I took care of it myself.
Crook County
5 | Bully
I could be a pretty nasty person. Anyway, I was recruited into doing some hits, okay? So there's another part of that. So not only working and running whorehouses, I'm doing occasional hits on the site, all right? Ordered hits. Our own people that went rogue.
Crook County
5 | Bully
So what these guys would do, these guys are the guys that would fuck up. They'd steal. They'd rat. They were just bad seeds, or they were overly aggressive, or they became dangerous. They became rogue, meaning they lost control of what they were doing. They just started getting violent and, you know, could start bringing the heat down on this particular group. outfit that I worked for.
Crook County
5 | Bully
So we wanted to keep the heat away. So if somebody became rogue, somebody needed to do something about these people. My job was to be the heat, be the heat for my particular outfit. You know, I got a reputation, though, after a while where, you know, if they knew I was coming, they were running.
Crook County
5 | Bully
Whether it was a hit, whether it was a beating, just depend on what the punishment was. Now, I never decided what the punishment was. I was always given the punishment on a little piece of paper by a guy named ******. He always gave me my assignment. Big, fat ******.
Crook County
5 | Bully
I would get a phone call, get on the phone, meet me, and I knew exactly where to meet him. And I'd meet him in the parking lot. One of the houses were there, one of the whore houses were there. I'd meet him in that parking lot. I'd walk up to his big fucking Cadillac, and he'd roll down his window, hand me a little piece of paper, and he'd drive away.
Crook County
5 | Bully
And on the piece of paper was where the person was going to be, the type of car he drove, and license plates. And all that did was made me do more work, but it kept them even... kept them more, it kept them further away from the hit.
Crook County
5 | Bully
So, because now I had to do all the leg work, so I'd have to go look for the car, look for the license plate, wait for the person to get in there, scope them, watch them, okay, that's who I gotta hit, I gotta hit that guy right there, based on the license plate and the car description.
Crook County
5 | Bully
Okay, so now I got a description of the guy I have to hit, and then I would do my due diligence for about two weeks, follow him around, get a pattern, And then after I figured out how I was gonna do it, and I always did it one way, I would do it. That's all there was to it. It didn't happen a lot, but it happened, people. It happened enough where I can, where it really bothers me.
Crook County
5 | Bully
It really bothers me a lot. I don't like to talk about this. I don't wanna talk about that shit, man. First of all, I'm trying desperately to forget all this stuff. A therapist is probably going to tell me, no, you need to spit it out and then deal with it. Well, I think I've already dealt with it, but I'm still trying to bury it because it's not a pleasant thought.
Crook County
Meet Ken
How does a guy working for a fire department go out and snuff out a fucking mobster in front of 300 people and go home the next morning and feel good about himself? Well, you got to understand this, people, all you civilians out there. These people are evil garbage. The world is a better place without them.
Crook County
Meet Ken
You have no idea what these people have done and will continue to fucking do, not unless their lives are snatched from them. So, did I feel bad? No. Not one fucking bit. It was just a normal fucking kill. That's all. Because I really believe I did the world a favor. I don't know what else to fucking tell you. And if you can't live with that, grow the fuck up.
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