
Pauline Dakin’s Secret Childhood
Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World
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My Father's Mob Connection
When Pauline's mother went to work for her ex-husband, the mob saw it as a threat. The mafia is not actually a single entity, but a collection of interconnected syndicates or organized crime groups,. Sometimes there were shared interests among the groups; other imes they were in competition or even at war. There had been attempted kidnapping of me or ted or other family members intended as a way of getting to mam or stan and controlling them. Once, a list of businesses had been found hidden in the stuffing of a chair that had been custom made for the patterdale drive house in north vancouver before the divorce. Money laundering businesses with names and account numbers.
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Pauline Dakin's family moved a lot and her mom would only say she'd explain when Pauline was older. Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli look at the odd childhood Pauline experienced and the surprising reason Pauline's mother gave for why they kept moving around the country.
