
Sammy and Dino Episode 3: Nothing But a Dollar Sign
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Jerry Fordin and the Chicago Boys
In march 19 52, he and dean hosted a telethon to raise money for the new york cardiac hospital. They raised over a million dollars in just over 16 hours. The paper did not mention what jerry bragged about years later, that some of the biggest donors were the chicago mob family. By that point, boss charlie fachetti was deceased. Nine days after agreeing to testify to the senator cafalver's committee investigation on organized crime, he dropped dead of a heart attack.
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