The Rise and Fall of the Charlie Richardson Gang

Charlie and his brother were sentenced to 25 years in prison for basically running a torture house in the middle of London. Their incarceration brought about the end of the Richardson's and the London criminal underworld breathed a collective sigh of relief. When I was a kid, I had a couple of uncles who were middlemen for the mafia in New Jersey. They moved guns around, money, drugs, you name it. One of the uncles ended up getting murdered in one of the worst ways I'd ever heard. You see, he had this nasty disease in one of his kidneys that needed a whole lot of medication to keep a lid on it. The guys that got him in the end knew he