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To make the big money, you’ve got to underperform.
It was 1981 when I heard that paradoxical pearl of wisdom as a young deputy U.S. marshal in the Witness Protection Program. It came from our celebrated protectee, Henry Hill, the New York mobster immortalized a decade later by Ray Liotta’s star turn in Martin Scorsese’s Goodfellas — cinema’s truest portrait of the Mafia’s insouciant savagery. Hill was in New York to sing for prosecutors about the Boston College basketball point-shaving scandal.
About the Author
Andrew C. McCarthy is a senior fellow at National Review Institute, an NR contributing editor, and author of Ball of Collusion: The Plot to Rig an Election and Destroy a Presidency.
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To make the big money, you’ve got to underperform.
It was 1981 when I heard that paradoxical pearl of wisdom as a young deputy U.S. marshal in the Witness Protection Program. It came from our celebrated protectee, Henry Hill, the New York mobster immortalized a decade later by Ray Liotta’s star turn in Martin Scorsese’s Goodfellas — cinema’s truest portrait of the Mafia’s insouciant savagery. Hill was in New York to sing for prosecutors about the Boston College basketball point-shaving scandal.
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About the Author
Andrew C. McCarthy is a senior fellow at National Review Institute, an NR contributing editor, and author of Ball of Collusion: The Plot to Rig an Election and Destroy a Presidency.
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