Hey guys, I'm going to tell you a story. I'm going to go backwards a little bit in time.

I had an office, a construction office on Stilwell Avenue and Benson, I was Brooklyn.

I had a whole team of guys working with me. We were doing construction. I was working

with the unions with Paul Castellano and it was great.

My daughter, I think it was around her 16th birthday or after her 16th birthday or something

like that. She was young and she wanted to do something and go into business because I

talked about business. She knew I was in business. So I wanted to help her out, do something.

There was a store, two stores away from me, a bakery, they went out of business. I went

there and I rented the store. I talked to a guy I knew was a florist. He was very, very

talented, he's a very good guy and he worked for someone.

So when I talked to him, I offered him a position to go partners with my daughter in a florist.

He wouldn't just be a worker, he would be a partner, the two of them.

And he was super excited. He wanted to work in a works way.

So I took the store, I fixed it, made it into a full-blown florist, a lot of his input,

refrigerators and stuff like that.

So I wouldn't be a part of it. I would just basically be a store or two away. I could

keep an eye on my daughter. She would learn a trade as a florist when I'm kind of

was perfect. We had a grand opening, it was really, really good.

Right down the block there was a public school for young kids.

I helped them a few times. It came to me one time and told me that at night, kids were

hanging out in the school yard, smoking pot, drinking beer, leaving broken bottles and

the kids had to go play during the day. So if I could talk to them and so I went with

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