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In the 1980s, if it somehow finds its way off a truck,

the five families of the New York Mafia will find a way to make

money on it. Well, here's what happens. There's hijackers. We weren't known as hijackers. Like,

we wouldn't go steal the trucks. But lower-level criminals would go probably hijack a truck.

That's Larry Monsa, a former associate of the Colombo crime family.

We're not going to get into all the colorful details of Larry's exploits.

It's probably enough to just tell you that his boss was nicknamed the Grim Reaper.

It could be anything from liquor to, you know, TVs.

And we had, you know, the back of the club looked like a crazy Eddie warehouse at times

with just, you know, stereos and things like that.

The club, Larry is referring to, is his boss's social hangout,

where wise guys convened to talk shop.

But during the 1983 holiday season, their inventory is awash in another kind of contraband.

Well, yeah, we knew the cap strats calls.

The walls of the Grim Reaper's office is stocked floor to ceiling with cabbage patch kids.

The smiling stuffed dolls with an adoption marketing gimmick that have become the most coveted gift of the year, maybe even the century.

We knew they were popular, and we didn't go steal them, like I said, but we had

somebody bring us a large truckload. I'm not talking about a tractor trailer truckload

of these cabbage patch dolls, and we probably sold them in less than a week, thousands of

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