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Rick Porrello

 
During the 1960s and ’70s, Danny Greene embarrassed the Cleveland mob by doing something that no other enemy of the syndicate had ever done: he survived.

Despite being shot at and bombed, Greene literally walked away from the scene of the crime. Whereas most people who survive assassination attempts might keep a low profile, Greene, an Irish-American wise guy, granted television interviews where he practically dared his Italian and Jewish rivals to come and get him.

Greene’s life as the bane of the Cleveland branch of La Cosa Nostra seems outlandish. It’s probably