I remember Joe Coffey saying that his father was a union official and and when he was a kid, they took a few shots at the family's apartment, and his mother called Mcgrath in Florida and the hit on his father was called off...
He said from that day on, he wanted to go after O.C.
I remember watching Joe Coffey on a TV show about the mob when he recited that story....And as you mentioned, that became the impetus for him later going in law enforcement...and going after the mob.
