And this isn't even unprecedented among wiseguys. When Joey Massino was lamming it in Pennsylvania he was caught stealing a bottle of aspirin from a drug store. A three dollar bottle of fucking aspirin! He gave his usual alias (Joe Russo) to the cops and they never put two and two together.
That's exactly it. Henry Hill used to say that Paul Vario would skip out on bills and steal things just because he loved getting over on people. It's not about the score, it's not about the money, it's about getting over on somebody
