Genson is also preparing for the federal indictment of his client after Blagojevich's jaw-dropping FBI arrest last week for allegedly trying to auction off Barack Obama's vacant Senate seat to the highest bidder.It appears that Ed Genson likes Carol Marin more than Robert Cooley.Genson said this of Cooley,“The man is a paragon of corruption. The man is
Genson doesn't talk to me anymore because of how I described him in an interview with Vanity Fair in February 2007.
The writer was superb reporter Maureen Orth, who was doing a profile of Lord Conrad Black, the robber baron who raped and pillaged the Chicago Sun-Times. Black is in prison now. Genson was one of Black's attorneys.
Orth asked me to describe Genson, and I recall giving a long description from which she selected this short sentence: "Many of Eddie's people [clients] are mobbed-up, crooked people."
Let me hasten to say I was quoted correctly. But Eddie called, wounded and angry that I had, in his view, damaged his reputation and miscast him as someone who defended mobsters when he had long ago moved on to more pinstriped, CEO types.
I apologized for causing him pain and meant it. But he hasn't forgiven me. We all care about how we are seen. And we all construct our own narratives.
Just because my favorite Genson clients include Jimmy "The Bomber" Catura (federal fraud, 1972) and Billy Dauber, feared mob enforcer, both of whom were later whacked by the Outfit, doesn't mean they are his favorites.
Just because on my top 10 list are the late Pat Marcy, 1st Ward powerbroker and mob court fixer; "Blind Louie" Cavallaro, juice loan collector and enforcer, and Jerry Scalise, Marlborough diamond jewel thief, doesn't mean they top his list.
walking slime.”No word yet on whether Ed Genson is happy with Robert Cooley's accusation that Rod Blagojevich used to be a bookmaker.
