Richelieu on “George Fox”

Published March 11, 2008 5:57pm ET



Michael Walsh, one of your Cardinal’s Irish pals and author of a fun novel about NYC mob legend Owney Madden called And All the Saints, offers up some fun detail on the pseudonym “George Fox.” Client number 9 was not alone in using that moniker when slipping into hotels. Madden’s partner, George “Big Frenchy” DeMange also lived most of his life in New York hotels, and frequently used the alias “George Fox.” Madden, last of the great Irish mobsters, would later retire in Hot Springs, Arkansas, the boyhood stomping ground of former President Bill Clinton.

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