You know it, Joe Ricci was no idiot, he knew how far he could take it. After that brilliant maneuver that he pulled on Mary Leahy and the State of Illinois, man it was beautiful, a masterpiece of a con. Those state people actually thought they were going to win, lol, they had no clue how or why the tables turned like they did. What was to have been a slam dunk by the State of Illinois turned into the biggest embarrassment for Leahy and her team.
It makes me laugh when I think about it, Joe out there telling the Portland newspapers that he was thinking about taking Leahy and the State of Illinois to court for libel and slander. I tell you Joe knew what he was doing; he pushed that con thru like a pro. Well that’s what he was in hindsight a professional confidence man.
Joe was just posturing when he said that he was gonna get a lawsuit against Leahy, it was a bluff. He would never have done it cause then it would have really opened up Elan to some scrutiny, Scrutiny that Joe felt he couldn't control. He had some things going on in Elan that he did not want to have come out. Lets just say some incidents that had happened, might have been a little too much for him to handle, in the scrutiny of the whole Elan deal. He knew when to bluff and when to push and parry. He was the most masterful confidence man I ever knew.
Yeah if Joe had lost that case, it would have been the end of Elan ,and shoot we would have more than likely all gone to prison. Yeah Joe Ricci had balls, sure he was also a sick mother fucker, though he told us that it was gonna work out and that it was going to work out to the point that we would be making money doing nothing except having fun doing what we liked doing , which was working those bratty kids, and state kids over like as I said to Kenny Rustle when he picked me up , in ways Hollywood couldn't even begin to imagine. Joe Ricci was a freakin visionary, hell he had some convinced that he was a god. No Shit I'm not kidding. He was that good.
Joe told us that if this thing of his worked against the State of Illinois that nobody would ever be able to touch us ever and that we would be able to make some major bank doing the most fun stuff in the world. He was right, that posturing at the end of the trial where he said he was thinking about suing Leahy and the state, was just the most brilliant and beautiful thing .He had such confidence in his scam ,that he knew when he said this to the papers that no state would ever come unannounced and no state would ever think of challenging him. Beautiful I tell you just freaking beautiful.
Honestly I wish I could have seen Leahy's face when her world imploded. It a wonder she didn't go mental. She had the goods just not the kids, lol, Joe had them and really truly it was not about saving kids it was always about making bank. Money ,money ,money .
Yes sir Joe new when to cut his losses. I remember one time Lloyd Nulan, he had split, and man we had fun with him before he split, We made him wear a diaper, stacked his bed on a dining room table, we fucked up his stuff sideways to sundown , this was quite entertaining . Anyway Lloyd had split after he got off his shotdown and one day I'm in the office , The phone rings and the secretary answered it , she said to Joe there is a Lloyd Nulan on the phone and man he was lighting quick , he told the secretary to hand him the phone in a voice loud enough so that Lloyd knew Joe was there and then ,as quick he was given the phone he grinned and he simply just hung it up. Lol, and we never heard from Lloyd Nulan ever again.
Yeah Joe knew when to cut his losses. That con of his, man it protected us for almost 40 years until some of the residents, were rudely woken up from their brainwashing by that Skakel fiasco. Yeah that was a fiasco if there ever was fiasco. It opened up former residents’ minds and then they started talking to the press and started talking to these internet boards. It was wild to watch. It was actually funny to watch cause no body, the press or law or anyone took what they were saying seriously. Yeah it was amazing to read the stuff that the former residents wrote.
Hell we had to scale back in the early 2000's the way we did things and that sucked it made it boring as all hell.
Terry finally was convinced by that lawyer to shut it down, we didn't want law or any investigators nosing around, shit, that resident that got beat to death man , yeah it was time to go.
You know what though, the statue of limitations protects my fat ass. And you kids will never touch me or any of us directors because we fucken got away with it because Joe pulled off that one con that was freaking genius. It made us rich, by doing nothing at all except directing children to abuse the living shit out of each other, man it was fun.
Now it is time for me to shake my fat ass as I dance to Hammer's "you can't touch this”
