No. 116: TOMMY KANE & BOB WHITE I / He threatened to take Conrad Black for his every last dime & then he'd come after me: the street agent and his protege, the murderer

When Bob White died, some remembered him as a champion of the underprivileged. Others cast him as a hustler. Some proteges became laudable citizens, but his most famous one went to prison for murder.

Bob White circa 1991

A COUPLE of months back I wrote about the boxing story that got me embroiled in but fortunately not scalded by two lawsuits in Ireland seeking £‎ 1-million. In the utter debacle, the editor at the Irish Independent failed to get back to me after I filed a story with either edits or payment, so not surprisingly he also failed to send my story to a libel lawyer—even though I mentioned right in the story the high litigious nature of Barney Eastwood, once the manager of featherweight champion Barry McGuigan. (Linked here for paid subscribers.)