Page 16 - A Bank Robbery

Home, I grabbed a bottle of Tanqueray from the freezer and knocked on the door across the hall.
Joseph R. Manganello and I drank gin and tonics as we watched the robbery unfold on television. Later, we called out for Chinese food from Hunan 79.
We learned of the complexity of the event, the strange personalities involved, and more about that someone named John Wojtowicz, who was apparently the “mastermind” of the heist.
We heard that the Chase Manhattan bank robbery on the corner of East Third Street and Avenue P in Gravesend, Brooklyn was to fund a sex-change operation for Wojtowicz’s wife, Ernest Aron.
According to a later report by CBS, Naturile’s share was to finance his two sisters’ removal from foster care and separation from their mother, who—they reported—drank heavily, was abusive, and had neglected the three of them for years.