Would Vice President Cheney help a mobster in need? Fuggedaboutit.
On last night's episode of the HBO series, Corrado Soprano Jr. (aka Uncle Junior) writes an impassioned plea to the Republican Veep, wondering if he could help free him from incarceration.
Uncle Junior got into some trouble last season for shooting his nephew, mob boss Tony Soprano. He was thrown into a mental institution, where he runs a poker game and buys off the orderlies.
The aged gangster has his younger pal take dictation for his letter to Cheney, in which he asks for clemency and notes Cheney's own problems with accidental shootings.
Junior gets a form letter back later in the episode, and suggests that perhaps a letter addressed to Cheney via Halliburton would yield him a better result.
-- Christina Bellantoni, Capitol Hill correspondent, The Washington Times