December 1972, just as the Watergate burglars trial gets underway, Bob Woodward writes a puff piece on Joe Nesline, the DC mob boss who ran with Heidi Rikan and pimp/porn parlor and brothel manager Walter “Buster” Riggin. Carl Bernstein was a frequent visitor to Buster Riggin’s porn parlor. According to an account from DC Vice cop Carl …
December 1972, just as the Watergate burglars trial gets underway, Bob Woodward writes a puff piece on Joe Nesline, the DC mob boss who ran with Heidi Rikan and pimp/porn parlor and brothel manager Walter “Buster” Riggin. Carl Bernstein was a frequent visitor to Buster Riggin’s porn parlor. According to an account from DC Vice cop Carl Shoffler, the US attorney was building a case against Bernstein for bouncing checks to prostitutes, but was dissuaded after a threatening phone call by Katherine Graham, The WAPO lawyer Edward Bennett Williams law firm represented Nesline. Judge John Sirica was an old friend of Williams and had connections himself to Joe Nesline. In the 1930s Sirica was the mouthpiece for high level gangster Sam Beard, an associate of Nesline’s Foggy Bottom gang.
December 1972, just as the Watergate burglars trial gets underway, Bob Woodward writes a puff piece on Joe Nesline, the DC mob boss who ran with Heidi Rikan and pimp/porn parlor and brothel manager Walter “Buster” Riggin. Carl Bernstein was a frequent visitor to Buster Riggin’s porn parlor. According to an account from DC Vice cop Carl Shoffler, the US attorney was building a case against Bernstein for bouncing checks to prostitutes, but was dissuaded after a threatening phone call by Katherine Graham, The WAPO lawyer Edward Bennett Williams law firm represented Nesline. Judge John Sirica was an old friend of Williams and had connections himself to Joe Nesline. In the 1930s Sirica was the mouthpiece for high level gangster Sam Beard, an associate of Nesline’s Foggy Bottom gang.