Harry “Doc” Sagansky becomes an extortion victim.

Boston’s longtime top bookie, 89, and his friend Morris “Moe” Weinstein, 78, are threatened by Robert Carozza, Vincent “The Animal” Ferrara, and J.R. Russo in a meeting at Vanessa’s sandwich shop in the Prudential Center. After being told to pay the three men $500,000 or be killed, Sagansky responds by saying, “I don’t even buy green bananas,” but agrees to begin making payments. The three men are subsequently charged with his extortion, thanks to the fact that the meeting had been secretly recorded by the FBI. But when Sagansky refuses to testify against them, he receives a ten-month sentence on January 6, 1988, his 90th birthday, becoming the oldest organized crime figure to serve a federal prison sentence in the U.S.