Ellen’s near panic produced an involuntary stutter as she attempted to declare her innocence. “But I didn’t…I had no idea….”
Christine leaned forward and placed her right hand gently on Ellen’s left shoulder in a gesture of support. “I know you are not involved in this Ellen.”
Ellen melted into her seat as her muscles relaxed with Christine’s words.
“I’m going to need your cooperation, Ellen.”
Ellen’s muscles began to tense again as she realized what cooperation would entail. The train rolled at varying speeds for the next fifty minutes through Queens and Nassau counties before terminating in the eastern Nassau County town of Massapequa. During the trip Christine explained to Ellen that the FBI was arresting thirty-five people in the New York City area, and that the Las Vegas Brothers
