“I don’t believe he deserves the thousands of poems I’ve written about him, but life doesn’t follow rules. We do things for people who don’t necessarily deserve it. But we liked it, we loved it and fell in love enough to write about it.”

Dominic Riccitello is an American journalist and author. He is known for his investigative reporting on organized crime and his work as a contributing editor for *The New York Times* and *Vanity Fair*. His writing often exposes systemic corruption and power structures in American society.