Denise Brown, campaigning against domestic violence in the wake of her sister's slaying, sees nothing wrong with the frightening past of an ex-Mafia leg-breaker she calls a "very good friend."
"All the power to him," she said of Anthony "Tony the Animal" Fiato, who she met in Boston for a three-day visit.
Fiato, a North End native, rose to become a feared enforcer in the Los Angeles Mob in the early 1980s.
