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December 04, 2006

What, me worry? Milton as Alfred E. Neuman

What, me worry? Milton as Alfred E. Neuman

THIS FRONT PAGE HEADLINE in last Thursday's Philadelphia Inquirer must have driven Milton Street nuts. After all, the way the elder Street brother sees it, Milton Street is the bigger name. Without Milton Street's very public confrontations with legal authorities at Temple University 35 years ago, his younger brother John would never have had a reason to go to law school, let alone run for public office. The rest, as they say, is history. And if the feds have anything to do with it, so is Milton Street, who faces a possible 80-something years in prison if convicted of all the tax fraud and related charges brought against him last week by the U.S. Attorney's office.


However in the photo beneath the headline, the mayor's older brother seems to be having the last laugh. Inquirer photographer Clem Murray made this picture outside Milton Street's home in Moorestown, N.J. on the day of the indictmens were announced. So why is this man smiling? Well, maybe it's because Milton Street, the prototypical North Philadelphia community activist, sidewalk food vendor, candidate for public office and all around city hustler, now lives in a predominantly white Jersey suburb complete with lawn jockey -- a white lawn jockey -- seen just above his hand on the right.

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