"I trusted this woman"
My ass. Me thinks she doth protest too much.
I find it slightly shocking that Charlie hasn't bothered to get Alfie to mention Diana Brooks' name for the first 7 minutes.
"I wrote this for my grandkids" Hmmm...I agree. Why would you write the book that explains why grandpa colluded. Grandpa should not have colluded.
But he did.
"I've always presented goods to the customer in the way that was easiest for them to buy."
Shockingly, that seems to be about right.
Alfie saw that he could turn a retail business into a retail business...and he admits it.
And yet, it seems, oh wait, totally plausible that he would then collude with the only other player in the business, in order to make those retail prices a little higher.
MMMMM....more money for Alfie.
Yup. He did it.
Alfred Taubman: "They took a person's life way from them...they might as well shoot them."
Do you really want that?
Charlie is much better at handling Alfred at 84 or so, than the Beastie Boys. Charlie actually did really well with Alfie.