As Thomas Hoey, Jr., the formerly wealthy, self-proclaimed “Banana King,” sits in his prison cell serving lengthy sentences for beating up his mistress and for what the New York Post describes as “his callous attempt to cover up a wild coke orgy in a Manhattan hotel room that ended with one woman dead of an overdose,” and as he awaits sentencing for his subsequent conviction for stealing from the employee pension fund of his bankrupt, wholesale banana company, I suppose… [read post]