The Nine Lives of ‘Fat Cat’

The Nine Lives of ‘Fat Cat’ Van­i­ty Fair, April 1991 One of New York’s most ruth­less drug war­lords, Loren­zo “Fat Cat” Nichols even called the shots from behind bars—ordering hits on a child­hood bud­dy and the moth­er of his son. But a mur­der he didn’t com­mit final­ly destroyed his empire. Then the Cat turned canary. FREDRIC DANNEN […]