An avid reader called us here in the Hoboken, N.J., office of National Underwriter and said, "I live in Florida. Why is it that every questionable life insurance and annuity sales practice seems to start or take off here?"
Our Hoboken office happens to be a block from the Hudson River, where mobsters made many a soul sleep with the fishes. The city's youngest mayor ever was sworn into office July 1, 2009. He ran the city for 22 days before being arrested by the FBI in a corruption probe. He is now serving a 24-month sentence in a minimum security federal prison.
I went to journalism school near Chicago, where FBI stings are about as common as rummage sales, and I grew up in Kansas City, Mo., where the citizens take great pride in describing how Kansas City mobsters put the slots in Las Vegas.
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Allison Bell
Allison Bell, a senior reporter at ThinkAdvisor and BenefitsPRO, previously was an associate editor at National Underwriter Life & Health. She has a bachelor's degree in economics from Washington University in St. Louis and a master's degree in journalism from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University. She can be reached through X at @Think_Allison.
