Ping.
This is not directly related to anyone mentioned in the article at all. But it does bring to mind a very special tyrant in a small city; he made many other lives miserable. The threat is gone, and many are thankful. He was one of many in many other places.
If I were his daughter and he’d dumped a name like “Minty Mellon” on me he would not have needed to wait until he was in a rehab facility to be dead.