The brother of convicted businessman James T. Weiss was secretly recorded insisting Weiss had been “partners” with the late mobster Frank “The German” Schweihs and that Weiss once turned to Schweihs for help with “some Russians” who had “busted up” his store.
“Jimmy and Frank were good friends,” Joseph Weiss said in that recorded conversation, according to federal prosecutors. “And some Russians were muscling Jimmy, but Frank was on the run. Frank was in hiding, and Jimmy called Frank and said, ‘Hey,’ ’cause they were partners. And Jimmy says, ‘Hey, man, these guys just busted up my f---ing store. Scared the f--- out of the girls, this and that, you know, I need your help, where the f--- are you?’ ”
