* In The Phantom Punch, Sneddon argues that pressure might have also come from the Kennedy family. Jack Kennedy famously backed Patterson over Liston when he was president, and during his tenure as attorney general Robert Kennedy prosecuted Frank Carbo and Blinky Palermo, Liston’s biggest mob backers. As Sneddon notes, Ted Kennedy, then in his first term in the Senate, might have felt freer to advance his brothers’ anti-Liston agenda once Peabody left office.