It's curious how young George Singal got his start in life financed by the efforts of his mother, Mollie, who, it can be argued, was something of a drug dealer herself (albeit a legal one). She ran a little store on Bangor's Hancock Street which derived a significant source of income from selling "canned heat" -- brand name Sterno, a hideous pink cocktail of wax dissolved in grain alcohol -- to the alcoholic old ex-lumbermen who lived in the neighborhood.

Sounds like he'll be facing a tougher sentence than Chad. How come? And why is it he will be held without bail while awaiting sentencing, when Chad is still walking the streets while waiting for July 29 to roll around? Don't get me wrong, they both need jail time for their decisions; however treat them the same way........why can one be allowed to live home when the other one sits in jail, while they wait?

Its about time this dirtbag got caught, almost 30yrs in buisness, with him an his kids sellin drugs, collectin social security bennies, driving new trucks his g/f new cars, new sleds, new boats, the man has/had everything, now poor Della has no friends!!!! she should b charged as well she sold it when he was off sledding, boating!!! now will their house b up on the market!! their new Vehicles?

Now watch out Jesse & Lisa Taylor your NEXT

I think that comparing bootleg liquor sales in the 1950s to the smuggling and sale of hundreds of pounds of marijuana today is ridiculous- almost as far-fetched as suggesting that had anything to do with Judge Singal's decision. Rubbish!

Not really rubbish at all, AlexMark. Mollie Singal knew full well what those rummies were buying this poison for and it certainly wasn't to fuel a little camp stove. Even if it was "good" alcohol, it would have still been worse for the health of its purchasers than a little grass. I'm fully aware that the judge is obliged to follow the laws as they exist but any sane intelligent person in this country including the Yale-trained judge must know that the hemp laws are based on hysteria and the self-serving manipulations of truly evil corporate industrial interests. I don't really expect the judge to throw over his career to serve a more noble interest but it is worth noting the irony of this and other similar decisions of his (which ruin the lives of real people) and his own humble beginnings as a beneficiary of a modest but sleazy commercial operation in his own family which was parasitic on poor and broken-down old people.