Hi, Phil. Mildly surprised. Had a few good contacts with MIT AI, but this was 1984-1988, which I'm guessing was before your time there.
I did pick up on the $50 bribe bit. By my calculations, after a few years on the job, the dry cop's bribes would have let him buy at least one or two taverns of his own.
And now I'm 93, and long retired. How about you? What have you been doing?