By the time ThePostGame.com arrived on the scene, the bus was at the corner of Main and Meridian, right in the center of the city. 50 Cent also engaged with fans and signed a handful of autographs. “Every time it stopped, the traffic would immediately begin to back up because cars couldn’t get around,” said onlooker Gregg Kiesler, 23, from Indianapolis. “For the most part Mayweather stayed well inside, but a couple of times he leaned out and spoke with the fans. “It didn’t take long for the cars to be backed up in every direction and there were times when the roads were packed in every direction and no one could move.” At one point Mayweather, decked out in a bright red jacket bearing the slogan “Money Team,” moved to the front of the bus, clutching a huge wad of paper, leading some fans to hope he would repeat his stunt from 2010 in New York when he flung cash into a waiting crowd. “If he goes and does that (throws the money) then we would have to do something about it,” said a police officer, who declined to be named. “It could create a riot.

“Already we asked them to move over to the side or to move on at a sensible pace and they pretty much told us to (expletive).” It appears Mayweather’s slow drive through town was an attempt to capitalize on the increased exposure surrounding the Super Bowl to enhance interest in the Cotto fight. Although Cotto is a tough character and Mayweather will have to step up to 154 lbs, there remains a serious tinge of disappointment among boxing supporters that a superfight between Pretty Boy and Manny Pacquiao has still not been made. Mayweather has been outspoken in his criticism of Pacquiao, and the way in which the Filipino star allows promoter Bob Arum to have a heavy say in his selection of future opponents and the way Pacquiao avoids fighting Floyd.

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“Koz just got out on work release. Not to say I wish he was still here,” he said. “But they’re both great, smart guys.” Kozlowski, 65, is serving eight to 25 years for using the coffers of Tyco Inc. as a piggy bank. He’s infamous for splurging on a $6,000 shower curtain and a $2 million party in Sardinia with an ice sculpture of Michelangelo’s David urinating vodka. Ja Rule, 36, a married father of three, knows something about the luxe life, too. When he was arrested on a gun charge in 2007, the weapon was in a $250,000 Maybach. He’s sold 40 million records and gone platinum with nothing but a juggernaut voice and a talent for lyrics that resonate in neighborhoods like his own Hollis, Queens. Ja Rule dropped out of high school. Hevesi, who has a Ph.D. from Columbia, and Kozlowski, who graduated from Seton Hall University, urged him to pursue higher education. “I was studying for my GED and Koz came in and talked to me and said, if you need any help, let me know,” he said, two weeks after getting the degree. The ex-CEO told him to buy airline stock and study business. He starts taking college-level courses this month. His friendship with Hevesi, the former state controller who began serving one to four years in April for a “pay to play” corruption scheme, centers around politics. “Hevey’s a Democrat like me, so that helps,” Ja Rule said. “He told me how it’s like pulling teeth with the two parties trying to get bills passed.” Hevesi’s lawyer, Bradley Simon, confirmed his client gets along with the hip-hop star — and everyone else on the 23-man prison block. “Alan reads books most of the day, but I know they all watch television together at night,” Simon said. Hevesi, 72, isn’t the first power player Ja Rule has met in prison: At Hudson Correctional Facility he played cards and basketball with Hank Morris, the strategist who pocketed $18 million in the pension scandal that doomed Hevesi. “Hank was my Spades partner, and we were undefeated in basketball,” Ja Rule said. “Hank had a jumpshot, man.” Ja Rule, famous for feuds with other rappers, mused about the unlikely friendships he’s forged. “It’s funny,” he said. “We’re from totally different walks of life. But when you’re here, you’re here.”

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