I’ll have to ask around about the shady claim with Carroll. There are some pretty major league entrepreneurs around here that knew him well and I know them well enough to ask them about that. He donated a ton of money for various worthwhile endeavors in the area including a prolific auto tech teaching facility at the JC.

When Carroll’s wife perished in a car accident, Lee Iacocca sent his personal Gulfstream to pick her up and take her home for services and burial then back to pick up Iacocca and his family to bring them for the services and then Carroll back home. Iacocca was in Hawaii at the time so that meant a LOT of EXPEN$IVE flying. This would indicate that Iacocca didn’t think of him as a bum.