The way Ali Joseph sees it, the chronically broke Eddie York was the richest man on earth.
Who else but a rich man would turn down money?
Back in the 1970s and ’80s, Mr. York lived in a small apartment across Lagrange Street from the Angry Sea, the Summit Street bar Mr. Joseph owned that eventually changed its name to Mugshots, a recently condemned building. Mr. Joseph would see Mr. York almost every morning when he opened the bar…