Philly lawyer joins effort to restore Ali’s childhood home (The Associated Press)
Philadelphia lawyer George Bochetto said Monday that he has acquired a half interest in the small frame house in Louisville where the three-time heavyweight boxing champion grew up as a precocious boy named Cassius Clay. Bochetto becomes a partner with Jared Weiss of Las Vegas in the venture to restore the home to how it looked when Ali lived there decades ago. ”It’s a remarkable piece of history,” said Bochetto, a former Pennsylvania state boxing commissioner. Restoring the exterior and interior could cost hundreds of thousands of dollars, Bochetto said.