"Tell Alycia, welcome to the criminal enterprise. She doesn't want to cover us; she wants to be one of us," says Ruth Ann Seccio, former mistress of mob-boss-turned-rat Ralph Natale. In fact, Seccio thinks more highly of Lane since she was arrested last month for allegedly slugging a female New York City police officer.

Some live in wheelchairs. Others spend their days and nights bedridden with old combat wounds from World War II Korea or Vietnam. And then there are those who suffer from disabling diseases that make unassisted living an impossibility.