Frank Sr.It’s “the most significant organized-crime investigation we have ever undertaken,” said Seattle Police Chief Gil Kerlikowske, a man who obviously never heard of Seattle’s payoff-and-tolerance-policy scandal. That was a murderous, decades-long arrangement among gangsters, cops and city officials to allow gambling and corruption to flourish until it came apart in the 1970s with confessions, indictments and housecleanings. The SPD was itself so corrupted by the organized payoff system — cops deciding whether or not to enforce criminal, gambling and liquor laws based on the amount of money that was placed in bags for them — that a new mayor had to bring in a series of outsiders to run the department.Convicted gangster Frank Colacurcio Sr. was involved in the action back then as he was yesterday as the subject of Kerlikowske’s comments. Local and federal officials have made careers out of chasing Colacurcio over the years, raiding his nudie joints Monday just as they have for half a century, seeking once again to put the now-90-year-old stripper king behind bars. He’s been around long enough to have witnessed the birth of television and have his own rise to infamy chronicled on Wikipedia. He’s been brutal — I witnessed him beating a man with a steel rod and then watched two well-paid-off cops haul the victim off to jail. And he’s been colorful — relishing his role as a poor man’s Mafioso and serial lecher (for a Seattle Weekly story, he posed by his pool eating tittycake).And he’s regularly been accused of pimping, something which, near as I can discern from yesterday’s press conference and ensuing news reports, he and son Frankie, also an ex-con, are once again accused of (but not charged with): taking money from prostituting strippers. This time it’s not merely prostitution, but “rampant” prostitution officials say. That was as big a revelation as when I first heard it in the 1970s and perhaps every year since as Frank revolved in and out of prison and the strip racket. Strippergate of course put Frank back in the spotlight, thumbing his nose at the cops and feds as he went about allegedly doling out payoffs again. Now he is the ailing prized target of another city administration and a new corps of federal prosecutors, trying to do what other prosecutions and prison terms couldn’t: stop Frank. But if there’s one consistent in the Frank Calicurcio saga, it’s that Frank stops when Frank, or his heart, stops Frank.