by chin_gigante » Wed Jul 14, 2021 9:43 am
Yeah, the extra 10 was to run consecutive to the 20 (but the extra 10 was a series of concurrent 10 year sentences for each additional murder). After looking into it more in depth, the way Anastasia portrays it in The Last Gangster is very oversimplified and potentially misleading, which is confusing because he covered it all at the time.
I don't know whether the rest of the Newark crew knew about the sexual assault. It was reported on at the time in the papers and he got out in 1985. Caprio was a friend of Casale's father so I'm assuming he must have known through the grapevine. It was also widely written about again when he flipped, so I assume everyone must have known about it. It was a really savage attack as well, and it messed up the victim's whole life (she was partially paralysed and ended up drug and alcohol dependent and in a series of abusive relationships). Then Natale had the gall to call Casale a "great guy" in his book
Yeah, the extra 10 was to run consecutive to the 20 (but the extra 10 was a series of concurrent 10 year sentences for each additional murder). After looking into it more in depth, the way Anastasia portrays it in The Last Gangster is very oversimplified and potentially misleading, which is confusing because he covered it all at the time.
I don't know whether the rest of the Newark crew knew about the sexual assault. It was reported on at the time in the papers and he got out in 1985. Caprio was a friend of Casale's father so I'm assuming he must have known through the grapevine. It was also widely written about again when he flipped, so I assume everyone must have known about it. It was a really savage attack as well, and it messed up the victim's whole life (she was partially paralysed and ended up drug and alcohol dependent and in a series of abusive relationships). Then Natale had the gall to call Casale a "great guy" in his book