by jmack » Sun Mar 02, 2025 4:16 am
johnny_scootch wrote: ↑Sat Mar 01, 2025 8:44 pm
outfit guy wrote: ↑Sat Mar 01, 2025 7:33 pm
I haven't started (reading Ghost Shadow Peter Chin book - A+) but the book probably should have the Orena family as authors. Orena was petitioning capos and Gotti (murdered his best friend to appease Gotti). Orena had Jimmy Angelina murdered, I believe, as he leaked his plan.
That all might be true but this book gives different reasons for all those things you mentioned.
I like you Scootch, but there is no way. He could have presented this evidence at trial, but he didn’t. It’s easy to try to find an alternative theory 30 years after the fact. He was given the blueprint from when wild bill and crew beat the racketeering case (blame the fbi and scarpa defense). As outfitguy said, every rat who testified, and there were many, all said he started the war. He polled the captains and the other bosses to take over. He may not have fired the actual first shot, but he knew Carmine wasn’t going to just roll over and retire. It’s a bit disingenuous of his family to play revisionist history.
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I haven't started (reading Ghost Shadow Peter Chin book - A+) but the book probably should have the Orena family as authors. Orena was petitioning capos and Gotti (murdered his best friend to appease Gotti). Orena had Jimmy Angelina murdered, I believe, as he leaked his plan.
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That all might be true but this book gives different reasons for all those things you mentioned.
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I like you Scootch, but there is no way. He could have presented this evidence at trial, but he didn’t. It’s easy to try to find an alternative theory 30 years after the fact. He was given the blueprint from when wild bill and crew beat the racketeering case (blame the fbi and scarpa defense). As outfitguy said, every rat who testified, and there were many, all said he started the war. He polled the captains and the other bosses to take over. He may not have fired the actual first shot, but he knew Carmine wasn’t going to just roll over and retire. It’s a bit disingenuous of his family to play revisionist history.