Gangland:6/30/16

[HairyKnuckles]

Persico Appeal Raises Serious Questions About "Mafia Commission" Case's Validity

http://www.cosanostranews.com/2017/02/p ... .html#more

Thanks for posting Wiily.

"Persico's lawyers are attempting to get Persico re-sentenced by essentially arguing that:

Carmine Persico was not the boss of the Colombo crime family at the time alleged in the Commission Case indictment; Gregory Scarpa had named at least three other Colombo mobsters as boss of the Colombo crime family when the Commission Case crimes reportedly occurred."

- Something that stands out to me is this:

"Separately, in interviews with this blog [Cosa Nostra news], attorney Mat Mari noted that supporting this new motion are FBI 302s based on information provided by former Bonanno boss Joseph Massino, who flipped following his own conviction in a major murder and racketeering trial.

There was no Commission meeting to determine the fate of Carmine Galante, Massino told the FBI, which detailed his comments on 302s, the form used by FBI agents to report or summarize interviews with certain sources.

Known as Lilo, Galante was a former Bonanno capo slain by three gunmen in broad daylight in 1979.

In fact, the Galante murder was in-house Bonanno business, Massino told FBI agents.

Bonanno boss Philip (Rusty) Rastelli simply ordered the murder of Galante, Massino told the FBI."

- Not meaning to derail the thread, but this is exactly what I have been suspecting for years now. That Galante was killed simply due to a power struggle within the Bonannos.

JD, are these 302s (mentioned above) within your recent findings on the Bonannos? If so, is there more detailed information regarding the Galante murder?

And btw, Persico´s lawyers are right. He should not have been convicted in the Galante murder. He should have been convicted in any of the other dozen or so murders he ordered, but not in this one.

[B.]

I agree with all of that. Persico and Furnari were not Commission members at the time of the Galante murder, and there isn't concrete evidence (no pun intended... i.e. Concrete Club) that proves the Commission issued the Galante contract.

However, there is reason to believe that other families, at least the Gambinos, were aware of and condoned/supported the murder.

[Pogo The Clown]

However, there is reason to believe that other families, at least the Gambinos, were aware of and condoned/supported the murder.

Yeah didn't the Genovese family reach out to Joe Bonanno in Arizona to tell him the hit was going down and not try to make any play of his own? Also I could have sworn that the Colombos were approached and Persico was against killing Galante.


Pogo

[B.]

However, there is reason to believe that other families, at least the Gambinos, were aware of and condoned/supported the murder.

Yeah didn't the Genovese family reach out to Joe Bonanno in Arizona to tell him the hit was going down and not try to make any play of his own? Also I could have sworn that the Colombos were approached and Persico was against killing Galante.


Pogo

Persico's cousin-in-law DeChristopher testified that Persico claimed to have been against the Galante murder, but even if that's true I don't think he specifically said anything about being on the Commission or a boss at that time, only that he was against it. Of course he was a powerful leader believed to be pulling the strings behind DiBella, but as we know he wasn't the boss in 1979. It is an indication that maybe the Colombo leadership as a whole was against the murder, though.