Well, same thing happened with Carmine Persico. Not to open a can of worms, but I think even Fred DeChristophers testified for the government that Carmine Persico voted against the Carmine Galante case, and that Carmine Persico told this to DeChristophers while Persico was lamming it at his house.SonnyBlackstein wrote: ↑Mon May 25, 2020 8:14 pm Thanks for the update ms. Very interesting mafia subject currently doing the rounds, appreciated.
Personally I think Frankie Loc should be released. Because he didn’t outwardly condemn the DiBono hit he CONDONE’S it??? Ridiculous logic.
Silence = guilt now?
Bullshit.
The fact that the Commission voted against him, and the fact that Persico - as a member of the Commission - went along with the Commission's ruling by default made him guilty of Galante's murder by the same logic that makes Frank LoCascio guilty of the DiBono hit.
It's a very risky subject we're dealing with because, at the same time, there have been plenty of cases that seem to establish that just because a boss is a boss, doesn't mean he is guilty of every hit under his command. Alphonse Persico and John DeRoss were found guilty of the Cutolo murder, but not guilty of the Campanella attempted murder. The jury reasoned that even though the evidence showed that Persico and DeRoss may have indeed sanctioned Campanella's murder, the attempted murder itself was DeMartino's idea and DeMartino's plot. They were found not guilty on that count. The distinction seems to lie in whether or not Persico and DeRoss directly caused Campanella's attempted shooting. If they hadn't sanctioned it, would DeMartino go through with it anyways?
Similar verdict happened with Thomas Gioeli. I think the jury saw that Gioeli was indeed the street boss of the Colombo family (and therefore convicted him of racketeering conspiracy), and the evidence overwhelmingly proved that the star witnesses on the stand - Dino Calabro, Joe Competiello and Sebby Saracino - all worked for Gioeli during the time they committed multiple murders. But, the jury didn't believe that Gioeli was guilty of the actual murders himself, apart from the murders that he directly oversaw and planned, like the Frank Marasa hit and the John Minerva hit.
Ralph Dols? That wasn't Gioeli's hit, according to the jury. Gioeli himself did not personally order the hit, and did not personally carry it out.
William Cutolo? Same thing.
Michael Burnside? Same thing.
In some cases, like Cutolo's murder, Gioeli was actually there. On the scene. For the killing. But the hit was ordered by Allie Persico and committed by, depending on who you believe, Dino Calabro or Dino Saracino. So even though Gioeli was the middleman, he didn't necessarily "order" the hit, according to the jury.
I guess there isn't really a legal standard for what is under a mob boss' jurisdiction. Naturally, you can't attribute every murder in a gang to its leader. That would be a pretty fast-and-loose way to use the law. It's hard to link a random Bloods murder in the Bronx to the leader of the gang in LA, or wherever they're based. But at the same time, it's pretty well-established that LCN bosses have to "sanction" hits within their family. And whether "sanctioning" a hit is legal or not is apparently still up for debate in the court of law, since juries have delivered mixed verdicts while relying on similar evidence.
