Dominick Montiglio

[axx]

Was it Demeo's son who was selling (supposedly) Roy's stuff on ebay years ago?

[Pogo The Clown]

I'm from Arkansas and back in the 1980's a Little Rock newscaster made buddies with some New York Italian guy, a transplant from the big apple to the small stone, you might say. The NY guy was a good cook and even a better bullshitter. Eventually he got the newsman and some of his friends to invest in his opening an Italian restaurant in LR. The Italian guy soon disappeared with some of these peoples life savings. After a long investigation it turns out it was Dominic Montiglio under a different name in the Witsec. The Justice Dept. wouldn't help or tell them anything about Montiglio's whereabouts.

So, you boys are from Arkansas, huh? Well, I've been through there. Little Rock's a fine town.


Pogo

[Hired_Goonz]

Montoglio is full of crap about a lot of stuff to be sure. Murder Machine doesn't mention anything about him witnessing bodies being dismembered by Demeo's crew, but I saw him on a show once talking about how he went to the Gemini one time and the guys gave him "spaghetti and red sauce" to eat while they had bodies hanging upside down. He said it was some kind of test, to see if he was hardcore enough to sit there and eat as they dismembered a corpse. Gimme a fuckin break here, guy. Even just reading through the lines of Murder Machine you can see he's full of shit. Dominick runs away to California with no money, but Gaggi "makes up a lie" that Dominick actually stole a bunch of his shylock money he was supposed to collect. Really? Nino just made that up did he?

I also vaguely seem to remember some controversy over his service record. Didn't some Vietnam veterans group complain to Capeci over Montiglio's claims?

[TallGuy19]

Montoglio is full of crap about a lot of stuff to be sure. Murder Machine doesn't mention anything about him witnessing bodies being dismembered by Demeo's crew, but I saw him on a show once talking about how he went to the Gemini one time and the guys gave him "spaghetti and red sauce" to eat while they had bodies hanging upside down. He said it was some kind of test, to see if he was hardcore enough to sit there and eat as they dismembered a corpse. Gimme a fuckin break here, guy. Even just reading through the lines of Murder Machine you can see he's full of shit. Dominick runs away to California with no money, but Gaggi "makes up a lie" that Dominick actually stole a bunch of his shylock money he was supposed to collect. Really? Nino just made that up did he?

I also vaguely seem to remember some controversy over his service record. Didn't some Vietnam veterans group complain to Capeci over Montiglio's claims?

He claimed to be a Green Beret, and I guess someone (maybe Capeci) reached out to a group of former Green Berets who served in Vietnam and none of them had ever heard of him. Since he cooperated his service record is sealed and there's no way to prove or disprove his claims of serving in Special Forces, but they're a very small community and the fact that none of those SF veterans had heard of him is pretty telling.

[TallGuy19]

I've also found Montiglio's story about Vincent Governara being blown across the street and landing on top of a movie theater very suspect; a real hand grenade probably wouldn't have enough force to throw a grown man that far, and I think in one of his interviews he says that it was a percussion grenade, which definitely wouldn't have enough force to do it.

[Hired_Goonz]

Montoglio is full of crap about a lot of stuff to be sure. Murder Machine doesn't mention anything about him witnessing bodies being dismembered by Demeo's crew, but I saw him on a show once talking about how he went to the Gemini one time and the guys gave him "spaghetti and red sauce" to eat while they had bodies hanging upside down. He said it was some kind of test, to see if he was hardcore enough to sit there and eat as they dismembered a corpse. Gimme a fuckin break here, guy. Even just reading through the lines of Murder Machine you can see he's full of shit. Dominick runs away to California with no money, but Gaggi "makes up a lie" that Dominick actually stole a bunch of his shylock money he was supposed to collect. Really? Nino just made that up did he?

I also vaguely seem to remember some controversy over his service record. Didn't some Vietnam veterans group complain to Capeci over Montiglio's claims?

He claimed to be a Green Beret, and I guess someone (maybe Capeci) reached out to a group of former Green Berets who served in Vietnam and none of them had ever heard of him. Since he cooperated his service record is sealed and there's no way to prove or disprove his claims of serving in Special Forces, but they're a very small community and the fact that none of those SF veterans had heard of him is pretty telling.

Thanks, I guess I was remembering it a little backwards. I thought that I recalled that some veteran's group was kind of pissed at Capeci for just printing Montiglio's claims but I guess I'm mixing it up with someone else.

I haven't read Murder Machine in quite a while but I seem to remember he presented his supposed service in Vietnam like something from a movie. Body parts of little kids being blown everywhere, "Uncle Ben" watching his back, complete with a Vietnam flashback years later when he drops acid. I think that anything Montiglio says about anything should be taken with a whole truckload of salt.