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Gay's as good as dead, mob turncoat testifies
NY Daily News ^
| April 29, 2004
| ROBERT GEARTY and DAVE GOLDINER
Posted on 04/29/2004 6:33:46 AM PDT by presidio9
It's an unwritten rule of the mob - if you're gay, you die. A Mafia turncoat testified yesterday that he ordered the killing of a mob soldier because he heard the man had performed a sex act on another man.
"What's the rule in [the Mafia] about this?" federal prosecutor John Hillebrecht asked snitch Vincent (Vinnie Ocean) Palermo.
"You die," Palermo replied.
Palermo, a former DeCavalcante crime family boss, offered up his killer credentials as he testified at the racketeering trial of aging reputed Genovese mobster Federico (Fritzy) Giovanelli in Manhattan Federal Court.
The gay slay rule came up as Palermo recounted ordering the 1992 killing of DeCavalcante underboss John D'Amato, to which he pleaded guilty when he agreed to cooperate with the feds in 2000.
Palermo, 58, said he started becoming suspicious of D'Amato's sexuality after hearing "a lot of different rumors."
Using a slang term for oral sex, Palermo said he ordered the hit after another mobster told him that D'Amato's girlfriend said he once performed the sex act on a man at a "swinger's club."
"Is that a euphemism for sex?" asked Hillebrecht.
"Yes," the snitch replied.
Palermo also backed up prosecution claims that Giovanelli illegally tipped him off about his impending arrest in 1999.
Giovanelli, 73, allegedly gleaned information about the indictments of several mobsters from an unidentified mole inside a federal prosecutor's office.
Palermo admitted giving more than $1million to his children to avoid allowing the feds to seize it after his arrest.
"To Bill Gates it's not a lot of money," Palermo said. "To me, it is."
TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events; US: New York
KEYWORDS: badaping; finnochios; homosexualagenda; mafia
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posted on
04/29/2004 6:33:47 AM PDT
by
presidio9
To: EdReform; little jeremiah; Clemenza; Don Corleone
bada ping
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posted on
04/29/2004 6:34:37 AM PDT
by
presidio9
("By extending the reach of trade, we foster prosperity and the habits of liberty." -Adam Smith)
To: presidio9
There's a funny mob joke about nick-names and BJ's, but I can't post it for obvious reasons :-)
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posted on
04/29/2004 6:39:43 AM PDT
by
Condor51
("Diplomacy without arms is like music without instruments." -- Frederick the Great)
To: presidio9
After years of digging, the homoprobes found a business that actually does discriminate on the basis of "sexual preference."
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posted on
04/29/2004 6:40:55 AM PDT
by
aardvark1
(You can't have everything...where would you put it? --Steven Wright)
To: presidio9
Is going down for going down redundant?
To: presidio9
if you're gay, you dieThat strikes me as an over reaction.
To: presidio9
If you sleep with the swishes, you sleep with the fishes.
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posted on
04/29/2004 7:09:22 AM PDT
by
drjimmy
To: presidio9
Is this a hate crime?
To: drjimmy
I think you're on to something.
To: presidio9
La Cosa Nostra, last bastion of old-time morality.
10
posted on
04/29/2004 7:27:23 AM PDT
by
Cicero
(Marcus Tullius)
To: presidio9; Charles Henrickson
Queer Eye For The Wiseguy.
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posted on
04/29/2004 7:34:05 AM PDT
by
martin_fierro
("I actually threw away my medals - before I didn't" -- J Effin' K)
To: presidio9
In Canada, they'd not only be charged with a hate crime, but they'd have to marry the victim as well.
12
posted on
04/29/2004 7:37:49 AM PDT
by
Loyalist
(Kasper for Pope: Because things won't get better until they can't get any worse!)
To: presidio9
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Made men |
Made-up men |
13
posted on
04/29/2004 7:40:33 AM PDT
by
martin_fierro
("I actually threw away my medals - before I didn't" -- J Effin' K)
To: Condor51
I would love to have a transcript of that trial. The snitch's testimony sounds like a riot.
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posted on
04/29/2004 7:42:22 AM PDT
by
Middle Man
("Stop quoting the law; we have swords."~ Roman General Sulla)
To: presidio9
To: presidio9
Who's to say the mob doesn't have some redeeming qualities?
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posted on
04/29/2004 7:45:10 AM PDT
by
nmh
(Intelligent people recognize Intelligent Design (God).)
To: presidio9
To: presidio9
Wasn't there some reference in Godfather III to the Joey Zasa character (played by Joe Mantegna) being gay?
Just another reason why it was such a pi$$-poor movie.
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posted on
04/29/2004 7:46:52 AM PDT
by
martin_fierro
("I actually threw away my medals - before I didn't" -- J Effin' K)
To: theFIRMbss
Interesting movie. Bizarre family.
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posted on
04/29/2004 7:56:14 AM PDT
by
radiohead
(Over toning the opponent since 2003)
To: presidio9
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