Posted on 03/13/2015 8:38:38 PM PDT by Impala64ssa
It’s one of Rockland’s worst kept secrets. GOP and Preserve Airmont candidate for mayor Philip Gigante is the grandson of the late Vincent “The Chin” Gigante, longtime godfather of the Genovese crime family and arguably the most powerful gangster of the late 20th and early 21st centuries. The Chin Gigante was best known for an intricate act he put on to appear insane, so clever that he was able to fool court-appointed psychiatrists, and for walking around in bathrobes and talking to himself around Greenwich Village. The act earned him the monicker “The Oddfather.” He also gained fame for a failed plot to kill John Gotti.
More to the point of whether this family association should matter to his grandson’s political prospects, “The Chin” went about setting up his kin in legitimate businesses and union leadership, especially in the freight industry and the longshoremen’s union. Airmont’s Phil Gigante is the president of a freight business he has run with his father Salvatore, the son of The Chin. The Oddfather did not induct his children into the other “family” business, La Cosa Nostra, however, one of his sons did serve two years in prison as a result of a federal investigation.
At last weekend’s mayoral debate sponsored by the Rockland County Times, which Gigante ducked, mayoral opponent Ralph Bracco suggested that Gigante is actually a puppet of local County Legislator Joseph Meyers. Why a wealthy kinsmen of a mafia godfather would desire to be the puppet of a local politician was not explained via Bracco’s theory.
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I’m pretty well over these dirtballs.
I would like to hear Rudy’s take on this.
Mafia > democrats
He might be a great mayor. Don’t judge him by his grandfather— and if thye town has lots of Mafia maybe he will be a good representative—they never poop in their own back yard—watch as this town becomes the safest place in the east. Problems will just vanish (into a lake).
You can be certain he will run as a Donkey so the multiple and dead voters will support him. The mob will ensure a landslide win.
You’re right.
I hope he wins.
I lived near a mob-owned restaurant in Buffalo and I’d be lying if I said it wasn’t the safest street I’ve ever lived on. The homeowner that rented to us hinted that “you’re never gonna have a problem here” and it was true. People left their cars unlocked, the streets and sidewalks were always plowed early and all the neighborhood kiddies played in the street without fear. Everyone left their cars running in the morning during winter to heat-up and none were ever stolen. One time, two mopes from out of town rolled one of their drivers and they ended up floating in the river. The “zone” extended a few blocks (most of them drove unassuming cars so nobody wanted to find out that they stole the wrong car or broke the wrong window if ya know what I mean) but in the summer, our street was like a scene from the 50’s but with cars from the 80’s.
Now we have dis-organized crime ...
His real name was Gigante.
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