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State GOP Leader Arrested For Asking Crime Boss To "Rough Up" Someone
huffingtonpost.com — A legislative leader was arrested Friday on charges that he tried to have a businessman at the center of a federal racketeering probe arrange to rough up someone the senator believed was abusing a relative.
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- Xuvious, on 10/11/2007, -4/+8Don't ya love the neo-cons?
They use real mafia...along with the IRS, CIA, NSA mafia...to do their dirty business.
-Brewskie- Aeaus, on 10/11/2007, -3/+4To compensate, "fair and balanced" news stations will launch a smear attack on anybody not a neo-con, oh wait, heh, that's been going on for a while.
- robbh66, on 10/11/2007, -6/+6Don't ya love imbeciles who associate all republicans with neo-cons?
- KMye, on 10/11/2007, -3/+6Not only is he imbecilicly equating state republican with neocon, but does his comment make any sense? This story is about a republican using good old fashioned organized crime connections, not any alphabet soup agency. Even further, if you were going to harangue a party for, at least historically, having mafia ties, it wouldn't be the republicans...
- nixonrichard, on 10/11/2007, -0/+7Okay, I know a lot of people jump to conclusions based on the title, but if you read the article it's not a politician getting a mobster to do his dirty work. This is an old guy who wanted a mobster to rough up his daughter's abusive husband.
The feds investigated him, tried to get him to take a bribe -- he refused. They tried to get him to fabricate a story about his activities -- he refused. This is a long way from another Abscam.
It's not right to encourage assault, but if your best friend or sister or daughter were being abused by some dick, what would you like to have happen to the guy? - screamthenrun, on 10/11/2007, -1/+3Robbh66 is actually right
proof here: http://www.usdoj.gov/usao/ct/usattorney.html
Kevin O'Connor, the US attorney in this case was appointed by Bush and works under your very very favorite Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales..
I guess we shouldnt make assumptions/generalities about any parties the GOP or the Dems
[To be frank, if the guy's story that there was an abusive relationship is true-- then i don't blame him; but im not gonna make any assumptions, so lets see what the courts say.] - mutatron, on 10/11/2007, -3/+1> Don't ya love imbeciles who associate all republicans with neo-cons?
Get used to it. Republicans have been associating all non-republicans with left wing wackos for at least 25 years now. I expect it will be at least 25 years before the Republican Party rids itself of the stench of this White House. - KMye, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2"Republicans have been associating all non-republicans with left wing wackos for at least 25 years now."
Yet another sweeping generalization about 120 million or so people in the country, in the same thread. When are people going to realize this rampant partisanship is the intellectually-cheapest form of political involvement? /rhetorical question
- downwiththenwo, on 10/11/2007, -8/+5Dude the government is the mafia. That's all government is is organized crime. That's why it's important to keep it small and restrict it and never turn your back on it. Oh by the way guess who's daddy is a real mob boss in New York. I'll give you a hint he's running for president. Yeah you guessed it right if you guessed Rudolph Giuliani.
- galacticdoom, on 10/11/2007, -3/+5proof of that is where?
I'm don't mean to disagree, I'd just like to read a source about that- sounds interesting. - Forcough, on 10/11/2007, -1/+7From wiki:
Giuliani was born in Brooklyn, New York to working-class parents Harold Angel Giuliani and Helen C. D'Avanzo, both children of Italian immigrants. The family was Roman Catholic and its extended members included police officers, firefighters, and criminals.[11] Harold Giuliani had trouble holding a job and had been convicted of felony assault and robbery and served time in Sing Sing prison;[12] after his release he served as a mafia enforcer for his brother-in-law Leo D'Avanzo, who ran an organized criminal loan sharking and gambling operation out of a restaurant in Brooklyn.
- galacticdoom, on 10/11/2007, -3/+5proof of that is where?
- feelmydisease, on 10/11/2007, -2/+4typical, the guy does not want to get his own hands dirty even when someone is abusing his relatives. outsourcing vengeance can't be that satisfying.
- nixonrichard, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3The guy was old enough to be in a nursing home! How the hell could he deal with abusive relatives on his own?! BTW, asking someone to attack someone else IS getting your hands dirty . . . which is why he was charged with a crime.
Do you get pissed off at infants who don't do their own taxes too?
- nixonrichard, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3The guy was old enough to be in a nursing home! How the hell could he deal with abusive relatives on his own?! BTW, asking someone to attack someone else IS getting your hands dirty . . . which is why he was charged with a crime.
- hydratedsquash, on 10/11/2007, -1/+2Ay, Vinnie, I want you to beat his kneecaps in with the senate gavel!
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