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Maraya1969

(22,483 posts)
Tue Jan 2, 2018, 07:58 PM Jan 2018

Here is another mobster who was crazy in the head

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/19/obituaries/vincent-gigante-mafia-leader-who-feigned-insanity-dies-at-77.html

I am posting this just so we look at all sides of the issue.

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Vincent Gigante, who feigned mental illness for decades to camouflage his position as one of the nation's most influential and dangerous Mafia leaders, died today in federal prison in Springfield, Mo., officials told The Associated Press. He was 77.

Mr. Gigante died while serving a 12-year sentence imposed in 1997 after he was convicted of racketeering and conspiring to kill other mobsters. Officials at the prison medical center where he died did not provide the cause of death but noted that he suffered from heart disease.

Mr. Gigante, whose nickname was "Chin," painstakingly maintained the fiction that he was incompetent until April 2003, when he appeared before Judge I. Leo Glasser in Federal District Court in Brooklyn and pleaded guilty to obstruction of justice. Specifically, he acknowledged running a con on the legal system that delayed his racketeering trial from 1990 to 1997 while his sanity was being examined.

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Here is another mobster who was crazy in the head (Original Post) Maraya1969 Jan 2018 OP
Yeah, crazy like a Fox dhol82 Jan 2018 #1
I think the police surveillance caught him BigmanPigman Jan 2018 #4
Think he was also recorded shuffling into a building in Enoki33 Jan 2018 #5
he tried to murder Frank Costello, on orders of Vito Genevese CatWoman Jan 2018 #2
Another? The freaking origional! marble falls Jan 2018 #3

dhol82

(9,353 posts)
1. Yeah, crazy like a Fox
Tue Jan 2, 2018, 08:02 PM
Jan 2018

Remember seeing the pix of him wandering around in his bathrobe.
Nice con, for a while.

BigmanPigman

(51,610 posts)
4. I think the police surveillance caught him
Tue Jan 2, 2018, 08:37 PM
Jan 2018

when he slipped up and forgot to shuffle and stumble along the NYC sidewalks like the clockroach he was. I expect to see the fake prez pulling that same shit someday to get off the hook but the difference is that he REALLY IS more insane than sane.

Enoki33

(1,587 posts)
5. Think he was also recorded shuffling into a building in
Tue Jan 2, 2018, 09:05 PM
Jan 2018

his bathrobe and later dapperly hurrying out exquisitely dressed for a date.

CatWoman

(79,302 posts)
2. he tried to murder Frank Costello, on orders of Vito Genevese
Tue Jan 2, 2018, 08:03 PM
Jan 2018

the bullet only grazed Costello on the side of his head.

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