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Brian Cates - Political Columnist & Pundit
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Keep your eyes on Menendez in the Senate, and Hunter Biden, currently the only public target of the Weiss Special Counsel.
eople keep asking me 'when do the arrests start?'
The arrests already started.P The Fake News covered it up and downplayed it.
Hunter was arrested. Menendez was arrested.
Menendez will lead to others. So will Hunter.
Now Santos is talking about blowing the whistle in 'retaliation' for House Reps he says he knows are insider trading for expelling him from the House.
Even if not arrested, you're going to see a bunch of members of the US Congress suddenly announcing they're not running for reelection this year and heading quickly for the exits.
10:46 AM · Dec 10, 2023
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What are you talking about?
Al Capone was prosecuted for tax evasion.
50 years before Rudy became a prosecutor.
The NYC mob was taken down for labor racketeering and murder.
Think he’s referring to Mr Gotti’s era
Yeah, he's mixing and matching different cases and facts.
The case that made Rudy's reputation was the The Commission case. The heads of the 5 NY mafia families were indicted on 15-counts including narcotics trafficking, loansharking, gambling, labor racketeering and extortion against construction companies and ordering the murder of the head of the Bonanno family, Carmine Galante. So real mob crimes, not just tax evasion.
Years later Gotti was convicted. But Rudy was not involved in that as Gotti was tried in the Eastern District of NY and Rudy worked in the Southern District of NY and by the time they got Gotti Rudy was no longer US Attorney
Ironically Gotti was convicted of real mob crimes like five murders, conspiracy to commit murder, racketeering, obstruction of justice, illegal gambling, extortion, loansharking AND tax evasion.
Al Capone was convicted of tax evasion in 1981.
That’s right, I was kind of thinking 5 families but mixed Gotti in there myself. Gotti basically just filled a void left by the families losing power. And yes they wiretapped his main dealmaking room and got him on heavy stuff!
Well Gotti killed the head of his family just as the 5 family trial was about to go to trial. Gotti knew that Paul Castellano would get evidence of his drug dealing which was a violation of mob rules.
I wouldn't say he filled a void because the Gambino family continued on and he, by killing his boss, created the void......there was never a power vacuum because he stepped into immediately.
The Netfilx doc on Gotti is pretty good. They wiretapped his club in Queens years earlier.....then when he took over the main Gambino club in Little Italy they wiretapped that. I think the NYPD or the State did the first one and the FBI did the second one.
One interesting thing in documentary is the battles between the local cops and the feds. You can tell some resentment is still there.