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Suspect in mob boss hit flashes pro-Trump slogans on hand

  

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Via:  tessylo  •  5 years ago  •  22 comments

Suspect in mob boss hit flashes pro-Trump slogans on hand

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Suspect in mob boss hit flashes pro-Trump slogans on hand



image001-png_162613.png.cf.jpg   WAYNE PARRY, Associated Press   10 hours ago















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Suspect in mob boss hit flashes pro-Trump slogans on hand in court











TOMS RIVER, N.J. (AP) — The man charged with killing the reputed boss of the Gambino crime family wrote pro-Donald Trump slogans on his hand and flashed them to journalists before a court hearing Monday.

Anthony Comello, 24, was arrested Saturday in New Jersey in the death of Francesco "Franky Boy" Cali last week in front of his Staten Island home.

While waiting for a court hearing to begin in Toms River, New Jersey, in which he agreed to be extradited to New York, Comello held up his left hand.

On it were scrawled pro-Trump slogans including "MAGA Forever," an abbreviation of Trump's campaign slogan "Make America Great Again." It also read "United We Stand MAGA" and "Patriots In Charge." In the center of his palm he had drawn a large circle. It was not immediately clear why he had done so.

Comello's lawyer, Brian Neary, would not discuss the writing on his client's hand, nor would he say whether Comello maintains his innocence. Asked by reporters after the hearing what was on Comello's hand, Neary replied, "Handcuffs."

He referred all other questions to Comello's Manhattan lawyer, Robert Gottlieb, who said in an emailed statement his client has been placed in protective custody due to "serious threats" that had been made against him, but gave no details of them. Ocean County officials could not immediately be reached after hours on Monday.

"Mr. Comello's family and friends simply cannot believe what they have been told," Gottlieb said. "There is something very wrong here and we will get to the truth about what happened as quickly as possible."

The statement did not address the writing on Comello's hand, and a lawyer from Gottlieb's firm declined to comment further Monday evening.

Comello sat with a slight smile in the jury box of the courtroom Monday afternoon as dozens of reporters and photographers filed into the room. When they were in place, Comello held up his left hand to display the writings as the click and whirr of camera lenses filled the room with sound.

During the hearing, Comello did not speak other than to say, "Yes, sir" to the judge to respond to several procedural questions.

Cali, 53, was shot to death last Wednesday by a gunman who may have crashed his truck into Cali's car to lure him outside. Police said Cali was shot 10 times.

Federal prosecutors referred to Cali in court filings in 2014 as the underboss of the Mafia's Gambino family, once one of the country's most powerful crime organizations. News accounts since 2015 said Cali had ascended to the top spot, though he was never charged with leading the gang. His only mob-related conviction came a decade ago, when he was sentenced to 16 months in prison in an extortion scheme involving a failed attempt to build a NASCAR track on Staten Island. He was released in 2009 and hasn't been in legal trouble since then.

Police have not yet said whether they believe Cali's murder was a mob hit or whether he was killed for some other motive.

The last Mafia boss to be rubbed out in New York City was Gambino don "Big Paul" Castellano, who was assassinated in 1985.



















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Tessylo
Professor Principal
1  seeder  Tessylo    5 years ago

Color me surprised that a killer, a thug, a gangster, supports The Rump.  

 
 
 
Ronin2
Professor Quiet
1.2  Ronin2  replied to  Tessylo @1    5 years ago

So much for innocent until proven guilty in your world.

As for thug and gangster- no where did it state he was either.  He allegedly did kill a gangster.

He is getting his 15 minutes of fame- if the Gambino family lets it last that long.  Wonder how long it will take reality to set in for him that he is marked man for the rest of his life? It won't matter to them whether he is innocent or guilty.

The lap dog media is eating the Trump writings on his hands up. No statement from Comello why he had the writing on his hands; because no one has ever staged a false flag using Trump to gain even more media attention./S

 
 
 
bugsy
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1.3  bugsy  replied to  Tessylo @1    5 years ago
a thug

Waaaaaaaiiiitt a minute.....for months after the Trayvon Martin, Michael Brown, etc rightful police shootings, when conservatives rightfully labeled these guys thugs, liberals screeched and kicked that by calling them a thug, the person making the reference MUST be a racist because they now say all blacks are thugs.

When did this talking point change, or is it fluid when it suits the liberal "emotions"?

 
 
 
Tessylo
Professor Principal
2  seeder  Tessylo    5 years ago

'So much for innocent until proven guilty in your world.'

Excuse me?

He may not be a gangster, but he is a killer, so again, no surprise he supports the 'turd' 'president'

False flag?

That's just crazy talk!

 
 
 
zuksam
Junior Silent
3  zuksam    5 years ago

I think the cheese slid off Anthony Comello's cracker. He was detained for acting strangely in a federal courthouse — behavior so odd that he was briefly taken into custody and investigated for any potential history of terroristic threats. The report said, however, there weren’t any further details about his behavior in the courthouse. I think he might have assassinated Cali simply because he's crazy. I wish Mark David Chapman had fixated on a Mob Boss instead of killing John Lennon. At least Comello chose a victim who wasn't just an innocent victim.

 
 
 
Tessylo
Professor Principal
3.1  seeder  Tessylo  replied to  zuksam @3    5 years ago

It's been claimed that he wanted to date "Franky Boy's" niece and that was not going to happen so he killed him.  

 
 

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