Thanks to you at home for joining us this hour. The article starts with this quote,

the woman cannot believe it. She is in the same elevator with Rudolph Giuliani.

Oh, this is a thrill. This is not someone in a MAGA hat at CPAC last year.

It is a random New Yorker in the year 1985.

1985 was the year that Rudolph Giuliani made a name for himself.

It was the year that Giuliani pioneered the same prosecutorial tactics that now very much

looked like they could be his downfall.

But let me back up up just a little bit. This

is Carmine the Cigar Galante. He was allegedly the boss of one of New York's most

powerful mafia families and in the late 70s, Carmine, the cigar,

flew a little too close to the sun.

He was shot at point blank range

at an Italian restaurant in Brooklyn.

Allegedly the motivation of his assassins

was that Galante had decided that he should be

the head mob boss, but the other mob bosses did not agree.

A guy named Anthony Indelicato, also known as Wackwack, was tied to the crime.

Wackwax's palm print was discovered in the murder's getaway car, but Mr. Indelicato, Wackwack, was almost

definitely not the person who decided the fate of Carmine the cigar. Wack,

may have been part of the group that pulled the trigger, but he would not have made a decision

that big.

Mr. Indelicato was what is referred to in the mafia as a copo, a middle-ranking member of a mafia

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