In a new decision issued late last week, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that crimes of violence

may be committed through inaction, meaning that moving forward, even if you technically

committed no violent actions, you might have still committed violence under the law.

Let's go through the details of this case together.

Back in 2017, there was

a mobster by the name of Salvatore Fat Sal Delagati. He was operating over in Queens, New York,

as an associate of the Genevese crime family. And specifically, he was helping to run an illegal

sports gambling operation. Now, Fat Sal was not the owner of the operation. He was just running it on behalf of a

made member of the family. Now, what eventually happened, just like you see in the mob movies,

is that Fat Sal found himself in a position where he needed to kill someone. Quote,

Fat Sal Delagotti had targeted Joseph Benelli as a local bully who was terrorizing a gas station that Delagati and his

associates frequented. The family also suspected that Bonelli was cooperating against the

bookies in the neighborhood, which made him a potential threat to the family's gambling operation.

Now, this official explanation is obviously vague, but suffice it to say, Fat Sal decided to take out Mr.

Joseph Bonelli. But he did not want to get his own hands dirty. And so what Fat Sal did is that

he used a third party to hire members of the Cripps gang to carry out the contract killing.

Fat Sal Delagotti, he plays the order, and then he gave the Cribs gang members a 38 revolver to get the job done.

He basically subcontracted it out, provided the gun, but he did not want to do the killing

himself, which is a point that becomes relevant later.

Now, the police, they intercepted the gang members before they were able to actually carry

out the hit, And then eventually,

the feds, they figured out what had happened. They arrested Fat Sal Delgado in 2017 and indicted him on several charges, including the following. Raceteering conspiracy, conspiracy to commit murder

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