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Rosario "Sal" Gambino acquitted in Italy
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02/03/14 02:27 PM
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Veteran mobster Gambino acquitted of drug trafficking 'Pizza connection' kingpin served 22 years in the US 03 February, 16:04 ANSA) - Palermo, February 3 - An Italian appeals court on Monday acquitted veteran Italian-American Mafia boss Rosario Gambino of drug trafficking charges, overturning a 20-year sentence imposed by a trial court. Gambino, 70, cousin of well-known late New York kingpin Carlo Gambino and a member of one of New York's five Cosa Nostra families, was extradited to Rome in 2009 after a long judicial wrangle. Italy sought to extradite Gambino 12 times between 2001 and early 2009 before he was finally flown to Rome on May 23, 2009. In 2001 Gambino was convicted in absentia for drug trafficking between the US and Italy. The original arrest warrant for Gambino was issued by slain crusading Italian anti-Mafia prosecutor Giovanni Falcone. It resulted in a 20-year jail term, later reduced to 16 on appeal. Gambino has already served 22 years in jail in the United States for heroin trafficking in the landmark 1980s 'Pizza Connection' case. According to court papers, Gambino and his two brothers were key members of the organisation that moved more than $1.6 billion of heroin into the States through pizza parlors from 1975 to 1984. The resulting trial, which ran from October 1985 to March 1987, was one of the biggest in US history. Gambino was also linked to the late Michele Sindona, an international banker and Mob money launderer poisoned in jail in 1986 while serving life for the 1979 murder of lawyer Giorgio Ambrosoli, liquidator of Sindona's banking empire. Gambino is believed to have helped Sindona stage a bogus kidnapping that served as cover for last-ditch attempts to recover Mob money and call in political favours. http://www.ansa.it/web/notizie/rubriche/...g_10008073.html
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Re: Rosario "Sal" Gambino acquitted in Italy
[Re: Giancarlo]
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02/03/14 03:28 PM
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That's right. He isn't allowed back here. Also the reason he was deported is because he wasn't an american citizen, just a permanent resident. But he can never come back. If he had become an american citizen and carried dual citizenship, things would have been different. But even then, certain people are not permitted to become a citizen, if they are not seen as an upstanding person or they have a criminal record, etc.
If your kids are born here, they are automatically american citizens, but in his case, where he was not a citizen, that automatically gives his children dual citizenship with Italy, which they will keep unless they would ever renounce their italian citizenship.
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Re: Rosario "Sal" Gambino acquitted in Italy
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02/03/14 09:25 PM
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im guessing that rossario wasnt a citizen is probly the main reason why extradition to italy in the first place. im just going off of memory here, but from what i remember both John and Rosario Gambino were in pretty much the same situation where they were both found guilty and jailed for drug trafficking in the US for their part of the pizza connection and Italy wanted them both extradited to be tried for the same crimes. they didnt grant John's extradition request because he would be tried for the same crime that he already served time for and the judge said that was unconstitutional but yet they granted extradition for Rosario...i never really understood the judicial process there, unless im missing something. I thought it was because John and Joe pleaded guilty while Rosario didn't. I don't know why that makes a difference, but that's what I always thought. And why wouldn't Rosario become a US citizen? He was already found guilty in Italy and knew they wanted to deport him. It only makes sense that he should apply for citizenship.
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Re: Rosario "Sal" Gambino acquitted in Italy
[Re: Ted]
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02/03/14 09:34 PM
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And why wouldn't Rosario become a US citizen? He was already found guilty in Italy and knew they wanted to deport him. It only makes sense that he should apply for citizenship.
Sometimes it's just a formality they don't bother with. Sometimes like I mentioned earlier, they don't qualify as a good citizen to be a citizen, so they stick with the permanent residency. Once he's found guilty in Italy, it's very well he does not qualify for American citizenship. My husband's been in this country 20 years and still not a citizen. Sometimes they just can't remember that George Washington was the first president. I made a funny there.
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Re: Rosario "Sal" Gambino acquitted in Italy
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And why wouldn't Rosario become a US citizen? He was already found guilty in Italy and knew they wanted to deport him. It only makes sense that he should apply for citizenship.
Sometimes it's just a formality they don't bother with. Sometimes like I mentioned earlier, they don't qualify as a good citizen to be a citizen, so they stick with the permanent residency. Once he's found guilty in Italy, it's very well he does not qualify for American citizenship. My husband's been in this country 20 years and still not a citizen. Sometimes they just can't remember that George Washington was the first president. I made a funny there. not your best one carm
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Re: Rosario "Sal" Gambino acquitted in Italy
[Re: Dellacroce]
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02/03/14 10:01 PM
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And why wouldn't Rosario become a US citizen? He was already found guilty in Italy and knew they wanted to deport him. It only makes sense that he should apply for citizenship.
Sometimes it's just a formality they don't bother with. Sometimes like I mentioned earlier, they don't qualify as a good citizen to be a citizen, so they stick with the permanent residency. Once he's found guilty in Italy, it's very well he does not qualify for American citizenship. My husband's been in this country 20 years and still not a citizen. Sometimes they just can't remember that George Washington was the first president. I made a funny there. not your best one carm touche'. fucker.
La madre degli idioti e' sempre incinta.
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