It's completely possible Joe Batters was Sporting Goods (baseball bat = sporting good). Roemer spoke very highly of Accardo which is unusual for a law enforcement agent (in general). It's not completely impossible that Roemer lied when he said sporting goods was a capo in order to protect his identity. If he came out and said he was the boss that would have kind of given it away, no? I'm not saying Accardo was the informant but it's not completely out of the realm of reality that he could have been.
Re: Who Was Romano & Sporting Goods ?
[Re: Snakes]
#882381 04/29/1610:32 AM04/29/1610:32 AM
Yeah i think so too Snakes. In his book he said he got very very close to Butch Blasi and share the same Dine outs as ralph Pierce and bump in to him all the time plus he used Ralph to set up a meet with Batters so they are big Suspects Ralph & Blasi
Re: Who Was Romano & Sporting Goods ?
[Re: rickydelta]
#882384 04/29/1611:26 AM04/29/1611:26 AM
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Im not sure kiddo, to tell you the truth right now i hardly believe that it was Accardo, but still i also have to admit that i find all of that "FBI respect" towards Accardo a little bit wierd.
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Re: Who Was Romano & Sporting Goods ?
[Re: Toodoped]
#883101 05/09/1606:46 PM05/09/1606:46 PM
Im not sure kiddo, to tell you the truth right now i hardly believe that it was Accardo, but still i also have to admit that i find all of that "FBI respect" towards Accardo a little bit wierd.
everybody fell around him Auippa,Cerone and before them, Ricca,Battaglia,Alderisio and the rest. Also in the late 1980s they have the opportunity to jail him for perjury and they just let it go......Why would they let him go and forgo all that publicity and career making case by being the only guy to jail him.He was a rat..
Thanks for the link but it wont let me go on the pages I want. Anyone of you guys got the informer journal book 2011 july and 2011 oct ? it will tell you who the outfit informers was of roemers if so can u copy and paste on here thanks be good to read