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Re: Has the Mob ever tried to track down informants?
[Re: Lilo]
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03/31/10 09:13 PM
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We'll probably never know, because, as PB said, if the government admitted that the program had been breached successfully, it'd fall apart in no time flat. And as IL posted, the damage is done when the informant testifies, not when he's in the program. Still, I don't underestimate the urge for vengeance in the Mob, even if it doesn't make much common sense.
Ntra la porta tua lu sangu � sparsu, E nun me mporta si ce muoru accisu... E s'iddu muoru e vaju mparadisu Si nun ce truovo a ttia, mancu ce trasu.
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Re: Has the Mob ever tried to track down informants?
[Re: pizzaboy]
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03/31/10 10:13 PM
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Joe Pistone isn't an informant. He's an agent. And as I've speculated in other threads, I doubt he was ever in any danger. The cost to the mob would be devastating if they ever took out an agent, and they know it. I know that I called him an infiltrator, not an informant. I heard about the Gambino's tracking down Gravano, and from my understanding they had found out where Gravano was but were apprehended before the hit went down by the FBI who were doing survalence on the Gambino's who were doing survalence on Gravano. Was it Junior Gotti who gave the order to track down Gravano?
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Re: Has the Mob ever tried to track down informants?
[Re: IvyLeague]
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04/01/10 11:01 AM
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The real danger today still lies in before a guy flips but is suspected of being a rat. That's when they can still get killed, before they do any damage. Indeed. Here's George Anastasia descrbing an example of a similar case playing out in Federal court in Philadelphia now. Mob Scene, Tennessee Hitman testifies against cousin http://www.philly.com/philly/video/VideoArchive.html?vgenre=Mob%20Scene Federal witness murdered
"When the snows fall and the white winds blow, the lone wolf dies but the pack survives." Winter is Coming
Now this is the Law of the Jungle—as old and as true as the sky; And the wolf that shall keep it may prosper, but the wolf that shall break it must die. As the creeper that girdles the tree-trunk, the Law runneth forward and back; For the strength of the Pack is the Wolf, and the strength of the Wolf is the Pack.
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Re: Has the Mob ever tried to track down informants?
[Re: Dapper_Don]
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04/01/10 05:46 PM
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. . . and did an interview with Barbara Walters taunting his old LCN mates to try and get him. No big deal, Dapper Don, but that interview was with Jane Sawyer. I remember it well. It was right around the time that "Underboss," by Peter Maas was released, back in '97. He was half promoting the book during that interview (so much for the "Son of Sam" law ). The thing I remember most was Sawyer's shocked expression, mouth agape, at the admissions that Gravano made during the interview. It really was akin to watching a nebbish white journalist interview a Black Panther back in the '60s. She did a horrible job.
"I got news for you. If it wasn't for the toilet, there would be no books." --- George Costanza.
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