Due to the Weekend Sitdown in Philadelphia, I was a little lax in going through my newspapers.

This was in the NY Daily News on Friday, August 18, 2006:

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Mobster cops to '84 slay of capo

By Jose Martinez, Daily News Staff Writer

A former Bonanno crime family underboss pleaded guilty yesterday to the 1984 killing of a Sicilian-born capo whose remains were found inside oil drums at a New Jersey glue factory.

In a brief appearance in Brooklyn Federal Court, Louis (Ha Ha) Attanasio, 62, copped to killing Cesare Bonventre, who was Carmine Galante's bodyguard when the Bonanno boss was gunned down in 1979. Attanasio was arrested in December 2004.

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Those among us who have read Donnie Brasco will immediately recognize the name of Cesare/Caesar Bonventre as one of the "zips" (assassins) imported from Sicily.

Signor V.


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