Posted on 11/28/2011 7:00:09 AM PST by AtlasStalled
The Mafia is a degenerate organization which exploits human misery for criminal profit, and even children are not beyond the reach of its dirty hands. For decades the Mafia has been the principal producer and distributor of kiddie porn, and among the key figures in this racket was Gambino capo Robert DiBernardo who was a top lieutenant to family boss Paul Castellano. The pair would meet each Friday at Castellano's Staten Island mansion to gloat how filthy rich they were getting from their ungodly crimes.
In 1986 federal postal inspectors discovered cartons of magazines seemingly depicting underage boys "engaged in sexually explicit conduct" at smut shops in Times Square and Greenwich Village which allegedly were distributed by DiBernardo, and during a subsequent March 1986 raid on DiBernardo's office seized alleged "child pornography and financial records." As "a result of the Postal Inspectors seizures [a federal prosecutor] is attempting to indict DiBernardo on child pornography violations" according to an FBI memo dated May 20, 1986. Since at least 1979 DiBernardo was "a well known pornography distributor also dealing in child pornography" according to a July 28, 1981 FBI document. Indeed, the FBI's New York field office had been monitoring DiBernardo's role in the smut trade since 1968.
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Unfortunately, the feds were precluded by intervening events from indicting DiBernardo on the child pornography charges. In a power play for control over the Gambino family John Gotti whacked Castellano on December 16, 1985, and only months later whacked DiBernardo on June 5, 1986.
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Did you excerpt to spare us the porn images?
Shouldn’t that headline have said “dealt”?
A lot of the cast from this movie went on to star in The Sopranos. Supposedly the success of "Gotti" is what made HBO decide to greenlight The Sopranos.
That was my immediate thought as well, but after all, I am a mere engineer, schooled in the 50s and 60s. What could I possibly know about grammar or spelling...these are best left to the professionals from journalism schools!
Yes, it should have been “dealt.”
It almost maked me barf up the breakfast I ated!
“It almost maked me barf up the breakfast I ated”.
Now you know that isn’t correct. It should read, “It almost maked me barf up the breakfast I eated”. Now you know.... (LOL!)
You are such a wag! ;) (I could barely read that headline. It was so wrong that my brain could not compute! LOL)
You won’t get any argument from me. My husband is a brilliant engineer who really never had a writing course (and was pretty bad in it in high school). But, through practice, in his professional life, has developed into a fine writer. On the other hand, I was a straight A student and a humanities major who couldn’t solve a basic algebra problem to save my soul. Lack of practice.
What you say is true. Can you imagine how that must make the “humanities leadership” feel?
Everyone knows the mob is the leading propagator of kiddie porn. Everyone knows the mob owns Disney/ABC and that they push the sexualization of children. The decline of the cuture is directly tied into these entities.
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