Posted on 04/03/2008 11:13:22 AM PDT by HAL9000
[mugshot]Palermo, 3 April (AKI) - The deportation of former Mafia boss Rosario Gambino from the United States to Italy has been delayed, sources told Adnkronos.
The 65-year-old Gambino,(photo) cousin of Carlo Gambino, boss of the Gambino crime family, has been sought by Italian authorities since 2001, when a request for extradition was originally denied by US judges.
Eleven attempts for his extradition were rejected by US authorities on the grounds that a law known as '41-bis' could be result in Gambino being tortured in Italy.
The '41-bis' article of the Italian penitentiary act gives power to the minister of justice to suspend prison regulations, and can include a ban on association with other prisoners, a ban on receiving parcels and visits by family members among others.
Since Gambino is not a US citizen, a US judge signed the deportation order on Tuesday for Gambino to return to his native Italy after completing a 22-year jail term for drug trafficking charges.
He has since been kept in an immigration detention centre.
Gambino built up a massive illicit drugs trade between American and fellow mobsters in Italy during the late 70s .
Reportedly, Gambino and his two brothers set up a pizzeria known as Father and Son which the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) claimed was used as a front to launder money and deliver drugs.
Gambino is also believed to have had ties with Michele Sindona, a corrupt international banker with numerous ties to the Mafia who was used by the Mob to launder billions in drug money in late the 70s and early 80s.
Sindona, was poisoned in jail in 1986 while serving a life sentence for the murder of lawyer Giorgio Ambrosoli.
It is alleged that in 2001, Roger Clinton, half-brother of the then president Bill Clinton had sought to free Rosario Gambino with a presidential pardon, after having allegedly received 50,000 dollars among other gifts by the Gambino family.
The pardon was never issued by Bill Clinton.
I thought Mafia had more class Hal LOL!
That's probably because Slick's check wasn't in the mail & Roger was hogging the money!!
We thwarted 11 attempts and he’s not even a citizen of the US.
Roger probably stole Willie’s money. They should deport Roger along with this mafioso.
Speaking of the mafia, I was flipping channels the other day, and saw something unbelievable - Bruce Cutler has his own TV show.
Even more unbelievable, it is a reality courtroom TV show and Cutler is the judge, like Judge Wapner or something.
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NEVER FORGET
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“~ROGER CLINTON~ is Missing” = BURTON
http://www.Freerepublic.com/forum/a3a95ca3c24a0.htm
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NEVER FORGET
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Sorry, but he was a foreign national. We can’t touch him.
What a country...
Yeah is it call We the Jury and had celebrity jurists
YEAH I saw that I think it going be renew they put at 2am in the morning here in SO CAL
Yes - aa aoon aa they finds him! He's probably touring with his famous band!!! LOL!!
When will the US start deporting the Democrat friends of the Mob?
You mean like Nancy Pulosi?
RE “When will the US start deporting the Democrat friends of the Mob?”
Two comments:
See: The American Spectator, April 1997, “Let’s Be Friends: A Mob-Controlled Union Delivers the Goods for Bill”, by Byron York
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There ain’t enough ships to put them on. Maybe we can outsource for foreign ships.
PS: I worked on the Organized Crime Task Force that went after the Clinton’s friends and money-bags in LIUNA. Attorney General Janet Reno quashed the 200+ indictments for assets seizure.
The fix was in and has never been investigated by Congress, only by Byron York in his article.
RE “When will the US start deporting the Democrat friends of the Mob?”
Two comments:
See: The American Spectator, April 1997, “Let’s Be Friends: A Mob-Controlled Union Delivers the Goods for Bill”, by Byron York
and;
There ain’t enough ships to put them on. Maybe we can outsource for foreign ships.
PS: I worked on the Organized Crime Task Force that went after the Clinton’s friends and money-bags in LIUNA. Attorney General Janet Reno quashed the 200+ indictments for assets seizure.
The fix was in and has never been investigated by Congress, only by Byron York in his article.
I thought Tony Soprano had more class than to associate with a loser like Roger clinton.
Presidential pardons are absurd, particularly when they’re sold to the highest bidder, as was the case with the Clintons.
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