Posted on 01/12/2009 11:50:20 AM PST by Red Badger
NEW YORK — It is perhaps the most intriguing unsolved mystery from the gaudy gangland career of John Gotti: Whatever happened to the neighbor who accidentally ran over and killed the mobster's 12-year-old son — and then vanished?
According to papers filed this week in Brooklyn federal court, John Favara was shot to death on orders of the outraged Gambino crime family chief and his body was dissolved in a barrel of acid. Authorities said a cooperating witness identified Charles Carneglia, a 62-year-old former mobster, as the perpetrator in the 1980 incident.
The court documents said Carneglia told another informant that acid was "the best method to use to avoid detection."
Those details, in a 44-page evidence motion by federal prosecutors for a racketeering trial, offered a new twist on the fate of Favara, a 51-year-old furniture warehouse worker who lived near the Gottis in the Howard Beach section of Queens.
Favara was arriving home from work on March 18, 1980, when Gotti's son Frank, riding a minibike, darted in front of his car. The driver told police he was momentarily blinded by the sun and did not see the boy.
The crash was ruled an accident by police, but Favara was subjected to death threats and harassment for months. His car was stolen and later smeared with the word "murderer," and he was threatened by Gotti's bat-wielding wife when he tried to apologize.
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When he was arrested there were banners for him strung along 101st Avenue in Ozone Park. He was fairly popular in the area.
When did Ozone Park become a suburb of hell? A friend of mine always loved those mobsters. She said, “they keep your neigborhood nice”. I told her they do that by messing up someone else’s neighborhood with drugs and prostitutes. She shut up real quick.
I bet that cognac started tasting nasty after a while!
Maybe when they put in the el.
Why don’t we ask Rosie O’Donnell about tbis? She knows a lot of stuff about science.
Talk about harsh! That DIDN’T leave a mark, after the dissolution was complete at least.
I bet a barrel of Coca-Cola would do the same thing. Probably easier to hide the purchase as well.
Obviously the mailman wasn't.
I must warn of offensive language.
FNC just had a story about Scotty Boy moving his new fiancee into his home. This dude needs to be studied! He must be a damn machine.
From the Wikipedia page on Rum:
A story involving naval rum is that following his victory at the Battle of Trafalgar, Horatio Nelson's body was preserved in a cask of rum to allow transport back to England.Upon arrival, however, the cask was opened and found to be empty of rum. The pickled body was removed and, upon inspection, it was discovered that the sailors had drilled a hole in the bottom of the cask and drunk all the rum, in the process drinking Nelson's blood.
Thus, this tale serves as a basis for the term Nelson's Blood being used to describe rum.
It also serves as the basis for the term "Tapping the Admiral" being used to describe drinking the daily rum ration. The details of the story are disputed, as many historians claim the cask contained French Brandy whilst others claim instead the term originated from a toast to Admiral Nelson.
See my post just above, #51.
Yes, the sailors drank the cognac (rum), including the blood of the deceased Nelson.
Dissolved in a barrel of acid..., what a way to go... ugh...
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