>>> What was their version of events? Are they saying the Stonewall Inn was not mob owned and the cops did not conduct the raid pursuant to a mob investigation?
Being the NYC of the time most any raid on a nightclub or bar could claim some mob motive if they needed a more legitimate sounding reason. The motivation for the raid seems less “Mafia” then the entertaining opportunity to bust a bunch of transvestites. Serious anti Mafia raids would have gone after the construction unions and refuse haulers.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stonewall_riots
“The motivation for the raid seems less “Mafia” then the entertaining opportunity to bust a bunch of transvestites. Serious anti Mafia raids would have gone after the construction unions and refuse haulers.”
So was the 1985 indictment against Matty the Horse Ianniello — and his subsequent conviction — for his skimming operation involving several of his gay bars also gay harassment or was that a “serious anti Mafia raid”?