Posted on 10/28/2022 10:01:41 PM PDT by Impala64ssa
The Bronx priest whose brother was oddball Genovese crime-family boss Vincent “The Chin’’ Gigante has died at age 90.
The Rev. Louis Gigante, who once headed up the South East Bronx Community Organization and served as a city councilman in the 1970s, was known for his vociferous defense of his Mafioso brother.
Louis Gigante, who died last week, was described by The Post in 1975 as a “priest who plays power politics instead of bingo.”
At the time, he told The Post his old-school party-machine politics were “a question of power.
“People have to eat,” Louis said.
Born the youngest of five boys to immigrant Italian parents, Gigante grew up with his family in Greenwich Village. His older brothers went on to become mobsters, with Vinnie rising through the ranks of the Genovese crime family to lead the organization for decades.
The mumbling, pajama-wearing, Greenwich Village-walking don died in prison in 2005 after his conviction on charges of racketeering and conspiracy to kill rival mob boss John Gotti.
Presiding over his brother’s funeral Mass, Louis Gigante said Vinnie “lived a Christian life and was a good man.”
Louis Gigante defended his brother during his trial — at which the mob boss would often appear confused — telling reporters that “The Chin” had suffered from a degenerative brain condition since the ’70s.
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Everyone who’s so filled with anger about these suspects should ask themselves, ‘what if this were my son, wouldn’t I want him helped?’ ” the priest said at the time.
He also ended up in the news last year when he was slapped with lawsuits accusing him of sexually assaulting a 9-year-old boy in the 1970s and a 10-year-old girl in the 1960s. He did not comment on the two suits at the time. Both lawsuits were still pending at the time of his death, the New York Times said."
So this mobbed up pervy priest molested kids, but felt sorry for the Central Pk 5. What a POS.
That the Roman Catholic church countenanced the impostor for decades is as big a scandal and further reveals the rot in the allegedly religious institution.
In my mind, I can hear Rush Limbaugh introducing the topic of
“The Reverend” Lou Giante.
Rush had a way of talking about Jesse Jackson, making it clear he considered Jesse to be a fake, not worthy of being called Reverend of anything.
🎶🎶 Me and Julio down by the schoolyard 🎶🎶
The original hang of New York
🎶and when the radical priest comes to get me released we is all on the cover of Newsweek 🎶
Oddball? Not at all. He knew being diagnosed as crazy would keep him from going to jail so he became an actor playing a role.
Oddball? Not at all. He knew being diagnosed as crazy would keep him from going to jail so he became an actor playing a role.
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