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Attorney slain in 100 North Main parking garage in Memphis
gomemphis.com ^ | Jun 21,2002

Posted on 06/21/2002 8:51:37 AM PDT by honway

Attorney slain in 100 North Main parking garage June 21, 2002

An attorney was shot to death just before 9 a.m. today as he was getting out of his car on the fourth floor of the parking garage of the 100 North Main Building.

Early reports said he was shot four times by a well dressed man sporting braids.

The shooter then fled on foot and got onto a Memphis Area Transit Authority bus.


TOPICS: Breaking News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: hughhewitt; memphis; tnlicensescandals
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To: honway
Can you agree that another possible expanation is sabotage?

You can postulate anything you want. However, I'm not going to put any faith in that postulation. Why not go all the way and suggest cutting charges on support beams as well?

101 posted on 06/21/2002 5:56:19 PM PDT by Tennessee_Bob
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To: Tymesup
Only in Clinton-country;this is a variation of the classic Five bullets in the back of the skull Arkancide.
102 posted on 06/21/2002 6:02:32 PM PDT by madrastex
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To: BluH2o; honway
This story would be better with this title

100 Attorney's slain in North Main parking garage in Memphis


103 posted on 06/21/2002 7:20:29 PM PDT by Gore_ War_ Vet
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To: Gore_ War_ Vet
Nice start.

Be that as it may, Memphis has a unusually large pile of unsolved cases. Next thing we'll hear is a plea from the Cheif for more cash and manpower.

104 posted on 06/21/2002 7:37:12 PM PDT by oyez
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To: oyez
This sounds like another guy involved in politics.

Poly = many

Ticks = blood sucking insects

105 posted on 06/21/2002 9:15:28 PM PDT by Chu Gary
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To: archy
re: your post #58

I didn't know Ted Knight was still doing the news...!

106 posted on 06/21/2002 10:26:32 PM PDT by Lancey Howard
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To: Shermy
Please add me to your ping list.
Thanks.
107 posted on 06/21/2002 10:31:01 PM PDT by Lancey Howard
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To: Chu Gary
This may be a gang hit. Unhappy customer ordered it from the State Pen.
108 posted on 06/21/2002 11:06:51 PM PDT by oyez
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To: archy
Oh, my! And people nowadays think Paltrow, Anniston, and Roberts are "pretty women"?
109 posted on 06/21/2002 11:14:03 PM PDT by 185JHP
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To: honway
"Attorney slain." This is a problem? This is a BAD thing? Sounds like a good start to me!
110 posted on 06/21/2002 11:30:40 PM PDT by ExSoldier
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To: honway
sprinkler bump
111 posted on 06/22/2002 1:43:52 AM PDT by Soul Citizen
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To: Mitchell
micro list bump
112 posted on 06/22/2002 1:46:14 AM PDT by Soul Citizen
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To: Tennessee_Bob
However, I'm not going to put any faith in that postulation

I am sure you can appreciate the consequences of our differing positions.
If you are right, and the Middle Eastern, Islamic, felon, un-licensed plumbers were authorized to be working on the WTC sprinklers days before 9-11, then the consequences of investigating the sprinkler work are nil.

If I am right, and the sprinkler system was sabotaged, then the individuals responsible for sabotaging the sprinkler systems are responsible for more deaths than all the hijackers combined. The consequences of not investigating could be devastating.

More importantly, if the sprinkler systems were sabotaged, the same tactics are likely to be used in the future unless it is prevented.

113 posted on 06/22/2002 6:20:16 AM PDT by honway
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To: Calvin Locke
What! No Elvis sitings?

Oh, braids rather than blue suede shoes.

Give it time. Thank you... thankyuhverrrymuch....

114 posted on 06/22/2002 7:15:05 AM PDT by archy
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To: Shermy
Thanks for the pings and the work that you are doing to track what is happening in Tn..

One of my nieces got married last fall. She and her husband moved to TN. to get away from the the scary Islamics in Oklahoma. I keep emailing her these incredible stories of violence in Tn. They feel safe in their community, but their parents are concerned.

The problem is that we may not have a safe state to live in that is free of the Jihad in America.
115 posted on 06/22/2002 7:15:11 AM PDT by Grampa Dave
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To: madrastex
Only in Clinton-country;this is a variation of the classic Five bullets in the back of the skull Arkancide.

Hardly *only* in Clinton country, and five to the head is far more reminiscent of the death of Chicago Outfit boss Sam Giancana in 1975, when 5 shots from a silenced .22 automatic in his basement while he was cooking a very late supper or very early breakfast made it certain that he'd not be testifying about either the Chicago mob's connection to CIA-directed attempts on the life of Fidel Castro ordered by Attorney General robert Kennedy, or any of the other mob secrets he took with him to his grave...many others of which tied directly to the Kennedy organized crime family.

But four to the head is a much more conmmon message in Las Vegas, Kansas City or Chicago than Memphis or Arkansas. Known as *little Joe* to both pistoleros and dice throwers, and as a *controlled pair* to serious handgunners, it's usually the mark of a victim who has welshed on a gambling debt or otherwise failed to live up to a performance promise. And it's a definite sign of both who ordered the killing, and why.

Indeed, the 1950 hit on Kansas City mob boss Charles Binaggio and his bodyguard/enforcer was the cause for the congressional *Kefauver hearings*- now THERE's an interesting Arkansas connection for you- which begat the disasterous mob *Appalachian conference* that brought a spotlight of publicity and notoriety to dozens of figures from the organization that FBI Director Hoover up to that time adamently claimed did not exist.

So thank the Kansas City mob both for that breakthrough and for the nice example of two tho the head, twice. But it's not particularly a Midsouth shooting characteristic, though I can think of one from back around 1992 during the Memphis *Topless club wars* in which the recipient was found in his car trunk that may have been- I'll have to check.

The murder of Charles Binaggio, the undisputed political and criminal leader of Kansas City, was easily one of the most important homicides of the first half of the 20th century. Even in a period filled with underworld murders, including those of mob powerhouses Bugsy Siegel, Abe Reles, Dutch Schultz and Joe Masseria, the assassination of Charles Binaggio and his enforcer, Charley "Mad Dog" Gargotta were momentous. Not only did their deaths make clear just how limitlessly corrupt was Kansas City, but it is entirely possible that without them, the Kefauver hearings might never have occurred.

Even Kansas City, which had seen everything during the regime of ultra-corrupt Democratic boss Tom Pendergast, was shocked. On April 6, 1950, Charles Binaggio, then 41, was found shot dead in his headquarters at the First District Democratic Club along with his enforcer Charley Gargotta. Law enforcement and political officials had long suspected Binaggio of being an actual Mafia member, and the way in which he was killed turned their speculation into certainty.

In death, there was no doubt that Binaggio had been subjected to Mafia violence. Both he and Gargotta had taken four shots to the head, laid out in two neat rows. This type of shot cluster is known as "Little Joe," which signifies two deuces in dice parlance, and has long been the Mafia's mark for a welsher. When "Little Joe" is found on a victim's head, it is clear that not only did the Mafia do the job, they also want everyone to know about it. The message came through loud and clear: Binaggio had welshed on the mob and had paid for it.

*source and details *here*.

-archy-/-

116 posted on 06/22/2002 7:42:25 AM PDT by archy
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To: 185JHP
Oh, my! And people nowadays think Paltrow, Anniston, and Roberts are "pretty women"?

There's a considerable difference between *pretty* and glamourous...and a far stretch to *classy dames*.

But Paltrow, of those three, likely has the best shot at it. And some today I can think of are beyond that league even in the grubbiest of roles in which they are hardly *pretty*. Even if not as glamourous at times:


117 posted on 06/22/2002 7:52:41 AM PDT by archy
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To: 185JHP
Oh, my! And people nowadays think Paltrow, Anniston, and Roberts are "pretty women"?

There's a considerable difference between *pretty* and glamourous...and a far stretch to *classy dames*.

But Paltrow, of those three, likely has the best shot at it. And some today I can think of are beyond that league even in the grubbiest of roles in which they are hardly *pretty*. Even if not as glamourous at times:


118 posted on 06/22/2002 7:55:22 AM PDT by archy
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To: rdavis84
The first thing I thought of was your invisible banks. Good on the brave folks who exposed them. 8^)
119 posted on 06/22/2002 9:10:26 AM PDT by Sal
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To: Shermy
thanks for the ping
120 posted on 06/22/2002 9:45:34 AM PDT by Free the USA
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