American has long been fascinated by movies about gangsters. To date, there have been well over 100 produced. The best of
the bunch can be found at the link below:
The Godfather (1972) and The Godfather, Part II are generally
considered to be the best movies about mobsters, but there are plenty of others
on the list that are also worth watching.
Due to the Kefauver hearings of 1957, most people are at least
dimly aware of the names of the 5 New York crime families – Gambino, Lucchese,
Genovese, Bonanno, and Columbo, and they are also likely familiar with a guy
named Whitey Bolger.
The heads of the various crime families were all powerful men.
Although many of them have long since passed on, there IS one man alive today
who is more powerful than any of them.
Without disclosing his identity (until later) I’d like to give
you a timeline of events that will provide a clue as to who this guy is.
1)
On June 8, 2019, 59 year old White House insider,
David Goldberg, was found dead in his New York apartment. His claim to fame was
that he predicted the Iran False flag operation. Friends of Mr. Goldberg were given access to his accounts
before his passing. They will be maintaining them, and posting new information
as it comes in. At this time, they are reviewing many documents in Mr.
Goldberg’s possession, some of which appear to be top secret government
documents.
2)
On August 10, 2019, Jeffrey Epstein was found dead
in his cell at the Metropolitan Correction Center in New York City.
On
July 23, 2019, three weeks prior to his death, Epstein was found unconscious in
his jail cell with injuries to his neck. Epstein believed that he
was attacked by his cellmate, who was awaiting trial for four counts of murder,
while the correctional staff suspected attempted suicide. After that
incident, he was placed on
suicide watch. Six days
later, on July 29, 2019, Epstein was taken off suicide watch and placed in a
special housing unit with another inmate. Epstein's close
associates said he was in "good spirits".
When
Epstein was placed in the special housing unit, the jail informed the Justice
Department that he would have a cellmate, and that a guard would look into the
cell every 30 minutes. These procedures were not followed on the night of
his death. On August 9, 2019, Epstein's cellmate was
transferred out, and no new replacement cellmate was brought in. Later in
the evening, in violation of the jail's normal procedure, Epstein was not
checked every 30 minutes. The two guards who were assigned to check his
jail unit that night fell asleep and did not check on him for about three
hours; the guards falsified related records. Two cameras in front
of Epstein's cell also malfunctioned that night.
3)
On November 19, 2019, Thomas Bowers, a Deutsche
Bank executive who approved various loans that the bank had approved for Donald
Trump, committed suicide in his home in Malibu, California.
4)
On December 4, 2019, Melania Horcharenko, who
worked at the U.S embassy in Ukraine, was found dead in her home in Maryland.
She left her position in the embassy a few days after Marie Yovanovich was
recalled. Horcharenko was privy to virtually every incident that was mentioned
during the impeachment hearings (including the July 25 phone call). Due to her
intimate knowledge of many of the events in Ukraine, she is suspected to be the
whistle blower who first called the transactions there to the attention of the
intelligence community in our country. Horcharenko was set to be deposed behind closed doors sometime next week due to the classified nature of her work in Ukraine.
(editors note: as compelling as this story is, keep in mind that the ONLY source for it was a website known as White House Insider. Snopes, reliable fact checking website, found that not only did Malian Horcharenko not exist, she also was not on the list of people who were scheduled to testify).
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/trump-impeachment-witness-die/
As proof that emotions are running high on both sides of the impeachment story is the fact that Jonathon Turley, the constitutional law expert who testified AGAINST impeaching Trump has received a barrage of threats against him. Both his home and his office have been inundated with threatening messages, and demands that he be fired from George Washington University.
https://www.cnn.com/2019/12/05/politics/jonathan-turley-impeachment-expert-congress/index.html
The common thread to all 4 people,
of course, is that they have some connection to Donald Trump.
The most recent mobster movie that
has been release is “The Irishman”, which features performances by Robert De
Niro, Al Pacino, and Joe Pesci. The film follows Frank Sheeran (De Niro), a
truck driver who becomes a hitman involved with mobster Russell
Bufalino (Pesci) and his crime family, including his time working for the powerful Teamster Jimmy Hoffa (Pacino).
“The Irishman” tells the story of some real-life mobsters (one
of whom apparently killed Jimmy Hoffa), but here is the unsettling part:
Donald Trump personally knew all of the mobsters portrayed in
the movie, and his connection to mob figures goes back 30 years.
Back in the 1980s and 1990s, Trump’s
buildings and his casinos attracted underworld figures like “Fat Tony” Salerno,
the Fedora-wearing, cigar-chomping boss of the Genovese crime family. Salerno,
who’s portrayed in the film by Domenick Lombardozzi, supplied the fast-drying
concrete that built Trump Tower and other Trump properties. Salerno also
controlled the local concrete workers union, and when a strike shut down
construction in Manhattan in 1982, the one of the few buildings that wasn’t
affected was Trump Tower.
In 1983, the year Trump Tower
opened its doors, the future president reportedly met the Genovese family boss.
The common thread linking Salerno and Trump was Roy Cohn, the infamous lawyer
who represented both men. Cohn, the heavy-lidded henchman to Senator Joseph
McCarthy, introduced the two men in his Manhattan townhouse, according to the
late journalist Wayne Barrett. Under oath, Trump swore that wasn’t true, but he
also swore that he didn’t know that Cohn represented Salerno, a fact that had
been widely reported in Cohn’s obituary a few years earlier.
And it’s not just Trump who has
links to the world depicted in The Irishman. It also overlapped with some of the figures in Trump’s
world, past and present. Roger Stone, Trump’s longtime political adviser, also
met Salerno when he visited Cohn’s Manhattan brownstone.
Rudy Giuliani, the president’s
personal lawyer, also crossed paths with Salerno as New York’s top federal
prosecutor in the 1980s. Giuliani was obsessed with Salerno. “Tony was the Tip
O’Neill of the underworld and would reside forever in Rudy Giuliani’s mind,” wrote
the legendary New York columnist Jimmy Breslin. Giuliani went after Salerno
with such zeal that the mobster’s defense attorney complained that the
prosecutor ″has made it his personal mission to bury my client.″
In March 1986, Giuliani announced
that a grand jury had indicted Salerno and others on charges that included
rigging construction bids. Trump Plaza, a co-op apartment building on
Manhattan’s East Side, was specifically mentioned in the 29-count indictment.
When Giuliani says he has
“insurance” on his famous client, is it to Trump’s connection to the lost word
of The
Irishman that he’s referring?
Omertà (/oʊˈmɛərtə/, Italian
pronunciation: [omerˈta]) is
a
Southern Italian code of silence and code of
honor that
places importance on silence in the face of questioning by authorities or
outsiders
; non-cooperation with authorities, the government, or
outsiders; and willfully ignoring and generally avoiding interference with
the illegal activities of others (i.e., not contacting law enforcement or the
authorities when one is aware of, witness to, or even the victim of certain
crimes). It originated and remains common in
Southern Italy, where
banditry or
brigandage and
Mafia-type criminal organizations (like
the
Camorra,
Cosa Nostra,
'Ndrangheta and
Sacra Corona Unita)
have long been strong. Similar codes are also deeply rooted in other areas of
the
Mediterranean,
including rural
Spain,
Crete (
Greece), and
Corsica, all of which share a common or
similar historic culture with Southern Italy.
It also exists, to a lesser extent, in certain Italian-American neighborhoods,
especially in neighborhoods where the Italian-American
Mafia has strong influence, as well as in Italian ethnic enclaves in countries such
as Germany, Canada, and Australia,
where Italian organized
crime exists. Similar codes of silence have been observed
in Jewish-American, Greek-American, African-American, Hispanic-American, and certain working
class Irish-American neighborhoods.
Retaliation against informers is common in criminal circles, where informers
are known as "rats" or "snitches".
Another key element of omerta is loyalty.
You may remember that former FBI director, James Comey, was asked
for his loyalty to Trump exactly one week after the inauguration ceremony. According to people who know him well,
Trump’s definition of loyalty is blunt. “Support Donald Trump in anything he
says and does,” Roger Stone, the president’s longest-running political adviser,
told me. “No matter what,” former Trump Organization executive Barbara Res
said. “Or else,” added Louise Sunshine, a friend of Trump for nearly 50 years.
“I think he defines it as allegiance,” biographer Tim O’Brien told me. “And
it’s not allegiance to the flag or allegiance to the country—it’s allegiance to
Trump.”
Donald Trump does not get along very well with many world
leaders, but consider this fact. The man that he respects the most is a guy who
used to run the KGB in Russia.
I’m not sure if that means that he is actually a mob boss, but
I am of the opinion that it is the best description of the man who lost the
2016 presidential election by 3,000,000 votes, in spite of the help provided by
his friend in Moscow.
