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Jul 21, 2019 21:21:54   #
moldyoldy
 
As his pickup truck roared toward the Todt Hill section of Staten Island, Anthony Comello had no intention of k*****g a mob boss.

He wanted only to arrest him, his lawyer said in new court documents.
The details of what happened next are well known. Mr. Comello, 24, arrived at the home of Francesco (Franky Boy) Cali, a leader in the Gambino crime family, and lured him outside. The men spoke briefly. Then prosecutors say Mr. Comello pulled a gun from his car and shot Mr. Cali, leaving him to die in the street.



Mr. Comello, an aimless young man who lived with his parents on Staten Island, was arrested three days later and charged with murder.
But court documents filed on Friday offered a glimpse into the deeply troubled mind of Mr. Comello, who his defense lawyer says was so deluded by internet conspiracy theories that he was determined to conduct a citizen’s arrest of Mr. Cali and turn the Mafia leader over to the military.
“He ardently believed that Francesco Cali, a boss in the Gambino crime family, was a prominent member of the deep state, and, accordingly, an appropriate target for a citizen’s arrest,” wrote Mr. Comello’s lawyer, Robert C. Gottlieb.
At times, the circumstances of Mr. Cali’s demise have seemed so outlandish that they appeared specially designed for these v***l times. But a clearer picture is emerging of how the tale’s incongruous pieces — a mob boss, a drifter from Staten Island and a far-right conspiracy theory — may fit together.
Mr. Cali’s murder was the highest-profile mob k*****g in decades, an event so significant that in the days between Mr. Cali’s death and Mr. Comello’s arrest, speculation surged that a new war was brewing among New York’s five Mafia families.
The reality, according to his lawyer, appears to be even more bizarre: Mr. Comello had become convinced that Mr. Cali was part of the so-called deep state, a cabal of criminals that conspiracy theorists claim controls the United States government. Mr. Comello also believed he was a chosen vigilante of President Trump.
“Mr. Comello became certain that he was enjoying the protection of President Trump himself, and that he had the president’s full support,” Mr. Gottlieb wrote.
That delusion will be part of a package of evidence that Mr. Gottlieb says he plans to submit to the court that prove Mr. Comello is not guilty by reason of mental defect. Mr. Gottlieb is seeking to have the court place Mr. Comello in psychiatric treatment, rather than prosecute him on murder charges. Mr. Comello is being held in protective custody as he awaits trial.
Prosecutors in the Staten Island district attorney’s office declined to comment.
Mr. Comello took handcuffs with him to Todt Hill on March 13, Mr. Gottlieb said, but his plan was foiled when Mr. Cali refused to submit to a citizen’s arrest. Instead, Mr. Gottlieb said, the Gambino leader reached toward his waistband. Fearing for his life, Mr. Comello shot Mr. Cali 10 times and fled, Mr. Gottlieb said.
Q***n, a baseless conspiracy theory that originated on internet message boards, played a key role in Mr. Comello’s descent into mental instability, his lawyer said. It claims, among other things, that America is controlled by a “deep state,” that prominent Democratic politicians are p*******es and that John F. Kennedy Jr., who died in a 1999 plane crash, is secretly alive and will run for president in 2020.
At Mr. Comello’s first court appearance in March, he displayed symbols and phrases associated with Q***n scrawled on his hand in pen. He first discovered the conspiracy theory, Mr. Gottlieb said, in the weeks after Mr. Trump’s 2016 e******n.
“Mr. Comello’s support for ‘Q***n’ went beyond mere participation in a radical political organization,” Mr. Gottlieb wrote. “It evolved into a delusional obsession.”
Driven by that obsession, Mr. Gottlieb said, Mr. Comello began early this year to attempt citizen’s arrests of people he believed to be associated with the deep state. In February, Mr. Comello twice tried to conduct his own arrest of Mayor Bill de Blasio, including one instance in which he showed up at Gracie Mansion, the mayoral home in Manhattan.
Not long after that incident, Mr. Comello sought the help of United States marshals at Federal District Court in Manhattan, and asked that they help him to arrest two California Democrats, Representatives Maxine Waters and Adam Schiff, both of whom he believed were in the vicinity. He was rebuffed.
Both incidents were confirmed by law enforcement officials.
He was also posting and sharing conspiracy theories online that are associated with the far-right, and was engaging with other Q***n believers on the internet, according to social media accounts linked to Mr. Comello from around the same time.
Mr. Gottlieb identified one of Mr. Comello’s accounts, RealAmericasVoice_ on Instagram, in his filing. The page has dozens of memes and written screeds, some that are difficult to decipher, including several posted days before Mr. Cali’s death.
One post accuses Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Democrat of California, of being a f*****t. “Patriot sleeper cells are awake,” he wrote in another. Yet another refers to Bill and Hillary Clinton as “The Clinton Crime Family.”
How Mr. Comello came to associate Mr. Cali or the Gambino crime family with such theories remains unclear. Typically, the conspiracy group targets Democratic political figures, not the Mafia.
But Mr. Gottlieb said he believed Mr. Comello had encountered posts online that suggested Mafia figures like Mr. Cali were also connected to the deep state.
Mr. Gottlieb said on Saturday that he was sifting through “thousands and thousands” of messages, posts and forums that he said Mr. Comello might have engaged with.
The defense lawyer is also asking a judge to order prosecutors to provide details about anything found in Mr. Cali’s home or car when they were searched after the shooting, including whether any weapons were found on or near Mr. Cali’s body.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/he-wasnt-seeking-to-k**l-a-mob-boss-he-was-trying-to-help-trump-his-lawyer-says/ar-AAEED4e?li=BBnb7Kz

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Jul 21, 2019 21:46:27   #
karpenter Loc: Headin' Fer Da Hills !!
 
Can You Do Something
Besides Cut & Paste An Article Because It Has The Word 'Trump' In It ??

Explain In Your Own Words
What Exactly, The Point Of This Is ??

Are You As Delusional As Mr. Comello

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Jul 21, 2019 22:03:36   #
moldyoldy
 
karpenter wrote:
Can You Do Something
Besides Cut & Paste An Article Because It Has The Word 'Trump' In It ??

Explain In Your Own Words
What Exactly, The Point Of This Is ??

Are You As Delusional As Mr. Comello


Maybe you can get someone to read it to you

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Jul 21, 2019 22:24:14   #
karpenter Loc: Headin' Fer Da Hills !!
 
moldyoldy wrote:
Maybe you can get someone to read it to you

Did You Read It ??
How Am I To Know

Explain In Your Own Words
What Exactly, You Think The Point Of This Story Is
Or It's A Boring Waste Of My Time

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Jul 21, 2019 23:07:39   #
moldyoldy
 
karpenter wrote:
Did You Read It ??
How Am I To Know

Explain In Your Own Words
What Exactly, You Think The Point Of This Story Is
Or It's A Boring Waste Of My Time


Another crazy trump supporter who thinks he can help trump by k*****g a mob boss, and thinks the mob boss is part of the deep state. The real story is all the i***ts coming out of the woodwork to worship trump.

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Jul 21, 2019 23:11:08   #
Michael Rich Loc: Lapine Oregon
 
moldyoldy wrote:
As his pickup truck roared toward the Todt Hill section of Staten Island, Anthony Comello had no intention of k*****g a mob boss.

He wanted only to arrest him, his lawyer said in new court documents.
The details of what happened next are well known. Mr. Comello, 24, arrived at the home of Francesco (Franky Boy) Cali, a leader in the Gambino crime family, and lured him outside. The men spoke briefly. Then prosecutors say Mr. Comello pulled a gun from his car and shot Mr. Cali, leaving him to die in the street.



Mr. Comello, an aimless young man who lived with his parents on Staten Island, was arrested three days later and charged with murder.
But court documents filed on Friday offered a glimpse into the deeply troubled mind of Mr. Comello, who his defense lawyer says was so deluded by internet conspiracy theories that he was determined to conduct a citizen’s arrest of Mr. Cali and turn the Mafia leader over to the military.
“He ardently believed that Francesco Cali, a boss in the Gambino crime family, was a prominent member of the deep state, and, accordingly, an appropriate target for a citizen’s arrest,” wrote Mr. Comello’s lawyer, Robert C. Gottlieb.
At times, the circumstances of Mr. Cali’s demise have seemed so outlandish that they appeared specially designed for these v***l times. But a clearer picture is emerging of how the tale’s incongruous pieces — a mob boss, a drifter from Staten Island and a far-right conspiracy theory — may fit together.
Mr. Cali’s murder was the highest-profile mob k*****g in decades, an event so significant that in the days between Mr. Cali’s death and Mr. Comello’s arrest, speculation surged that a new war was brewing among New York’s five Mafia families.
The reality, according to his lawyer, appears to be even more bizarre: Mr. Comello had become convinced that Mr. Cali was part of the so-called deep state, a cabal of criminals that conspiracy theorists claim controls the United States government. Mr. Comello also believed he was a chosen vigilante of President Trump.
“Mr. Comello became certain that he was enjoying the protection of President Trump himself, and that he had the president’s full support,” Mr. Gottlieb wrote.
That delusion will be part of a package of evidence that Mr. Gottlieb says he plans to submit to the court that prove Mr. Comello is not guilty by reason of mental defect. Mr. Gottlieb is seeking to have the court place Mr. Comello in psychiatric treatment, rather than prosecute him on murder charges. Mr. Comello is being held in protective custody as he awaits trial.
Prosecutors in the Staten Island district attorney’s office declined to comment.
Mr. Comello took handcuffs with him to Todt Hill on March 13, Mr. Gottlieb said, but his plan was foiled when Mr. Cali refused to submit to a citizen’s arrest. Instead, Mr. Gottlieb said, the Gambino leader reached toward his waistband. Fearing for his life, Mr. Comello shot Mr. Cali 10 times and fled, Mr. Gottlieb said.
Q***n, a baseless conspiracy theory that originated on internet message boards, played a key role in Mr. Comello’s descent into mental instability, his lawyer said. It claims, among other things, that America is controlled by a “deep state,” that prominent Democratic politicians are p*******es and that John F. Kennedy Jr., who died in a 1999 plane crash, is secretly alive and will run for president in 2020.
At Mr. Comello’s first court appearance in March, he displayed symbols and phrases associated with Q***n scrawled on his hand in pen. He first discovered the conspiracy theory, Mr. Gottlieb said, in the weeks after Mr. Trump’s 2016 e******n.
“Mr. Comello’s support for ‘Q***n’ went beyond mere participation in a radical political organization,” Mr. Gottlieb wrote. “It evolved into a delusional obsession.”
Driven by that obsession, Mr. Gottlieb said, Mr. Comello began early this year to attempt citizen’s arrests of people he believed to be associated with the deep state. In February, Mr. Comello twice tried to conduct his own arrest of Mayor Bill de Blasio, including one instance in which he showed up at Gracie Mansion, the mayoral home in Manhattan.
Not long after that incident, Mr. Comello sought the help of United States marshals at Federal District Court in Manhattan, and asked that they help him to arrest two California Democrats, Representatives Maxine Waters and Adam Schiff, both of whom he believed were in the vicinity. He was rebuffed.
Both incidents were confirmed by law enforcement officials.
He was also posting and sharing conspiracy theories online that are associated with the far-right, and was engaging with other Q***n believers on the internet, according to social media accounts linked to Mr. Comello from around the same time.
Mr. Gottlieb identified one of Mr. Comello’s accounts, RealAmericasVoice_ on Instagram, in his filing. The page has dozens of memes and written screeds, some that are difficult to decipher, including several posted days before Mr. Cali’s death.
One post accuses Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Democrat of California, of being a f*****t. “Patriot sleeper cells are awake,” he wrote in another. Yet another refers to Bill and Hillary Clinton as “The Clinton Crime Family.”
How Mr. Comello came to associate Mr. Cali or the Gambino crime family with such theories remains unclear. Typically, the conspiracy group targets Democratic political figures, not the Mafia.
But Mr. Gottlieb said he believed Mr. Comello had encountered posts online that suggested Mafia figures like Mr. Cali were also connected to the deep state.
Mr. Gottlieb said on Saturday that he was sifting through “thousands and thousands” of messages, posts and forums that he said Mr. Comello might have engaged with.
The defense lawyer is also asking a judge to order prosecutors to provide details about anything found in Mr. Cali’s home or car when they were searched after the shooting, including whether any weapons were found on or near Mr. Cali’s body.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/he-wasnt-seeking-to-k**l-a-mob-boss-he-was-trying-to-help-trump-his-lawyer-says/ar-AAEED4e?li=BBnb7Kz
As his pickup truck roared toward the Todt Hill se... (show quote)


So the authorities knew full well that this guy is a loose cannon but let him run amuck ?

Sounds like the same MO of the liberal weirdo who shot up the Parkland school in Broward Co. Florida.

Nicolas Cruz had set a dangerous pattern right out in front of public safety officials and they just ignored his potential for violence.

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Jul 22, 2019 00:37:26   #
Seth
 
moldyoldy wrote:
As his pickup truck roared toward the Todt Hill section of Staten Island, Anthony Comello had no intention of k*****g a mob boss.

He wanted only to arrest him, his lawyer said in new court documents.
The details of what happened next are well known. Mr. Comello, 24, arrived at the home of Francesco (Franky Boy) Cali, a leader in the Gambino crime family, and lured him outside. The men spoke briefly. Then prosecutors say Mr. Comello pulled a gun from his car and shot Mr. Cali, leaving him to die in the street.



Mr. Comello, an aimless young man who lived with his parents on Staten Island, was arrested three days later and charged with murder.
But court documents filed on Friday offered a glimpse into the deeply troubled mind of Mr. Comello, who his defense lawyer says was so deluded by internet conspiracy theories that he was determined to conduct a citizen’s arrest of Mr. Cali and turn the Mafia leader over to the military.
“He ardently believed that Francesco Cali, a boss in the Gambino crime family, was a prominent member of the deep state, and, accordingly, an appropriate target for a citizen’s arrest,” wrote Mr. Comello’s lawyer, Robert C. Gottlieb.
At times, the circumstances of Mr. Cali’s demise have seemed so outlandish that they appeared specially designed for these v***l times. But a clearer picture is emerging of how the tale’s incongruous pieces — a mob boss, a drifter from Staten Island and a far-right conspiracy theory — may fit together.
Mr. Cali’s murder was the highest-profile mob k*****g in decades, an event so significant that in the days between Mr. Cali’s death and Mr. Comello’s arrest, speculation surged that a new war was brewing among New York’s five Mafia families.
The reality, according to his lawyer, appears to be even more bizarre: Mr. Comello had become convinced that Mr. Cali was part of the so-called deep state, a cabal of criminals that conspiracy theorists claim controls the United States government. Mr. Comello also believed he was a chosen vigilante of President Trump.
“Mr. Comello became certain that he was enjoying the protection of President Trump himself, and that he had the president’s full support,” Mr. Gottlieb wrote.
That delusion will be part of a package of evidence that Mr. Gottlieb says he plans to submit to the court that prove Mr. Comello is not guilty by reason of mental defect. Mr. Gottlieb is seeking to have the court place Mr. Comello in psychiatric treatment, rather than prosecute him on murder charges. Mr. Comello is being held in protective custody as he awaits trial.
Prosecutors in the Staten Island district attorney’s office declined to comment.
Mr. Comello took handcuffs with him to Todt Hill on March 13, Mr. Gottlieb said, but his plan was foiled when Mr. Cali refused to submit to a citizen’s arrest. Instead, Mr. Gottlieb said, the Gambino leader reached toward his waistband. Fearing for his life, Mr. Comello shot Mr. Cali 10 times and fled, Mr. Gottlieb said.
Q***n, a baseless conspiracy theory that originated on internet message boards, played a key role in Mr. Comello’s descent into mental instability, his lawyer said. It claims, among other things, that America is controlled by a “deep state,” that prominent Democratic politicians are p*******es and that John F. Kennedy Jr., who died in a 1999 plane crash, is secretly alive and will run for president in 2020.
At Mr. Comello’s first court appearance in March, he displayed symbols and phrases associated with Q***n scrawled on his hand in pen. He first discovered the conspiracy theory, Mr. Gottlieb said, in the weeks after Mr. Trump’s 2016 e******n.
“Mr. Comello’s support for ‘Q***n’ went beyond mere participation in a radical political organization,” Mr. Gottlieb wrote. “It evolved into a delusional obsession.”
Driven by that obsession, Mr. Gottlieb said, Mr. Comello began early this year to attempt citizen’s arrests of people he believed to be associated with the deep state. In February, Mr. Comello twice tried to conduct his own arrest of Mayor Bill de Blasio, including one instance in which he showed up at Gracie Mansion, the mayoral home in Manhattan.
Not long after that incident, Mr. Comello sought the help of United States marshals at Federal District Court in Manhattan, and asked that they help him to arrest two California Democrats, Representatives Maxine Waters and Adam Schiff, both of whom he believed were in the vicinity. He was rebuffed.
Both incidents were confirmed by law enforcement officials.
He was also posting and sharing conspiracy theories online that are associated with the far-right, and was engaging with other Q***n believers on the internet, according to social media accounts linked to Mr. Comello from around the same time.
Mr. Gottlieb identified one of Mr. Comello’s accounts, RealAmericasVoice_ on Instagram, in his filing. The page has dozens of memes and written screeds, some that are difficult to decipher, including several posted days before Mr. Cali’s death.
One post accuses Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Democrat of California, of being a f*****t. “Patriot sleeper cells are awake,” he wrote in another. Yet another refers to Bill and Hillary Clinton as “The Clinton Crime Family.”
How Mr. Comello came to associate Mr. Cali or the Gambino crime family with such theories remains unclear. Typically, the conspiracy group targets Democratic political figures, not the Mafia.
But Mr. Gottlieb said he believed Mr. Comello had encountered posts online that suggested Mafia figures like Mr. Cali were also connected to the deep state.
Mr. Gottlieb said on Saturday that he was sifting through “thousands and thousands” of messages, posts and forums that he said Mr. Comello might have engaged with.
The defense lawyer is also asking a judge to order prosecutors to provide details about anything found in Mr. Cali’s home or car when they were searched after the shooting, including whether any weapons were found on or near Mr. Cali’s body.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/he-wasnt-seeking-to-k**l-a-mob-boss-he-was-trying-to-help-trump-his-lawyer-says/ar-AAEED4e?li=BBnb7Kz
As his pickup truck roared toward the Todt Hill se... (show quote)


Q***n said that JFK was assassinated by the deep state, I don't know where MSN came up with the "plane crash/will run again in 2020" rubbish.

As for the rest, the article was from one of the prime TDS networks and as we all know, any even remotely negative mention of President Trump gets you instantly into steppin' and fetchin' mode.

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Jul 22, 2019 01:32:16   #
BigMike Loc: yerington nv
 
moldyoldy wrote:
As his pickup truck roared toward the Todt Hill section of Staten Island, Anthony Comello had no intention of k*****g a mob boss.

He wanted only to arrest him, his lawyer said in new court documents.
The details of what happened next are well known. Mr. Comello, 24, arrived at the home of Francesco (Franky Boy) Cali, a leader in the Gambino crime family, and lured him outside. The men spoke briefly. Then prosecutors say Mr. Comello pulled a gun from his car and shot Mr. Cali, leaving him to die in the street.



Mr. Comello, an aimless young man who lived with his parents on Staten Island, was arrested three days later and charged with murder.
But court documents filed on Friday offered a glimpse into the deeply troubled mind of Mr. Comello, who his defense lawyer says was so deluded by internet conspiracy theories that he was determined to conduct a citizen’s arrest of Mr. Cali and turn the Mafia leader over to the military.
“He ardently believed that Francesco Cali, a boss in the Gambino crime family, was a prominent member of the deep state, and, accordingly, an appropriate target for a citizen’s arrest,” wrote Mr. Comello’s lawyer, Robert C. Gottlieb.
At times, the circumstances of Mr. Cali’s demise have seemed so outlandish that they appeared specially designed for these v***l times. But a clearer picture is emerging of how the tale’s incongruous pieces — a mob boss, a drifter from Staten Island and a far-right conspiracy theory — may fit together.
Mr. Cali’s murder was the highest-profile mob k*****g in decades, an event so significant that in the days between Mr. Cali’s death and Mr. Comello’s arrest, speculation surged that a new war was brewing among New York’s five Mafia families.
The reality, according to his lawyer, appears to be even more bizarre: Mr. Comello had become convinced that Mr. Cali was part of the so-called deep state, a cabal of criminals that conspiracy theorists claim controls the United States government. Mr. Comello also believed he was a chosen vigilante of President Trump.
“Mr. Comello became certain that he was enjoying the protection of President Trump himself, and that he had the president’s full support,” Mr. Gottlieb wrote.
That delusion will be part of a package of evidence that Mr. Gottlieb says he plans to submit to the court that prove Mr. Comello is not guilty by reason of mental defect. Mr. Gottlieb is seeking to have the court place Mr. Comello in psychiatric treatment, rather than prosecute him on murder charges. Mr. Comello is being held in protective custody as he awaits trial.
Prosecutors in the Staten Island district attorney’s office declined to comment.
Mr. Comello took handcuffs with him to Todt Hill on March 13, Mr. Gottlieb said, but his plan was foiled when Mr. Cali refused to submit to a citizen’s arrest. Instead, Mr. Gottlieb said, the Gambino leader reached toward his waistband. Fearing for his life, Mr. Comello shot Mr. Cali 10 times and fled, Mr. Gottlieb said.
Q***n, a baseless conspiracy theory that originated on internet message boards, played a key role in Mr. Comello’s descent into mental instability, his lawyer said. It claims, among other things, that America is controlled by a “deep state,” that prominent Democratic politicians are p*******es and that John F. Kennedy Jr., who died in a 1999 plane crash, is secretly alive and will run for president in 2020.
At Mr. Comello’s first court appearance in March, he displayed symbols and phrases associated with Q***n scrawled on his hand in pen. He first discovered the conspiracy theory, Mr. Gottlieb said, in the weeks after Mr. Trump’s 2016 e******n.
“Mr. Comello’s support for ‘Q***n’ went beyond mere participation in a radical political organization,” Mr. Gottlieb wrote. “It evolved into a delusional obsession.”
Driven by that obsession, Mr. Gottlieb said, Mr. Comello began early this year to attempt citizen’s arrests of people he believed to be associated with the deep state. In February, Mr. Comello twice tried to conduct his own arrest of Mayor Bill de Blasio, including one instance in which he showed up at Gracie Mansion, the mayoral home in Manhattan.
Not long after that incident, Mr. Comello sought the help of United States marshals at Federal District Court in Manhattan, and asked that they help him to arrest two California Democrats, Representatives Maxine Waters and Adam Schiff, both of whom he believed were in the vicinity. He was rebuffed.
Both incidents were confirmed by law enforcement officials.
He was also posting and sharing conspiracy theories online that are associated with the far-right, and was engaging with other Q***n believers on the internet, according to social media accounts linked to Mr. Comello from around the same time.
Mr. Gottlieb identified one of Mr. Comello’s accounts, RealAmericasVoice_ on Instagram, in his filing. The page has dozens of memes and written screeds, some that are difficult to decipher, including several posted days before Mr. Cali’s death.
One post accuses Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Democrat of California, of being a f*****t. “Patriot sleeper cells are awake,” he wrote in another. Yet another refers to Bill and Hillary Clinton as “The Clinton Crime Family.”
How Mr. Comello came to associate Mr. Cali or the Gambino crime family with such theories remains unclear. Typically, the conspiracy group targets Democratic political figures, not the Mafia.
But Mr. Gottlieb said he believed Mr. Comello had encountered posts online that suggested Mafia figures like Mr. Cali were also connected to the deep state.
Mr. Gottlieb said on Saturday that he was sifting through “thousands and thousands” of messages, posts and forums that he said Mr. Comello might have engaged with.
The defense lawyer is also asking a judge to order prosecutors to provide details about anything found in Mr. Cali’s home or car when they were searched after the shooting, including whether any weapons were found on or near Mr. Cali’s body.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/he-wasnt-seeking-to-k**l-a-mob-boss-he-was-trying-to-help-trump-his-lawyer-says/ar-AAEED4e?li=BBnb7Kz
As his pickup truck roared toward the Todt Hill se... (show quote)


I've been speaking about the KKKK (Klinton Krime & Korruption Kabal) for a couple of years now, have I not? It will come out. Good to see some folks catching up with me.

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Jul 22, 2019 01:34:48   #
BigMike Loc: yerington nv
 
moldyoldy wrote:
Another crazy trump supporter who thinks he can help trump by k*****g a mob boss, and thinks the mob boss is part of the deep state. The real story is all the i***ts coming out of the woodwork to worship trump.


Ah...the ancient, old, moldy, decrepit, failed "you're crazy like this guy" routine.



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Jul 22, 2019 07:29:11   #
moldyoldy
 
byronglimish wrote:
So the authorities knew full well that this guy is a loose cannon but let him run amuck ?

Sounds like the same MO of the liberal weirdo who shot up the Parkland school in Broward Co. Florida.

Nicolas Cruz had set a dangerous pattern right out in front of public safety officials and they just ignored his potential for violence.


Cruz did not have political leanings, but people like you do and you talk crazy too. You should not have any weapons.

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Jul 22, 2019 08:35:08   #
lpnmajor Loc: Arkansas
 
moldyoldy wrote:
As his pickup truck roared toward the Todt Hill section of Staten Island, Anthony Comello had no intention of k*****g a mob boss.

He wanted only to arrest him, his lawyer said in new court documents.
The details of what happened next are well known. Mr. Comello, 24, arrived at the home of Francesco (Franky Boy) Cali, a leader in the Gambino crime family, and lured him outside. The men spoke briefly. Then prosecutors say Mr. Comello pulled a gun from his car and shot Mr. Cali, leaving him to die in the street.



Mr. Comello, an aimless young man who lived with his parents on Staten Island, was arrested three days later and charged with murder.
But court documents filed on Friday offered a glimpse into the deeply troubled mind of Mr. Comello, who his defense lawyer says was so deluded by internet conspiracy theories that he was determined to conduct a citizen’s arrest of Mr. Cali and turn the Mafia leader over to the military.
“He ardently believed that Francesco Cali, a boss in the Gambino crime family, was a prominent member of the deep state, and, accordingly, an appropriate target for a citizen’s arrest,” wrote Mr. Comello’s lawyer, Robert C. Gottlieb.
At times, the circumstances of Mr. Cali’s demise have seemed so outlandish that they appeared specially designed for these v***l times. But a clearer picture is emerging of how the tale’s incongruous pieces — a mob boss, a drifter from Staten Island and a far-right conspiracy theory — may fit together.
Mr. Cali’s murder was the highest-profile mob k*****g in decades, an event so significant that in the days between Mr. Cali’s death and Mr. Comello’s arrest, speculation surged that a new war was brewing among New York’s five Mafia families.
The reality, according to his lawyer, appears to be even more bizarre: Mr. Comello had become convinced that Mr. Cali was part of the so-called deep state, a cabal of criminals that conspiracy theorists claim controls the United States government. Mr. Comello also believed he was a chosen vigilante of President Trump.
“Mr. Comello became certain that he was enjoying the protection of President Trump himself, and that he had the president’s full support,” Mr. Gottlieb wrote.
That delusion will be part of a package of evidence that Mr. Gottlieb says he plans to submit to the court that prove Mr. Comello is not guilty by reason of mental defect. Mr. Gottlieb is seeking to have the court place Mr. Comello in psychiatric treatment, rather than prosecute him on murder charges. Mr. Comello is being held in protective custody as he awaits trial.
Prosecutors in the Staten Island district attorney’s office declined to comment.
Mr. Comello took handcuffs with him to Todt Hill on March 13, Mr. Gottlieb said, but his plan was foiled when Mr. Cali refused to submit to a citizen’s arrest. Instead, Mr. Gottlieb said, the Gambino leader reached toward his waistband. Fearing for his life, Mr. Comello shot Mr. Cali 10 times and fled, Mr. Gottlieb said.
Q***n, a baseless conspiracy theory that originated on internet message boards, played a key role in Mr. Comello’s descent into mental instability, his lawyer said. It claims, among other things, that America is controlled by a “deep state,” that prominent Democratic politicians are p*******es and that John F. Kennedy Jr., who died in a 1999 plane crash, is secretly alive and will run for president in 2020.
At Mr. Comello’s first court appearance in March, he displayed symbols and phrases associated with Q***n scrawled on his hand in pen. He first discovered the conspiracy theory, Mr. Gottlieb said, in the weeks after Mr. Trump’s 2016 e******n.
“Mr. Comello’s support for ‘Q***n’ went beyond mere participation in a radical political organization,” Mr. Gottlieb wrote. “It evolved into a delusional obsession.”
Driven by that obsession, Mr. Gottlieb said, Mr. Comello began early this year to attempt citizen’s arrests of people he believed to be associated with the deep state. In February, Mr. Comello twice tried to conduct his own arrest of Mayor Bill de Blasio, including one instance in which he showed up at Gracie Mansion, the mayoral home in Manhattan.
Not long after that incident, Mr. Comello sought the help of United States marshals at Federal District Court in Manhattan, and asked that they help him to arrest two California Democrats, Representatives Maxine Waters and Adam Schiff, both of whom he believed were in the vicinity. He was rebuffed.
Both incidents were confirmed by law enforcement officials.
He was also posting and sharing conspiracy theories online that are associated with the far-right, and was engaging with other Q***n believers on the internet, according to social media accounts linked to Mr. Comello from around the same time.
Mr. Gottlieb identified one of Mr. Comello’s accounts, RealAmericasVoice_ on Instagram, in his filing. The page has dozens of memes and written screeds, some that are difficult to decipher, including several posted days before Mr. Cali’s death.
One post accuses Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Democrat of California, of being a f*****t. “Patriot sleeper cells are awake,” he wrote in another. Yet another refers to Bill and Hillary Clinton as “The Clinton Crime Family.”
How Mr. Comello came to associate Mr. Cali or the Gambino crime family with such theories remains unclear. Typically, the conspiracy group targets Democratic political figures, not the Mafia.
But Mr. Gottlieb said he believed Mr. Comello had encountered posts online that suggested Mafia figures like Mr. Cali were also connected to the deep state.
Mr. Gottlieb said on Saturday that he was sifting through “thousands and thousands” of messages, posts and forums that he said Mr. Comello might have engaged with.
The defense lawyer is also asking a judge to order prosecutors to provide details about anything found in Mr. Cali’s home or car when they were searched after the shooting, including whether any weapons were found on or near Mr. Cali’s body.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/he-wasnt-seeking-to-k**l-a-mob-boss-he-was-trying-to-help-trump-his-lawyer-says/ar-AAEED4e?li=BBnb7Kz
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When the time comes, I'm sure Trump's lawyers will use the same ploy - not guilty by reason of mental defect.

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Jul 22, 2019 10:03:47   #
Michael Rich Loc: Lapine Oregon
 
moldyoldy wrote:
Cruz did not have political leanings, but people like you do and you talk crazy too. You should not have any weapons.


That is rich coming from such an angry old #&!$@ as you.

Cruz most certainly was a unhinged progressive democratic socialist, All of broward co. Is liberal leftyville, otherwise Obama/Holder wouldn't have experimented with citizens personal saftey so easily.

Remember that Holder was preventing police action toward weirdo kids like Cruz.

Obama and Holder built Cruz as if they were right there.

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Jul 22, 2019 10:18:08   #
moldyoldy
 
byronglimish wrote:
That is rich coming from such an angry old #&!$@ as you.

Cruz most certainly was a unhinged progressive democratic socialist, All of broward co. Is liberal leftyville, otherwise Obama/Holder wouldn't have experimented with citizens personal saftey so easily.

Remember that Holder was preventing police action toward weirdo kids like Cruz.

Obama and Holder built Cruz as if they were right there.


You never get anything right. The GOP wants gun for everybody, especially the deranged.

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Jul 22, 2019 10:22:13   #
Rose42
 
lpnmajor wrote:
When the time comes, I'm sure Trump's lawyers will use the same ploy - not guilty by reason of mental defect.


Ever heard of the infamous ‘Twinkie defense’? Lol

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Jul 22, 2019 10:24:12   #
currahee506
 
Both.

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