Accused of Killing a Gambino Mob Boss, He's Presenting a Novel Defense

[Zorro]

Four days after pulling off the most high-profile mob killing in decades, Anthony Comello sat down with New York Police Department detectives and told them that the C.I.A. had infiltrated the Mafia. And, he added, the government was spying on him.

He had put his phone in a copper bag to protect it from “satellites,” he told them, and Democratic operatives in Washington were doing business with Joaquín Guzmán Loera, the Mexican drug kingpin known as El Chapo.

In the nine months since that conversation, Mr. Comello, 25, has claimed to his lawyer that he killed Francesco Cali because the mob boss was part of “the deep state,” a member of a liberal cabal working to undermine President Trump.

At one court appearance, Mr. Comello scrawled on his hand a symbol and phrases associated with the far-right conspiracy theory, “QAnon.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/06/nyregion/gambino-shooting-anthony-comello-qanon.html

[JustAnotherGen]

1. He's nucking futs

He still murdered Mr. Cali.

[struggle4progress]

2. "The mob wants to kill me because I've found more evidence that Hillary had The Alien's love-child"

[JHB]

3. "and that the Benghazi talking points were changed by none other than... Vince Foster!"

DUN DUN DUNnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn!

[marble falls]

4. Colorful chap, eh what! The Mafia may not be deep state but it certainly is deep modern culture, ...

add a little RW conspiracy to it and the opportunity for some big laughs is rife.

[gratuitous]

5. A bold and calculated defense

I'm confident this lunatic ranting will resonate in certain quarters. Look for a "Free Anthony" demonstration soon.

[C_U_L8R]

6. Can't blame him for trying

this deep-state q-nonsense is fooling a third of the country and potentially some juries