CNN reporting five NYC crime bosses voted on Mafia hit on Rudy in '80s

[Bozita]

Rudy won, 3 votes to 2.

This has the stench of Guiliani and his advisors all over it.

Nothing up yet on CNN's site.

[jefferson_dem]

1. This has been reported by several outlets - -

Lookie who's seated just below Ghoul in the picture --



In 1987, when Rudolph Giuliani was still the aggressive United States attorney in Manhattan, he came within single vote of having a contract put on his head by the leaders of the five New York organized crime families, according to an F.B.I. memo read in a Brooklyn courtroom yesterday.

“That was one vote I won I guess,” Mr. Giuliani said this morning on Mike Gallagher’s syndicated radio show.

The vote was taken during the famous “commission case” in which Mr. Giuliani and Michael Chertoff, who is now homeland security chief, prosecuted the five families as a single criminal enterprise.

http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/10/25/crime-bosses-considered-hit-on-giuliani/?hp

[Bozita]

2. Looks like Emperor Ming from the original Buck Rogers of the '30s

[AlCzervik]

3. oh yeah, i'm 9/11iani will be using this to his advantage.

[tridim]

4. Why would NYC crime bosses whack one of their own?

[WCGreen]

5. And....

He was a federal prosecutor...

It goes with the job...

[monmouth]

6. A window of opportunity lost......eom

[Basileus Basileon]

7. Giuliani: "Gee, I wonder how they found out about that."

"I'm sure that the crime bosses all decided that they'd tell CNN on their own. My camp had nothing to do with this being leaked and reported as news. I would never try to manipulate opinion of me in such an obvious fashion."

*brrrring-brrrring-brrring*

"Oh, hold on. It's my wife."

[frylock]

8. lol..

welcome to the board! :rofl: