5 Replies to “Gagliano Comes To Aid Of Accomplice”
Is it any wonder?
As Ezra L. wrote the other day:
“Not too long ago, the New York Daily News reported an FBI informant tagged Gagliano as a “made member” of the Bonanno crime family. One shouldn’t put too much stock in the words of a criminal who has cut a deal with police. But why would a New York mobster make up a story about a Canadian politician?
Why did Gagliano intervene to help the wife of Gaetano Amodeo, a mafia hitman, immigrate to Canada?
Why did the RCMP warn Jean Chretien against appointing Gagliano to cabinet in 1993?
How did Gagliano come to be an accountant for companies owned by Agostino Cuntrera, a man later jailed on conspiracy charges for the killing of Paolo Violi, a Montreal mafioso?
Is it credible that a sophisticated man such as Gagliano didn’t know who he was dealing with in Cuntrera and Amodeo?
Is it credible Chretien didn’t know who he was dealing with in Gagliano?
Is it credible Paul Martin didn’t know either — as recently as last summer, when he recorded a video greeting to Gagliano, calling him a great man and a great political leader?
Gagliano calls such questions anti-Italian — so does Joe Volpe, the immigration minister, who called the Libranos poster anti-Italian.
Nom they’re not anti-Italian. They’re anti-criminal.
Take it from another Italian-Canadian: Giuliano Zaccardelli, commissioner of the RCMP. In a news conference in 2000, Zaccardelli warned that the mafia was reaching into Parliament.
“We are seeing signs of criminal organizations that are so sophisticated that they actually are focusing on destabilizing certain aspects of our society. … There are criminal organizations that target this destabilization of our parliamentary system,” he told reporters.
This is too big for the Gomery inquiry, which is limited to the sponsorship program. Gomery has no authority to follow trails of criminal influence outside the sponsorship programs. For example, he disallowed questions about corrupt appointments to the judiciary.
AdScam is only the tip of the Libranos’ iceberg. No wonder Daniel Dezainde cried on the witness stand.” http://www.canoe.ca/NewsStand/Columnists/Calgary/Ezra_Levant/2005/05/16/1041373.html
Dang. I was looking forward to Version 2.
A good example of this would be the marijuana laws in Canada. Should legalization and distribution occur the same as alcohol and tobacco are currently, organized crime would be cut out of Billions!! Just think, all that money could go to tax cuts! Each person currently pays a good percentage of their taxes to allowing the organized crime elements to control all of this money being spent regardless of the current laws.
Next time a bill such as this comes across the floor, you might consider who’s interest it really serves to defeat it.
By the way, I’m shocked, surprised and outraged that organized crime could somehow be involved with a political corruption scandal – who’d have thunk it?
It’s hard to watch them flailing about as they slip under. They’re like dinosaurs in the tar pits. Poor things. Ho-hum, they just couldn’t adapt.
When GAGlaino first got outed by the press, it wasn’t for Adscum. He immediately demanded to be made ‘Ambassador to the Vatican’- they have no extradition treaties with any country, (but it depends on how much money you throw at them, first)
Is it any wonder?
As Ezra L. wrote the other day:
“Not too long ago, the New York Daily News reported an FBI informant tagged Gagliano as a “made member” of the Bonanno crime family. One shouldn’t put too much stock in the words of a criminal who has cut a deal with police. But why would a New York mobster make up a story about a Canadian politician?
Why did Gagliano intervene to help the wife of Gaetano Amodeo, a mafia hitman, immigrate to Canada?
Why did the RCMP warn Jean Chretien against appointing Gagliano to cabinet in 1993?
How did Gagliano come to be an accountant for companies owned by Agostino Cuntrera, a man later jailed on conspiracy charges for the killing of Paolo Violi, a Montreal mafioso?
Is it credible that a sophisticated man such as Gagliano didn’t know who he was dealing with in Cuntrera and Amodeo?
Is it credible Chretien didn’t know who he was dealing with in Gagliano?
Is it credible Paul Martin didn’t know either — as recently as last summer, when he recorded a video greeting to Gagliano, calling him a great man and a great political leader?
Gagliano calls such questions anti-Italian — so does Joe Volpe, the immigration minister, who called the Libranos poster anti-Italian.
Nom they’re not anti-Italian. They’re anti-criminal.
Take it from another Italian-Canadian: Giuliano Zaccardelli, commissioner of the RCMP. In a news conference in 2000, Zaccardelli warned that the mafia was reaching into Parliament.
“We are seeing signs of criminal organizations that are so sophisticated that they actually are focusing on destabilizing certain aspects of our society. … There are criminal organizations that target this destabilization of our parliamentary system,” he told reporters.
This is too big for the Gomery inquiry, which is limited to the sponsorship program. Gomery has no authority to follow trails of criminal influence outside the sponsorship programs. For example, he disallowed questions about corrupt appointments to the judiciary.
AdScam is only the tip of the Libranos’ iceberg. No wonder Daniel Dezainde cried on the witness stand.”
http://www.canoe.ca/NewsStand/Columnists/Calgary/Ezra_Levant/2005/05/16/1041373.html
Dang. I was looking forward to Version 2.
A good example of this would be the marijuana laws in Canada. Should legalization and distribution occur the same as alcohol and tobacco are currently, organized crime would be cut out of Billions!! Just think, all that money could go to tax cuts! Each person currently pays a good percentage of their taxes to allowing the organized crime elements to control all of this money being spent regardless of the current laws.
Next time a bill such as this comes across the floor, you might consider who’s interest it really serves to defeat it.
By the way, I’m shocked, surprised and outraged that organized crime could somehow be involved with a political corruption scandal – who’d have thunk it?
It’s hard to watch them flailing about as they slip under. They’re like dinosaurs in the tar pits. Poor things. Ho-hum, they just couldn’t adapt.
When GAGlaino first got outed by the press, it wasn’t for Adscum. He immediately demanded to be made ‘Ambassador to the Vatican’- they have no extradition treaties with any country, (but it depends on how much money you throw at them, first)