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left is walking down the street in bedroom slippers, wearing his pajamas beneath a bathrobe. this man is vincent and the fbi says he is the mafia boss of the richest mafia family in the country. his doctor says the man in pajamas is mentally ill not a godfather but a man with the mind of a child, afraid of the dark. he s crazy as a fox. and he has played this game for many years. the last time that gigante was arrested, in a bribery case in the early 70s, the charges were dropped, when his lawyers produced letters from psychiatrists, calling him a schizophrenic, with little chance of recovery. gigante has even been hospitalized here from time to time. his younger brother, a catholic priest on the right, walking down the street with gigante in these photos, says gigante is a sick man, too sick to talk with us. the priest called the fbi s version stupid. police insist that gigante is a mastermind. a smart man would be smart enough to act a little crazy. just befor ....
do you the right thing. that reportedly was part of the message sent to white house aide, cassidy hutchinson, ahead of her questioning of the january six committee. nbc news has confirmed she received at least one of the messages on tuesdays here ring on potential witness intimidation. here is a reminder of what it said. this is a call received by one of our witnesses. quote, a person let me know you have your deposition tomorrow. he wants me to let you know that he s thinking about you. he knows you re loyal, and you will do the right thing when you go in for your deposition. according to a source familiar with hutchinson s deposition, that person referenced there is your former boss, mark meadows. a spokesperson for trump s former white house chief of staff says, no one from meadows camp, himself or otherwise, has ever attempted to intimidate or shape miss hutchinson s testimony to the committee. it is worth remembering, meadows has yet to appear before the panel, ....
Chin gigante was sentenced to 12 years in prison on charges of racketeering and conspiracy to commit murder. when vincent gigante died in 2005, the new york times wrote, federal bureau of investigation agents and federal and state prosecutors regarded mr. gigante as the most elusive mafia leader of his era and the most difficult to bring to trial. vincent gigante went to great lengths to keep up the appearance that he was suffering from severe mental illness and therefore could not be the head of a notorious crime family. and part of the reason it was so difficult to expose that ruse was that at the time, mafia cases like the one brought against vincent gigante were rife with witness tampering. witnesses against major crime bosses were regularly intimidated out of testifying under veiled threats and bribery. and a decade before vincent gigante, a witness who is supposed to testify against the famous mob boss john gotti ....
Loyalty to the law, but by dangling certain rewards and punishments to backup such demands. mobsters use the threat of whacking potential cooperators to keep everyone in line. the president had the power to pardon, to reward those who stayed loyal. and here s the thing. when andrew weissmann talks about mob-like behavior, he knows of what he speaks. the federal prosecutor, who led the case, against vincent vinny the chin gigante, all those years ago, was none other than andrew weissmann. so, when we start to grapple with what looks like yet another instance of potential trump world witness tampering, there is only one person who has the kind of unique experience to tell us how we should be thinking about this. joining us now is andrew weissmann, former fbi general counsel, former senior member of special counsel robert mueller s investigative team. ....
Embarrassed prosecutors and surprised everyone when he got on the stand and suddenly couldn t remember if john gotti was one of the people who had robbed him. the new york post ran the story that day under the headline, i forgotti. but in the case against vinny the chin, witnesses did in fact come forward to testify. they were granted government protection. many of them ended up in the federal witness protection program. and eventually, prosecutors were able to paint a vivid, firsthand picture of gigante s notorious mob activities and reveal the fact that he was the boss of the genovese crime family, the so-called ivy league of the five crime families active in new york at the time. the experience of those federal prosecutors trying to pin down vinny the chin feels like an instructive piece of history for the january 6th committee as they continue to bring their case against the former president with his own mafia like tendencies. ....