NY Mafia 'Planned to Assassinate Rudy Giuliani'

[conlor]

New York mafia bosses plotted to assassinate Rudy Giuliani in 1986, when he was a mob-busting federal prosecutor, according to testimony in the murder trial of a former FBI agent.

Mr Giuliani narrowly escaped death after bosses from the city's five mafia families voted on a 3-2 margin not to hit the future mayor.

Details of the plot - which never took shape - were given to ex-FBI agent Roy Lindley DeVecchio by the late Gregory Scarpa Sr., an FBI informant known as the Grim Reaper, according to the testimony of FBI agent William Bolinder in Brooklyn supreme court.

DeVecchio, 67, faces life in prison for allegedly arranging at least four killings by leaking information to his own informant.

He has pleaded not guilty to four counts of murder in what prosecutors have called one of the worst law enforcement corruption cases in US history. At DeVecchio's request, the trial is being heard by a judge and not a jury.

Before becoming mayor of New York, Mr Giuliani made his name as a high-profile mob prosecutor.

In the same year mobsters purportedly discussed the hit, the future Republican presidential candidate indicted the heads of the five families in the celebrated "Commission" trial.

NY mafia 'planned to assassinate Rudy Giuliani' - Telegraph

[Woodmonkey]

He was a good prosecuter so this doesn't surprise me.

[sabadgeman]

He recently featured here on the news for supposedly getting his facts wrong about the NHS. The Labour Party loons did not dispute his conclusions just that he used outdated facts!