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“Mayor Giuliani — a former federal prosecutor who won notice for ‘pursuing’ the Mafia — had relatives linked to organized crime, including a mobbed-up cousin who was gunned down by FBI agents in 1977, a new book says. Lewis D’Avanzo, a son of the mayor’s uncle and a guest at Giuliani’s first wedding in 1968, was a ‘ruthless and widely feared mob associate’ who headed a massive stolen car ring, according to FBI documents and interviews detailed in Rudy! An Investigative Biography of Rudolph Giuliani, by Village Voice senior editor Wayne Barrett. Due in stores next week, the book sketches a largely unflattering portrait of the clan, depicting his father, Harold, as a hothead and the “muscle” behind a brother-in-law’s loansharking operation, run out of a Brooklyn bar. Along with cracking heads, it says the mayor’s father served time in state prison for a stickup, rarely held an on-the-books job and once was a gunman in a mob shootout in Brighton Beach, Brooklyn. According to the book, Giuliani’s cousin Lewis D’Avanzo was known as “Steve the Blond” and listed as armed and dangerous in FBI bulletins. His criminal record included a 10-year federal sentence for the armed hijacking of a truck loaded with $240,000 worth of mercury. The book alleges that he was suspected of taking part in several murders. D’Avanzo was gunned down by the FBI in October 1977, when he tried to run down an agent after being stopped on a warrant that accused him and two associates of transporting 100 stolen luxury cars. Quoting an unnamed friend of D’Avanzo, the book describes a 1962 shootout pitting a local mobster against the mayor’s father and Leo D’Avanzo, Lewis D’Avanzo’s father. The book says Leo was later sanctioned by mob bosses for shooting at a Mafia member. Leo D’Avanzo, who was known in family circles as a black sheep, ran loansharking and gambling operations out of a Brooklyn bar where Giuliani’s father worked as a bartender. In his role as debt collector, his father ‘broke legs, smashed kneecaps, crunched noses.’ Joan Ellen D’Avanzo, a cousin who at one time lived with Giuliani when he was a youngster, became a drug addict who was beaten to death in 1973 at age 34. Her cause of death was listed as undetermined, but several family members said she was murdered.”
—Michael R. Blood, New York Daily News, “Rudy’s Kin Tied to Mob”, July 06, 2000

“The father he celebrated so often was a pathological predator. His extended family harbored a junkie, a crooked cop and a murky mob wing. He dissolved his first marriage with a lie so he could appear Catholic when he remarried. The very personal jewelry his first wife found in her bedroom wasn’t hers….”
—Wayne Barrett, Rudy!: An Investigative Biography of Rudolph Guiliani, “All in the Family: Crooks, Cops and a Junkie” (co-author of City for Sale)


Mafia mayor Rudy Giuliani and Irish mobster The Don Trump

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Originally posted by piratenews:
Wasn't Spitzer on Hillary's shortlist as VP?

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if I do the math correctly...NY State has one whore-mongering Governor, and one wife of a whore-mongerer as Senator, so much of a power-whore herself, she cannot even be honest to herself about her philandering, unfaithful "husband'.

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if I do the math correctly...NY State has one whore-mongering Governor, and one wife of a whore-mongerer as Senator, so much of a power-whore herself, she cannot even be honest to herself about her philandering, unfaithful "husband'.

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You didn't do the math correctly - you forgot that NY City also had a whore-mongerer for mayor (Giuliani) and a whore-mongerer for Police Commissioner, who was also hand-picked to be Dubya's head of Homeland Security, until the whole thing blew up in him mobbed-up face.

Apparently, whore-mongering is a bipartisan undertaking...

My problem with Spitzer isn't so much the whoring around (like Frem says, I don't care WHO they're screwin', so long as it ain't me); my problem with him - and all of those like him (Ted Haggard, Giuliani, Larry Craig, Bill Clinton, etc.) is the outright HYPOCRISY involved. This was the guy who was supposed to "clean up" New York. I guess that cleanup involved a tongue-bath, a happy ending, and a warm washcloth, eh?

I won't be sorry to see him go. Of course, he *could* have just said "I don't recall", and everything would have been just hunky-dory.

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Originally posted by Fremdfirma:
Not that I care - prostitution, like drugs, is only illegal for a bunch of ridiculous reasons that don't make sense unless you are one of those that advocates the State defining the morality and/or religious beliefs of other people.

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...and the last thing we want to see is a YouTube video of PirateNews having his way with a $10 prostitute wearing a George W. Bush mask...

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Originally posted by Righteous9:
Besides, who the hell would we have left in office, if we got rid of everybody who had an affair?

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Originally posted by arclight:
It's no big deal. The guy has a big "D" behind his name. This is nothing but criminal activity. No charges will be filed. No reason to start twisting your panties. I think the guy should actually run for President. His poor, degarded fishwife looks just like the kind of person we need as First Lady. Reminds me a bit of Hillary Rodham Clinton. But that's just me. It' 3:00am

and the band played on.

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Hero wrote:
Tuesday, March 11, 2008 05:03

.....My advice to any would be Johns out there (I mean folks going to prostitutes...if your name is John...I apologize) is to video tape your session. Movie making (porn) is considered free speech. You can pay a person to have sex in your movie, sex with you, themselves, others, your furnature, your pets (varies by state)...etc. You don't have show or even intend to show your little films to anyone, its not a consideration (kinda like painting a picture to hang on your own wall).

Just be careful were you keep your videos...they have a way of getting out and the last thing we want to see is a YouTube video of PirateNews having his way with a $10 prostitute wearing a George W. Bush mask (yes PN, our surveillance is THAT good).

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Personally I think we should have public canings for this crap.

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