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Mob Watch: Hit Man Robert Mormando Admits to Being Gay, Renounces Membership in Gambino Family
Tuesday, October 20, 2009 at 1:00 pm
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| Junior Gotti is on trial for racketeering and murder |
Mormando testified to being the shooter in the 2003 attempted hit on Queens baker Angelo Mugnolo, who was shot in his driveway. He said the attack was ordered by Vincent Gotti, Junior Gotti's uncle, who believed Mugnolo was having an affair with his wife.
The contract came but a month after Mormando was sworn into the Gambino Family. Vincent Gotti, his nephew Richard, and Angelo Ruggiero Jr. have already pleaded to conspiracy in the case...
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| New Jersey Mafioso John D'Amato was murdered in 1992 for being bisexual |
The Mafia has always done business with gay people. Mafiosi owned the infamous Stonewall Inn in New York, where a 1969 riot became a touchstone in the gay rights movement. But mobsters have never been big on admitted gay men into their ranks.
John D'Amato, a ranking figure in New Jersey's DeCavalcante Family, was murdered in 1992 for being bisexual. Anthony Capo, who later turned state's witness, confessed to shooting D'Amato in the back seat of a car.
D'Amato's girlfriend "told me John D'Amato and her were going to sex clubs in the city, swapping partners and John was engaging in homosexual activity," Capo testified. "It shocked me . . . He couldn't be acting that way - he was a leader of men... Nobody's going to respect us if we have a gay homosexual boss sitting down discussing La Cosa Nostra business."
The tale later became a storyline on The Sopranos.
Because of his assistance to the government, Mormando was able to walk on the murder charge without prison time.
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