Tom Papania Fraud Expose

New Law Suit DISMISSED!

Tom Papania Is A Fraud

GO: http://tompapania.info for MORE FACTS!
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Tom has been screaming that sites like this and those above are committing libel; that we are not reporting the truth --he even went as far as STATING HE HAD FILED IN STATE AND FEDERAL COURT AGAINST ALL OF THE PERSONS AND WEBSITES ABOVE IN 2005! ....yet Tom has never sued anyone.. accept the guy who sued him in 1999!

In a lawsuit filed in 1999 and being won in 2002 , the author of House Of Cards alleged that Tom, with the help and advertising of and by Dr Dobson/ Focus On The Family and Pat Robertson/The 700 Club, had committed copyright infringement and fraud.

In 2002, irregardless of the fact that Tom's Attorney said he would never settle:

Savannah Morning News

""Settlement amounts are confidential," he said [tom's lawyer ]. "Mr. Papania has refused any settlement. He's defending the case against principle" ...."The cost of being famous, you're going to have people coming out of the woodwork filing frivolous lawsuits. It's the cost of doing business for becoming well known." "

"Papania's portion is pending in court, awaiting a judge's decision whether to dismiss the case at Yaklin's request." (NOTE: the dismissal was thrown out and the claims upheld)

Tom settled and agreed to change his testimony (the parts he allegedly stole from Rock's book) and Rock agreed to stop posting stories of the case against Tom and to eliminate sites that Rock developed that were telling folks the same facts. Rock also gave Tom the tompapania.com web domain name he had recently won from Tom in another victorious law suit.

Thus, though Tom has begged money from people to close this and other web sites, in actuality and reality, he filed a frivolous suit and then TOLD people he had filed against us!

Read the facts and some excerpts of actual Court records that show Rock filed a motion for summary judgment and a COUNTER SUIT claiming further FRAUD on the part of Minister Tom Papania by CLICKING READ MORE!

HOLY JAIL TIME! WE CANOT BELIEVE WHAT HAPPENED!

The Following Took TEN YEARS to get! And it was TomPapania.Info who GOT TOM TO CONFESS!

THIS IS IT> WOW! January 2006 and Tom now states after ten years he went in the air force rather than do time for shooting two men and then committed burglaries and was sent to prison? And all in Kansas!

So, what happened with the "sent to Kansas to shoot two men" by mobster Gambino himself, was turned in "to see if he would talk" by mobster Gambino himself, and that the Judge said " You are a member of the mafia " and the judge "threw the book" at him, and he then " served 5 1/2 year in a brutal prison " of a 5 to ten year sentence, and then he got out, went to NY and was given a choice of "Business'" from a "Book" by Gambino himself?

So, tell us. Did Tom not testify to millions world wide by mounting thousands of CHURCH PULPITS WORLDWIDE and on Focus On The Family and on tapes and videos for nearly ten years THAT:

1) He was made a Gambino Soldier at 17 years of age?
2) that he was GROOMED for several years?
3) That he was sent to Kansas to shoot two men on orders by Carlo Gambino?
4) That he was then turned in by Gambino to go to Prison to see if he would talk?
5) That the Judge SAID, "You are a member of the mafia, this was a hit"?
6) That he then served 5 1/2 years of a 5 to 10 year sentence?
7) That he got out and went to NY where he was rewarded?

Man he made a BIG MISTAKE HERE! HE GOT CAUGHT. Do not take our word, click read more!

WOW HAVE WE SOME FACTS AS OF 2005

Well, it seems that Tom has much to say about how we are liars and non-Christians.. and Tom is talking about how this site is DEROGATORY and how he will sue everyone that has sent in letters and info and such cause this site is a LIE! WELL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

GET OUT YOUR READING GLASSES CAUSE LOTS BEEN ADDED HERE! FROM HTTP://TOMPAPANIA.INFO...

Read about the men TOM SAID HE "SHOT" AND FIND THE TRUTH.. HE WAS ARRESTED FOR ROBBING TV'S!

GET SET FOR THE TRUTH ABOUT TOM'S GAMBINO CONNECTION! OR LACK OF IT!

Now, Tom is a pathological Liar!!! Say what?? Well, READ AND READ SOME MORE.. THEN WHEN YOU FIND THE TRUTH...

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BUY MORE TAPES! YO!

WE BRING TO YOU THE TRUTH AS IN TOM'S SWORN TO STATEMENTS (man, those guys at http://tompapania.info even secured the $1000.00 cort transcript for your perusal! )AND THE REAL DEAL... HIS RECORDS AND MORE ..

now, read what tom said about KNOWING CATELLANO-- READ WERE HE STATES THAT HE WAS NEVER A MADE SOLDIER IN FACT
READ AND READ TO YOUR HEARTS CONTENT >>>THE TRUTH>> FOR IT WILL SET US ALL FREE!

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NOW TOM BELIEVES THAT YOU WILL NOT CARE!??! WILL YOU?? PLEASE COPY THIS INFORMATION AND SEND IT TO SOMEONE YOU KNOW! CAUSE, TOM KNOWS THAT THIS SITE IS PROTECTED BY THE US BILL OF RIGHTS NO, HE WILL TRY AND FILE AND TRY TO GET THE UPPER HAND CAUSE YOU ARE PAYING HIM BY BUYING HIS TAPES AND LETTING HIM SPEAK! WITH THAT BLOOD MONEY HE FILES A FRIVOLOUS SUIT AND THE LITTLE GUY HAS TO GET AN ATTORNEY EVEN THOUGH HE IS IN THE RIGHT! CAUSE YOUR MONEY IS FREE TO TOM! SO

FROM TOMS FRONT PAGE -IS IT TRUE

Tom Papania (tm) has been featured on national TV and radio shows such as The 700 Club, Life Outreach, Billy Graham's radio broadcast, TBN, local Christian television stations and radio stations in Charisma magazine, and on Focus On The Family. On the second day of broadcasting on Focus, in December of 1996, Dr. Dobson commented that Tom Papania's story was almost too good to be true and Focus did a lengthy background investigation of Tom's references and everything Tom stated in his testimony was true.

We Told You So II

These are all Recorded By Tom Papanier/Papania, First Amendment Protected excerpts from the James Dobson/Focus On The Family broadcast i 1996, and the same information that was available on tapes and videos for 8 years; this was before FOF sent out a letter that stated that they were no longer recommending Tom due to the facts that are written herein.

a) OK: Click Here for Tom stating his mother and father were married in Sicily at 13 years of age. Then Go Here to read that they were married in Philly-USA...

b) OK: Click Here for Tom stating his mother stated her father was Joe The Boss and that she and her mother were worried every time he left and how they were told that he was murdered, then go and read that this could never have happened because Tom's Mother was his Father's Sister's Daughter and her father never ever lived with them!

c) OK: Click Here for Tom speaking about being MADE A GAMBINO SOLDIER at 17 years of age [1961] though the MOB BOOKS WERE CLOSED and even Sammy The Bull Could Not Get Made.

d) OK: Click Here for Tom stating that he was ordered to shoot two men when he was 19 or so years of age and then sent PURPOSELY to prison and the Judge asked if he were a Mafia Members then threw the book at him and he got ten years and served 5, then watch this, then CLICK HERE for the TRUTH: a burglary charge that had nothing to do with the mob.

e) OK: Click Here for Tom's hilarious rendition of the Tom God Father Movie, where GAMBINO himself turns Tom IN TO THE COPS and LETS HIM DO 5 1/2 years to see if he would talk.. he wants you to BELIEVE that this was after he was Made a Gambino Soldier at 17, BEFORE they "tested him out" .. yet READ THIS and then go http://ganglandnews.com and see if a man that was as important as Tom says he was even remembered by ANYONE!

f) OK: Click Here for Tom's rendition of the 6 Jilly's Restaurants HE had control over and how he freed Carl Coppola and ORDERED two killings. Remember this when you read that there were only two restaurants, that Carl was kidnapped in 1982 by HIS PARTNERS and set free by the police, and that Tom was NOT involved before the kidnapping, and, in fact, Carl did not seek help until AFTER he was kidnapped in 1983 and that HE FIRED TOM FROM HIS BODY GUARD POSITION and TOOK AWAY HIS HOUSE AND PAY! and then he Bragged After Being Acquitted and Used God as his Savior because he had TESTIFIED that he was never a member of the mob, and did not help Carl. (warning...this page takes a while to open: Read Them All?)

g) Click Here for Tom taking credit for being the Top Guy in Atlantic City, he seems to have forgotten it was the Murdering Monster Philly Mob under Nicodemo "Little Nicky" Scarfo that ran Atlantic City. If Tom ever were to have met Little Nicky, he would have not survived!

Tom's Actual Kansas Record Shows He Is Lying!

Yup, he is telling a fib! See Tom's Kansas Conviction, not for shooting anyone, and he served two years!

Want To Read About The Lies?

THIS TRIAL WAS AFTER TOM WAS SAVED... HIS PASTOR, THE ONE WHO STILL STANDS BY TOM, THOUGH HE AND HIS PARISHNERS WERE AT THE TRIAL AND HEARD THAT TOM WAS NEVER A MEMBER OF THE MOB. REMEMBER, TOM WAS NEVER ACCUSED OF BEING A MEMBER OF THE GAMBINO ORG. AND HE TESTIFIED HE WAS NEVER A MEMBER, HE ALSO TESTIFIED AS A CHRISTIAN

To READ go http://www.newslibrary.com/sites/ajc/

spend the 5 dollars to read the facts!

BYLINE: EPSTEIN, GAIL Gail Epstein Staff Writer STAFF
DATE: April 9, 1987
PUBLICATION: The Atlanta Journal and The Atlanta Constitution
Government''s closing arguments presented in [drug] racketeering trial
"Testimony ended Tuesday in the 12-week federal racketeering trial [not 11 months] , The government is not alleging [papania] Papanier is a member of the Mafia, [prosecutor] Deichert said."
"Papanier then called his step-daughter and took the stand again himself to counter the rebuttal testimony"
" Papanier stuck to his original testimony. Papanier denied being a member of the Gambino syndicate and said he moved to Atlanta to work for Coppola''s Jilly''s rib restaurants in 1983 to sever his informal ties with organized crime and "start my life over.."

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US FEDERAL COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT (ATLANTA)

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see: ARCHIVES

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FROM JAN 1, 1986
TO: JAN 1, 1988

it as not a MAFIA trial, but one of Drug Running:

The federal jury of eight men and four women found Coppola, 44, guilty of racketeering, conspiracy to distribute cocaine and operating a "continuing criminal enterprise." Jurors deliberated for 9 1/2 days.

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Coppola associate pleads guilty to racketeering, murder plot
Author: HOPKINS, SAM Sam Hopkins Staff Writer STAFF Date: May 26, 1988 Publication: The Atlanta Journal and The Atlanta Constitution Page Number: B/6 Word Count: 366

Charles Brown, 45, a co-defendant of former Jilly's restaurant owner Carl Coppola, pleaded guilty Tuesday, the day before his trial to charges of racketeering and conspiring to murder Coppola's former bodyguard, Thomas Papanier, according to U.S. Attorney Robert L. Barr Jr. Coppola was convicted April 27, 1987, after 12 weeks of testimony, of racketeering and conducting a continuing criminal enterprise for the purpose of obtaining income from the smuggling and distribution of

Coppola associate denied bond; he allegedly used alias
Ex-fugitive altered appearance, used false papers, U.S. prosecutors say
Author: EPSTEIN, GAIL Gail Epstein Staff Writer STAFF Date: January 20, 1988 Publication: The Atlanta Journal and The Atlanta Constitution Page Number: C/5 Word Count: 522

Charles Oliver Brown, who according to court testimony was employed as a hit man by convicted racketeer Carl Coppola, was denied bond Tuesday after prosecutors introduced evidence that Brown had changed his appearance and was living under an assumed name.

Brown, 44, was arrested Jan. 3 in Holly Hill, Fla., by U.S. marshals. He had been a fugitive since the unsealing of an 11-count indictment on May 9, 1986, which charged Brown, Coppola and 10 others with federal racketeering and drug

Fugitive named as hit man for Coppola is jailed
Author: Date: January 5, 1988 Publication: The Atlanta Journal and The Atlanta Constitution Page Number: C/6 Word Count: 432

From Staff and Wire Reports

HOLLY HILL, Fla. - A fugitive allegedly employed as a hit man by convicted racketeer Carl Coppola was arrested by federal marshals, a deputy marshal said Monday.

Charles Oliver Brown, 44, was traced to Holly Hill, near Daytona Beach, and arrested at 8 a.m. on Sunday after overnight surveillance confirmed his identity, said Deputy Marshal Barry Surles.

James Deichert, special attorney in charge of the Organized Crime Strike Force in Atlanta who

After 3 months together, goodbye comes hard for Coppola jurors
Author: EPSTEIN, GAIL Gail Epstein Staff Writer STAFF Date: June 4, 1987 Publication: The Atlanta Journal and The Atlanta Constitution Page Number: A/1 Word Count: 1022

The U.S. government may have concluded its case against racketeer Carl Coppola, but the jurors who convicted him aren't ready to say goodbye. Come August, they will gather for a reunion to rehash their grueling three months together.

The likely gathering spot? One of the Jilly's rib restaurants founded by Coppola.

"After 14 weeks, honey, we know each other!" jury foreman Jerry Garber said Wednesday afternoon as he bid a boisterous but temporary farewell to

Coppola found guilty on drug, rackets charges
Author: EPSTEIN, GAIL Gail Epstein Staff Writer STAFF Date: April 25, 1987 Publication: The Atlanta Journal and The Atlanta Constitution Page Number: A/1 Word Count: 1442

Carl Coppola, the founder of Jilly's rib restaurants whose 14-week racketeering trial was filled with testimony about murder, drug smuggling and organized crime, was convicted Friday on six of seven charges against him.

Coppola faces a maximum sentence of life

Jury deliberations are scheduled to begin Monday in racketeering trial of
Coppola
Author: EPSTEIN, GAIL Gail Epstein Staff Writer STAFF Date: April 11, 1987 Publication: The Atlanta Journal and The Atlanta Constitution Page Number: B/1 Word Count: 767

Jury deliberations are scheduled to begin Monday in the federal racketeering trial of Jilly's restaurant founder Carl Coppola and three co-defendants, marking the start of the 13th week of the trial.

Closing arguments concluded Friday and were followed by U.S. District Judge Robert Vining's 1 1/2-hour charge to the jury. Members were sent home until Monday. Deliberations are expected to last for several days.

In his summation Friday morning, prosecutor James Deichert

Prosecutor denies defense charges Coppola witnesses fabricated case
Author: EPSTEIN, GAIL Gail Epstein Staff Writer STAFF Date: April 10, 1987 Publication: The Atlanta Journal and The Atlanta Constitution Page Number: B/2 Word Count: 1152

James Deichert, prosecutor of accused racketeer Carl Coppola, responding today to defense contentions that he allowed government witnesses to fabricate their testimony, told the jury those assertions are "a bag of manure."

The prosecutor of accused racketeer Carl Coppola, responding today to defense contentions that he allowed government witnesses to fabricate their testimony, told the jury those assertions are "a bag of manure."

"You're either seeing

Coppola lawyers claim feds made deals with witnesses
Author: EPSTEIN, GAIL Gail Epstein Staff Writer STAFF Date: April 10, 1987 Publication: The Atlanta Journal and The Atlanta Constitution Page Number: C/1 Word Count: 891

Attorneys for accused racketeer Carl Coppola charged in closing arguments Thursday that "zealous" federal prosecutors, motivated by their "obsession" to snare Coppola after a three-year investigation, cut "deals" with government witnesses to obtain damaging testimony.

The U.S. Justice Department has granted immunity, promised to recommend light sentences or offered other considerations to 10 of Coppola's co-conspirators who testified against him, Fred

Coppola called `Lee Iacocca' of drug trade
Government's closing arguments presented in racketeering trial
Author: EPSTEIN, GAIL Gail Epstein Staff Writer STAFF Date: April 9, 1987 Publication: The Atlanta Journal and The Atlanta Constitution Page Number: A/1 Word Count: 1122

Accused racketeer Carl Coppola ran his alleged criminal enterprise with such "initiative, drive and determination" that jurors should "consider Mr. Coppola as the Lee Iacocca of the drug business, and the murder business, too," a prosecutor said Wednesday during closing arguments in Coppola's federal trial. Comparing Coppola to the chief executive officer of a burgeoning corporation, prosecutor James Deichert said Coppola filled his ``job openings" with contract

Coppola lawyer accuses federal witness of scam
Author: EPSTEIN, GAIL Gail Epstein Staff Writer STAFF Date: April 9, 1987 Publication: The Atlanta Journal and The Atlanta Constitution Page Number: C/1 Word Count: 1144

Defending accused racketeer Carl Coppola "has got to be similar to a one-armed man wrestling with an octopus," one of Coppola's attorneys told the jury today during closing arguments in Coppola's federal trial.

"I'm going to go right to the octopus," Ted Worozbyt said. "And who might that be? The likely prospect might be Alexander Biscuiti."

Biscuiti, a key government witness and unindicted co-conspirator, falsely led Coppola to

Coppola trial summations begin today
Author: EPSTEIN, GAIL Gail Epstein Staff Writer STAFF Date: April 8, 1987 Publication: The Atlanta Journal and The Atlanta Constitution Page Number: D/2 Word Count: 423

Testimony ended Tuesday in the 12-week federal racketeering trial of Carl Coppola and three co-defendants, and closing arguments were scheduled to begin this afternoon.

Prosecution and defense attorneys will take through Friday morning to summarize their cases for the jury, after which members will be charged and begin deliberations on the seven-count indictment.

The complex racketeering case has included allegations of drug smuggling, money laundering, murder, organized crime

Closing arguments scheduled to begin in Coppola trial
Author: EPSTEIN, GAIL Gail Epstein Staff Writer STAFF Date: April 8, 1987 Publication: The Atlanta Journal and The Atlanta Constitution Page Number: A/18 Word Count: 615

Testimony ended Tuesday in the 12-week federal racketeering trial of Carl Coppola and three co-defendants, and closing arguments are scheduled to begin Wednesday afternoon.

Prosecution and defense attorneys will take through Friday morning to summarize their cases for the jury, after which members will be charged and begin deliberations on the seven-count indictment.

The complex racketeering case has included allegations of drug smuggling, money laundering, murder, organized

Testimony is set to close today in racketeering trial of Coppola, four
others
Author: EPSTEIN, GAIL Gail Epstein Staff Writer STAFF Date: April 7, 1987 Publication: The Atlanta Journal and The Atlanta Constitution Page Number: C/3 Word Count: 415

The last of four co-defendants in the federal trial of accused racketeer Carl Coppola rested his defense today, and the government completed its rebuttal case.

Defense witnesses to counter the rebuttal testimony are scheduled for this afternoon, bringing testimony to a close in the case. U.S. District Judge Robert Vining has not yet scheduled closing arguments in the 12-week trial.

Co-defendant Frank Church called one witness in his defense - Harold Rodovich, who already has

Coppola bodyguard testifies he severed Mafia ties in 1983
Author: EPSTEIN, GAIL Gail Epstein Staff Writer STAFF Date: April 4, 1987 Publication: The Atlanta Journal and The Atlanta Constitution Page Number: B/2 Word Count: 822

Thomas Papanier, a co-defendant in the racketeering trial of Carl Coppola who has been linked to the Mafia, testified Friday that he once was proud of his association with New York's Gambino organized crime family and that his friendships gave him access to exclusive restaurants and nightclubs.

But Papanier denied being a member of the Gambino syndicate and said he moved to Atlanta to work for Coppola's Jilly's rib restaurants in 1983 to sever his informal ties with

Coppola co-defendant denies crime family ties
Author: EPSTEIN, GAIL Gail Epstein Staff Writer STAFF Date: April 3, 1987 Publication: The Atlanta Journal and The Atlanta Constitution Page Number: B/2 Word Count: 629

Tommy Papanier, a co-defendant in the trial of accused racketeer Carl Coppola, took the witness stand Thursday and disputed previous testimony that he was connected to New York's Gambino organized crime family.

Papanier also denied previous testimony that he conspired to distribute cocaine with Coppola and hosted a series of meetings at his Dunwoody home during which the murder of an associate was planned.

The testimony of Papanier, a tall, strapping man with a thick New

Coppola denies he bragged how easy it was to pull a `hit'
Author: EPSTEIN, GAIL Gail Epstein Staff Writer STAFF Date: March 28, 1987 Publication: The Atlanta Journal and The Atlanta Constitution Page Number: B/1 Word Count: 822

Accused racketeer Carl Coppola denied Friday telling an undercover FBI agent that he could get anybody killed by making "one phone call" to New York, but Coppola said he could not recall whether he told the agent that he reported to New York's Gambino organized crime family, as the agent had testified.

Coppola continued to dispute the testimony of key prosecution witnesses who said he masterminded murder plots against associates Daniel Forgione and Thomas Papanier, a

Coppola disputes testimony he plotted deaths, drug scheme
Author: EPSTEIN, GAIL Gail Epstein Staff Writer STAFF Date: March 27, 1987 Publication: The Atlanta Journal and The Atlanta Constitution Page Number: C/1 Word Count: 1018

Accused racketeer Carl Coppola on Thursday attempted to refute the bulk of the government's case against him, denying that he conspired to murder two men or distribute large quantities of cocaine in Atlanta in the mid-1980s.

Coppola, appearing relaxed and jovial during his third day on direct examination, repeatedly disputed the testimony of key prosecution witnesses who said he was responsible for the murders of associates Joseph Cam and Daniel Forgione and for a

Coppola denies plot to kill two
Disputes testimony he was part of drug scheme
Author: EPSTEIN, GAIL Gail Epstein Staff Writer STAFF Date: March 27, 1987 Publication: The Atlanta Journal and The Atlanta Constitution Page Number: C/1 Word Count: 1210

Accused racketeer Carl Coppola today denied telling an undercover FBI agent that he could get anybody killed by making "one phone call" to New York, but Coppola said he could not recall whether he told the agent that he reported to New York's Gambino organized crime family, as the agent had testified. Coppola continued to dispute the testimony of key prosecution witnesses who said he masterminded murder plots against associates Daniel Forgione and Thomas Papanier, a co-defendant.

Coppola on tape offers to arrange `hit'
Author: EPSTEIN, GAIL Gail Epstein Staff Writer STAFF Date: March 19, 1987 Publication: The Atlanta Journal and The Atlanta Constitution Page Number: C/1 Word Count: 1096

Accused racketeer Carl Coppola, in a secretly taped conversation played for the jury Wednesday, offered to arrange the murder of a prosecutor and admitted that he had financed a cocaine deal and owned an Atlanta striptease club held in the names of other people. The conversation was recorded in August 1979 by Atlanta lawyer Hirsch Friedman, who wore a body "bug" as part of an FBI investigation into public corruption and drug trafficking in Atlanta.

Accused racketeer Carl Coppola,

Coppola admitted being mob member, FBI agent tells jury
Author: EPSTEIN, GAIL Gail Epstein Staff Writer STAFF Date: March 18, 1987 Publication: The Atlanta Journal and The Atlanta Constitution Page Number: A/10 Word Count: 876

Accused racketeer Carl Coppola told an undercover FBI agent in 1984 that he and co-defendant Tommy Papanier belonged to New York's Gambino organized crime family and that Coppola was kidnapped because he had fallen behind in his payments to the syndicate, the agent testified Tuesday.

"I asked him why they'd want to kidnap him, of all people," said Special Agent Eugene Bennett. "He said he was behind in his payments and they were trying to extort him. . . . He

Coppola discussed bribing DeKalb judge in 1979, court told
Author: EPSTEIN, GAIL Gail Epstein Staff Writer STAFF Date: March 18, 1987 Publication: The Atlanta Journal and The Atlanta Constitution Page Number: A/1 Word Count: 1324

Accused racketeer Carl Coppola discussed the possibility of offering a bribe to then-DeKalb County Superior Court Judge Clyde Henley in 1979, and Henley's name was on a 1983 list of people eligible to receive "complimentary" meals at Jilly's restaurants, according to testimony this morning in Coppola's federal racketeering trial. The testimony occurred outside the jury's presence.

Accused racketeer Carl Coppola discussed the possibility of offering a bribe to

Coppola case fugitive captured
Author: EPSTEIN, GAIL Gail Epstein Staff Writer STAFF Date: March 13, 1987 Publication: The Atlanta Journal and The Atlanta Constitution Page Number: A/16 Word Count: 764

Convicted drug smuggler William Cross Jr. of Marietta, who was declared a fugitive after he failed to respond to a subpoena in the federal racketeering trial of Carl Coppola, has been arrested and will testify next week in the closing days of the prosecution's case.

Cross will testify that Coppola admitted arranging the May 1983 killing of Coppola's former business associate, Joseph Cam, prosecutor James Deichert said earlier in the trial outside the jury's presence.

Coppola co-defendant leaves court while `friend' testifies
Author: EPSTEIN, GAIL Gail Epstein Staff Writer STAFF Date: March 6, 1987 Publication: The Atlanta Journal and The Atlanta Constitution Page Number: B/3 Word Count: 475

Tommy Papanier, a co-defendant in the federal trial of accused racketeer Carl Coppola, was allowed to leave the courtroom Thursday afternoon after he told the judge he could not bear to hear any more testimony from prosecution witness John Tribiano.

"Your honor, I've been the man's friend for the better part of my life and I can't sit here and listen to him perjure himself for Mr. Deichert," Papanier said out of the jury's presence, referring to Justice

Coppola plotted to slay former guard, jury told
Author: EPSTEIN, GAIL Gail Epstein Staff Writer STAFF Date: February 27, 1987 Publication: The Atlanta Journal and The Atlanta Constitution Page Number: C/4 Word Count: 700

During March and April 1984, accused racketeer Carl Coppola solicited a murder attempt against his former bodyguard, participated in a foiled armed robbery attempt and distributed 2 kilograms of cocaine, a witness testified Thursday in Coppola's federal trial.

Coppola also made off-the-cuff remarks about wanting to kill two other associates, testified Joseph Lee, 45, a former Coppola cohort who is cooperating with prosecutors.

Lee said he, Coppola and Rodney Smith, then an

Coppola plotted associates' slayings, witness testifies
Author: EPSTEIN, GAIL Gail Epstein Staff Writer STAFF Date: February 26, 1987 Publication: The Atlanta Journal and The Atlanta Constitution Page Number: B/1 Word Count: 772

Accused racketeer Carl Coppola started planning murder plots against two business associates in January 1984 and admitted having arranged the slaying of a third, a witness testified Wednesday during Coppola's federal trial.

Joseph Lee, 45, testified that he and Coppola built a remote-control bomb they intended to use to kill former Coppola associate Danny Forgione. Lee was the second participant in the alleged murder conspiracy to testify that Coppola masterminded the slaying.

Coppola tied to 2 murders by witness
Author: EPSTEIN, GAIL Gail Epstein Staff Writer STAFF Date: February 25, 1987 Publication: The Atlanta Journal and The Atlanta Constitution Page Number: C/1 Word Count: 842

Testimony this morning in the federal trial of accused racketeer Carl Coppola linked him to two murders, one of which was allegedly planned in the Dunwoody house of co-defendant Tommy Papanier.

Joseph Lee testified he, Coppola, Papanier and associate Alexander Biscuiti met in January 1984 to plot the murder of Danny Forgione. Forgione was fatally shot six times at close range in Florida in March 1984.

The murder was necessary, Lee said, because Forgione knew Coppola had had

Witness says he called FBI for Coppola, who feared for his life
Author: EPSTEIN, GAIL Gail Epstein Staff Writer STAFF Date: February 24, 1987 Publication: The Atlanta Journal and The Atlanta Constitution Page Number: A/25 Word Count: 793

Accused racketeer Carl Coppola, fearful of being killed by two business associates in 1984, told another associate, William Wotocek, to call in the FBI, Wotocek testified Monday during Coppola's federal trial. Wotocek said Coppola called him "in a state of panic" and summoned him to his north Atlanta condominium. Several witnesses have testified that Coppola told them that Papanier, also on trial in the racketeering case, had connections to a New York organized crime

Called FBI for Coppola, witness says
Author: EPSTEIN, GAIL Gail Epstein Staff Writer STAFF Date: February 23, 1987 Publication: The Atlanta Journal and The Atlanta Constitution Page Number: D/1 Word Count: 490

Accused racketeer Carl Coppola, fearful of being killed by two business associates in 1984, told another associate, William Wotocek, to call in the FBI, Wotocek testified this morning during Coppola's federal trial.

Wotocek said Coppola called him "in a state of panic" and summoned him to his north Atlanta condominium.

"Bill, they're trying to kill me," Wotocek testified Coppola told him in reference to Tommy Papanier and Alex Biscuiti. "I

Lawmen keep security tight on high-profile drug trials
Author: EPSTEIN, GAIL Gail Epstein Staff Writer STAFF Date: February 9, 1987 Publication: The Atlanta Journal and The Atlanta Constitution Page Number: E/1 Word Count: 1046

On the 21st floor of the Richard B. Russell Federal Building, where two high-profile drug trials continue in adjacent courtrooms, spectators must pass through a portable metal detector, 20 lawmen keep constant vigil and one prosecutor wears a bullet-proof vest. Tensions in one of the cases mounted even before trial, when federal authorities suspected an alleged escape plot by some of the defendants, sources said. Four defendants, including former Jilly's restaurant owner Carl Coppola, are

Mistrial denied as Coppola's attorney claims co-defendant's lawyer hurt
case
Author: EPSTEIN, GAIL Gail Epstein Staff Writer STAFF Date: February 6, 1987 Publication: The Atlanta Journal and The Atlanta Constitution Page Number: D/3 Word Count: 587

The attorney for accused racketeer Carl Coppola moved for a mistrial Thursday, charging that a co-defendant's lawyer has effectively turned into "a prosecutor" by violating an agreement to "not dump" on Coppola.

Coppola's attorney, Ted Worozbyt, also told the court outside the jury's presence that he believes the other lawyer, Alan Begner, cannot adequately perform his job.

Begner represents co-defendant Tommy Papanier in the trial before U.S.

Motion for mistrial denied by judge in Coppola case
Author: EPSTEIN, GAIL Gail Epstein Staff Writer STAFF Date: February 6, 1987 Publication: The Atlanta Journal and The Atlanta Constitution Page Number: B/2 Word Count: 604

Ted Worozbyt, the attorney for accused racketeer Carl Coppola, moved for a mistrial Thursday, charging that co-defendant Tommy Papanier's lawyer, Alan Begner, has effectively turned into ``a prosecutor" by violating an agreement to "not dump" on Coppola. U.S. District Court Judge Robert Vining denied the motion for mistrial.

The attorney for accused racketeer Carl Coppola moved for a mistrial Thursday, charging that a co-defendant's lawyer has effectively turned into

Memory is fine, Coppola witness says
Author: EPSTEIN, GAIL Gail Epstein Staff Writer STAFF Date: February 5, 1987 Publication: The Atlanta Journal and The Atlanta Constitution Page Number: A/38 Word Count: 501

The attorney for a co-defendant in the Carl Coppola trial tried to suggest Wednesday that a key prosecution witness whose testimony linked his client to murder conspiracy and cocaine smuggling was too high on cocaine in 1984 to remember the events about which he testified.

But Alexander Biscuiti, 44, an unindicted co-conspirator in the case, denied that assertion. While admitting that he abused cocaine and alcohol, he said he remembered the events well despite his drug use because,

Memory fine despite drug use, key witness in Coppola trial says
Author: EPSTEIN, GAIL Gail Epstein Staff Writer STAFF Date: February 5, 1987 Publication: The Atlanta Journal and The Atlanta Constitution Page Number: B/4 Word Count: 590

The attorney for a co-defendant in the Carl Coppola trial suggested Wednesday that a key prosecution witness who linked his client to murder conspiracy and cocaine smuggling was too high on cocaine in 1984 to remember the events about which he testified.

But Alexander Biscuiti, 44, an unindicted co-conspirator in the case, denied that assertion. While admitting that he abused cocaine and alcohol, Biscuiti said he remembered the events well despite his drug use because, "I lived

Witness links Coppola to death plots involving remote-control bombs
Author: EPSTEIN, GAIL Gail Epstein Staff Writer STAFF Date: February 3, 1987 Publication: The Atlanta Journal and The Atlanta Constitution Page Number: D/3 Word Count: 723

Testimony Monday in the federal racketeering trial of Carl Coppola linked him to two murder conspiracies, in both of which Coppola intended to use homemade, remote-controlled bombs, according to a key prosecution witness.

In his sixth and final day on direct examination, Alexander Biscuiti, an unindicted co-conspirator, said Coppola and his business associate Thomas Papanier repeatedly had asked Biscuiti to kill Danny Forgione in a dispute over money.

Forgione, president of a

Coppola lawyer challenges federal witness
Author: EPSTEIN, GAIL Gail Epstein Staff Writer STAFF Date: February 3, 1987 Publication: The Atlanta Journal and The Atlanta Constitution Page Number: B/1 Word Count: 908

Ted Worozbyt, attorney for accused racketeer Carl Coppola, takes the offensive, asking government witness Alexander Biscuiti if he killed two men Coppola is implicated in slaying, presses Biscuiti to prove his assertions that Coppola had become involved with organized crime families.

The attorney for accused racketeer Carl Coppola took the offensive this morning, asking a key government witness if he had killed two men Coppola is implicated in slaying.

The attorney also pressed the

Coppola built remote-control bomb to kill businessman, witness testifies
Author: EPSTEIN, GAIL Gail Epstein Staff Writer STAFF Date: February 2, 1987 Publication: The Atlanta Journal and The Atlanta Constitution Page Number: E/4 Word Count: 438

Accused racketeer and former Atlanta restaurateur Carl Coppola built a remote-control bomb to kill a business associate, a key prosecution witness testified this morning during Coppola's federal court trial.

Alexander Biscuiti, a cooperating witness, said Coppola told him to kill Danny Forgione by placing the bomb under Forgione's car seat or in a garbage pail at Forgione's home in Florida.

Coppola and Joseph Lee, also an associate, used a remote-control device

Coppola sought to import cocaine, open adult bookstores, court told
Author: EPSTEIN, GAIL Gail Epstein Staff Writer STAFF Date: January 31, 1987 Publication: The Atlanta Journal and The Atlanta Constitution Page Number: C/6 Word Count: 614

Accused racketeer Carl Coppola and his business partners, seeking to expand their alleged criminal enterprise in Atlanta, planned to open adult bookstores and import large quantities of cocaine into the city, a key prosecution witness testified Friday in Coppola's trial.

Alexander Biscuiti, an unindicted co-conspirator, said that he, Coppola, co-defendant Thomas Papanier and Atlanta adult bookstore operator Rodney Glenn Smith traveled to New York in January 1984. The men were

Tom Used God!

Under Oath, With Pastor and Church Members Looking On, Tom Stated This before being acquitted and giving thanks to God on Court House Steps that God Exposed All his accusers as liars before beginning a career teloing folks the exact opposite in tapes and videos:

Coppola bodyguard testifies he severed Mafia ties in 1983
Author: EPSTEIN, GAIL Gail Epstein Staff Writer STAFF Date: April 4, 1987 Publication: The Atlanta Journal and The Atlanta Constitution Page Number: B/2 Word Count: 822

But Papanier denied being a member of the Gambino syndicate and said he moved to Atlanta to work for Coppola's Jilly's rib restaurants in 1983 to sever his informal ties with

AND THIS:

Coppola co-defendant denies crime family ties
Author: EPSTEIN, GAIL Gail Epstein Staff Writer STAFF Date: April 3, 1987 Publication: The Atlanta Journal and The Atlanta Constitution Page Number: B/2 Word Count: 629

The testimony of Papanier, a tall, strapping man with a thick New York accent, and his wife, Margaret, contained several references to his devout Christian beliefs. Ten members of his Norcross church lined the courtroom benches, and his attorney, Alan Begner, unsuccessfully sought permission for Papanier to hold his Bible while on the witness stand.

Papanier also denied previous testimony that he conspired to distribute cocaine with Coppola and hosted a series of meetings at his Dunwoody home during which the murder of an associate was planned.

tom bragged after he was aquitted...

Coppola found guilty on drug, rackets charges
BYLINE: EPSTEIN, GAIL Gail Epstein Staff Writer STAFF DATE: April 25, 1987 PUBLICATION: The Atlanta Journal and The Atlanta Constitution EDITION: The Atlanta Journal Constitution SECTION: LOCAL NEWS PAGE: A/1

"The government could not claim complete victory, however. Of Coppola's three co-defendants, one, Frank Church, was convicted and two were acquitted. Those acquitted were Darrell Brown and Coppola's former bodyguard, Tommy Papanier, who witnesses had linked to a New York organized crime family.....

....`I had the Lord on my side'... .Papanier let out a loud sigh of relief and buried his face in his hands when his verdict was read. Outside the courtroom later, as he embraced his wife, Margaret, Papanier was asked why the jury convicted Coppola but not him. "All I can say is I had the Lord on my side," he said tearfully.

"I prayed for this," added Papanier, whose fellow church members attended portions of the trial. "At 4 a.m. I was woken up in my cell and the Lord laid it out for me to pack my stuff."

Papanier had faced three racketeering and cocaine-distribution charges. Prosecution witnesses testified that he participated in murder plots against two of Coppola's associates, helped Coppola plan a cocaine-distribution network and bragged about his links to New York's Gambino syndicate. Papanier disputed their testimony.

His attorney, Alan Begner, said the government failed to prove charges in the indictment and instead "sought to put on evidence of such things as possible Gambino connections, things I did not think were relevant to the case."

June 25, 2004, The Mafia Commission Trial and Tom Papania?

Tom would like you to belive that he was the only witness, and one of most importance and that a case Called The Pizza Connection was one that involved the mafia Commission,, another of his grand lies?

EXCERPTS FROM TOM'S TESTIMONY 1996 THROUGH 2000, IT MAY BE LONGER, LIKE 1994 THROUGH 2003

And almost a year went by. And in the mail, I got a subpeona from New York, saying it was the first time in the history of the Mafia they were able to arrest all five bosses of the five families in New York. It was called the "Pizza Connection". It had to do with heroin being shipped from Sicily into the United States. And they subpeonaed me to testify against my boss, Paul Castellano. And I already knew they had a contract out to kill me. And I went to my pastor. And I said, "Pastor, I got this subpeona to testify against Paul." And I said, "If I don't go, if I just hide out," I said "they may come here and they may kill you. Then they'll kill innocent people in the church. And I don't want any blood, innocent blood spilled on account of me." And I said, "But, if I do go, they'll definitely kill me before I get there. " And I said, "I just don't know what to do." And he said, "I don't either, other than to pray." He said "Let's just pray." He said, "Maybe there's somebody that they can get, instead of you, that knows more about Paul." And I said, "No, I'm his right hand. I know everything about it. [HE, TOM, IS SAYING HE IS SECOND TO BIG PAULY] I'm the only one they want to testify." So, he just prayed that, somehow, some way I wouldn't have to go there. This was in August of 1985. In December of 1985, I came home from work. Turned on the television, and there on the six o'clock news was Paul Castellano, laying in the middle of the street in midtown Manhattan. Him and his bodyguard - shot to death, killed.

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THE TRUTH

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The Mafia Commssion Case

The famed case in which some of La Cosa Nostra's "commission" were jailed after one of the longest and most expensive trials in U.S. history. The so-called Commission Case resulted in convictions of eight New York area Mafia figures --

seven of whom received 100-year sentences.

Never has there been a case that has had such a big impact on the American Mafia than the commission case. The entire New York Mafia hierarchy was prosecuted in one courtroom in a case that finally brought about the end to the bosses unbelievable untouchable image, they have enjoyed for so long. The trial was put together by the US attorney of the southern district of Manhattan, Rudy Giuliani. After reading the biography of Joe Bonanno, Rudy realized that he could use the RICO statute to prosecute each of the heads of the five families� in New York.

The five bosses under indictment were Tony Salerno (Genovese Boss), Paul Castellano, (Gambino Boss) Tony Corallo, (Lucchese Boss) Philip Rastelli (Bonanno Boss) and Jerry Langella (Columbo de'facto Boss). Also under indictment Aneillo Dellacroce, (Gambino Underboss) Salvatore Santaro, (Lucchese Underboss) Christopher Furnari, (Lucchese Consiglieri) and Ralph Scopo Columbo capo and president of the concrete workers union. The two men who didn't make it to the trial were Paul Castellano and Aneillo Dellacroce. Paul Castellano became a victim of a John Gotti power grab, and Aneillo Dellacroce eventually died of the tumour that had been eating away his brain, Carmine Persico Would take his place.

Most of the evidence for the trial was due to the bugging of Gambino boss Paul Castellano's home on Todt Hill. The Feds listened in to crucial conversations involving Paul and many of his underlings. The Feds also taped highly incriminating conversations involving his relationship with other bosses and their joint interests in building contracts, where they shared the profits of the union kickbacks. These were vital in the prosecution of Paul and his fellow commissioners, as the tapes would easily prove their existence in the slice up business of bid rigging.

The government also set out to prove to the jury that the commission had also sanctioned a number of murders, including that of Carmine Galante the former Bonanno boss and underboss Guiseppe Turano, along with many others. During the thirty four days of testimony the government brought forward more than eighty witnesses and one hundred fifty tapes that proved without a shadow of a doubt that the commission members engaged in each and every act of which they were standing trial. Other evidence showed the many payoffs and bribes made by firms who had paid between seven hundred and twenty nine thousand (depending on the size of the job) to insure the contracts of making concrete and the delivery of goods.

All the defendants had paid astronomical fees to their Lawyers, all but Carmine Persico that is who decided to represent himself and actually did a commendable job. Never the less though it was all in vain as all of the defendants were found guilty and sentenced to a hundred years behind bars.

The trial was a magnificent victory for the government. The FBI took a lot of the credit for the success of the trial, their around the clock surveillance of the mob bosses provided the prosecutors with irrefutable evidence, and ironically enough, most of the evidence came from the home of the only boss not to be convicted, although Paul Castellano was killed before the trial got going, he was actually the principle target of the case and if he was alive to stand trial he would have most definitely faced the same fate of his fellow commissioners.

Rudy Giuliani was delighted with his efforts in prosecuting the entire commission of the New York mob; he had finally shattered the immunity many of the bosses had enjoyed for so long. "Now it feels like a more level playing field,� a jubilant Rudy Giuliani boasted after what for me at least was arguably Giuliani's finest hour.

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The Pizza Connection Case

Starting in the 1960s, the mafia got into the pizza business. In 1968, the Eagle Cheese company opened, which was the first heroin distribution center, uncovered in the Pizza Connection case in the 1980s. The pizza business provided an ingenious cover for heroin trafficking, and in fact, the mafia came to dominate the pizza business vertically. Many illegal Sicilian aliens worked in these pizza parlors. During this period, huge amounts of narcodollars were being laundered through pizza parlor and pizza supply companies. This system was broken up with the arrest of 153 mafiosi. But even this came no where near to dismantling the entire mafia system operating in America and Sicily.

It was so different a decade ago. Massino rose to the top of the Bonanno family at a moment of crisis. The clan had been wrecked by an FBI investigation of its heroin deals, dubbed the Pizza Connection because the drug was distributed through restaurants. Then the Bonannos were stunned by the revelation that one of their members, Donnie Brasco, was in fact FBI agent Joe Pistone. The Bonannos were thrown off the five family-strong Mafia commission.

The so-called Pizza Connection case, established a critical link between Sicilian and American Mafia bosses conspiring to traffic heroin and cocaine using pizza parlors as a front.

Tommaso Buscetta

Age: 71

Italian Mafia turncoat whose testimony in the New York �pizza connection� heroin-smuggling trial in the mid-1980s resulted in the conviction of hundreds of mobsters in Italy and the United States.