Tom Papania Fraud Expose

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

COURTESY OF
http://glasgowcrew.tripod.com/comm.html

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.

[JERRY LANGELLA] [PHILIP RASTELLI] [TONY CORALLO] 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.

[CHRISTOPHER FUNARI] [NEIL DELLACROCE] [TONY SALERNO] 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.

TOM's TESTIMONY 1996 through 2000 that we are awre of.. now, if you believe that the Mob, in fact, by Tom's words and testimony, the Boss Gambino HIMSELF, sent tom to shoot two people and then turned him in "to see if he would talk", and then let him rot for 5 and 1/2 years.. then let me sell you a bridge or two... especially when Tom's Record says that he was sentenced for Burglary and Grand Larceny while in Kansas City!

"What did the certified Kansas Bureau of Investigation file say?"

"Basically, it confirmed exactly what you stated on your webpage. Namely, charges of Burglary and Grand larceny, with the sentences to be served concurrently."

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It wasn't long before that I was called to use the gun. They called me in. And they said, "Tom, you've been doing very good. You're making a lot of money for yourself. You're making a lot of money for us." And I was always big and strong and knew how to take care of myself. I was a fighter. And they used to send me out to collect money. I was seventeen and eighteen years old, and they would send me out to grown men to collect money they owed. And I always came back with every penny. I was very proud of it. If I had to beat them up with a baseball bat or stab them with an ice pick, whatever I had to do, short of killing them, I would do to bring the money back. And I was very proud of this. I was growing in the Mafia. I was getting a reputation. And they said, "Now, is the next step. Some men have hijacked a truck in the Garment District. It was an inside job. We killed the man on the inside. That's already taken care of. But, the two men that hijacked the truck, they're hiding out in Kansas. We want you to go there. We want you to shoot both of these men. We don't want you to kill them. We just want you to set an example for everybody to see what happens if they should steal from us." And they said, "We don't want you using your right name. So, we have some identification for you. Here's the plane ticket. Just go there. Soon as you get off the plane, somebody knows who you are. They'll come to you. They'll give you keys to the car, and they'll give you a gun. And they'll give you pictures of the two men that we want to shoot. And they'll tell you exactly where they are. Just go there. Shoot the two men and come right back." Everything that they told me was exactly the way they told me. When I got there, a man met me. He gave me the keys. He gave me the gun. He gave me pictures. He gave me directions. I went there. I shot the two men. I came back to the airport. Kept looking in the rear view mirrors. Nobody was following me. I made a few extra turns. Felt very safe. Got back to the airport. Waited until they were boarding the plane. And I got on the plane. And all that was on the plane was policemen. And as soon I boarded the plane, they said my name. They put handcuffs on me. Telling me I was under arrest for shooting two men. And they even knew the names of the two men. I didn't even know their names. I only had their picture. Brought me before a judge. And the judge said, "You know, you're Italian. You're from New York. And you're down here shooting people. Are you in the Mafia? Is this a contract?" And I had taken a vow of silence at seventeen years old, and I didn't even answer the judge. And he said, "If you're going to be quiet like this when you come before me for the trial," he said, "I'll send you away for the maximum time that I can." When it came time for me to go before the judge, I still kept that vow of silence. I didn't say a word. He sentenced me to two 5 to 10 year sentences in the Kansas State Penitentiary.

I went there, and at that time, it was probably the worst and toughest prison in the United States. As big as I was, and as tough as I was handling myself, I had to fight almost every other day for survival in that place. My mother and father had found out that I was arrested and put in jail for shooting somebody. And my father disowned me. He said, "I didn't have a mother, I didn't have a father." And not to write any letters, not to make any phone calls, that they didn't exist any more. And that I had chosen a new family. And my father wrote to tell me that I had broken my mother's heart, and he never wanted me to speak to my mother again. Five and a half years went by. I finished the first sentence. I was paroled to my second sentence and sent back to New York. When I got back to New York, I didn't want to go see those men right away. I thought I had failed them. They told me to go shoot two men and come back right away. I shot the two men. But, it took me five and a half years to get back. And I really believed that I had failed them. But, they knew I was out, and very shortly they sent for me to that same storefront where everything started. When I went there I had a gun. I always walked around with a gun. The day I got of jail, I got a gun. As soon as I walked in, a man came up to me and said, "Tom, do you have a gun on you?" I said, "Of course, I do." He said, "Well, can we have it?" And I said, "No". And there was a table close by. I said, "But, I'll put the gun on the table." And they said it was all right. I wanted that gun as close to me as possible, so if these men were going to kill me, then I can get the gun and kill as many of them as I could before they killed me. And I sat down and the first question I was asked was, "How was prison?" And I was *****y and arrogant, and I said, "Look, I don't have any scars, no broken bones or anything." I said, "I handled myself. I survived." And then he leaned back, and he said, "Is there any one thing that you had thought about all the time that you were in prison?" And that was very easy for me to answer. Because the day that I was arrested until the day I was released, five and a half years later, I wondered what I did wrong. How I messed up that I was caught. And this is what I told him. And he looked at me and he said, "Now, you are going to understand why we wanted your gun." And he said, "You may not understand this right away." He said, "In time, you will. We gave the police your name. And we told them everything." He said, "Everything that we asked you to do so far, you've been very loyal, you've done it. But, we didn't know what would happen under pressure. We didn't know if you had to go to jail, how you would hold up. So, we had to give you a test." And he said, "You passed our test." And got up and opened up his arms, and said, "Welcome to our family, son." First man that ever called me, "son", that sent me to jail for five and a half years. Broke my mother's heart. And he's got his arms opened with a smile, calling me, "son". All I could think of was that gun on the table. Killing him and everybody in that room. But, before I had a chance to reach for the gun, there was a book on this table. And he opened up the book. I had seen this book many times before. This was the book where they lent people money. And the amounts and all the interest were in there. And he turned to me and he said, "Tom, if you could have any business that you want, any at all, which would you choose?" And he knew that I always like the nightclub and discotheque business. And I told him that. And he turned the book around, and he said, "Pick one". You know it's amazing how fast the rage and anger disappeared. How quick I forgot about my mother's broken heart. How quick I forgot about those five and a half years in prison. I was going to be a nightclub owner now. Now I had a smile on my face. And I looked at the book, and there was two of them there that I really liked that I knew were very good clubs. And I asked him if I could have some time to think it over, 'cause I couldn't make a decision right now. And he said, "No problem. Take both of them. You deserve it." This was the beginning of my business life in the Mafia.