by Bruno, Joe
Fischetti said in a brief he presented to the court that without Pagan’s testimony “The U.S. Probation Department informed him that prosecutors would not have been able to prove their original charges against Vinny TV even under a much lower standard of proof than the ‘beyond a reasonable doubt’ standard that is needed to convince jurors at trial.”
In Fischetti’s memo to Brooklyn Federal Court Chief Judge Carol Bagley Amon, he wrote, “Indeed, the probation report indicates that ‘the government advised that they are not prepared to prove by a preponderance of the evidence any criminal acts, charged or uncharged, by the defendant (Badalamenti).’”
In other words, without Pagan’s testimony, prosecutors could not establish that Badalamenti was more likely than not to have committed those crimes.
So Badalamenti might soon be out on the streets and Pagan on trial for murder.
Like I said up top, this proves there is a God.
The End
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The complete list of Joe Bruno’s Mobster’s books is:
“The Biggest Rat: Whitey Bulger’s Decades of Deceit” (September 2013)
"Mobsters, Gangs, Crooks, and Other Creeps - Volume 1 - New York City" (June 2011)
"Mobsters, Gangs, Crooks, and Other Creeps - Volume 2 - New York City" (December 2011) "Mobsters, Gangs, Crooks, and Other Creeps - Volume 3 - New York City" (March 2012)
"Mobsters, Gangs, Crooks and Other Creeps - Volume 4" (December 2012)
"Mobsters, Gangs, Crooks and Other Creeps -Volume 5 – Girlfriends and Wives" (April 2013)
"Murder and Mayhem in the Big Apple - From the Black Hand to Murder Incorporated" (March 2012)
"The Wrong Man: Who Ordered the Murder of Gambler Herman Rosenthal & Why" (May 2012)
"Mob Wives - Fuhgeddaboudit!" (August 2012)
Boxed sets written by Joe Bruno are:
"Joe Bruno's Mobsters - Three Volume Set" (March 2013)
"Joe Bruno's Mobsters - Five Volume Set" (April 2013)
"Joe Bruno's Mobsters - Six Volume Set" (September 2012)
"Joe Bruno's Mobsters - Eight Volume Set" (April 2013)
Joe Bruno’s fiction books include:
“Snakeheads: Chinese Illegal Immigrant Smugglers - A Screenplay” (June 2013)
“Big Fat Fanny: The Biggest Mafia Killer Ever (June 2010)
Both fiction books are available in the two-book boxed-set: “Snakeheads: Chinese Illegal Immigrant Smugglers - A Screenplay and Big Fat Fanny: The Biggest Mafia Killer Ever - A Novel” (2013)
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Bibliography:
The research done for “Joe Bruno’s Mobsters – Six Volume Set” came from the more than 75 crime/history books that I personally own (some I stole from the library, but don't tell the library police). Almost all of these books were purchased from Amazon.com. I have Amazon Prime ($79 a year), so I always receive free two-day shipping on all my purchases. This comes in handy, when I realize I need a certain book to complete a chapter, and presto, in two days, said book arrives miraculously at my front door. I also have my new Amazon Kindle, which, with its Amazon Whispernet, magically sends me a book I need for research over the Internet almost instantaneously. But all things being equal, I’d rather have the actual print book in my hands.
I guess I'm just funny that way.
I've also used several Internet websites including Wikipedia, Six For Five, Tru TV Crime Library, Newspaperarchives.com, and the online archives of the New York Times.
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DC Comics, The Big Book of Thugs - Illustrated. DC Comics, 1996
DeCecchio, Lin, & Brandt, Charles. We're Going to Win This Thing. New York: Berkley Books, 2011.
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De Stefano, King of the Godfathers, New York, Citadel Press, 2008
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English, T.J. The Westies. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1990, 2006.
English, T.J. Paddy Whacked. New York: Harper Collins, 2005.
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Fried, Albert, The Rise and Fall of the Jewish Gangster. New York: Columbia University Press, 1980, 1993.
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Hall, Bruce. Tea That Burns: A Family Memoir of Chinatown. New York: The Free Press, 1998
Haskins, Jim. The Cotton Club. New York City: New American Library, 1977.
Hoffman, William & Headley, Lake. Contract Killer. New York: Thunder's Mouth Press, 1992.
Homer, Fredrick D. Guns and Garlic. West Lafayette, Indiana: Purdue University Press, 1974.
Horon, James D. The Outlaws – The Authentic Wild West. New York: Crown Publishers, 1977.
Johnson, Nelson. Boardwalk Empire. New Jersey. Plexus Publishing Inc., 2002
Kerr, Gordon. Evil Psychopaths. Canary Press, 2011.
Keefe, Rose. The Starker. Nashville, TN: Cumberland House Publishing, 2008.
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Lehr, Dick; O'Neill, Gerald; Chinlund, Christine. The Bulger Mystique. The Boston Globe, 2011.
Murray William. Serial Killers. Canary Press. 2010
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Meskil, Paul. Boss of Bosses. New York: Popular Library, 1973.
Mitchell, Elizabeth, The Fearless Mrs. Goodwin, Kindle Edition, Byliner, 2011.
Mustain, Gene & Capeci, Jerry. Murder Machine. New York: Onyx Press, 1993.
Nash, Arthur. New York City Gangland. Charlotte, Arcadia Publishing, 2010.
Newfield, Jack & Barrett, Wayne. City For Sale. New York: Harper Row, 1988
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Pistone, Joseph D.& Woodley, Richard. Donnie Brasco. New York: New American Library, 1987.
Reis, Jacob. How the Other Half Lives. United States of America: Seven Treasure Publications, 2009.
Rovere, Richard H. Howe & Hummel. New York: Syracuse University Press, 1947, 1985.
Rudolph, Robert. Mafia Wiseguys. New York: S.P.I. Books, 1992-1993.
Sante, Luc. Low Life. New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1991.
Schatzberg, Rufus & Kelly, Robert J. African American Organized Crime. New Brunswick, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press, 1996.
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