Veteran organized crime reporter George Anastasia is covering the federal organized crime retrial in Philadelphia for Bigtrial.net.
It looks like there's going to be at least one new witness in the retrial of mob boss Joseph "Uncle Joe" Ligambi and his nephew, George Borgesi.
New York mobster-turned-informant Anthony Aponick, an inmate with Borgesi in a federal prison in West Virginia back in 2002 and 2003, is apparently going to be called to testify this time around.
The alleged Bonanno crime family associate has been debriefed at length by the FBI. Among other things, he has said that he came to Philadelphia in 2003 and met with a top Borgesi associate at Borgesi's behest in order to establish himself in the local underworld. He did that, he has said, despite the fact that a New York mob leader cautioned him about the danger, referring to the Philadelphia mob that Borgesi and Joseph "Skinny Joey" Merlino once controlled as "kill crazy."
"They're Mad Hatters," Aponick said he was warned. "Stick with the devil you know."
Aponick opted to ignore that advice. Perhaps because he was cooperating with the government at the time?
You can read the rest of the piece via the below link:
http://www.bigtrial.net/2013/10/new-witness-in-mob-trial.html
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