Veteran organized crime reporter George Anastasia offers a piece on the South Philadeelphia auto body shop owner with reputed organized crime ties who is accused of hiring a gunmen to kill his daughter's boyfriend.
It sounds like the plot from a Shakespearean play, but with a decided South Philadelphia twist.
A father, upset because his daughter is dating a man he neither likes nor trusts, sends two henchmen to kill the unwanted suitor. If Shakespeare had written the story, the assassins would have carried swords or daggers.
Ronald Walker said he used a .25 caliber semi-automatic pistol.
Walker took the stand this afternoon during the opening day of testimony in the murder-for-hire trial of Ronald Galati, a South Philadelphia auto body shop owner with a checkered criminal past that includes alleged organized crime connections.
But neither Galati's past nor his suspected mob ties are expected to figure in the trial. Instead, the case will focus on the allegation that last year Galati, 63, hired three men to kill Andrew Tuono who was dating Galati's daughter Tiffany at the time.
Tuono survived the hit and is listed as a potential witness. So is Tiffany Galati.
"It's a simple case," Assistant U.S. Attorney Jason Richardson said in his opening statement to the jury of 10 women and two men this morning. "Mr. Galati wanted Mr. Tuono dead." The reason, Richardson said, was also rather mundane. "Mr. Galati didn't like Mr. Tuono."
You can read the rest of the piece via the below link:
http://www.bigtrial.net/2014/09/a-murder-for-hire-plot-that-bard-would.html
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