Veteran reporter Ralph
Cipriano, author of The Hit Man: A True Story of Murder, Redemtion and the Melrose Dinner, offers a piece at Bigtrial.net on former Cosa Nostra hitman John
Veasey.
It was advertised on posters
all over campus.
At West Chester University on
Tuesday night, the Department of Criminal Justice was presenting the latest in
their "Crime & Justice Lecture Series."
Previous lecturers included
the former leader of the Pagans motorcycle gang. And a former member of the
Mexican Mafia.
On Tuesday, the latest
attraction was a former Mafia hit man:
"A poor kid from South
Philly" who "survived three gunshots to the head, to become a
federally protected witness who brought down the Philly mob," the posters
said. "And then reinvented himself as a wildly successful car
salesman."
Yep, "John-John"
Veasey, the former high school dropout, was appearing live at West Chester University
to talk about his life in the Mafia and the witness protection program. And his
current reincarnation as a born again, right-wing Republican, and
multimillionaire car dealer.
Veasey was the invited guest
of Al DiGiacomo, a former Philly cop who is a criminal justice professor at
West Chester U.
"He's real,"
DiGiacomo told the students about his guest.
Back in the 1990s, when he
was captain of detectives in South Philadelphia, DiGiacomo was the commander
whose men were chasing Veasey around town during a mob war. That war featured
hits "downtown," as the locals refer to South Philly, and shootouts
on the Expressway.
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