Accused of Killing a Gambino Mob Boss, He's Presenting a Novel Defense
Four days after pulling off the most high-profile mob killing in decades, Anthony Comello sat down with New York Police Department detectives and told them that the C.I.A. had infiltrated the Mafia. And, he added, the government was spying on him.
He had put his phone in a copper bag to protect it from “satellites,” he told them, and Democratic operatives in Washington were doing business with Joaquín Guzmán Loera, the Mexican drug kingpin known as El Chapo.
In the nine months since that conversation, Mr. Comello, 25, has claimed to his lawyer that he killed Francesco (Franky Boy) Cali because the mob boss was part of “the deep state,” a member of a liberal cabal working to undermine President Trump.
At one court appearance, Mr. Comello scrawled on his hand a symbol and phrases associated with the far-right conspiracy theory, “QAnon.”
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Must be hoping for a Trump pardon.
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