NEW YORK -- 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 CIA had infiltrated the Mafia. And, he added, the government was spying on him.He had put his phone in a copper bag to protect
CommentAli WatkinsDecember 6, 2019NEW YORK — 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 CIA had infiltrated the Mafia. And, he added, the government was spying on him.
How the crime’s three major components — an aimless drifter from Staten Island, the underboss of the Gambino crime family and a far-right internet conspiracy theory — collided on a dark street in Todt Hill has perplexed law enforcement officials and mob watchers alike. Story continues“When they perpetuate conspiracy theories online, it’s combustible,” said Rick Alan Ross, the founder of the Cult Education Institute who has studied far-right conspiracies. “That fuel ignites when someone who’s disturbed finds the substance of their conspiracy theories.”
“He ardently believed that Francesco Cali, a boss in the Gambino crime family, was a prominent member of the deep state, and, accordingly, an appropriate target for a citizen’s arrest,” Gottlieb wrote in a court document filed in July. Using mental illness as a defense in such a case is not without precedent, Perlin said. Almost all of the early insanity defense cases were political in nature, he said, going back to the attempted assassination of King George III in 1800.
Ross said people like Comello, who his family said had been behaving erratically for some time before the killing, can easily be drawn into “the kind of networking that is being done online.”
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