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11/18/2004 Archived Entry: "Harper raises Gagliano allegations"

Posted by steve @ 02:57 PM EST [Link]

CONSERVATIVES ALLEGE FORMER CABINET MINISTER IS MOBBED UP: Boy, we have to be careful about this one. In the House of Commons today Conservative Party leader Stephen Harper asked the government about a report in New York Daily News that named former Liberal cabinet minister and current ambassador to Denmark Alfonso Gagliano as a member of a New York mafia family.

Alfonso Gagliano has held titles in Canada that include labor minister, deputy House leader, ambassador to Denmark and minister of public works.

In New York he held a different kind of title, according to secret FBI documents obtained by the Daily News: "made" member of the Bonanno crime family.

Gagliano was identified as a longtime soldier in the Bonanno crime family by Frank Lino, a former Mafia capo-turned-informer.

Lino is now cooperating with the FBI and federal prosecutors as they slowly take apart the mob family to which he once swore allegiance.

No quips this time. I don't feel like being sued today.

Read on.