found this last night, looking for somthing to read.
Court told mob bosses voted on whacking Giuliani in '86BY Scott Shifrel and HELEN KENNEDY DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITERS
Thursday, October 25th 2007, 4:00 AM
The heads of New York's five Mafia families debated whacking Rudy Giuliani at a 1986 sitdown, according to bombshell testimony Wednesday at the trial of a disgraced FBI agent.
Gambino crime boss John Gotti and Colombo head Carmine Persico pushed hard for the hit, but failed to persuade the other three members of the Cosa Nostra commission to okay killing Giuliani, then a mob-busting federal prosecutor.
"The bosses of the Lucchese, Bonanno and Genovese families rejected the idea, despite strong efforts to convince them otherwise by Gotti and Persico," wrote then-FBI Agent Lindley DeVecchio in September 1987, documenting a tip from his mole in the mob.
The memo was read into the record Wednesday in Brooklyn Supreme Court, where DeVecchio, 67, is being tried on charges of helping mobsters plan four murders.
It was part of 600 pages of memos DeVecchio wrote documenting his contacts with Colombo captain Gregory Scarpa from 1980 to 1992.
Prosecutors say the agent went rogue and was funneling information to the mob. The defense used the memos to show the wealth of detailed information Scarpa was giving DeVecchio, information that led to many wiretaps and arrests.
"They should give him a medal," a DeVecchio supporter quipped after the testimony.
The plot to kill the former mayor was discussed in the fall of 1986, Scarpa was told.
That's when Giuliani, then Manhattan U.S. attorney, was prosecuting the famous "Commission" case - which targeted the five Cosa Nostra bosses and crippled the mob in America.
The trial ended in the November 1986 convictions of Persico, Luchese family boss Anthony (Tony Ducks) Corallo, Genovese boss Anthony (Fat Tony) Salerno and five other defendants.
Gambino boss Paul Castellano was whacked before the trial began, and Bonanno boss Philip (Rusty) Rastelli was tried and convicted separately.
The mob's plan to whack Giuliani has previously been reported, notably in a 2002 Daily News article. But Scarpa's claim that the top Cosa Nostra bosses seriously discussed killing him is new.
Giuliani, who rode the Commission case to the mayor's office, often brags about being targeted by mobsters when he's on the stump in the presidential campaign.
"The reality is, I've dealt with this all of my life," he said in a Fox News interview last week. "If you've got to live with threats, you live with threats."
"When I was first U.S. attorney, the Sicilian Mafia offered an $800,000 contract to have me killed. The FBI caught them," he said.
It's a story he tells often, usually adding jokingly that a later contract on his life was "an insult" - because it was for only $400,000.
His campaign had no comment Wednesday on the new allegation and would not say if he knew of the threat at the time.
Among other details that emerged Wednesday from DeVecchio's memos was the solid information Scarpa provided about Castellano's slaying.
One day after the Dec. 16, 1985, hit on Castellano, Scarpa told DeVecchio that Gotti set up the assassination. He said Persico, who knew of the planned hit, neither approved nor disapproved but made no attempt to oppose it.
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