The largest contributor to Democrat politicians is George Soros... right? Wrong. ABC News reports a wealthy California film producer named Stephen Bing has delivered more than $16 million of his own money to Dems. Bing's largesse so impressed mister "Hope is on the way," John 2, that the two recently had a private lunch meeting.
So what's the big deal? It turns out that Mr. Bing employs one "Donnie Shacks," one of the top mob hit men in the NY area.
"In fact, Democratic Party officials said they knew nothing about the man who law enforcement officials tell ABC News is Bing's friend and business partner — Dominic Montemarano, a New York Mafia figure currently in federal prison on racketeering charges.
Montemarano has a long criminal record and is known to organized crime investigators by his street name, Donnie Shacks.
"Donnie Shacks' main activity was murder. No question about it. That was his main function for the Colombo family and for organized crime in general. He was one of the top hit men in the New York area," said Joe Coffey, a former NYPD investigator.
According to The Los Angeles Times, Bing paid Montemarano's legal fees after his most recent scrape with the law. Montemerano's lawyer said his client was an employee of Bing's."
Perhaps Little John's meeting with this guy was to discuss privatization of the war on terror.
Can we, just for fun, imagine the furor if this happened to a Republican candidate?
Condi Rice stealing documents? Dick Cheney meeting with a multimillondollar donor with mob ties. President Ford speechifying on...oh, never mind!
Posted by: jk at July 29, 2004 11:18 AMWhat stealing of documents? What mob ties? These things never happened!
Never! I know not of what you speak.