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Being Bonnie's avatar

So- there's a ton of stuff to unpack here, Cindy. The (probable) Mangione/Pelosi/D'Alessandro connection to me- is not entirely far-fetched. Baltimore (like Philly/NJ/NYC/Boston) and other spots along the eastern seaboard were places with significant Italian populations. It's almost always assumed that where there are Italians of prominence/wealth/power there is Mafia. So be it. As a first-gen Italian-American I can't say I know anything about that in my experience but then, my family was not prominent/wealthy/powerful...at least in America.

I have always made the connection between Nancy Pelosi and Baltimore, her father AND brother as scions of that rat-infested town. Baltimore was brought down by those folks, many of whom were slumlords and business-owners. Probably organized crime- but there were other groups 'at play' who were not Italian. The Mangione's were/are in real estate so, that is worth exploring I suppose.

I can't, however, make the connection beyond that to the Mangione/D'Alessandro/Pelosi families. Being of Italian extract, from wealth, etc. doesn't immediately make the Mangione family crooked. Nor that they are Baltimoreans.

What did interest me is that they (Mangiones) own a string of nursing homes. I am going to delve into that myself a little more deeply. I did read along the way somewhere that young Luigi volunteered in the family nursing homes on some level, at some time.

NOW...it is also known that Luigi suffered from chronic back pain, had been diagnosed (and presumably treated) for Lyme disease. I know from my own experience that chronic pain can push a person over the edge! To murder? Hm.

There's more to this story than meets the eye and the whole mafia thing, in my view, is a red herring. In fact, this whole thing might have been perfectly timed to dilute what Israel is doing in Syria and continues to do in Gaza but...stay tuned!

ADDENDUM:

D'Alesandro did not speak Italian but spoke Yiddish. [14]

(FROM WIKIPEDIA)

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John Orban's avatar

Sounds like a member of the mob got pissed because he wasn’t tipped off before the stock crashed. I like the theory that Thompson was going to squeal on his “insider trading partners” (Pelosi knows a lot about insider trading), so he was silenced. Case closed. With all the MK-Ultra “assets” around it's easy to find a patsy. I’d like to know Vegas odds of the kid actually getting convicted…and…the next “oligarch” hit.

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