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04-13-2010, 05:32 PM
Ex-U.S. Congressman Falls for Mafia Scam (http://www.themoscowtimes.com/news/article/ex-us-congressman-falls-for-mafia-scam/403859.html), by Nikolaus von Twickel. The Moscow Times, 13 April 2010.
Mobster POW scam took LI pol for 18G (http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/mobster_pow_scam_took_li_pol_for_jKzNsJMRyrs1HEpll tsTQN), New York Post, April 9, 2010.
A mobster pleaded guilty yesterday to a bizarre scheme to defraud a former Long Island congressman out of $18,500 in exchange for bogus information about Vietnam POWs.
Charles Guiga, 38, admitted that within the last year he'd sent letters supposedly written by a Russian mobster and giving the locations of 75 prisoners of war supposedly being held in the former Soviet republic of Belarus.
But the letters to one-term GOP Rep. John LeBoutillier were in actuality the scribblings of imprisoned Colombo crime-family captain Frank "Frankie Blue Eyes" Sparaco.
Mobster POW scam took LI pol for 18G (http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/mobster_pow_scam_took_li_pol_for_jKzNsJMRyrs1HEpll tsTQN), New York Post, April 9, 2010.
A mobster pleaded guilty yesterday to a bizarre scheme to defraud a former Long Island congressman out of $18,500 in exchange for bogus information about Vietnam POWs.
Charles Guiga, 38, admitted that within the last year he'd sent letters supposedly written by a Russian mobster and giving the locations of 75 prisoners of war supposedly being held in the former Soviet republic of Belarus.
But the letters to one-term GOP Rep. John LeBoutillier were in actuality the scribblings of imprisoned Colombo crime-family captain Frank "Frankie Blue Eyes" Sparaco.