Indictment recalls the business of a gangster film
Joshua Chaffin in New York 2 HOURS AGO
The star witness had already provided a sworn affidavit, and the Senate hearing room was packed with an audience eager to hear him testify to crimes committed by his secretive organisation. The senators leaned in.
Then Frank Pentangeli developed a sudden fogginess. “I don’t know nothing about that!” Mr Pentangeli famously called out, sending the room into a frenzy and upending efforts to take down a top mafia boss.
That pivotal scene from The Godfather II makes a cameo appearance in a real-life drama: the criminal indictment filed on Friday by special counsel Robert Mueller against Roger Stone, a well-known dirty tricks artist who has long served as an adviser to Donald Trump ...
“Stone told Person 2” — believed to be a Florida radio host, Randy Credico — “that <he> should do a ‘Frank Pentangeli’ . . . in order to avoid contradicting Stone’s testimony,” according to the indictment ...
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