"Cianci's death is a glorious event in world history. He was a bastard through and through who'll join Judas in Satan's mouth. He may not have back stabbed Jesus, but he back stabbed his home, his ancestors land, and the entire world with his crimes that killed thousands and caused the suffering of millions once the economy melted down. I rarely wish for people to go to hell but he's the exception."
- Rudy Giuliani at the Progressive Political Action Conference (PPAC) in 2016.
When most Americans look back at their history there are some names that carry enormous weight. Every child knows the names Lincoln, Kennedy, Roosevelt, Washington, and Jefferson but who will be remembered as the greatest statesmen of the last 50 years? Some thought it would be Cianci, but we all know how that ended. Others would’ve said Jerry Litton but his coronation to the presidency in 1988 was interrupted by a radicalized electorate that was done with moderate insiders. After the last eight years though, most Americans agree who's the next Roosevelt or Jefferson and that man is Rudy Giuliani.
Giuliani’s popularity amongst the American public is unmatched by any politician in the United States and it all started in New York City. Long before he was serving America, he was serving New York City as a prosecutor for at first the Justice Department and then the New York Attorney General’s office. Giuliani’s time as the Big Apple’s attorney is legendary. He fought the Mafia in the early 80s and successfully sued The Trump Organization for racial discrimination in 1980 in a big win for the NYC’s African American population. He followed this case up when he successfully prosecuted one of the high-ranking members of the Gambino Crime family, arresting Robert DiBernardo on charges of child pornography which served as an excellent opportunity to attack the Gambino Crime Family directly, with Attorney General Robert Abrams opening several high-profile investigations into the Gambino’s. Furthermore, DiBernardo would flip on several Mafia members in exchange for a reduced sentence.
By 1985 Giuliani had managed to become one of the biggest names in New York, with his support for African Americans, the poor, and his crusade against the Mafia making him the most popular man in the city. He was so popular that the Democratic Party approached him to run against incumbent mayor Lewis Lehrman. Giuliani, instead of focusing on advancing his political career decided to instead stay a prosecutor for New York. While his supporters portray this decision as a selfless act the move was motivated by Giuliani (correctly) believing that becoming mayor would stunt his career, with very few politicians being able to use the mayorship to obtain higher office such as the governorship or the senate. Despite Giuliani rejecting the offer he did end up campaigning for the Democratic nominee, New York State Senate member Carol Bellamy who only managed to capture 44% of the vote compared to Lewis Lehrman who won 54% of the vote.
But before campaign season started, he was presented the biggest case in the history of New York. On a cold February night on Valentine's Day the NYPD conducted a raid on a suspected Mafia warehouse in the Bronx. The group, armed with rifles easily overwhelmed the thugs who guarded the warehouse and soon after the Mafia surrendered the warehouse to the NYPD. Eric Adams was the first one in and what he found was unusual. In the warehouse were explosives that if detonated could easily kill thousands of people. Furthermore, in the warehouse there were fascist symbols such as Fasces and eagles that the Mussolini regime used.
Soon after the raid Giuliani was tasked by Attorney General Robert Abrams with figuring out why the Mafia was now seemingly fascist. Furthermore, there were freemason symbols and a map of Italy with highlighted towns and cities. Giuliani arrived thirty minutes after the raid had finished and ordered all materials confiscated. But as soon as he left an hour later that didn’t happen. In fact, as soon as the Adams and all the non-corrupt officers left the warehouse it caught on fire and burned to the ground. At the time the NYPD claimed the fire was started by an officer discarding a lit cigarette into a garbage, but it wouldn’t take long for the truth to come out that a dozen corrupt officers burned the place to the ground with gasoline and matches.
Soon after the warehouse was destroyed Giuliani was pressured to drop the case by the NYPD. Predictably, Giuliani refused, with the fascist imagery being incredibly concerning along with the sheer number of explosives.
Giuliani would soon after beginning to investigate a new person of interest. Ralph Scopo was the leader of NYC’s local cement workers union and had been rumored to have worked for the Mafia, including meeting members of the Nosa Costra abroad in Italy. On February 11th, 1985, the police obtained a warrant to bug Scopo’s car due to his connections to the Colombo Crime Family. Giuliani assembled a team of six detectives and three NYPD officers, including Eric Adams to spearhead the investigation. For the first month of the investigation nothing happened. Literally nothing. Scopo and his passengers did not speak while in his car and Scopo soon after sold his car. With that lead failing miserably Giuliani tried to find another lead but the Mafia was always a step ahead of him thanks to Cianci and P2’s resources and protection. A month into the investigation Attorney General Abrams got a visit from Congressmen Robert Bauman who attempted to pressure Abrams into forcing Giuliani to drop the case. Abrams refused and a day later the Unholy Alliance came up with a solution. Salvatore Riina ordered a bomb to be placed under Giuliani’s car and for Eric Adams (who had quickly become Giuliani’s biggest defender and most determined investigator) to be killed on his way to work.
On March 2nd, 1985, the plan was executed. The bomb exploded as the car was driving to the Empire State building. Anna Glass was killed instantly, having been lent the car by Giuliani after she had been in a car accident and was currently being repaired. Giuliani figured that taking the taxi to his office was a small price to pay but now he knew it was the right thing to do for himself. Soon after Eric Adams came under fire from a Mafia death squad. While walking to work two Mafia hitmen screamed for help in a dark alley. Being a police officer, he responded but was then shot at by the two hitmen Fortunately, two bystanders tackled the two men which gave Adams enough time to pull out his pistol and shoot both men in the head. Then another two men drew their guns at Adams, but he was a quicker shot. The next ten seconds where the closest Adams came to death as the first hitman he swiftly shot in the head, but the second man got in a couple of shots, three of which hit Adams in his left hand, right leg, and shoulder. Adams fired everything he had at the hitman and hit him twice near the heart, incapacitating him and causing him to bleed out before the ambulance arrived. Adams despite suffering from blood loss walked out of the hospital with his life three days later.
Giuliani had originally been unsure about continuing the investigation but after the bombing and attempted assassination of Adams. The attack would further anger Giuliani who like his fellow citizens had grown to hate the Mafia’s power. Now was the time to destroy the Mafia but it wouldn’t just be the Mafia that was going to be destroyed.
The day after Adams returned from the hospital Giuliani found his next target. Roberto Calvi. The man had only recently made a name for himself in America. As a part of Mayor Lehrman’s attempt to boost the economy of NYC he decided to reach out to numerous different companies. One of those companies was suggested by President Cianci and was Banco Ambrosiano, the now largest bank in Italy. With Calvi’s expansion into the US Calvi began to buy up real estate in New York which he used as a front for P2 and the Mafia. The evidence to back this up was quite easy to find as coincidently Calvi owned Scopo’s house and the warehouse that was raided by the NYPD and set off this wild goose chase.
Everyone in NYC knew Calvi was connected to the Mafia which thus made him untouchable in New York society. With his immense wealth and connections making it impossible for the police to touch. But Giuliani saw Calvi as less a threat who could hide behind his connections but as the key to destroying the Mafia.
Banco Ambrosiano office in Newark.
On March 7th, 1985, Giuliani ordered the task force to observe Calvi’s daily life. The NYPD during this time would view Calvi meeting with Nosa Costra leaders such as John J. Gotti. Furthermore, Mafia members such as Scopo and Vincent Gigante were seen entering Banco Ambrosiano’s American HQ with brief cases and leaving without them. But when the NYPD demanded to inspect Scopo and Gigante’s bank accounts, but the head of the bank claimed Scopo and Gigante didn’t have bank accounts. This was all Giuliani needed to hear. Two weeks after investigating Calvi and his assets he obtained a search warrant. On March 25th, 1985, Eric Adams was tasked with searching the bank for anything incriminating including financial records. The raid on Calvi’s penthouse in Staten Island was a massive success with Calvi’s penthouse holding numerous orders from “The Hero,” “The Master,” and “The Beast” that gave him instructions on how to avoid law enforcement and on which locations were to be used by the Mafia for their weapons smuggling. More damning evidence came a day later on March 26th when state police under the command of Attorney General Abrams managed to prove that Scopo and Gigante were hiding money in Banco Ambrosiano under false aliases. The same day Giuliani announced an arrest warrant for Calvi, who had fled to Italy on charges of money laundering and racketeering.
Calvi had escaped though, just in the nick of time too as the warrant was given out 3/4ths of the way to Italy, meaning it was impossible for the pilots to turn back. When Giuliani attempted to get the FBI involved the FBI refused. Much to the shock of the investigators the federal government refused to request Calvi’s extradition to the United States. Unsurprisingly one of the three codenames were Cianci. “The Hero” was Licio Gelli who gave himself the name for the self-righteous belief he was going to be remembered as a liberator and hero. “The Beast” was Riina who earned the name for the viscous murders he conducted and for being known as one of the evilest men Italy had ever seen. Cianci didn’t stop at refusing to request the extradition of Calvi (which Natta would’ve gleefully approved) but made sure that there was no reason for Calvi to be extradited. Soon after Cianci refused to request Calvi’s extradition a bribed judge ruled that the NYPD had used “tampered evidence” to indict Calvi, thus making the arrest warrant null and void on May 3rd. Giuliani was close to destroying the Mafia but this time it was not meant to be. Still Giuliani was a problem for Cianci, and he knew damn well he wasn’t going to stop until the Mafia and thus him were destroyed.
Fortunately, though the Calvi case had given him enough evidence to arrest Gigante and Scopo for wire fraud. Gigante wasn’t talking, knowing his buddies in the Mafia would break him out but Scopo was less hesitant to talk. Soon after he was indicted for wire fraud he was indicted for racketeering, extortion, and theft. Furthermore, the cement union was crippled by the arrest as most of the leadership of the concrete union had resigned in disgrace and Scopo was looking at over one hundred years in prison. Scopo was given a choice by Giuliani, cooperate or face the rest of his life in prison. He decided to cooperate much to the shock of Giuliani. On May 5th the first of many conversations were recorded. For the next two hours Scopo discussed the plea deal which promised to reduce Scopo’s sentence to 25 years in prison with the option of parole after five years (which he believed he’d get due to him taking down the Mafia). The next two hours were what revealed the Unholy Alliance to Giuliani. The gist of what Scopo revealed was that the Mafia and the NAR in Italy were working together to cement each other’s power. He listed Salvatore Riina and Stefano Chiaie as the two main culprits of the plan but also mentioned that Thomas DiBella was the main smuggler but also that there were always some “shadow people” with him. The people Scopo were referring to were government officials who were oddly numerous and powerful.
Scopo after testifying in
New York V. Vincent Cianci (1989).
At this point Giuliani realized that the main threat was the government, but he did not know how dangerous those in the shadows were. Even more dangerous were those who walked in the light rather than hide in the shadows. On May 10th, right before he planned to interrogate Scopo for the second time he received a call from D.C.
“Rudy Giuliani how may I help you?”
“Listen Rudy, you’re in danger. The Mafia isn’t the only one after you.”
“Who the hell is this?”
“One of your enemies' captives. What you need to know is there’s a hit on you tomorrow on your way to work. There’s a bomb planted under your new car.”
“Again, who the hell is this?”
“That’s not important. If you know who I am I’ll be killed just like Gayle Redick and Cicchitto. I beg of you, get the hell out of New York City for a couple of days.”
“First of all, who the hell is Gayle Redick? Second of all who is after me?”
“A woman who knew too much about one of Cianci's crimes. Second, it’s the President and Licio Gelli, the leader of a Masonic Lodge. They’re out for blood as things are heating up.”
Rudy Giuliani couldn’t help but laughing and hung up the phone. “These kids have no respect nowadays. When we played pranks on each other in the 50s we didn’t make shit up about killing people” he said to Adams.
“What did the caller say?” Replied a very concerned Adams.
“Something about President Cianci and some freemason is trying to kill me and there being a bomb under my car.”
“The first one sounds like a pile of bullshit, but we should make sure your car is safe. You never know what the Mafia is going to do.”
Ten minutes later three NYPD officers searched Giuliani’s car and found a bomb under it which made Giuliani believe that maybe the man who called him wasn’t a liar. Once the bomb was defused by the bomb squad he went home and began to research the name Gayle Redick. Though it wasn’t easy as the case had not been publicized in the slightest outside of Milwaukee. Still, Giuliani managed to find an article from The Weekly Investigation, a newspaper that was made by a couple of drug addicted conspiracy theorists with a journalist degree. The newspaper was known for its focus on anti-government conspiracies, that included stories about how the CIA was assassinating regular Americans and how Satanists were in control of NYC. But one article will always stand out is the one ran on Gayle Redick. Officially, her death was a suicide, but The Weekly Investigation accused the government of murdering her, claiming she was about to expose a Satanic plot at the local elementary school. Now the article was obviously ridiculous, but the article brought Giuliani’s attention to the Redick case. On May 11th, Giuliani would contact the Redick family to discuss the phone call he had gotten from the mysterious man. Redick’s family was hesitant, but they wanted answers that they didn’t get from the police. Giuliani was planning on having the Redick family come to NYC to discuss her death and figure out how Redick was intertwined with the Mafia. But that wouldn’t happen for another month.
Helicopter racing towards the Diamondhill Power Plant.
On May 14th Redick’s mother booked a flight to NYC to meet with Giuliani the next day. But at 9:45 AM she turned on the TV to see a military helicopter over Providence Rhode Island. At the same time in NYC Giuliani was discussing strategies on how to move forward with an increasingly dangerous, complex, and massive investigation. The TV in his office was on the weather channel and was muted. But then an EAS warning pierced the ears of all in his office.
‘WARNING’
‘STAY CALM. THERE’S BEEN AN INCIDENT IN DIAMOND HILL AND CUMBERLAND RHODE ISLAND THAT COULD AFFECT NEW YORK CITY. DO NOT PANIC AS THE SITUATION IS UNDER CONTROL BUT THE STATE AND FEDERAL GOVERNMENT NEED COOPERATION AS THE SITUATION COULD CHANGE. REMAIN CALM AND DON’T BLOCK THE BROOKLYN BRIDGE OR DOCKS. THERE’S BEEN A FIRE REPORTED AT THE DIAMONDHILL POWER PLANT’