Watch your innocent brothers die in jail; you will be safe and they will be tyrants! The 38-year-old man had entered the . The FBI were casting an ominous shadow on Gioelis life, as well as the day-to-day lives of his two disciples Dino Calabro and Joey Competiello. By 1991 Orena, with the encouragement of Gambino crime family boss John Gotti, felt strong enough to challenge Persico for total control of the family. However, Gioeli maintains his innocence and no charges in the Zuraw killing have been filed against him. Scarpa died of AIDS in 1994, facing multiple murder charges stemming from the 1991-93 Colombo war. Michael Daly talks to the Blogfather.. Unfortunately, Frank was murdered in April of 1998. According to his indictment, Souza dispatched associates to watch Pagan at his house and around Staten Island. He further testified that his subsequent duties as a made man included bringing around what Gioeli had generated in his basement as the mobs first word-processed induction list. To blog from behind bars, Gioeli begins by writing a missive by hand. Maragni left his journey to New York with a photo with the cast of The Sopranos and, more importantly, increased standing in the Colombo crime family. This bode well for Gioeli, who was himself straightened out on January 9, 1987, along with two other aspiring gangsters, according to Greg Scarpa. There was simply too much heat on Calabro and Co. since on May 30, 2000, federal agents and NYPD detectives began looking for the remains of Carmine Gargano. That's fucked up, 17 years, D." Little Dino confirmed that he was looking at that sort of time for his crimes. Starting back in the 1990s, Tommy also maintained a considerable array of Joker-Poker machines in both Brooklyn and Long Island. To blog from behind bars, Gioeli begins by writing a missive by hand. Unlike Scarpa, Thomas 'Tommy Shots' Gioeli made few headlines during his decade-long murder spree which saw him and his crew rack up nine bodies. Whatever he posts, Alleged Mob Boss Tommy Gioelis Voice seems all but sure to continue being written from behind bars. A very merry Christmas, the accompanying message read. Thanks for your continued support, it means so much. "How am I going to go 17 years without girls? Coffee boys could make $1000 a week before the mob showed up and charged them $250 weekly for the job privilege. Calabro said he had uttered an oath. But on this pleasant Spring morning, Tommy wasnt there to mull over Bible verses. He'd previously been sent on a mission to crack the face of a boyfriend who had "bothered" another Gioeli daughter. Donate today, Gothamist is funded by sponsors and member donations. On January 7, 2005, turncoat Bonanno boss Joey Massino - who had been wearing a wire in a Brooklyn detention center against his acting boss Vinny Basciano - was shocked to hear news of Franzese's ascension, despite Sonny having held the title of underboss in the 1980s as well. Joseph 'Joe Smash' Gambale, 49, another Brooklynite. Tommy Gioeli was the powerful acting boss of the Colombo family from 2003-2008, and helped rebuild the family through the 21st century. He was also marked for death by the mob after being exposed as a double-crossing federal informant. (Jesse Ward for New York Daily . On that day, Allie called Tommy's phone, then he called Long Island marina. Subpoenas were flying, search warrants were being executed. In one heist, Calabro broke through the wall of a Farmingdale bank, broke into an ATM, and emerged with a stack of cash. Joseph 'Joey Caves' Competiello (Source: NY Post), Thomas Gioeli after his arrest (Source: NY Times), Joey Competiello after his arrest (Source: NY Daily News), Dino Calabro after his arrest (Source: Newsday). Gordon reiterated that "as long as the outside can't get in," they would be safe." Making matters worse, Calabro later confessed to regularly abusing Andrea. McLaughlin, his brother-in-law Peter Tagliavia, Ilario' Fat Larry' Sessa, Gaetano' Tommy' Gallo, possibly Jerry Ciauri, and other violent associates formerly under Greg Scarpa's Dyker Heights decina were all under the wing of Little Dino, according to court records from Saracino's indictment, Sessa's sentencing memo, and Gallo's indictment. He has been remanded for more than three years to the starkly real Brooklyn Metropolitan Detention Center, but he periodically manages a virtual escape into cyberspace, thanks to a restricted email system provided by the federal Bureau of Prisons and to the untiring efforts of a devoted daughter. Gioeli the Blogfather protested vehemently when the government filed court papers alleging that his own crimes included unintentionally killing a former nun with a shotgun blast in 1982. Gioeli allegedly murdered Marasa because he was falsely accused of being involved in the murder of another Colombo associate. Calabro testified that Gioeli had been something of a mentor, advising him on how to kill. On June 4, 2008, Gioeli was indicted for robbery, extortion, the 1991 Marassa murder, and the 1992 Minerva and Imbergamo murders. The so-called "good brother," Seb was maintaining an air of legitimacy while living in Los Angeles, California. Another old-school card game operator, John' Johnny Cash' Azzarelli, was previously under the thumb of Joe Waverly Cacace. By John Marzulli, Daily News. details 1 Copyright 2021 The Archive. Prosecutors are opposing Thomas (Tommy Shots) Gioeli's request for a prison furlough to attend his eldest daughter, Julia's, wedding on Dec. 2. He stared grumpily into the cameras as reporters hounded him, while Dino Calabro, also wearing a sloppy white tee, stared at the ground and clamped his eyes shut. Gioeli and his crew were able to last years avoiding arrest, even after police raided Dino Saracino's apartment on March 4, 2005, seizing nine illegal guns. You see, the photos were obtained from the Gioeli's Long Island house by Andrea Calabro, wife of Dino "Big Dino" Calabro, as a way to curry favor for her hubby with the Feds. The president was criticized for being too hands off on Obamacare repeal, both in persuading members of Congress to support the final effort and in crafting what that final effort looked like. Gioli, Calabro, and Saracino took Cutolo to Saracino's house, where they allegedly murdered him. Jimmy Angelino was murdered in 1988, Minerva in 1992, and Sparaco had just been convicted of enough murders to ensure he wouldn't be leaving prison for decades. But, given his job in running a Brooklyn-based crime family, Tommy Shots had to telecommute if he didn't want to leave his hood. Calabro said he had uttered an oath. Once they were safely inside, they whipped out guns, handcuffed the occupants, and stole a safe filled with drugs and cash. Tommy Joe Gioele broke down in tears as he was surrounded by family outside the courtroom of state District Judge J. Robin Free while walking to a holding cell. This Angers Scarpa to no end and begins a vendetta hunting down Orena loyalists . How is Thomas Gioeli managing to post about life behind bars? She says her father and Gioeli were competitive over McLaughlin - his allegiance and . In 2004, according to the complaint, Calabro met the youngest Scopo when his father brought him along to his regular get-together with Calabro at a "bagel store on Route 109 on West Babylon" to hash out the money that the pair had made in the union." He lived in Fort Lauderdale, just like he had for over a decade, where he had been a close pal of Allie Persico. But in an institutional setting it is downright unsanitary, if not illegal. The gas station would be where Dino first met Gioeli, sparking a friendship which would define his criminal career. "He looks like he's going to a baseball game," scoffed one law enforcement source talking to the News. In the mid-1980s, Gioeli was imprisoned for robbery, his first incarceration. "I'm saying, D, it's that bad?" New York Daily News. Thomas Gioeli was born in 1953 to Salvatore & Julie Gioeli and grew up in the quaint Long Island village of Farmingdale. "Calabro kept $1000 for himself; Scopo Jr. took $1500 for himself, and the remaining $7500 went to the Colombo Family Administration" (Thomas Gioeli and John Franzese). Later on, Dennis also introduced him to both Jimmy Gooch and Billy Russo, but not Vinny Manzo, who was shelved at the time. Fifteen years his junior, Dino owed his rise in the Colombo family entirely to Tommy, whom he met in 1989 and quickly latched onto him as Tommys full-time "driver" and chief enforcer. Gioeli allegedly buried Greaves' body in an industrial park in Farmingdale, New York. Similar to Bevacqua, Dello had a reputation as a violent Orena faction "shooter."4. Ralph Lombardo in 2003 (Source: Gang Land News), Anthony 'Tony Green' Urso in January 2004 (Source: Gang Land News), John 'Sonny' Franzese, 87, looking spry in a 2004 surveillance picture (Source: Gang Land News), Sonny Franzese and Gaetano 'Guy' Fatato in 2004 (Source: Gang Land News), Dino Calabro and Tommy Gioeli pose for a photo (Source: New York Daily News), Michael Uvino in 2007 (Source: Gang Land News), Ralph Scopo Jr. in 2005 (Source: Gang Land News), Little Dino Saracino (Source: NY Daily News), Vincent 'Jimmy Gooch' Febbraro in 2011 (Source: Gang Land News), Daniel Bogan in 2011 (Source: Gang Land News), Paul 'Paulie Guns' Bevacqua (Source: Gang Land News), Mikey and his crew's arrest marked the beginning of the feds' assault on the Calabro crew, which worked upwards, all the way to Gioeli. When Miciotta started blabbing about the murder in 1993 as part of his cooperation with the government, nobody was left to prosecute. ", Then, Bogan got himself into more beef with Gambino gangsters John 'Johnny G' Gammarano and William' Big Billy' Scotto over a $17,000 loan that Bogan gave to an unidentified victim, according to Febbraro's 2012 sentencing memo. At first, the two Souzas planned on assaulting Pagan by surprise - a so-called "jack in the box," as Souza called it on tape. Dino was enamored by the respected and feared mobsters that showed up at the social club to confer with the elder Scarpa, whose ominous underworld nicknames included the Grim Reaper and the Mad Hatter. In Brooklyn Federal Court almost thirty years later, Big Dino testified about his first impressions;"I seen older guys with dress suits on and cars and jewelry in the middle of the day. That, Calabro said, was (j)ust what I wanted to do. By some divine intervention, none of them were caught. The defenseand you will never believe thissays they were stolen. A mobster's wish of giving his daughter away at her wedding doesn't have the feds' blessing. Among the decisions made unanimously at the meeting, the Colombos were finally granted the privilege to induct members, a right which had been stripped from them a decade prior due to the ongoing conflict. The induction of Competiello and the Saracino Brothers took place at a residence on West 6th St., Gravesend, according to mob researcher JD. "He came home and cried his eyes out saying, 'I would never do that, no matter what kind of trouble I had.' The feds also got their hands on a nifty little phone book with the listed names and numbers of all of Gioeli's underworld associates. Ennab, 19, a stickup artist. [16], As of September 2015, Gioeli is incarcerated in the low security wing of the Federal Correctional Complex, Butner in Butner, North Carolina. A project by Massimiliano "MaxAor" Carli . What a change socially and politically.. [9] On December 16, 2008, Gioeli was indicted on the 1995 Greaves murder and the 1999 Cutolo murder. These locations included; Jimmys, an after-hours bar on Coney Island Avenue between O and P; the Getty Gas Station; The Glory Club in Downtown Brooklyn; a candy store owned by mob associate Lenny the Barber.. Hey, we didn't allow too many people in our lives; we really didn't," Dino noted. "Will you put money in my commissary?" Even though he couldn't be made, Pagan was trusted with running things on the street for the powerful Graziano when, in 2002, T.G. Maragni received a call in Florida from Angelo Spata, the brother-in-law of Allie Persico, and was told to meet with Gioeli at the Hilton Hotel in Huntington, Long Island. In his blog, Gioeli further reports that his own lawyers asked him to at least temper his postings and that the prosecution complained that some of its content violated court guidelines. . Reading the writing on the wall, Tommy convened his two lieutenants at Our Lady of Lourdes to announce his planned retirement from the life. This was revealed on December 21, 2003, when the Bonanno family had a sitdown regarding a list of proposed "made members" passed around by the Colombos. Tom Gioeli and a second-generation Brooklyn gangster named Joseph 'Junior Lollipops' Carna, 42, were allegedly in crash cars down the street, according to testimony from the gunman in the hit. from Buzzfeed News: It was his final effort trying to make things work in California.final effort trying to make things work in California. The Colombo Crime Family . I'm going to hell, said Gioeli to a fellow gangster after accidentally slaying a nun according to court documents. For that depot, the crew stole a tractor unit to break in, hitched it to a trailer and drove off with the loot. Tommy always told us, Shoot him in the body first, then walk up and cap him, Calabro said. A federal judge ruled that Thomas "Tommy Shots" Gioeli will have to use his portion of the lawsuit cash, more than $182,000, to pay restitution to his victims as part of his 18-and-a-half year . Figuring that the gamblers' lives may have been in danger, despite Uvino declining a push by Fatato to have them murdered, the feds obtained an arrest warrant for those involved and whisked Fatato, his wife and kids away into the Witness Protection Program. The other inductee in the Greenpoint apartment, however, was decidedly less successful than Uvino & Catapano. This wasn't Caves' first time protecting the honor of his boss' family. Obviously, Maragni's clout in the family was such that he could get away with such a move. His long and storied career was put on hiatus in 2008, after his two closest confindantes and henchmen began working with the government to charge him with multiple Mafia slayings. There is substantial . In this June, 4, 2008 photo, reputed acting boss of the Colombo crime family Thomas "Tommy Shots" Gioeli is led by FBI agents from Federal Plaza for arraignment in Manhattan. He would frequently stop when he drove and take bizarre routes to seemingly mundane locations. A favorite money-maker for the crew came in the form of bank burglaries. Former Colombo street boss Thomas (Tommy Shots) Gioeli, 67, is seeking to get out of prison about four years early because of the COVID-19 public health emergency, according to an email sent by the Victim-Witness Coordinator for the U.S. Attorney's Office of the Eastern District of New York, a copy of which was forwarded to Cosa Nostra News today. In fact, pushing this agenda further, Gioeli even claimed he was too poor to afford counsel and the court-appointed Adam Perlmutter as his attorney. Lamenting the fact that he was seemingly immune from prosecution, a police source told Jerry Capeci in January 2005: "He's got a crew of shooters who haven't really gotten touched.". By 1989, the 36-year-old Tommy was amassing an array of Joker-Poker machines; illegal video gaming devices which he would install (forcibly or otherwise) in local establishments from Brooklyn to Long Island. This article, published a little over a year after Gioeli and Franzese's promotions, also marked the beginning of an investigation into the affairs of the Colombo crime family leadership. Don't tell the truth; you will be safe and they will be a little more corrupt. One way or another, Tommy Machines took an instant liking to the Sicilian-born car thief, and Calabro felt the same way. Gioeli's under-the-radar lifestyle saw a period of relative stability for the Colombo crime family, at least compared with New York's other four. He dabbled in all kinds of schemes, from loansharking, gambling, check-cashing scams, to selling Viagra over the internet with DeCavalcante family mobsters. That's fucked up, D.". Featuring FAIR WARNING voice TOMMY HEART, EUROPE's legendary guitarist KEE MARCELLO, KEN SANDIN (ALIEN) on. "Tommy said, 'Absolutely not,' " Competiello said. Apparently, Cacace "suggested luring Lombardo to Cacace's boat and killing him there," according to the documents, and the crew seemed to be close to getting it done. All rights reserved. Even with the heat, the crew was always scheming, and in 2000, Tommy Shots suggested that Big Dino rob the owner of Lotus Garden, a Chinese restaurant. The trip to New York ended up being for nothing; Imbergamo quickly realized that Maragni wasn't the person that owed him the cash, and it was all a big misunderstanding. I didnt want to work and thats the kind of life I wanted.. In a split verdict that stunned many trial watchers, Gioeli was acquitted in 2012 of several murders that . But even through 2003, he was reluctant to step up and take the role. He then signs on to the BOPs Trust Fund Limited Inmate Computer System (TULINGS) and begins doing something that no other accused Mafia boss has been known to do. Also released from prison during this timeframe was Carmine Persico's nephew, Theodore' Skinny Teddy' Persico Jr., who partnered up with his in-law (and former rival) Tom Petrizzo into the construction, demolition, and the trucking industries. Graziano, the Souzas made plans to whack him. "Go ahead and charge me with nun's murder, Thomas (Tommy Shots) Gioeli rants in prison blog". weird laws in guatemala; les vraies raisons de la guerre en irak; lake norman waterfront condos for sale by owner The dig saw the Gioeli crew lay low as the family was reeling from continuing federal indictments. Give the answers that the inquisitors want; you will be safe and they will be a little more powerful. Gioeli, Padulla, and DeLucia also attended, as did elderly wiseguy Joseph' Junior Lollipops' Carna. Eight years later, Little Dino tried his hand at drugs once more - this time, he and Sebby got pounds of marijuana mailed to Colombo associates in New York along with an unnamed co-conspirator. Due to his allegiance to Vic Orena during the Colombo war, Bevacqua helped "bridge the gap" between Gioeli and the remaining Orena holdouts.3. Tommy Gioeli warned his young cousin about Greg Scarpa. The governor wont be embracing the bill despised by landlords and supported by tenant advocates. He had the power to get me in. Before long, Dino was accompanying his new mentor - who was fourteen years his senior - to pick up cash from his Joker-Poker spots. Dino and Tommy were peas in a pod. Peraino Sr. was hit in the buttocks, but he survived for another sixteen years. [4] The robbery indictment involved a 1991 fur shop robbery in which Gioeli allegedly posed as a customer. By John Marzulli, Daily News. Basile didn't know Tommy Shots personally, but it was a good start for the feds to begin their investigation of the slippery Colombo boss. It was a typed list Tommy had made downstairs in his basement on his computer, capo Dino Big Dino Calabro would testify after he became an informant. Gioeli, meanwhile, dodged the post-war prosecutions and shot his way to the top of the beleaguered Colombo clan, leading a murderous group of hoodlums from his Farmingdale family home. [1] John Marzulli of New York Daily News discovered that Gioeli had a press pass from Long Island's Nightlife magazine that had been issued to him in the 1980s and expired in 1987. There was John Baudanza, a violent Mill Basin gangster whose uncle was an enterprising bigwig Colombo mobster. Joined by the rest of the crew, the wiseguys also tried to rob the Farmingdale Meats Market but fled after an alarm went off, and tried (unsuccessfully) to break into a Long Island fur store with a sledgehammer. Gioeli the Blogfather protested vehemently when the government filed court papers alleging that his own crimes included unintentionally killing a former nun with a shotgun blast in 1982. But in an institutional setting it is downright unsanitary, if not illegal. Given that they weren't on the scene, the pair would have heard, but not seen, the five shotgun blasts by the four-man hit team, and would later find out that the hit went horribly wrong. But, in the Colombo crime family, a thirty-year streak of luck just doesn't happen on its own. Tommy Shots also arranged for the mugging of a drug dealer; he organized Big Dino and Richie Greaves to enter the dealer's house as flower deliverymen. New York Daily News. Calabro's marriage was typical of any wiseguy's. But with their subpoenas, the feds also scared an underling of Dino Saracino into becoming a federal informer. Impressed, Gioeli allowed him to break away from Paulie Guns and found his own crew, taking members from both Bevacqua and the imprisoned Vinny' Unions' Ricciardo. He offered a succinct appraisal of his typing skills. Shockingly, Robert hooked up with his brother in the late '90s and the pair became friendly. Following Cacace's promotion from consigliere to acting boss in October of '99, a little-known Queens capo named Ralph Lombardo, 69, was promoted to 'acting consigliere.' Nothing changed for accused mob bosses and Gioeli was still behind bars at the holidays. Le second groupe belge du week-end, originaire de Gand, compte en son sein deux vieilles connaissances de la scne indie, Stef Heeren et Kwinten Mordijck, respectivement chanteur-guitariste et claviriste de Kiss The Anus Of A Black Cat.Pour ce projet hors des sentiers battus, ils se sont associs l'Iranien Saif Al-Qaissy pour former un trio electro-exprimental aux contours orientaux. One $10,000 loan from Febbraro's subordinate, Daniel Bogan, to a Brooklyn restauranteur, went all the way up the chain to acting boss Tommy Gioeli, who pushed Jimmy Gooch and Bogan to get it back. Tommy Shots apologized to Ren at the wedding of Allie Russo, which took place shortly after Ren's induction. Originally Published: Wednesday, November 16 2011, 3:01 AM. In either 2005 or 2006, Baudanza inducted his brother Carmine into the crime family too. Keeping abreast of the cops with a police scanner, the crew made off with 150 high-end fur coats worth $900,000 at retail value. The FBI was never able to subpoena the Nextel records since the Farmingdale don only ordered his phones from the son of an unnamed criminal associate. In 1993, one of Orena's last remaining allies, Joseph Scopo, was killed and Orena was sentenced to life in prison. Frankie Saracino was not a full-time member of the Bay Parkway Boys, but Little Dino fronted him the money to buy cocaine in the mid-to-late 1990s. The following day, Maragni met with Imbergamo at a Barnes & Noble bookstore in Staten Island to iron it out. Then in May 2007, John Franzese was arrested for violating the terms of his supervised release, as Vinny Basciano and Joe Massino predicted two years prior. he mused. Prosecutors have struck down Thomas Tommy Shots Gioeli's request for a prison furlough in order to attend his daughter Julia's wedding on Dec. 2. The triggerman, soldier Salvatore 'Big Sal' Miciotta - who was inducted in the same ceremony as Peraino Jr. - fled the scene, forced to report his failure back to his capo Chucky Russo. Terrible, he said. They share an affinity for golf and an aversion to cooperating witnesses who flip to help federal investigators. The pair met on Bay 8th Street and 86th Street in Brooklyn, where they also congregated with the acting boss' frequent lackey and Bronx capo Dennis DeLucia, as well as influential soldier Jimmy Febbraro and low-key Bensonhurst wiseguy Salvatore' Two Pair' Fusco Jr., who has had a long career in organized crime with no arrests since an overturned 1990 murder bust. Gioeli certainly has a way with words. In the late 1990s, Persico and John DeRoss promoted Gioeli to Caporegime. The feds applied the screws onto Souza to flip, but - through 2007, at least - he held his tongue. According to the News, the union would generally have a "low-ball" estimate of six jobs going at a time, meaning $6000 a month, or $72,000 a year. What Gioeli didn't know at that time was that the tape-recorded assault was also enough to cause acting capo Paulie Bevacqua to began snitching, according to a Gang Land article from December 1, 2011. These payments went up to a comfy $10,000 a month after Azzarelli began dabbling into the Joker-Poker business. Ren was given all the family's Florida-based made members who were previously split among other crews. He had been at the top of the Colombo crime family since the early 1990s and, by all accounts, had done a pretty good job. In his blog, Gioeli further reports that his own lawyers asked him to at least temper his postings and that the prosecution complained that some of its content violated court guidelines. Unfortunately, Little Dino and Tommy Machines discovered on their police scanners that a silent alarm had been tripped, forcing the crew to flee. "Yes I will. FOLLOW MORE IBT NEWS ON THE BELOW CHANNELS, IBT Fast Start - Let the best of International News come to you. In the blog, Gioeli proclaims himself an unconvicted American man being denied basic rights and health care, a victim of the tactics of Nazi Germany and Stalins Russia. Gioeli assigns insulting nicknames to the prosecution team and accuses an FBI agent of being inappropriate with the wife of an informant. Gioeli accuses the informant, Big Dino Calabro, himself of beating his wife, poisoning a supposed buddys pet fish, shooting his own dog, and murdering numerous enemies and friends. Calabro is unreachable in protective custody and has no blog of his own with which to respond. The next meeting they had was when Tommy Gioeli flew down to the Sunshine State shortly after the Christmas holidays to escape the grueling New York winter. Call him the blogging crime boss: Reputed Colombo kingpin Thomas (Tommy Shots) Gioeli has set up a behind-bars blog to portray himself as . Presided over by Tommy Gioeli and Sonny Franzese, Frank' Frankie BF' Sturiano and Michael 'Mikey' Souza were 'straightened out,' with Souza reporting to Big Dino. Massino asked Basciano if he was "sure" of the promotion, and mused about the fact that the elderly mobster was "on parole" and would be shipped back to prison for consorting with known wiseguys. On March 16, 2008 - Palm Sunday - Maragni was brought to a basement in a makeshift Bronx social club. Make your contribution now and help Gothamist thrive in 2023. A big one in the Local was the "coffee boy" scam, in which the mobsters took at least $250 from every union site in the city by charging the work site's "coffee boys"; union-mandated workers whose sole job was to handle lunch and coffee orders by negotiating deals with local delis and coffee shops, and bringing bulk containers of snacks and drinks for the staff, selling them at a profit. Fatato was forced to be taken off the streets when he took part in - and recorded - the grueling beating and pistol-whipping of two dimwitted gamblers who orchestrated the robbing Uvino's Lindenhurst card game. Gioeli was wounded in the shoulder and stomach, earning him the nickname "Tommy Shots" and a reputation for toughness.[5]. On May 9, 2012, the jury returned a mixed verdict. Underboss Jackie DeRoss was finally arrested in 2001, joining Allie Boy, and the pair patiently waited to be hit with the murder of William Cutolo. Calabro recalled that he afterward went to his own house and took a precaution that Gioeli had advised. Ingratiating himself with his new pal, Calabro soon buddied up to Greaves friends. "I think so." Adelaide died as a result of the wound. I sit down at the keyboard and type, he told The Daily Beast in a telephone interview. 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