Sipping my coffee, I was watching News 12 this morning and saw the headline "Prominent Westchester attorney arrested for assault." Now, I know a few "prominent" attorneys in my area, and the one I was thinking of at the time was not the one involved in last night's incident (drat!). Nevertheless, the one who was going ape-shit on Christmas Eve, Anthony Mangone, is still a worthy study in human comedy.
Allegedly (we need to start off with that word, to avoid any hint of libel) Mangone got into it with another attorney Max DiFabio at a posh steakhouse in the Ritz-Carlton hotel in White Plains. Specifically, Mangone is said to have thrown DiFabio to the ground and head-butted him. But here's the funny part- both Mangone and DiFabio are Republican players in Westchester Country, which means they're small fish in a very small pond of irrelevant politics. What do you think they were fighting over? The ten votes they'd each get in an election? Or the last cannoli?
Mangone was associated with former State Senator Nicholas Spano, another Republican who represented the Yonkers/Greenburgh area. Mr. Spano was ousted a couple of elections ago for being the worst kind of typical politician- one who forgot that he worked for the people. I voted for Spano's opponent without even knowing her credentials.
And (allegedly) Mangone was too loyal a solider for Spano, as reported by our local newspaper:
In 2002 Mangone admitted that he opened sealed absentee ballots and wrote in the names of Spano and a GOP judicial candidate in a 2000 Green Party primary. He agreed to plead guilty to a misdemeanor, but a grand jury voted not to indict him and charges were never filed.Let me get this straight, this guy outright ADMITTED to voter fraud, agreed to plea to a misdemeanor but the grand jury gave him a pass? And this guy is still licensed to practice law? He must rescue kittens from burning buildings or help old ladies pay for their medical bills. I mean, there is no other explanation for why he would get such preferential treatment, right? Yeah, I wonder if the Westchester District Attorney at the time had anything to do with it...
So, Mangone, you wanna-be tough guy- way to be on Christmas Eve. I find your overall character to be reprehensible. And no matter who you're friends with, your reputation is trash. Merry Punchmas, jerkface.
Having recently frequented the restaurant where this occurred, Rickey would like to point out that the popovers at BLT Steak are abso-fucking-lutely worth fighting over. Is this the face of the popover that launched a thousand ships? Rickey thinks so.
ReplyDeleteYou went to BLT and didn't invite me? Bastard!
ReplyDeleteHah, well in Rickey's defense, it was Rickey's birthday and Ms. Henderson was paying. Thats some damn pricey bovine they peddle there)!
ReplyDeleteBRILLIANT blog! Lovely stuff.
ReplyDeleteMax has a little man's complex and there is a hoard of people who are celebrating that he got his big mouth shut.... there is a God. Happy New Year.
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