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FIND ME GUILTY (2006) - FULL TRANSCRIPT
The mobster Jackie DiNorscio is shot by his own cousin at home while in probation but survives. Later he is arrested dealing drugs and sentenced to thirty years in prison. The prosecutor Sean Kierney proposes a deal to Jackie, immediately releasing him if he testifies against the Lucchese family and other mafia families but Jackie does not accept to rat his friends that he loves. When the trial begins, he asks the judge Finestein to defend himself without the assistance of a lawyer.
Full sum and total of the FBI
and the police
department's efforts here.
As has been outlined before,
a couple of hundred
Mafia and organized crime members
and associates have been indicted
in the last year to two years.
So that the attack is at the top level,
the middle level and the lower level.
And we are doing everything that we
can to identify, indict and convict
the capos, the soldiers and
the associates of the Mafia as well.
(♪ Louis Prima: "When You're Smiling
(The Whole World Smiles With You")
Look, I gotta clip a guy.
All I'm carrying is a.22.
Of course I know
it's not worth a shit.
What the fuck do you think
I'm calling you for?
Go fuck yourself!
Hey, Tony.
Your,... your papa here?
Yeah. He's upstairs,
but he's sleeping.
I'm making a banana daiquiri.
You want one?
Asshole.
My God! Cousin, what are you...?
(GRUNTS)
(THUDDING)
What are you doing, Coz?
I love you.
(GRUNTS)
Coz, why are you doing this?
(SCREAMING)
Pop!
Pop?
Papa! Pop!
Pop! (SOBS)
You're not being very
helpful, Jackie.
I'm gonna have to let
your parole officer know.
Come on, Jackie.
We're not morons.
You had your eyes shut the whole time?
You fucking expect us to believe that?
I'm sorry, miss.
My eyes were shut the whole time.
I never saw nothing.
Miss?
My eyes were shut the whole time.
Yeah. All right, Manny.
Let's get out of here.
Hey. Someone sneaks in and pops you,
don't come complaining to us.
If somebody pops me, I won't
go complaining to nobody.
Hey, Pop. You sure
you're doing the right thing?
I mean, I feel like killing
this motherfucker myself.
Hey, watch your language.
And you don't rat out
the people that love you.
Love you?
He's your cousin. He puts four fucking
bullets in you and he loves you?
Yeah, he loves me. I love him.
He's family. He's just a junkie.
He doesn't know what he's doing.
Live and let live. Speaking of which,
how many times I gotta tell you?
If you see me shot 20 times, if you come
in the room I got my head cut off,
you don't call the cops.
I know, Pop.
Who do you call?
I call Saul.
That's right.
Come here.
My fucking hand.
This fucking cousin of mine.
I swear to God,
I feel like killing him.
Can they do that?
Do what?
Go to my parole officer
and get my bail revoked.
Hell, no. You didn't shoot nobody.
Somebody shot you.
That trial ever gonna happens?
It's been a year already.
They got no case.
That's why they
charge you under RICO.
Whenever the government has no
case, they charge you under RICO.
Aw, fuck them.
We gonna order some room service?
(CHUCKLING)
This looks great.
(SPEAKING SPANISH)
Good evening.
Stay where you are.
Nice and easy, gentlemen.
You have the right to remain silent.
Anything you say can and will be
held against you in a court of law.
Do you understand that right?
You have the right to an attorney.
If by any reason you can't afford one,
the court will appoint you one.
Do you understand that right?
Mr. DiNorscio. Mr. DiNorscio!
(GAVEL RAPS)
Mr. Rizzo, would you
wake your client up?
Twenty-two to 30 years
for possession, sale and
distribution of narcotics.
And believe me, I'll try to see to
it that you do the full 30 years.
(GAVEL RAPS)
Let's go, Jackie.
Jesus, Sylvester.
A little privacy, please.
Come on, Jackie Dee.
You're going downtown.
For what?
Damned if I know, but I'm
sure as hell not standing here
smelling your shit
while I argue with you.
Let's go.
Coming.
(JACKIE GRUNTS)
Sylvester, how long
we known each other?
On and off, maybe 8 years.
I'm a good guy, right?
(TOILET FLUSHES)
Right.
Everybody loves me.
Right.
So why are you standing
here busting my balls?
You can't let me finish
taking a crap?
You know, you're so full of it,
you could sit on that toilet forever.
Let's go.
(SIGHING)
So where you guys
taking me anyway?
Federal building.
For what?
I have no idea.
Hey, could you do me a favor,
roll down the window?
It's too cold.
(PASSING GAS)
Geez.
(MAN GROANS)
Thanks, fellas.
Wow, you guys expecting the U.S.
Attorney for the Southern District?
Giuliani said to start without him.
OK.
You got any ketchup?
Sorry. Just A. 1. sauce.
A. 1. sauce? A steak
should have ketchup.
Please.
All right.
Ah, shrimp cocktail.
A little wine?
Oh, yeah.
So, car ride OK?
The car ride?
Yeah, the fresh air felt good.
The guys was real nice.
They lowered the window for me.
Well, I hope you
breathed nice and deep.
It could be your last
fresh air for 30 years.
Yeah, that judge shoved it right
up my ass. Can you believe that?
Doesn't have to be.
What doesn't have to be?
Thirty years.
Got any more wine?
Sure.
By the way, do you want
your lawyer here?
My lawyer?
I just got sentenced to 30
years for a pissant dope deal
'cause of that cocksucker.
So what do youse want?
You know what this is, Jackie?
Manhattan phone book?
Last year, you got indicted.
(DOOR CLOSING)
Fourteen counts.
"Gambling, racketeering,
narcotics distribution, conspiracy..."
That RICO thing?
That's a year old.
Counselor, I completely
forgot about it.
I mean, it's been so long.
And everybody knows that those
RICO things are bullshit anyway, so...
Yeah, well, this one isn't bullshit.
It's not just you. Your boss,
your underboss, and 17 of your goombahs.
Twenty of you on 76 counts.
We're not fucking around, Jackie.
So what do you need me for?
You're all going down.
You are all going down.
The whole New Jersey
Lucchese crew. We got it all.
Tapes, surveillance videos,
so many witnesses, they're
crawling out of the file cabinets.
Your cousin, your own fucking cousin,
Tony Compagna, he's our star.
My cousin Tony?
Your fucking-A.
The trial starts next week.
And these pals of yours,
they're gonna be jumping over each
others' bodies just to make a deal.
So we get your testimony, you get time
lopped off this sentence. That simple.
(CHUCKLES)
You mean, I rat on my friends?
You have no friends.
What'd you say?
I have no friends?
Those guys love me, man.
I love them.
They love you?
For Christ's sakes,
you left the Bruno family.
Lots of guys get
whacked for doing less.
And what's worse, you
switched over to the Luccheses.
Trust me when I tell you they don't like
each other. The Brunos want you dead.
By the way, how did you get
from Brunos to Luccheses?
I took a cab.
You took a cab?
Now listen to me, you guinea
cocksucker. Don't fuck with me.
We're taking down the whole
fucking family, do you understand?
This trial's gonna take at least a year.
Seventy-six counts, 20 defendants,
I don't know how many defense lawyers,
at least four prosecutors,
eight alternates on the
jury in case you fucks
try to reach one of
them to get a mistrial.
This is the biggest thing
I'll ever have in my life.
Never lost a case.
And I sure as shit
won't start with this one.
I'm gonna watch all of you taking it
up the ass for the rest of your lives.
And that's the only kind of love
you pricks are gonna get.
So what's your answer?
Fuck you.
(BEEPING)
Get this piece of shit out of here.
(DOOR OPENING)
Mr. Kierney.
Yeah?
You got a brother?
Yeah.
Well, fuck him too.
(DOOR CLOSING)
You set up that meeting,
didn't you?
Well, if somebody's gonna make
a deal, Jackie, I want it to be you.
Aw, fanculo, you motherfucker.
That's why they did the dope trial,
so they could use it to
squeeze me on this one.
You should know that.
I've been in prison half my life.
You think I'm gonna
start making deals now?
Listen, Jackie. My job is to give
you the best legal advice I can.
That's what you pay me for.
I paid you 250,000
for my last trial
and I'm sitting here
holding my dick.
How much you wanna
charge me for this one?
Look at all the work
we've put in on this thing.
How much you wanna
charge me for this one?
60,000, give or take a few.
60,000?
Take your fucking briefcase
and get the fuck out of my cell.
Sylvester, get this piece
of shit out of my cell.
Jackie, pack up.
You're moving out.
Moving out?
Another cell block.
Is it bigger?
My God. Sylvester, listen.
My chair, I gotta have my chair.
I can't sleep without my chair.
I'll talk to the guy. No,
Sylvester. You don't understand.
I can't sleep without my chair.
I got a bad back. You see, when...
What the hell are
you still doing here?
Come on, Jackie. You owe me
$60,000 for all the work I did so far.
Rizzo. Send me a bill. I'll wipe
my ass with it. Would that be OK?
God. Get him the
fuck out of here.
He's all yours.
Thanks, Jesse.
All the way to the end.
You wanna give me a hand?
(CLAPPING)
(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
(REPORTERS CLAMORING,
INDISTINCT)
Mr. Calabrese!
Mr. Calabrese has no comment
at the present time.
Mr. Calabrese, is the
third time a charm?
Justice will prevail, and my client will
be exonerated. Thank you very much.
Mr. Calabrese, you think
you're a three-time loser?
(ELEVATOR DINGING)
(OVERLAPPING CHATTER)
Look at you.
You dressed up.
Hey, good to see you.
How you been?
Good luck, bro.
Nice chatting with you.
OK.
Hey, Jackie.
How are you?
How you doing? Good?
Yeah, good to see you.
All right, all right.
Don't be too obvious.
They let you in here?
Good haircut.
Thank you. Thank you. You're
gonna look beautiful on TV.
Carlo, how you doing?
My man.
Hey, Nick. Good to see you.
What's good about it?
Jackie? I'm Ben Klandis.
I'm handling Carlo
Mascarpone's defense.
How you doing?
Listen, is it true you're
gonna defend yourself?
What do I need with a lawyer?
So he can get me another 30 years?
Last trial, I had apnea.
You know what apnea is?
Yeah, I know what apnea...
It's like a sleeping sickness. It's like
I slept through the whole fucking trial.
I wake up, the judge is
sentencing me to 30 years.
The hammer comes down.
Bang! It felt like
it landed on my dick.
Nah, this time,
I take care of me myself.
Well, that's the problem.
It's not just you.
They get one of you for
spitting on the sidewalk,
and all of you can go down.
R-I-C-O. The "C" in RICO,
it stands for conspiracy.
Conspiracy isn't hard to prove.
Two of you in the same room...
...that's conspiracy.
I'm not gonna hurt nobody.
You're gonna have to go up against your
cousin, Tony Compagna. Ready for that?
That fucker's the reason
we're all here. He turned.
But you know what?
I'm gonna turn him back.
He's a junkie. Deep down inside
he loves me. He's mine.
Well, let me just...
get somebody to sit with you
so you don't make any legal errors.
It's a goddamn jungle in here.
Let me tell you something.
When they fucked with me,
they woke a sleeping giant.
I'll handle it.
All rise.
The honorable Sidney
Finestein presiding.
Be seated.
Members of the jury, by law, you have
to be able to see the witness box.
Can you all see the witness box?
Yes, Your Honor.
Defendants, defense attorneys,
you may have to shift in your seats
a little to see the witnesses.
Sorry, it's the best we can do.
We've never had so
many defendants before.
(SOFT CHUCKLES)
Counselor.
Ladies and gentlemen.
"We own New Jersey!"
This is the boast of a mob family
that controlled an endless
list of criminal activities.
The term "conspiracy" in Latin
means to breathe together.
And these defendants breathed
a life of crime together.
Our evidence will show
that Carlo Mascarpone
was the underboss of the New Jersey
faction of the Lucchese crime family.
The Luccheses, one
of the Five Families,
as vicious and dangerous
a crew as any in the nation.
Gino Mascarpone.
Gino ran the day-to-day gambling,
loan-sharking and extortion activities
for his boss, Nick Calabrese.
Danny Roma, family
soldier and enforcer.
Alessandro Tedeschi,
loan-sharking and gambling.
Tino Bellochio,
numbers and gambling.
Dominic Crespi, gambling and numbers.
Jackie DiNorscio, cocaine distribution.
You'll get to know the rest as we
drag them up to the witness box.
Liars, sociopaths, murderers.
This guy thinks he's Eliot Ness.
He's good.
Finally, you will hear
from Tony Compagna,
Jackie DiNorscio's own cousin.
It was Mr. Compagna that started
the ball rolling in this investigation.
A man, who fearing for his life,
agreed to cooperate and tell all he knew
about the inner workings of this mob,
this group of leeches
that suck money
out of every enterprise,
legitimate or illegitimate,
to support their extravagant lifestyles.
Now, we will be asking you
to examine an awesome
amount of evidence.
And I am sorry about that.
But the severity of these crimes
against the people of this community,
in fact, all America,
make it necessary
for you to do... just that.
Thank you.
We will now hear opening statements
from defense counsels.
Mr. Cellano represents
defendant Dominic Crespi.
...the government's tapes,
you will conclude
that my client is not guilty
of anything more than...
Since when is it a crime
to wear fancy clothes
and an expensive diamond pinky
ring and drive a Cadillac?
If you arrested everyone who ever made
a friendly wager on a sporting event,
you'd have to lock up half of
the people in this courtroom.
You're up soon. You ready?
And all of this
in 40 years of driving.
I got nothing written down.
Well, what are you
gonna say then?
How the fuck do I know?
This whole case is a joke, right?
Mr. Klandis is representing
defendant Carlo Mascarpone.
Right in front of you,
ladies and gentlemen,
is this Latin motto,
whose translation is:
"Let justice be done,
though the heavens may fall."
I have the fate of Carlo
Mascarpone in my hands.
There he is sitting near
his brother Gino.
They didn't join the Lucchese family,
because they already had one...
...the family created by
Mr. and Mrs. Mascarpone.
It's called biology.
You'll hear a lot about my
client's flamboyant lifestyle.
His wife, Rosalynd,
sits in this courtroom,
married 17 years, 4 children.
That's a lifestyle.
He goes to Saint Lucy's church.
His wife teaches CCD.
That's a lifestyle.
Many of these defendants are related,
some are friends or neighbors
that have known each other since
playing Little League baseball together.
That's a lifestyle.
They are a family.
Not the kind of family
the government talks about.
They would twist it.
They would make it evil.
But all we're asking for,
ladies and gentlemen,
is to let justice be done,
though the heavens may fall.
Thank you.
OK. Let's see who's next.
Mr. DiNorscio. Mr. DiNorscio.
Isn't your attorney here?
Well, Your Honor,
I think I'm better off...
Say that again.
I wanna go pro se.
I'm gonna be my own lawyer.
Do you know what
"pro se" means?
Sort of.
What do you mean, "sort of"?
If you defend yourself, it's called
"pro se." I'm gonna defend myself.
Mr. DiNorscio, in a case of this
magnitude, I don't think it's advisable.
My Sixth Amendment right.
I mean, I got the right to defend
myself. Am I correct, Judge?
Yes. Yeah, you're correct.
Have you had any legal experience?
Well, sort of.
What do you mean, "sort of"?
I've been in prison half my life.
Sometimes I think I had
too much legal experience.
Mr. DiNorscio,
have you heard the saying
that a man who represents
himself has a fool for a client?
Now I have. Is it true, Judge?
Sometimes it is.
So that means sometimes
it ain't, right?
OK.
Thank you, Judge.
But I don't think it's advisable.
It's up to you.
Mr. DiNorscio, you're on.
Hi, I'm Jackie DiNorscio.
I'm defending myself
in this case.
You'll have to excuse me,
I'm a little nervous.
You see, I'm no lawyer.
I only have a sixth-grade education.
And I'm not sophisticated in the law
like some of these other persons here.
But what I tell you
will come from the heart.
Four months ago,
we started to pick
jurors for this trial.
And I wanna say right now
that I'm satisfied with
everybody on the jury.
And I wanna thank Mr. Klandis
for translating that Latin
slogan in front of the judge.
I thought it meant "No smoking."
I was literally about to light up.
Like I said...
...I'm no lawyer...
...so I don't know where they
came up with this RICO law thing.
Should probably ask Mr. Kierney.
I guess if you're Italian,
you should be in prison.
I've read the RICO Act and
I can tell you it's more appropriate
for some of those guys
over in Washington
than it is for me or
any of my fellas here.
Are you through, Mr. DiNorscio?
No, Judge.
How do I look, good?
You see this hat?
I'm wearing this hat to make
me look like a gangster.
'Cause that's what that
table wants me to be...
...a gangster.
But I'm not a gangster,
ladies and gentlemen.
I'm a gagster.
This ain't even my hat.
(CHUCKLING)
Thank you, Mr. Washington.
Now, I'm sure Mr. Kierney
will tell you I've been in jail
half my life, most of my life.
It's true.
I'd rather go to jail
for a thousand years
than to ever rat on
any of my friends.
Do you know that this government...
...this government offered me a deal
to join their list of witnesses
and lie about these men here?
Objection.
Sustained. Mr. DiNorscio.
What?
You will confine
the opening statement...
But I...
...to the evidence to be presented.
Thank you, Judge.
I got it. OK.
Ladies and gentlemen,
the evidence will show that they
wanted me to lie about my friends.
Objection.
Overruled.
And I just could
never do that.
I grew up with these guys.
How long I known you guys?
I've known them since
we were little babies.
I love these guys.
They're all I got.
But now all the prosecutor's got
is a nutcase, two junkies
and a bank robber.
Objection.
Sustained. Mr. DiNorscio.
I got this, Judge.
They talk about us being
extravagant. You hear him before?
"To support their
extravagant lifestyles."
Do I look extravagant?
One day, my wife asked me for $20
to buy a rump roast from the butcher.
I told her, "$20 for a rump roast?"
Of which I took her to the kitchen,
where we got a full-length mirror.
I pull out a $20 bill out of my pocket.
I hold it up to the mirror.
I say, "Sweetheart, you see
that $20 bill in the mirror?
That one belongs to you.
This one belongs to me."
And I'm out of there.
It's over.
The next day, ladies and
gentlemen, I come home
and I see roasted meats from
one end of the table to the other.
And I asked her, I said, "Honey,
where'd all the meat come from?"
So she took me back over
to the full-length mirror.
She lifts up her dress,
ladies and gentlemen,
she points to the mirror
and she says,
"The one in the mirror
is yours, honey.
This one belongs to the butcher."
(LAUGHTER)
(GAVEL RAPS)
I mean, extravagant?
Do I look extravagant?
FINESTEIN: Mr. DiNorscio.
I woulda wore a better suit.
FINESTEIN: Mr. DiNorscio!
Hey, all right. Everybody,
please quiet down.
Please, you'll all
get a chance to talk.
Max, how do you think it went?
Well, I haven't had a chance to talk to
Nick yet, but all in all, not a bad day.
Ben, I thought you were terrific.
Chris, Frank, Henry,
all of you, good work.
Then that fucking lunatic gets up there
and I don't know what to think anymore.
I don't know if it's good
or bad. Bad. All bad.
We got a major RICO
trial going on here
and all of a sudden we gotta
contend with fucking Shecky Greene.
(LOW CHUCKLES)
Ben, the guy's a
time bomb out there.
You know the cliché, "Never ask a
question you don't know the answer to"?
He's gonna ask a question,
or he's gonna say something,
or something is gonna pop out of
that shit-hole of a mouth that he's got
and we're gonna get hurt.
Well, see, you know,
I'm not sure I agree.
I was stealing looks at the jury.
They were with him.
They were laughing with him.
So let me throw that
other cliché out at you.
"A laughing jury is
never a hanging jury."
Let's sleep on this...
...wait it out a couple of days,
see how it develops.
I can always rein him in later.
Nobody can take him seriously.
He's a clown up there.
Jokes about his wife's twat.
Are you kidding me?
I agree. In a week, they'll see
him and the rest of them
for the morons they are.
I don't want 'em to see
those guys as morons.
I want that jury to see pimps, liars,
racketeers, arsonists and murderers.
It's an old saying,
but I believe it.
"A laughing jury ain't a hanging jury."
And he had 'em laughing.
I don't agree at all, Sean.
Laughing at him can indicate
disrespect as well.
I don't know if you noticed, but a
couple of the women in the jury
looked deeply offended.
He'll step over the line.
You'll see. It's an act.
No, it's not an act. That's
what makes him dangerous.
He's like some '60s pop tune.
"All you need is love." Fuck.
Like some Deepak Chopra
with a pinky ring.
See you, Nick. See you guys.
Good night, Nicky.
Counselor.
You're dead wrong, counselor.
You'll never rein him in.
He's fucking crazy.
I've known him a long time.
He's out for number one. He'll have
that jury laughing and he'll get off.
And we'll be standing there
with our dicks in our hand.
Nick, see...
Now, now, listen to me.
This is my fucking life on the line.
I gotta be sure. It looks
to me like he's hurting us,
I'm separating him from the
case. It's not up to you.
You wanna bet?
Don't get stupid on me, Nick.
I'm a lot of things.
Stupid ain't one of them.
Have a good day, counselor.
Hey, Mickey.
You hungry?
(THUNDER RUMBLING)
Thank you, Your Honor.
(WHISPERS, INDISTINCT)
Mr. Juarez, is this the
agreement that you signed?
Yes, sir.
Now, Mr. Juarez,
you're here as a witness as
part of a plea-bargain agreement
with the government, correct?
Yes, sir. I got busted. And I
was facing 40 years, so I flipped.
Regarding your narcotics sales,
you split the proceeds from those
transactions with Mr. DiNorscio.
That's right. And how
was Nick Calabrese involved?
I heard he always got his cut.
Objection. Hearsay.
FINESTEIN: Sustained.
Just your personal
experience, Mr. Juarez.
Did you ever meet
Mr. Calabrese in person?
Once.
I was at a birthday party for
Jackie's daughter and he was there.
Jackie told me
who Nick really was.
Why would Mr. DiNorscio
confide in you?
Jackie and me, we used
to party together a lot.
We were doing coke.
We'd get high and
when we had broads, Jackie
liked to nail 'em two at a time.
(SCATTERED CHUCKLES)
Thank you, Mr. Juarez.
Mr. DiNorscio. You know,
not for nothing, Judge,
but I thought this was the RICO Act,
not the Puerto Rico Act.
JACKIE: How you doing, pal?
Now, Octavio, let's be honest here.
You and me, we did a lot
of jobs together, right?
Right.
You remember that one with Diego?
I sure do.
Mind telling us about it?
No you... you tell them.
Tell the jury.
No, you tell them.
I can't tell, Octavio.
I got my lawyer hat on.
Besides, if I tell it, they're
gonna think I'm bragging.
Well, you walk in,
and when their coke was on
the table next to our money,
you pull a gun.
And then what?
Diego says, "You only got
six shots in that thing,
and there is seven of us."
And?
I'll never forget it.
You said, "How about if
I shoot the six of you
and strangle the seventh motherfucker?"
And we walk out, right?
With the money and the coke.
Now, Octavio, have you ever...
I don't think anyone has...
...have you ever heard me
try to deny me using cocaine?
No way.
No, of course not.
I wouldn't deny using cocaine ever.
I loved it. In fact,
did you bring any?
What did he say?
I didn't hear the punch line.
(THUNDER RUMBLING)
The main point was to tie
Calabrese to Jackie. We got that.
And, Peter, call Manhattan Correctional.
Fucking Jackie's got himself set up
like he was at a hotel.
OK.
Tell 'em I don't want
him too comfortable.
Got it.
Hey, Jackie.
How was court today, man?
I killed 'em again.
Good.
Jesse, where's my lounger?
The word come down, Jackie.
You live like everybody else.
Yeah, but I can't... I can't sleep
laying down. I gotta sleep half-sitting.
Tough tittie, Jackie Dee.
Them's the conditions which prevail.
Hey, Jesse, you know my back.
How the hell am I
supposed to sleep, Jess?
Aw, you'll figure it out.
(GRUNTING)
Mr. Bellman, how did you
come to know Mr. DiNorscio?
When I got paroled, I had
no job, no money, nothing.
And a friend of mine
hooked me up with Jackie.
I lived with him in
Florida for a while.
And what was your
relationship with him?
I was a gofer. I drove him
around, picked up guns for him,
and I gave rides to his friends and
I brought messages back and forth
from him and some of
these defendants here.
And did you ever see any
drug transactions take place?
I was there when they were
cutting up the money.
And to the best of your knowledge,
how was that money distributed?
Me and Jackie got a share.
Jimmy the Jew got his.
I mean... Jimmy Katz.
And... of course the boss,
Nick Calabrese, got the big cut.
Did you witness this?
Jackie and Jimmy, yes.
Not Nick.
Move to strike as hearsay.
Sustained. Strike the
reference to Mr. Calabrese.
And when did your relationship
with Mr. DiNorscio end?
Well, you see, Jackie started
getting nutty from all the coke.
One Christmas, he wanted me to
get chickens to cook for a party.
I got tired of running
errands for him.
When I didn't get the chickens,
he threw me out of the house.
That's the last I saw of him.
Thank you, Mr. Bellman.
Your witness.
Now, tell the truth, Harry.
Isn't the real reason I
threw you out of that house
'cause I refused sexual advances from
you to me? (CROWD MURMURS)
What? Objection.
Sustained.
Now, Harry, isn't it true that the
guys in jail used to call you Mary?
KIERNEY: Objection.
No, that's not true.
Sustained. Mr. DiNorscio.
I warned you.
Harry, when you got out of prison...
...isn't it true you didn't
have a dime to your name?
Didn't I take you in?
Didn't I treat you good?
And this is how you
pay me back, by ratting?
You treated me like dirt.
You come here and you say
that I committed these crimes
after I treated you like a brother.
Didn't I feed you?
Yeah, I feed my dogs too.
Look, Harry, how could
this jury be sure
you're telling the truth
about me breaking the law
when half the time you were
high from shooting drugs?
KIERNEY: Objection.
That's a lie.
Mr. DiNorscio. You have to prove
that statement before you try to use it.
I will, Judge.
Come on, Harry.
Roll up your sleeve.
Show the needle marks to the jury.
Hey, stay away from me.
Stay a... Come on, Harry.
Stay away.
That Christmas...
...wasn't the real reason
I threw you out of that house
'cause I woke up one morning
and caught you trying
to give me a blow job?
(GAVEL RAPS)
FINESTEIN: Mr. DiNorscio.
Isn't that the truth, Harry?
Come on, Jackie. Look at yourself.
You kidding me?
I'm not kidding you.
I see the way you look at me.
I know what's on your mind.
You wanna suck on this
instead for a while?
Mr. DiNorscio should be
held in contempt of court.
Remove the jury.
Lunch. Two hours.
(OVERLAPPING CHATTER)
Jackie. What a fucking
job you're doing, man.
You're wearing 'em out.
Keep it up. All right.
Love you, baby.
Ben. Ben.
Can you do me a favor?
I don't think so.
Why?
What the hell did I do?
Two ladies on the jury
were looking at you
as if they wouldn't
pick you up with tongs.
I can't let my client be
affected by your behavior.
You damn well better control
yourself or you're on your own.
OK, I got it.
Can you help me out, Ben?
What is it?
I wanna have lunch with the fellas.
Every day my marshals take
me down to the holding cell.
Technically, you're
still a prisoner, Jackie.
You think I don't know that?
Ben. I asked them this morning if
I could have lunch with the fellas.
I grew up with most of them.
By now they're family.
If it's OK with your marshals,
it's OK with me.
Hey, Jackie.
You guys save any for me?
Hiya, Nick.
What are you doing here?
You eat downstairs in the holding cell.
No, my marshal said it was
OK if I ate with you guys.
Nobody cleared it with me.
I didn't know it had to
be cleared with you, Nick.
Now you know.
You know, Nick, I don't know why
you're giving me such a hard time.
I love these guys.
Stop with the love shit, Jackie.
You're so full of shit. What, because
we're from the same neighborhood?
I didn't trust you when you was
a kid. I don't trust you now.
What the fuck are you talking about?
You got no reason to say that.
I got no reason?
I got no fucking reason?
I see you up there kissing
ass so you can walk.
You'll suck cock to walk.
You're the faggot, not Bellman.
Now, why don't you
get the fuck out of here?
What, do I stutter?
(ANNOUNCER ON TV, INDISTINCT)
Coffee, sir?
Salami on ham.
KIERNEY: Agent Kerry...
...you conducted
many hours of surveillance
on each one of these defendants
on trial here today, correct?
I did.
And did the FBI conclude
that an organized crime family
existed in northern New Jersey
under the leadership
of Nick Calabrese?
Yes, that is correct.
And how did you determine
that Calabrese was the boss?
Well, I was in a restaurant
in Bloomfield on...
...September 19 of last year.
It had a reputation
as being a mob hangout.
Why did it have that reputation?
Because the food was good.
No interruptions.
Thank you, Your Honor.
Go on, sir.
I was at the bar. You could see a
large, private dining room at the back.
The doors were open
and two very,
well, heavyset gentlemen
in tuxedos stood by the door.
In the dining room, you could see
a birthday party was going on.
How did you know
it was a birthday party?
They were all wearing paper hats
and they had those things that when
you blow on them they uncurl and go...
(MAKES HIGH-PITCHED NOISE)
These were children?
No, sir.
No, sir. These were grown men.
Go on.
Well, at the head of a horseshoe
table sat... Mr. Calabrese.
And as I observed, all these Italian
males lined up to kiss his ring.
It was obvious to me that
they were paying respects
to Mr. Calabrese as being the boss.
It was like out of the movies.
There was no other conclusion.
Thank you, Agent Kerry.
Mr. Klandis?
No questions, Your Honor.
Mr. Novardis?
(COUGHING)
I have nothing for this witness,
Your Honor.
If there are no further questions...
I'd like to ask him something, Judge.
Mr. DiNorscio.
Thank you, Your Honor.
Mr. Kerry, I was wondering
about something.
Could you tell all of us how
you knew that those men
in that restaurant was Italian?
Well, it...
I... You know, I guess that...
Hey, they all looked Italian to me.
Wow. You know,
with the hand gestures and the back
slapping and the kissing and everything.
Did they teach you that in FBI school
that that's how Italians act?
No, that's not part
of our training. No.
(SPEAKS ITALIAN)
You speak Italian?
No.
No?
Could you hear them
talking in Italian?
No, I was too far away.
See, I'm not understanding this.
You're saying from the
back slapping and the kissing,
you knew that they were Italian?
Well, it was an Italian restaurant.
Did they all have black hair?
Yeah, yeah. From what
I can remember, yeah.
Could they have been
Spanish, Greek, Jewish?
Not with Nick Calabrese
at the head of the table, no.
You saying Nick
only eats with Italians?
No, I'm not saying that.
What if I told you
I went into a restaurant
and there was nothing
but Irish guys there?
And you says,
"How'd you know they were Irish?"
And I says, "'Cause they were all
drunk, vomiting all over the floor."
Objection, Your Honor.
Badgering the witness.
Mr. DiNorscio.
No, it's all right, Judge.
Look, Mr. DiNorscio. If it walks
like a duck, looks like a duck,
quacks like a duck,
chances are it's a duck.
If it talks like an asshole,
looks like an asshole,
chances are it's an asshole.
Objection. This behavior
cannot be tolerated.
Mr. DiNorscio, I am fining you
$5,000 for contempt of court.
That's what I got, Your Honor.
I got contempt for this court.
You should've stopped him
before with all the Italian shit.
You are now fined 10,000.
Wanna try for 15?
If there are no further questions,
I want to warn the defendants right now
that if they keep up
this raucous behavior,
they will be liable for contempt
charges with heavy fines.
And you defense attorneys will
be liable to contempt as well
for not keeping your
clients under control.
Sidebar, my chambers.
(LOW CHATTER)
Jackie. Jackie.
Jerk off, don't say my
name ever again.
You say my name again,
I'll cut your fucking heart out.
I've done it before.
I'd be thrilled to do it again.
Jackie, what...
...what the fuck do you think
you're doing up there?
What?
I speak my mind.
You can kick his dog,
you can spit in his face,
but the one thing a judge never wants
to hear is criticism about his court.
Fuck him. He ain't the jury.
What the fuck could he do?
Jackie, your ignorance is
second only to your arrogance.
Mr. Klandis, how do you think
Mr. DiNorscio's behavior
is affecting the jury's relationship to
your client and the other defendants?
Your Honor...
Don't say a word, Mr. DiNorscio.
Not a word. Mr. Klandis.
He's clearly a disruptive force.
FINESTEIN: Mr. Kierney.
He undermines the
authority of your court.
And if I may say so, you'd never permit
such behavior from a regular attorney.
(SIGHS)
See any solution?
If he were just a defendant,
you could put him in another room.
They both watch it on TV.
But he's his own lawyer.
Unfortunately, it seems
to me there's no choice.
He has to be severed from
this trial and tried separately.
FINESTEIN: Mr. Klandis?
It's extreme, but I'm not against it.
I have no idea what the
legal consequences would be.
I'll put my clerk to work on it.
All right, we ready for the jury?
Judge.
Yes, Mr. DiNorscio?
Can I talk to you?
I wanna apologize for
my action in court before.
I want you to understand...
...whatever I said,
I meant no disrespect to you.
I respect you more than any other judge
I ever faced. I faced a lot of them.
OK, well, thank you, Mr. DiNorscio.
I was out of line before.
I agree I should be held in contempt.
(KISSING SOUNDS)
All right. Bring in the jury.
Jurors, jurors, will you please take
your seats as quickly as possible?
(GASPING)
What's going on? You all right?
What's the matter?
(OVERLAPPING MURMURS)
I need an opening. Break this up,
here. Come on. EMT.
There you go.
There you go. OK.
I need some room.
I need some room, guys.
Please, give me some room.
Can you breathe?
Watch his head.
Watch his head.
Bring him all the way up,
all the way up.
Is he in trouble?
You're gonna be all right, Tommy.
Don't worry. The paramedics are
gonna take care of you.
Nappy, want me to
call your mother?
Nappy. All right. Nappy.
(APPLAUSE, CHEERING)
OK.
There, won't be any test results
before Friday, maybe even Monday.
So let's adjourn until we get...
Your Honor, this trial
is over 11 months old.
We haven't even reached the
halfway mark in our presentation.
Mr. Kierney, I'm not used
to being interrupted.
You are the one who handed in
a witness list of more than 89 people
and you have already introduced
more than 450 exhibits
and I am told there are
hundreds more coming,
so let us not complain
about a lengthy trial.
A defendant is sick
and he is gonna get a fair shake
in my courtroom, understood?
The clerk will notify you about our next
meeting. Have a good night, gentlemen.
Nappy Napoli.
How do you like that?
Boy, oh, boy, time is fleeting.
Time is what?
Fleeting.
Time is fleeting.
What the hell does that mean,
"Time is fleeting"? What's "fleeting"?
Fleeting. It's like fleeing.
Time is fleeing.
But it's in the past tense,
so they say "fleeting".
You're full of shit.
You're an ignorant slob.
You look good.
You got everything you need?
You're OK on money?
Yeah. Stop worrying
about me, Pop. I'm fine.
How's your brother doing?
Good, I guess. I mean, you know,
I don't really see him too much.
I worry about him.
You worry about everything.
Only family.
That's all that matters.
The rest of it's a
fart in a hurricane.
How's your mama doing?
She looks good.
I see her all the time.
Yeah?
Yeah.
Say hello for me.
I don't know, Pop.
I mean, the last time I did that,
she kind of gave me that look
like I should never say it again.
She's tough.
Boy, is she tough.
You know what the two best words
in the English language are?
Things change.
OK. First, about Mr. DiNorscio.
Because he's both a
defendant and an attorney,
I think separating him
out at this point
will make an appeal by the
losing side almost inevitable.
Anyone wanna go
through this again?
No. So he stays.
But I promise you this,
Mr. DiNorscio.
If you are as disruptive
as you have been in the past,
you are out like that. And to
hell with what happens later.
You got me?
Second, trial resumes on Monday.
I've spoken with the doctors.
They feel Mr. Napoli
is fully capable of understanding
the proceedings around him.
Your Honor, he can't even sit up.
Arrange for his hospital bed to
be brought into the courtroom.
Your Honor, he's under
heavy medication.
The doctors are cutting it
way back this weekend.
He falls asleep when I talk to him.
Try to make yourself more interesting.
Now, look, goddamn it.
We're a year in.
This trial is going forward.
Monday, 10:00 a.m.
Hey, there's Tommy Napoli.
(CHATTERING CONTINUES)
(CHEERS AND APPLAUSE)
I'm glad to see youse guys.
All rise.
Nappy Napoli can't rise. Is it
all right if he stays laying down?
(SCATTERED CHUCKLING)
Mr. DiNorscio.
Be seated.
You can see their autos
parked here near the entrance.
There are two Lincolns,
and one, two, three Cadillacs,
as well as other vehicles parked nearby.
We continued our surveillance
until Mr. Mascarpone and Mr. Roma
got in their cars and left...
...nine hours later, at 4:00 a.m.
Agent Petraki, when you arrested
my client, Carlo Mascarpone,
did he resist in any way?
No.
I had a very pleasant conversation
with Mr. Mascarpone.
And what did you talk about?
We discussed political
philosophy and history.
I found out that he was a
great admirer of Machiavelli.
So you discussed Machiavelli.
No discussions of shakedowns,
payoffs or rubouts, correct?
That's correct. But since I once taught
a class in political philosophy,
I thought it ironic that Carlo
Mascarpone was an admirer of Machiavelli
whose major theme was
that "power corrupts,
and absolute power
corrupts absolutely."
I felt that perhaps Mr. Mascarpone
applied Machiavelli's ideas
to his own line of work
as a mob boss.
Your Honor, my next line of
questioning could take some time.
It's so close to lunch, would anybody
object if we took an hour now?
Any objections?
One hour.
Do you see this book?
It's called Bartlett's Familiar Quotations.
Do you know who Lord Acton was?
Lord Acton?
A-C-T-O-N, Acton.
No, sir.
Well, he was English.
He lived from 1834 to 1902.
That's 300 years after Machiavelli.
And it's right here
on page 39, it says:
"Lord Acton is the author
of the quote
"Power corrupts and absolute
power corrupts absolutely."
Not Machiavelli.
(LOW MURMURS)
No further questions, Your Honor.
(JACKIE CLAPS)
FINESTEIN: Mr. DiNorscio?
Mr. Petraki,
you was a college teacher?
Yes.
Now, in those courses
that you taught...
In, what was it, politics?
Machiavelli's a big deal,
am I right? A very big deal.
I mean, we're not talking about
a made guy in the Lucchese family.
No, we are not.
So, my question is...
...how could you make
a mistake like that?
I mean, you're this
educated guy, right?
And a lot of us, most of us,
didn't even get through high school,
except maybe Carlo.
So your testifying here can hurt us.
Do you see what I'm saying?
It was just an honest mistake.
What else was an honest mistake?
You said earlier that
it was a Lincoln.
You said they spent nine hours.
Could that be a Caddy?
Could that be a Mercury?
Could that be a Buick?
You said they spent nine hours.
Maybe they spent three.
Maybe you don't know what the hell
you're talking about, Mr. Petraki.
I prepared him, Sean.
It's my fuckup. I feel like hell.
Don't worry about it. We got Compagna
coming up. He's our clincher.
Here's what happens when
Jackie cross-examines him.
It's guinea versus guinea.
In 30 seconds, Jackie Dee will be
screaming at him. I guarantee it.
And I make my motion
to separate that fuck.
Finestein has to grant it.
He's committed.
Ladies. Gentlemen.
Is this a bad day...
Hiya, Pop.
How you doing?
Well, I'm doing OK.
How's Mom doing?
Some days good,
some bad, you know.
Not to worry, all right?
Not to worry.
I mean...
...it's almost two years
since I've seen her, Pop.
I mean, you think she's ever
gonna come visit me in court?
I wouldn't count on it.
Listen, Jackie...
I'm sorry, you know.
I never wanted this for you.
If it was good enough for you,
it was good enough for me.
You're doing great.
Did you see me?
Did I see you? Every day.
Did you see the people laughing?
You're terrific.
I really mean it. You know,
you could be a TV show.
Three of the jurors
almost fell out of their chairs.
I know it. I know.
You're fantastic.
Mr. McQueen, please
state your occupation.
Undercover agent for the FBI.
And your assignment?
My job was to penetrate
the Mascarpone crew
under the alias name Carl Cassio
to determine the extent
of organized crime control
of the New Jersey seaports.
And how long were you undercover?
For over two years, I was
accepted as one of the boys.
And during those two years, what type
of criminal activities did you observe?
I saw scams, heard discussions
about everything
from stolen cars, stolen bonds,
to bootlegged cigarettes.
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