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Did Giuliani help a murderer escape justice?
https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2018/local/an-affair-the-mob-a-murder/A federal agent was the prime suspect in his girlfriend’s death. So why wasn’t he ever arrested?
In 1986, ATF agent Artie Cunn was leading what police called a “double life.” Then his girlfriend turned up dead. Cunn denied any role in the slaying, and no arrests were made. But Margaret Yeatman’s family yearned for justice.
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An affair. The mob. A murder.
By Mary Jordan
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In Yeatman’s homicide file, there is a 1986 Time magazine article about Giuliani’s bold effort to prosecute the bosses of the five crime families, the so-called Commission.
Giuliani, fresh from a top job at the Justice Department, was in Manhattan making headway on his promise: “The mafia will be crushed.”
His success at living up to that pledge would make him famous and then mayor of New York City. He is now a legal adviser to President Trump.
I wanted to talk to Giuliani about the case. But over the last five months, he did not respond to numerous emails, phone calls and a detailed letter asking to talk about Rastelli, who died in 1991, and any possible connection to Yeatman.
Giuliani speaks regularly to reporters. But one of his assistants described him as “too busy to review requests for interviews.”
This is the question I wanted to ask him: Was it possible Yeatman’s killer was spared prosecution as part of a deal to help dismantle organized crime in New York?
In Yeatman’s homicide file, there is a 1986 Time magazine article about Giuliani’s bold effort to prosecute the bosses of the five crime families, the so-called Commission.
Giuliani, fresh from a top job at the Justice Department, was in Manhattan making headway on his promise: “The mafia will be crushed.”
His success at living up to that pledge would make him famous and then mayor of New York City. He is now a legal adviser to President Trump.
I wanted to talk to Giuliani about the case. But over the last five months, he did not respond to numerous emails, phone calls and a detailed letter asking to talk about Rastelli, who died in 1991, and any possible connection to Yeatman.
Giuliani speaks regularly to reporters. But one of his assistants described him as “too busy to review requests for interviews.”
This is the question I wanted to ask him: Was it possible Yeatman’s killer was spared prosecution as part of a deal to help dismantle organized crime in New York?