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Boriello grew up in South Brooklyn, New York, surrounded by mobsters from the Gambino, Genovese, and Colombo crime families. His older brother Stevie was a close friend of neighborhood gangsters Joseph “Crazy Joey” Gallo, Albert Gallo and Frank Illiano, and after Joey’s murder, Stevie was instrumental in securing the crew’s South Brooklyn rackets.

In the 1980s, Boriello became a made man, or full member, in the Gambino family. He quickly developed close relationships with Gotti and his brothers, Nicholas Corozzo and Joseph Corozzo, and Salvatore “Sammy the Bull” Gravano. Boriello and Gotti would often spend weekends together on Long Island, New York, partying, gambling, and attending performances by singer Jay Black, a childhood friend of Gotti. Boriello owned a social club in the Carroll Gardens section of Brooklyn that was run by his brother Stevie.

During his early days, Boriello was suspected in several gangland slayings, as well as involvement in extortion, loan sharking, and drug trafficking.

Basciano said Kaplan answered to and paid off several
high-ranking mobsters in the 1980s, including Anthony “Shorty” Mascuzzio,
who was slain in Kaplan’s New York club in 1987. Basciano testified that
after Mascuzzio’s death, Kaplan came under the protection of Bobby
Borriello, a Gambino associate who was chauffeur to John Gotti Sr. He also
said that Michael DiLeonardo, one of Kaplan’s codefendants in the trial, is
a captain in the Gambino family, where he is known “Mikey Scars.”

Among Basciano’s more startling allegations was his claim that Kaplan wanted
him to murder one of his partners at Bedrocks. “Steve was begging me not to
do it in the place. He was giving addresses where the guy lived and said he
would help,” Basciano told the court.

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signs of the times, they’re all around us no one will look you in the eye you don’t know who to trust i’m lookin around me and don’t like what i see corruption all around me cause these, these are the signs of the times seems like they’re losing their minds these are the signs of the times do you think that we’re really progressin just seems to me like some steady regression i’m lookin on and watchin it corrode gotta hold back or i’m gonna explode take a look at where we’re going i’m seeing the signs and what they’re showing i’m totally in disbelief of modern man and all his grief these are the signs of the times

HOW EASILY MAN MAY BE CORRUPTED

It should be noted also in the matter of the Decemvirate how easily men are corrupted and make themselves become of a contrary nature, even though (they are) good and well educated; (and), considering how those youths whom Appius had chosen to surround him begun, for the little advantages that followed from it, to be friendly to that tyranny, and that Quintus Fabius, one of the number of the second Ten, being a very good man, (but) blinded by a little ambition and persuaded by the malignity of Appius, changed his good habits into the worst, and became like, him. Which, if well examined, the Legislators of Republics or Kingdoms will more promptly restrain human appetites and take away from them the hope of being able to err with impunity

A MULTITUDE WITHOUT A HEAD IS USELESS, AND ONE OUGHT NOT TO THREATEN FIRST, AND THEN SEEK AUTHORITY

Because of the incident of Virginia the Roman Pleb was led armed to the sacred mountain (Mons Sacer). The Senate sent its Ambassadors to ask by what authority they had abandoned their Captains and retired to the Mountains. And so much was the authority of the Senate esteemed that, the Plebs not having their chiefs among them, no one dared to reply. And T. Livius says that they did not lack material to reply, but they did lack someone who should make the reply. Which thing demonstrates in point the uselessness of a multitude without a head. This disorder was recognized by Virginius, and by his order twenty military Tribunes were created who would be their chiefs to reply to and convene with the Senate. And having requested that (the Senators) Valerius and Horatius should be sent to them, to whom they would tell their wants, they (the Senators) would not turn to go unless the Ten first had resigned their Magistracy: and having arrived on the mountain where the Pleb was, these things were demanded of them, that they wanted the re-establishment of the Tribunes of the Plebs, (and) that an appeal to the people from every Magistracy should be allowed, and that all of the Ten should be given up to them as they wanted to burn them alive. Valerius and Horatius lauded the first of their demands: they censured the last as impious, saying; You condone cruelty, yet fall yourselves into cruelty, and counselled them to leave off making mention of the Ten, and to attend to taking from them their authority and power, and that afterwards there would not be lacking the means of satisfying them (their vengeance). From which it is recognized openly how foolish and little prudent it is to ask for a thing, and to say at first, I want to do evil with it: for one ought not to show his mind, but to want in every way to seek to obtain that which he desires. For it is enough to ask from one his arms, without saying I want to kill you with them; for when you have the arms in your hands then you will be able to satisfy your appetite.

WHOEVER WANTS A MAGISTRACY NOT TO BE GIVEN TO A VILE OR WICKED ONE, WILL HAVE IT ASKED BY A MAN MORE VILE AND MORE WICKED, OR BY ONE MORE NOBLE AND MORE GOOD

When the (Roman) Senate became apprehensive that the Tribunes with Consular power should be created from plebeian men, they took one of two courses: either they caused the more reputable men of Rome to be designated, or by suitable means they (surely) corrupted some sordid and most ignoble Plebeians, who mixed with the plebeians of better quality who usually asked for these offices, so that even they should ask for them. This latter course caused the Plebs to be ashamed of themselves to give it to the latter, and the first (course) made them ashamed to take it away from the former. All of which confirms the proposition of the preceding discussion, where it is shown that the people deceive themselves in general matters, but they do not deceive themselves in particular matters.

NICCOLO MACHIAVELLI

The first sign of the zodiac. Aries is classed as a Positive or masculine, extrovert sign; its Element is Fire and its Quality is Cardinal.^[1] Traditionally in astrology Aries is ruled by the planet Mars. The opposite sign to Aries is Libra. Under the tropical zodiac, Aries is occupied by the Sun from March 21 to April 19, by definition beginning at vernal equinox. Under the sidereal zodiac, it is currently from April 19 to May 19. In House (astrology) the 1st House is the house the Arian rules, in the 1st House dates are occupied on June 21 to July 22. The corresponding month in the Babylonian calendar is Arax Nisânu, dedicated to Anu and Bel.

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Causative agent. Marburgvirus of the Filoviridae family.

Geographical occurrence. Outbreaks and sporadic cases have been reported in Angola, Democratic Republic of Congo, Kenya, and South Africa (in a person with a recent travel history to Zimbabwe). The initial outbreaks, in Germany and the former Yugoslavia in 1967, have been linked to laboratory work using African green monkeys (Cercopithecus aethiops) imported from Uganda.

Transmission. Transmission of the virus from person to person requires extremely close contact with a patient. Infection results from contact with blood or other body fluids (faeces, vomitus, urine, saliva, and respiratory secretions) with high virus concentration, especially when these fluids contain blood. Transmission via infected semen can occur up to seven weeks after clinical recovery.

Infection through casual contact is thought to be exceedingly rare. The low rate of transmission to persons with casual contact suggests that aerosol transmission via the respiratory tract is not efficient, if it occurs at all. Transmission does not occur during the incubation period.

Patients appear to be most infectious during the phase of severe illness accompanied by haemorrhagic manifestations. Close contact with a severely ill patient, during care at home or in hospital, and certain burial practices are common routes of infection. Transmission via contaminated injection equipment or through needle-stick injuries is associated with more severe disease, rapid deterioration, and possibly higher fatality.

Incubation period. 3 to 9 days.

Susceptibility. All age groups are susceptible to infection, but most cases have occurred in adults. Prior to the present outbreak in Angola, paediatric cases were considered extremely rare. In the largest outbreak previously recorded, which occurred in the Democratic Republic of Congo from late 1998 to 2000, only 12 (8%) of the cases were under the age of 5 years.

Clinical features. Illness caused by Marburg virus begins abruptly, with severe headache and severe malaise. Muscle aches and pains are a common feature.

A high fever usually appears on the first day of illness, followed by progressive and rapid debilitation. A severe watery diarrhoea, abdominal pain and cramping, nausea, and vomiting begin about the third day. Diarrhoea can persist for a week. The appearance of patients at this phase has been described as showing “ghost-like” drawn features, deep-set eyes, expressionless faces, and extreme lethargy. In the 1967 European outbreak, a non-itchy rash was a feature noted in most patients between days 2 and 7 after symptom onset.

Many patients develop severe haemorrhagic manifestations between days 5 and 7, and fatal cases usually have some form of bleeding, often from multiple sites. Findings of fresh blood in vomitus and faeces are often accompanied by bleeding from the nose, gums, and vagina. Spontaneous bleeding at venipuncture sites can be particularly troublesome. During the severe phase of illness, patients have sustained high fevers. Involvement of the central nervous system can result in confusion, irritability, and aggression. Orchitis has been reported occasionally in the late phase of disease (day 15).

In fatal cases, death occurs most often between 8 and 9 days after symptom onset, usually preceded by severe blood loss and shock.

 In a tiny storefront social club at 57 Rapelye Street in Red Hook, Brooklyn, on a frozen November night in 1992, five people were shot, two fatally: Salvatore Sparacino, a longshoreman, who died at Long Island College Hospital, and John Marella, the club’s cook, who was declared dead at the scene. Sparacino’s son, John, was critically wounded but lived.

I stood behind the police tape in the chill with the other reporters. As detectives and police photographers came and went, an officer left the door of the club open for a moment, and we got a glimpse of Marella’s feet spread apart in heavy black shoes pointed at the ceiling. Here was murder at its most cinematic: the bloodiness and gore and bullet wounds were hidden by the door, we saw only enough to know that a man lay there who was very dead.

The plot unfolded backward. Days before, an armed gang had robbed $100,000 from the Sealand shipping terminal in Newark. Investigators looked at a variety of motives for the Red Hook shooting, including a link to the Sealand terminal robbery or a neighborhood dispute.

Someone was very angry and stayed that way. John Sparacino was stabbed on New Year’s Eve 1992, but again survived. He was shot a second time — hit on the forearm — on May 11, 1994, while standing on the corner of Columbia and Rapelye Streets, a few doors down from the club. Finally, that August, his body was found in a burning car in Staten Island with a bullet in the head.

It was a real mess, and no arrests were ever made. But what I remember most were those black shoes, toes pointing straight up, so bright that they must have been shined with care earlier that day, as though the cook had planned to attend a christening or a wedding — or a funeral.