Cigar City Mafia: A Complete History of the Tampa Underworld by Scott M. Deitche

Author:Scott M. Deitche [Deitche, Scott M.]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
ISBN: 9781569802663
Publisher: Barricade Books
Published: 2005-05-31T04:00:00+00:00

Soon, also, Haskew would be removed as a defendant and used as a witness for the prosecution, in exchange for a life imprisonment sentence. Now all that left was Antone, and the prosecutors wanted the death penalty.

After he decided to testify for the prosecutors, Haskew described in detail the ins and outs of the lounge wars and how he was responsible for some of the bombings, including the one of Manuel Garcia’s car, implicating Frank Diecidue.

INTERVIEWER: Ah, where did you plant the bomb?

HASKEW: By the left front wheel.

INTERVIEWER: And the bomb was not intended to kill him, strictly for....

HASKEW: A scare purpose right. A man by the name of Frank Diecidue allegedly let the contract or wanted the incident to happen, for an amount of $15,000. Antone, Gispert and I were to receive $5,000 a piece.

Ellis told police that Joe Bedami Jr., who was then living out of state, was one of the men who shot at a witness in the Cloud case.

HASKEW: It was my understanding that they were the ones that went up to Annapolis when the woman was shot through the screen door and that this was set up through Antone.

INTERVIEWER: Gispert and Jo-Jo?

HASKEW: No. Little Jo-Jo and somebody else.

INTERVIEWER: Little Jo-Jo Bedami?

HASKEW: Right.

INTERVIEWER: The one that we have in Tampa now?

HASKEW: Right.

INTERVIEWER: The one we discussed earlier today that I believe the term was “punk”.

HASKEW: Right.

INTERVIEWER: Did he, was this done the same way that, ah, that Cloud was done?

HASKEW: Through a box with a .32 automatic.39

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