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The Q-Anon conspiracy theorist accused of killing a Mafia kingpin ranted wildly in court on Friday about an alleged CIA program called āOperation Mockingbirdā and possessing evidence of global crime syndicates.
Anthony Comello, 25, said during a hearing on Staten Island that he has evidence stored on his phone of worldwide human-trafficking and drug-smuggling rings.
āI just want to say there is a lot on my phone and a lot of data about drug smuggling, human sex trafficking all over the country,ā Comello said.
āI have everything from Australia to Ukraine to Italy to ā¦ Russia,ā he continued.
Comello launched into the bizarre screed after his lawyer, Robert Gottlieb, asked Staten Island Supreme Court Justice William Garnett if his client could speak in court.
āGood luck, Wanda. Operation Mockingbird,ā Comello said to Assistant District Attorney Wanda DeOliveira.
Operation Mockingbird was an alleged CIA program that used journalists to spread propaganda.
Comello ā who is pursuing an insanity defense ā is accused of killing the 53-year-old Francesco āFrank Boyā Cali in a brazen assassination in front of the purported Gambino bossās house in Todt Hill.
Comello, who once appeared in court with symbols associated with the far-right āQ-Anonā conspiracy inked on his palm, allegedly confessed to the hit on Cali after his arrest.
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But Comelloās possible motives for allegedly putting 11 rounds into the Gambino boss have been scattershot.
Following his arrest, law enforcement sources said that Comello allegedly killed Cali because the Mafia don wouldnāt let Comello date his daughter.
But in a court appearance in July, Comelloās lawyer said that his client was rubbing out someone he thought was a āprominent member of the ādeep stateāā ā and that he pulled the trigger after failing to pull off a ācitizenās arrest.ā
Garnett has ordered Comello to be interviewed by a psychiatrist on Monday ā but Gottlieb said Comello is declining to comply with the order.
Caliās death sent shockwaves through La Cosa Nostra ā and touched off a brief whodunit for police, who initially suspected that the assassination was part of an intra-Mob struggle between Americans and Sicilians.
Federal agents allegedly picked up chatter on wiretaps put up on a few Gambino soldiers as part of a separate criminal investigation into the family that the donās death could allow them to move up in the ranks.
In an intercepted conversation between Gambino soldiers Vincent Fiore and James Ciaccia, Fiore said Caliās death āa good thingā because they both reported to a capo power whose star might rise within the family, court papers say.
Comello is due back in court on April 20..
Buttigiegās lengthy roster of endorsements is loaded with former intelligence operatives, national security hardliners, regime-change specialists, and vulture capitalists.
Among Buttigiegās most notable endorsers is David S. Cohen, the deputy director of the CIA from 2015 to 2017, and a former Treasury official under George W. Bush.
Buttigieg was likewise endorsed by Charlie Gilbert, former deputy director of the National Clandestine Service, a top-ten leadership position at the CIA. Gilbertās role was to āconceive, plan, and execute complex intelligence operationsā against āhostile target [countries].ā
Dennis Bowden, a 26-year CIA veteran, with much of that time spent in unspecified āexecutive leadership positions,ā is also backing Mayor Pete.
The Buttigieg campaign has cited the support of former CIA senior analyst Sue Terry, who made a ārecord number of contributions to the Presidentās Daily Brief,ā during her tenure from 2001 to 2008.
Two more CIA endorsements came from former senior intelligence officer Martijn Rasser, and former senior analyst Andrea Kendall-Taylor, who was also an officer at the National Intelligence Council.