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From: Stig Agermose <stig.agermose@get2net.dk>
Date: Wed, 16 Jun 1999 02:15:10
Fwd Date: Wed, 16 Jun 1999 15:40:35 -0400
Subject: US Feds: No Implant In 'Mobster's' Butt



Source: AP via Yahoo News,

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Stig

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Yahoo! News

AP Headlines

Tuesday June 15 5:52 PM ET

Feds: No Bug in 'Mobster's' Butt

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WORCESTER, Mass. (AP) - There's no bug in a reputed mobster's
buttocks, the government says.

For years, Vincent "Gigi Portalla" Marino claims, a federal drug
agent had told him that a tracking device was inserted in
Marino's rear end when he underwent surgery to remove a bullet.

This week, a federal judge ordered authorities to say whether
they did, in fact, implant such a device.

"We can confirm that the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration
did not implant a tracking device in defendant Vincent M. `Gigi
Portalla' Marino's buttocks," U.S. Attorney Donald K. Stern said
in a statement. "But we cannot speak, however, for any
extraterrestrial beings."

Marino had claimed that he was once asked by a DEA agent to sign
a form so the government could remove the device from his body.

On Monday, U.S. District Judge Nathaniel M. Gorton said the
situation "sounds like some DEA agent trying to be funny," but
he granted Marino's request to force the government to tell him
the truth.

Gorton's order came during a hearing in preparation for a
racketeering trial scheduled to start in the fall. Marino and
six other defendants are accused of waging a murderous battle to
seize control of the New England Mafia. Marino is in prison
awaiting trial.

In 1996, Marino was caught in a hail of gunfire at a club in
Revere. He was shot in the buttocks.

A legal expert said it is highly unlikely the government could
legally implant a device in a person's body.

"Theoretically, if you wanted to put a tracking device in
someone's body you would have to have court authority to do
that, and I imagine the courts would be reluctant to do that,"
said Randy Chapman, former head of the Massachusetts Bar
Association's criminal justice division.


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