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This is the fifth time the state has taken Leone to court since, they allege, he took control of the [[Leone Family|Leone crime family]] in a bloody power struggle in the mid 1980s. It is also the fifth time he has walked free. He has paid numerous fines, but no matter how serious the evidence, he has always avoided conviction. | This is the fifth time the state has taken Leone to court since, they allege, he took control of the [[Leone Family|Leone crime family]] in a bloody power struggle in the mid 1980s. It is also the fifth time he has walked free. He has paid numerous fines, but no matter how serious the evidence, he has always avoided conviction. | ||
Upon leaving court, Leone said to waiting reporters "I am just a businessman from Sicily. I have made a few mistakes, and perhaps I have not always followed the law to the letter, but I always believed in its spirit. The [[ | Upon leaving court, Leone said to waiting reporters "I am just a businessman from Sicily. I have made a few mistakes, and perhaps I have not always followed the law to the letter, but I always believed in its spirit. The [[LCPD in GTA III Era|police]] associate me with my brother, but I never do these things they blame me for." | ||
Leone's lawyer, [[Maurice Goldberg]] commented, "Mr. Leone is a dyslexic. Court tests prove it. His accounts are always in a mess, but he is not dishonest. Nor is he in the [[Mafia|mafia]]. As a Sicilian, he knows some unsavory characters, but what kind of [[United States of America|America]] is it when a man is guilty because of the friends he has? I don't want to live in an America like that, do you?" | Leone's lawyer, [[Maurice Goldberg]] commented, "Mr. Leone is a dyslexic. Court tests prove it. His accounts are always in a mess, but he is not dishonest. Nor is he in the [[Mafia|mafia]]. As a Sicilian, he knows some unsavory characters, but what kind of [[United States of America|America]] is it when a man is guilty because of the friends he has? I don't want to live in an America like that, do you?" | ||