Originally posted by Jc8804
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I think the problem here is that I keep getting asked question from events that happened further down the road when I am still examining, and trying to verify information about this weigh in, fight, and the rehydration process to get to the next step.
To answer the last question, I am being told that would be to protect the political benefactors whom appointed a boxing commission to funnel money for there future political aspirations when none of those people appointed had much of a boxing clue in the first place. I am told that there were commissioners were just ghost names of people that did not even exist for the purpose of funds being sent back to the New York GOP at the time.
Szoke claims that Tony Russo personally had Floyd Patterson kicked off the head of the commission on gounds of mental impairment because he could not remember all his fight details when he fought, and Russo replaced Patterson with a play ball guy Mel Southard. Most of these guys aboard the New York State Athletic Commission Mel Southard, Marc Cornstein, Jerry Becker, Jim Polsinello, Tony Russo, Lawrence Mandelker, Chris DeFruscio and Ruby Marin worked other jobs, and they were they basically there just to funnel money. Szoke said that he waited until 2005 after all these guys were fired, quit, or their terms expired to send anything to the commission, and elsewhere in the state of New York. Szoke further says that he was not thinking about anyone coming back at the commission with a counter suit when he did so.
Here is a piece from Commission Director of Operations Bob Duffy on the Evander Holyfield - Lennox Lewis fight. Bob Duffy Immediately quit Monday morning after the fight between Gamache, and Gatti on February 26, 2000. "I chose two inspectors for each corner. Bill O'Malley and George Ward were supposed to work one corner, and Mike Fayo and Harold Townes were supposed to be in the other. Then Polsinello came to me and said, 'I'm assigning the corners.' There was a lot of yelling, and he overruled me. So Chris DeFruscio and Mike Pascale worked Lewis's corner, and Marc Cornstein and Jerry Becker were assigned to Holyfield. This was Pascale's first fight in the corner. You don't start your career as an inspector in the corner at a fight for the heavyweight championship of the world. I complained to Becker, and Gerry told me, 'Hey, Duffy; you don't understand. We won the election.'"
Szoke said at the point of the weigh in Bob Duffy steps up to weigh the fighters, and Tony Russo steps in, and says we got this one. In court Mel Southard testified that he, and Russo conducted the weigh in because Bob Duffy was late getting to the garden. Bob Duffy was not late getting there. Bob Duffy was the one who sent the scale out to be tweeked when Joey Gamache, and Johnny Bos complained about it before Gatti, and his people show up.
Szoke believe that these people aboard the New York State Athletic Commision along with the man that appointed them George Pataki had the most to gain out of much of this never coming out. and would be the people responsible for him not sleeping to well at night. George Pataki is currently running for President of the United States though he is not doing well. Szoke said the tape from the afternoon at the weigh in was sent to the commissions legal department headed by a man named Hugo Pinta. By exposing illegal activity at the weigh in, Szoke said that it would have exposed these individuals using the commission to conduct illegal activities to fund the New York State GOP, and among other things. Szoke, along with several books claim these poeple were in bed with the mafia.
One of these such books was written by G.T. Harrell. It was called the Mafia's Secret Judge. Though this this book had other inconsistencies especially with the death of Jimmy Hoffa, and JFK.
And then there is Gamache whom Szoke seems to not like at all. By exposing the scales fixed for Gamache, I am sure Gamache himself would have had to explain why he was in court if the scales were in fact fixed for him. So those are the people that had something to gain by this story never coming out. Szoke concluded that the commission, and Gamache would have been better off letting this die in court, and shortening the witness list then to be exposed which is what happened. Gamache never filed an appeal as far as I know. Szoke said that he wanted to write a letter to the presiding judge, but because he was nearly killed, and badly mangled that he had surgeries, and lost track of the trial due to physical therapy, and rehabilitation of his body though 2009, and early 2010. Szoke said that in July of 2009 when he first heard of Gatti's death that he was led to believe that the widow alone killed Gatti at first, and then he killed himself by some of the same media that would like you to believe that Gatti forcefully jumped on a scale, and hopped right back off, and started drinking water, and eating food while his weight was quickly called. Szoke says it did not happen like that at all at the weigh in.
The New York State Inspector General's office concluded that what ever was going on at the weigh in, the weights recorded were official. Arturo Gatti was prone to putting on significant amounts of weight between the weigh in, and the fight. Anything HBO, or anybody else is doing is unofficial. Any injury's that occurred were not the result off the state. The judge presiding over the case said pretty much the same. The Judge said though Gatti was not properly weighed no one ever proved the injuries came as a result of the weigh in.
Szoke himself said outside of Gatti having to testify in 72 hours there is not a whole lot to connecting Brazil to New York. Szoke said he tried to get information about Gamache's second, and current wife being from that area of South America where Gatti was killed, but he can not get any. Szoke also said he has been trying to contact Derrell Coley, and Leonard Langley, but Szoke has not been successful in reaching them to ask them about their weights going into the Oscar De La Hoya weigh in, and fight. Szoke said he heard news of four different weights on Derrell Coley 143 1/2, 145, 146, and 147. Derrell Coley has got to have some idea of what he weighed before he came down to the Garden for the weigh in, and the Southgate Hotel for HBO fighter meetings.
If Gatti weighed 141 at the Athletic Club, then how can he be much more then that at the Garden. If Gamache says he weighed 140 1/4 at the physical how could he weigh much more at the Garden. Someone is lying, and then there is Oscar De La Hoya whom is said to not have made weight as well, and the fact that the calibrations on the scale were tweeked an hour before Gatti ever shows up to which no one can account for the scale for that hour. Szoke said that he could, but he along with his friends were never contacted, or called as witnesses. Szoke says no one from New York ever got back to him, nor did the FBI in Newark, NJ.
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