It was all over the news last week.
Prosecutors for the US Department of Justice asked permission to show a video clip from the 1974 film, “The Godfather Part II”, at Roger Stone’s upcoming trial.
The judge has not ruled on the request.
Stone is charged with witness tampering, obstruction of an official proceeding and making false statements during his testimony before a House Committee investigating Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election.
Stone is not accused of collaborating with the Russians. His indictment stems from the Robert Mueller investigation.
Prosecutors allege Stone referred to a character in the Godfather while texting comedian and radio host, Randy Credico, who was subpoenaed to testify before the House Committee on Russian interference.
“Start practicing your Pentangeli,” Stone texted Credico in late 2017.
The Stone indictment reads, “Frank Pentangeli is a character in the film The Godfather: Part II, which both STONE and [Credico] had discussed, who testifies before a congressional committee and in that testimony claims not to know critical information that he does in fact know.”
In the clip, Pentangeli is testifying before a Senate committee about the Godfather, Michael Corleone, when Corleone surprises him by bringing Pentangeli,s brother, Vincenzo, to the hearing. Frank realizes he is putting his family at risk and suddenly testifies he doesn’t know anything about Corelone’s crimes.

What prosecutors in the Stone case may not know, or at least they may not care to mention to the jury, is that Credico is an impressionist.
He broke into comedy when he appeared on the Johnny Carson show decades ago. He does a raft of impressions from Bill Clinton, to Ronald Reagan, Al Sharpton, even Diogenes.
Credico also does Frank Pentangeli. He has done that scene in the Godfather for years and it is comedy gold.
In fact, he does a whole Godfather comedy routine changing names around to suit his audience.

A zealous prosecutor, Assistant US Attorney Jonathan Kravis will undoubtedly make a point of how serious and intimidating Stone was when he texted Credico saying, “Start practicing your Pentangeli.”
But it will likely come out in the trial that Credico never really took the character of Frank Pentangeli too seriously in his life.
Perhaps Stone’s lawyers will show the jury a clip of Credico’s impersonation of Pentangeli,, or ask Credico how many times he has “done Pentangali” in his long career.
Maybe Stone’s defense attorneys might even ask Credico to do his imitation of Pentangeli, before the jury.
I can see it now.
Credico mugging, “Look, the FBI guys, they promised me a deal. So, so I made up a lot of stuff about Roger Stone ’cause that’s what they wanted. But it was all lies. Uh, everything. And I kept saying Roger Stone did this and Roger Stone did that. So, I said yeah sure – why not?”
Credico might give the jury a good laugh and during serious trials, that’s usually good for the defense.
Yet, some jurors might think prosecutor Kravis was a little dishonest if he fails to mention that Credico does such a fine Pentangeli in his comic routine.
They might even think it makes Kravis look a little ridiculous.
And, as we all know, a man in prosecutor Kravis’s position can’t afford to be made to look ridiculous.
The trial is scheduled to begin on November 5.

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I like roger stone. Hope he is not stressed but chill
I think Roger Stone is guilty of the crimes of shooting his mouth off and acting like a big shot and joking around.
Roger Stone is not the first guy to shoot his mouth off and have an overzealous prosecutor indict him.
Is Roger Stone a Boy Scout? F*ck no!
Is Roger Stone Public Enemy #1? F*ck no!
The case against Roger Stone is ridiculous.
Roger Stone is the victim of having a big mouth and an over zealous prosecutor looking for some media attention.
End of story!
Wrong.
Look it;s the corrupt Andrew Weissman author of the phony Mueller report. Hey dickhead your time in the barrel is coming. Post under your own name Andy rather than of stale cookie.
I’m no Weissman fan, but if Stone thought he could play cutesy with a Federal investigator as he’s used to in his political swordfighting career, then he’s a fool.
It’s not wise to shoot your mouth off to a Federal investigator.
The prosecution doesn’t need to bring up the comic routine, Stone’s lawyer can do it.
What was Stone thinking when he decided it would be a good idea to reference organized crime while he was working on Trump’s campaign?
These criminals are so much dumber than they realize they are….🤣
You are too stupid to realize what is going on. Stone will not be guilty in any court of law child, You are right about stupidity among criminals… Trudeau and most of the US democrap Presidential candidates.
Pretty much so Flowers. My guess is they love the attention and spotlight — so people will do and say stupid things to make themselves feel smarter and bigger. Stone is nothing more than a little pussy who got caught and is now grasping at straws to get out of the mess he created.
Pretty much wrong sunshine. You agreeing with the flowerchild is enough to show your ignorance. What you know about Roger could fit in the one lonely brain cell in your head.
Kirsten Gillibrand says the first thing she’ll do when she’s President is “Clorox the Oval Office.”
Methinks the squeaky clean Senator should clean her own damned house first!
https://mol.im/a/7308595
Hopefully the “Oral Office” was already Cloroxed after Slick Willy had his slick willy wiped clean.
You’re so silly Scott. It’s been renamed the “Anal Orifice” since Cheeto and Melania moved in.
And your an absolute fool Girlie scoutie. After the filth of Clinton and O-hole an exorcism was needed as well as a delousing
to clean that office. And in fact the poor taxpayer had to pay to have the White House debugged from the Kenyian shitstaain.
https://nypost.com/2017/06/28/trump-may-be-right-about-the-white-house-being-bugged/
Gillbrand is so far behind in the polls that even if she blows every male voter she will still not win.
If Sillybrand did that, she would probably lose a lot of votes.