Jason Lefkowitz“Vincent Louis Gigante (March 29, 1928 – December 19, 2005) was an American mobster who was boss of the Genovese crime family in New York City between 1981 and 2005.
In the 1960s, Gigante took to walking around his neighborhood in a bathrobe, pajamas and slippers while mumbling to himself, which law enforcement agents, prosecutors and Mafia defectors later said was a performance intended to allow Gigante to avoid prosecution for his criminal activities. This came to be known as ‘The Bathrobe Defense,’ in which those accused of criminal wrongdoing feign mental incompetence to avoid legal consequences.”
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