Joey Comunale Case: One Year Later

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A celebrity jeweler's lawyer told a judge Wednesday that his client had nothing to do with a the death of a young man found in a Jersey Shore shallow grave last year.

Jeffrey Rackover is accused of helping to conceal Joseph Comunale's body in a shocking November 2016 crime where Rackover's surrogate son, James Rackover, is accused of murder.

The lawsuit claims the high-flying jeweler — with clientele including Oprah Winfrey, Jennifer Lopez and Denzel Washington — gave paper towels and cleaning supplies to James so he could clean the Upper East Side apartment where the stabbing allegedly happened.

Jeffrey Rackover's lawyer, John Rosenberg, told a Manhattan federal judge the victim’s father, Patsy Comunale, was "grasping at straws" with the lawsuit. Rosenberg said his client learned of the crime when news of the bloodshed came out the next day.

I think DL is losing interest because Hooker Rackover is becoming quite the lardo.

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😂”quite the lardo”

different look at every court appearance

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Trial rescheduled as follows: James Rackover's new court date is Tuesday, October 2, 2018 Lawrence Dilione's new court date is Tuesday, October 9, 2018

No, it's not his tubbiness but rather his "surrogate" father aka trick, keeps getting the threads closed.

At least Joey died hot. The killers are becoming lard asses.

Prosecutors offered a glimpse Friday of the damning evidence they plan to introduce at the upcoming murder trial of a “jeweler to the stars” lover accused of killing a Connecticut man.

Assistant DA Antoinette Carter said James Rackover, 27, allegedly stole thousands of dollars from his much older lover, jeweler Jeffrey Rackover, to pay off a drug debt.

He took $50,000 from Venmo, PayPal and Bank of America accounts in addition to a $30,000 watch, she said at a hearing to determine the evidence that will be admitted at the Manhattan Supreme Court trial slated to start Monday.

James Rackover and co-defendant Larry Dilione allegedly strangled, stabbed and bludgeoned Joseph Comunale inside the Sutton Place pad Jeffrey had rented for James, after Comunale said Dilione was mooching off him during a night of partying Nov. 13, 2016.

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Jury trial selection begins for Stamford man’s N.Y. murder By Ignacio Laguarda Updated 6:38 pm EDT, Monday, October 15, 2018

NEW YORK — Roughly 80 potential jurors were whittled down to eight on the first day of jury selection in the trial of James Rackover, one of two men charged with the grisly death of a 26-year-old Stamford man in a luxury Sutton Place apartment.

Rackover’s attorney, Maurice Sercarz, asked the pool of possible jurors on Monday to “keep an open mind” during the trial, which will focus on the murder of Joseph Comunale, a Westhill High School graduate.

Recommended Video Sercarz said Comunale’s murder will be discussed in graphic detail during the trial and jurors will be shown disturbing autopsy photos that will be “very difficult to sit through.”

Comunale was beaten, stabbed, burned, dismembered, and dropped into a shallow grave on Nov. 13, 2016. His body was found in Oceanport, N.J.

Rackover was indicted on charges of murder, hindering prosecution, tampering with physical evidence and concealment of a corpse.

The 2016 incident in which Comunale was killed involved a drug-fueled argument over cigarettes and cocaine, according to police, between the two men and Lawrence Dilione, who faces similar charges to Rackover. Dilione is scheduled for trial after Rackover.

Another man, Max Gemma, was charged with hindering prosecution and tampering with evidence. He is expected to go to trial last.

On Monday, Assistant District Attorney Antoinette Carter said that drug use will be discussed in the trial and asked the possible jurors whether they would discount testimony from anyone who abuses drugs.

Other questions involved law enforcement, and whether any potential jurors had had negative experiences with police officers, many of whom could be asked to testify.

She also said the prosecution may be unable to fully define the “division of labor” between Rackover and Dilione and asked jurors whether they would be able to come to a verdict without knowing exactly who did what.

Rackover, who had often appeared at hearings wearing a white t-shirt, was in a full suit on Monday.

Nonetheless, he appeared to make an unfavorable impression on some potential jurors who had been dismissed after being vetted by Carter.

One possible juror who was not selected questioned Rackover’s credibility after seeing him “laughing and smiling and joking with his lawyer.”

Two others said they would have a hard time being impartial jurors if they discovered the defendant had committed past errors.

Jury selection will continue on Tuesday. Opening arguments are expected to start on Thursday.

ignacio.laguarda@stamfordadvocate.com

Butt. Sex.

The murder is sad, but let’s be honest, he was just a Millennial—and probably a dumb one.

No so dumb (R15). Even the brightest people go astray under the influence of alcohol and /or drugs. Young and gorgeous does not equate to dumb.

So, Now it's almost two years later and Jr. Rac is finally on trial. Muriel shut down the other thread a few hours ago...Joey Comunale Murder......guess we'll have to continue the discussion, here.

Link to the latest info before the thread was shut down...

Muriel didn't shut it down, it got to 600 posts. Now that the truth about Daddy Rack is out, he has no reason to silence us.

Who's Muriel?

Sorry but all of the people involved in this sordid story look like they are dumb as dirt.

48 hours had a special this on 11/17/18. His family and friends are interviewed.

Current issue of VANITY FAIR has a lengthy update and jailhouse interview with Jimmy Rackover (ne Beaudoin). By novelist Christopher Bollen. Reading the DL threads on this in retrospect has been even more "on the nose."

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Scotto's grandfather was a Gambino captain....this family has lots of blood on their hands. Fox 5 is known for hiring personalities from unsavory families.

"48 hours had a special this on 11/17/18. His family and friends are interviewed."

The thing that struck me watching the episode was how fucking hot all his friends were!!! He hung out with a group of guys and girls who all looked like models, but they were just regular kids.

Tragic death. I think he went back to the apartment to have group chem-sex and he chickened out. Rackover was on coke and meth and choked him out; killing him on accident. Then things went off the rails with the murder cover-up and shit got crazy!