Someone's been kicking ass it seems! but if I was him Id move out of NY and change your name!! FBI's gonna be gunning for ya big time for beating that fed's lilly white ass and for beating it in court!
"Son of Hell's Kitchen gangster Eddie Cummiskey beats rap in drunk brawl"
BY Melissa Grace
DAILY NEWS POLICE BUREAU
Tuesday, March 17th 2009, 11:04 PM
The son of infamous Hell's Kitchen gangster Eddie (The Butcher) Cummiskey was acquitted Tuesday of beating up a federal agent.
Clifford Cummiskey had been accused of pummeling an off-duty State Department agent in a drunken brawl outside a Ninth Ave. bar. He said it was self-defense, and that his dad's notoriety still follows him.
"My last name is Cummiskey, my father was a known gangster," Cummiskey, 36, said after a Manhattan judge cleared him of a single misdemeanor assault charge. "He died 33 years ago and to this day, anytime anything happens it's the first thing [the cops] bring up."
Cummiskey, whose father was shot dead on the streets near their home, did acknowledge many past run-ins with the law, including a 1992 felony assault conviction for breaking a man's jaw and a more recent drunken driving conviction.
Eddie Cummiskey was a leader of the murderous Westies gang which ruled the upper West Side in the 1960s and '70s, and which at one time was headed by Mickey Spillane - the mobster, not the novelist.
Cummiskey's son was busted by cops Sept. 21 after a violent 3:30 a.m. brawl involving as many as six off-duty federal agents erupted outside Coppersmith's pub on W. 53rd St.
While prosecutors charged it was Cummiskey who threw the first punch and then pounded Agent Patrick Scoggins while he bled on the sidewalk, Cummiskey's defense attorney argued his client was jumped.
It may have been testimony about a long night of drinking - by the agent and Cummiskey - that convinced the judge to toss the case. Immediately after the two-day bench trial, Manhattan Criminal Court Judge James Burke said, "I find you not guilty."
mgrace@nydailynews.com
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March 19 2009, 2:13 PM
A load of juiced up Feds looking to make a name for themselves by harrasing an innocent man minding his own business. Some things never change. Of course these pricks are never so tough on their own. Six handed they jump an innocent man, get a much deserved slap for their troubles and then when things don't gp their way they start playing lawman again and go crying to the prosecutors cos their over inflated, whale sized sized egos got a good hiding. Fair play Cliff, let's hope they'll leave you fuck alone now. But we all know there's no hope in that don't we.
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