Some were also trying to settle personal scores with a man they regard as a turncoat.
In pro sports, the model is similar: support your hometown team lest you be labeled a turncoat.
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The government has dismissed Mr Aponte as a discredited turncoat offering no proof.
Last week a key turncoat, Balduccio Di Maggio, was charged not only with murder but also with restarting a Mafia group.
Although the DEA and some analysts disagree, others say the Zetas, a paramilitary group of turncoat soldiers and anti-narcotics police, are now running the Gulf cartel.
Appeal court judges rejected a testimony from one Mafia turncoat who said he had seen Mr Andreotti kiss the now imprisoned Mafia "boss of bosses" Toto Riina.
Henry Hill, the gangster who was the inspiration for the 1990 film "Goodfellas, " opted out of the witness protection program, as did mob turncoat Sammy "the Bull" Gravano.
The Workers' Party radicals denounced him as a turncoat.
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In a 1993 court appearance that shocked Italians, a Mafia turncoat testified he saw Mr. Andreotti kiss the hand of Italy's top Mafia don in a sign of respect an allegation Mr. Andreotti promptly dismissed as slander.
It was Richard's tragedy that after being betrayed by the turncoat Stanley family at Bosworth, he then had to contend with the greatest poet-playwright in the English language spin-doctoring against him on behalf of the incoming regime.
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The point of departure for such an inquiry should be representations made by the Department of Defense, and by Mr. Halperin himself, to the effect that the nominee crossed paths with the CIA-turncoat on only one occasion.
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