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When the #Buffalo #Bills play the Jets today in a stadium without fans, it will mark the first @BuffaloBills game in 26 years that superfan Ken Johnson, aka "Pinto Ron", has not attended. I wrote about Pinto Ron for @NYTSports 6 years ago... (continued)
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while covering the first home-opener since original owner Ralph Wilson died & an offer from Terry & Kim Pegula to buy the Bills was accepted. Other team suitors included Donald Trump & a group including Jon Bon Jovi. Incredibly, Trump had orchestrated... (continued) #BillsMafia 
a campaign of disinformation vs Bon Jovi with help from a group of fans calling themselves "12th Man Thunder" (later, "Bills Fan Thunder"). Stoking fears that Bon Jovi & his Canadian investors would move the team to Toronto, the fan group collected 13k signatures... (continued)
& organized boycotts of Bon Jovi's music on local radio, and in bars. The effort was overseen by right-wing apparatchik Michael Caputo, who introduced me to putative chief of the Thunder group, Chuckie Sonntag, an amputee who lives down the road from the stadium &... (continued)
derives $ from parking cars on his lawn on Bills' game days. The entire effort, it turns out, was a ploy by Caputo to smear Bon Jovi so that Trump would gain an edge in his pursuit of the #Bills (continued): https://nypost.com/2017/11/06/how-donald-trump-manipulated-bon-jovi-out-of-bills-purchase/
Meantime, Trump was attempting to further gain an edge by inflating his assets & net worth in an application for a loan from Deutsche Bank to buy the #Bills, according to testimony to Congress from Trump's former lawyer & fixer Michael Cohen. (continued) https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/27/business/donald-trump-buffalo-bills-deutsche-bank.html
At the time he was in the running to buy the Bills, Trump was seriously exploring a run for Governor of New York. Though Trump never ran for Governor, or bought the Bills, Caputo, a Roger Stone protege, later... (continued) #Bills https://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/06/nyregion/donald-trump-new-york-governor.html
... worked in communications on Trump's presidential campaign & was appointed by Trump this year to serve as an assistant secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services. With DHHS, Caputo has been in the news this week... (continued) https://www.politico.com/news/2020/09/11/exclusive-trump-officials-interfered-with-cdc-reports-on-covid-19-412809
... for censorship and editing of reports from CDC scientists related to the Covid-19 pandemic. All of which is to say that, where Trump and Caputo are concerned, things are never what they seem. Stay smart, stay informed & Go, Bills! (End)
Epilogue: As for Caputo’s claims that Democrats are out to kill him in D.C.- he told @nytimes in 2010 that he had been shot by a rival while working in Russia (continued)... https://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/25/nyregion/25caputo.html?referringSource=articleShare
Caputo, a Roger Stone protege, told @TheBuffaloNews in 2016, that in the early 2000s, while living in Miami Beach, he was receiving death threats from shadowy figures presumed to be connected to Russia (continued)... https://www.google.com/amp/s/buffalonews.com/news/local/the-radical-adventures-of-conservative-radio-host-mike-caputo/article_d3f47fc7-1f23-5bd3-9cd0-29c592f33ecd.amp.html
And in 2018, Caputo wrote for @politico about the assaults and death threats he’d endured in #Buffalo as a result of his previous association with the Trump-Russia nexus. He told how he was always packing and feared for his family (continued)... https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.politico.com/magazine/amp/story/2019/03/28/mueller-investigation-michael-caputo-trump-first-person-226336
The upshot: Caputo sounds like a paranoid kook who apparently makes enemies wherever he goes. Given his admittedly compromised mental health, perhaps it’s best he departs HHS, seeks treatment, and leaves the science to the scientists. (END)
