Sounded "fishy" from the start....gay murderer?

[edjames]

This news item has been front page fodder for the NYPost. The story, first released, months ago involved a murdered young man whose stabbed and burned body was found at an upstate location in a shallow grave. Detectives investigating the story traced his last know whereabouts to an NYC upper eastside luxury apartment of a handsome young man. The apartment was bought and paid for by a well-known celebrity jeweler who had "adopted" this young man, had his last name changed and posed him as his "son".

 

NYPost today reveals more details...

http://nypost.com/2017/06/26/jeweler-to-the-stars-helped-cover-up-sons-murder-lawsuit/

 

Jeweler to the stars helped cover up ‘son’s’ murder: lawsuit

By Rebecca Rosenberg and Bruce Golding

June 26, 2017 | 6:01am |

 

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“Jeweler to the Stars” Jeffrey Rackover tried to help a young man he called his “son” cover up a grisly slaying in the swanky Upper East Side apartment he was renting for him, a new lawsuit filed by the victim’s dad alleges.

 

The 57-year-old diamond middleman gave paper towels and other cleaning supplies to James Rackover — with whom he allegedly shared a drug-fueled “intimate relationship” while claiming to be his “parent” — to sanitize the crime scene where Joseph Comunale was stabbed to death, the suit says.

 

Comunale, known as Joey, wound up at 26-year-old James Rackover’s apartment early on Nov. 13, 2016, after clubbing at the Gilded Lily in Chelsea, where he told a pal he was going off to party with three women.

 

Surveillance video captured Comunale, 26, and Lawrence Dilione, 28, escorting the gals out of the Grand Sutton co-op tower shortly before 7 a.m. that morning, then returning and heading back up to James’ pad.

 

During a subsequent fight over cigarettes, Dilione knocked out Comunale, leading James to pummel him further — then strangle him and stab him in the head, and attempt to dismember him with a serrated knife, according to a confession Dilione allegedly made to cops.

 

The new lawsuit says surveillance video shows Jeffrey — who lives on the 32nd floor — visiting James later that day in his fourth-floor apartment, which cops said was splattered with blood and which court papers say “smelled from cleaning chemicals and the stench of death” from Comunale’s “decomposing body.”

 

In addition, Jeffrey — whose A-list clients have included Oprah Winfrey, Diana Ross and President Trump — allegedly let James use his black 2015 Mercedes-Benz to haul Comunale’s corpse to Oceanport, NJ, where authorities say James and Dilione burned it and buried the remains in a shallow ditch.

 

The suit, filed Sunday by Comunale’s father, Pat, alleges the elder Rackover was involved in an “intimate relationship” with James, who legally changed his last name from Beaudoin to Rackover in March 2015 after claiming to have learned Jeffrey was “my real father.”

 

Pat Comunale said he sued Jeffery Rackover to “get justice for my son” and “hold everybody involved accountable for this horrific crime.”

 

“These guys need to go away for a long time. All of them — and whoever else,” he told The Post.

 

Comunale’s lawyer, Bob Abrams of Abrams Fensterman, said he was “very confident that once we’re done prosecuting this civil action,” there will be “sufficient evidence” to bring criminal charges against Jeffrey.

 

The Manhattan Supreme Court filing says Jeffrey Rackover gave James, an ex-con from Florida, “drugs, money and other benefits” in exchange for “sexual pleasure” while they lived together in Jeffrey’s high-rise for about two years.

 

dumped Joey’s body out a window in James’ apartment.

 

“I’ve been involved in some really vicious, heinous cases,” Abrams said. “This is the worst.”

 

Sometime in the late evening, a police informant saw James “place a large duffel bag into the trunk of a black vehicle with tinted windows which was parked outside of the building,” the criminal complaint says.

 

An NYPD investigation revealed the car — allegedly carrying James, Dilione and Comunale’s body — traveled through the Holland Tunnel at 9:45 p.m. that night.

 

It returned to the city at 3 a.m. the next day, with video showing James dropping it off at Jeffrey’s garage 15 minutes later, according to the complaint.

 

The suit also alleges that Jeffrey and James “further discussed the coverup as they watched the Dallas Cowboys football game inside of [Jeffrey’s] 32nd-floor apartment . . . just hours after [James] and Dilione killed Joey.”

 

James Rackover’s lawyers, Maurice Sercarz and Robert Caliendo, declined to comment.

 

Additional reporting by Joe Marino

[+ purplekow]

This is a local event as the victim lived in my area. It is not at all surprising that this was a murder and I hope that justice is served.

[+ ArVaGuy]

The background on the adoption is strange. James claimed that Jeffery Rackover was his biological father. He asserted in court papers that he was abandoned by the man he thought was his father as a child. James asked the court to change his name from Beaudoin to Rackover.

 

Assuming the story was true, that Jeffery Rackover was James biological father, and there was a sexual relationship between them, would that not be considered incest? This story is twisted on multiple levels.