Cosa Nostra News

Ron Galati faces life--and still has two more trials in his future. The jurors deliberated for an hour on Monday and an additional three hours on Tuesday. They were hung--hopelessly deadlocked. They said as much in a note to Judge Joseph Rodriguez. Keep trying , he responded. And, presto! Less than one hour later, the jurors reached a verdict and just... like... that ,  Ronald Galati was found guilty on all counts in his murder-for-hire trial. The man himself "sat stone-faced at the defense table," noted Philly.com , while the forewoman read the verdicts aloud in the courtroom. Galati, 64, was convicted of conspiracy to commit murder for hire, murder for hire, and associated weapons charges.

Galati's auto body shop. Big Trial | Philadelphia Trial Blog  reports that closing arguments are scheduled for today in the murder-for-hire trial of South Philadelphia auto body shop owner  Ron Galati . Galati is charged with hiring hitmen to kill Tiffany's boyfriend Andrew Tuono back in November.  The 64-year-old Galati faces 30 years in prison if convicted. Galati, often described as a mob wannabe, has two other cases pending in Common Pleas Court in Philadelphia; he's been held without bail since  his arrest late last   Christmas . As previously reported  last week regarding Tiffany's testimony: ...Her testimony, which included her eyewitness account of the shooting, covered a dysfunctional family dynamic that stretched back several years and that Tiffany Galati said shattered her relationship with her father, her mother Vicky and brother Ron Jr.