Michael Kerry Quotes in Find Me Guilty (2006)

Michael Kerry: I was at a restaurant in Bloomfield on September 19th of last year - it had a reputation as being a mob hangout.

Sean Kierney: Why did it have that reputation?

Giacomo 'Fat Jack' DiNorscio: [interrupting] Because the food was good.

Giacomo 'Fat Jack' DiNorscio: Mr. Kerry, I was wondering about something. Could you tell all of us, how you knew those men in that restaurant was Italian?

Michael Kerry: Well, uh, uh, I guess it... hey, they all looked Italian to me.

Giacomo 'Fat Jack' DiNorscio: Well, how?

Michael Kerry: You know, with the hand gestures, the back slappin', and the kissing, and everything.

Giacomo 'Fat Jack' DiNorscio: Did they teach you that in FBI school that that's how Italians act?

Michael Kerry: No, no, that's not part of our training. No.

Giacomo 'Fat Jack' DiNorscio: [says something in Italian and the court laughs] Do you speak Italian?

Michael Kerry: No.

Giacomo 'Fat Jack' DiNorscio: No? Could you hear them talking in Italian?

Michael Kerry: No, I was too far away.

Giacomo 'Fat Jack' DiNorscio: See, I-I'm not understanding this. You're saying from the back slappin' and the kissing, you knew that they were Italian?

Michael Kerry: Well, it was an Italian restaurant.

Giacomo 'Fat Jack' DiNorscio: Did they all have black hair?

Michael Kerry: Uh, yeah, yeah. From what I remember, yeah.

Giacomo 'Fat Jack' DiNorscio: Could they have been Spanish, Greek, Jewish?

Michael Kerry: Not with Nick Calabrese at the head of the table, no.

Giacomo 'Fat Jack' DiNorscio: You saying Nick only eats with Italians?

Michael Kerry: No, I'm not saying that.

Giacomo 'Fat Jack' DiNorscio: What if I told you I went into a restaurant and there was nothing but Irish guys there? And you says, "How'd you know they were Irish?" And I says, "'Cause they were all drunk and vomiting all over the floor."

Sean Kierney: Objection, Your Honor! Badgering the witness!

Judge Finestein: Mr. DiNorscio.

Michael Kerry: No, it's all right, Judge. Look, Mr. DiNorscio. If it walks like a duck, looks like a duck, quacks like a duck, chances are it's a duck.

Giacomo 'Fat Jack' DiNorscio: If it talks like an asshole, looks like an asshole,

[talks into the microphone]

Giacomo 'Fat Jack' DiNorscio: chances are it's an asshole.

Sean Kierney: Objection, Your Honor! This behavior cannot be tolerated!

Judge Finestein: Mr. DiNorscio, I am fining you $5,000 for contempt of court!

Giacomo 'Fat Jack' DiNorscio: That's what I got, Your Honor. I got contempt for this court. You should've stopped him before with all the Italian shit.

Judge Finestein: You are now fined 10,000! Wanna try for 15?