2026年8月22日 美国东部时间下午1:51 / 福克斯新闻网
这位前甘比诺家族二把手曾与一名FBI探员就这个术语进行交谈，当时科米正因贝壳帖面临联邦指控
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密苏里州共和党参议员乔希·霍利在《杰西·沃特斯黄金时段》节目中就司法部对布伦南调查加大力度以及詹姆斯·科米令人担忧的Instagram帖子发表了看法。
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根据法庭文件，FBI曾询问绰号“公牛萨米”的前甘比诺犯罪家族二把手萨尔瓦托雷·格拉瓦诺，询问前FBI局长詹姆斯·科米是否可能知道“86”这个术语的含义。
根据科米驳回动议的代理律师帕特里克·菲茨杰拉德提交的宣誓证词，格拉瓦诺因曾在20世纪90年代的《美国诉约翰·甘比诺等人》一案中担任主检察官而认识科米。他在2026年5月的一次电话通话中告诉一名FBI案件探员，科米“肯定知道”86的含义。
科米目前在美国北卡罗来纳州东区联邦地区法院东区面临诉讼，指控他在2025年5月发布的“8647”贝壳Instagram帖子威胁了总统唐纳德·特朗普。
这份于上月提交的宣誓证词写道：“2026年5月8日，案件探员与萨尔瓦托雷·‘公牛萨米’·格拉瓦诺进行了电话交谈。格拉瓦诺是前甘比诺犯罪家族二把手，曾是《美国诉约翰·甘比诺》庭审的合作证人之一。”
法庭文件显示：“在讨论即将到来的面谈的后勤事宜时，格拉瓦诺表示，他认为科米肯定知道‘86’这个术语‘与杀人相关’的含义。”
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1993年4月1日在国会山出庭的意大利裔美国拳击手萨尔瓦托雷·格拉瓦诺，绰号“公牛萨米”。（图片来源：杰弗里·马科维茨/西格玛通过盖蒂图片社拍摄）
美国司法部于4月对科米提起两项联邦指控：威胁总统和在州际商业中传递威胁，起因是科米在社交媒体上发布了一张海滩上摆放贝壳的照片，以此表示“8647”。
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检方指控这张照片是杀害特朗普的暗语，其中“86”是指杀人的俚语，“47”则指代第47任美国总统特朗普。
科米的辩护律师援引FBI与格拉瓦诺的访谈，反驳称科米曾参与甘比诺案起诉，因此他理解“86”作为杀人指代的说法。尽管格拉瓦诺告诉探员科米“肯定知道”这个术语的黑手党含义，但他表示不记得曾与科米讨论过这个词。文件还提到，FBI对甘比诺案材料的搜查未发现任何与“86”相关的内容。
宣誓证词称：“在长达25分钟的录音面谈中，格拉瓦诺表示，‘86’通常的意思是‘除掉’，而对他这个‘黑帮成员’来说，意思是‘杀人’。”
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前FBI局长詹姆斯·科米已被司法部起诉（图片来源：谢里斯·梅/盖蒂图片社）
格拉瓦诺补充道，他认为科米的帖子是在呼吁暴力，但并非承认科米本人会实施此类暴力。
宣誓证词写道：“虽然格拉瓦诺称该帖子是呼吁对特朗普总统使用暴力（‘让我们干掉特朗普’），但格拉瓦诺并未声称科米的贝壳帖子是在威胁他本人会亲自杀害特朗普总统。”
科米声称，他是偶然发现而非布置了这个贝壳展示，也没有意识到有人会将“86 47”解读为暴力信息。
前FBI探员表示：科米的指控取决于意图证据和陪审团的解读
科米在2025年5月接受MSNBC主播尼科尔·华莱士采访时提到，他在发布帖子后不久就将其删除了，他说：“我不像有些人那样理解这句话的意思，但再说一次，我不想卷入任何暴力事件。我从未与暴力有过关联，这就是我为什么把它删掉的原因。”
科米表示，他不认为这条帖子有任何恶意。
前FBI局长詹姆斯·科米在参议院情报委员会关于俄罗斯涉嫌干预2016年总统选举的听证会上作证。（图片来源：）
他说：“我其实没觉得这是我发表的政治言论，但我当时想，‘这是表达政治观点的聪明办法’。每个贝壳的颜色都对应一个字母……这花费了很多心血。有人很有艺术天分才做到这一点，我很难相信这么做的人有什么恶意，当然我本人和我配偶都没有任何恶意。”
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FBI asked ‘Sammy the Bull’ if ex-Gambino mob prosecutor Comey knew meaning of ’86’: court filing
August 22, 2026 1:51pm EDT / Fox News
The former Gambino underboss spoke with an FBI agent about the term as Comey faces federal charges over his seashell post
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The FBI interviewed Salvatore Gravano, the former underboss of the Gambino crime family known as “Sammy the Bull,” to ask if ex-FBI Director James Comey likely knew what the term “86” means, according to court documents.
Gravano, who had familiarity with Comey due to Comey’s role as the lead prosecutor in United States v. John Gambino et al. in the 1990s, told an FBI case agent during a May 2026 phone call that Comey “had to know” what 86 meant, according to a sworn affidavit from his lawyer Patrick Fitzgerald supporting Comey’s motions to dismiss the case.
Comey is facing a case in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina, Eastern Division, accusing him of threatening President Donald Trump through his May 2025 “8647” seashell Instagram post.
“On May 8, 2026, the case agent had a telephone conversation with Salvatore ‘Sammy the Bull’ Gravano, the former Gambino crime family underboss who was one of the cooperating witnesses at the United States v. John Gambino trial,” the affidavit, filed last month, reads.
“During the telephone conversation to discuss the logistics of his forthcoming interview, Mr. Gravano stated his belief that Mr. Comey had to know what the term ’86’ meant ‘as it related to killing someone,’” the court documents say.
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Hearing of Italo-American boxer Salvatore Gravano, nicknamed “Sammy the Bull”, at the Capitol on April 1, 1993.(Photo by Jeffrey Markowitz/Sygma via Getty Images)
The U.S. Department of Justice brought two federal charges against Comey – threatening the president and transmitting a threat in interstate commerce – in April for a social media post Comey made displaying a photo of seashells arranged on a beach to say “8647.”
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Prosecutors alleged the photo was a reference to killing Trump, with “86” referring to a slang term for killing and “47” referring to Trump as the 47th U.S. president.
Comey’s defense lawyer cited the FBI’s interview with Gravano to challenge the claim that Comey’s Gambino prosecution meant he understood “86” as a reference to killing. Though Gravano told agents Comey “had to know” the term’s mob meaning, he said he did not recall ever discussing it with Comey. The filing also says FBI searches of the Gambino case materials found no references to “86.”
“During the recorded interview, which lasted 25 minutes, Gravano said that ’86’ generally means to ‘get rid of’ and to him, as a ‘gangster,’ it means ‘to kill,’” the affidavit said.
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Gravano added that he believed Comey’s post was a call for violence, but not an admission that Comey himself would be carrying out said violence.
“While Gravano claimed that the post was a call for violence against President Trump (‘let’s kill Trump’), Gravano did not claim Mr. Comey’s seashell post to be a statement threatening that Mr. Comey would personally kill President Trump,” the affidavit read.
Comey has claimed that he found — and did not arrange — the seashell display and did not realize some people interpreted “86 47” as a violent message.
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“I don’t see it the way some people are still saying it is, but again, I don’t want any part of any violence. I’ve never been associated with violence, and so that’s why I took it down,” Comey told MSNBC’s Nicolle Wallace in May 2025, alluding to the fact that he removed the post shortly after putting it up on Instagram.
Comey said he didn’t think it had any dark intentions.
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“I actually didn’t think of it as political speech by me, but I thought, ‘What a clever way to express a political view.’ The shells were the same color for each of the letters… It took a lot of work. Somebody with artistic flair did that, and I have a hard time believing it was anybody with a dark intention, and it certainly was no dark intention on my part or my spouse’s part,” he said.
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