FALN, claimed responsibility for 70 attacks in its quest to promote Puerto Rico's independence from the U.S., including the 1975 bombing of Fraunces Tavern in lower Manhattan that killed four people and a blast that maimed
a cop at Police headquarters in 1982.
There was talk that Raffa was an arsonist and his beating a mob hit; that five gallons of kerosene had been found in his car and had somehow disappeared from the station house; that «every
cop in Brooklyn» knows the name of Raffa's assailant but higher - ups refuse to arrest him; that the car containing the combustible evidence was driven away from the scene by Cuomo's detective - bodyguard, who's a relative of the Cuomo family; that the
police reports (DD5s) on the case were missing from
headquarters; and that the governor was
at the scene shortly after the incident and had used state troopers to erase any evidence of his father - in - law's possible criminality.